Bread – satisfaction, life, necessities, maintenance, yield
of actions: staff of life.
Wherefore do you spend your money on that which is not
bread? We want to seek after, spend our time and labor toward, that which
satisfies.
Isa 55:1
Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no
money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and
without price.
Isa 55:2 Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently
unto me, and eat ye that which is good,
and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
The call is to everyone that thirsts, that recognizes that
they have a need.
Laodicean church:
Rev 3:17
Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased
with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched,
and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
Rev 3:18
I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the
fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed,
and that the
shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that
thou mayest see.
God is earnestly seeking for souls to come and buy without
money what will only benefit their life and soul.
Come to the feast:
Luk 14:15 And when one of them that sat at meat with
him heard these things, he said unto him, Blessed is
he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God.
Luk 14:16 Then said he unto him, A certain man made a great supper, and bade many:
Luk 14:17 And sent his servant
at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now
ready.
Luk 14:18 And they all with one
consent began to
make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I
must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused.
Luk 14:19 And another said, I
have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me
excused.
Luk 14:20 And another said, I
have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.
Luk 14:21 So that servant came,
and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said
to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and
bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.
Luk 14:22 And the servant said,
Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room.
Luk 14:23 And the lord said
unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my
house may be filled.
Luk 14:24 For I say unto you,
That none of those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper.
Isa 55:1
Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no
money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and
without price.
Isa 55:2 Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently
unto me, and eat ye that which is good,
and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
Come to the waters, to the Word of God, to the place where
commerce takes place, where the goods are sold.
Come to church, to bible study, to prayer and worship, and to meditation
on the Word of God. Give what is needed,
trade your time and energy to receive, buy, and eat.
There is nothing that we have that would be of enough value
that it could be used to purchase the benefit that is offered to us. Our life was given to us, we did nothing to
gain it. Our time is given to us. We have no righteousness of our own that can
allow us to claim any merit.
There is good news: It
is free. Jesus already paid the
price. God freely offers and advertises
this water that will never run dry, this bread that will fill and satisfy. We must apply ourselves to it and buy and
eat.
The bread is Jesus Christ and His more abundant way. To buy and eat, we set aside our life and the
rushing after the lusts of the flesh, the lusts of the eyes, and the pride of
life. We set aside the worldly way and
the worldly set of values of: “Look after yourself first,” that has caused so
much pain and destruction in the world.
His is a bread that will satisfy. His way, of loving one another as He has
loved us, is a more abundant way.
Mar 12:29 And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The
Lord our God is one Lord:
Mar 12:30 And thou shalt love
the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy
mind, and with all thy strength: this is
the first commandment.
Mar 12:31 And the second
is like, namely this, Thou shalt
love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than
these.
Greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down His
life for His friend.
Joh 15:9
As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved
you: continue ye in my love.
Joh 15:10 If ye keep my
commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's
commandments, and abide in his love.
Joh 15:11 These things have I
spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be
full.
Joh 15:12 This is my
commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
Joh 15:13 Greater love hath no
man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
This is the kind of love that God would have us to have for
each other. To lay down our life doesn’t
mean to die. We can set aside our
interests or plans: for the sake of one another’s needs or desires, for the
sake of some activity that the church is planning, or for a neighbor’s
need. Doing this is laying down our
life, setting aside our life, for another.
Isa 55:1
Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no
money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and
without price.
Isa 55:2 Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently
unto me, and eat ye that which is good,
and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
Come and buy and eat.
Give of your time, a piece of your life; lay down your life and partake
of this bread that will satisfy.
“Wherefore do you spend your money for that which is not bread? And your
labor for that which satisfies not?”
Matthew Henry - “Wherefore do you spend money for that which is not bread, which will not yield you, no, not beggar's food, dry
bread, when with me you may have wine and milk without money? Wherefore do
you spend your labour and toil for that which will not be so much as
dry bread to you, for it satisfies not?” See here, [1.] The
vanity of the things of this world. They are not bread, not proper food for a
soul; they afford no suitable nourishment or refreshment. Bread is the staff of
the natural life, but it affords no support at all to the spiritual life. All
the wealth and pleasure in the world will not make one meal's meat for a soul.
Eternal truth and eternal good are the only food for a rational and immortal
soul, the life of which consists in reconciliation and conformity to God, and
in union and communion with him, which the things of the world will not at all
befriend. They satisfy not; they yield not any solid comfort and content to the
soul, nor enable it to say, “Now I have what I would have.” Nay, they do
not satisfy even the appetites of the body. The more men have the more they
would have, Ecc_1:8. Haman was unsatisfied in the midst of his abundance.
They flatter, but they do not fill; they please for a while, like the dream of
a hungry man, who awakes and his soul is empty. They soon surfeit, but they
never satisfy; they cloy a man, but do not content him, or make him truly easy.
It is all vanity and vexation.
[2.] The folly of the children of this world. They
spend their money and labour for these uncertain unsatisfying things. Rich
people live by their money, poor people by their labour; but both mistake their
truest interest, while the one is trading, the other toiling, for the world,
both promising themselves satisfaction and happiness in it, but both miserably
disappointed. God vouchsafes compassionately to reason with them: “Wherefore
do you thus act against your own interest? Why do you suffer yourselves to be
thus imposed upon?” Let us reason with ourselves, and let the result of these
reasonings be a holy resolution not to labour for the meat that perishes, but for that which endures to
everlasting life, Joh_6:27. Let all the disappointments we meet
with in the world help to drive us to Christ, and lead us to seek for
satisfaction in him only. This is the way to make sure which will be made sure.
“Hearken diligently to me and eat ye that which is good and
let your soul delight itself in fatness.”
Let your soul delight in the good things of God! Glory in the Lord. Meditate on Him. Delight in His abundance.
Joh 6:26 Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye
saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled.
Joh 6:27
Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for
that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give
unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
Joh 6:34
Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread.
Joh 6:35
And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of
life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall
never thirst.
My meat is to do the will of the Father that sent me: Meat
to eat that you know not of.
Joh 4:31
In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat.
Joh 4:32 But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of.
Joh 4:33
Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him ought to eat?
Joh 4:34
Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will
of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
If a man ask bread will he give a stone?
Mat 7:7
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye
shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
Mat 7:8
For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that
seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
Mat 7:9 Or what man is there
of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?
Mat 7:10
Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?
Mat 7:11
If ye then, being evil, know how to give good
gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven
give good things to them that ask him?
I will give to eat of the hidden manna.
Rev 2:17 He that hath an ear,
let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh
will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in
the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth
it.
Hab 2:13
Behold, is it not of the LORD of
hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary
themselves for very vanity?
Mat 6:19
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth,
where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
Mat 6:31
Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we
eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
Mat 6:32
(For after all these things do the Gentiles
seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
Mat 6:33
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his
righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Luk 10:40 But Martha was cumbered about much serving,
and came to him, and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me
to serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me.
Luk 10:41 And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many
things:
Luk 10:42 But one thing is
needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away
from her.
1Co 7:31
And they that use this world, as not abusing it:
for the fashion of this world passeth away.
1Co 9:24
Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the
prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
1Co 9:25
And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things.
Now they do it to obtain a corruptible
crown; but we an incorruptible.
1Co 9:26
I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that
beateth the air:
1Co 9:27
But I keep under my body, and bring it
into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I
myself should be a castaway.
2Co 4:18
While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which
are not seen: for the things which are seen are
temporal; but the things which are not seen are
eternal.
Col 3:1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those
things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
Col 3:2
Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
Col 3:3
For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
Col 3:4
When Christ, who is our life,
shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
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