Do you remember a teacher or coach who was so special and encouraging to you?
Do you remember how much they meant to you?
Do you remember how you rose to their expectations of you as they coached or taught you?
What type of response do we have to someone we love, respect, and deeply admire?
Usually, when they express their expectations or desires, we do everything to try to meet their expectations, right?
That experience that many of us have shared is really a key to understanding our passage of Scripture this morning in Matthew 6:11.
We are looking at the Lord’s Prayer’s seven petitions, and have arrived at the middle, or fourth. The words are simple: “Give us this day our daily bread”. The meaning is also simple, but the message Christ conveys in both the context of this petition to the entire prayer and the whole prayer to the context in the Sermon on the Mount is profound. Watch what I mean.
POINT ONE: JESUS SHARES HIS EXPECTATIONS OF HIS FIRST DISCIPLES IN MATTHEW 5-7
Here are the plain truths we would all agree upon.
The Sermon on the Mount was given directly and primarily to Christ’s disciples. Look at Matthew 5:1 with me for a moment. The crowds around may have listened, and we, through the inspiration of the Bible, can also now hear this message. But the first responders were intended by Jesus to be His disciples.
So, Matthew 5-7 was initially communicated directly to the Twelve, His first disciples.
In Matthew 6, Jesus expresses some expectations or desires of His disciples, not commands. Notice that Jesus never commands these disciplines or choices; He just states them as assumptions that these are things they would be doing. In other words, Jesus says this is what I expect you are already doing as my disciples.
What were those expectations?
JESUS ASSUMED HIS DISCIPLES WOULD GIVE, PRAY, & FAST
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