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Bryon’s Favorites - Matthew 6:9-13 - “The Lord’s Prayer” · Tabernacle Talk - A Bible Study Podcast with Pastor Bryon Self

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  Welcome to Tabernacle Talk. Tabernacle Talk is a Bible study
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  podcast brought from Tabernacle Baptist Church in Essex, MD.
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  I'm your host, Brian Self. We hope this podcast encourages
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  you to know Christ, grow in his word, and show his love to
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  others. Let's dive right in.
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  Welcome back to Tabernacle Talk. We are taking a one week hiatus
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  from the book of Isaiah and we're going through just some of
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  my favorite passages of scripture.
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  And today we are in Matthew chapter 6 with the Lord's Prayer
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  in Matthew 69 through 13. I actually just finished
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  preaching not too long ago, John 17, which is Jesus high priestly
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  prayer to the Father as he is going to the Garden of of
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  Gethsemane prior to his death. And so we looked at Jesus's
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  prayer to the Father. This is Jesus's, if you will
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  model prayer. This is the prayer that he told
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  his disciples to pray and that Christians have been praying for
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  2000 years. Many churches even recite
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  through this prayer regularly, whether in daily prayer weekly
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  in their services, some just intermittently.
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  But this is a wonderful prayer to pray.
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  I actually pray this prayer, a slightly modified form with my
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  kids every single night. And so I was like, listen, I
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  know about the Lord's Prayer, and so I'm going to talk about
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  it on Tabernacle talk with my people.
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  And so let's look at this together.
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  The Lord's Prayer is this. Therefore, you should pray like
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  this, Our Father in heaven, your name be honored as holy, Your
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  Kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
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  Give us today Our Daily Bread and forgive us our debts, as we
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  also have forgiven our debtors. And do not bring us into
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  temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.
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  Or if you know, kind of the older version with the King
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  James has been immortalized in several different venues.
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  Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy
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  Kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
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  Give us this day Our Daily Bread.
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  Forgive us and I apologize profusely.
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  I have prayed enough times with my kids, the slightly like
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  easier version for a, you know, a two and a four year old that
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  I've forgotten how the end of that particular line goes.
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  But obviously then lead us not into temptation, but deliver us
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  from evil. Thine is the Kingdom and the
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  power and the glory forever. Amen.
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  I know someone's going to be listening.
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  Be like, dude, how do you forget that?
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  Like one or two lines of forgive us and as we also forgive our
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  debtors, listen sometimes even my brain forget stuff quite
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  often actually. Let's talk through what can we
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  learn from this prayer number one, as Jesus instructs us to
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  pray like this. This gives us a wonderful
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  template for the way in which we should pray.
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  There are many prayers that are listed in the Bible and we can
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  learn from all of them. All Scripture is breathed out by
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  God and is profitable for doctrine, for proof, for
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  correction, and for instruction and righteousness, so that the
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  man or woman of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped
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  for every good purpose. But I think when this is coming
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  directly from the mouth of God himself, and he says pray like
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  this, that it should really encourage and prompt us not just
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  to pray these exact words, but as he says, therefore you should
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  pray like this or pray in this manner.
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  I think is how some translations phrase it, that the packaging is
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  important. I love first he says our Father
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  in heaven. The most essential aspect of
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  prayer is who it is towards. It is towards our Father, the
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  one who delights to hear our prayers, the one who wants our
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  prayers. And so we can pray not just to
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  our God or our King or our sovereign or our Lord, though he
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  is all of those things. He is our Father.
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  He is the dad who is a good father or a good, good father,
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  as Chris Tomlin and and Pat Barrett would say.
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  And so because he is good, he delights to hear from us and he
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  will give us good gifts. He will give us the Holy
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  Spirit's full and free work in our lives.
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  He will be the one that transforms us as we call out to
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  him. He, he is not a vending machine.
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  You can notice in here, as Jesus instructs us to pray like this,
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  that there's no specific asking for some things, though
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  certainly elsewhere in Scripture we could see we can pray for
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  specifics. But what we recognize most when
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  we come to Scripture and when it talks about prayer is prayers
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  more about aligning our will and our character with the will and
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  character of God more than it is about getting stuff.
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  So we recognize that we have a father.
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  We recognize that God's not just in relationship with us, He's
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  also in relationship with others and we have a relationship with
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  others. This is what we read.
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  Our Father in heaven. It's not just my Father in
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  heaven. It is our.
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  So recognize that you are part of a larger whole.
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  And if you are not a part of a local church, I want to
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  encourage you do that. Dive into the body of Christ as
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  a whole. I just preached a message from
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  the time that I'm recording this this past Sunday from First
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  Corinthians 12 verses 12 through 27 on us being the body of
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  Christ. And that was God's design.
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  The Holy Spirit placed us into that body together.
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  He indwells all of us. We all have the same mission,
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  the same God, the same purpose, the same heavenly Father, the
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  same Savior. And so we ought to be connected
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  to one another. A person that is not an active
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  part of a local church ought to pursue that if they are
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  physically able to do so. Super important.
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  It's not my Father in heaven. It is or and it's not just
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  Father in Heaven, it is our Father.
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  And then he's in heaven. And this is the place that we
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  are asking for his Kingdom to come from.
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  We recognize that God is in, if you will, He's in the good place
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  and we need to be made more like Him.
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  And we recognize that He is high, He's lifted up, He's holy,
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  He is revered. He is not like us.
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  He's not someone that we demand things from.
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  He is the one that we request things from and he is our
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  Father. He is timely disposed towards us
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  in a familial, chosen, loving relationship, but we ought to
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  respect our God, who is not one of us earth dwellers.
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  He is the one in heaven. So our Father in heaven, he says
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  your name, be honored as holy. That's what's contained in that
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  word, hallowed. It's got what is most important
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  in my life and in our world is the lifting up of God and
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  recognizing him for who he is. He is perfect, He is set apart.
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  He is unlike us in all of the best ways and so he needs to be
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  honored as holy. As we mentioned from Isaiah 6,
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  the angels surrounding the throne don't fly around God
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  saying love, love, love, though God is love as we would read in
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  first John believe four and verse 8.
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  They circle the throne saying holy, holy, holy.
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  And so may we enter into that cry of the angels to proclaim
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  that God is holy. And if he is holy and set apart,
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  then that means that he is worthy and deserving of our
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  worship. So in the way that you and I
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  live, may we honor God as holy. May he be set apart in our
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  hearts. We can even read this in first
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  Peter chapter 3 and verse #15 where Peter says this in your
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  hearts regard Christ the Lord as holy, ready at any time to give
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  a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that
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  is in you. So are you living in a way that
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  is reflective of God being holy? And when He says your name, be
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  honored as holy. That is God's authority, His
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  will being obeyed. When we come to God, we
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  recognize you are my Father. You have made this family.
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  You are worthy of respect. And so because I have accepted
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  your name, your authority, your will, may it be lived out
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  through the way that I live, would you help me to be holy as
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  you are holy, that people would look at me and think well of
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  God, his reputation, his name would be lifted up.
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  And that begins with the way that we treat others, talk about
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  God, interact with one another. That's all important there.
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  Verse #10 your Kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it
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  is in heaven. God, we need you to be in
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  charge. I don't need to be in charge.
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  The Republicans or the Democrats or whatever country you're
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  you're watching from. Just saw the other day we have
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  someone watching from South Africa #1 great to hear from
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  you. Whatever country you're in.
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  We don't need our kingdoms, our nations, but we're making a mess
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  of things. What we need is God's Kingdom.
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  And so may we ask for his rule to come and for his will to be
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  accomplished on earth as it is in heaven.
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  Live Today like you will one day live in the Kingdom of God.
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  Live with these Kingdom ethics in mind, the fruit of the
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  Spirit, or as you read through the Sermon on the Mount.
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  This is the way that you are to live in relation to others.
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  And so that means change your actions and your attitudes as
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  the Holy Spirit like convicts you, empowers you, live like you
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  are a citizen of the Kingdom of heaven.
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  Praying for God's Kingdom to come and his will to be done on
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  earth begins in our hearts. I love there's a, a version of
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  the Lord's Prayer put to music that Brian Fowler and Matt Maher
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  put together and they, they have the I forget how the structure
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  of the song goes. It's either the course of the
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  verse goes, Father, let your Kingdom come, Father me, your
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  will be done on earth as in heaven right here in my heart.
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  And I, I just love the way that they phrase that.
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  Lord, let it begin in me and spill out to others.
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  Verse #11 Give us today Our Daily Bread, just like in the
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  wilderness as the children of Israel were wandering, and every
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  day the manna would come that that bread of the day, bread of
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  the presence would be there. And So what Jesus instructs us
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  to pray for is God give us what we need today.
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  I could be like, oh listen, God give me everything that I need
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  for the next 100 years and just, you know, drop a Scrooge Mcduck
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  size bag of gold coins on my porch.
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  I could pray for that. But what Jesus instructs me to
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  pray for is pray for the needs that I have today.
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  That means day by day, moment by moment, we will encounter need
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  in this life. But Jesus says that this is a
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  reason for us to pray and to ask God every single day to show us
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  his provision. And he delights to do that.
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  And that's something that you can read all the way through
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  Scripture. God rarely in Scripture talks
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  about us like about him giving us stockpiled provisions.
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  He gives us day by day what we need.
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  Now if God has blessed you and you are able to have what you
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  need for the next, you know, 1000 years, wonderful, praise
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  the Lord for his wonderful gift that he has given you.
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  Also consider giving some away to others that do not have give
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  some away to some of the needy within your body of believers.
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  That would be a good thing to do.
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  But I, I think you're praying for our daily provisions.
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  Our Daily Bread is a wonderful reminder #12 forgive us our
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  debts as we also have forgiven our debtors.
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  May we be faithful if we want God to forgive us every single
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  day. May we remember that we cannot
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  live in defiance of God and expect that God then will
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  respond to our request for forgiveness affirmatively.
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  If you will. You can't stiff arm God in pride
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  and say no, I will not obey your word to forgive other people,
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  but also I want you to forgive me.
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  If I'm stiff arming God and refusing to obey Him, I am
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  pushing Him away through my pride, and He cannot.
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  He cannot forgive us until we forgive others.
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  This is what we would read in verses 14 and 15.
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  For if you forgive others their offenses, your heavenly Father
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  will forgive you as well. But if you don't forgive others,
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  your Father will not forgive your offenses.
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  And if you're like, well, listen, how, how does this work?
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  I, I just want God to forgive me without me forgiving other
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  people. Sorry, Scripture tells us
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  otherwise. We're told in Ephesians 432, be
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  kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving one another,
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  just as God for Christ's sake has forgiven you, and so you for
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  Jesus's sake can forgive the sins and offenses of others as
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  well. Then verse #13 and do not bring
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  us, don't lead us into temptation, but deliver us from
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  the evil one. This temptation, it's the moment
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  of testing. It's Abraham on the mountain
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  with Isaac, knife raised, ready to strike.
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  It is Adam and Eve in the garden being confronted by the evil 1,
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  the serpent who wants them to turn.
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  They're back on God. It is Job losing everything and
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  hearing his wife say listen jar, are you still retaining your
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  integrity? Curse God and die here.
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  We can pray. God, don't lead me into the
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  moments of the test. But if I do have to enter into
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  this time of temptation, God deliver me from the evil one,
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  that Satan would not win the victory, that God would reign,
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  he his will would be accomplished, that we would find
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  victory in Jesus. And then as time went on, after
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  this portion of scripture was written, it was very common to
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  say a doxology, a praise after you read this portion of
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  scripture. And eventually some scribes
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  started adding those doxologies that churches would say after
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  they prayed this prayer, they would insert it into the text.
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  And so that's where you would have the more common ending that
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  you may know if you grew up in a more liturgical church.
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  Thine is the Kingdom and the power and the glory forever.
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  Amen. Because our response to what we
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  read here of God that cares about us, that is exalted, that
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  wants his will and his Kingdom to come on earth, this earth
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  that we've ruined through our sin, the one who forgives us,
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  the one who can deliver us from either the moment of testing or
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  when we're tested, can deliver us from the evil one.
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  This God is the one who deserves the Kingdom and the power and
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  the glory forever. Amen.
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  And I hope that's even as you encounter your day today, that
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  this would be your heart and your prayer.
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  God, you love me. You have a plan for me.
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  You have people that I'm going to interact with.
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  Sometimes they'll feel me. And my call is to forgive them
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  as you forgive me. And Lord, I need you to provide
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  for my needs each and every day, each and every moment.
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  And then, Lord, as I navigate through all of that, help me to
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  remember that you can deliver me from temptation and you are
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  worthy of everything that I can bring you.
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  I hope that the Lord's Prayer has been encouragement to you
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  today. This is a little longer episode
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  than I was going for, but it's a fantastic portion of Scripture,
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  so you can't really be mad at me.
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  Thanks for tuning in and we will finish out, I believe, our week
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  of a break from Isaiah with the final portion of Scripture that
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  I have set aside as some of my favorites.