God Through the Lord's Prayer
Explore the deeper meaning behind the Lord's Prayer and how it shapes our understanding of God as both familiar and transcendent. Reflect on the balance between God's closeness and mystery in prayer. Delve into the biblical passages that highlight God's role as the giver of gifts and wealth.
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Series: Remembering the Familiar Series: Remembering the Familiar (Popular Passages in the Bible) Part Four: The Lord s Prayer Sunday August 27, 2017 (Popular Passages in the Bible) Part Four: The Lord s Prayer Sunday August 27, 2017
1. This, then, is how you should pray: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be Series: Remembering the Familiar (Popular Passages in the Bible) Part Four: The Lord s Prayer Sunday August 27, 2017 done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from the evil one (Mt. 6:6-13).
2. Jesus didnt say, This, then, Series: Remembering the Familiar (Popular Passages in the Bible) Part Four: The Lord s Prayer Sunday August 27, 2017 is what you should pray.
3. What effect might this understanding of God as transcendent Papa have on how we pray? How do we hold these things in tension Series: Remembering the Familiar (Popular Passages in the Bible) Part Four: The Lord s Prayer Sunday August 27, 2017 when we pray? How do we approach a God who is at once familial and comfortable and yet at the same time set apart and mysterious?
4. You may say to yourself, My power and the strength of my hands have Series: Remembering the Familiar (Popular Passages in the Bible) Part Four: The Lord s Prayer Sunday August 27, 2017 produced this wealth for me. But remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth (Deut. 8:17-18).
5. For who makes you different from anyone else? What do you have that Series: Remembering the Familiar (Popular Passages in the Bible) Part Four: The Lord s Prayer Sunday August 27, 2017 you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not? (1 Cor. 4:7).
6. Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father Series: Remembering the Familiar (Popular Passages in the Bible) Part Four: The Lord s Prayer Sunday August 27, 2017 of heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows (Jas. 1:17).
7. When tempted, no one should say, God is tempting me. For God cannot Series: Remembering the Familiar (Popular Passages in the Bible) Part Four: The Lord s Prayer Sunday August 27, 2017 be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone (Jas. 1:13).
8. No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted Series: Remembering the Familiar (Popular Passages in the Bible) Part Four: The Lord s Prayer Sunday August 27, 2017 beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it 1 Cor. 10:13).
9. Heres the pattern: 1. Giving praise to God. Series: Remembering the Familiar (Popular Passages in the Bible) Part Four: The Lord s Prayer Sunday August 27, 2017 2. Praying for His work to be done. 3. Praying for our daily needs and help in our daily struggles.
10. Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give Series: Remembering the Familiar (Popular Passages in the Bible) Part Four: The Lord s Prayer Sunday August 27, 2017 us today our daily bread. Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from the evil one (Mt. 6:9-13).
