{"id":1290,"date":"2013-05-04T13:47:54","date_gmt":"2013-05-04T13:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/may-qnot-by-bread-aloneq\/"},"modified":"2014-01-29T02:20:07","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T02:20:07","slug":"may-qnot-by-bread-aloneq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/may-qnot-by-bread-aloneq\/","title":{"rendered":"Not By Bread Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"
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And when the tempter came to him, he said, if thou be the Son of God,<\/span><\/p>\n

c<\/span>ommand that these stones be made bread.<\/span>\u00a0But he answered and said,<\/span><\/p>\n

It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.<\/span>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Matthew 4:3-4<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Do you know that feeling of intending to read a long way and then being struck by a single verse so that you stop and meditate on it a long time?\u00a0 I had always dwelt on the statement of the Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.\u00a0 But this time I was struck by the fact that bread alone is not enough, it must be accompanied by that Word, that is, by God Himself and His will.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The second and third temptations (I think Matthew\u2019s is the actual order of the temptations) seem clearer in their presentation:\u00a0 you don\u2019t tempt God by insisting He must do something you have decided He must (catch me as I jump); and you don\u2019t give Satan what he asks for (your soul for the kingdoms of the world).\u00a0 But what\u2019s wrong with bread when you\u2019re hungry?\u00a0 Isn\u2019t a hunger for food something God has created in us?\u00a0 Is it only because Satan has suggested it that it becomes wrong?\u00a0 Partly so.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We first have to see a bigger picture of what was going on that day in the wilderness.\u00a0 This was an ordained meeting of Jesus, the Son of God, with Satan.\u00a0 Verse one says He was led of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by him.\u00a0 Here Jesus was beginning His ministry by giving notice to His enemy that He will surely crush his head.\u00a0 He will not give an iota to Satan\u2019s subtlety and thereby be disqualified as the Lamb of God that will take away the sins of the world.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We should also realize that Jesus was fasting forty days, meeting Satan face to face, succeeding in every way, so that we don\u2019t have to.\u00a0 It was not just an example for us, it was the Second Adam doing what the first Adam failed to do, and what the rest of us have failed to do since.\u00a0 If this were merely an example so that we could do as Jesus did and thereby be accepted by God, we would all be doomed.\u00a0 In the first place, Jesus succeeded so that we don\u2019t have to.\u00a0 He becomes our Lord, not by our striving to be accepted by Him but by His being our great Substitute.\u00a0 But in the second place, though we are accepted in the Beloved, we are also called to walk as He walked, and it is our stewardship to strive to do the same things however imperfectly.\u00a0 Practical Lordship comes on this side of the cross.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The bread of this world<\/span><\/h2>\n

To exist by bread alone is to exist without God.\u00a0 This is how the world exists.\u00a0 Some poor man may exist just to find his next meal, or a glutton may spend his day fulfilling every cry of his body for food.\u00a0 A rich and cultured man may sit every evening to the finest cuisine and eat the perfect amount of the best foods, yet Jesus said a man, any man, can\u2019t live by bread alone.<\/span><\/p>\n

We should always be cautious when bread is offered to us either from the world, the flesh, or the devil.\u00a0 There are always strings attached that make the eating of it unsavory.\u00a0 The world has many things it sees as necessary to the body and justifies the using of them by pointing out that God made us with these desires.\u00a0 It is this independent spirit that we are not to love (John 2:15) and about which the Lord here warns us.\u00a0 James also warned that we sin when we are drawn away of our own lusts and enticed (James 1:14).\u00a0 The animal world lives by such instincts.\u00a0 Whatever it wants it takes in any way necessary.\u00a0 The devil offered Eve what seemed necessary to her.\u00a0 Perhaps it is this tragedy that bread alone most pictures.\u00a0 The fact is that there are many things in this world like bread to which we must not give ourselves without God.<\/span><\/p>\n

Food<\/span><\/strong>.\u00a0<\/strong> Adam was told, even after he sinned, that he would eat bread by sweat and hard work (Gen. 3:19).\u00a0 The priests were to look at their bread (i.e. food) as \u201cthe bread of their God\u201d (Lev. 21:6, 8, 17, 21-22).\u00a0 Jesus made bread for the 5000 and then the 4000 and made bread part of the very ordinance of the church.\u00a0 I am sitting here eating a snack and drinking a diet Coke as I write these lines.\u00a0 Is anything wrong with that?\u00a0 Well, Paul said that \u201cevery creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: for it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer\u201d (1 Tim. 4:4-5).\u00a0 Paul also told the pagans in Lystra that God \u201cdid good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness\u201d (Acts 14:17).\u00a0 To eat without recognition of God as the Source of all food and sustenance is to eat bread alone and not by what proceeds out of the Source Who is God.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sexual reality<\/span><\/strong>.\u00a0 Is there any doubt that this physical need of the body is the world\u2019s number one sin against God and His Word?\u00a0 Though God made us with this capability, it can be the most powerful temptation against the will of God in this world.\u00a0 Just ask David, a man after God\u2019s own heart, who sang the psalms of praise to God, when he allowed this urge to go unchecked by God\u2019s will, and was overcome in a second and driven even further to the sin of murder.\u00a0 To live by this physical desire or need alone is not to live at all.\u00a0 Any poor harlot, thinking at first that this was just a neutral activity necessary in order to make ends meet, knows this is not living.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We all know that it is the \u201cmarriage bed\u201d that is undefiled (Heb. 13:4) but sex out of marriage is always wrong, even the lustful thought of it is always wrong (Matt. 5:28).\u00a0 Polls tell us that as high as 50% of Christian teens engage in sexual activity out of marriage but I have to doubt that a believer can continue in such a sin without remorse and sorrowful repentance (see 2 Cor. 7:9-11).\u00a0 Even the unbeliever, by a God-made conscience, cannot live by this \u201cbread\u201d alone.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sleep<\/span><\/strong>.<\/strong>\u00a0 Now, as the lady told the preacher, I\u2019ve stopped preaching and started meddling!\u00a0 No, even a necessary and blessed thing such as sleep cannot be done \u201calone\u201d or without being informed by God and His Word.\u00a0 The first sleep that a human being ever took was Adam\u2019s while still in the garden (Gen. 2:21).\u00a0 And someone said that when he awoke he had bigger problems than before he went to sleep!\u00a0 But actually, of course, God-given sleep always brings blessing precisely because it is done according to every Word that proceeds from God\u2019s mouth.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

God warns us against the sluggard because such a one ought to be awake and doing something productive at that time rather than sleeping.\u00a0 The disciples could not watch with Jesus for one more hour in the garden when His very life was at stake.\u00a0 The cherubim that guard the throne of God rest not day and night (Rev. 4:8) but rather continue their \u201choly, holy, holy\u201d without sleep or rest.\u00a0 How well we all know that the untimely urge to sleep in church is the enemy of worship.\u00a0 How we all know also that the urge to sleep is the enemy of our prayers and Bible reading and other service to God.\u00a0 The believer especially, with this bodily appetite, left \u201calone,\u201d cannot live such a life.<\/span><\/p>\n

Entertainment<\/span><\/strong>.<\/strong>\u00a0 God has given us many things to enjoy or to be entertained with in this world.\u00a0 Sadly, our generation usually thinks of cheap forms of enjoyment found only in the neon glitter of man-made kitsch.\u00a0 Entertainment can be only a narcotic to somehow make it through another day.\u00a0 No wonder some sink into the couch with a remote in one hand and a drink in the other, or lose themselves at the arcade, the mall, or the ball game.\u00a0 As with the other things we\u2019ve mentioned, these are not wrong when used in the light of God and His Word, but when used \u201calone\u201d they cause us to find our enjoyment and fulfillment of life in ourselves and a worldly culture which is selfishness and sin.\u00a0 This is why the believer is admonished, \u201cAnd whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men\u201d (Col. 3:23).<\/span><\/p>\n

Work<\/span><\/strong>.<\/strong>\u00a0 Man is made by God to work!\u00a0 Adam was commanded to keep the garden, which he did with joyful obedience to God.\u00a0 Even after he fell he was to work, though in the sweat of his face and among the thorns of the ground.\u00a0 Paul said that the believer is to \u201cStudy to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we have commanded you\u201d (1 Thes. 4:11).\u00a0 The believer is to be \u201cworking with his own hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth\u201d (Eph. 4:28).\u00a0 As with many human activities, work is good and produces good fruit.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet this good thing can be used for selfish reasons and to fill our own barns without regard to our own souls (Luke 12:18).\u00a0 The workaholic does it for the love of money which is the root of all kinds of evil, \u201cwhich, while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows\u201d (1 Tim. 6:10).\u00a0 Life cannot be lived for work \u201calone\u201d but must be done to glorify God Who made us to work.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Talk<\/span><\/strong>.<\/strong>\u00a0 God made us verbal creatures.\u00a0 In fact, God saw fit to walk and talk with Adam, evidently every evening in the \u201ccool of the day\u201d (Gen. 3:8).\u00a0 In this way instruction was given and God\u2019s will was made known to His creatures.\u00a0 When the disciples were perplexed about the death of Christ, Jesus walked and talked with two of them on the Emmaus road that Sunday afternoon.\u00a0 They said, \u201cDid not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the Scriptures\u201d (Luke 24:32).\u00a0 Paul talked to the church at Troas until midnight (Acts 20:7).\u00a0 There is no greater joy for the Christian than to talk of heavenly and Godly things.\u00a0 This is why we were given this great gift, even to the preaching or heralding of the gospel.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet, Paul had to warn Titus that on his island of Crete there were \u201cmany unruly and vain talkers and deceivers . . . Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre\u2019s sake\u201d (Titus 1:10-11).\u00a0 It is appropriate that when Jesus told of a Pharisee who made an open show of his speaking ability said, \u201cthe Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself\u201d (Luke 18:11).\u00a0 Man cannot live by talk \u201calone\u201d either.\u00a0 By our speech we can praise or blaspheme our Creator; we can tell the truth or we can lie; we can cry out, \u201cGod be merciful to me a sinner\u201d or we can justify ourselves.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Life itself<\/span><\/strong>.\u00a0<\/strong> Man cannot live by this earthly life alone.\u00a0 Even his own life, his very soul, must also be lived by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.\u00a0 The sinner is \u201cdead in trespasses and sins\u201d (Eph. 2:1) and has no life without life from God with which He \u201cquickens us\u201d (Eph. 2:5).\u00a0 The natural life all people have is an earthly, soulish (<\/span>psyche<\/span>) life.\u00a0 The life God gives is a higher life (<\/span>zoe<\/span>).\u00a0 \u201cThe first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam [Christ] was made a quickening spirit\u201d (1 Cor. 15:45).\u00a0 \u201cQuickening spirit\u201d literally means \u201ca life-giving spirit,\u201d a <\/span>zoe <\/span>giving spirit.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Man cannot live by \u201clife\u201d (<\/span>psyche<\/span>) alone either.\u00a0 He must be truly made alive by the life (<\/span>zoe<\/span>) that only comes by regeneration from the Spirit of God.\u00a0 He must be born again.\u00a0 As with all of these things we have mentioned, life on this earth is only temporary.\u00a0 One may live a temporary life by bread alone, or by earthly pleasures alone, though never knowing the fuller life God intended.\u00a0 But human beings are eternal creatures and must live beyond this world, in a heaven with God, or in a hell without God and without hope.\u00a0 You cannot live in heaven by the bread of this world, but only by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God your Creator.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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And So . . .<\/span><\/h2>\n

When we know Christ as Savior, we truly do not eat our bread \u201calone.\u201d\u00a0 We have learned in every thing to give thanks \u201cfor this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you\u201d (1 Thes. 5:18).\u00a0 We even pray \u201cthat we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.\u00a0 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior\u201d (1 Tim. 2:3-4).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As believers we have learned to live within the boundaries that God has graciously made for us.\u00a0 His Word is a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path (Psa. 119:105).\u00a0 To live a temporary life by temporary bread alone is to miss the abundant life God has given to His children.\u00a0 The Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God is a precious Word that does not confine us, but opens to us a beautiful and fulfilling world both here and hereafter.<\/span><\/p>\n

We have learned to eat our bread to the glory and praise of God.\u00a0 \u201cAnd whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him\u201d (Col. 3:17).\u00a0 Even if we are ridiculed as being too \u201choly\u201d or \u201creligious,\u201d Peter wrote, \u201cIf ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the Spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you; on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified\u201d (1 Peter 5:14).<\/span><\/p>\n

We have learned that eating our bread with God\u2019s Word and in God\u2019s will, brings the power of God to our lives for all that is asked of us.\u00a0 \u201cFor God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind\u201d (2 Tim. 1:7).\u00a0 With Him, we can do all things through God Who strengthens us (Phil. 4:13).\u00a0 \u201cNay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us\u201d (Rom. 8:37).<\/span><\/p>\n

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And Also . . .<\/span><\/h2>\n

Where would we be if Jesus had made stones into bread that day?\u00a0 He was hungry, having fasted for so long, and after Satan left the angels came and ministered to Him anyway.\u00a0 Notwithstanding the impeccability of Jesus Christ, had Jesus sinned in simply making bread when He was hungry from the wrong motive and authority, we would not have a sinless Savior Who could die in our place, the Just for the unjust, to bring us to God (1 Peter 3:18).\u00a0 We would still be without hope and without God in the world (Eph. 2:12).\u00a0 No wonder Paul rejoiced when he wrote, \u201cThanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift\u201d (2 Cor. 9:15).<\/span><\/p>\n

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My dear Redeemer and my Lord,<\/span><\/p>\n

I read my duty in thy word;<\/span><\/p>\n

But in thy life the law appears,<\/span><\/p>\n

Drawn out in living characters.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Such was thy truth, and such thy zeal,<\/span><\/p>\n

Such def\u2019rence to thy Father\u2019s will,<\/span><\/p>\n

Such love, and meekness so divine,<\/span><\/p>\n

I would transcribe and make them mine.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Cold mountains and the midnight air<\/span><\/p>\n

Witness\u2019d the fervor of thy prayer;<\/span><\/p>\n

The desert thy temptations knew,<\/span><\/p>\n

Thy conflict, and thy victory too.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Be thou my pattern; make me bear<\/span><\/p>\n

More of thy gracious image here;<\/span><\/p>\n

Then God the Judge shall own my name<\/span><\/p>\n

Amongst the followers of the Lamb.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>The Example of Christ, Hymn 139<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Isaac Watts<\/p>\n

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And when the tempter came to him, he said, if thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.\u00a0But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone,\u00a0 but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Matthew 4:3-4 \u00a0 Do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[167],"class_list":["post-1290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-christian-living-cross-discipleship"],"yoast_head":"\nNot By Bread Alone - 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