Pray Like This: Doxology
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Recap:
Recap:
How not to pray: Like the hypocrites or the pagans.
How to pray:
“Our Father in heaven:” Humbly submitting to our heavenly Father.
“Hallowed be your name:” Reminding us that the Father’s name is to be revered.
“Your kingdom come:” Understanding that God’s kingdom is the one we should truly desire and the only one of any value.
“Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven:” We are to worship God, and this statement helps us understand the realities of heaven. That God is to be worshiped, that He reigns sovereignly there too. Our prayer is that those conditions might exist on earth too, through us.
“Give us this day our daily bread:” Praying for our needs is never wrong, because we serve a God that genuinely cares for you and is interested in us to the smallest degree.
“Forgive us our debt, as we forgive our debtor:” Bitterness and resentment should not be found in a believer. We have been forgiven much, so let us forgive those who sin against us.
“Do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil:” This petition expresses a healthy distrust of our own ability to resist temptation or stand up under trials. We must acknowledge our complete dependence on the Lord.
Let us never boast in our strength:
9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
Sharing HW:
Sharing HW:
What is a doxology?
An expression of praise to God. In the OT it would usually start with “Blessed be the Lord.”
27 and said, “Blessed be the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his steadfast love and his faithfulness toward my master. As for me, the Lord has led me in the way to the house of my master’s kinsmen.”
Another formula is “Ascribe to the Lord glory.”
1 Ascribe to the Lord, O heavenly beings,
ascribe to the Lord glory and strength.
One of my favorite OT doxologies:
36 Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel,
from everlasting to everlasting!”
Then all the people said, “Amen!” and praised the Lord.
When it comes to the NT there are many similarities to the OT formulas. Paul fits them all over his letters:
In the greeting: Gal 1:5
5 to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
In the opening thanksgiving: 2 Cor. 1:3-5
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. 5 For as we share abundantly in Christ’s sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too.
In the final exhortation: 1 Tim 6:15-16
15 which he will display at the proper time—he who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, 16 who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.
How do they function and what is their purpose?
Doxology helps the believer no matter where they are in life to place things in its proper perspective and place. It helps us to make much of God who saved our mortal souls.
Share one you’ve made.
God, my holy Father, you alone are worthy of our adoration, love and worship. Your sovereignty comforts us in our inability to do good apart from you. Praise your holy and righteous name. Blessed be your name and may your gospel saturate our nation and community.
v. 13b) Doxology
v. 13b) Doxology
There has been some dispute as to whether this doxology is in the original manuscript Matthew wrote or was added by a scribe. These words are not in the best and oldest manuscripts of the Greek. Many scholars believe the doxology was added at a later date to be used in public worship. However, there is a similar doxology by David: 1 Chronicles 29:11
11 Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are exalted as head above all.
What is the purpose of this included doxology?
The purpose of the doxology is to stress that everything belongs to God.
He is the Source of the kingdom and the power and the glory.
He is the Possessor of the kingdom and the power and the glory.
He is the Recipient of the kingdom and the power and the glory.
What is the importance of Kingdom? Power? Glory?
As believers we belong to the kingdom and the power and the glory of God. How wild is that?
We belong to God’s kingdom: God has accepted the believer into the Kingdom of God and promises to transport him into the kingdom and its glory either at death or through the rapture.
We belong to God’s power: Having delivered us from sin and death and there is a continual delivering daily.
We belong to God’s glory: God has done all for the believer that: Ephesians 2:7
7 so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
Prayer:
Prayer:
Homework:
Homework:
12 “Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father. 13 Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.
How does this passage of Scripture apply to us?
What does it mean to ask things in the name of Jesus?