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Text: KJV
OPEN: 2 words can turn a relationship upside down / or right side up!
We begin the actual text of the Lord’s Prayer (aka The Disciples’ Prayer) today.
Couple of overview thoughts.
couldn’t have been meant to mechanically pray over and over (especially in view of the Lord’s direction on ho NOT to pray)
This was a prayer that Jesus could not pray Himself because it includes the request of forgivenessIt was revolutionary on so many levels.
The first 2 words are worth considerable pause and contemplation.
Lord’s Prayer Background and entry
How simple yet deeply profound the Lord’s Prayer is, as we can see even in brief outline:
The FATHERHOOD of God (and his loving care for his children);
The HOLINESS of God (and his holy sacrifice for us);
The KINGDOM of God (and his reign over all of life);
The WILL of God (and his perfect plan for us);
The PROVISION of God (day by day for all our needs);
The FORGIVENESS of God (for all sins and the sins of others);
The PROTECTION of God (from temptation and from Satan’s power); and
The REALITY of his KINGDOM, his power, and his glory forever.
(Lane T. Dennis, President and Publisher of Crossway books)
We have this great high privilege of claiming the Creator of all the Universe as OUR FATHER!
“OUR”
We reject individualism and self-centeredness and selfishness when we say OUR.
We are saved by Christ INTO a His body - the Church of the living God as well.
Do you notice what is stunningly absent?
There is no first-person singular pronoun in the entire prayer!
Jesus did not teach us to pray, “My Father who is heaven. . . .
Give me this day my daily bread and forgive me my debts as I also have forgiven my debtors.
And lead me not into temptation but deliver me from evil.”
The point is not to deny our own sins or our own needs, but to never leave the focus solely on ourselves.
Mohler, R. Albert.
The Prayer That Turns the World Upside Down (p.
44).
Thomas Nelson.
Kindle Edition.
One of the besetting sins of evangelicalism is our obsession with individualism.
Mohler, R. Albert.
The Prayer That Turns the World Upside Down (p.
44).
Thomas Nelson.
Kindle Edition.
One of our greatest problems and deficiencies in prayer is that we begin with our own concerns and our own petitions without regard for our brothers and sisters.
Mohler, R. Albert.
The Prayer That Turns the World Upside Down (p.
46).
Thomas Nelson.
Kindle Edition.
OUR
"...to be a Christian is to belong to a church.
No one gets saved and then wanders around him or herself, thinking about whether to join a church.
People repent and are then baptized into the fellowship of a church.
Looking to Christ as Lord means being united to Christ's people.
It's automatic, like being adopted means you'll quickly find yourself self at a dinner table with brothers and sisters."
You were not made to fix your marriage on your own.
The way that God does His work in the world is through His body.
If I’m separated from the body, I’m separated from the activity of God in my life…and others will be deprived of it.
“God help me with my kids, marriage, job, direction in life”…he often sends that answer / help / encouragement through another part of the body of Christ
You cannot say the Lord’s Prayer And even once say “I”
You cannot say the Lord’s Prayer And even once say “My.”
Nor can you pray the Lord’s Prayer And not pray for another,
For when you ask for daily bread You must include your brother.
For others are included in each and every plea—
From the beginning to the end of it, It never once says “Me!”
(Zodhiates, vii.)
I’m so glad I’m a part of the family of God
I’ve been washed in the fountain Cleansed by His blood
Joint heirs with Jesus as we travel this sod
For I’m part of the family, the family of God
“FATHER”
FATHER OF ALL?
We can call him Father because of the work of His Son.
NOTE: The German theologian Joachim Jeremias, a New Testament scholar, did a study in which he searched through the Old Testament ment writings and existent rabbinic writings from ancient Jewish sources.
He could not find a single example ever of a Jewish writer or author addressing God directly as Father in prayer until the tenth century AD.
He found examples of God being referred to as "the Father," but the word Father was never used in a direct form of personal address.
This reference to Father is not universal.
Mal 2.10
Acts 17.28
Scripture clearly shows us that God is the father to unbelievers only insomuch as He is the Creator and they/we are His creation.
Jesus clearly and severely spells out that those who are unbelievers have another Father spiritually in John 8.44
The Bible records those 2 kingdoms to which the children of this world belong.
We were alienated.
He was Judge, King, Ruler, Holy…and we were not.
We were rebellious.
Jesus made a way to the Father for us.
OT vs NT?
OT Fatherhood of God (MacArthur’s helpful summary)
As Father of the Nation (1 Chronicles 29:10)
First Chronicles 29:10 gives God the title: “Lord God of Israel our Father.”
That refers to Him as Father of the nation.
As a Father Who Is Near (Psalm 68:5)
A father is closer than an uncle or a cousin or a friend or a neighbor.
Psalm 68, while using dramatic language to refer to the grandeur of God’s power, simply says that God is “a father of the fatherless” (v.
5).
As a Gracious Father (Psalm 103:13)
A father is forgiving, tenderhearted, merciful, and gracious to His children, which is very true of God: “Just as a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear Him” (Ps.
103:13).
As a Guiding Father (Jeremiah 31:9)
A father leads his children and gives them wisdom and instruction.
That was also true of God’s relationship to Israel.
He said of them, “With weeping they shall come, and by supplication I will lead them; I will make them walk by streams of waters, on a straight path in which they shall not stumble; for I am a Father to Israel” (Jer.
31:9).
As a Father Who Requires Obedience (Deuteronomy 32:6)
Because God was their Father, the people were required to obey Him.
Deuteronomy 32:6 reiterates that: “Do you thus repay the Lord, O foolish and unwise people?
Is not He your Father who has bought you?
Because the people of Israel constantly rebelled against the Lord and his statutes, because they went hard after pagan gods - they had pushed God away as Father.
MacArthur writes,
“To them He had become little more than a relic of the past, a remote being who once called and guided their ancestors.”
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