What Do You Want To Eat | Jason Martin

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What do you want to eat? Correct? If y'all are married and

you have asked your wife what do you want to eat? I'm telling you

it is a loaded question. It is a loaded question. Right. Eat

can either upgrade your marriage closer or can cause a war. You know.

So when you say what do you want to eat? They will not tell

you what they want to eat. They will just tell you what they don't

want to eat. You know, everything you suggest no no, no,

no no no. After that you say what do you want to eat?

Anything? I'm like, what does that mean? All right? Yeah?

So so that's why I was thinking, is how difficult is it to say

that give us this day our daily bread and what our daily bread is is

actually our food? Right? And what we eat? Okay? So why

do we eat? How important is food? Very? Right? You know?

The Maslow hierarchy of needs. Food is the bottom, right, It

is the bare minimum that we need to survive, all right. It causes

us to grow, it causes us to even Yeah, for health, disease

prevention. It improves our quality of life, brain function, prevents diseases and

stuff like that. And food is such. It's a multi billion dollar industry,

right, it's a multi billion dollar industry. So much people are so

many companies are pumping millions and millions or billions of dollars into the industry to

sort of influence people. Okay, and y'all have heard of so many different

kinds of diets. Okay, if I go to the next line, so

you have heard of like low carb diet, Atkins diet, Ducan diet.

I don't know what's a Duken diet, Paleo diet, vegan diet. Then

you have keto, you got Yeah, you've got so many kinds of diets.

But why do you think all these diets came into existence? Why do

you think all these diets came into existence for health? People wanted to be

more healthy or they wanted to achieve a higher level of performance, you know,

they wanted to be the best version of themselves. I'm not sure if

you'll watched the Netflix documentary Game Changes. Have you all watched that? Um?

So, if you haven't watched it, it's it's quite interesting. Um

it's about this group of people. Um, they are high performance athletes,

world class athletes who have gone onto plant base plant based diet. And you

show that they are performing at the highest level, you know, from sprinters

to weightlifters to everything and and and it shows how important their diet is.

Right and uh as I was researching it even further. Right, Um,

so there's actually this group of people. They are called the Abkhazian people.

Okay. So Abkazia is actually a country which is in Georgia or the Black

Seas money in Russia. Okay. What's so interesting about this group of people,

right, is that this country has the highest number of centenarians in the

world. Centenarians meaning people who are hundred and above. You know, it

was very uh So, there are a few people groups, but this country

was one of them, and a lot of research people when it did research.

Hey, how come why are these people living healthy lives? How what's

their secret? Okay? So their secrets? They are healthiest, right,

both mentally as well as physically. There's no chronic disease there, you know,

you don't hear like cancer and stuff like that. So everyone is very

interested. How come. Right, So the first thing is of course,

they have a very active lifestyle. They live in mountainous areas, so they

climb the mountain, they for food. Uh, they're basically their lifestyle is

very active, right, second thing is they have a plant based diet.

Okay, plant based diet, so they don't eat any processed food, not

any grain, you know, anything from from from the ground and stuff like.

So they're very healthy. And the third one is they actually enjoy growing

older, you know, meaning right, they do not see it as a

curse. They see that hey, it is something that it is they enjoy

like all of us want the fountain of youth, but for them, they

enjoy. They live their fullest life all the way until they pass on.

Yeah, so they really enjoy life per se and and that I mean what

was interesting, is right, is that this group of people, I guess

the key is also what they eat, right, what they eat and what

they eat is governed by how they think and what they do, and that's

caused them to live a healthy life. So all of us know this.

You know what's the secret to a healthy life? Discipline? Now, eat

well, sleep well, exercise. But you go into a bookstall like I

mentioned, right, you have thousands of books on the different kinds of diet,

different kinds of things, and stuff like that. Right, so how

does this tie in to give us this day our daily bread? It must

be important, right if the Lord's prayer they said, give us this day

our daily bread. Right, So we need bread. We have established that

fact. We need food for survival. It is core for us to grow.

Right. But why is it so important that this line is in the

Bible? Okay? So for my first point, okay, if I go

to the next line, right, So this is the Lord's prayer Luke eleven,

verse two. He said to them, when you pray, say Father,

hello, be your name, your kingdom. Come give us each day

our daily bread. Right. I think it's a bit truncated there. Yeah,

but give us each day our daily bread. This is important. Okay.

So we know that bread is important, and we usually usually this part

of the prayer. Right, give us this day our daily bread. We

have no issues because we have a need. What do you do when you

pray? You ask God for a need? Right fulfill my needs? Okay,

So let's see a bit on how God has done this in the Bible.

Right, next line, So why do we need to ask God for

our deliberate Why do we need to ask God for our deliberate? You know,

because it's food. You know, you need to survive. You can

just go and get it, and stuff like, why do we need to

ask God for our deliberate? So if I go to Matthew seven, it

says here, ask and it will be given to you. Seek and you

will find. Knock and the door will be open to you. For everyone

who asks receives. The one who seeks finds, and to the one who

knocks the door will be opened. Which of you, if your son asks

for bread, will you give him a stone? Or if he asks for

a fish, will you give him a snake? If you, then,

though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children.

How much more will your father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask

him? Okay, so the question just now was why do we need to

ask God right for our daily bread? I will ask you another question.

If you do not ask God for your daily bread, who are you asking

it from? Who are you asking it from? You know that God is

a good God. You know we established that in the Lord's prayer. Our

father, who are in heaven. Hello wood Bedny. As we have established

that he's a good father, he wants his will for your life is in

alignment with his will, which is only good, right, and so that

his kingdom will be established on earth as it is in heaven. So we

have established that he's a good father, right, and he wants the best

for us. So if you need your daily bread, why won't you ask

it from him? Right? So, there are a few reasons, right,

why we don't ask it from him. First of all, we think

we can do it on our own, right. We think we can do

it on our own. The second thing is we are probably getting it from

a different sauce, right, And when you get it from another sauce,

how credible is that other sauce? What kind of sauce is that? So

take for example, my kids. My kids, they wake up in the

morning, they come down, after they brush their teeth and all that,

they come down and then they say, Father, give me this my daily

bread. You know, they will come I'm paraphrasing, but essentially they say,

what's for lunch, what's for breakfast? I'm hungry? You know,

That's essentially what kids do. And they will not go and ask a stranger.

They will come to their parents, whom they know, who they know

loves them, and they have no doubt in the mind that their parents have

the best intentions for them. The parents may not always agree with what they

want, but there is no doubting the intention. So the kids will come

down and say, I'm hungry. What do I want to eat? What's

for lunch? Then you give them something, Oh yeah, I do want

this one. But then you force them to eat anyway. You know,

sometimes they don't like wishta birds or you don't like whatever it is right.

So that's why it says here for which of you, if you're son asked

for bread, will give him a stone? Or we ask for a fish,

will he will give him a snake? All right? How much more

will your father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him? So

that is why it's very important for us to ask God for our daily bread?

Okay, if I got the next light, So this was when God

literally gave the Israelites their daily bread. So the Israelites were in the desert

for forty years. How much food do you need to pack for forty years?

It's crazy, right, there's no dry ruler, there is nothing.

It's a desert. There's no grab. Everything is our coverage. Right,

so let me read here, right. The whole of Israelite community set out

from Elim and came to the desert of sin which is Ilim and Sinai.

On the fifteenth day of the second month, after they had come out of

Egypt. In the desert, the whole community grumbled against Moses and Aaron,

and the easie lights said to them, if only we had died but the

Lord's hand in Egypt, there we sat around pots of meat and ate all

the food we wanted. But you have brought us out into this desert to

starve this entire assembly to that this is like extreme, you know, think

about it, right, They have just went through the ten plaques, they

have gone through the parting of the Red Sea. And then after they had

like, God, you brought us here to die. I'm like, there's

too much effort, right, you bring people, a million people, through

so much, any challenges, just into the desert to die. Of course,

not right, of course not so. Next light, then the Lord's

said to Moses, I will rain down bread from heaven for you. The

people are to go out each day and gather enough for that day. In

this way I will test them and see whether they will follow my instructions.

On the sixth day, they are to prepare what they bring in, and

that is to be twice as much as they gather on other days. Okay,

So God hurt them fair, right. They were asking God, give

us this day or deliberate. They were not asking. They were complaining,

God, give us this day or deliberate. Right, And God gave it

to them daily and except on the sixth day. So the sixth day they

had to collect enough for two days. So because the seventh day is the

day of Sabbath where they're supposed to rest. Right. So think about this,

right, we have read this so many times, but can we live

out the faith of the Israelites? Think about it? Right, You don't

have any You've got nothing in your bank account, Okay. Every day you

just depend on God to send manna from heaven. If not, you will

die. And that was the kind of faith that the Israelites had to have,

you know. And God promised that promised it to them, you know.

So you think about it every day. You have manna in the morning,

and you have quails at night, so you have bread and meat provided.

If do you think that Israelites had any choice? Who else they could

ask from? No, they couldn't do it on their own. They couldn't

ask that Egyptians because most of them probably perished in the Red Sea and they

wouldn't want to go back there anymore. Right, the only person they can

ask for is God. But right now for us, are we living this

kind of lifestyle where God is our only resort? Or is God our last

resort? Usually we are living our lives right now as God is our last

resort. If everything fails, then you pull the emergency lever. So we

depend on our own strength for daily bread or we depend on others. Right,

but the scripture is very clear, give us this day our daily bread.

If we pray this, we have to depend on God to provide for

our needs. Right. So, if now that we have established that right

that we need to depend on God, because you think about it, if

they did not depend on the God, they would not have food to eat.

Okay, So next question, what do we need to eat? So

now we have established why do we need to ask from God? So what

do we need to eat? What do we need to eat, give us

this day or deliberate. Why is it like so scary to answer? See,

this is why I told you. You're so hot for me to prepare

it all. You think it's so easy, right, But if I go

into it, I'm like, man, this is like there's so much and

I think I barely scratched the surface. Yeah. So if I go,

yes, correct? So next next slight, so John six. Then they

asked him what must we do to do? What was we do to do

the works God requires? Jesus answered, the work of God is this to

believe in the one that He has sent. So they asked him, what

sign, then will you give that we may see it and believe? What

will you do? Our ancestors ate the manner in the wilderness, and it

is as it is written. He gave them bread from heaven to eat.

Okay, Next slight, Jesus said to them, very truly, I tell

you, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven,

but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. For

the Bread of God is the bread that comes down from heaven. And give

life to the world. Sir, they asked, They said, always give

us this bread. Then Jesus declared, I am the bread of life.

Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will

never be thirsty. Okay, so we have read this before countless times.

If I fast tracked this scripture, right, this is John six. If

I fast track it down to a few verses, he goes to John six

six six. What happens in John six six six? A lot of people

left Jesus because of what he was preaching here. So why was it controversial?

Why was it controversial? Why did a lot of people leave Jesus when

he said that you have to eat my body and drink my blood. Of

course it sounds like cannibilism. Of course it sounds controversial. Right. But

then in the last prayer it says give us this day our daily bread,

all right, And here he says that I am the bread of life.

Right, So what are we going to eat? What are we going to

eat? Yeah, he's word Jesus. Okay, So that's why I'm telling

you. I was battling with all these kind of questions, right, So

you think of it, right, Um, let me just pull this up

here. Yes, okay, So when we are hungry, all right,

All of us are hungry right now, some of you all baby hungry or

so correct? Okay, So hunger is human. To be hungry is human,

right, and we say that what do we need to eat? Right?

So when we want to fill our hunger, right, it says here

Jesus says that I am the bread of life. No one comes to the

Father except from me. He right, So it's easier. We need to

trust and be continuously dependent on Him for survival. Because when you trust in

bread, what happens with bread after a week mold? But if you trust

in Jesus, what happens. Yeah, you get fresh manner every day.

You get fresh manner every day. And it is not He will provide for

you, right, It is very clear he says he will provide for you.

Okay, And it's easier right if I go to the next light.

Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God's mercy,

to offer your bodies as a living check your Christ, Holy and pleasing

God. This is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the

pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.

Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is, his

good, pleasing and perfect will. Okay, So why do I put this

verse because the verse before give us this day our daily bread is your kingdom.

Come, Your will be done. When we pray that, we say

that God, I will submit myself to your will. So when I need

to do the will of God, I need the fuel from God. I

need the bread from God to execute the will. So I cannot get the

bread from another sauce. If I get the bread from another sauce, it

may not feel me enough. So you think of it thiswela. Right,

you are preparing for a marathon, right, it's forty two kilometers and you

go and eat banana leaf rice? Is that the right fuel to do the

will? The will is, I tell you you're dying. Confirm right,

banana leaf rice before you run forty two km? So the will was the

forty two km the fuel was the banana leaf is the wrong fuel. But

when we know what the will is, God has already said the will is

to do the work of the Father. Right, we know that God has

a will for us, so we need the fuel from him. We need

the fuel from him. To execute. Okay, So that's why it saysia,

right, be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so we have

to switch our thoughts, transformed our minds, and so in this day and

age, right, if you are hungering, if you're hungering hungry, if

you're hungry, what do you do right now? Right? Straight? We

go fast food? Sometimes fast food is very easy. Leave, that's why

it's called fast food, and you straightway try and fill it up. All

right, But if you are transformed by the renewing of your mind and you

have a hunger, right, what do you do? You ask God?

You know you put God first, say, and that's why you also say

grace over your food. You thank God for the food that He has provided

for you. Right. So, like what I mentioned, right, having

an appetite is not wrong. It is human nature. How we feel the

appetite is up to us. Because there is a wrong way to fill the

appetite, right, There is a wrong way to fill the appetite, right,

So there is There is this story of George Muller. I'm not sure

y'all have heard about him. He's an evangelist. He also ran aphanages a

lot ofphanages in the eighteenth century. So it's let me just read it out

right. The children addressed and ready for school, but there is no food

for them to eat. The house mother of the orphanage informed George Muller.

George asked her to take the three hundred children into the dining room and have

them sit at the tables. He thanked God for the food and waited.

George knew that God would provide food for the children, as he always did.

Within minutes, a baker knocked on the door. Mister Muller, He

said, last night I could not sleep. Somehow I knew that you would

need bread. This morning I got up and baked three batches for you.

I will bring it in soon. There was another knock on the door.

It was the milkman. His cart had broken down in front of the orphanage.

The milk would spoil by the time the wheel were fixed. He asked

George if he could use some free milk. George smiled as the milkman brought

in ten large cans of milk. It was just enough for the three hundred

thirsty children. That is amazing sometimes, right, we are so concerned about

one stomach, our own but this is three hundred children. Imagine the faith

that George Muller had. He had no worry. He just sat down and

prayed and as a research him, right, I read there's so many He

has so many testimonies about asking God for daily bread. Give us this day

our daily bread? Are we asking God for our daily brein? Like I

say, right, we have so many kinds of appetite. Daily bread goes

beyond food. You have your emotional needs, you have your physical needs,

you have your spiritual needs, you have your financial needs, you have your

health. So for all your needs, are you asking God for your daily

bread? That's why it goes beyond the bread, because he says Jesus is

the bread of life. Right. I hope it's getting through. But as

I say, it's a bit tough. Okay, So now I wanted to

segue a bit right next, So then there's a scripture, right, taste

and see that the Lord is good, blessed is the one who takes refuge

in him. So what's the difference between tasting and cons consuming? Okay,

once for survival, once for luxury? Is it right? Okay? Can

you grow true tasting? You can't? Right? So then then I was

thinking, can a non Christian or someone who does not know Jesus taste and

see that the Lord is good? Can you can? Right? Because yeah,

you like for example, you go for food tasting, you go and

test, right, and you know when you taste God, you know that

he is good. Right. So that's why some people who do not know

Jesus, they say, hey, taste and see the Lord is good.

And they taste God and they say, hey, I want to know him.

I want Jesus as my personal Lord and savior. So that is taste,

right. What is consumed? Consume what happens when you eat food.

When you eat food, it goes in, it digests, it becomes a

part of you. When Jesus says that he's the bread of life, he

becomes a part of you. You are no longer tasting and seeing. You

say, Jesus, I want you to be the Lord and Savior in my

life. Right, and say, Jesus, you are the bread of life.

I want to partake of you. I want transformation. Transformation comes when

you partake of God and he transforms you from the inside out. That's what

food does, you know, So that's why it is very important for us

is God. Are you just testing and tasting Jesus or are you consuming him?

Is your life consumed by Jesus? Or are you just on the surface.

Whenever I feel like it, I taste, But I can taste everything

else as well, you know. So that's why you say everyone has a

lot. All of us have different appetites. But what are we feeling that

appetite with. If we are filling the appetite with the wrong thing, the

wrong thing will become a part of us. But if we are filling our

appetite with Jesus, then we are becoming more and more are like Jesus.

So that's why it says right, give us this day our daily bread.

Okay, next verse Matthew six. Therefore, I tell you do not worry

about your life, what you will eat or drink, or about your body

what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body

more than clothes. But seek first His kingdom and his righteousness, and all

this will be given to you. Seek first the Kingdom of God. Don't

worry about food. Most of us are worried about the gift, and we

don't care about the giver. We need to recognize the giver. When we

recognize the giver and acknowledge the giver, the gifts will come. Don't seek

for the gifts, seek the giver. When you seek the giver, this

is he will provide for your every need, you know. So that's why

it's it's key in terms of this. So the Israelites, right, they

ate manner. Right, they ate manner which were from God. But what

the Israelites lives changed? No, they ate manna for forty years, but

they continued to live a life of disobedience because they seek the gift rather than

the giver. If they recognized who was giving them the manner, they might

have been in the Promised Land. So Church encourage us not to seek the

gift, seek the giver, and the gifts will come. All right,

So that is what you need to eat. So what do you need to

eat? Jesus? So it gives you a new perspective of Jesus says that

I'm the bread of life. Right, that gives you a new perspective.

What because usually we're saying Jesus the bread of life, and what does it

mean? You know? So that's that's why I had this revelation to me

that I need to consume Jesus. It needs to be a part of me,

and then then only I can become more like Jesus. Okay, so

this is the last question. What happens when we eat jump food? What

happens when we eat jump food? Become a junkie happy happy, shocks a

deity? Okay. So so I tell you right when I was preparing for

me, it really hit harder because I'm also a foodian. I like food,

and I wouldn't exercise that if I won't grow fat. One. So

the only reason I do all my workout and stuff like that is because you

know I will be like a lot of weight. So I'm like when I'm

doing this, I'm like keep on, like it keeps on like pricking me,

Like hey am I Like why am I eating jump food? Why am

I eating a lot more sugar and stuff like that? Right? So,

like I mentioned, all of us have appetites. What are you feeling your

appetite with? Are you feeling your appetite with Jesus? Or are you feeling

your appetite with everything that is not Jesus? So everything that's not Jesus could

be your fleshly desire, right, okay, so go to the next verse

Matthew four. Then Jesus let by the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted

by the devil, And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was

hungry. The tempter came to him and said, if you are the son

of God, tell these stones to become bread. It is written men shall

not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes out from the

world amount of God. Okay, you know this. I think I preach

this a couple of weeks back, and at that time, right I also

was asking, hey, actually, what's wrong with bread? There's nothing wrong

with bread? Right? The devil didn't ask him to do anything wrong.

One you're hungry, then the stone to bread eat la. I mean,

it's not rocket science, okay. But as I was preparing this message right

then it struck me the problem is not with the bread. The problem is

with who is asking and who are you getting your sauce from? Where is

the sauce of your bread? It is not the gift that is the problem,

but the devil is asking God to turn the stone into bread. We

need to listen to God, and sometimes it may be more challenging but it

is the right way. It is the road that is narrow, long and

narrow path. Right, But the devil will always give us shortcuts and a

lot of us right when we want to fulfill our appetites, like what I

mentioned, we eat junk food. So what does junk food do? Junk

food? It probably fills your stomach for a while, but after that,

right, it leaves you feeling worse off. How many of y'all feel like

super energized after you eat jump food? Oh God, all right, I'm

gonna need to find know what jump will you eat? So again? Then?

Um yeah, so don't worry. I'm drawing towards a close Okay,

so it says here right, Um yeah, So the problem wasn't the bread,

but the sauce of the bread, all right. And appetites themselves are

not sinful, but they can become sinful if they are not moderated or directed

by reason and faith. So it is human the desire that we have appetites.

If we don't have appetites, right, we we basically will cease to

exists. Right, all of us have a drive in terms of right,

right, Ah, let me just go to the Okay, Romans the team.

So let us behave decently as in the daytime, not incorruged in darkness,

a carusing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, and not

in dissension and jealousy. Rather, clothe yourself with the Lord Jesus Christ,

and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the flesh. So

the desires of your flesh are the hunger. And if we are eating junk

food, how we would manifest it? Right? It was me in carousing,

in drunkenness, in sexual morality, debauchery, dissension and jealousy, because

right you are feeling that hunger with the wrong kind of food. Okay,

um, okay, So I feel I'm like losing y'all a bit. But

let me let me, let me don't worry. I'm drawing to at the

end. Okay, let me go to the next light. Okay. So

you've got human desires. Okay, human desires are not wrong. So the

human desires you have intimacy, you have desire, you have justice, you

have security, hunger and turns, creativity and sleep. Okay, so this

all of us have the desires? Right? Oh, we all fail hungry

and intersty. All of you all have one a sense of creativity. All

of you all need sleep or you want a sense of security. Right,

So if we eat from sources that are not of God, what happens intimacy?

To fulfill that the desire of intimacy. If we take it from the

wrong source, it goes to last for desire? Where you where you ay?

I want something? Right, It's not wrong to want something, but

if you take it from Ron's sauce, it goes to envy. Justice,

justice is not wrong, but if you are not careful, it will turn

into wrath. Wrath you become so angry you you just want to take revenge

A lot of times? Is that that right? Justice? And so I

want to revenge security. All of us want to be feel secure. But

if you're you want security, that is greed because how much is enough?

It is never enough? Hunger and thirst, gluttony. Are you eating just

enough to survive? Are you you eat to live or live to eat?

You know that's the thing, right, creativity, All of us want to

be recognized. It's is not wrong. But if you have a talent and

you take pride in it instead of giving glory to God. That's what you're

feeling, an appetite. The last one sleep sleep. It's not wrong,

but you want to sleep too much and then become a sloth. So these

are the seven deadly sins. I'm not sure y'all have recognized is the seven

deadly sins? Right? Is? That are different verses along the Bible about

it, and the one in blue or in teal's actually the fruit of the

Spirit, the fruit of the Spirit. If we consume Jesus, we eat

the bread of life, He becomes part of us. Then we will bear

fruit. If we want the bear fruit, you need to consume the right

things. You consume the wrong things, you will bear the deadly sins.

You consume the right things of God, you will bear the fruit of the

Spirit. Man, So did you know that every thirty five days your skin

replaces itself your liver about a month, your body can make these new cells

from the food you eat. What you eat literally becomes you, What you

eat literally becomes you. So, Church, this morning, what are we

eating, even as we ask God give us this day our daily bread?

Are we asking it from the right sauce? Are we consuming the right bread?

Do we want the fruit of the spirit or do we want to live

a life of sin because us. Again, you are what you eat.

It's not said if you eat the right things. You see, right,

there is this sentence, right, it is neutral, It is really neutral.

The choice is yours, the choice is mine. So this, yeah,

this morning even it's give us this day our daily bread. God,

I want to seek you for my sauce. As my sauce, I want

you to fill every appetite, every desire that I have. Again, desire

is not wrong. What do we need to fill that desire with? That

is important? So even as I just draw towards a clothes, right,

I just wanted to leave you with this this story, Ela, So it's

not a personal story, but this is a story that I heard about.

You know the Cherokee Indians. Okay, they're in America. They're one of

the tribes of the Red Indian as well. Okay, So, and old

Cherokee Indian chief who was teaching his grandson about life. He said, a

fight is going on inside of me, he told a young boy, a

fight between the two wolves. The dark one is evil, he is anger,

and we sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self, pity,

guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.

He continued, The light wolf is good. He is joy, peace,

love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy,

generosity, fruit, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on

inside grandside and inside of every person on the face of this earth. The

grandson ponders this for a moment. Then he asked Grandfather, wish which wolf

will win? And the old Cherokee smile and simply say the one you feed.

So Church this morning, we have the desires in us, God given

desires. But what are we feeding it? Are we feeding it with us

from the source of life? Oh? Are we feeding it from the flesh?

Are we putting our whole trust and dependence on God? Oh? Are

we wanting convenience? And we want the easy way out? So even it's

the last verse, Since then you have been raised with Christ, set your

hearts on things above where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.

Set your minds on things above and not on earthly things. For you died

and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who

is your life, appears, and then you will also appear with Him in

glory. Put to death therefall whatever belongs to your earthly nature, sexual immorality,

impurity, last heavenly desires and greed, which is idolatry. So how

do we put it to death? Don't feed it. Don't feed it.

Right next slide, derefault. As God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved.

Clothes yourself with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and bear with

each other and forgive one another. If any of you has a grievance against

someone, forgive as the Lord forgave you. And all these virtues. Put

on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity. So, Church,

this morning, when we pray, give us this day our daily bread,

remember who we are praying to. That God is a loving father,

that he has a perfect will for us, and that he will supply our

needs according to his riches in glory, the needs that He has placed within

us, the needs that only He can meet. Amen. We hope you've

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