So then, this is how you should pray: ‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name.Pray like this: “‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
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… and how we can pray. Matthew 6, verse 9. I would like us all to say this out loud together. Let's see what Jesus says. Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. for yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen. The Lord's Prayer. So how do we pray? Here's point number one if you're taking notes. We pray to a Father in Heaven who loves us. We pray to a Father who art in Heaven. Our Father who art in Heaven. Not our vending machine who art in Heaven. Not our butler who art in Heaven. Our Father. A Father who longs communication and fellowship with us. A father who loves to bless us. He's a generous father. …
… And repeat after me. Our Father who art in heaven. Hallowed be your name. The Lord's Prayer. Most of us know it, or at least we know parts of it. It's a prayer that is sort of behind glass. In case of emergency, pull this prayer out. And there's certainly nothing wrong with praying the Lord's Prayer verbatim, but it's more than that. It's really the words of Jesus given to us and how we can pray. Imagine if you went to an elite university and you were able to be taught by the most impressive people throughout history. For instance, you could study music under Beethoven himself. Or you could have a drama class taught by William Shakespeare. A political science class taught by Thomas Jefferson. Or a philosophy class taught by C.S. Lewis. How about this? A class on prayer taught by Jesus Christ. I'd sign up for that. I'd be all over that course. I'd want to know what Jesus had to say about prayer. And that's what the Lord's Prayer is. …
… over 2,000 years as our Lord taught us to. In the Lord's prayer, we say, our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. That's what we're praying for, the return of Jesus Christ. Well, here before us in Luke 21 is an answer of Jesus to a question. In fact, it's the longest answer he gave to any question that was ever asked of him. And the question was, what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the world? This same talk that Jesus gave is also found in Matthew 24, often called the Olivet Discourse, because it was delivered on the Mount of Olives, which is right outside of the city of Jerusalem. So I want to talk about what Jesus said in this chapter, and just talk about the importance of talking about the end times in general. Why? Because 25% of the Bible is prophetic. So it's not some obscure side note. The Bible literally oozes with the return of Jesus Christ. …
… and set it aside, and he said these words in defiance of the government, our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. You see, Roy Costner took a stand. And that's what we have to start doing. We have to do it in a winsome way. We can't go out like the left and burn down city blocks. That's not who we are. We're ambassadors for Christ. But we can take a stand, and we must be bold in our faith. You know, when I was writing The Golden Age, as Pastor Jack said, I've had the chance to interview the president quite a bit. And I'm always fascinated by those conversations. They say, what's it like interviewing President Trump? And I said, well, it's like being in the Daytona 500, except you're on the roof of the car holding on for dear life. So that's kind of what it's like. I had called Mar-a-Lago, and I said, you know, I'm working on a book, and I'd like to sit down for an interview with the president. …
Hi, everyone. My name is Megan Del Grosso, and I'm the student ministry director here at our Resurrection Leawood location. And I'm so excited to get to share with you today. My husband, Mike, and I moved here five years ago with our two kids, Caden and Victoria. And when we moved here five years ago, they were going into preschool and kindergarten. And now they are going into second and fifth grade and time has flown. And in that time, a lot has changed in our lives and a lot has changed in our student ministry. In 2023, the last time I got to share with you, we talked about passing our faith on to the next generation and what that would look like in our student ministry. And we dreamed about the growth potential and all the ways that we could support students here at Resurrection and in the community. And we've experienced a massive amount of growth since then. In the last two years alone, we've grown 22%. …
… okay I'm about to give you this food but I want you to pray with me over the food I'm about to give you now bow your head close your eyes and repeat after me and he said our father who art in heaven the brother responds your father who art in heaven and he says I didn't say that I want you to repeat after me our father who art in heaven brother repeats your father who art in heaven and he says I'm gonna give you one more chance I said our our our say our and he said okay our he said now say our father who art in heaven he said your father who art in heaven he said why do you keep saying your when I say our he said because if I say our it presupposes that we're in the same family that I am your brother and you are my brother and our father would not be pleased with you giving his children food that he blessed you with through the back door. …
… I wanna read the context of what he's writing together in Matthew 6, verses one through 18. We'll start with verse one here. Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. Otherwise you have no reward with your father in heaven. So, whenever you give to the poor, don't sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets to be applauded by people. But truly, I tell you, they have their reward. But when you give to the poor, don't let your left hand know what your right hand is doing so that your giving may be in secret and your father who sees in secret will reward you. Whenever you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites because they love to pray standing in synagogues on the street corner to be seen by people. But truly I tell you, they've received their reward. But when you pray, go into your private room, shut your door, that's our word, and pray to your father who's in secret and your father who sees in secret will reward you. …
… this is what it means for us all to be children of God the Father. And so we're going to start with Matthew chapter 6, verse 9, a very familiar verse. and let that verse launch us into looking at two main truths today. Two simple, glorious truths. So Matthew chapter 6, verse 9. Remember, this is the middle of the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5, 6, and 7. Jesus is speaking to his disciples, and this is what he says in Matthew chapter 6, verse 9. He's teaching them about prayer, and he says, Pray then like this. our Father in heaven hallowed be your name now we hear that and partly because the Lord's prayer is so common to us partly because we've read this passage of scripture before we're not astounded when we see these words from Jesus mouth leap off the page we're not awestruck by them and we should be awestruck by them I want to show you why. Because what Jesus is saying here is new in a sense. …
Well, I feel the need to begin my message with a bit of a confession. And that is, I've never played a game of soccer in my entire life. Now, I know that you're looking at me and saying, but you're here to talk about soccer and how it relates to my life of faith. What do you have to share? Well, I can tell you that this is not only the first. It will be one of many and certainly will not be the last time that my kids know more than I do. because you see, my kids have played a lot of soccer. I thought it might be actually fun to share a couple of pictures of them. First you'll see, this is a picture of my son, Freddie. This is when he was a little guy. He was playing soccer at the field across from our house. And then maybe my favorite soccer picture of all, this is my daughter, Poppy. And she is dressed in a cat costume because why not? …
… He said, when you pray, you wanna pray like this. our father who art in heaven. You know what he's teaching us? Put it on the screen. He's teaching us it's about relationship before transaction. God is relational before he's transactional. And so before you ask God for anything, thank God for everything. Be reminded that you are my father. He said, when you pray, you ought to pray like this. Our father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. He is saying, when you pray, you got to get a revelation and you got to get an understanding of how big and mighty and awesome and good God is. So you're my father. Hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come and your will be done. Forgive me of my sins as I forgive all Clipper fans. Give me my bread, my daily bread. What's that saying? A prayer life is a dependent life. God, if you don't supply what I need today, I won't have it. Give me my bread, my daily bread. …
In his name. so our father who art in heaven hallowed be your name your kingdom come your will be done on earth as it is in heaven your kingdom come that's interesting to me because in matthew 6 i'm to pray for the kingdom to come but in matthew 10 i'm to announce it's already come In Matthew 6, it says to pray for the kingdom to come, but in Matthew 10, it says to announce. Why? Because prayer is supposed to precede decrees. Prayer is supposed to precede the radical actions that attract the hand of God into broken situations. We pray and intercede, but we don't stop at the end of the prayer. There must be actions. There must be specific things we do in obedience to the Lord that release the hand of God. I'm not saying God is somehow tied to what I pray. It's a messy area. Let me just put it this way. We pray and he does stuff. and why would he inspire me or direct me or tell me to pray in a specific way if he was going to do it anyway The absence of prayer sets the stage for the absence of the will of God manifested. …
… Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Now, when I pray this portion of the prayer, when I get to the thys, and I appreciate, you know, we're praying kind of the old King James English here. We could say your will be done, but I like the thy because it rhymes with my. And when I come to this portion, I really punch the thy. I mean, anytime I say it, thy kingdom come, thy will be done. Why do I punch it? Because my basic orientation in life, and so is yours, is my kingdom come. My will be done on earth as it is in heaven. And so Jesus is upending what's going on inside my heart. He's turning me inside out and he's calling me to pray. And when I pray this, remember, or I'm praying, in essence, I'm praying, Lord, help this be the desire of my heart. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. …
… I think you should do it every day. that's why Jesus said when you pray you pray this way our father who art in heaven hallowed be thy name forgive me of my sins as I forgive those that have sinned against me so my question to you today is have you repented yet today come on man some of you drove on the 405 have you repented yet today Thank you. you know your starbucks order wasn't ready in time have you repented yet today god prepares you through repentance and repentance isn't a feeling where repentance is a decision i'm saying i'm not going to live for me and mine and what i can do and i'm going to do what god's standard is and he and here's john the baptist while he died preacher he's a voice in the wilderness crying out, prepare the way of the Lord. I can hear the Bishop Jake's voice right now. Get ready, get ready, get ready. He was trying to tell everybody you better get ready because God's about to show up. How do you get ready for what God has for you? You repent of anything that doesn't please him. You repent of anything that's not worthy of a standard. You repent of anything that doesn't live up to the glory of God? …
… verse 9 of chapter 6 of Matthew in this manner therefore pray our Father in heaven hallowed be your name your kingdom come you will be done on earth as it is in heaven give us this day our daily bread forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors do not lead us into temptation but deliver us from the evil one for yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever amen go back to verse 9 our father Thank you. the western church has fashioned the gospel in such a way that the emphasis the primary emphasis is on individual fulfillment the fulfillment of my call the fulfillment of my dreams the fulfillment of what i want to see from my family my family line there is a place for that because God has no grandchildren. Everyone must come in personal relationship with him and place their faith in Christ for their salvation. So there is the individual. But listen to me, some prayers are so large, they cannot be answered for the individual. They can only be answered in the whole for a body, for a church family, even a spiritual nation. Our father, not my father, our Father who art in heaven the scripture says that I am seated with him in heavenly places this kind of a prayer is not me in the middle of a problem shouting out to God who I hope hears me so that he can come and rescue me instead it is me …
… over the coming weeks. I'd like to invite you, if you brought your Bible with you today, to turn to Matthew chapter 5. We're going to look at verses 3 through 12. But before we jump into that, I want to mention that right before this happens, Jesus is beginning his public ministry in chapter 4, the end of chapter 4. And Matthew tells us that the people who came to see him were the paralytics, the epileptics, the people who were demon-possessed, the people who struggled with mental illness, the people who were broken, hurting, the sinners and the tax collectors. And Jesus preached the good news of the kingdom to them, and he healed their sicknesses. So these were the people that Jesus, you know, was hanging around with. These were the losers, the nobodies, the misfits. These were the people who came to Jesus, which gives you some background as to why he says what he says in Matthew chapter 5, the Beatitudes. These were the people who were hurting the downcast, and now he's going to speak about their blessedness and our blessedness as well. …
… Let it be real to you. Let's pray it together. Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread and forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. Amen. You may be seated. So in week one, Pastor Josh talked to us about how prayer is simply talking with our Heavenly Father. And in week two, Pastor Sam shared with us that prayer is submitting to our Holy King. And in our final week, I want to share with you how prayer is simply how we live in complete dependence on our heavenly father. And we see this in scripture in 1 Thessalonians 5, 16 through 18. Look at this verse with me. It says, rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances. What is it? It's God's will for you in Christ Jesus. We want to know God's will. But what's interesting is that we see the pray continually. I have it in yellow here, but if you look at what else is being told to us, that is God's will, rejoicing and giving thanks always in all circumstances, that is all prayer, because prayer is worshiping God, prayer is thanking Him, and prayer is petitioning Him, and so this whole verse is basically saying to commune with God, talk to God, let him be your life. If you are in Christ as a believer, …
… The purpose of prayer is not to get something from God. It's to be with him and to become like him. And so that's when, when Jesus teaches us to pray, he says this in verse nine, then this is how you should pray? Our Father in heaven. See, right from the beginning, what Jesus does is he directs your attention to your view of God. How do you view God? He starts with our Father, directs your attention straight to your view of God. Why? Because he knows how you view God will affect how you pray. How you view God will have a direct correlation on how you pray. And I wonder for you, when you think about the one you're praying to, what's he like? When you pray, who are you talking to? Is he somebody who's trustworthy? Is he somebody who cares about the little things in your life? What kind of mood is he in? Does he like you? Because I think at times we don't recognize or stop long enough to pause to think, who am I talking to? …
… Part of our task is to try to not only pray, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven, but it's actually lived that way, to go about our daily lives producing fruit that helps the world that we live in look more like the kingdom of God. I'm reminded in Hebrews chapter 11, these words, this is the great faith chapter. And the author of Hebrews is saying in here, he's describing all these great saints of old who had deep faith and trusted in God. And then he says this, he says, they confessed that they were strangers and immigrants on earth. That is that this is not their final home. They are longing for a better country that is a heavenly one, a better country, a heavenly one. So we know that we live here, but we are strangers in a strange land. We are immigrants or foreigners here. We're gonna live here our entire lives. We're gonna make the best of it. …
… Part of our task is to try to not only pray, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven, but it's actually lived that way, to go about our daily lives producing fruit that helps the world that we live in look more like the kingdom of God. I'm reminded in Hebrews chapter 11, these words, this is the great faith chapter. and the author of Hebrews is saying in here, he's describing all these great saints of old who had deep faith and trusted in God, and then he says this. He says, they confessed that they were strangers and immigrants on earth. That is that this is not their final home. They are longing for a better country that is a heavenly one. A better country, a heavenly one. So we know that we live here, but we are strangers in a strange land. We are immigrants or foreigners here. We're gonna live here our entire lives. We're going to make the best of it. …
until thy kingdom come here on earth, just as it is in heaven. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Well, I want to thank you once again for worshiping with us today. It just means so much to us that you are with us. And as we prepare to leave, I'm gonna invite you to go to core.org slash next. Our hope every time that we gather together for worship is that you're gonna be inspired to take next steps in your life of faith, to join us in building Christian community and to grow in your faith individually. And so I wanna remind you of two things that we want you to consider being a part of. One, the Determined Men's Conference that's coming up on February 27th and 28th. It's a great opportunity for all of our guys to connect and to build community with other men here at the church. We're gonna have great speakers and great opportunities for you to engage your faith and to build your social connection, your social network. …
And every year I enjoy hearing it sung on Candlelight Christmas Eve. It happens after the sermon and before the passing of the candlelight. And because I've been here 35 years, this will be my 36th Christmas Eve as your pastor. and I often will have eight or nine services that I preach and I've heard it over 200 times. It's etched in my memory and on my heart and the words and the melody, they just touch me. And so today we're going to kick off a series of sermons for Advent in which we're going to look at the Advent message through the lens of that song, through its lyrics, its music, and we're going to learn a little bit about the song today. We're going to learn a little history about Israel today, a little history of France, and then we're going to try to ask what is this message of Advent about hope and the message we hear from the book of Isaiah. What does it mean to us today? How does it speak to us today? I want to begin, however, by mentioning, as we said at the beginning of the service, some of you weren't here yet, the word Advent comes from the Latin adventus. It means arrival or coming. And we got that name for this season of preparation and, you know, reflecting and getting ourselves ready for the celebration of the birth of Christ and for His second coming from the Romans. So, the Romans, when the Roman emperor would travel across the …
When we say prayer, I know that most of our minds immediately go to saying things to God, words and that is prayer jesus said and when you pray pray like this our father who art in heaven hallowed be thy name so prayer is words to god but i want to offer today that more than words to god prayer is a posture of the heart it's a posture of the of the life and if we're not a praying person if you're not a praying person or we're not praying people let me just say it personally if you're not a praying person, then your posture toward God is, I'm good. Until I'm not good. And when I'm not good, I will pray some more. But up until when I'm not good, I'm good. And we want the posture of our heart to be, I'm not good. I just got a raise. I'm still not good. Kids seemingly on the rails, still not good. situation worked out still not good moved into the new house still not good seems like it's a peaceful season still not good because i was created with a hunger for god and i want you and i need you and i can't live without you that is a posture of the heart it is a posture of hunger a posture of humility a posture of desperation and a posture of a desire for god David wrote it this way in Psalm 63. …
… we normally use. So he said to them, when you pray, say, our father in heaven, hallowed be your name. There is no other name. Hallowed be your name. There is no other name. Your name, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us day by day our daily bread and forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. Do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. How many want God to do that for you today? Deliver me from the evil one. Somebody shout, deliver me. Yeah, deliver us from the evil one. I really read all of the scriptures to get to that part. Deliver us from the evil one. The title of my message today is Delivered Daily. Delivered Daily. Put that in the comments, please. delivered daily. Say it out loud. Say, delivered daily. And turn around and tell three people, God can get you out of this. …
… They asked, the disciples asked Jesus, how do we pray? And he said, like this, our father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom. I know sometimes we hear people get up and they start praying and it feels really intimidating. but if you'll just open up this book and start reciting the Lord's prayer every single day, things will start to change. Get some prayers like Psalm 23. The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside the still waters. When you don't know what to pray, begin to pray his word. Begin to call on his name. The Bible says the prayer of Jabez, Are there any business owners or entrepreneurs? Or maybe you're wanting a promotion at work. You're not satisfied with where you are. Begin to pray the prayer of Jabez. Oh, that you would bless me indeed. That you would enlarge my territory. That your hand would be upon me. …
… Do you have an expectation? Matthew 13, the same thing happens. Same thing happens. Verse 58. Go to verse 58. Matthew 13, 58. I just want them to see this. Verse 58. And he did not do many deeds of power there because of their unbelief. So sometimes you block your own blessing because your heart ain't right during the preaching moment. The preacher wasn't that good. No, you weren't listening that good. I ain't never heard a sermon where I ain't getting nothing out of it. Because here's what's happened sometimes. Even if the preacher didn't work the text, I fell in love with the text reading it while they were preaching it. And I went home and studied the text on my own and wrote my own sermon. And said, now this is how it should have been. Or could have been. I'm serious. they preach in Psalm 23 talking about making it on broken pieces now that don't make no sense ain't no broken pieces in Psalm 23 but since you pull Psalm 23 and even if you mishandled it and don't make it make sense I'm going to sit there and read it and get something I'm going to leave saying the Lord is my shepherd yes he is and I shall not want and he going to make me lie down in green I get happy reading the scripture because that's how much anticipation you ought to have Listen, if nobody but those of you in this room right now …
… So do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him. Pray then in this way, Our Father who is in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen. And thinking about Father's Day, again, I was drawn to this passage because it repeatedly addresses God as Father. That's what we need to understand in its most full sense, the relationship that we enjoy with the eternal God. He is our Father. In what sense? Well, we could say He's our Father in the physical sense. In the natural sense, Malachi 2.10 says, do we not all have one Father? Has not one God created us? So He is our Father in the sense that He is the source of life for all of humanity and all of creation. …
… really the disciples prayer because they asked him teach us how to pray and he said well when you pray say our father which art in heaven hallowed be thy name that kingdom come that will be done on earth as it is in heaven give us this day our daily bread forgive us come here our debts as we forgive our debtors and depending on what tradition you're from forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and that's in the prayer so you telling god lord forgive me based on how i forgive others how you walking around with malice and resentment and bitterness and you praying in the prayer lord forgive me based upon my ability to forgive others so you're telling god i'm giving you permission if i don't forgive god please don't forgive me now who in this world who listening to me tonight can afford for god to stop forgiving you all have sinned and come short of the glory of god the wages of sin is death but the gift of god is eternal life who in here can afford i mean think about it now for god to say all right no more forgiveness for you no more no no no everything you do wrong you're gonna pay for it every time you mess up i'm gonna make sure you reap exactly what you sow who in here can afford i want to see the hands right in yeah you put your hand up in the chat if you can afford that no …
… I don't want our church name lifted up. We want your name to be hallowed be thy name. And collectively for us all to look at God this morning and say, God, your kingdom come. We would love it if your kingdom came and your will would be done on this earth as it is in heaven. Because we know today the things that are happening on the earth this very day. The rebellion. The pride. We're saying, God, we want your will here on earth like it is in heaven where you reign and you're the king. We want your kingdom here. We want your will to be done on earth just like it's done up there. And today we just want our daily bread. We're good with that. Just provide for us. We need you to provide for us. Forgive us our sins Our trespasses As we forgive those who trespass against us Where we go, God Just as I want your forgiveness Right now, I'm just letting go of everyone Who's hurt me All the deep, deep bitterness, God Forgive me as I forgive them And lead me not into temptation I don't want the temptation I want it out of my life Get it out, whatever it is Get it out deliver me from evil for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever Amen So this is what people have prayed for 2,000 years Can you think about how millions of people have prayed the same prayer over millions of years …
… It's actually the disciples' prayer. Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. The clearest description of the will of God in the Bible is in that prayer. It's a word that refers to the dreams, the wishes of God, the things that he desires. It is held in contrast with another word in the New Testament that describes the will of God. And that word is actually used to describe that which is fixed. It is set. It will happen. You can vote yes. You can vote no. You can participate. You can oppose. It doesn't matter. It's going to happen. This particular word is the word that actually refers to the dream of God, the passion of God, the things that he would love to see happen. For example, God is not willing that any should perish, but that all come to repentance. We know that people perish, but it's not God's will. …
… the obedience of the sheep. Jesus taught us to pray, our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Solomon said in the Song of Solomon, his name is like ointment poured forth. Jehovah, Jehovah is his name. That was the most sacred, most solemn name for God in all of the Old Testament. And yet Testament. Not one time in the New Testament will you ever find the name Jehovah. Do you know why? Because Jesus is our Jehovah. Jesus Himself said, I am the Good Shepherd in John 10. I am the Good Shepherd. Do you know what the name Jesus means? It means Jehovah saves. That's exactly what the name Jesus means. Thou shalt call His name Jehovah saves, for He shall save His people from their sins. That's what the angel said. Thou shalt call His name Jesus. And my dear friend, if I am his sheep and he is my shepherd. I don't want to disgrace that name. A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches. When I would take my little children to school and let them out in the mornings, each morning before they would go to school, I would say, Daddy loves you. …