Mazie First Baptist
May 11, 2025
- Today we move from hypocritical prayer to proper prayer. We are going to look at the disciples prayer or for most we call it the Lord’s prayer. Jesus gives us the building blocks for proper prayer with His example. He just finished telling us what improper prayer looks like. Now this prayer is a starting point for us, He shows us the key elements we should have in our prayer life, so we take that and build on it. It is only four verses long, but we are going to divide it up and dig into each section. It has six petitions the first three are for God “your name”, “your kingdom” “your will” and the last three are for us “give us”, forgive us”, “lead us not”. The prayer starts with an upward focus, it starts with God as everything should. We are going to look at the prayer in sections, but I am going to read all of it.
Matthew 6:9–11 ESV 9 Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. 10 Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. 11 Give us this day our daily bread,Matthew 6:12–14 ESV 12 and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. 13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. 14 For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive your trespasses.Matthew 6:9 ESV 9 Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.There is a danger in our familiarity with this prayer, it causes mindless repetition of which Jesus just finished warning us against. When we repeat it, we need to be earnestly praying it, not just saying it. We are going to look at verse nine in two parts. First “Our Father in heaven”. Now for us addressing God as Father does not seem that foreign, but in Jesus day it was unheard of. In the Old Testament God is only referred to as Father 14 times in 39 books and all these references are rather impersonal, it was as Father of the Nation. Jesus however changed all that in the Gospels He used Father more than sixty times and it was in a very personal way, He used Abba—which would mean dearest Father. Jesus takes it to a personal level, our prayers are a very personal communication with our dearest Father, this is the foundation of our prayers. God’s intimate Fatherhood should be profound in our lives. Our relationship is one of intimacy with our Abba. Something else we affirm when we pray Our Father is that we who are believers are brothers and sisters and if we love God, we will love one another.Galatians 4:6 ESV 6 And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!”John 1:12 ESV 12 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,The Holy Spirit cultivates deep in us an increasing awareness of being God’s children. The more deep seated our sense of God’s Fatherhood the deeper will be our sense of forgiveness and the wholeness that comes from being loved and forgiven. God our Father gives a sense of security and confidence and we know He will not disappoint. God’s promises always come to pass, He is a covenental God and it is He that always keeps His part of the covenant. Now for the next part of verse 9.Matthew 6:9 ESV 9 Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.“in heaven” the problem for some is they have sentimentalized God’s Fatherhood so much they have forgotten His holiness, who God is. He is our Father in Heaven—Father reminds us we can intimately approach Him as Father—in heaven reminds us of His transcendence of His sovereignty. He is our Father and our King. We can affectionately call Him Abba, but we do it with a deep sense of wonder and reverence. When we pray we should approach God with confidence and simplicity, simple direct, heartfelt conversations, and we pray with love because Abba is a term of love, dearest Father, our prayers should overflow with love. Now for the last part of verse nine.“hallowed be your name” to hallow God’s name is to give Him unique reverence that His character and nature demand. The root word for hallow means to set apart as holy, to consider holy, and to treat as holy. So, how do we hollow God’s name. When our life and doctrine reflect His Fatherhood. When we dedicate our lives to Him. Jesus gave His own life so that the Fathers name would be glorified.Matthew 6:10 ESV 10 Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.“Your kingdom come” has two parts to it. The first is a call for His future Kingdom that will come once and for all. This is our hope for the future, where our king reigns for an eternity.Revelation 11:15 ESV 15 Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever.”Matthew 6:10 ESV 10 Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.The second is a call for the kingdom in the present. When Jesus came He brought the Kingdom in His person, it was His passion during His ministry, He mentioned it some 103 times in the Gospels. “His kingdom come” means our wills are bent to God’s will. It is also a commitment to desire His kingdom to come. To commit ourselves to Him. When we pray “your kingdom come” we pray for three things. We pray for the final ulitmate establishment of God’s kingdom. Second it is a prayer for us to be conformed to His will in this world. Third it is a prayer that God’s rule will come to others through us. Now for “Your will be done” this is a call to obedience an obedience of the world at the end of history and now. There is also a personal call to obedience. We are asking God to do what is necessary to make His will prevail in our lives. “your will be done” is the petition that determines the authenticity of our other upwards petitions. Do we truly desire God’s will to be done over ours. When we pray His will to be done we are asking for two things. First that we live in profound obedience to His will and that is to be the ultimate desire of our lives. Second that our obedience may b e as it is in heaven, joyous, bounding and enthusiastic. As we strive towards obedience in order to do God’s will we need to know God’s will. So, if we truly pray “Your will be done” there must be a corresponding commitment to learn God's will and this requires the study of His word. God’s word is the main revelatory agency of His will.Matthew 6:10 ESV 10 Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.“on earth as it is in heaven” we desire God’s will here and now ruling and reigning in our life just as it does in heaven. We pray for the worlds obedience and for the final day when every knee will bow. We pray for the here and now. We either line ourselves up with Christ and say to the Father your will be done or we give into the way of the world and say my will be done. We will find no greater joy then when we submit to the will of the Father here and now just as in heaven. We must choose daily to give ourselves to Him.Romans 12:1 ESV 1 I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.The Sermon on the MountJesus has given us the foundation for our prayer life and we build on it from there. This is a starting point for us to learn to communicate with our Heavenly Father. How is your prayer life does it follow the direction Jesus points us, or is ti focused on self and nothing else. Do we earnestly pray to our Abba or are we just talking to hear ourselves talk. Matthew 6:9–11ESV
Matthew 6:12–14ESV
Matthew 6:9ESV
Galatians 4:6ESV
John 1:12ESV
Matthew 6:9ESV
Matthew 6:10ESV
Revelation 11:15ESV
Matthew 6:10ESV
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Romans 12:1ESV
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