Our Father
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Introduction
Introduction
Open your Bible. If you don’t have one get one. You get more when you look it up yourself.
And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
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After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
Prayer is the answer to all our problems, but it must be prayer to God and not others.
Prayer should be secret.
Prayer should be secret.
It has been wisely stated that, “The secret to prayer is secret prayer.”
God does not measure us by what we are in public but rather by what we are in private prayer.
That should frighten and challenge us.
We all need to get alone with God and to pray in secret.
Prayer should be sincere.
Prayer should be sincere.
Our prayer life should be one of sincerity. Prayer isn’t rattling off words, and phrases with little to no thought.
In Tibet they use a prayer wheel which is a wheel at the end of a stick and every time the wheel rolls around it is a prayer. Our prayers lives often reflect this type of insincerity.
Ever hear this phrase, “Say a prayer for me.” or “I’ll say a prayer for you.” I know it sounds lie semantics, but we don’t say prayers... we pray prayers.
We are talking with our heavenly father.
What we have read here this morning may be a considered a Model Prayer. However Jesus never says, “Pray this prayer” yet many have taken to the insincerity of repeating this prayer as a type of mantra.
It is not our much speaking which reaches our Heavenly father, but rather the heartfelt sincerity of our prayers.
Prayer should be spiritual.
Prayer should be spiritual.
We are praying to our Heavenly Father… in heaven, not our fellow man… on earth.
Our Heavenly Father
Our Heavenly Father
Jesus here teaches His disciples that God is their Heavenly Father.
Who Is He?
Who Is He?
After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
Aristotle said God is “the Unmoved Mover”
Aldous Huxley said God is “eternal energy”
Matthew Arnold said God is “the absolute unknown”
Star Wars says God is “the Force”
To many today God is “the Man upstairs”
I can tell you with complete confidence that on the authority of Jesus Christ that God is none of these things. He is MY FATHER.
God as our Father may be the most important concept in all of scripture atleast for us as believers.
“Our Father” that is who He is.
Where Is He?
Where Is He?
After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
God is in Heaven.
Paul talks about God being in the third heaven.
I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;)
How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
The first heaven would be the atmosphere
I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, And all the birds of the heavens were fled.
The second heaven would be what we call outer space.
And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
The third heaven Paul calls paradise
How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
We can see the first heave by day and the second heaven by night, but the third heaven we can only see by faith.
By faith God is right her and right now waiting to hear from His children.
God reigns over all the heavens. There is nothing that He does not see. nothing that He is not aware of and nothing that is not under His authority.
He is here now, we can know Him now, we can love Him now, we can have fellowship with Him now.
God loves us.
Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.
God is there when a sparrow falls. If He is there for the sparrow then why do we doubt that He is there for you and I.
He rules over all and stoops to the sparrow who has fallen, and I speak from experience that He stoops to us at our lowest.
Some thoughts about His children
Some thoughts about His children
This prayer is obviously a prayer for His children. You can’t call God your father unless you are His child. “We are all God’s children” won’t fly in this situation.
Jesus told the unbelievers in His day.
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
You have to be His child.
He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
So first and foremost you must come to God as the Father by faith in Jesus Christ.
If you have done that then we need to realize we are God’s child not by creation, but by conversion.
Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
As such we are now partakers of His Divine Nature.
Some thoughts about His care
Some thoughts about His care
God cares for His children. Just like every Father has a responsibility to care for His children. God would never shirk His responsibility.
Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
God has never abused his children, and he will never abandon His children. We can have complete confidence that God will always take care of us.
What farmer would purchase an animal and then abandon it on the farm to its own devices? It makes no sense.
What mother would prepare a Thanksgiving meal and then tell her family you aren’t allowed to come to the table unless you beg?
Yet we often accuse God of both.
Some thoughts about His correction
Some thoughts about His correction
God has a responsibility as a Father to correct us, as well.
For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
I have never met anyone who had a father who truly loved them, that did not talk about their father disciplining them when they were young.
Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
It wasn’t enjoyable or even understood at the time, but it became one of the reason they were confident their father loved them.
But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
If you can live like the devil’s kids andGod never rings your bell you should probably sit down and consider somethings.
But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
Sometimes we look at the devil’s kids and we think they are getting along fine. The best explanation is one i heard from Adrian Rodgers, “God deals with His children on a cash basis, but He deals with the devil’s on credit.”
If we are being chastised we should realize it is a representation of God’s love.
Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
Some thought about His compassion
Some thought about His compassion
He is our Father and He loves us.
Like as a father pitieth his children, So the Lord pitieth them that fear him.
I love my children and would do anything for them.
But there is no comparison to the way God loves us.
When my father and my mother forsake me, Then the Lord will take me up.
God does not stop loving us when we sin, He loves us, corrects us and lifts us up.
It is God’s love that will keep us on the straight and narrow. When a slave disobeys he fears the master’s whip, when a son disobeys he fears the father’s displeasure.
The Father chastises me, but only to bring me back to the straight and narrow.
And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
When I look back at my life I see all the times I have disappointed or grieved my parents, but i see far more times that I have grieved my Father in heaven.
It is like the story of the father who over heard his son’s talking. And, one of them said to the other one, “Don’t you do that! If you do that, Daddy won’t love you any more!” When the father heard that, he interrupted. He said, “Boys, that’s not true.” He said, “There’s nothing you can do that will stop me from loving you.” And, the little boy didn’t understand. He said, “Daddy, do you mean that you love us when we’re bad as well as you do when were good?” He said, “That’s right. I love you just as much when you’re bad as I do when you’re good, but there’s a difference: when you’re good, it’s a love that makes me glad, but when you’re bad, it’s a love that hurts me.”
I don’t want my Heavenly Father’s love for me t make Him sad.
And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
The only place in scripture where we have a representation of God being in a hurry is when He is in a hurry to show compassion to His sinful repentant son.