Teach Us How to Pray

Terry Turner

Journey through Matthew • Sermon • Submitted 18 days ago • Presented 21 days ago

Matthew 6:5–15

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With that all being said let’s jump into todays message.

If you are new to our church today, it would be helpful for you to know that we practice a form of preaching called “Expository Preaching”.

What that means, is we believe the Bible is best taught by taking books of the Bible and then breaking them down from beginning to end, chapter by chapter, verse by verse. Our goal, to better understand not only what God’s Word says, but what it means in our lives today.

We are currently walking through the NT book of Matthew.

This week we are going to look at one of the most familiar passages of scripture in the Bible. The Lord’s Prayer or shall we Say the Disciples Prayer.

Let’s read today’s passage and then we will dive in.

Matthew 6:5–15 CSB

5 “Whenever you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites, because they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by people. Truly I tell you, they have their reward. 6 But when you pray, go into your private room, shut your door, and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. 7 When you pray, don’t babble like the Gentiles, since they imagine they’ll be heard for their many words. 8 Don’t be like them, because your Father knows the things you need before you ask him. 9 “Therefore, you should pray like this: Our Father in heaven, your name be honored as holy. 10 Your kingdom come. 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 also have forgiven our debtors. 13 And do not bring us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. 14 “For if you forgive others their offenses, your heavenly Father will forgive you as well. 15 But if you don’t forgive others, your Father will not forgive your offenses.

Jesus has moved from teaching how the citizens of The Kingdom act to now teaching how the Citizens of the Kingdom Pray.

I really appreciate that He starts off by showing us how not to approach prayer.

This is not what it looks or sounds like.

Matthew 6:5 CSB

Their desire to be seen has been rewarded.

Matthew 6:6 CSB

6 But when you pray, go into your private room, shut your door, and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

See the contrast?

Matthew 6:7 CSB

7 When you pray, don’t babble like the Gentiles, since they imagine they’ll be heard for their many words.

You don’t have to concoct a lot of words in order to whooo God into meeting your needs.

Matthew 6:8 CSB

8 Don’t be like them, because your Father knows the things you need before you ask him.

Again see the contrast.

Prayer is not hard but we for some reason live in a place of anxiety when it comes to prayer.

Matthew 6:9a (CSB)

9 “Therefore, you should pray like this: Our Father in heaven,

First we need to recognize who we belong to.

Notice the possessive tense of the sentence.

Our Father

In Heaven

The old testament and many of the Parables show a key theme about Our Heavenly Father.

He is the protector of his people.

He spoils us with blessings and a rich inheritance.

He showers us with affection and covers us in times of distress.

Regardless of your earthly Father your Heavenly Father

Has chased after you, created an entire nation in order to graft you in, Sent his Son to provide an incarnation of what is to know the Father and to walk in relationship with Him

Then His son died in order to provide a path for you to walk in restored relationship with him.

Now let’s look at this idea of making his name Holy.

This echos of the the another passage in the Bible

Ezekiel 38:23 CSB

23 I will display my greatness and holiness, and will reveal myself in the sight of many nations. Then they will know that I am the Lord.’

This idea comes from the Hebrew word yitkadesh.

yitkadesh- hallowed, sanctified, magnified.

What I am praying here is that my life today would display God’s greatness and holiness in the sight of all that I come in contact with.

To better understand Sanctified it is easiest to look at its opposite.

Sanctify>Profane

Leviticus 22:32 CSB

32 You must not profane my holy name; I must be treated as holy among the Israelites. I am the Lord who sets you apart,

Sets us apart for what?

Matthew 6:10 CSB

10 Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

The word come here does not do justice to what it means in the Greek

as we have studied we have learned that

Jesus is the enbodiement of the Kingdom and Reign of God.

Where the King is there is also the Kingdom

The Hebrew word that we translate to come is

Kaddish-meaning Let your Kingdom Reign

God is already King of Heaven he wants to be King on Earth.

We are carriers of his Kingdom therefore when we allow his name to be sanctified in us we allow his Kingdom to reign in us and the nations see it.

What we should be praying here is..........

Matthew 6:11 CSB

11 Give us today our daily bread.

This is the moment of the prayer where we remind ourselves to let loose of today’s anxiety and worry.

This part of the prayer is best described in the Proverbs

Proverbs 30:8 CSB

8 Keep falsehood and deceitful words far from me. Give me neither poverty nor wealth; feed me with the food I need.

I can not express this in a better way.

Rabbi Shimeon ben Eleazar is quoted as asking “In all the days of your live have your ever seen a wild animal or a bird laboring in a vocation? Yet, they are provided for without anxiety. They were created to serve me but I was created to serve my Maker. How much more then should I be provided for without anxiety.

Psalm 68:20 CSB

20 Our God is a God of salvation, and escape from death belongs to the Lord my Lord.

Pastor Rustan is going to expound on this idea in the coming weeks as he teaches.

Matthew 6:32–33 CSB

32 For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be provided for you.

Matthew 6:12 CSB

12 And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.

Forgiveness holds so much power in our lives.

Matthew 6:14–15 CSB

14 “For if you forgive others their offenses, your heavenly Father will forgive you as well. 15 But if you don’t forgive others, your Father will not forgive your offenses.

Matthew 6:13 CSB

13 And do not bring us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.

In this context we are asking god to help us not to put ourselves in the position to sin.

Rav Judah is quoted as “ A Man must never bring himself into the grasp of temptation---because when David the King of Israel brought himself to the test he stumbled.”

James 1:14–15 CSB

14 But each person is tempted when he is drawn away and enticed by his own evil desire. 15 Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is fully grown, it gives birth to death.

The Great Lie: God will not give you more than you can handle.

1 Corinthians 10:13 CSB

13 No temptation has come upon you except what is common to humanity. But God is faithful; he will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation he will also provide the way out so that you may be able to bear it.