Lord’s Prayer Essentials S31e100 Mt6

Join me for a run-thru of the essentials of the Lord's Prayer. There is enough truth there for a lifetime, but 7 minutes of attention is a good start.

You'll learn:

1. how God wishes to be addressed
2. What are His 3 big concerns
3. What are Our 3 big concerns
4. Why we pray a part of "the Lord's Prayer" today that isn't actually in the Lord's Prayer!

It is so great to have you here watching and listening. Please Subscribe and like and comment.

https://youtu.be/TMzKlsO_jqk

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Brothers and sisters, let's talk about the Lord's Prayer Essentials today. This is all from Matthew chapter six, and we have this not so secret invitation from God to join him in communion with prayer. He desires to be pursued and met and known, and that's the foundation of the of the Lord's Prayer. It starts in Matthew chapter 6, verse 9, our Father in Heaven. So it addresses God as He taught us to address Him, our Father. We come like children, like family, with the respect that we have for a Father. But before we get too chummy with that relationship, remember He's in heaven. There's this reverence and holiness and perfection and authority that is asked for by that part of the prayer. Here, says Jesus, is a great way to start the prayer. Our Father. He asks us then to take an interest in the kind of things that interests him, namely the holiness of his name, the coming of his kingdom, and the accomplishment of his will. Listen, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. So there's something in it for a right relationship with God, aligning and satisfying his purposes, his name, his reputation, his and his kingdom. His name is the reputation, his will, that is his purposes, and his kingdom, that is his rule here. So hallowed be thy name. So may his name be reverenced and held by heart and tongue as holy. Thy kingdom come. So this invisible real estate of God's kingdom would be manifested and expanded here. I like to think about it geographically, that the acreage of it would grow by one heart, one wallet, one zipper, one soul that puts their eggs in the basket of the Lord's kingdom. Thy kingdom come. Where? Well, here, when? Now thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. So God's will is being done in heaven. That's the good news. The bad news is it's not always being done here. So let your will be done. May I allow it on my footprint of this kingdom. So would you be willing for starters to seek after his reputation, his purposes, and his rule, and let the priorities of God become infiltrated into our prayers. All right, so then he moves on. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. So let's start with give us these are our concerns now. God has three concerns, and we have three concerns. Give us this day our daily bread. That is, give me the bread sufficient for the day, so that I can be sufficient to the day. What supply do we need now, maybe this morning, that can have a material and maybe a spiritual substantive uh effect on the day's tasks. So, what supply do I need now so I can do those things? Fill my tank with the exact right ingredients to be ready for the challenges in the very near future. And then he goes on to what is perhaps the greatest of life skills, which is repentance and forgiveness. Verse 12, forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our debtors. Or as uh some translations say, forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. So people are going to be in need of forgiveness from you, and contrary, uh similarly, you are going to be in need of forgiveness from them. And the passage calls us not only to demonstrate the skill of being forgiven, but it involves repentance and asking for forgiveness towards me, but also to demonstrate the skill of forgiving others. The passage says that you should have some reps under your belt, as we have been forgiven, so that when the time comes to forgive you, you've already demonstrated the grace that was required by you. So this involves receiving apology sometimes, extending to the undeserved, to the unasked for grace, and giving unmerited kindness of relationship, kind of that fistful of mercy that we were talking about in the Beatitudes. So is your life characterized by forgiving? It mentally changes reality to the point where it's as if something never had happened. Now, I'm not saying that it's it's easy and poof, all all all is forgiven. Forgiveness comes at a cost in a sense, and the cost is to me. The forgiveness that you require is paved on the reps of forgiveness that you've already demonstrated. So you require forgiveness. Demonstrate that you have first, demonstrate first that you are ready for it. So forgiveness is this act and exercise of faith in the justice of God and the future justice of God. And may God create in us a heart bent and ready to forgive. Then verse 13 lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Well, wait a minute. Is evil and temptation a real thing? Ephesians 6 says we don't wrestle with flesh and blood, but against rulers and authorities and cosmic powers over this present darkness against spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. So we are not ultimately wrestling with flesh and blood, or sorry, we're not ultimately wrestling flesh and blood, but we are currently wrestling with flesh and blood. And why do we pray? Because what is required is beyond our abilities. Why do we act? Because what is needed is the full force of our abilities. So who can help, who can I help deliver? It's a we thing. Deliver us from evil. What faraway person might you bring close? So let's not be surprised when temptation uh comes. The point of the passage is nip it in the bud, not see how close to the line you can get, but see how far away from the line and you can stay in the first place. Now, the Lord is the builder of escape patches, and pushing back the borders of evil uh expands, and expanding the borders of good is what the Lord is after. So let's humbly request his protection by any method, any person. Um, and let's ask for this cloak of protection for our families, our pastors, our elders, our children, and those not yet born. To pray against evil is to pray for the Lord. So finally, what part of the Lord's prayer is not in the Lord's Prayer? Uh we pray for thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory forever and ever, amen. Why this tag? Well, it is from the Bible, it's from basically 1 Chronicles chapter 29, a prayer of David, where he's going on and on and on about the Lord's characteristic at the at the commissioning and uh opening of the uh of the temple. The this is called a polysyndaton, uh kind of like a polysynonym. And in the in the passage in 1 Chronicles, there's this there's 14 ands in the place, uh, and the glory and the power, and the so the idea is that we could just go on forever with these characteristics of the Lord. Each is important and independent and emphatic. Uh and I think we can enthusiastically pray it. Why? Because David did. So those are the essentials of the Lord's Prayer. Thanks for listening.