Sermon on the Mount VII

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Sermon on the Mount (VII)

• The Disciples Prayer Mt 6.5-15

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The Disciples Prayer Life Vs.6-8
Mt 65-8 "But you, when you pray, go into your
inner room, close your door and pray to your
Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees
what is done in secret will reward you. And when
you are praying, do not use meaningless
repetition as the Gentiles do, for they suppose
that they will be heard for their many words. So
do not be like them for your Father knows what
you need before you ask Him.
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The Disciples Prayer Life Vs.6-8

• When you pray
• Pray Consistently
• A weak prayer life is a reflection of
• 1. Our busy lives
• 2. Our inability to pray (lack of know how)
• 3. The state of our spiritual lives in general
• Unrepentant sin
• Spiritual laziness and indifference
• Worldliness
• Lack of relationship with God.

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The Disciples Prayer Life Vs.6-8

• Go into your inner room
• Pray privately
• The reward Time with God

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The Disciples Prayer Life Vs.6-8

• Do not use meaningless repetitionmany words
• Pray concisely and thoughtfully

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The Disciples Prayer Life Vs.6-8

• Pray Consistently
• Pray Privately
• Pray Concisely and Thoughtfully

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The Disciples Prayer
Pray, then, in this way 'Our Father who is in
heaven, Hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom
come. Your will be done, On earth as it is in
heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And
forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven
our debtors. And do not lead us into
temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Yours
is the kingdom and the power and the glory
forever. Amen.
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The Disciples Prayer

• Our Father
• Implies things like
• Dependence
• Trust
• Love
• Admiration

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The Disciples Prayer

• Our Father

Mt 77-11 Ask, and it will be given to you
seek, and you will find knock, and it will be
opened to you. For everyone who asks receives,
and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it
will be opened. Or what man is there among you
who, when his son asks for a loaf, will give him
a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he will not
give him a snake, will he? If you then, being
evil, know how to give good gifts to your
children, how much more will your Father who is
in heaven give what is good to those who ask Him!
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The Disciples Prayer

• Our Father
• Implies things like
• Dependence
• Trust
• Love
• Admiration
• Intimacy

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The Disciples Prayer

• Who is in heaven
• Distant intangible absent

Jn 733-34 Therefore Jesus said, For a little
while longer I am with you, then I go to Him who
sent Me. You will seek Me, and will not find Me
and where I am, you cannot come.
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The Disciples Prayer

• Who is in heaven
• Distant intangible absent

Jn 1333 Little children, I am with you a
little while longer. You will seek Me and as I
said to the Jews, now I also say to you, 'Where I
am going, you cannot come.
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The Disciples Prayer

• Who is in heaven
• Distant intangible absent
• Yet near, present -- Mt 28.20 18.20
• How present here if in heaven?
• Through the eyes of faith

2 Cor 57 for we walk by faith, not by sight
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The Disciples Prayer

• Who is in heaven
• Distant intangible absent
• Yet near, present -- Mt 28.20 18.20
• How present here if in heaven?
• Through the eyes of faith

Heb 1127 By faith he left Egypt, not fearing
the wrath of the king for he endured, as seeing
Him who is unseen.
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The Disciples Prayer

• Who is in heaven
• Distant intangible absent
• Yet near, present -- Mt 28.20 18.20
• How present here if in heaven?
• Through the eyes of faith

Jn 20.28 Jesus said to him, Because you have
seen Me, have you believed? Blessed are they who
did not see, and yet believed
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The Disciples Prayer

• Who is in heaven
• Distant intangible absent
• Yet near, present
• Knowable

Phil 310 that I may know Him and the power of
His resurrection and the fellowship of His
sufferings, being conformed to His death
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The Disciples Prayer

• Hallowed by your name
• Praise
• Hallowed holy, special, set apart
• Name character, nature not simply what he
  is called.
• He is different (Isa 6.1-6), but not distant (Isa
  57.15)

Isaiah 5715 For thus says the high and exalted
One Who lives forever, whose name is Holy, I
dwell on a high and holy place, And also with the
contrite and lowly of spirit In order to revive
the spirit of the lowly And to revive the heart
of the contrite.
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The Disciples Prayer

• Your kingdom come
• It has Mk 1.15 Acts 2 Col 1.13
• But needs to spread -- 1 Tim 2.1-3

1 Tim 21-3 First of all, then, I urge that
entreaties and prayers, petitions and
thanksgivings, be made on behalf of all men, for
kings and all who are in authority, so that we
may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all
godliness and dignity. This is good and
acceptable in the sight of God our Savior who
desires all men to be saved and to come to the
knowledge of the truth.
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The Disciples Prayer

• Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven
• Prayer is about submission to God
• cf. Mt 7.7-11 Jas 4.2

Jas 42 You lust and do not have so you commit
murder. You are envious and cannot obtain so you
fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do
not ask.
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The Disciples Prayer

• Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven
• Prayer is about submission to God
• But also Jas 4.3

James 43 You ask and do not receive, because
you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend
it on your pleasures.
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The Disciples Prayer

• Give us this day our daily bread
• Daily dependence upon God for needs

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The Disciples Prayer

• And forgive us our debts, as we also have
  forgiven our debtors
• Ask for and extend forgiveness. (v. 12)

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The Disciples Prayer

• And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver
  us from evil
• Ask for protection from temptation and evil
• But we must do our part