Our Father
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· 4 viewsLooking at prayer, specifically how Jesus taught us to pray. Focusing on the phrase "our father" why is this significant? how was this different than what his audience would expect? Why did he teach us to pray this way?
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What would be the most important steps you would tell a new believer to take to grow and connect with God?
Like breathing oxygen is essential for physical life, prayer is essential for spiritual life
Hannah, Daniel, Jesus,
people prayed in good times in bad times, in war, in a fish
16 Always rejoice,
17 constantly pray,
18 in everything give thanks. For this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
Prayer is the boiler room of the church: cold is death and stagnation, heat is live and fervent obedience
We often don’t know how to pray
26 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness, for we do not know how we should pray, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with inexpressible groanings.
JESUS TEACHES US HOW TO PRAY
JESUS TEACHES US HOW TO PRAY
5 “Whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, because they love to pray while standing in synagogues and on street corners so that people can see them. Truly I say to you, they have their reward.
6 But whenever you pray, go into your room, close the door, and pray to your Father in secret. And your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.
7 When you pray, do not babble repetitiously like the Gentiles, because they think that by their many words they will be heard.
8 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
9 So pray this way: Our Father in heaven, may your name be honored,
10 may your kingdom come, may your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
11 Give us today our daily bread,
12 and forgive us our debts, as we ourselves have forgiven our debtors.
13 And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.
Ground Rules
5-8 A. Don’t show off
B. Don’t over complicate
Tax collector praying: Jesus in a story gives us a picture of this
The emperor ceasar, Galerius, Valerius, Madimanus, Invictus, Agustus, Pontifex pg 92
There are around 18 prayers that would be repeated, this follows the pattern of some except for the direct “our father/my father” this is a unique description Jesus is giving
There are around 18 prayers that would be repeated, this follows the pattern of some except for the direct “our father/my father” this is a unique description Jesus is giving
3 things that “our father” teaches us
1. God is Approachable
vs 5-6 not out in public because your relationship with God has nothing to do with what others think of you
2. Communicating is simple: Humble not disrespectful
Prayers were usually in Hebrew: do not try an impress with your words
3. We are ALL Children: No division
There had never been a direct claim of God as my or our father, only attributes that God is like a father
when Jesus taught his disciples to pray and used the word abba he affirmed a vision of a family of faith that went beyond the community of those who claimed a racial tie to Abraham. (kenneth bailey)
No language or culture was more holy,
no one had a better claim to a better or closer relationship to God.
their were no more 1st class vs 2nd class citizens
This is how Jesus taught us to continually connect and grow closer to our heavenly father.
looking at the world around us we need to fill ourselves with God’s word and align ourselves with His will. Not listening to the constant flood of fear from whats going on around us.
JC Rule said
Trials are intended to make us think, to wean us from the world, to send us to the Bible, to drive us to our knees.