The Lord's Prayer
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we have lots of prayers we say: opening ,closing, thanksgiving, food, blessings, safety and protection, healing
prayer is invoking the kingdom.
read through
5—15
start here:
Matthew
9 Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.
Jesus means, pray like this.
2 And he said to them, “When you pray, say: “Father, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come.
Luke 11:2
Hallowed means?
Our Father / father.
somewhat communal sounding / [yet private] // means this prayer is to be largely about others.
goal:
Hallowed means?
Hallowed means?
14 “You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. 15 Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. 16 In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.
Matthew 6:14
14 For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, 15 but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. 16 “And when you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.
Matthew 5:14-16
[reading this as a goal… a recognition of the spreading of the gospel good news because of the glory brought about by the reality of the kingdom.
This link [sets up an important relationship] it sets up the Lord’s prayer as a simple, easily memorable poem, that we can use to align ourselves with God;
to sync ourselves back to kingdom values.
10 Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
“Your kingdom” come.
at hand!
Well we’ve just been talking about that haven’t we. Jesus has just defined kingdom life for us by contrasting it with the kingdom of the world.
That was the emphasis of last week’s message: resolving to answer the call of the kingdom of God:
[a daily resolution to make!]
Romans 12:
9 Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.
that passage in Romans ends link this:
21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
What does Jesus tell us to pray?
13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
we pray: make us victorious in our work of spreading the gospel // kingdom.
the beginning of the prayer is approaching God and aligning with God;
the end is anticipating victory in God.
[some manuscripts: for yours is the kingdom and power and glory]
Which leaves this middle section [ the work of the prayer… mana]
11 Give us this day our daily bread,
Matthew 6
forgiveness
12 and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
Matthew 6
[[end with forgiveness]]
13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.
and power for forgiveness is in Christ: He is the manifest evidence of God’s forgiveness; and so He is our peace.
14 For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility 15 by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, 16 and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility. 17 And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near.
34 And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”
Jer
Lord’s supper reminds us, as often as we read it, that Forgiveness is not insignificant. And we are reminded that forgiveness is the attribute of our father that Jesus wants us to key in on most.
active part of daily life...
Jesus summarizes kingdom:
Romans 12:
Jesus summarizes kingdom:
Love God.
Love Your Neighbor.
praying ” your kingdom come “ means praying God’s forgiveness, intervening into issues brought about by anger, lust, divorce+covenant-breaking, manipulation, retaliation, segregation.
anger, lust, divorce+covenant-breaking, manipulation, retaliation, segregation.
In those situations the best outcome possible is that God’s will be done.
[reminder: that defines agape love: having the highest and best hope in mind and working for it].
on earth as it is in heaven.
[still a prayer in which I have several in mind… several traveling the poem with me]