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Why This Passage?
The disciples had asked Jesus to teach them to pray.
When Christ said to “pray, then, in this way,” He didn’t mean pray with these exact words.
John MacArthur says, When Christ said to “pray, then, in this way,” He didn’t mean pray with these exact words.
His intention was to give them a pattern for the structure of their own prayers, especially since He had just warned them of the dangers of meaningless repetition.
His intention was to give them a pattern for the structure of their own prayers, especially since He had just warned them of the dangers of meaningless repetition.
That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t recite it, as we do with so many passages in Scripture.
That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t recite it, as we do with so many passages in Scripture.
Memorizing it is actually helpful so you can meditate on its truths as you formulate your own thoughts.
Memorizing it is actually helpful so you can meditate on its truths as you formulate your own thoughts.
The prayer is mainly a model we can use to give direction to our own praise, adoration, and petitions.
It is not a substitute for our own prayers but a guide for them.
The prayer is mainly a model we can use to give direction to our own praise, adoration, and petitions.
It is not a substitute for our own prayers but a guide for them.
What Does It Mean to Hallow God’s Name?
The Lord’s name takes constant abuse by mankind - in curse, in casual conversation, in pointless conversations
Martyn Lloyd-Jones had this perspective:
What unworthy ideas and notions this world has of God!
If you test your ideas of God by the teaching of the Scriptures you will see at a glance what I mean.
We lack even a due sense of the greatness and the might and the majesty of God.
Listen to men arguing about God, and notice how glibly they use the term … It is indeed almost alarming to observe the way in which we all tend to use the name of God.
We obviously do not realize that we are talking about the ever blessed, eternal, and absolute, almighty God.
There is a sense in which we should take our shoes off our feet whenever we use the name (Studies in the Sermon on the Mount, 2 vols.
[Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1979], 2:60–61).
To make God’s name common was forbidden in the Old Testament
Deuteronomy 5:11
We typically cringe when someone uses profanity, and especially when God’s name is taken in vain.
Do we recognize attitudes of indifference and lack of respect?
How do we measure a low view of God?
We often go on through life and we take care of the events pressing on our day
Demands of work - secular jobs that are our means of providing for our families
Demands of family - children who need care, education, comfort, guidance, etc.
Demands of society - upkeep of our homes, social events, even work in our church or for the body
With all of these demands on our time it is easy for us to forget why we exist?
Quest. 1.
What is the chief end of man?
Answ.
Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him for ever.
Glorifying God is well supported by ;
Enjoying God is summed up
Glorifying God we can try to get, enjoying God is a bit more distant in feel but we seek after it, but what does it mean to live our live treating God as honored?
What does it look like to understand God’s holiness and our sinfulness in prayer?
With that in mind, you can understand why prayer is ever and always, first and foremost, a recognition of God’s majestic glory and our submission to it.
All our petitions, all our needs, and all our problems are subject to Him.
God is to have priority in every aspect of our lives, and certainly in our times of deepest communion with Him.
Prayer is not to be a casual routine that gives passing homage to God; it is to be a profound experience that should open up great dimensions of reverence, awe, appreciation, honor, and adoration.
What is significant in God’s Name?
The aspect of God’s name is that we would see Him exalted and glorified in all things.
MacArthur says, Even though He is our loving Father, who desires to meet our needs through His heavenly resources, our first petition is not to be for our benefit, but His.
Consider
MacArthur, John F., Jr. Alone with God.
Wheaton, IL: Victor Books, 1995.
Print.
MacArthur Study Series.
Jews still are careful in how they refer to God: G-d
In Jesus day they referred to God not as Yahweh but as Adonai
By focusing our thoughts on God’s name, our Lord is teaching us that God’s name signifies much more than His titles; it represents all that He is—His character, plan, and will.
MacArthur, John F., Jr. Alone with God.
Wheaton, IL: Victor Books, 1995.
Print.
MacArthur Study Series.
Jesus’ disciples should have understood that, because in Old Testament times, names stood for more than just titles.
Names represented one’s character.
David’s character was highly esteemed, not the name “David.”
Moses called on the name of the Lord from Mt. Sinai and said,
What does this look like in our person?
To pray, “hallowed be Your name” is to attribute to God the holiness that already is, and has always been, supremely and uniquely His.
To hallow God’s name is to revere, honor, glorify, and obey Him as the one and only completely perfect God.
When we do, we remind ourselves of the important difference between us and Him.
God lives in a different sphere than we do.
He is holy and undefiled, but we are sinners.
Only through His gracious provision of Jesus Christ and His payment for the penalty of our sin are we even able to approach Him.
We agree with John Calvin, who says that God should have His own honor, of which He is so worthy, and that we should never think or speak of Him without the greatest veneration.
So honoring God as holy looks like we live our lives seeking to be holy and we regard Him in our heart as holy.
We reverence God with realizing His holiness and our dependance on the work of Christ to be holy.
We cannot divorce our life from our prayer life - we need to pray that we might be sanctified!
What does this look like in our prayers?
Self and all its needs must be given a secondary place, and the Lord given preeminence in our thoughts and supplications
"Hallowed be your name” is a warning against self-seeking prayer because it completely encompasses God’s nature and man’s response to it.
With that in mind, you can understand why prayer is ever and always, first and foremost, a recognition of God’s majestic glory and our submission to it.
All our petitions, all our needs, and all our problems are subject to Him.
God is to have priority in every aspect of our lives, and certainly in our times of deepest communion with Him.
Prayer is not to be a casual routine that gives passing homage to God; it is to be a profound experience that should open up great dimensions of reverence, awe, appreciation, honor, and adoration.
Jesus wasn’t reciting some nice words about God.
Instead, He opened a whole dimension of respect, reverence, glory, and worship for God.
Granting due place and honor to God; failure to do this is not without consequences
Moses by striking the rock
Saul in
Uzzah in
John MacArthur offers these helps when mentioning 1 Peter 3:15
Acknowledge God Exists: .
Don’t let your mind wander as you pray.
Know the truth about God: believing inaccurately about God equals irreverence
Some people think that taking God’s name in vain is swearing or cursing only, but that is not the case.
You can take the name of the Lord in vain every time you think a thought about God that’s not true, or when you doubt Him, disbelieve Him, and question Him.
The early church father Origen said in his rebuttal to the Greek philosopher Celsus that the man who brings into his concept of God ideas that have no place there takes the name of the Lord God in vain (book 1, chapter 25)
Have we fallen into the sin of Job in ?
We cannot revere a God whose character and will we do not know or care about.
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