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The lord’s prayer part 2
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The final four petitions can be thought of as Jesus’ answer to the desires of the Christian heart:
He teaches us to ask boldly:
Our lives be nourished
We be healed of sin
Victory in the struggle of good over evil
Not monthly bread, not yearly bread – why?
This petition emphasizes our radical dependence on God.
We ask only for bread for today; tomorrow we will have to ask again.
Every day we must acknowledge our need for God’s natural gifts.
We confess our sinfulness and our need for God’s mercy.
We can pray for God’s forgiveness because Jesus has revealed to us a Father who is rich in compassion and full of mercy
We know that through Christ’s sacrifice our sins have been forgiven.
Our request to be forgiven will not be heard unless we forgive others.
Forgiving as God forgives includes forgiving our enemies. It ain’t easy. We need the Spirit.
A lack of forgiveness hardens our hearts.
God pours out forgiveness, but that forgiveness cannot flow into a hardened heart.
Only when we forgive others and confess our own sins are our hearts softened and opened to God’s grace.
The original Greek phrase means both:
“Do not allow us to enter”
“Do not allow us to yield”
We are asking God not to allow us to enter situations of evil, and
Not to let us yield to temptation
(God would never lead us into evil.)
Temptations are invitations or enticements (with an appealing promise or reward) to commit an unwise or immoral act
The Holy Spirit does “not let us yield to temptation” by helping us determine what is truly good from what is evil in a tempting disguise.
We move away from our personal struggle with evil (our trespasses) to pray with the whole Church about the suffering of the world.
The focus of the petition is the deliverance of the whole human family from all evils.
We pray for the world’s full deliverance from evil in the Second Coming of Christ (Parousia).