Matthew God Will Always Provide

 

Matthew

God Will Always Provide

Your table is too small for God’s splendor

Jesus not only fed the multitudes but there were baskets left over

That Jesus told His disciples to collect

Why?

Because Jesus wanted the disciples to have enough for themselves and others

When the men and women and children left

 They left with the wisdom of Jesus’ heavenly wisdom

Wisdom that would help them solve the problems of lack

Jesus did not handout self-stocking refrigerators

What He handed out was wisdom from above 

The United States and the other Kingdoms of this world

Need the wisdom you receive from the Kingdom of Heaven

Jesus fed the Children of God and the Children of Adam

You and I are to feed the church and the people of the world

It won’t happen by complaining

But by seeking the wisdom from the Heavenly Kingdom    

Matthew

God Will Always Provide

 

Government reports tell us…

 

Between 2021 and 2022

 food experienced an average inflation

rate of 7.63% per year.

 

This rate of change indicates significant inflation.

 

In other words…

 

Food costing $20 in the year 2021

would cost $21.53 in 2022

for an equivalent purchase.

 

Compared to the overall inflation

rate of 6.83% during this same period,

inflation for food was higher.  

 

I don’t know where the Government gets

these numbers because my family and friends

say the price of food has grown much higher.

 

I do not shop for groceries because…

 

 Long before these high inflation numbers

I would say,

 “If I had to buy groceries we would starve.”

 

Sandy did not like me helping put groceries away

when price tags were on the items of food…

 

 Because I looked at each item and said…

 

 “Why did you buy that?”

 

The governments of this world are not able

to keep the items you shop for on the shelves.

 

 We have seen shortages like

 I have never seen in my 70 years.

 

The governments of this world

cannot control the prices of food.

 

Now we could complain about

the kingdoms of this world inability to provide.

 

We could complain that their actions are increasing

our debt and reducing our quality of living.

 

We could complain and we do complain.

 

Why?

 

Because it feels good to vent

especially when there are so

many singing the same tune.

 

But we don’t need to be singing to the choir,

we need answers.

 

You and I need to know

how to manage these difficult times.

 

How to put food on the table.

 

The story of Jesus feeding the multitudes

is a good place to start looking for answers.

 

In Jesus’ Kingdom…

A few loaves of bread and fishes feed 9000 men

plus the women and children and there were leftovers.

 

I love leftovers because it means I had enough to eat

and I get to enjoy that meal again

without all the preparations.

 

We also see connected to the feeding of the 4000…

 

 A woman who was not one of God’s children,

looking for the crumbs off the table of God’s kids.

 

This woman was not disappointed or turned away,

because in the Kingdom of Heaven

there is more than enough.

 

Isaiah 55 says…

   

Come, buy wine and milk

without money and without cost.

That sounds like a great deal but then he says

Why spend money on what is not bread,

and your labor on what does not satisfy?

Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good,

and your soul will delight in the richest of fare.

 

We must not forget Jesus was providing

what the people were seeking.

 

They did not come for a banquet.

 

 They came to be healed and

hear the Word of the Lord.

 

They came for the need in their soul…

 

 Give ear and come to me;

hear me, that your soul may live.

I will make an everlasting covenant with you,

 

The multitudes left Jesus with

much more than their bellies full.

 

They left with wisdom from heaven.

 

James shows us the difference between…

 

 The wisdom of this world and its Kingdoms

and the wisdom from heaven’s Kingdom.

 

13 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show it by his good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom. 14 But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth. 15 Such "wisdom" does not come down from heaven but is earthly, unspiritual, of the devil. 16 For where you have envy and selfish ambition,

 there you find disorder and every evil practice.

17 But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure; then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere. 18 Peacemakers who sow in peace raise a harvest of righteousness.

James 3:13-18

 

The father in Proverbs says…

 

Buy the truth and do not sell it;

get wisdom, discipline and understanding.

Proverbs 23:23

 

When we spend our efforts to buy Heavenly wisdom…

 

When we seek Jesus Kingdom first…

 

When our prayer is…

 

 “Thy Kingdom Come

Thy Will be done in earth

as it is in heaven”.

 

We get Wisdom.

 

 Wisdom that helps us solve the problems.

 

Not only our problems like…

 

 How am I going to buy groceries?

 

But wisdom for the world’s problem.

 

Look again at Isaiah 55

 

Isaiah 55:5…

 

Surely you will summon nations you know not,

and nations that do not know you will hasten to you,

because of the Lord your God,

the Holy One of Israel,

for he has endowed you with splendor."

 

Your table is too small for God’s splendor.

 

Jesus not only fed the multitudes but…

 

 There were baskets left over that Jesus

told His disciples to collect.

 

Why?

 

Because Jesus wanted the disciples to have

enough for themselves and others.

 

When the men and women and children left,

they left with the wisdom

of Jesus’ heavenly wisdom.

 

Wisdom that would help them

solve the problems of lack.

 

Jesus did not handout self-stocking refrigerators.

 

What He handed out was wisdom from above.

 

The United States and the other Kingdoms of this world

need the wisdom you receive

from the Kingdom of Heaven.

 

Jesus fed the Children of God

and the Children of Adam.

 

You and I are to feed the church

and the people of the world.

 

It won’t happen by complaining…

 

 But by seeking the wisdom

from the Heavenly Kingdom.     

 

 

Scripture Reading

 

Isaiah 55:1-5 NIV

 

55 "Come, all you who are thirsty,

come to the waters;

and you who have no money,

come, buy and eat!

Come, buy wine and milk

without money and without cost.

2 Why spend money on what is not bread,

and your labor on what does not satisfy?

Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good,

and your soul will delight in the richest of fare.

3 Give ear and come to me;

hear me, that your soul may live.

I will make an everlasting covenant with you,

my faithful love promised to David.

4 See, I have made him a witness to the peoples,

a leader and commander of the peoples.

5 Surely you will summon nations you know not,

and nations that do not know you will hasten to you,

because of the Lord your God,

the Holy One of Israel,

for he has endowed you with splendor."