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Let's go to the next verse 5 to verse 8 in this chapter together this evening.
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So Matthew 6 at verse 5.
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Do you struggle to pray or do you find it easy to pray?
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Maybe we go through both the experiences.
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Sometimes we find it easier to pray.
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And at other times, sometimes we find it a real struggle to pray.
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But would you ever go to someone and ask them,
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will you help me in my prayer life?
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Would you help me to pray?
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Or would you be too embarrassed and thinking,
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well, everybody should know how to pray.
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Well, listen to what it says in Luke chapter 11, verse 1 to 2.
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Now Jesus was praying in a certain place.
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And when he finished, one of his disciples said to him,
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Lord, teach us to pray as John taught his disciples.
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And he said to them, when you pray, say,
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Father, hallowed be your name.
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Your kingdom come.
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And so it goes on as Jesus there teaches the Lord's Prayer.
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And it's what we see here in Matthew chapter 6 as well.
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But it's just how the disciples come to Jesus there we want to think of.
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Teach us to pray as John taught his disciples to pray.
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So there was a culture there of learning how to pray.
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And Jesus taught them how to pray.
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And that's what we see in this chapter as well with the Lord's Prayer.
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We are always learning in the faith.
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And prayer is just part of that life of faith.
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And we learn how to pray as we're going on.
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We don't have the same prayer as when we were a child,
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where we maybe repeated the same prayer every evening.
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We should come to the Lord with our prayer that's based on the Lord's Prayer.
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But we can pray in a different way every time we come.
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And before we just come into this section on the Lord's Prayer,
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we want to see the setting of where Jesus is here with his people.
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This is the section in Matthew's Gospel known as the Sermon on the Mount.
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And when you go back to chapter 5, verse 1, it says there,
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Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain.
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And when he sat down, his disciples came to him.
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And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying.
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And that's the beginning of this Sermon on the Mount.
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He taught them, saying.
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So there's a lot of teaching going on in this section.
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And it was really a teaching on what it meant to be a disciple, a follower of Jesus.
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And it covers so many aspects of our Christian life.
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And part of that is our prayer life, where he teaches to pray.
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And prayer is not something we're not familiar with.
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It's not a shock to us that there's a challenge for us here to pray.
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But the question behind it is, do we pray?
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Do we pray as we should?
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And what can we learn from this section on the Lord's Prayer?
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And hopefully, over a period of time going forward, we'll look at the Lord's Prayer just bit by bit.
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But we want to look this evening at the start of this section, an introduction to prayer,
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where Jesus is saying this is how not to pray.
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So he begins by saying this is how not to pray,
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before he then goes on to say this then is how you are to pray.
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Because we are dependent on prayer.
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We need prayer.
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We need prayer individually, collectively, and for all things going on around us.
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So do we pray as we should?
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Charles Spurgeon has a book entitled Only a Prayer Meeting.
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And in it he makes two remarks in the first chapter that are a challenge to us when it comes to prayer.
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He says, first, how could we expect a blessing if we are too idle to ask for it?
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So are we asking God for blessing?
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The second thing he says, how could we look for a Pentecost if we never met,
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with one accord and one place to wait upon the Lord?
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In other words, are we gathered together for prayer as well?
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It's that our desire to be gathered together as they were on Pentecost when God poured out his Spirit.
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They were gathered together in one accord, in one place, waiting upon the Lord.
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So it's good for us to pray individually,
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and it's good for us to come together and pray collectively as well.
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But it can be one of the things that we can struggle with and maybe are most anxious about,
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especially when it comes to being called upon to pray in public.
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It's something that maybe leaves us afraid.
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But this passage just helps us to see how we are to pray,
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who we are praying to and who we are not praying to as well.
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And these verses, verse 5 to verse 8, begins by saying,
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when you pray, and three times it uses that phrase, when you pray.
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That's the first thing we want to note about this.
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It says, when you pray.
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First glance, these words might not seem to be important.
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But as Jesus is teaching them here,
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He's teaching them, you are to pray, when you pray.
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He's not saying to them, when others pray,
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or when some of you pray.
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It's a collective teaching.
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He's saying to them all, when you pray.
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And so there's a challenge there for them from the start.
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The disciples, the Christians,
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is to make sure that they are a prayerful people,
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that they recognize that there is a dependence on God as we come in prayer,
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and that we are to come in faith,
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and that we are to come knowing who God is.
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So there's this behind it, when you pray.
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If you go to Psalm 5, it's a Psalm of David,
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and David there is talking about prayer,
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and he's talking in it about his morning time of prayer.
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He commits his day to God in prayer,
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but he uses the phrase, and then he's waiting expectantly.
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And so it's not just that he prays,
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but he's waiting on the Lord,
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and waiting with expectation
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that the Lord will answer prayer,
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that the Lord will show him an answer to his prayer.
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And so when we think, are we praying as we ought,
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it's not just, are we coming and making that point of prayer,
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but how are we coming in prayer?
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Are we coming with a sense of faith,
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and a sense of expectation,
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and excitement of what God can do for us?
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We learn that from David in many of his prayers in the Psalms,
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that he has a sense of that joy coming into the presence of God,
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that delight in worshipping as he comes in prayer,
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and bringing his requests to him in prayer.
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So when he prays,
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he is teaching us how to pray as well,
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to come with that sense of expectation.
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And when we think of hear as well,
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when you pray,
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it also challenges to ask,
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what's our motive in praying?
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And it's interesting how in each of these three sections that we've read,
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we've got three aspects of the Christian life,
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not just prayer,
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but in the first part,
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verse 1 to 4,
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you've got giving to the needy,
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and then in verse 16 to 18,
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you've got fasting.
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And as you read through them,
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you see there's a lot of commonality in them,
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there's a lot of things that are repeated in them.
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How you are to fast,
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how you are to give,
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how you are to pray,
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there's common factors in them.
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There's the same words used about doing it in secret,
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not being like the hypocrites.
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It's a repeated theme in each of these three.
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And so you also see that each of it ends,
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that when you do it in secret,
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your father who is seasoned secret will reward you.
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So it's true for each of them,
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giving,
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prayer,
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and fasting.
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And so tonight isn't about saying,
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put your hands up if you're giving,
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put your hands up if you're praying,
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and put your hands up if you're fasting.
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It's not that kind of who's doing it,
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but we're learning here how we are doing it.
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And we are doing all of these three things.
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We should be doing them in secret.
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Part of it should be in secret,
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knowing that your father sees you in secret,
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and will reward you.
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So it's a sense of our own personal prayer life as well.
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And what motivates us in prayer?
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What motivates us in giving?
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What motivates us in fasting?
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If we do fast,
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all of these things,
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what is our motivation?
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What kind of attitude are we coming with?
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Are we coming so that we might just satisfy our own conscience?
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Are we offering up a prayer just to make us feel better?
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Well,
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I've done that.
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Are we praying because it's ticking the box for that day?
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I've prayed to God.
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Are we praying because maybe it makes us feel better?
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A sense of relief that we've got our prayer time in.
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Or are we recognizing the motivation in prayer
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is when you pray,
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you see who you are coming to.
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We see that as you go into the Lord's prayer.
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When he says in verse 9,
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pray then like this,
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our father in heaven.
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This is where we are coming.
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It's not a tick box exercise.
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It's not just to appease our conscience.
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It's recognizing that we are coming to commune with the living God.
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That we are approaching God through his son,
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Jesus Christ.
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That that is how we are to come.
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Prayer is first and foremost a recognition
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of a dependence on God.
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Acknowledging that he is able to do what we cannot do.
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So do we get the point of prayer?
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Do we recognize who it is that we are coming to?
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A minister told about a time when he was reading a Bible story to his young daughter.
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And it was from one of these picture story Bibles.
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And the story is about King Nebuchadnezzar.
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So there was a picture of what they thought King Nebuchadnezzar looked like.
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And the story behind him.
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And as the father was reading the story to his daughter,
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and he thought she was listening attentively,
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and then he started discussing it with her after.
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And she said, well,
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the king was a very mean man.
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So she was getting the gist of it.
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But then she said,
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but he had nice shoes.
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Because she'd looked at the picture,
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and she'd seen the shoes that he was wearing in the picture.
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And that's what caught her attention.
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And the innocence of a child can be the way we come to God in prayer.
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We recognize the majesty of God in some ways.
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And yet we maybe start to think about our own conscience.
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Well, I'm glad I prayed.
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Or just not what's important.
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Because we miss out on who God is.
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And so when he's saying here three times he repeats,
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when you pray,
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it's important for us to realize it's something we are to do.
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Not just of habit.
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Not just for our conscience.
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But to recognize who it is that we are praying to.
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And so that's how he begins.
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When you pray.
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But then in these next verses,
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he goes into how we are not to pray.
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So it's quite interesting.
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He starts not just,
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this is how you are to pray,
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but this is how not to pray.
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Because remember what it said in the Gospel of Luke.
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Teach us to pray.
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Just as John taught his disciples to pray.
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And so there was a lot of different people praying.
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And they were praying in different ways.
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And what Jesus says first is,
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well, this is how you are not to pray.
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And he's challenging where motives were wrong.
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And the first is that you are not to be like the hypocrites.
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It says there in the middle of verse 5.
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For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues
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and at the street corners,
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that they may be seen by others.
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So he's saying this is how not to pray.
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Have you ever felt like a hypocrite?
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I'm sure as we approach this theme of prayer,
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I can stand here and say,
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well, I'm a bit of a hypocrite myself.
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I'm here telling you how to pray.
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I have to ask, how do I pray?
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And you can feel a hypocrite.
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And there's many different ways we can feel a hypocrite.
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It's saying one thing,
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but meaning or doing something very different.
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And how easy it is for that to creep into a life of prayer.
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Do not be like the hypocrite, Jesus says here.
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What were they like?
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Why mention them in each of the sections
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when it comes to giving and fasting and praying?
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Don't be like the hypocrites.
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Well, he's saying this is how important your Christian life is,
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that people are watching.
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But what the difference was with hypocrites,
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they were doing it to be seen.
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Those who were praying in Jesus' day
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should have been approaching God,
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recognizing it was to God they were in coming.
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But instead, they're on the street corners,
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they're in the synagogues,
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that they may be seen by others.
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And these were very public places.
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The street corners and the synagogues,
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these were where people gathered.
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And so the hypocrites would be there,
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but they're there to get praise from man.
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But look at what Jesus says to them,
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that they may be seen by others.
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Truly I say to you,
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they have received their reward.
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There's no answer to their prayer.
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But they have received their reward
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just by if they get praise from those who are around them.
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And so they received the reward,
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that was their praise from man.
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There's no answer from God.
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And so, how do we approach God in prayer?
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Well, as Jesus goes on to say,
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he says,
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when you pray,
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in verse 6,
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go into your room and shut the door
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and pray to your Father who is in secret.
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So we are to make sure that
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wherever we are coming,
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our focus is that we are praying to the Father.
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Now does this just mean
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that we go into a quiet place?
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Well, yes,
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there is that sense of taking time away.
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But even if we are called to pray in public,
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it's a reminder to us
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that we are coming into our own room
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where we are asked to pray.
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We are not standing wherever we are asked to pray
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to be praying to those around us.
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To be trying to impress the people sitting beside us
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or in our hearing,
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that's not what it is about.
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We are approaching our Father
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who is in heaven.
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Somebody once put it like this,
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it's not wrong to be seen praying,
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but it is wrong to be praying to be seen.
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And that's the difference.
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It's not wrong to be seen praying
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because we have to ask people
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to publicly pray,
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but it's wrong to be praying to be seen.
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Because if we're praying to be seen,
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we are not praying as we should to God.
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And so as his disciples,
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as his followers,
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we are to pray,
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and we are to pray in secret
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in that sense of it being between us and God.
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And one of the fears of public praying is,
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what will others think?
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And maybe that's what puts people off coming
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to a prayer meeting.
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I'm afraid I'll be asked to pray.
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But it's not to see it as about
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impressing others around us,
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but to see that you are leading
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in that prayer for all around you
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and that all around you
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shouldn't be listening,
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what's he saying,
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or how did he say it,
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or did he say that right or wrong,
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but praying with you.
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That we are praying together.
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Because our prayer is offered up to God
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as we meet together.
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Like the book of the day of Pentecost,
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they were in one accord.
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There was a unity.
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There was a togetherness.
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There was a oneness in that.
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They were praying to God together.
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So we come to meet God.
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We meet him collectively together,
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remembering we are praying to him.
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And we come to God in our own time as well.
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It's not about being seen by others.
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It's not about going through that process
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just to get it done,
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but to recognize we are not to be hypocrites,
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but that we are to approach God
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who hears and will reward in secret.
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So don't be like the hypocrites.
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Then you also have in verse 7,
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And when you pray again,
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Do not heap up empty phrases
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as the Gentiles do,
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for they think that they will be heard
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for their many words.
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Do not be like them,
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for your Father knows what you need
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before you ask.
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So there's great comfort in these words,
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isn't there,
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when you think of what it says,
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your Father knows what you need
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before you ask.
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He just wants you to come.
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So our prayers are not focused
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on how long they are.
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He calls them here,
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Do not heap up empty phrases
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like the Gentiles do.
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Another word that's used for them here
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is the babblers do.
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They're just babbling away to God.
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Just trying to fill in the time
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with the length of their prayers
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and the words that they are offering up.
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And so in Jesus' day,
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this was another problem.
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Not just that people were praying
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to be seen,
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but that people were praying
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just to go on and on and on.
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Thinking the greater the length
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their prayers were,
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the more likely God is to answer.
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And I guess we have that thought
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as well at times,
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that we feel we have to keep on
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going on and on and on in prayer.
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It's not the sense of the length of prayer.
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When it says elsewhere,
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you know,
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we are always to pray
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and not to give up.
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It's not just to be
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keeping on praying
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and praying and praying,
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but just to keep coming back to God,
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to keep coming back day by day,
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time by time,
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recognizing we are just
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to keep coming to God
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and he hears
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and is able to answer.
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So it's not about,
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well, I must pray for 20 minutes.
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I must pray for half an hour.
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Otherwise,
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it's not going to be good enough.
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That's not what it's saying.
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That's not how we are
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to approach God at all.
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Martin Luther put it like this.
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He said,
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the fewer the words,
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the better the prayer.
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To have prayed well
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is to have studied well.
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And so what he was saying there
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is to make sure
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that as we come to prayer,
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it's based on God's word.
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We can pray,
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and that's,
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you know,
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when we say the Lord's Prayer,
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we can often repeat it now
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because we hear it so often.
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But even the Lord's Prayer itself,
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if you pray that prayer
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and just think about it
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as you're going through it,
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how many words
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are in the Lord's Prayer?
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There's not that many.
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And yet this is the answer
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to Jesus
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when he gets,
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Jesus gives
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when he asks the question,
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teach us to pray.
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So it's not a long prayer.
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But as we see,
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as we go through it,
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it's going to say so much to us
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about how he taught to pray.
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So it's not the length.
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It's not the kind of words
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that we use.
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But that we just come
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and see that he knows our needs
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even before we ask.
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And it's not a great encouragement
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to us in our prayers.
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That our prayers,
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they don't have to be
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eloquently structured.
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They don't have to have
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a particular set
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of words used.
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But that we just approach him
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with the words
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that he puts in our hearts.
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Knowing that even before
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we speak them,
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they are known
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unto him.
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And so it's not about
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comparing ourselves
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to how others pray.
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It's not about
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looking at how long
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they prayed.
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But just coming
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with that genuineness.
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That dependence
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upon him.
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But it's not to say
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that we shouldn't learn
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to pray
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as we're going on.
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And when we look
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at the Lord's Prayer itself,
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you see that it does
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have order to it.
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It does have
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structure to it.
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And so as we're praying
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and as we're learning
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as we go on,
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we realize that prayer
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is something that we are
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working on
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all the time.
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So it's not about
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empty phrases
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or being babblers,
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but just about
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coming
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to him.
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And so that's how we are
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to approach him.
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Expectantly.
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With a prayer
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of faith.
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Many people
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would say
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in various
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church circles
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nowadays
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that God
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doesn't hear our prayers
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because our faith
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isn't what it should be.
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But is it really
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based on
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how our faith
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feels
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to ourselves?
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It's not.
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It's about
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who our faith
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is in.
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And our faith
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is in
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the Lord
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Jesus Christ.
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Christ.
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And we come
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through him
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to God.
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And he is the one
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who is able to help us
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in our prayers.
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That even if all we have
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to pray
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is the Lord's prayer,
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it's the way
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we have been taught.
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And even just to use
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that as our prayer
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is enough.
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Because that's how
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he taught us
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to pray.
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But the more you
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pray it,
24:06
the more you realize
24:07
you can add on to it.
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The more you realize
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that it teaches us
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again and again
24:13
how to pray
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more and more.
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But it's about
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having confidence.
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Confidence in God
24:21
as we come
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to him.
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We are to come
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to him
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with confidence.
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That's what Hebrews
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4 verse 16
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says for us.
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So that as we are
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learning to pray,
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one of the things
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we are to have
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is that confidence
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to draw near
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to the throne of grace.
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That we may receive
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mercy and find
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grace to help
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in time of need.
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And look at what
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it says here,
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your father knows
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what you need
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before you ask.
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So it's about having
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that confidence
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to draw near
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the throne of grace.
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To recognize
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we're not going to be
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like the hypocrites.
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We're not doing it
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to be seen.
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We're not doing it
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like the babblers
25:03
who are going to come
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with many words.
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But that we are
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just to come
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with a dependence
25:10
on him.
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Jesus isn't condemning
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public prayer here.
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He's not condemning
25:17
long prayers here.
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What he's doing
25:21
is saying
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it's what the motivation
25:23
is behind it.
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So when you pray,
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don't be like the hypocrites.
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When you pray,
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don't be like the Gentiles
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who use empty phrases
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or being heard
25:37
by many words.
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But when you pray,
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come seeing
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it is to our Father
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who art in heaven.
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And don't give up
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in praying.
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For we depend
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upon it
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for all things.
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And that's what we'll see
25:56
as we go on into
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the Lord's prayer
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itself
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and go through
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the different sections
26:02
of it.
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And we learn
26:04
where he says
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pray then
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like this.
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Prayer is a great
26:10
privilege.
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And what a delight
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it is to have
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that throne
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of grace
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to go to.
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And so then
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let us have confidence
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to draw near
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to that throne
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of grace
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that we might find
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grace and mercy
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to help
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in time
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of need.
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Well let us come
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to God
26:30
in prayer.
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Let us pray.
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Lord our gracious
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God,
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we do thank you
26:38
that you
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have your people
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in the scriptures
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who ask the very
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question
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that we so often
26:44
have ourselves.
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Teach us to pray.
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And we thank you
26:48
that you answered it
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in such
26:50
a beautiful
26:51
and such
26:52
a simple way.
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And yet
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with a depth
26:54
to it
26:55
that we can
26:55
hardly recognize.
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even we think
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of the words
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our Father
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who art in heaven.
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Even to appreciate
27:02
who it is
27:03
that we come to.
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What you are
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to your people.
27:06
What you give
27:07
to us
27:08
on a daily basis.
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And so Lord
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we pray
27:11
that through
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the teaching
27:13
around the Lord's
27:14
pray
27:14
that you would
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indeed teach us
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to pray.
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Not to be like
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the hypocrites
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who do it
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to be seen
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or the Gentiles
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who do it
27:21
with empty
27:22
phrases
27:23
or many words
27:24
that they would
27:25
feel that they
27:25
would be heard
27:26
in that way.
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But that we
27:28
would recognize
27:28
that you already
27:29
know every need
27:30
that we have
27:32
before we ask.
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Help us Lord
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that we would
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then have that
27:35
confidence
27:36
to draw near
27:37
to the throne
27:38
of grace.
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That place
27:39
where prayer
27:41
is made.
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Where it's
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offered up to you
27:43
in and through
27:44
the name of your
27:45
Son
27:45
the Lord Jesus
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Christ.
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And so Lord
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hear our prayers.
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Unite us
27:51
in prayer.
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May we have
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that one accord
27:54
that it speaks
27:55
of in the book
27:56
of Acts.
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And that unity
27:58
and that purpose
27:59
in prayer.
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That together
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we would offer
28:01
up our prayers
28:03
in the quietness
28:04
of our hearts.
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And saying
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Amen Lord
28:07
your will
28:08
be done.
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So continue
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with us Lord
28:11
bless us
28:11
go before us.
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We ask all
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in Jesus
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precious name.
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Amen.
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Thank you.