Man does not live by bread alone how to understand. Man does not live by bread alone

Dear church, dear brothers and sisters!

I cordially greet you! Grace to you and peace be multiplied!

May God strengthen you, give you wisdom and patience, bless and keep you from all evil!

The Bible says: “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God”(Mat. 4:4). The first thing that is clear from the words of Jesus Christ is that every person needs bread. Bread, i.e. food is vital to maintain our strength, to perform the necessary work that requires our efforts, and without the timely replenishment of these forces, a person simply cannot survive.

But further on, Jesus Christ says an equally important thought: a person lives not only on physical food. For a normal life, we need a word that comes from the mouth of God. How physical food is vital to our physical person so the word of God is necessary for our inner man, for our soul.

The Word of God written in the Bible is just a text consisting of letters and words that "comes to life" for those who communicate with the Author of the Bible and know Him personally. You can receive a letter from unknown person and it will not particularly please, no matter what is said there. When we receive a letter from a relative or close, we react in a completely different way. But it is much better to communicate with this person personally. Therefore, God wants us not only to read the Bible like a book, but to communicate with Him “mouth to mouth”, “face to face”, receiving living word from the living God through the Scriptures.

“When Jesus entered Capernaum, a centurion came up to Him and asked Him: Lord! my servant lies at home in relaxation and suffers severely. Jesus says to him: I will come and heal him. The centurion, answering, said: Lord! I am not worthy that You should enter under my roof, but only speak the word, and my servant will be healed.”(Mat. 8:5-8). The centurion received a concrete, living word from God in his situation, and his servant was healed! With such a word, a person will live! We all need just such a word that fills us with inner strength!

Without inner strength from God, we cannot do anything good in life. Physically weak person who has not eaten for several days may understand what he needs to do, but he simply will not have the strength to do it. The same thing happens in the lives of many Christians: with their minds they understand how to live and do the right thing, but they can't do it for one reason - there is no inner strength.

The apostle Peter speaks of believers as those who “kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in Lately” (1 Peter 1:5). “Respected” means “retained”. We cannot be saved, we cannot come to heaven on our own - there is not enough enthusiasm. This is possible only by the power of God! How do we get this power? "By the power of God through faith," which comes “by hearing, and hearing by the word of God”(Rom. 10:17).

The Word of God is the decisive factor in our lives. Without the word dwelling in us, problems are inevitable. Jesus Christ addresses people full of problems: “And you do not have His word abiding in you, because you do not believe Him whom He sent”(John 5:38).

What is the first thing we think about when we wake up and start our day? About urgent calls, pressing matters and the problems around us? What is first for us is our god. Why did God speak in the Old Testament about the firstborn, the first fruits, the first sheaves? Did He really want to take something away from people? No, not to take away, but to show people who their god really is.

God wants to be our God. And God reveals His word and speaks to those for whom He is God, to those for whom He is in the first place.

If we wake up and set aside our first time to spend it with God, the rest days will pass in God's blessing and arrangement. For many people, this seems impossible. But it's worth the time to separate yourself and dwell in the Kingdom of God, which is "not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit."

A normal Christian life is when our hearts are filled not with fear and vanity, not with guilt and condemnation, but with righteousness, peace and joy! Jesus Christ came to give us abundant life, but how does it work in practice? When, with all our busyness, we give the first time to God. Without doing this, we will still spend all our energy on solving problems during the day, and most- on completely unnecessary things, vanity, worries, experiences. So isn't it better to spend these forces on being in communion with God at the beginning of the day?

Without communion with God, our life becomes like an unfilled car: we try to go somewhere, achieve something, but nothing works, we stand still. We try to clean up, but it turns out even more disorder. We “make things right” endlessly, but sooner or later everything falls into disrepair.

Dear brothers and sisters! Our lives can change and become different if we only decide every day to consistently start our day with prayer and the Word of God. Problems will be solved not only by our forces or calculations, but God Himself will help us and arrange everything miraculously, disposing the hearts of people, giving us all the necessary wisdom and understanding in all our affairs. When the word from God is within us, we will be complete life force because "man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God."

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God the Father, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.

With love in Christ,
your brother and shepherd Leonid Padun

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The catchphrase “Man does not live by bread alone” hides the main things in life, material and spiritual. Each individual cannot live without air, water, food. But that's not all!

Basic human biological needs

Considering the meaning of the proverb “Man does not live by bread alone”, one should look deeply into what constitutes the basis of the existence of each individual. That is, it is very important to determine what are the basic needs of a person.

First of all, every creature on earth must maintain its existence. Therefore, biological needs should by no means be discounted. These are breathing, food, water, clothing, sleep, security, health. This is what the first part of the proverb “Man does not live by bread alone” says. That is, biological needs are priority. A hungry person will first of all want to eat in order to maintain his existence.

Man is a social being

Although many living organisms on Earth cannot survive on their own, humans probably take the first place in this lineup. The need for communication, love, popularity, recognition, sometimes for leadership and dominance over other people - these are the components of people.

And uttering the phrase “Man does not live by bread alone,” many mean exactly this. You can be full, clothed, live in warmth and comfort, even have much Furthermore, which is necessary, but to feel deeply unhappy because there is no loved one nearby, what is your native person too bad no one wants to recognize your talents. The name of the series "The Rich Also Cry" in this sense is synonymous with the proverb with which the discussion began.

spiritual needs

Thinking about what the idiom “Man does not live by bread alone” means, everyone understands that besides bread (and this word means everything physiologically necessary for existence) there is something else, without which life cannot be complete and happy. These are the so-called

Every personality is inherently creative potential. To realize it is the task of the individual. And an even more important task is to get the approval of others, recognition. Only then can we say that a person has taken place.

Spiritual needs also include knowledge of the surrounding world, oneself, one's place in life, the meaning of one's existence.

Recognition is the main and very significant component of human needs.

Yes, not one, but several deep semantic layers are embedded in catchphrase"Man does not live by bread alone." Composing poems "on the table" is a spiritual life. This development of personality and inner life, of course, gives its positive results. But only for spiritual state most creative personality. Without the approval of others, without their recognition, the poet does not feel fully happy.

If we return to the social needs of a person, it becomes clear that at the stage of growing up, a person's need to receive is partially replaced by the need to give.

The kid rejoices, receiving gifts. He does not even think about the fact that he also has to give something to someone. The older he gets, the more he wants to do good to people. And the more pleasant it becomes to receive gratitude, recognition of others.

And it doesn’t matter whether the person brings joy to others with his amazing voice or beautiful literary creation, a sculpture created by talent and patience, or a stool made by oneself, a swept yard, or a bun baked for breakfast. It is important that those who have received what was created by others express recognition and gratitude. And for this, you can sometimes even sacrifice your own piece of bread ... Or your own life ...

St. Maxim Turinsky

And he answered and said to him, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

The Savior crushes the devil's cunning with a surprising answer. He does not do what the devil says, lest it seem that He manifests the glory of His power at the will of the enemy, but He does not answer that it is impossible to do this, because He could not deny what He had already done repeatedly. Therefore, the Lord does not agree with what the devil offers Him, and does not reject his inquiries, but thereby reserves for Himself the decision to exercise His power and exposes the cunning of the enemy with divine eloquence. So he answers him: Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God, - that is, not with earthly bread, not with material food, with which you seduced the first man Adam, but by the word of God in which lies the food of the spiritual life. The Word of God is Christ the Lord, as the Evangelist says: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God(John 1:1) . Therefore, everyone who feeds on the word of Christ does not need earthly nourishment. For he cannot desire the bread of this age who is strengthened by the bread of the Saviour. For the Lord has His bread, and what is more, this bread- The Savior Himself, as He taught, saying: I am the bread that came down from heaven(John 6:41) . The prophet also speaks of this bread: And the bread that strengthens the heart of man(Ps. 103:15) .

Sermons.

Rev. Isidore Peluciot

And he answered and said to him, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

Stones are not turned by Christ into bread, my best, not because the time for miracles has not yet come, as idle talkers proclaim, but because the petition was vain and proper only to the one who asked. God gives everything in number, and in measure, and in accordance with need, but here what was asked was superfluous, and miracles were not at all timely.

Letters. Book I

Right. John of Kronstadt

And he answered and said to him, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

Know now, when you fast bodily, that a person, a spiritual and immortal being, can live not only from bread and various food, but from the word of God, and much more from the word of God than from bread. Eating material food is the most common way of satiation for all sensual creatures, as gross as the body; it is adapted to our planetary life, subordinate in everything to the planet on which we live. But as our life is not limited only to existence on earth, but will continue even after it burns down, forever and ever, it is natural to desire and demand for a person other food than planetary, rough food, namely, eternal food, adapted to an immortal being. , spiritually-rational nature of our soul. What is this food? This is the food by which the immortal spirits - the Angels - live, the food by which all the worlds of the universe are kept in their whole composition and in all their parts - that is, this is the word of God.

Diary. Volume I. 1856.

Blzh. Hieronymus Stridonsky

And he answered and said to him, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

The testimony is taken from the book of Deuteronomy (Deut. 8:3). And the Lord answers this way because He had in mind to defeat the devil not by His might, but by His humility. At the same time, it should be noted that if the Lord had not begun to fast, then the devil would not have had a chance to be tempted, according to what is written: My son, approaching the service before the Lord, stand in truth and in fear, and prepare your soul for the test(Sir. 2:1) . But the very answer of the Savior shows that the man was the One who was tempted: Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. So, whoever does not feed on the word of God does not live.

Blzh. Theophylact of Bulgaria

And he answered and said to him, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

This testimony is taken from the Old Testament, for these are the words of Moses. And the Jews ate manna, which was not bread, but according to the Word of God, it satisfied every need of the Jews, was everything that anyone wanted to eat. Whether the Jew wanted fish, eggs, or cheese, the manna satisfied his taste.

Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew.

Evfimy Zigaben

And he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes out of the mouth of God.

Seeing his deceit, Jesus did not perform the required sign. Signs were usually performed for the benefit of the beholders; but the devil could not profit from this. And afterwards, seeing all that Christ had created, he did not change at all. But Christ answers his hidden thoughts and silences him with the Scripture from the book of Deuteronomy (8:3), as if saying: Why do you order Me to make loaves of stones? Of course, because of the hunger that torments Me, so that when I see them, I would be tempted to eat. But not alone only man shall live by bread but there is another kind of food. Every word that proceeds from the mouth of God to the hungry, like food, it sustains his life and satisfies him. Thus generously He repelled the temptation to gluttony. It should be noted that Matthew said in plural: stones, and Luke in the singular: stone. Often such harmless differences can be found among evangelicals. The evidence is drawn from the Old Testament: these are the words of Moses. And the Jews ate manna, which, although it was not bread, but, according to the word of God, satisfied every need of the Jews and became everything that only anyone wanted to eat. Whether the Jew desired fish, or eggs, or cheese, the manna gave him just such a taste.

Interpretation of the Gospel of Matthew.

Origen

And he answered and said to him, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

What has been said has already been said by the Savior, and for the knowledgeable it becomes clear that before the manna, which is heavenly food, one must suffer and starve, outliving one's fat as food. For it is written thus: And remember all the way that the Lord your God led you through the wilderness, to humble you, to test you and find out what is in your heart, whether you will keep His commandments or not. He humbled you, made you hungry, and fed you with manna, which your fathers did not know, to show you that man does not live by bread alone.(Deut. 8:2, And that the manna, as He says, was a word, becomes clear from the answer of Moses to the question of the children of Israel, when they spoke to each other: what is it?(Ex. 16:15) . What did Moses say? This is the bread that the Lord has given you to eat. This is the word that the Lord commanded(Ex. 16:15-16) . After that, the devil moves on to another [temptation to suffer another] defeat.

Fragments.

Lopukhin A.P.

And he answered and said to him, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

(Luke 4:4) . Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God(Deut. 8:3) . Let us first explain, as far as possible, what meaning these words, the first spoken by the Savior after baptism, could have. The body is supported by food. But man does not consist of only one body. The body cannot feed itself or feed on its own; it, so to speak, transmits information about its needs and needs to the spirit, and only with its help receives what is necessary for its continuation and existence. The spirit provides for the body and its needs; it would perish without such provision. Tempting Christ, the devil turned, therefore, not to the main source human life. Wanting to achieve his goal, he turned to the slave (body) instead of his master (spirit), and tempted the body to prevail over his master, to subdue him to his will. But this order was not normal. The spirit is not dependent on the body, but the body is dependent on the spirit. For the body to be alive, the spirit must be alive. But the life of the spirit does not depend on bodily nourishment. It just seems that way. The spirit feeds on other food. Since the image and likeness of God is not in the body, but in the human spirit, then the food that nourishes the spirit is served by God - this is the word of God. The devil represented man primarily as a bodily being, the Savior presents man primarily as a spiritual being. The Lord, as it were, forgot about nourishing the body, nourishing his spirit. The devil forgot about the nourishment of the spirit, expressing outward care for the body. The error has been exposed and the temptation has been repelled.

Christ's answer to the devil is taken from Deut. 8:3. According to the LXX translation, this place is read literally like this: ... “to tell you that man will not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes out through the mouth of God, man will live.” Letters. from Hebrew: “... that a person does not live by bread alone, that a person lives by everything that comes from the mouth of the Most High.” Our Russian text of Deuteronomy, apparently, deviates from both Greek and Hebrew, and is closest to the Latin of the Vulgate. It is difficult to say from what text the quotation in the verse under consideration in Matthew is given. But it is certain that Matthew deviates here both from the Hebrew text and from the LXX translation, which is already evident from the fact that “man lives”, repeated both in the Greek and in the Hebrew text, is not repeated by the evangelist. But the meaning of the original and exact original is preserved in the Gospel, and instead of the Hebrew “lives”, it is said “will live”, as in LXX. In Deut. 8:3 his writer reminds the people of their wanderings in the wilderness and says that there God “humbled you, made you hungry, and fed you with manna, ... to show you that a man does not live by bread alone, but by every (word) that comes from the mouth of the Lord." How a person lives by the word of God, this was shown by the life of the Jews in the wilderness. Despite the famine, Israel remained alive there, because the Lord commanded them to live, and in necessary cases, according to the word of God, manna fell. Therefore, the Savior did not need to take care of the bread. God will give Him food when He needs it. He will not die if he does not turn stones into loaves. Luke's speech is abbreviated.

Trinity leaflets

And he answered and said to him, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

What is Christ the Savior? He directly speaks of what the devil kept silent about; He is not ashamed of being hungry; but he does not want to obey the devil in anything, in order to teach us not to obey him even when he inspires something useful. So later He commanded the demons to be silent when they called Him the Son of God. And he answered and said to him: It is written: (in the book of Deuteronomy) Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God(Deut. 8:3). And besides bread, God has many ways to nourish a person. You want Me to perform a miracle for My pleasure, but I will not do it. If such a miracle were needed, then God Himself would have created it for Me. But He does not create: therefore, it is not needed. I will endure hunger as long as it pleases God to satisfy Me. I will work miracles, but not for Myself, but for the glory of God, for the salvation of people. If a hair does not fall from a person's head without the will of God, then all the more God will not allow Me to die of hunger; you only need to surrender yourself to the good care of God in everything. And God can satisfy our hunger with a single word of His. A person has needs more important than food: spiritual food is more important than bodily food. My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work(John 4:34). And conversation with God, prayer, is sweeter for Me than any food. So the devil wanted to convict Jesus Christ of unbelief in the Providence of God, but Christ the Savior placed his whole hope in His Heavenly Father and did not want to please His flesh in a miraculous way. Temptation of the flesh He conquered by abstinence.

Trinity sheets. No. 801-1050.

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