Hallowed Be Your Name
Pastor Chad A. Miller
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· 364 viewsWe must petition God to “hallow his name” in our discipleship, in our prayer, in our preaching, in our witnessing, in our work, and in eternity. Our ultimate concern is not that our lives be comfortable, but that God be glorified, and that our lives, even our prayers, put God’s glory on display.
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After this manner therefore pray ye:
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, for ever. Amen.
OPENING
WHAT’S IN A NAME?
WHAT’S IN A NAME?
Spoken by Juliet, Romeo & Juliet, Act 2 Scene 2
Spoken by Juliet, Romeo & Juliet, Act 2 Scene 2
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.”
“What’s in a name” Quote Translation
“What’s in a name” Quote Translation
Juliet is not allowed to associate with Romeo because he is a Montague. If he had any other name it would be fine. She’s complaining that his name is meaningless. If the rose had any other name it would still be the same. So with Romeo; he would still be the same beautiful young man even if he had a different name. “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet” Juliet knows that the blood feud prevents her from loving a Montague. She ponders it. It’s only your name that’s the enemy. You are what you are, even though you may be a Montague. What’s ‘Montague’? It isn’t hand or foot or arm or face or any other part belonging to a man. Oh I wish you had a different name. What is so special about a name? A rose, even if it were called something else, would smell just as sweet. So Romeo would still have all the perfection that he has, even if he were not called Romeo. Romeo, take off your name and in exchange for that whole name, which is not really a part of what you are, you can have all of me.
What’s in a name? A great deal actually!
1 Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory,
for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness!
6 There is none like you, O Lord;
you are great, and your name is great in might.
1 O Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory above the heavens.
8 I am the Lord; that is my name;
my glory I give to no other,
nor my praise to carved idols.
9 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Worship of God is the essence of prayer, and the first petition is that God’s name be hallowed or revered.
RECAP OF LAST WEEK:
Fatherhood of God recap
Our - God has called us into a community, a family, a flock. You are not alone. You were not made to solve life’s problems or navigate life’s storms alone.
Father - When you begin your prayers by calling on “Our Father, who art in heaven,” you indicate your eagerness to go to Him as a child, knowing He loves you. And you’ll find that He is eager to lend His ear, His power, and His eternal blessing to the requests of His children if it serves them best and further reveals His purpose and glory. (MacArthur)
How does this teach us to pray? Together…to the Father…who is Heavenly.
Last week we scratched the surface on the FATHERHOOD OF GOD as we began our move through this model of praying from our Lord. We’re reading it from Matthew’s Gospel. It’s repeated with a slight variation in Luke’s Gospel (Luke 11).
It’s been referred to as...
The Lord’s Prayer - though he couldn’t fully pray it since it requires asking for forgiveness…he still modelled it from His lips to those around,.
The Model Prayer - by those who say the better picture of our Lord praying is in John 17.
The Disciple’s Prayer…or better …Prayer Guide from Jesus. All of these fit in one or another.
Much in the same way that when you hear me or one of our Elders pray in a worship gathering, we’re praying…but we’re also modeling and teaching while we pray.
We are attempting to model how you can pray.
We are attempting to teach you the things that are important to us as a church…that we sense are on God’s heart for us as a body, a family, a covenant group of people.
So what is Jesus teaching us? What is he modeling for us? The first petition does not concern the earthly needs of the one praying…it has to do with the weight and visibility of God’s Holiness on display to the nations!
According to Jesus, prayers should be addressed to God as the Father who is in heaven, thereby recognizing the disciples’ relationship to God as His children.
If the essence of prayer is worship, then no wonder the first petition is that God’s name be hallowed or revered.
HALLOWED BE YOUR NAME
HALLOWED BE YOUR NAME
(YOUR NAME IS HOLY)
NOTE: We have a tendency to read these words and to conclude that they are part of the address, that they are simply an acknowledgment of an existing truth. But this is actually the first petition of the prayer. The original language clearly reveals this to us.
GOD IS HOLY…WE ARE ASKING HIM TO REVEAL HIS HOLINESS…TO “MAKE HIS NAME VISIBLY HOLY”
HOLY
Holiness can be summarized into everything that distinguishes the Creator from His creation.
Philip Ryken says, “It’s the infinite distance between His deity and our humanity…the very Godness of God - the sum total of all His glorious perfections.”
GOD MUST HALLOW US BEFORE WE CAN HALLOW HIS NAME:
3 Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord?
And who shall stand in his holy place?
4 He who has clean hands and a pure heart,
who does not lift up his soul to what is false
and does not swear deceitfully.
Once it was God’s holiness that separated us from God, the holiness of his being.
Now it is God’s holiness that brings us to God, the holiness of the perfect sacrifice Jesus offered for our sins on the cross.
God displayed his holiness by making us holy through his holy Son.
Hallowed - interesting word / not HALLOWEEN
We must petition God to “hallow his name”
in our discipleship,
in our prayer,
in our preaching,
in our witnessing,
in our work,
and in eternity.
Hallowed be thy name is a petition to SANCTIFY THE CHURCH for the GLORY OF GOD!
Our comfort cannot be our ultimate concern!
More than all the things this world can offer, WE LONG TO SEE GOD’S GLORY ON DISPLAY! In our LIVES, even in our praying - OUR ULTIMATE CONCERN IS THAT GOD BE GLORIFIED!
God’s inherent glory does not wax and wane. We cannot add to or take away anything from God’s inherent majesty. But his visible and observable glory can be made more or less apparent depending on our faithfulness.
“Faithfulness in the Christian life makes the glory of God go public.” Mohler, R. Albert
This is the only petition of this prayer that God’s people will continue to make for all eternity.
When some of the other petitions shall be useless and out of date, as we shall not need to pray in heaven, “Give us our daily bread,” because there shall be no hunger: nor, “Forgive us our trespasses,” because there shall be no sin; nor, “Lead us not into temptation,” because the old serpent is not there to tempt: yet the hallowing of God’s name will be of great use and request in heaven; we shall be ever singing hallelujahs, which is nothing else but the hallowing of God’s name. (Thomas Watson, Puritan)
“BE” - our mission
the Name / His Name
Herman Bavinck, the prolific nineteenth-century Dutch theologian, beautifully explained this point in his Reformed Dogmatics:
All we can learn about God from his revelation is designated his Name in Scripture. . . . A name is something personal and very different from a number or a member of a species. It always feels more or less unpleasant when others misspell or garble our name: it stands for our honor, our worth, our person, and individuality. . . . There is an intimate link between God and his name. According to Scripture, this link is not accidental or arbitrary but forged by God himself. We do not name God; he names himself. . . . Summed up in his name, therefore, is his honor, his fame, his excellencies, his entire revelation, his very being.
WHAT’S IN A NAME? A LOT, ACTUALLY!
God’s names are all self chosen, so they are all revelatory.
His personal name, YHWH, reveals his essence: he is the one who is.
His titles, too, are self-chosen tools for putting his character on display.
“God is what he calls himself and calls himself what he is.” (Bavnick)
HIS NAME is YHWH!
His titles are awesome!
El Bethel (“God of Bethel,” a place special to Jacob; Gen 31:13; 35:7)
El Shaddai (God the Almighty [?]; Gen 49:25, etc.)
El Elyon (God Most High; Gen 14:18)
El Olam (God the Eternal; Gen 21:33)
El Roi (the God Who Sees; Gen 16:13)
(YHWH appears in combining forms as well, and these may possibly be considered titles)
YHWH-Nissi, “my banner,” Exod 17:15;
YHWH-Rapha, “healer,” Exod 15:26;
YHWH-Jireh, “provides,” Gen 22:14;
YHWH-Shalom, “peace,” Judg 6:24.
The name “Jesus” is a combination of YHWH and “saves.”
The Hebrew plural Elohim.
The Hebrew Adonai.
9 Pray then like this:
“Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name.
Altogether Lovely Song of Solomon 5:16
Bread of Life John 6:35
Captain of Our Salvation Hebrews 2:10
Desire of all Nations Haggai 2:7
Emmanuel (God with us) Matthew 1:23
Faithful and True Revelation 19:11
Good Shepherd John 10:11
Head of All Principality and Power Col 2:10
I AM John 8:58
Justifier Romans 3:26
King Eternal 1 Timothy 1:17
Lamb Without Blemish and Spot 1 Peter 1:19
Lord (1,131x) Luke 24:3;
LORD (6,471) Acts 2:36
Lord and Christ Acts 2:36
Lord Both of the Dead and Living Romans 14:9
Lord From Heaven 1 Corinthians 15:47
Lord God Almighty Revelation 15:3
Lord of the Harvest Matthew 9:38
Lord of the Sabbath Luke 6:5
Lord of Hosts Isaiah 54:5; Jeremiah 32:18
Lord of Lords 1 Timothy 6:15; Revelation 19:16
Lord Our Righteousness Jeremiah 23:6
Merciful, Faithful High Priest Hebrews 2:17
Name Above Every Name Philippians 2:9
Only Wise God 1 Timothy 1:17
Precious Corner Stone Isaiah 28:16
Quickening Spirit 1 Corinthians 15:45
Reward, Exceeding Great Genesis 15:1
Salvation Luke 2:30
Tree of life Genesis 2:9
Vine John 15:5
Wonderful Isaiah 9:6
Your King Isaiah 43:15
Kings and Kingdoms will all pass away…but there is something about that name...
HALLOWED BE YOUR NAME!
1 Praise the Lord!
Praise the Lord from the heavens;
praise him in the heights!
2 Praise him, all his angels;
praise him, all his hosts!
3 Praise him, sun and moon,
praise him, all you shining stars!
4 Praise him, you highest heavens,
and you waters above the heavens!
5 Let them praise the name of the Lord!
For he commanded and they were created.
6 And he established them forever and ever;
he gave a decree, and it shall not pass away.
7 Praise the Lord from the earth,
you great sea creatures and all deeps,
8 fire and hail, snow and mist,
stormy wind fulfilling his word!
9 Mountains and all hills,
fruit trees and all cedars!
10 Beasts and all livestock,
creeping things and flying birds!
11 Kings of the earth and all peoples,
princes and all rulers of the earth!
12 Young men and maidens together,
old men and children!
13 Let them praise the name of the Lord,
for his name alone is exalted;
his majesty is above earth and heaven.
14 He has raised up a horn for his people,
praise for all his saints,
for the people of Israel who are near to him.
Praise the Lord!
OH, HOW I LOVE JESUS
There is a name I love to hear
I love to sing its worth
It sounds like music to my ears
The sweetest name on earth
It tells me of a Savior's love
Who died and set me free
It tells me of His precious blood
The sinner's perfect plea
It tells of One whose loving heart
Can feel my deepest woe
Who in each sorrow bears a part
That none can bear below
Oh How I love Jesus (x3)
Because He first loved me!
9 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
When we hold this name as sacred, we always pronounce it with reverence and awe!
When we set this name before us and make His glory the end of all our actions, we live and act as ALWAYS IN HIS PRESENCE!
When we worship and exalt HIS NAME - we are condemning Idolatry, Infidelity, and Indifference!
APPLICATION:
How can you worship Someone whom you routinely blaspheme?
If God in the Ten Commandments saw the need to require reverence for His name in the time of the exodus, and if Jesus saw the need to call on His disciples to pray that God's name would be regarded as holy in the Jewish culture of two thousand years ago, how much more crucial is it that we pray that the name of God would be hallowed in our own time? This petition, "Hallowed be Your name," should be on our lips every day, indeed every time we hear the name of God or Jesus casually blasphemed. R.C. Sproul. The Prayer of the Lord (Kindle Locations 343-346). Kindle Edition.
Sermon Outlines on the Attributes of God The Name of God Should Be Hallowlevel (Matt. 6:9)—Jabez Burns
1. Let the Christian love and delight in God’s name. Exalt it, extol it, glory and trust in it.
2. Let the sinner fear Him, dread coming in collision with Him, tremble before Him, and agree with Him quickly, lest He perish by the way, etc.
No worship, no adoration, and no obedience can flow from a heart that has no regard for the name of God. God’s kingdom does not come to those who have no respect for Him.
There is no REWARD from prayer without the REVERENCE due His Name and our RESPONSIBILITIES being taken seriously to take up our cross and follow him.
We must petition God to “hallow his name”
in our discipleship,
in our prayer,
in our preaching,
in our witnessing,
in our work,
and in eternity.