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Matthew 6:9-10 - Part 1 · Providence Baptist Church - Sermons

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  Please take out your copy of God's Word, which I hope you have with you, that is treasured in your heart and well read.
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  And turn with me to Matthew chapter 6.
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  We've been preaching through the Sermon on the Mount in the past months.
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  And this morning's text is part of what is commonly referred to as the Lord's Prayer.
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  So we will be considering prayer this morning and next Lord's Day, and I have a feeling the one after that as well.
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  Prayer is not really practiced by many religious people across all sorts and types of religions.
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  It's also practiced with some sense of regularity by non-religious people.
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  The great crises of our day often turn people to some form of prayer.
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  One study found that nearly 30% of atheists admitted that they prayed, quote unquote, sometimes.
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  If this is true, then it is safe to say that prayer is something that is practiced with some sense of regularity
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  by many people who we come into contact with day in and day out.
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  Just think about how often and how acceptable it is to say and to hear the phrase,
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  our thoughts and prayers go out to or offered to our thoughts and prayers.
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  We hear this constantly in the media when something tragic happens in our nation.
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  So many people pray, but we must understand that not all prayer is the same.
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  Many pray to gods that are not gods at all, and it is very possible, even plausible, to pray to the right god wrongly.
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  The scripture has much to say about prayers offered up in vain.
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  To stress the importance of our study this morning, I would like to show you some examples.
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  Some examples of the scripture speaking of prayers that God does not answer.
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  I'm going to give you a dozen.
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  I'm going to give them to you fast so that we can get to our text.
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  I'll read a few texts.
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  I'll give you a couple of references for your later study.
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  God does not answer the prayer of those, number one, who have personal and selfish motives.
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  James 4.3, James writes,
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  You ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly to spend it on your passions.
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  God does not answer the prayer, secondly, of those who regard iniquity in their hearts.
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  See Psalm 66 and verse 18.
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  Third, those who remain in sin.
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  Isaiah chapter 59 and verse 2.
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  But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God,
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  and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
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  Fourth, those who offer unworthy service to God.
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  See Malachi chapter 1 verses 6 through 8.
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  And the priests who prayers were not heard.
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  Fifth, those who forsake God.
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  See Jeremiah chapter 14 verses 10 through 12.
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  Six, those who reject God's call.
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  See Proverbs 1 verse 24 and 25 and later verse 28.
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  Seventh, those who will not heed God's law.
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  Proverbs 28 and verse 9.
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  If one turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.
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  See also Zechariah chapter 7 verses 11 through 13.
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  Eight, those who turn a deaf ear to the cry of the poor.
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  See Proverbs chapter 21 and verse 13.
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  Ninth, we don't get this far very often, do we?
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  Those who are violent.
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  Isaiah chapter 1 and verse 15.
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  When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you.
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  Even though you make many prayers, I will not listen.
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  Your hands are full of blood.
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  Tenth, those who worship idols.
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  See Jeremiah chapter 11 verse 11 through 14.
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  And Ezekiel chapter 8 verse 15 through 18.
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  Eleventh, God is not here.
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  Those who have no faith.
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  James chapter 1 verses 6 and 7.
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  But let him ask in faith with no doubting.
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  For the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind.
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  For that person must not suppose that you receive anything from the Lord.
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  And twelfth, and finally, at least in my summation of those who God will not hear,
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  is those who are proud of heart.
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  James 4, 6 says,
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  But he gives more grace.
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  Therefore, it says,
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  God opposes the proud.
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  But gives grace to the humble.
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  Now, none of these texts express the point explicitly.
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  But I think it is safe to see the aforementioned list as characterizing an unbeliever.
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  One who is outside the faith.
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  This is not to say that God cannot hear the prayers of those outside the faith.
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  But there is a particular listening to and answering of the prayers of those who are in Christ.
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  And so we want to be very careful at this point, don't we?
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  I looked for a good Baptist definition of prayer.
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  Historical Baptist definition of prayer.
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  But I couldn't find one.
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  Please share it with me if you can find it.
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  So I went to the Westminster Larger Catechism, as we sometimes do.
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  And question 178 is,
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  What is prayer?
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  This is the Larger Catechism's answer.
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  Answer.
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  Prayer is an offering up of our desires unto God in the name of Christ,
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  by the help of His Spirit,
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  with confession of our sins and thankful acknowledgement of His mercies.
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  I think that is a fantastic definition of prayer.
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  I hope this morning that you know your great need of God's presence and power in your life.
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  And therefore, your great need to pray.
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  To plead your cause and the cause of others before our God.
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  So let's consider how we ought to pray to the right God rightly.
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  Our text this morning is Matthew chapter 6, verses 9 and 10.
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  However, I would like to read a bit more for the broader context.
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  So we will read Matthew chapter 6, verse 5 through 13.
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  Before I begin reading in verse 5, let me remind you, beloved.
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  This is God's word to us, written for His glory and our good.
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  We would all do well to listen to it in order to believe its promises and obey its commands.
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  Matthew chapter 6, verse 5 and following.
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  Jesus said,
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  And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites,
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  for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners,
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  that they may be seen by others.
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  Truly I say to you, they have received their reward.
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  But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret.
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  And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
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  And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do,
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  for they think they will be heard for their many words.
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  Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him.
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  Pray then like this.
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  Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.
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  Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
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  Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our debts
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  as we also have forgiven our debtors.
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  And lead us not in temptation, but deliver us from evil.
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  Before I make any points from our text this morning,
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  I would first like to draw your attention to the little word in verse 9,
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  like.
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  I am not against the recitation of the Lord's Prayer.
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  Absolutely.
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  I have participated in this.
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  You have probably been to a place where the Lord's Prayer is recited together.
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  The recitation of Scripture is always to be commended.
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  It is a wonderful thing to have this prayer memorized and to be able to say it.
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  But I do not believe that Jesus is trying to give us material for our corporate liturgy.
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  He is instead modeling a pattern for us to pray by.
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  He does not say, pray this.
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  He says, pray then like this.
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  That we would see the attitude and the intentions of the Lord's Prayer
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  and therefore model our praying after it.
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  We can become over-reductionary at this point.
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  And some do this very thing where they would say,
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  look, we're not supposed to heap up empty phrases.
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  We're merely meant to say this thing that Jesus said.
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  We have the example in the Scripture of Jesus spending all night in prayer.
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  And I am confident that He did not repeat these verses over and over and over again.
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  So pray then like this.
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  That is a very important distinction for us to consider.
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  So first point for this morning is pray like Jesus, our Father in heaven.
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  This is the first half of verse 9.
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  Our Father in heaven.
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  First, let's think about the phrase, our Father.
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  Jesus tells us that our prayer should begin with the recognition that God is our Father.
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  Beloved, this is an astounding truth.
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  It is a truth that I hope is true of each and every person in my hearing.
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  Prayer that is acceptable to God begins with a positional reality that God is our Father.
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  If you have been saved by Christ, then you have been adopted into the family of God.
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  You have Jesus as your brother, God as your Father, and all the blessed access to Him that comes with your adoption.
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  We have relational intimacy with the Creator of heaven and earth.
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  Paul wrote in Galatians chapter 4 and verse 6.
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  Because you are sons.
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  And ladies, I want to always remind you that it was appropriate for them to write in this way.
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  Sons received all the inheritance.
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  And you can think that's unfair of their day.
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  But they're trying to communicate something in your day.
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  Ladies, you're also sons receiving inheritance.
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  So read it in that light.
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  Because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts crying,
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  Abba, Father.
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  What a thing this is that having been adopted by God in Christ,
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  we get to cry out to Him,
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  Our Father.
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  John Calvin and the Christian Institutes in comments on Galatians chapter 4 verse 6 wrote the following.
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  John Calvin is a scary name to you.
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  Read John Calvin.
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  Wealth of richness for your soul.
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  He wrote this, and I quote,
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  With what confidence would anyone address God as Father?
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  Who would break forth into such rashness as to claim for himself the honor of a son of God
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  unless we had been adopted as children of grace in Christ?
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  But because the narrowness of our hearts cannot comprehend God's boundless favor,
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  not only is Christ the pledge and guarantee of our adoption,
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  but He moves the Spirit as witness to us of the same adoption,
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  through whom with free and full voice we may cry,
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  Abba, Father, our Father, who art in heaven.
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  What an astounding reality it is that we are given the permission to call God our Father.
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  And God is very pleased to have us call Him our Father
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  because it is consistent with His purpose that we do so.
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  Paul again, this time in Ephesians chapter 1 verse 5 wrote,
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  He predestined us for adoption to Himself as sons through Jesus Christ,
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  according to the purpose of His will.
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  So when we call God our Father,
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  we are recognizing His boundless mercy and grace to us
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  in the person and work of Jesus Christ.
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  This is a profound title to utter to God in our prayers,
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  and it is the basis for our confidence in approaching Him.
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  In my very imperfect fathering,
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  I always want my children to know that they have full access to me.
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  And this just isn't always true, is it?
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  My very physical presence is not always with my children,
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  and they can put in a phone call if I'm not in a meeting
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  and can take it at that time.
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  Sometimes when I'm home, I'm not always mentally present.
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  Those of you with children know the yeah-yaz or that's cool,
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  and sometimes I don't know what I agree to
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  when my children are speaking to me.
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  So in my very imperfect fathering, I want it to be true, though.
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  I want my kids to know that I love them and I care for them,
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  and they can come to me with each and every little thing.
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  But God, our father, the perfect father,
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  is never unavailable.
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  He's never too preoccupied,
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  never unable to hear our petitions,
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  and never lacks the power to do something about them.
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  This is astounding.
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  This is astounding.
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  On your bulletin this morning is a bit of a quotation from J.I. Packer
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  from a really wonderful book he wrote called Knowing God.
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  And I'm going to read what's on your bulletin,
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  and I'm going to read a bit beyond it,
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  but it was just too much to fit on your bulletin this morning.
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  I have been mulling over this quotation quite a bit over the past weeks.
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  He wrote this.
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  If you want to judge how well a person understands Christianity,
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  find out how much he makes of the thought of being God's child
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  and having God as his father.
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  So get in and really try to understand of a person
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  how much he understands his position as a son or daughter
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  and having God as father.
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  And I would encourage you to take some time really considering that for yourself.
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  What does it mean for me to be a child of God?
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  What does it mean for him to be my father?
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  How does that shape my thinking about who I am and who he is
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  and the way I am meant to live in this world
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  and how it is I am to pray?
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  So I quote further from J.I. Packer in Knowing God.
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  If this is not the thought that prompts and controls his worship
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  and prayers and his whole outlook on life,
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  it means that he does not understand Christianity very well at all.
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  For everything that Christ taught,
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  everything that makes the New Testament new and better than the old,
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  everything that is distinctly Christian as opposed to merely Jewish,
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  is summed up in the knowledge of the fatherhood of God.
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  Father is the Christian name for God.
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  Isn't that beautiful?
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  So Jesus tells us our prayer should begin with the recognition that God is our father.
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  And we should ask that question of ourselves this morning.
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  Am I a child of God?
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  Is God my father?
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  Have I been adopted into the family of God?
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  And this is a work of God on our behalf.
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  It happens by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone.
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  If there's any prompting in you this morning to repent of your sin and turn to Christ,
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  I would encourage, I would plead with you to do so today,
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  that you might call God your father.
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  But we're not just to pray our father, but also our father in heaven.
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  Our father in heaven.
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  I believe that we are to pray our father in heaven,
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  lest we become too chummy.
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  It's the best word I could think of there.
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  Too chummy with the one who created heaven and earth and all that is in them.
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  Have you seen the Jesus is my homeboy shirts?
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  Kind of hope that trend has died out.
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  Out.
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  Our father in heaven.
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  Lest we forget that he is God and we are not.
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  We should be careful that we do not become overly casual in our prayer.
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  Some will say prayer is just talking to God.
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  Yes and no.
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  At the same time.
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  We ought to approach God with boldness as his children,
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  but also with reverence and awe.
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  Right?
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  Boldness as his children.
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  Our father.
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  But also with reverence and awe in heaven.
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  Hebrews chapter 12 verse 28 verse 29 says,
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  Let us offer to God acceptable worship with reverence and awe for our God is a consuming fire.
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  I hope that you can see the very careful balance that Jesus is teaching us in beginning our prayer with this attitude of our father in heaven.
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  Allow me to read you an example.
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  This text is from the Valley of Vision, which is a collection of Puritan prayers.
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  If you're not familiar with them, I hope you will make yourself familiar with them.
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  Listen to the beauty of this prayer.
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  Eternal Father, it is amazing love that you have sent your son to suffer in my stead.
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  That you have added the spirit to teach, comfort, guide.
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  That you have allowed the ministry of angels to wall me round.
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  All heaven subserves the welfare of a poor worm.
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  Permit your unseen servants to be ever active on my behalf and to rejoice when grace expands in me.
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  Suffer them never to rest until my conflict is over and I stand victorious on salvation's shore.
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  Grant that my proneness to evil, deadness to good, resistance to your spirit's motions may never provoke you to abandon me.
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  May my hard heart awake your pity, not your wrath.
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  And if the enemy gets an advantage through my corruption, let it be seen that heaven is mightier than hell.
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  That those for me are greater than those against me.
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  Arise to my help in richness of covenant blessings.
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  Keep me feeding in the pastures of your strengthening word.
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  Searching scripture to find you there.
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  If my waywardness is visited with a scourge, enable me to receive correction meekly.
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  To bless the reproving hand.
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  To discern the motive of rebuke.
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  To respond promptly and do the first work.
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  Let all your fatherly dealings make me a partaker of your holiness.
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  Grant that in every fall I may sink lower on my knees.
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  And that when I rise it may be to loftier heights of devotion.
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  May my every cross be sanctified.
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  Every loss be gained.
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  Every denial a spiritual advantage.
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  Every dark day a light of the Holy Spirit.
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  Every night of trial a song.
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  Amen.
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  Now, I don't intend to read that that your prayers would sound like this.
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  We use much simpler language in our day.
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  And that's entirely okay.
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  The song that was sung during the offering had lots of layered metaphor in it.
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  And some of you may have been scratching your head.
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  What is all this wooden nails talk?
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  I'm trying to catch the picture of what it means.
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  And it keeps switching on me.
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  And that's the beauty of beautiful language.
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  Right?
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  That we would have our minds pressed in this way.
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  So reading old prayers like this can be a help to us in that way.
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  But we are not called to pray as the Puritans prayed in word form.
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  But in attitude.
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  I hope you picked up some of the balance that was struck from this Puritan prayer.
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  This Our Father in Heaven.
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  This prayer for the loving kindness of God struck against His holiness.
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  His demand placed on the life of one of His followers.
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  We ought to approach God in this very same way.
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  Our Father in Heaven.
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  When we pray together.
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  When we meet in this way.
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  We want to model for you praying.
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  We do it better at times than others.
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  And I would include myself in that.
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  Sometimes we kind of wander into our prayers.
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  And give them very little thought out in advance.
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  But when we pray together.
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  We want to elevate these qualities of God to us.
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  Begin our prayers in this way.
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  You'll hear me often pray Father God.
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  That is my recognition of this.
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  Our Father in Heaven.
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  Seeing Him both as Father and as God.
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  We want to model that for you in our praying.
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  I would like to make one additional note on this phrase.
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  This point.
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  Our Father in Heaven.
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  Notice that the prayers of God's children begin with.
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  Our Father.
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  Our Father.
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  It's a plural pronoun being used here.
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  I believe that the meaning of the use of the plural pronoun our is layered.
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  It's got some multiple meanings to it.
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  But certainly in our corporate prayers.
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  It is proper for the one who is leading the prayer.
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  To pray for us.
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  On our behalf.
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  Even as we join in the prayer.
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  We ought to use plural pronouns.
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  As we're praying together.
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  One person voicing the prayer.
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  And others joining in that.
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  But I also think there is a further meaning.
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  Jesus has just instructed times of secret prayer.
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  Has He not?
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  So in the context.
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  What does the Our Father mean in your private prayers?
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  I suggest to you that Jesus intends that we not forget.
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  Even in our moments of solitude.
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  That God has saved a people.
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  He has certainly saved you.
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  If you can cry out to Him.
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  Our Father.
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  But more importantly than that.
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  He has saved a people.
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  It seems to me good.
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  That whenever we pray.
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  We recognize that God is the Father of the Church.
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  Global.
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  He is bigger than just our day.
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  And while He is concerned with my affairs.
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  And with yours.
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  His purpose in the world extends far beyond us.
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  And this thought leads me to my second point.
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  So firstly we're going to pray like Jesus.
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  Our Father in heaven.
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  Second.
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  Pray like Jesus.
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  Hallowed.
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  Be your name.
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  The last half of verse.
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  Nine.
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  Hallowed.
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  Be your name.
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  The first petition of Jesus.
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  The first thing that He has asked of His heavenly Father.
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  Is not for Himself.
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  But that God's name.
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  Would be hallowed.
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  To hallow something is to honor it.
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  As holy.
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  So Jesus asks first and foremost.
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  That God's glory.
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  Would be known.
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  That His praise would be.
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  Some.
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  This is His first petition.
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  The first thing that He asks.
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  Of His heavenly Father.
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  That His heavenly Father would.
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  Be.
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  Known.
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  That people would behold Him.
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  As He is.
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  And praise Him.
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  For who.
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  He is.
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  Beloved.
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  If only we would begin our prayers.
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  In this way.
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  I believe.
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  That we would pray.
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  Much.
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  Differently.
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  And I don't just mean reciting.
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  Hallowed.
• 28:17
  Be your name.
• 28:17
  And then launching into whatever it is.
• 28:19
  That's present.
• 28:20
  On your mind.
• 28:21
  But coming to prayer.
• 28:22
  With this attitude.
• 28:23
  Our Father in Heaven.
• 28:27
  Puts the Gospel.
• 28:28
  At the very forefront.
• 28:29
  Of our thinking.
• 28:31
  I was once an enemy of God.
• 28:32
  I have now been called.
• 28:33
  His friend.
• 28:35
  I was once a person.
• 28:37
  Without a people.
• 28:38
  Now I have been grafted in.
• 28:40
  To the family.
• 28:41
  Of God.
• 28:42
  And that turns us.
• 28:43
  To say.
• 28:44
  Oh.
• 28:45
  That your name.
• 28:46
  Would be praised.
• 28:47
  As it should.
• 28:48
  Amongst all.
• 28:51
  Peoples.
• 28:51
  If we would begin.
• 28:53
  With a great concern.
• 28:54
  For God's name.
• 28:55
  To be honored.
• 28:57
  This would inform.
• 28:58
  How we pray.
• 28:58
  For all things.
• 29:00
  That concern us.
• 29:02
  This would lift.
• 29:03
  Our gaze.
• 29:04
  Beyond the troubles.
• 29:05
  Of today.
• 29:06
  To a more glorious.
• 29:07
  Reality.
• 29:08
  Of who God is.
• 29:09
  And how he is working.
• 29:11
  In the world.
• 29:13
  I want to show you this.
• 29:15
  As an example.
• 29:17
  From the life.
• 29:18
  Of Moses.
• 29:18
  So I want you to mark.
• 29:19
  Matthew chapter 6.
• 29:20
  I think we are going to get back into it.
• 29:22
  If we have time.
• 29:24
  So mark.
• 29:24
  Matthew chapter 6.
• 29:26
  With a finger.
• 29:26
  Or a handy ribbon.
• 29:28
  Or a.
• 29:29
  Digital bookmark.
• 29:30
  Of some kind.
• 29:31
  And turn with me.
• 29:32
  To Exodus chapter 33.
• 29:43
  This is why I still like my hard copy Bible.
• 29:45
  Because it is really hard to.
• 29:46
  Put your finger.
• 29:47
  In an iPhone.
• 29:48
  Someone.
• 29:58
  Someone after this.
• 29:59
  Gathering is going to show me.
• 30:00
  How cool it is.
• 30:01
  How you can mark stuff.
• 30:02
  In a digital Bible.
• 30:03
  I just know it.
• 30:09
  We are going to read.
• 30:10
  Verses 11.
• 30:11
  Through.
• 30:12
  17.
• 30:12
  Of Exodus chapter 33.
• 30:13
  Now.
• 30:14
  This is after.
• 30:16
  Moses has come down.
• 30:17
  From Mount Sinai.
• 30:18
  He has got the.
• 30:19
  The tablets.
• 30:20
  That the Ten Commandments.
• 30:21
  Have been carved in by God.
• 30:22
  He discovers the Israelites.
• 30:24
  Worshipping the golden calf.
• 30:26
  He destroys.
• 30:27
  The Ten Commandments.
• 30:28
  He is so angry.
• 30:29
  That he breaks them.
• 30:31
  But this is before.
• 30:33
  He has gone back.
• 30:35
  And gotten the new.
• 30:36
  Tablets.
• 30:38
  This is this.
• 30:38
  In between time.
• 30:40
  This.
• 30:40
  This episode.
• 30:41
  Happening.
• 30:42
  Exodus chapter.
• 30:43
  33.
• 30:44
  I begin reading.
• 30:44
  Verse 11.
• 30:47
  Thus the Lord.
• 30:48
  Used to speak to Moses.
• 30:49
  Face to face.
• 30:50
  As a man.
• 30:50
  Speaks.
• 30:52
  To his friend.
• 30:53
  When Moses.
• 30:54
  Turned again.
• 30:55
  Into the camp.
• 30:56
  His assistant.
• 30:56
  Joshua.
• 30:57
  The son of none.
• 30:58
  A young man.
• 30:59
  Would not depart.
• 31:00
  From the tent.
• 31:02
  Moses said.
• 31:03
  To the Lord.
• 31:04
  See.
• 31:05
  You say to me.
• 31:06
  Bring up this people.
• 31:08
  But you have not.
• 31:09
  Let me know.
• 31:10
  Whom.
• 31:10
  You will send.
• 31:11
  With me.
• 31:13
  Yet you have said.
• 31:15
  I know you by name.
• 31:16
  And you have also.
• 31:17
  Found favor.
• 31:19
  In my sight.
• 31:20
  Now therefore.
• 31:21
  If I have found favor.
• 31:22
  In your sight.
• 31:23
  Please show me.
• 31:24
  Now your ways.
• 31:26
  That I may know you.
• 31:27
  In order to find favor.
• 31:29
  In your sight.
• 31:30
  Consider too.
• 31:31
  That this nation.
• 31:33
  Is your people.
• 31:35
  And so.
• 31:36
  Moses.
• 31:36
  In the opening here.
• 31:37
  Of his prayer.
• 31:38
  Is praying God's word.
• 31:39
  Back to him.
• 31:40
  God is very pleased with this.
• 31:41
  We see a pattern of it.
• 31:42
  Throughout.
• 31:43
  The scriptures.
• 31:43
  He says.
• 31:44
  You have said.
• 31:45
  Show me how this.
• 31:46
  Is going to come.
• 31:48
  To pass.
• 31:48
  How is it.
• 31:50
  That people are going to know.
• 31:51
  That I.
• 31:52
  And your people.
• 31:53
  Have found favor.
• 31:54
  In your sight.
• 31:55
  Remember what they've just done.
• 31:57
  Right.
• 31:58
  How are they.
• 31:59
  To know.
• 32:00
  And God replies.
• 32:01
  In verse 14.
• 32:03
  And he said.
• 32:04
  My presence.
• 32:06
  Will go.
• 32:07
  With you.
• 32:08
  And I.
• 32:10
  Will give you.
• 32:12
  Rest.
• 32:13
  This is his response.
• 32:14
  To that.
• 32:15
  My presence.
• 32:15
  Will go.
• 32:16
  With.
• 32:17
  You.
• 32:18
  Singular pronoun.
• 32:19
  And I.
• 32:20
  Will give you.
• 32:21
  Rest.
• 32:22
  Listen to Moses.
• 32:23
  Reply.
• 32:24
  Verse 15.
• 32:25
  And he.
• 32:26
  Said to him.
• 32:27
  Moses.
• 32:27
  Said to God.
• 32:28
  If your presence.
• 32:30
  Will not.
• 32:31
  Go.
• 32:31
  With.
• 32:32
  Me.
• 32:32
  It seems like he.
• 32:34
  Missed the point.
• 32:34
  All together.
• 32:36
  But.
• 32:38
  Moses intention.
• 32:39
  Is to stay.
• 32:40
  With the people of God.
• 32:41
  If your presence.
• 32:42
  Will not.
• 32:43
  Go with me.
• 32:43
  Do not.
• 32:44
  Bring.
• 32:45
  Us.
• 32:46
  Up.
• 32:47
  From here.
• 32:48
  And he goes back.
• 32:49
  To the plural.
• 32:50
  Pronoun.
• 32:51
  Right.
• 32:51
  I'm staying with.
• 32:53
  The Israelites.
• 32:53
  If your presence.
• 32:54
  Will not.
• 32:54
  Go with me.
• 32:55
  Do not.
• 32:56
  Bring.
• 32:56
  Us.
• 32:56
  Up.
• 32:57
  From.
• 32:57
  Here.
• 32:58
  Number 16.
• 32:59
  Is key.
• 33:00
  For how.
• 33:01
  Shall it be known.
• 33:02
  That I have found favor.
• 33:04
  In your sight.
• 33:04
  I.
• 33:05
  And.
• 33:06
  Your.
• 33:07
  People.
• 33:08
  Is it not.
• 33:09
  And you're going.
• 33:09
  With us.
• 33:10
  So that we are distinct.
• 33:12
  I.
• 33:13
  And.
• 33:13
  Your.
• 33:14
  People.
• 33:14
  From.
• 33:15
  Every.
• 33:15
  Other.
• 33:16
  People.
• 33:17
  On the face.
• 33:19
  Of the earth.
• 33:20
  What is Moses.
• 33:22
  Praying.
• 33:23
  Here.
• 33:25
  God.
• 33:26
  You've made.
• 33:27
  Promises.
• 33:27
  To make us.
• 33:30
  A distinct.
• 33:30
  People.
• 33:31
  To show your favor.
• 33:32
  To us.
• 33:32
  What is he concerned about?
• 33:34
  About himself.
• 33:36
  God has already said to him.
• 33:38
  I will go with you.
• 33:40
  This is not a.
• 33:41
  Moses.
• 33:42
  Centered.
• 33:43
  Prayer.
• 33:44
  This is an altogether.
• 33:45
  God.
• 33:46
  Centered.
• 33:47
  Prayer.
• 33:48
  Moses says.
• 33:50
  Our father.
• 33:51
  In heaven.
• 33:52
  Hallowed.
• 33:53
  Hallowed.
• 33:54
  Be your name.
• 33:57
  You have said.
• 33:58
  You would do a thing.
• 33:59
  With the people.
• 34:00
  You have delivered us.
• 34:01
  From Egypt.
• 34:01
  If you abandon us.
• 34:03
  Now.
• 34:04
  How.
• 34:04
  Will people know.
• 34:06
  Who you.
• 34:07
  Are.
• 34:10
  Catch that.
• 34:10
  Verse 17.
• 34:11
  And the Lord said to Moses.
• 34:13
  This very thing.
• 34:14
  That you have spoken.
• 34:15
  And I.
• 34:16
  Will.
• 34:17
  Do.
• 34:18
  For you have found favor.
• 34:19
  In my sight.
• 34:20
  And I know you.
• 34:21
  By name.
• 34:23
  I would strongly encourage you.
• 34:24
  To read the rest of the account.
• 34:25
  It was so hard to stop.
• 34:26
  At verse 17.
• 34:27
  But.
• 34:27
  To make.
• 34:28
  The point.
• 34:29
  For this morning.
• 34:30
  Right.
• 34:30
  Moses models for us.
• 34:31
  This kind.
• 34:33
  Of praying.
• 34:34
  His primary concern.
• 34:36
  Is the praise.
• 34:37
  Of God.
• 34:38
  Amongst.
• 34:39
  Peoples.
• 34:39
  As he is the God.
• 34:40
  Of this.
• 34:42
  People.
• 34:44
  And we ought to pray.
• 34:45
  In the very.
• 34:47
  Same way.
• 34:50
  We should pray like Jesus.
• 34:51
  Our father.
• 34:52
  In heaven.
• 34:53
  We should pray like Jesus.
• 34:55
  Hallowed.
• 34:56
  Be your name.