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Prayer of Dedication
All Prefigured Prayers for Christ
Hallowed be your name:
No God like you, in heaven above or in earth beneath
Covenant God, loving God.
This OT prayer teaches us a lot about NT prayers:
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Introduction: Background
Vss.33-34: Forgiven Corporate Sins after ware
Introduction: Background
Background:
Vss.35-36:
Background:
Prayer of Dedication for the Temple
Big Deal- sort of like the moment the Apostle’s were praying together before the Holy Spirit came at Pentecost, this is a prayer spoken before one of the biggest events in the Bible: God’s Name coming to the Temple
Solomon spent many years a lot of cash building this spectacular building.
Read the Passage
Read the Passage
Movement #1: Overview of Passage
7 Main Prayer Requests Dealing with 7 Realistic Issues that will arise.
Solomon’s prayer can be summarized this way:
Major Themes in this Prayer:
“Lord, you’re coming to down to a people who are going to let you down.
You will be descending into a building surrounded by people stuck in sin.
I’m just gunna say it now: You’re going to be disappointed, and so please don’t only hear this prayer of dedication, but hear the future prayers of repentance!”
Prayer for the Church:
Vss.
31-32: Individual forgiveness
Vss.33-34: Forgiven Corporate Sins after ware
Vss.35-36: Famine
7 Situations People May Experience:
Justice: : Oath= innocence.
Heb: “bring his way [of life] on his own head’
Enemies: Overcome by enemies requires repentance and prayer
Enemies: Overcome by enemies requires repentance and prayer
Drought.
Purpose= ‘Make humble’ and to educate ‘teach’
Drought.
Purpose= ‘Make humble’ and to educate ‘teach’
Famine/Plague
Famine/Plague= Blight, mildew, locusts, grasshoppers,
Mercy for Foreigner: Attracted to the Lord.
‘House of prayer for all nations’
Mercy for Foreigner
Just War: Success in War
War
Loss of War, ie.
Exile:
Exile
: “It is written, ‘My house shall be a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers.”
“It is written, ‘My house shall be a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers.”
House of Prayer:
Hear and Forgive
Judge, restore, teach, act, do what he asks, uphold their cause
: for my house shall be called a house of prayer
for my house shall be called a house of prayer
for all peoples.”
Teaching #1: Geography Matters
Positional Prayers
Our Position to the Temple
Justice: ‘Confession before the Altar’
Geographically within the Temple:
Justice: ‘Confession before the Altar’
Enemies: ‘in this house’
Drought: ‘pray towards this house’
Famine, pestilence, mildew, locusts, caterpiller, enemy, plague, sickness: ‘lift up hands towards this house’
Foreigner: ‘Lift hands towards this place’
Going to War- outside the border: ‘Turn towards the City’
Exile: ‘Pray towards the land’
God’s Position in Heaven
Hear in Heaven (vss.
32,
Concentric Circles: When you are turning your body, you are turning your hearts!
Christian Blessing!
: Remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
Christian Geographically Resides in Christ already!
Don’t need a holy place
Don’t need a holy posture
Don’t need a holy position
When you pray, you’re already praying as someone in Christ!
More than just body position.
It’s about being grafted into another person!
When you pray, you don’t need
God’s Reputation is Important
Lesson #2: God’s Reputation Matters
Lesson #3: Evangelism Matters
Prayer=Evangelism:
Isaiah 56:4-8
Prayer=Evangelism:
4 For thus says the LORD:
“To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths,
who choose the things that please me
and hold fast my covenant,
5 I will give in my house and within my walls
a monument and a name
better than sons and daughters;
I will give them an everlasting name
that shall not be cut off.
6 “And the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD,
to minister to him, to love the name of the LORD,
and to be his servants,
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