God Our Provider
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🗓️ 8 April 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Take the first fish you catch, open its mouth, and you will find a four drachma coin. |
| 0:06.0 | Matthew chapter 17, verse 27. |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread. God, our provider, was written by Monica LaRose and read by Tony Collier. |
| 0:25.4 | Matthew chapter 17 verses 24 through 27. |
| 0:32.5 | After Jesus and his disciples arrived in Copernum, the collectors of the two Drachma temple tax came to Peter and asked, doesn't your teacher pay the temple tax? Yes, he does, he replied. |
| 0:39.3 | When Peter came into the house, Jesus was the first to speak. |
| 0:43.0 | What do you think, Simon? |
| 0:44.5 | He asked. |
| 0:45.6 | From whom do the kings of the earth collect duty and taxes? |
| 0:49.4 | From their own children or from others? |
| 0:52.1 | From others, Peter answered. |
| 0:57.4 | Then the children are exempt, Jesus said to him but so that we may not cause offense go to the lake and throughout your line take the first fish you |
| 1:03.9 | catch open its mouth and you will find a four drachma coin take it and give it to them for my tax and yours. God, our provider, written by Monica |
| 1:16.5 | LaRose. In 2024, teenager Keegan happily reeled in a two-foot barramundi, but his happiness became |
| 1:26.0 | elation when his little sister pointed out a tag on the fish. |
| 1:29.5 | His catch was worth $1 million as part of an Australian fishing competition. The annual event |
| 1:36.5 | had been held since 2015. Keegan was the first to win the coveted top cash prize. However slimmed |
| 1:43.6 | the odds of catching that fish, the odds were |
| 1:45.9 | far lower that a fish caught at random would have a coin in its mouth. But in Matthew's gospel, |
| 1:51.9 | Jesus instructed his disciple Peter to go to the lake and take the first fish you catch, |
| 1:56.9 | open its mouth, and you will find a four drachma coin. The context of this unlikely catch was a question of whether Jesus paid the temple tax. |
| 2:05.9 | The irony of insisting that Jesus, God's son, pays a tax to support God's temple, wasn't lost on him. |
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