The Sermon Prayer (Part V) - The Lord's Prayer by David McGee
Feb 26, 2012
Prayer (Part V) - The Lord's Prayer (21:54)
Referenced Scriptures: Matthew 6:7-15
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Matthew 6:7-15
7) In praying, don‘t use vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking.
8) Therefore don‘t be like them, for your Father knows what things you need, before you ask him.
9) Pray like this. ‘Our Father, who is in heaven, may your name be kept holy.
10) May your kingdom come. May your will be done, as in heaven, so on earth.
11) Give us this day our daily bread.
12) Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.
13) Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For yours is the kingdom, the power and the glory forever. Amen.‘
14) For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
15) But if you don‘t forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
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When I went on a chartered understand today I will have a, there may be good in sermon this, so we're going to this is my off for you forth in the icon prayer and turn into turning your Bibles to Matthew versus seven through fifteen and José said that whenever the fifteen minutes without becoming a white men enforce the new button so I don't know something that rely on. I felt like that all day to the Isle of their thighs inward and outward and look at this again and I thought I would conclude maybe new series on prayer with the Lord 's prayer and I have the new King James version, so I thought I would read that and I is Matthew chapter six. Beginning in verse seven is when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the supporters of the street that they may be seen by men. I shortly, I say to you, they have their reward. So whatever we thought about in Sunday school today. How that God resists the proud, so I'll try does not have a place in prayer and tried to say I deserve you. I've been good in Dallas never pray or hear someone a bright light in a large naming guide their name enjoy all the right things and eight about this problem and they all deserve this. I don't deserve this has nothing to do with prayer. Sorry, that is, that is a library based on that as of based on who merits it. So it's based on who move on. It's on our faith in our relationship with God, and that we bring our needs, so the Lord, and that we are there requesting humbly requesting that God intervened and it isn't it. All of I'm a worthless person, and you shouldn't do this by now. How got my humility again. If not, you will in reality and is a is a confidence and competence that will belong to God. We are his child and we come to him with our needs with the things in it that are presenting themselves in our lives, so we are coming with this confidence that God is doing a great God is going to work in and through our needs and through the situations that we're confronted with elderly, we have our friend requests, and that we believe that God hears us within Rodriguez and his demented, but that God hears us when we pray and there was a follow-up to that God will hear us and then he will answer. Let's a lot assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward in verse six, but you, when you pray, go into your room when you shut your door, pray to your father who is in the secret place and your father who sees in secret will reward you openly. So it isn't so much that it all. I've been praying to God for this, that God would do this in my life when it's all right to tell people what you've been praying about it is all right to make the request of the Lord by the understanding is that you have this relationship with God and nobody else hears your prayers. It's not important. It is important that God hears your prayers that you and I know God is listening and so if we go into our secret place and pray about something Fran on a particular situation. We know that God will hear our prayers and that God who hears and knows intake around making a big a lot of it, you know God, and there is this now. I got the night trying to mimic the what he thought about the public in an center. The public is an individual who is a very high official in your managers. They and he standing on a street corner and he sprang very boisterously and loudly in his no very shining robes and environment. Anything gone. I'm thankful that I'm not like that wretched person over there was a sinner now and is going on on that about any calling attention to himself any putting down other people and you know it's like this( and Jesus is telling us that this is the album years that don't don't be that type of prideful and is also saying to us that we need to be humbly before I sense that grace and mercy. I always liked these two words and we defined Wilbert Lawrence understood this morning, but grace is I am a sinful person okay therefore God 's graces towards me and what I ask for forgiveness. I don't deserve forgiveness, but gives grace is extended to me and his grace looks beyond my fault, and sees my need of salvation and forgiveness, and he forgets me, that's called Greg's site looks beyond my fault sees my need for justice, mercy, as a Christian. Now that I have accepted Christ and the my life as a Christian I need strength to live the Christian life. I need gifts of the Spirit. I need the fruits of the spirit. I need an understanding of the Scriptures in my life. Mercy is God begins to me when I don't deserve against the nihilist. He sees what I have laid out and he bestows that upon me, so he gives me mercy. So as I am coming before God. I'm depending upon his mercy to work in my life I have to, I guess this God that provide. I am looking for his mercy. I don't deserve this, but God has given it to me. I don't deserve to be called a child of God, but I am one. I don't deserve forgiveness, but I am forgetting because of God 's mercy. So because of his mercy, then, that all of us come before God. It isn't because we deserve it a God. I think I I was anything wrong in at least ten seconds, I desire this out if his mercy, then extended towards us. So these are the things that that help us insult is they are trying to develop this prayer life. Hopefully we've been praying one on a few major hands, but I might be embarrassed because maybe all these for five weeks of prayers been wasted and even praying more framework like because it is a never wasted. I've been praying more values. I pray that I pray that this is helpful because it helps us understand a little more that our prayers are not lengthy. Don't have to be long, there have to be a heartfelt conversation of our need for God express towards God, and it is a heartfelt expression like yelp, we see a need need firing thing going on that underwriter, God, I pray you be with the people who are on the origin. I pray that you'll be with the people that are at the accident on Friday will help them and guide them. I don't know who it is unawares, but I'm offering a prayer for them. I'm offering a prayer for the people who are going to help them. Those are your are around the barn. Pray for them every time we hear the far whistle or the whistleblowing we need to pray. Pray for the people are going to help and pray for their protection pray for their note on the way and when they get there to help with the people are injured or hurt that need their help. We are praying for them on the news and in a no see people that have been. We pray for the not only does it need to go zombie and they are expressing a need towards God, so it's relational educational talk about that. It's a relational thing where we speak with God is a relational thing that develops you grab a relationship that you never spoken about it with you that you have relationships. The old speak to people not really doing. We have to think of them to build a relationship and the relationship is built through the conversation through the intimacy and God. You know, we're just learning a more learning more about God as we meet with him, and through his words and its educational and the way that God reveals himself to us. Verse five and in the message Bible says prayer is not a theatrical production. As if God is sitting in a box seat watching us perform well, it's a Broadway play, get a no no to give me an Oscar for which gave them the Broadway playbill, he put on for God so that he can impress him in. Some of the some of the people that they may beat themselves, and cut themselves and you know, do all this stuff. What want to talk to show how how much they love God, and how much they can debase themselves and so they would be where the two somehow God would hear their cry is not a theatrical thing and now for threading thirtieth as if I give my body to be burned as a Monty Python marcher and don't have love in my heart doesn't matter doesn't make a bit of difference or six smoke about it here as a quiet room in the message Bible says, find a quiet place where you are not tempted to play a role, don't play a role in a sometimes guys is preachers as a pastor. The preacher were tempted to play a role. I'm a pastor. Therefore, I have this role, but I'm to be. I I try not to do that. This is me and I'll sometimes I fail at it, but it is just me what you see is what you got no debt and were tempted sometimes the play roles play ball on a person that we think we should be playing the role have a Christian not forget the idea of hypocrite hypocrite is an active, someone was playing a role, but not living the life so as a Christian we are not trying to be a Christian and play the role that we think other people, things, we should read we should have waited RVing ourselves the relational experience with Jesus Christ and the relational experience with Jesus Christ is lived out in our prayers. We are praying and asking God to be involved in all episodes lived up to those prayers just being there as simply and honestly as you can manage the message Bible says about Ray being there a step they honestly as you can marry manning the focus will shift from you to God. So in line for hours. It isn't about me, and it is about my him about all the things gone wrong and it is about what happened. It's about God. So when I am praying my shift is towards God, and who he is, you know, whenever the children of Israel were going to go in and possess the promised land spies went and looked at the land and said we jiggle in their land giants in the land and the Giants make us look like grasshoppers that with their perspective weight and we are grasshoppers inside of the Giants now the Bible says if you say over this mountain, be moved in the name of one other translations say that if you send the amount of junk mail junk. Why, because of the mountain because of you know, because of God usually how do our needs measure up to the shadow of God. It is and how great our problem is it's how great our God. And so it begins to shift from what's wrong for how great God is the biggest unknown from my problems to God in his efficiency and so when I pray I pray the Scriptures of the sufficiency comes in so this is not about me or about us is not about our needs. It's about God because nothing is impossible with him so we we recognize that our focus then and go to verse seven. The world is full into the message Bible. The world is full of so-called prayer warriors who are prayer ignorant they are full of formulas and programs and advice, peddling techniques for getting what you want from God. This is about making God jump on our behalf this is your father, you are dealing with Jerry trying for your dad and four five oh I never could or might look around other kids on the employees. I've only is our driveway. No, I trifle. My dad was I scared at all. Now it's like I do and I do have the full now. I did, I want to basically I guess you joust was making. Auditing a one oh, but that Yahoo baby identifies the favorite of the favorite know and I know what it's like to be favorite because I was best. There's no see. That's not humility along with the fact that whatever the reason for my dad, not like the identity do you want again out loud is that no, that the holder from story, but will say here and in and I want to move through this that don't fall for the nonsense of thinking that you can find a formula horn advise if you want to make God do something gauge our father, your father, who knows you inside and out. QB on any amount you can ever imagine, and we must never, never, ever confuse our earthly father with our heavenly father. Whether we had a good one or a bad one. Our heavenly father is so much different than our earthly father. Even the best of our best of our fathers, God is so far above that is our heavenly father says as your father dealing with. He knows better than you. He knows I was not a joke. It's no drive what where because I'm always thank God I think you should do this and he goes all day but I never thought of that. Now I can't let down the omnipotent all-knowing God omniscient, all-knowing God that he never do something you never thought of the missed the world. We did that. Verses seven to thirteen, verse nine, our father. Now let's let's say me the our father in the King James, that's what most of us know, in essence, I was up there again. I thought I together our father which art in heaven hallowed be thy name thy kingdom come, thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen. Now that's kind a like rate out there. We've all said it would allow her to but the message Bible says our father in heaven is recognizing that our father is not only my father. He's your father, so whenever we pray and I pray about your need in your prying about my entrée about myself were talking the same guy. These are is not mine, exclusive, he's our father, and he lives in heaven. Heaven is a place where Jesus said I'm going to prepare a place for you to where I am then maybe also is a place for Robin Tagalog or be there someday, but our father. While there he lives there, hallowed be thy name. How is Robert reveal who you are me thought when I pray for the formula and other on a formless, but the formula is and is not wanted, but there is a form night is when I come into God 's presence. I asked for forgiveness because I want nothing to stand between me and God. I want nothing in my heart to be a hindrance to me and my prayer. So I want, I need forgiveness, thought, word or deed, if it's unintentional, God forgive me, so I enter his presence. That's because it's all God in heaven reveal is how your name reverence and eight reveal who you are revealed. Though you are for your work. God will make his word real to you. It is alike were searching for something that's never been heard of. We are searching for the word to be spoken to watch an aqueous and a moment of silence is aware before God. We want God to speak his word to us reveal who you are, your kingdom come. God set the world right. Let your kingdom that is in heaven be established in the and in this world. In heaven there is no obstacle. There are no obstacles to the will of God, let there be no obstacle to the will of God in my life. Set the world right do what's best as you do above, so do below your will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Keep us alive with three square meals. Give us this day our daily bread. God, we need your daily provision in my life. God, I need your daily provision. So whether we think of it as eating or whether we think of it as work or finances. God reveal that we are doing my daily means people ask for German philosopher given with you as we forgive on it. Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors forgive us our sins forget loss to possible art forgiven. Keep us safe from ourselves. Lead us not into temptation, we are chanted when we are enticed by her own enticement. God doesn't tempt anyone. We are tempted when we are drawn away by our own enticements, forgive us, keep us safe from ourselves and from the devil. Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. God don't let me become carried away with my old temptations and don't let the devil have a foothold in my life keep us safe from ourselves and the devil. You're in charge by kingdom, but it is the kingdom you can do anything you want. It is your power and your glory. You are a ablaze in beauty. Your glory for ever and ever. Amen. It is in this setting that we find our relational experience, where God speaks to us in verse fourteen, fifteen, in prayer, there is a connection between what God does and what you do there is a connection. Now there's a connection between what we do what God does. You can get forgiveness from God without forgiving others. If you refuse to do your part. You cut yourself off from God doing his part. We are bringing our needs. The God, not for him to do things for us but for us to recognize God can do these things in our life and for the people whom we pray, amenWhen I went on a chartered understand today I will have a, there may be good in sermon this, so we're going to this is my off for you forth in the icon prayer and turn into turning your Bibles to Matthew versus seven through fifteen and José said that whenever the fifteen minutes without becoming a white men enforce the new button so I don't know something that rely on. I felt like that all day to the Isle of their thighs inward and outward and look at this again and I thought I would conclude maybe new series on prayer with the Lord 's prayer and I have the new King James version, so I thought I would read that and I is Matthew chapter six. Beginning in verse seven is when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the supporters of the street that they may be seen by men. I shortly, I say to you, they have their reward. So whatever we thought about in Sunday school today. How that God resists the proud, so I'll try does not have a place in prayer and tried to say I deserve you. I've been good in Dallas never pray or hear someone a bright light in a large naming guide their name enjoy all the right things and eight about this problem and they all deserve this. I don't deserve this has nothing to do with prayer. Sorry, that is, that is a library based on that as of based on who merits it. So it's based on who move on. It's on our faith in our relationship with God, and that we bring our needs, so the Lord, and that we are there requesting humbly requesting that God intervened and it isn't it. All of I'm a worthless person, and you shouldn't do this by now. How got my humility again. If not, you will in reality and is a is a confidence and competence that will belong to God. We are his child and we come to him with our needs with the things in it that are presenting themselves in our lives, so we are coming with this confidence that God is doing a great God is going to work in and through our needs and through the situations that we're confronted with elderly, we have our friend requests, and that we believe that God hears us within Rodriguez and his demented, but that God hears us when we pray and there was a follow-up to that God will hear us and then he will answer. Let's a lot assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward in verse six, but you, when you pray, go into your room when you shut your door, pray to your father who is in the secret place and your father who sees in secret will reward you openly. So it isn't so much that it all. I've been praying to God for this, that God would do this in my life when it's all right to tell people what you've been praying about it is all right to make the request of the Lord by the understanding is that you have this relationship with God and nobody else hears your prayers. It's not important. It is important that God hears your prayers that you and I know God is listening and so if we go into our secret place and pray about something Fran on a particular situation. We know that God will hear our prayers and that God who hears and knows intake around making a big a lot of it, you know God, and there is this now. I got the night trying to mimic the what he thought about the public in an center. The public is an individual who is a very high official in your managers. They and he standing on a street corner and he sprang very boisterously and loudly in his no very shining robes and environment. Anything gone. I'm thankful that I'm not like that wretched person over there was a sinner now and is going on on that about any calling attention to himself any putting down other people and you know it's like this( and Jesus is telling us that this is the album years that don't don't be that type of prideful and is also saying to us that we need to be humbly before I sense that grace and mercy. I always liked these two words and we defined Wilbert Lawrence understood this morning, but grace is I am a sinful person okay therefore God 's graces towards me and what I ask for forgiveness. I don't deserve forgiveness, but gives grace is extended to me and his grace looks beyond my fault, and sees my need of salvation and forgiveness, and he forgets me, that's called Greg's site looks beyond my fault sees my need for justice, mercy, as a Christian. Now that I have accepted Christ and the my life as a Christian I need strength to live the Christian life. I need gifts of the Spirit. I need the fruits of the spirit. I need an understanding of the Scriptures in my life. Mercy is God begins to me when I don't deserve against the nihilist. He sees what I have laid out and he bestows that upon me, so he gives me mercy. So as I am coming before God. I'm depending upon his mercy to work in my life I have to, I guess this God that provide. I am looking for his mercy. I don't deserve this, but God has given it to me. I don't deserve to be called a child of God, but I am one. I don't deserve forgiveness, but I am forgetting because of God 's mercy. So because of his mercy, then, that all of us come before God. It isn't because we deserve it a God. I think I I was anything wrong in at least ten seconds, I desire this out if his mercy, then extended towards us. So these are the things that that help us insult is they are trying to develop this prayer life. Hopefully we've been praying one on a few major hands, but I might be embarrassed because maybe all these for five weeks of prayers been wasted and even praying more framework like because it is a never wasted. I've been praying more values. I pray that I pray that this is helpful because it helps us understand a little more that our prayers are not lengthy. Don't have to be long, there have to be a heartfelt conversation of our need for God express towards God, and it is a heartfelt expression like yelp, we see a need need firing thing going on that underwriter, God, I pray you be with the people who are on the origin. I pray that you'll be with the people that are at the accident on Friday will help them and guide them. I don't know who it is unawares, but I'm offering a prayer for them. I'm offering a prayer for the people who are going to help them. Those are your are around the barn. Pray for them every time we hear the far whistle or the whistleblowing we need to pray. Pray for the people are going to help and pray for their protection pray for their note on the way and when they get there to help with the people are injured or hurt that need their help. We are praying for them on the news and in a no see people that have been. We pray for the not only does it need to go zombie and they are expressing a need towards God, so it's relational educational talk about that. It's a relational thing where we speak with God is a relational thing that develops you grab a relationship that you never spoken about it with you that you have relationships. The old speak to people not really doing. We have to think of them to build a relationship and the relationship is built through the conversation through the intimacy and God. You know, we're just learning a more learning more about God as we meet with him, and through his words and its educational and the way that God reveals himself to us. Verse five and in the message Bible says prayer is not a theatrical production. As if God is sitting in a box seat watching us perform well, it's a Broadway play, get a no no to give me an Oscar for which gave them the Broadway playbill, he put on for God so that he can impress him in. Some of the some of the people that they may beat themselves, and cut themselves and you know, do all this stuff. What want to talk to show how how much they love God, and how much they can debase themselves and so they would be where the two somehow God would hear their cry is not a theatrical thing and now for threading thirtieth as if I give my body to be burned as a Monty Python marcher and don't have love in my heart doesn't matter doesn't make a bit of difference or six smoke about it here as a quiet room in the message Bible says, find a quiet place where you are not tempted to play a role, don't play a role in a sometimes guys is preachers as a pastor. The preacher were tempted to play a role. I'm a pastor. Therefore, I have this role, but I'm to be. I I try not to do that. This is me and I'll sometimes I fail at it, but it is just me what you see is what you got no debt and were tempted sometimes the play roles play ball on a person that we think we should be playing the role have a Christian not forget the idea of hypocrite hypocrite is an active, someone was playing a role, but not living the life so as a Christian we are not trying to be a Christian and play the role that we think other people, things, we should read we should have waited RVing ourselves the relational experience with Jesus Christ and the relational experience with Jesus Christ is lived out in our prayers. We are praying and asking God to be involved in all episodes lived up to those prayers just being there as simply and honestly as you can manage the message Bible says about Ray being there a step they honestly as you can marry manning the focus will shift from you to God. So in line for hours. It isn't about me, and it is about my him about all the things gone wrong and it is about what happened. It's about God. So when I am praying my shift is towards God, and who he is, you know, whenever the children of Israel were going to go in and possess the promised land spies went and looked at the land and said we jiggle in their land giants in the land and the Giants make us look like grasshoppers that with their perspective weight and we are grasshoppers inside of the Giants now the Bible says if you say over this mountain, be moved in the name of one other translations say that if you send the amount of junk mail junk. Why, because of the mountain because of you know, because of God usually how do our needs measure up to the shadow of God. It is and how great our problem is it's how great our God. And so it begins to shift from what's wrong for how great God is the biggest unknown from my problems to God in his efficiency and so when I pray I pray the Scriptures of the sufficiency comes in so this is not about me or about us is not about our needs. It's about God because nothing is impossible with him so we we recognize that our focus then and go to verse seven. The world is full into the message Bible. The world is full of so-called prayer warriors who are prayer ignorant they are full of formulas and programs and advice, peddling techniques for getting what you want from God. This is about making God jump on our behalf this is your father, you are dealing with Jerry trying for your dad and four five oh I never could or might look around other kids on the employees. I've only is our driveway. No, I trifle. My dad was I scared at all. Now it's like I do and I do have the full now. I did, I want to basically I guess you joust was making. Auditing a one oh, but that Yahoo baby identifies the favorite of the favorite know and I know what it's like to be favorite because I was best. There's no see. That's not humility along with the fact that whatever the reason for my dad, not like the identity do you want again out loud is that no, that the holder from story, but will say here and in and I want to move through this that don't fall for the nonsense of thinking that you can find a formula horn advise if you want to make God do something gauge our father, your father, who knows you inside and out. QB on any amount you can ever imagine, and we must never, never, ever confuse our earthly father with our heavenly father. Whether we had a good one or a bad one. Our heavenly father is so much different than our earthly father. Even the best of our best of our fathers, God is so far above that is our heavenly father says as your father dealing with. He knows better than you. He knows I was not a joke. It's no drive what where because I'm always thank God I think you should do this and he goes all day but I never thought of that. Now I can't let down the omnipotent all-knowing God omniscient, all-knowing God that he never do something you never thought of the missed the world. We did that. Verses seven to thirteen, verse nine, our father. Now let's let's say me the our father in the King James, that's what most of us know, in essence, I was up there again. I thought I together our father which art in heaven hallowed be thy name thy kingdom come, thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen. Now that's kind a like rate out there. We've all said it would allow her to but the message Bible says our father in heaven is recognizing that our father is not only my father. He's your father, so whenever we pray and I pray about your need in your prying about my entrée about myself were talking the same guy. These are is not mine, exclusive, he's our father, and he lives in heaven. Heaven is a place where Jesus said I'm going to prepare a place for you to where I am then maybe also is a place for Robin Tagalog or be there someday, but our father. While there he lives there, hallowed be thy name. How is Robert reveal who you are me thought when I pray for the formula and other on a formless, but the formula is and is not wanted, but there is a form night is when I come into God 's presence. I asked for forgiveness because I want nothing to stand between me and God. I want nothing in my heart to be a hindrance to me and my prayer. So I want, I need forgiveness, thought, word or deed, if it's unintentional, God forgive me, so I enter his presence. That's because it's all God in heaven reveal is how your name reverence and eight reveal who you are revealed. Though you are for your work. God will make his word real to you. It is alike were searching for something that's never been heard of. We are searching for the word to be spoken to watch an aqueous and a moment of silence is aware before God. We want God to speak his word to us reveal who you are, your kingdom come. God set the world right. Let your kingdom that is in heaven be established in the and in this world. In heaven there is no obstacle. There are no obstacles to the will of God, let there be no obstacle to the will of God in my life. Set the world right do what's best as you do above, so do below your will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Keep us alive with three square meals. Give us this day our daily bread. God, we need your daily provision in my life. God, I need your daily provision. So whether we think of it as eating or whether we think of it as work or finances. God reveal that we are doing my daily means people ask for German philosopher given with you as we forgive on it. Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors forgive us our sins forget loss to possible art forgiven. Keep us safe from ourselves. Lead us not into temptation, we are chanted when we are enticed by her own enticement. God doesn't tempt anyone. We are tempted when we are drawn away by our own enticements, forgive us, keep us safe from ourselves and from the devil. Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. God don't let me become carried away with my old temptations and don't let the devil have a foothold in my life keep us safe from ourselves and the devil. You're in charge by kingdom, but it is the kingdom you can do anything you want. It is your power and your glory. You are a ablaze in beauty. Your glory for ever and ever. Amen. It is in this setting that we find our relational experience, where God speaks to us in verse fourteen, fifteen, in prayer, there is a connection between what God does and what you do there is a connection. Now there's a connection between what we do what God does. You can get forgiveness from God without forgiving others. If you refuse to do your part. You cut yourself off from God doing his part. We are bringing our needs. The God, not for him to do things for us but for us to recognize God can do these things in our life and for the people whom we pray, amen