Sermon Tone Analysis

There was a Christian lady who lived next door to an atheist.

Everyday, when the lady prayed, the atheist guy could hear her.

He thought to himself, "She sure is crazy, praying all the time like that.

Doesn't she know there isn't a God?"

Many times while she was praying, he would go to her house and harass her, saying "Lady, why do you pray all the time?

Don't you know there is no God?"

But she kept on praying.

One day, she ran out of groceries.

As usual, she was praying to the Lord explaining her situation and thanking Him for what He was gonna do.

As usual, the atheist heard her praying and thought to himself.

"Hmph... I'll fix her."

He went to the grocery store, bought a whole bunch of groceries, took them to her house, dropped them off on the front steps, rang the door bell and then hid in the bushes to see what she would do.

When she opened the door and saw the groceries, she began to praise the Lord with all her heart, jumping, singing and shouting everywhere!

The atheist then jumped out of the bushes and told her, "You old crazy lady, God didn't buy you those groceries.

I bought those groceries!"

Well, she broke out and started running down the street, shouting and praising the Lord.

When he finally caught her, he asked what her problem was.

She said, "I knew the Lord would provide me with some groceries, but I didn't know he was gonna make the devil pay for them!"

Go to a private Place and get alone With your father

God will reward the openly

Don’t use vain repetitions

Your Father knows what you need

This occurs only at Mt. 6:7 in the sense of “to babble.”

The non-Christian, and non-Jew, thinks that by heaping up the names of God, of which he does not know the true and relevant one, he can include the deity which will grant his request, and that he can weary God—this includes Jews too—by constant repetition.

Jesus, on the other hand, advises a calm trust in the Father (→ ἀββᾶ) who need only be addressed as such and who will give all necessary things to His children if they prove themselves to be such by praying first for His kingdom (6:33).

Delling, G. (1964–).

βατταλογέω.

In G. Kittel, G. W. Bromiley, & G. Friedrich (Eds.),

Theological dictionary of the New Testament (electronic ed., Vol. 1, p. 597).

Eerdmans.

Hallowed

to make holy, i.e. (cer.)

purify or consecrate; (mentally) to venerate:—hallow, be holy, sanctify

cer.

ceremony, ceremonial, ceremonially

Strong, J. (2009).

In A Concise Dictionary of the Words in the Greek Testament and The Hebrew Bible (Vol. 1, p. 7).

Logos Bible Software.

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