Our Father in heaven, may your name be honoured, May your kingdom come,
Sermon Slide Deck: "Our Father In Heaven" (Matthew 6:5-13)
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Seeking the Face of GodUsing the Ancient Prayer
Jesus Gave Us
“Our Father In Heaven”The Gospel of Matthew 6:5-14
The Season of Lent 2015
Seeking the Face of GodUsing the Ancient Prayer
Jesus Gave Us
“Our Father In Heaven”The Gospel of Matthew 6:5-14
The Season of Lent 2015
5 And when you pray, you must not be
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like the hypocrites. For they love to standand pray in the synagogues and at thestreet corner, that they may be seen byothers. Truly, I tell you, they have receivedtheir reward. 6 But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door
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“…and pray to your Father who is insecret. And your Father who sees insecret will reward you. 7 “And when you pray, do not heap upempty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think they will be heard for theirmany words. 8 Do not be like them, for
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“your Father knows what you need beforeyou ask him. 9 Pray then like this:
“Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.10 Your kingdom come,your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
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11 “Give us this day our daily bread,12 and forgive us of our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.”
Leader: This is the word of the Lord!People: Thanks be to God!
“You sum up the whole of [the] New Testament…if you describe it as the knowledge of God as one’s holy Father….
‘Father’ is the Christian name for God.”
~ The Apostle Paul in Ephesians 2:1 & 3
“And you were dead in trespasses and sins in
which you once walked…and were by nature
children of wrath like the rest of mankind.”
~ The Apostle John in the Gospel of John, 1:12
“But to all who did receive him, who
believed in his name, he gave the
right to become children of God.”
“There is tremendous relief in knowing that his love to me is utterly realistic, based at every
point on prior knowledge of the worst about me, so that
no discovery can now disillusion him about me, in
the way I am so often disillusioned about myself,
and quench his determination to bless me.”
“But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under
the law, to redeem those who were under
the law, so that we might receive adoption
as sons…
~ The Apostle Paul in Galatians 4:4-7
“And because you are sons, God has sent the
Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying,
“Abba! Father!” So you are no longer a slave,
but a son, and if a son, then an heir through
God.”
~ The Apostle Paul in Galatians 4:4-7
“…you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” The Spirit bears
witness with our spirit that we are children of God,
and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow
heirs with Christ….”
~ The Apostle Paul in Romans 8:15-16
“See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called the children of God; and
so we are.”~ The Apostle John
in 1 John 3:1
“You can come before God with the confidence that he is going to give you
what you would have asked for if
you knew everything he does.” ~ Tim Keller, Prayer: Experiencing
Awe & Intimacy with God
Summary
Jesus invites us into a relationshipwith God that entails the privilege of
addressing and experiencing the Creator of the universe
as “Father.”
“If you want to judge how well a person understands Christianity, find out how much he makes of the thought of being God’s
child, and having God as his Father….
“If this is not the thought that prompts and
controls his worship and prayers and his whole
outlook on life, it means that he does not
understand Christianity very well at all.”
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