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Intro
We’ve spent the past few weeks considering the Lord’s Prayer.
The prayer that Jesus taught a crowd to pray.
This crowd on the side of the mountain had gathered to hear this new guy, the new rabbi on the block.
He’s healing people, he’s talking about the Good News of the kingdom.
He is offering himself as the One who had been Promised in the Old Testament.
This prayer has everything about life in it.
There’s nothing outside of its scope.
If the crowd is interested in talking to their heavenly father, Jesus is telling them that their heavenly father wants to hear from them.
He longs to hear from them.
What is it that should be part of the cry for help?
When there’s nowhere else to turn?
When the enemy is closing in?
Jesus gives 7 requests that should be on their list when they go to their heavenly father in their cry for help.
The first 3 are all about the heavenly Father.
These asks have to do with the stuff of heaven.
Your name be honored as holy.
Your kingdom come.
Your will be done.
On earth as it is in heaven.
The cry for help begins with a request for God to be God.
For God to do what God does.
For God to do what only God can do… your name be honored as holy.
Only God can create the faith necessary for people to call on his name for salvation.
Your kingdom come.
Only the Father can bring the kingdom to earth and make kingdom citizens.
Your will be done.
Only God can accomplish his will to save sinners from their sin.
As we come to the fourth big ask, there is a shift, a shift that is anticipated at the end of the third ask.
On earth as it is in heaven.
When all of this started in the garden of eden, heaven and earth met when the Creator had relationship with the creature, Adam and Eve.
All of that changed when Adam and Eve rebelled.
They were kicked out of the garden.
Earth was separated from heaven.
We pray for God to be connected to us on earth, through the calling on his name, through His kingdom being made visible, and for his will to be done.
What has been done in heaven, we are asking for it to be done on earth in the same way.
In one sense, heaven will come to earth eventually.
At the end of all things.
It is what we look forward to in our resurrection at the last day.
The New Heaven and New Earth will be heaven on earth.
At the same time, the prayer is for that great hope to already begin now.
And it has begun in the Person of Jesus.
Jesus is the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.
Jesus is God’s will being done on earth as it is in heaven.
Jesus is the One who honors God’s name as holy when people call on His name.
This isn’t just the sweet by and by.
This is the here and now.
So the last 4 big asks are about life on earth.
Physical and bodily needs.
If the first 3 asks are about God doing something for himself, the last 4 are about God doing something for us.
We live in the here and now.
We know God’s kingdom breaks in when we meet.
We know his will is done as we receive his Word in faith.
But we also know life is terrible.
We know things aren’t what they should be.
Our lives are a mess.
Things happen to us that shouldn’t.
We do things we shouldn’t.
When there is suffering and pain and evil and when we are in the middle of getting our own way we know that God’s will isn’t being done on earth as it is in heaven.
What’s the temptation when God’s will is not being done on earth?
What’s the temptation when things aren’t going the way that we think they should be going?
When we don’t get what we think we deserve?
We have all sorts of thoughts about God’s will when that will seems to be thwarted.
But what we do is we are tempted to take matters into our own hands.
We want to be self-sufficient.
If God is not going to do his will on earth, well then, let’s do it for him.
I have a better will, a better plan.
The next big ask, big ask number 4, pushes us toward something other than self-sufficiency.
We pray for God’s will to be done on earth.
And when that will is not happening, or taking a little too long, or is not to our liking, Jesus, the One who does God’s will perfectly suggests that we pray this:
Matthew 6:11 “Give us today our daily bread.”
This really is the stuff of earth.
Daily bread.
The stuff that keeps us alive.
The stuff that are the building blocks of life on earth.
But notice the first two words.
Give us.
Again, it’s easy to fly right past this when we say the Lord’s prayer.
The phrase “give us” is grounded in the very reason Jesus wants people to pray to begin with.
They have needs.
Spiritual needs.
And physical needs.
Rather than Jesus giving them a pep talk on “5 great ways to take back control of your life” or encouragement to “just do it”, Jesus says they should be praying “Give us.”
This means they turn from themselves as the answer to life’s suffering and they turn to the only one who can help.
“Give us.”
We read the story moments ago about the Israelites being hungry in the desert.
The language being used to described the bread or manna that was used to feed Israel is fascinating.
There is absolutely no mistaking just who is responsible for this bread.
It starts off with God telling Moses:
Exodus 16:4 “the Lord said to Moses, “I am going to rain bread from heaven for you.”
Moses isn’t going to deliver the bread.
The people aren’t going to feed themselves.
God says, I’m going to rain bread from heaven.
Rain bread from heaven.
There’s no mistaking where the bread comes from.
There’s only one who can rain bread from heaven.
And this is repeated multiple times in the story:
The Lord will give you all the bread you want.
It is the bread the LORD has given you to eat.
On the sixth day he will give you two days worth of bread.
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