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Recap:
Jesus gives us two bad example of how to pray:
Wanting to be seen by other (hypocrisy).
Praying empty phrases over and over again.
As for how we should pray, we have covered several different aspect:
Our Father: We are only to be praying to the Father.
Humbling submitting to His authority and rulership.
This allows us to bask in His security, warmth, intimacy and care.
For He is a good, good Father.
Hallowed: The God we serve is a holy and righteous God.
We need to treat Him with the highest honor and to set Him apart from all others, for there is none like Him.
Your kingdom come: there is a twofold sense of kingdom.
First, in a broad sense the kingdom of God is the rule of an eternal, sovereign God over all things.
and secondly, the more narrow sense is the kingdom of God is a spiritual rule over the hearts and lives of those who willingly submit to God’s authority.
Here in this particular passage we are talking about the second.
Those who acknowledge the lordship of Christ and gladly surrender to God’s rule in their hearts are part of the kingdom of God.
Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven: Our world doesn’t need our opinions it needs God’s saving power through the accomplished work of Jesus Christ.
Introduction:
[[Homework]]
v 11) Give us this day our daily bread
Why does this personal prayer come second?
Only after putting God’s interests first, are we permitted to present our own needs.
Why does God’s interests come first?
This petition acknowledges our dependence on God for daily food.
Ultimately the right kind of prayer will freely bring its own needs to God.
This will include needs for daily provision, forgiveness, and strength in the face of temptation.
Is this portion of the prayer physical or spiritual, or both?
When Jesus spoke of bread, He meant real bread, as in the sense of daily provisions.
Early Christian theologians allegorized this, because they couldn’t imagine Jesus speaking about an everyday thing like bread in such a majestic prayer like this.
So they thought bread referred to communion, the Lord’s Supper.
Some have thought it speaks of the Word of God as our daily bread of life.
Calvin rightly said of such interpretations which fail to see God’s interest in everyday things, “This is exceedingly absurd.”
God does care about everyday things, and we should pray about them.
I say this not to discourage an allegorized interpretation.
But to ground our interpretation on what is actually being spoken of here first and not to miss a glorious truth about God and Jesus, that they are interested in our every day lives.
Prayer is for our needs, not our greeds.
it is for one day at a time, reflecting the precarious lifestyle of many first-century workers who were paid one day at a time and for whom a few days’ illness could spell tragedy.
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