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Intro
Let’s read the Matthew passage together.
“We live, as Jesus lived, in a world all too full of injustice, hunger, malice and evil.
This prayer cries out for justice, bread, forgiveness and deliverance.”
(N.T. Wright, The Lord and His Prayer)
6 petitions (requests)
3 are about the Father and his glory
3 are about material and spiritual needs
It is a model prayer.
Jesus teaches us how to pray rather than what to pray.
Matthew (Praying (6:5–15))
The prayer is offered not so much as a command to pray but as an invitation to share in the prayer life of Jesus himself.
(NT Wright)
It is a prayer that would be familiar to the first century Jews who became followers of Jesus because all of the phrases come from common Jewish prayers.
1. Look First to His Face.
(Matt.
6:9-10)
Our Father (God) in heaven.
(transcendent and yet loving and near like a Father)
IL: Bus in Palestine, little boy ran up to his dad saying “Abba”.
Personal name attached to a relationship of intimacy
Petition 1: May your name be holy.
indicated reverence and a commitment to submit to his reign and rule in our lives.
one wouldn’t highlight the holiness of the name and then turn around and speak against it with one’s life.
Matthew (Praying (6:5–15))
“Exalted and hallowed be his great name in the world which he created according to his will.…”
(Quiddish prayer of the synagogue of Jesus’ day
this is the essence of the first three of the Ten Commandments
“You shall have no other gods before me.
You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything.…
You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God …” (Ex.
20:3–7; Deut.
5:7–11).
Petition 2: May your kingdom come.
invites the presence of the Messiah into our everyday living.
Matthew (Praying (6:5–15))
“May he rule his kingdom in your lifetime and in your days and in the lifetime of the whole house of Israel, speedily and soon.”
(Qaddish prayer)
Petition 3: May your will be done.
in heaven as it is on earth
heaven and earth is a shorthand phrase that includes the totality of all of God’s creation.
Wherever the kingdom is experienced his will will be accomplished.
These first three petitions set us up for the next three.
They frame the priorities in such a way that the prayers for us will be preceded by our prayers for his kingdom.
We are less likely to pray selfishly when we start with his will over our own.
2. Look Second to His Hands.
(Matt.
6:11-13)
Petition 4: Give us today our daily bread.
this petition asks God to provide for the daily needs of his people.
It means more than bread and is a word that includes as human needs.
It speaks of dependence and humility.
It speaks of God’s rule in our world.
He is the one who provides.
Little children will sometimes thank the lord for the meat, the potatoes, the peas, and the bread, and the butter, and the salt, and the pepper, and the napkins, and the plates...
My wife sometimes laughs during my meal prayers because I will give thanks for the grain farmers and pork producers who have scratched the earth in order to feed us.
I like to take a broader view of my provision.
I often use the food as symbolic of all that God has provided to us.
Petition 5: Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
From physical needs we turn our attention to spiritual needs.
The verse assumes that we have already forgiven our debtors and now come with hearts ready to receive the forgiveness of God.
the connection is from an imperfect forgiveness to a perfect forgiveness.
It speaks forcefully about our need for forgiveness, but more so the need to forgive others.
How can we expect God to forgive the huge debt of sin that we owe when we are not able to forgive the small slights that people have done to us.
God’s people are by nature, forgivers.
this petition looks back but the next one looks to the present and the future.
Petition 6: Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.
Lord, keep me from sin.
The call is to a holy life that reflects the hallowed name of God himself.
My daily prayer includes words about staying close to the Father.
This is a prayer for the spiritual battle.
Lorica of Saint Patrick
Saint Patrick
I arise today
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