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February 15, 2015
*Intro* – If you have flown lately, you are familiar with this phrase – baggage fees apply.
Southwest may be the only airline that gives you a bag free.
Well, as we come to this part of Jesus’ model prayer He’s going to teach us that baggage fees apply in life as well.
We are urged to avoid them at all cost.
*I.
Needs Related to God* – Jesus’ model prayer is simple – yet profound.
It consists of 5 simple petitions.
Petitions 1 & 2 relate to the Father.
They teach Prayer is about aligning me with God’s will, not Him with mine.
*II.
Needs Related to Us*
*A.
Give Us Each Day Our Daily Bread* – We said this petition relates to physical necessities.
We’re not praying for dessert.
We’re on a mission, and need to frame our petitions to wartime conditions, not ease and comfort.
Now -- 2 requests dealing with spiritual issues.
*B.
Forgive Us Our Sins*
“But aren’t my sins already forgiven?
Why ask forgiveness for something that’s already forgiven?”
Good question.
Some say a believer should never ask forgiveness.
Shows we don’t believe we already have it.
Thus one writer illustrates by saying suppose a person asks forgiveness for a loss of temper.
Shortly he loses his temper again and confesses saying, “Oh, Lord, there I went and did it again,” only to hear a booming voice say, “Did what?”
Is that right?
Should we never ask forgiveness?
This is a critical issue.
Listen closely.
Every true child of God is forgiven from the penalty of sin – every sin – past, present and future.
Rom 5:1, “Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.”
We have been justified – declared righteous (aor tense – one time, permanent action).
When?
When we accepted Jesus as Lord and Savior.
We were once for all time declared righteous, judicially cleared of every sin – past, present and future.
And the result is we have peace with God.
Not we had, but we have.
Present tense, ongoing action.
Justified once – at peace with God judicially forever.
Rom 8:1, “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.”
When is there no condemnation?
Now – a continuous, forever NOW.
Another judicial term.
No death sentence.
The death sentence we were born under is gone the moment we invite Christ in and become “in Christ.”
John 5:24, “Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has [pres tense – now and forever has] eternal life.
He does not come [pres tense permanently excluded] into judgment, but has passed from death to life.”
“Has passed” from death – perf tense.
Past action with continuing results now.
This is great news.
Believers are forever exempt from judgment for sin.
This is good as it gets!
We’re a new person, with new status, new position, new life and new standing at God’s court of justice.
So, why “Forgive us our sins”?
Because though we are new creations in Christ, we keep on sinning.
The principle of sin (flesh) still indwells us while we are in this life.
We still sin – not as frequently, not as egregiously, and not as freely as we once did, but it happens.
Paul, says in Rom 7:18, “For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh.
For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.
19 For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing.”
A war between the Spirit and the flesh rages inside every believer.
Sometimes, flesh wins.
Now, when Paul sins as a believer, is the sin forgiven judicially?
Absolutely.
He’s told us so in Rom 5:1 and 8:1.
So no need to ask forgiveness, right?
Not so.
I John 1:7, “If we say we have no sin (as a believer), we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. . . .
9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
So our sins are all forgiven, yet we are to confess them?
Why?
Because while our sins are covered judicially freeing us from the penalty of sin, sin damages the family relationship which is restored by confession.
Do you see?
For us, sin is no longer a judicial issue, but it’s an ongoing family issue.
Sin causes us to hide from the Father, to live in defeat, to suffer physical and emotional trauma, to be subject to God’s discipline that’s relieved by asking forgiveness.
We had rules on our farm.
One rule was, don’t play on the haystacks.
Another was, don’t ride the calves.
You could hurt them.
But one day when my evil cousins were over, we had a great day, jumping on haystacks and playing rodeo with a couple of poor little calves.
Dad found out.
Was not amused.
Now, did I cease to be my father’s son at that point?
No. Bad as I had been I was still part of the family.
Did Dad cease to love me at that point?
Not at all.
He still had my best interests at heart.
And so, he was willing to absorb the pain of punishing me to turn my heart back to a place of obedience and a place where I would seek and receive his forgiveness – not judicially – but as a straying family member.
And that’s why believers ask forgiveness.
To restore the joy of the family relationship that never went away.
David’s a perfect example.
Sinned horribly.
Did he cease to be a child of God? No.
But did he have any joy in the relationship?
No, indeed.
He said when he kept silent his “bones wasted away” and his “strength dried up” (Psa 32:3-4).
His life was a nightmare until what?
Until he confessed and repented his sin.
Then and only then could the joy be restored.
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