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Series Code: TDYFW
Program Code: TDYFW210033S
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00:02 I want to spend my life
00:07 Mending broken people 00:12 I want to spend my life 00:19 Removing pain 00:24 Lord, let my words 00:30 Heal a heart that hurts 00:34 I want to spend my life 00:40 Mending broken people 00:46 I want to spend my life 00:51 Mending broken people 01:09 Hello and welcome to 3ABN Family Worship. 01:12 We just want to say Happy Sabbath. 01:14 Happy Sabbath. I'm Shelley Queen. 01:16 I'm JD Queen. 01:18 And we're so glad that you're joining us. 01:20 You know, we try to take 01:23 as we get the family around the table, 01:25 and you're part of the family. 01:26 We're so glad you're joining us. 01:28 But what we do is try to find a Bible topic 01:32 that would be of interest to everyone. 01:36 And for some reason, 01:37 as I was thinking, what would we do tonight? 01:40 What came to my mind immediately 01:42 will not go away, it's the Lord's Prayer. 01:45 Now some people pray the Lord's Prayer as it's rote, 01:49 it's a, you know, 01:50 just something that they do for memorization. 01:53 We're going to look at 01:54 the meaning of the Lord's Prayer, 01:56 what Jesus was telling us to do tonight. 01:59 And I think you're going to be blessed 02:01 because it's so rich. 02:03 But, Honey, you want to 02:04 introduce the family around the table. 02:06 It's always fun to have your friends 02:08 around the table. 02:09 We have Ian and Angela, welcome. 02:12 We have Rise and James, welcome. 02:15 Good to be here. Welcome. 02:16 Welcome. Welcome. Thanks, JD. 02:17 Y'all just got in, I know that. We have been waiting for you. 02:22 Amen. 02:23 And then, of course, my lovely Shelley, you know. 02:25 Oh, you're sweet, Honey. 02:26 Well, we're just excited that all of you are here. 02:30 Rise and James Rafferty are fairly new to the team, 02:34 as are Ian and Angela Vandervalk. 02:38 But now you guys, you're not the newbies anymore. 02:42 We've got newbies in the house. 02:43 That's right. They took it from us. 02:46 We're just really thrilled you're here. 02:48 And, JD, you want to open in prayer? 02:49 Oh, most certainly. 02:51 Father, as we come together in the name of Jesus. 02:54 Thank You, Lord. 02:55 Thank You, that we can, 02:57 thank You that You put it in our heart to serve You. 03:00 Father, thank You for the Sabbath day. 03:02 Thank you, Lord that 03:03 if you've given us this day of rest, 03:05 Father, that we do remember that 03:07 this is your day and not wanted to follow world. 03:11 So, Father, as we approach this topic, 03:14 we just ask Lord that we be emptied of self that 03:16 You will fill us with the Holy Spirit, Lord, 03:19 and Father, what comes out of our mouth 03:20 will bring glory to You. 03:22 Amen. 03:23 We love You, and we thank You in the name of Jesus. 03:25 Amen. Amen. 03:26 Amen. Amen. 03:27 You know, I'm just thinking, 03:29 maybe somebody is watching us 03:30 and they're going, "What do you mean Sabbath? 03:32 This is Friday evening." 03:33 Well, we believe that 03:36 when God created the heavens 03:38 and the earth and everything on the earth, 03:41 it says that evening to morning, 03:45 yeah, evening to morning that was one day. 03:48 So we start and celebrate the Sabbath, 03:52 beginning on Friday evening. 03:54 And you know what the Sabbath is? 03:56 It's not like a listing. 03:57 The Sabbath is a celebration of God 04:00 as our Creator 04:02 and the one who recreates us in Jesus Christ. 04:04 The Sabbath, God says, 04:06 is a sign that He delivered us and redeemed us. 04:10 It's a sign that He's the one that's working to sanctify us, 04:14 making us more like Jesus. 04:16 The Sabbath is a wonderful time, 04:19 my favorite day of the week. 04:22 Okay, so, we are going to dive into the Lord's Prayer and, 04:27 Ian, why don't you read? 04:28 We're going to read the version from the Gospel of Matthew, 04:32 and this is, if you're turning at home, 04:35 Matthew 6:7-13. 04:40 Matthew 6... We'll go to verse 7. 04:42 Seven. 04:43 Yeah, want to start a little and you'll see why. 04:45 Okay. All right. 04:48 So starting with verse 7... 04:49 This is Jesus speaking. 04:51 What does He say? 04:52 And Jesus says, "And when you pray, 04:54 do not use vain repetitions as the heathens do. 04:58 For they think that they will be heard 04:59 for their many words. 05:01 Therefore do not be like them. 05:03 For your Father knows the things you have need," 05:05 or excuse me, "the Father knows 05:07 the things you have need of before you ask Him. 05:10 In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father in heaven, 05:14 hallowed be Your name. 05:16 Your kingdom come. 05:17 Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. 05:20 Give us this day our daily bread. 05:22 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. 05:26 And do not lead us into temptation, 05:28 but deliver us from the evil one. 05:30 For Yours is the kingdom and the power 05:32 and the glory forever. 05:34 Amen." Amen. 05:36 Amen. So just let me kick this off. 05:39 How do we know that Jesus 05:43 is giving this to us as an example, 05:48 and not a prayer, 05:50 that should just be mindlessly repeated? 05:53 Key verse, verse 7. 05:55 I mean, that was where you started, 05:56 because it's not really part of the Lord's Prayer, 05:59 but it's what leads into the Lord's Prayer. 06:00 Absolutely. 06:01 And right away, I mean, I can relate to this 06:03 because I was raised in a Catholic home. 06:05 And I said my prayers every night, 06:08 and I said our Father and Hail Mary. 06:10 But the reason I did that was 06:11 because I memorized Our Father the Hail Mary. 06:14 And the reason I memorized them is because as an altar boy, 06:16 and even as a young Catholic, 06:18 going to Catholic school, 06:19 we went to church every single week, Friday. 06:22 Friday was the church day for our school. 06:24 And before I would be part of the altar service, 06:28 the altar boy service, I would have to go 06:30 into the confessional and confess my sins, you know, 06:33 I pulled my sister's hair, 06:34 and I did this naughty thing, 06:36 and that naughty thing, wasn't obedient to my mom. 06:38 And then he would say, "Okay, say 10, Our Fathers and 15, 06:41 Hail Marys and light three candles 06:42 and put a little money in and you're good. 06:45 And so that was it was 06:46 and I would just go through that prayer, 06:47 those prayers as fast as I would, 06:49 our Father, which art in heaven, 06:50 hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, 06:51 Thy will be done. 06:53 I'm just this little kid, you know, 06:54 just wanting to get through the prayers, 06:56 get that all taken care of. 06:57 So it was definitely, and the rosary, 06:59 I don't know if you know, you... 07:01 Yeah, 'cause I was raised Catholic too. 07:03 So I had to go through the same exact thing 07:04 when you would go and you repent for your sins 07:07 through the priests, you know, 07:08 bless me, Father, for I have sinned. 07:09 It's been so many weeks. 07:11 And then like, you know, 07:12 you would be given say this many Our Fathers 07:14 and this many Hail Marys, 07:15 and you just go and sit down and you say, 07:17 and it's all of a sudden, you're good. 07:18 All right. 07:19 And so what Jesus is saying, though to His, 07:22 here they've asked Him, teach us how to pray. 07:26 And the first thing He says 07:28 is don't do these vain repetitions. 07:30 That's what pagan religions do, in words that are rote. 07:35 When you're just speaking them thoughtlessly, 07:39 when you're just repeating something 07:41 without thinking about it, it doesn't reach your heart, 07:45 and it's certainly not reaching the heart of the Lord, 07:47 but Jesus said... 07:48 Oh, I think that you brought up a great point, 07:50 you didn't through it. 07:51 Yeah. 07:52 The ambition was to get through it 07:54 rather than to concentrate 07:55 and giving your heart directly to Him. 07:56 Go ahead, Shelley. 07:58 Well, in verse 7, I just want, 07:59 in some case, somebody at verse 9, 08:02 it says, Jesus says, 08:04 "In this manner, pray." 08:09 So we see here, we're going to break this down 08:14 verse by verse, 08:16 but what we see is, 08:18 Jesus is giving us an example of a way to pray. 08:23 You know, the Bible says, enter His gates 08:25 with thanksgiving in your heart, 08:26 enter His courts with praise. 08:28 And we see here that 08:30 the first three petitions 08:31 of these sinners our hearts on God, 08:35 where we come before Him with reverence, 08:38 where we are seeing 08:40 what His divine purpose 08:42 is in our life and His holiness. 08:44 So let's kick this off. 08:46 Matthew 6:9, you want to take that verse 08:48 and just kind of expound on it? 08:50 Sure, I just wanted, 08:51 one thought I wanted to share on this... 08:52 Sure, any comment. 08:54 I think it's really good, and that is in Luke, you know, 08:55 Luke's version of the Lord's Prayer 08:57 starts a little different than this one does. 08:59 But it brings out the same point, you know, 09:01 Jesus is praying in Luke and the disciples, 09:05 one of the disciples comes upon Him, 09:06 it came to pass, Luke 11:1, "Came to pass, 09:10 that as He was praying, 09:12 in a certain place, when He ceased, 09:15 one of His disciples said unto Him, 09:17 'Lord, teach us to pray, 09:19 as John taught His disciples to pray.'" 09:21 And you get this picture in the context of 09:24 what you said in Matthew 6:7 of this vain repetition 09:27 that the disciples were, "This is different than 09:30 we've heard the Pharisees and the Sadducees. 09:33 This is different than 09:34 the kind of prayers we've heard." 09:36 Jesus is praying this 09:37 in a manner that is earnest and sincere and heartfelt. 09:42 You know, we don't know what the prayer was then, 09:44 but we know what the prayer is, you know, as we get into this. 09:47 So that same point there, okay. 09:49 Matthew 6:9, is that, 09:52 "After this manner therefore pray: 09:55 Our Father, which art in heaven, 09:56 hallowed be Thy name." 09:58 So let me ask you this question. 10:02 We hear people all the time say 10:04 we're all God's children. 10:07 I mean, God is a wonderful Father. 10:09 He's a wonderful spiritual Father. 10:12 But is it true that we're all God's children? 10:15 When He's saying, Our Father, 10:18 and often when Jesus prayed, 10:20 He prayed My Father when He was alone, 10:22 but He's teaching us to pray corporately, 10:26 and He's our Father. 10:30 Is He the Father of all? 10:33 I think He is. 10:35 And here's why I would say that. 10:37 You know, you can have mixed families 10:40 that come from adoption or divorce or whatever. 10:43 And the kids might say, I'm not calling you dad. 10:46 Now he might be the dad, 10:48 but the kid said, I'm not calling you dad. 10:50 The prodigal son renounced his father, 10:54 you know, he wanted his inheritance, and he left. 10:56 But the father, so I think when we, 10:58 when Jesus says, pray Our Father, 11:01 He's saying, acknowledge that God is your Father. 11:04 Now, there's a lot of people 11:06 that don't acknowledge that God is the Father. 11:07 But what about where Jesus said in John 8? 11:11 Honey, would you read John 8:43 and 44? 11:14 Yes. 11:15 "Why do you not understand My speech? 11:18 Because you are not able to listen to My word. 11:21 You are of your father the devil, 11:23 and the desires of your father you want to do. 11:28 He was a murderer from the beginning, 11:30 and does not stand in the truth, 11:32 because there is no truth in him. 11:34 When he speaks a lie, 11:36 he speaks from his own resources, 11:38 for he is a liar and the father of it." 11:41 So let's talk about this whole thing. 11:43 If you think about it, I mean, 11:45 in the fact that 11:46 we were all created in His image, 11:49 that makes us such offspring of God is the word 11:54 I'm going to use. 11:55 But as far as calling Him my Father, our father, 12:01 He's telling the Pharisees, 12:03 you're of your father the devil. 12:06 And what do we have to do 12:10 to qualify to be adopted as a child of God? 12:15 Well, the Bible says, only acknowledge, right? 12:18 So this idea that Jesus is bringing 12:21 I think to the disciples and us says, 12:23 acknowledge that God is your Father. 12:25 But would you agree that 12:27 you have to be born of the Spirit? 12:29 Absolutely. 12:30 To, 'cause we're born with the surge... 12:32 That probably goes hand in hand. 12:33 It goes hand in hand. 12:35 Yeah. Okay. 12:36 To call the father, your father. 12:38 'Cause I think Jesus is saying, 12:40 you're approaching the God of the universe. 12:42 And the disciples are like, how do we approach this God? 12:45 He's so big, He's so, you know, 12:47 how do we, how are we to approach Him? 12:49 When you claim Him as your Father, 12:52 that's the spirit's moving in your life. 12:53 Amen. That's good. 12:55 Yeah. Amen. 12:57 And we know that we have to be born again. 13:02 To claim Him to be adopted, 13:05 we are filled with the Holy Spirit. 13:08 He is the Spirit of adoption, 13:09 the spirit by which we cry out Abba Father. 13:13 And the reason we're, you know, 13:15 we're mincing words here, 13:17 and I think we're both saying the same thing. 13:18 But the point is, that some people think 13:24 they can live like the devil, and call God their Father. 13:28 And I believe very, honestly that Jesus says that 13:33 which is born of the flesh is flesh, 13:35 that which is born of the spirit is spirit. 13:38 And then he says, Paul tells us in Romans 8, 13:42 only those who are led by the Spirit are children of God. 13:48 So if we want to be a child of God, 13:52 there comes that surrender. 13:54 Amen. 13:55 And I think you're right, Rise, 13:57 that day that you look up and say, 13:59 "Oh, Lord, I want You as my Father." 14:03 You know, when you surrender your heart, 14:05 and you are born again of the Holy Spirit, 14:09 that's when He becomes our Father. 14:12 Would you agree? 14:13 That's when we acknowledge that He's our Father. 14:15 Yeah. 14:16 Because in the reality of, 14:18 it is always like sheep have gone astray, 14:20 we've turn everyone under our own way, 14:22 and the Lord laid on him, Jesus the iniquity of us all. 14:25 So if we're prodigals, 14:27 we're still children in a sense, 14:28 if we're children of wrath, 14:29 we're still children, in a sense, 14:31 but we're choosing 14:33 not to acknowledge our adoption, 14:35 which is not to acknowledge our redemption. 14:37 In fact, when you look in the Bible, 14:39 Jesus talks in John Chapter 5 about two resurrections. 14:42 And He says, 14:43 the first resurrection is of the just, 14:45 and the second resurrection of the unjust. 14:48 Well, how does that second resurrection take place? 14:51 Who allow that to happen? 14:53 Who allowed dead people to come to life 14:56 who are going to be lost? 14:57 Only Jesus. 14:59 So really, when we're talking about the Father, 15:01 we're talking about the Creator, 15:03 we're talking about the one who provides all things. 15:05 But when we're talking about actual children, 15:07 in acknowledgment, 15:09 we're talking about born again Christians 15:10 who acknowledge the Father. 15:11 We're not acknowledging something that isn't a fact. 15:14 Faith doesn't make the facts, faith embraces the facts. 15:17 So the fact is, God is the Father, 15:20 but there's a lot of people who won't embrace that, 15:21 who won't acknowledge it. 15:23 Okay, we're saying the same thing 15:24 with different words. 15:25 Oh, yeah. 15:27 Because you do have to be born again, 15:28 you have to acknowledge that. 15:30 Be filled with the Spirit. 15:31 All right. 15:33 You want to read, Angela. 15:36 Let's go to Angela. 15:37 Angela, would you read 1 John 3:1-2? 15:42 First John... 15:44 Chapter 3, verses 1 and 2. 15:49 You know, while she's looking that up, 15:51 if you don't mind, 15:52 there was something that kind of came to my mind 15:54 when you were talking about previously. 15:55 And, you know, it's how you were mentioning, 15:59 the way I looked at it was kind of like, 16:01 pre and post Christian, 16:03 I guess, if that's maybe, 16:05 you know, a phrase that I could use. 16:06 'Cause I think, early on in my life, 16:09 when I didn't accept Christ, 16:10 and I didn't accept God as my Father, 16:12 I inherently adopted Satan and his ways. 16:16 You know, I was living in the world, 16:17 I listened to his lies, you know, the things that 16:19 he was even telling about myself. 16:22 But you become a completely different person, 16:24 when you actually acknowledge God as your Father. 16:26 Yeah. 16:27 You know, you, the person that 16:30 you were before is no longer there. 16:33 And this Father that you now have, 16:35 you know, He tells you, 16:37 you know, who you are, 16:38 and how special you are, 16:39 while the other one just tries to bring you down. 16:42 So you kind of, you have a choice 16:44 on which father you want to adopt. 16:46 You can either adopt, you know, Satan, or you can adopt, 16:49 you know, the true God, 16:51 the one and only God, as the ruler of my life. 16:53 Let me do this real quick. 16:56 Excuse me. 16:58 Your mind is better than mine, 16:59 so you'll remember it. 17:01 I don't know about that. 17:02 The power of the Holy Spirit 17:05 was just demonstrated right there. 17:07 Bad boy, good boy. 17:10 Something came in the middle 17:12 of the story directing traffic differently, 17:14 and that is the power of the Holy Spirit. 17:17 How did He get in there? 17:18 How did the Holy Spirit get in there? 17:20 Did you, bad boy, bad boy, bad boy, 17:23 then the next day you wake up in the bed you're good boy? 17:25 Or was there an intercessor there in someplace? 17:29 So how does that work? 17:31 That was kind of 17:32 what we were talking about before, you know, 17:34 where you're either in the flesh 17:37 and born in the flesh, 17:39 or you're born or you know, of the spirit. 17:40 So you wake up one day. And that's that change. 17:42 You're born again. That's that change. 17:44 You go from, you know, 17:45 being in the flesh to now being in the Spirit. 17:47 So that's the change that you're talking about. 17:48 Amen. Amen. 17:50 You know, the way I look at it, is that the DNA, 17:54 the spiritual DNA, that in our fallen nature, 17:58 is the devil's nature acquired DNA. 18:02 But in 1 Peter Chapter 2, 18:05 when he says, God has given you 18:08 these exceedingly great and precious promises, 18:11 so that through them, 18:14 you may partake of His divine nature. 18:19 So we go from DNA, 18:21 spiritual DNA to devil's nature acquired 18:24 in this fallen nature, 18:26 that when we repent, confess our sins, 18:30 come before the Lord and say, "Oh, Father, I'm a sinner, 18:34 I need you as my Savior," 18:36 then we accept by grace His gift of salvation. 18:42 And our new DNA is the divine nature acquired. 18:47 And that's what He's working out in us as, 18:50 that's what we call the process of sanctification. 18:54 We come to Him as He is, He saves us by grace. 18:58 But He came to save us from our sins, 19:01 not in our sins, so He continues to work. 19:04 Go ahead. 19:05 Well, I was just going to say that 19:06 you mentioned bad boy, bad boy, 19:08 then good boy, but bad boy, 19:10 mercy and truth were following you 19:12 all the days of your life. 19:13 Amen. 19:14 Jesus loved you from the moment you were born, 19:16 and your behavior doesn't change that. 19:18 Right? 19:19 And so, but He wants you to recognize Him, 19:22 so that you can call out Abba Father, 19:24 like, you know, the Bible verse says. 19:26 And so, I love this, our Father in heaven, 19:28 that's who you are to me. 19:30 But it also identifies who I am. 19:32 All of a sudden, I have a new identity. 19:34 I'm a child of God 19:36 when I acknowledge You as my Father. 19:37 Amen. And that's perfect. 19:40 That's the perfect segue for 1 John 3:1-2. 19:45 "Behold what manner of love 19:47 the Father has bestowed on us, 19:49 that we should be called children of God! 19:52 Therefore the world does not know us, 19:54 because it did not know Him." 19:57 Verse 2, "Beloved, now we are children of God, 20:00 and it has not yet been revealed that we shall be, 20:04 but we know that when He is revealed, 20:06 we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is." 20:11 Hallelujah. 20:13 I know, I think this is 20:14 Pastor John's favorite scripture... 20:15 It is. 20:17 He refers to this very often, 20:18 but what an amazing thing to be called a child of God. 20:22 And now we are children of God 20:24 if we've accepted Him. 20:26 So He goes on in verse 9. 20:29 And, Ian, why don't you do that one, 20:32 verse 9, Matthew 6:9, 20:35 He says, "Our Father which art in heaven..." 20:39 Then what does He say? 20:40 Then Jesus says, "Hallowed be Your name." 20:44 What does hallowed mean? 20:47 To be holy. 20:49 To be holy. 20:50 To be, and we're to hold Him 20:53 in reverence and awe, aren't we? 20:55 So, what does His name represent? 21:00 His character? Who He is. 21:01 His character. 21:03 So when He says, "Hallowed be Your name." 21:06 I mean, this to me is 21:10 when we stop and say, 21:13 "Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name." 21:17 That's centering our hearts on God's holiness. 21:21 Suddenly, you know, 21:23 I think the reason 21:24 we come into His gates with thanksgiving and praise, 21:27 praise doesn't change God, but it certainly changes me. 21:31 I can start out in this poor little, 21:34 you know, poor, pitiful pearl attitude, 21:37 you know, I'm thinking, 21:39 and but I always start my prayer with 21:40 thanksgiving and praise. 21:42 And suddenly I recognize who I'm coming before, 21:45 suddenly, my heart is lifted up, 21:48 and I realize, 21:49 my Father in heaven has all the answers. 21:53 He can do anything. 21:54 Nothing is impossible with Him. 21:56 So I think that what Jesus is showing us here is, 22:01 our top priority is to be God in His honor. 22:03 And as we come before the Lord, if we center in on who He is, 22:09 His character, His love, His mercy, 22:12 I think that's the whole part of Him saying, 22:16 pray in this manner. 22:18 Start off with thanksgiving and praise. 22:21 You know, I think there's nothing 22:22 more dishonoring to 22:24 someone than to be misrepresented. 22:26 Amen. 22:27 And, you know, if we misunderstand each other, 22:31 or if I'm misrepresenting you to 22:32 something you said to someone else, 22:34 you're like, "Hey, that was, that's, you know, 22:35 I have a problem with that. 22:37 That was dishonoring to me, that wasn't truth." 22:39 And I think that when we pray this prayer, 22:41 hallowed be Your name, how do we hallow it? 22:43 You know, what do those mean? 22:45 Father, my, one of my greatest desires 22:47 is for You to be accurately represented on this earth. 22:50 That's why I want to have an accurate rep, 22:52 I want to know you for who you are, 22:54 I want to see You for who You really are, 22:57 and then may I be an accurate representation 23:01 of who You are to the world. 23:03 And you realize a lot of our misunderstandings 23:07 of each other, our misunderstandings of God, 23:09 you know, lead us to dysfunctional behaviors, 23:12 or alienation, and so forth in relationships. 23:15 So, yeah, when we think of hallowed be Thy name, 23:18 that's what I think of, who is God? 23:20 Are we accurately representing Him? 23:23 I know I'm in my mid-70s, 23:25 and I don't think that I've ever used hallow 23:29 for anybody's name except my Father in heaven. 23:33 So it's extremely special was I'm thinking about this, 23:37 I haven't studied this at all. 23:39 It's just that our Father in heaven, 23:41 hallowed be Your name. 23:42 I've never heard. 23:44 Johnny, you're a good guy, hallowed be Your name. 23:48 Never heard that. No. 23:50 You know, so this is reserved for Him. 23:53 Amen. Amen. 23:54 There's nobody else like Him, is what we're saying there. 23:57 Nobody else like God, and when we think about 23:59 hallowed be the name of some human being, 24:01 immediately some thought reminds us that 24:04 that doesn't quite fit. 24:07 But with God, and like Rise, 24:08 said, I think it's really important... 24:10 Amen. 24:11 There's nobody that's been more misrepresented than God. 24:13 Amen. 24:14 No human being has been more misrepresented than God. 24:16 And so there are a lot of people 24:17 that can't say, hallowed be Thy name 24:18 because they don't see God the way He really is. 24:21 Amen. Amen. 24:23 Amen. 24:24 Rise, you want to take Matthew 6:10? 24:27 Do you want just one line or? 24:29 Okay. Go ahead with the whole line. 24:30 Okay. 24:32 "Your kingdom come, 24:33 Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven." 24:36 Let's break that down. 24:40 What's going on in heaven? 24:42 Would you agree that 24:44 there's perfect unity and harmony in heaven? 24:47 First word that came was perfect. 24:48 It's perfect. 24:50 But I heard somebody say the other day, 24:53 "This is a dangerous prayer." 24:55 And I'm thinking, what's dangerous about this? 25:00 Would you agree, let me ask this question, 25:04 on the day of Pentecost, 25:06 the kingdom of heaven began 25:10 in the hearts of some? 25:12 Absolutely. 25:14 But the kingdom, when He says, Your kingdom come, 25:18 or as you read in the King James, 25:21 Thy Kingdom come, why are we praying? 25:25 I mean, that's really powerful to think about praying, 25:29 oh, Lord, Your kingdom come, 25:32 Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. 25:36 It's God's will, is His perfect will being done on earth now? 25:40 No. 25:42 No, I feel like these verses 25:43 are just saying there are two kingdoms. 25:45 There's a Your kingdom, there's another kingdom 25:47 that's present right now on this earth. 25:48 Yeah. 25:50 And so we can say God's permissive will. 25:53 There's some things that, you know, boy, 25:56 we can get really deep here. 25:59 There's rules of engagement. 26:01 God has given Satan a limited time. 26:06 And so, there's certain things that God has allowed. 26:09 Satan's trying to prove his lies against Him. 26:13 And you talk about being misrepresented. 26:16 You know, somebody called me the other day, 26:20 and they said something that was probably 95% truth, 26:25 but had a twist on it. 26:27 And at first I was thinking, 26:29 and then I decided to investigate. 26:34 Lies, errors, especially, 26:36 the most deceptive err is the one 26:40 that presents 95% truth, and tweaks it. 26:44 Did God really say you can't eat from all the trees? 26:50 Is that what God said? 26:52 What did God say in the garden? 26:54 No, He said, "You can eat from all the trees except for one." 26:57 Except for one. Exactly. 27:00 So, why are we praying for His kingdom to come? 27:05 Why should we pray? 27:07 Well, while we read this verse, you know, as Rise alluded to, 27:11 you know, there's two kingdoms here. 27:13 Yeah. 27:14 There's the one that lives within us, which... 27:18 What came to my mind was Luke 17:21, 27:22 where it says, He start, 27:23 it's now, where we start in verse 20, 27:26 where it says, "Now when He was asked 27:27 by the Pharisees 27:29 when the kingdom of God would come, 27:30 He answered them and said, 27:32 'The kingdom of God does not come with observation, 27:34 nor will they say, 'See here!' 27:36 or 'See there!' 27:37 For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you.'" 27:39 Amen. 27:41 So, there's two different kingdoms here that 27:42 we're talking about. 27:44 And it's the one that's within us 27:45 when we've accepted God as our Father, 27:47 and we start to take on His name, 27:49 and develop His character. 27:51 But then there's that other kingdom, 27:53 which is, you know, 27:54 God bringing His kingdom back here to earth, 27:56 which is represented, I think in Daniel 2, 28:00 where He's going to bring back down the kingdom 28:02 where no man is now ruler of. 28:04 It is only God who is the ruler of it. 28:06 Yeah. 28:07 And He does away with death and sin, 28:10 as 1 Corinthians 15 talks about. 28:14 When He returns, 28:16 His kingdom will be fully established. 28:20 Yeah, I think that what you were saying there, 28:22 in also, verse 17 of Romans 14, 28:25 "For the kingdom of God is not 28:27 in meat and drink, 28:28 but in righteousness and peace 28:30 and joy in the Holy Ghost." 28:32 So you do have in Hebrews 4, 28:36 it talks about, let us come boldly 28:37 to the throne of grace. 28:39 Where there's a throne there is a kingdom, right? 28:42 So if we have the throne of grace, 28:43 we have a kingdom of grace, 28:45 and it's something we can come to. 28:46 So even though God's temporal kingdom 28:49 hasn't been established on earth yet, 28:51 His kingdom of grace has, 28:53 and the kingdom of grace is the transformation 28:55 that takes place when we finally acknowledge 28:56 that God is our Father. 28:58 That He loves us, He died for us, 29:00 He gave His Son for us. 29:01 And when we make that acknowledgement, 29:02 we get righteousness, and we get joy, 29:05 and we get peace, joy in the Holy Ghost, 29:07 and we get peace, 29:09 and great peace have they that love thy law, 29:11 nothing shall offend them. 29:12 We have this infilling of the Holy Spirit 29:15 that pushes out fear, 29:17 that love that comes in and pushes out everything else. 29:19 And that's the kingdom of God 29:20 being established in our hearts. 29:21 And we choose to start doing things differently. 29:26 You know, we want to be an asset in people's lives, 29:30 rather than a liability. 29:31 We want to give, 29:33 we don't want to be just be taking. 29:34 Amen. 29:36 You know what I was thinking on the way here today? 29:38 I was thinking, you know, God is a God of boundaries. 29:42 Would you not agree? 29:43 I mean, God is a boundary setting, 29:46 boundary keeping God. 29:48 And one of the boundaries 29:49 He put on Himself, this is amazing. 29:54 He created us to be creatures of free will 29:57 and He will not cross that boundary. 29:59 Isn't that an amazing thought 30:01 that the creator of everything has said to Shelley Quinn, 30:06 I've given you free will, now, I want you to love Me, 30:10 but you've got to choose to love Me? 30:13 And, to me, it's amazing thing, the boundaries that He gave us, 30:18 the Ten Commandments. 30:21 You know, some people think that, 30:23 "Oh, God is limiting our freedom." 30:25 It's like you just said, 30:27 He told you can eat of all the trees, 30:29 but one, because He knew 30:30 it was going to be bad for them. 30:32 When He put the Ten Commandments around us, 30:35 He's saying, you know, 30:37 you can run in this path of My Commandments, 30:40 have a beautiful life. 30:42 And I love, I can't think, Isaiah 40 or 50. 30:48 Anyway, He said, "Oh that you had 30:50 heeded My commandments! 30:51 And your peace would have been 30:53 like a river and your righteousness 30:55 like the noonday sun." 30:57 God gave us commandments to free us from sin, 31:01 the 10 promises. 31:03 So it's so amazing to me. 31:06 You know, this verse to me is a promise too, you know, 31:09 we're praying for something to happen, 31:11 but it's a promise is going to happen. 31:12 Amen. 31:13 In Revelation, it says, the kingdoms of this world 31:15 had become the kingdom of our God, 31:16 and it was Christ. 31:18 And that's going to be reality someday. 31:20 And so we have the choice now to say, 31:21 "Well, what kingdom do I want to identify with? 31:25 Or you know, put my interest in? 31:27 Where's my citizenship?" 31:29 Yeah, and live in the context of that citizenship. 31:33 I'm an American citizen, 31:34 and I'm proud to be an American citizen, 31:36 and I'm going to abide by the principles 31:38 and what I believe that this country represents, right? 31:41 And so as a citizen of the kingdom, 31:44 that is someday going to become a reality, 31:46 like visible reality. 31:47 I'm still choosing by faith to live it 31:50 and live in the context of that kingdom. 31:51 Okay. Very well explained. 31:53 Very well. All right. 31:54 Yeah. 31:56 So, He has, Jesus is giving us an example of how to pray, 32:01 center our hearts on God, see Him for who He is, 32:06 that He's character of love. 32:08 And you know what makes God holy? 32:10 Holiness is to be separated from sin. 32:14 Love can't sin. 32:16 Love, God is love. 32:19 So God can't sin. 32:21 God can't lie, He can't use the tactics of the devil. 32:24 God is love. 32:26 And when we center 32:28 our hearts on that, and realize, 32:31 we stand in awe of what He's done for us, 32:34 but then the next three petitions, 32:37 in my mind, kind of recognize 32:39 the hindrances to our Christian walk. 32:43 That it's something that talks about 32:47 our humble dependence upon His daily provision, 32:51 we're seeking forgiveness, and we're seeking His grace, 32:55 His guidance, deliverance from evil. 32:59 Who wants to take? 33:00 Honey, why don't you do verse 11? 33:03 That's Matthew 6:11. 33:06 "Give us this day our daily bread." 33:09 Imagine we've all prayed that many times, you know, 33:14 that just, in other words, 33:19 I'll starve if you don't provide for me. 33:23 And that's the bottom line. 33:25 And, Lord, please help me. 33:29 And sometimes we're always asking for help, 33:32 but we're never praising His name. 33:33 And if we get that help, 33:35 you know, but He's sitting there. 33:36 There's nothing wrong with asking, 33:39 because that's what I want to do. 33:41 I love my children, 33:43 I want to provide for my children. 33:45 But here, this petition brings in the humility, you know, 33:50 Lord, please, in the name of Jesus, 33:52 please take care of us today. 33:54 I mean, wow, we, you know, 33:56 that big wall is staring us in the face right there. 33:58 We need Your assistance. 34:00 Amen. Anyway, give us this day. 34:03 And there are some scriptures to back this up 34:04 if you'd like for me to read one. 34:06 Sure, please. 34:07 1 Kings 8:59-61, "And may these words of mine, 34:12 with which I have made supplication before the Lord, 34:15 be near the Lord our God day and night, 34:19 that He may maintain the cause of His servant 34:22 and the cause of His people Israel, 34:24 as each day may require." 34:27 I love that scripture. As each day require. 34:31 And I think, the thing about this, 34:34 the humility in this is 34:36 we're recognizing God is our provider. 34:39 But the other part of that is 34:41 that we're asking only 34:46 for the needs of... 34:48 What's our actual needs are. 34:50 You know, some people look at God 34:51 as they're praying and you would think 34:53 He was a slot machine or something. 34:55 I mean, the way they praise, you know, I want a Corvette, 34:59 Lord, I want this, I want that. 35:01 And, you know, Solomon's dedication prayer 35:05 at the temple, he's saying, 35:08 "Oh, Lord, hear our prayer day and night." 35:11 And then he says, 35:12 "God maintains the cause of His people, 35:16 day and night, as each day may require." 35:23 I love that. 35:25 I love that. 35:26 And it makes sense. 35:28 And if you really understand 35:29 that it takes selfishness out of the deal. 35:32 The old saying, keeping up with the Joneses. 35:34 There is no more keeping up with the Joneses, 35:36 because that's not the priority. 35:38 The priority is, "Lord, 35:40 give us this day, provide for us." 35:42 It's challenging for us, isn't it? 35:43 It is. 35:45 In the Western world, it's challenging for us, 35:46 because we... 35:48 I have, we have a bunch of bread in the freezer, 35:49 you know, so to speak. 35:51 You know, we got a few days 35:53 stored up or a few weeks stored up, 35:55 you know, we've got, you know, 35:56 we've got toilet paper in the storage bin, 35:57 you know, type of thing. 35:59 But you go to some of these other underdeveloped countries, 36:02 and we think about maybe, you know, 36:04 not getting off course here, 36:05 but some of the, you know, 36:06 crisis that we've been through recently. 36:08 And we feel affected, "Oh, we're not going to have this, 36:12 we're not going to have that." 36:13 Well, in some of these countries, 36:14 millions of people are dying. 36:16 Yes. 36:17 They're dying, 36:18 because they don't have the things 36:20 that we kind of take for granted. 36:21 But we freak out, because, you know, 36:23 we don't have a lot of stored up 36:25 for enough time. 36:26 They don't have anything. 36:27 So when Jesus is praying this prayer, 36:29 you know, definitely He's speaking 36:31 about the sense, the need, 36:34 that's daily, that urgency 36:36 that we have to depend on God daily, 36:38 and we lose that I think. 36:39 Some of us lose that in this kind of, 36:42 you know, environment. 36:43 But you go to some of these other countries, 36:44 I've traveled the world, I've been to, you know, 36:46 Asia and Africa and South Central America, 36:48 and there's a difference in the way that 36:51 people relate to the Word of God 36:53 and they relate to prayer and relate to, you know, 36:56 their spiritual experience. 36:59 They have a completely different dependence on God 37:02 than we have. 37:03 You know, that's what God's whole plan is about, 37:06 is that we're completely dependent upon Him. 37:08 And really, I don't care 37:09 if you've got millions in the bank, 37:11 when you think that 37:12 He's going to give you grace as each day may require. 37:17 We are dependent upon Him for our next breath. 37:19 So it doesn't matter what we've got. 37:22 But we do need to have, when Jesus said, 37:25 lest you become as little children, 37:28 you won't enter the kingdom. 37:30 I think what He's saying is, 37:32 a child looks to their father for complete provision, 37:37 a child depends and trusts their father, 37:41 and that's what He wants from us. 37:43 Amen. 37:44 But when a child comes to His father or mother and says, 37:48 "I'm hungry, can I have some bread?" 37:50 Right? 37:51 The father is going to give it, but I think that 37:53 it's an expression from the child, 37:54 "No, I'm hungry." 37:55 And whether you're rich, 37:57 or whether you're poor, everyone's hungry. 37:58 Yeah. Amen. 38:00 That's good Everyone has need and so hunger, desires. 38:04 And this is recognizing, as we pray this, that Father, 38:08 You're the source of fulfillment 38:11 for the hunger that I experienced, 38:12 that we try to satisfy 38:14 with a zillion things out there. 38:17 You're the one who holds the key 38:19 for my total fulfillment to satisfy the hunger. 38:21 Amen. Amen. 38:23 Powerful height. 38:24 James, you want to take Matthew 6:13? 38:27 Matthew 6:13, and lead us not into temptation... 38:30 Wait a minute, we skipped verse 12, 38:32 one of the most important ones. 38:34 Yeah. Okay. 38:35 "And forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors." 38:39 That's a big one. Yeah. 38:41 That's huge. So let's get into it. 38:46 It's really the central focus of the prayer almost. 38:52 And you find this, I think, 38:54 being directing us to the gospel, 38:57 to salvation, you know, to Jesus. 39:00 The whole motivation for acknowledging 39:03 that God is our Father is a recognition 39:06 that He is our Redeemer, He's our Savior, 39:09 He's accomplished something for us. 39:10 And I remember when, you know, 39:12 I first realized that and I prayed a different prayer 39:15 than the Our Fathers and the Hail Marys, 39:18 and it was a very simple, short, heartfelt prayer. 39:22 And it brought Jesus into my heart, 39:25 it brought forgiveness of sins, 39:27 it brought the Holy Spirit, 39:28 it transformed me into acknowledging God, 39:31 and immediately, 39:34 I had a sense of goodwill toward other people. 39:37 And I think what this verse is saying to us is, 39:39 you will forgive other people 39:41 and you will be gracious to them 39:42 and merciful to them 39:44 as you experience God's forgiveness, 39:46 as you experience the gospel of salvation. 39:49 As you experienced that, 39:50 it will automatically flow out to others. 39:52 And if it's not flowing out to others, you got to go back. 39:54 You can't make yourself be merciful to people. 39:56 You've got to go back 39:58 and partake again of that salvation grace and spirit. 40:00 Automatic sounds so easy. 40:02 I don't know if it's automatic, 40:03 it's definitely a struggle for me like, Father, 40:06 I've been hurt. 40:08 You know, I've been wounded. 40:09 There are people who have deeply hurt me, 40:11 and it's hard for me to let that go. 40:14 You know, 'cause in essence, 40:15 I feel like letting it go, 40:16 might be saying that was okay 40:18 or let them off the hook. 40:19 But I realize that me holding a grudge 40:21 against them is inhibiting also, 40:24 you know, me experiencing the mercy 40:26 and forgiveness that I so desperately need. 40:28 And I love that point you just made that 40:29 as I receive mercy and forgiveness for my own sin, 40:33 now I have, you know, 40:35 the ability to extend it to other people. 40:36 But I love, I feel like God's saying, 40:39 "Tell me about it. 40:40 Tell me about, you know, the, your debtors, 40:42 and so that I can help you 40:44 in this process of forgiving them." 40:47 The words that come to my mind 40:48 is being vulnerable, and fighting pride, 40:52 because there's some people they just don't want to let go. 40:55 Yeah. 40:56 And the more they think about it, 40:57 the more they rationalize, 40:59 well, I don't have to say no, he needs to say no. 41:01 And then it gets in that battle, 41:03 and I will just imagine the enemies over here, 41:06 just really enjoying this. 41:08 Y'all fight it out for a while, 41:10 I'll see you next week, you know? 41:12 So what I'm hearing... 41:14 I think Ian has got something to say real quick. 41:16 Yeah, if you don't mind. 41:17 Oh, that's what you're here for generally. 41:19 This verse really 41:22 hits home deeply. 41:25 And I'm just going to be, you know, open for a moment. 41:28 But you know, Angela and I, 41:29 we have had some challenges, 41:31 some big challenges in our marriage, 41:34 a lot of them stemmed 41:35 from prior to me being a Christian. 41:37 And my amazing wife, 41:41 she showed that type of forgiveness, 41:44 she showed the forgiveness of Jesus. 41:46 Amen. 41:47 And if it wasn't for that, and her following 41:50 what the Lord wanted her to do, 41:52 to show that type of forgiveness 41:53 for others, 41:55 even though I had crossed her, she showed that to me, 41:57 and that, you know, looking back on it now, 42:01 I didn't realize it then. 42:03 But that just revealed Christ to me, 42:06 and I didn't even know it at the time. 42:08 Amen. 42:09 You know, but now as I've grown closer to the Lord, 42:11 and I look back at what, 42:12 you know, what my wife did for me, 42:14 and I she had to pray this prayer, 42:16 you know, "Forgive me, Father, so I can forgive them." 42:19 You know, I'm sure she was on her knees, 42:21 saying those same exact things, 42:22 but she showed that same type of forgiveness that, 42:25 and that forgiveness, 42:26 even though I wasn't a Christian, 42:27 if you show that to somebody else, 42:29 that can bring that person to Christ. 42:31 Amen. You know, it did for me. 42:34 It showed me a type of love that is not natural. 42:38 Most wouldn't have forgiven, but she did. 42:40 Amen. 42:42 And it's just, 42:43 it's a beautiful thing to not only, 42:45 I would think for to give that forgiveness to others, 42:47 but it's a beautiful thing, 42:49 especially in my case to receive 42:50 that kind of forgiveness. 42:51 Absolutely. 42:53 Has that changed the way you look at 42:54 other people who hurt you? 42:55 It does, you know, it does, 42:58 definitely because I know the impact it had on me. 43:00 And, you know, we don't always realize 43:04 why people are the way they are and the damage 43:06 that they have. 43:07 You know, there could be things that are so underlying, 43:09 that are so buried, and they don't even realize it, 43:11 but it's coming out in their emotions 43:13 and their actions towards you. 43:15 And I teach my son this all the time. 43:17 But when you start to show somebody forgiveness, 43:20 or be kind to them, 43:22 even when they're not being kind to you, 43:24 it makes them stop and just think like, 43:27 "Why is this person? 43:29 You know, I'm treating them terribly. 43:31 You know, why are they being so kind to me? 43:33 Why are they forgiving me when I don't deserve that?" 43:36 And it just opens up questions and words and, you know... 43:39 How hard was it, Angela? 43:42 How hard was it? 43:43 Oh, to forgive him? 43:45 I mean, it took time. 43:48 But I want to, you know, 43:49 I felt like if God forgave me... 43:51 Amen. 43:52 How could I not forgive my husband? 43:54 And then I just want to do God's will, 43:56 not my own will. 43:57 So... 43:58 You see, I think even forgiveness 44:00 is a gift from God. 44:01 I think it's something that... 44:03 I remember, there's only one time that 44:06 I've ever felt hatred in my heart. 44:08 And as I was praying one night, 44:11 this was someone who put us deeply into debt. 44:13 It was a business partner. 44:15 He threatened my life, 44:17 supposedly had a contract on my life, 44:19 and I'm in Europe, feeling like I'm being chased around. 44:22 Long story short, I'm praying after I got back home safely, 44:27 and saying, "Lord, forgive me in my sins." 44:30 And suddenly what I hear is basically Matthew 6:14-15, 44:35 where He says, "I'll forgive you 44:36 if you'll forgive him." 44:37 And I'm going like, 44:39 "No, no way I'm going to forgive him." 44:42 And so, the Lord and I had this conversation, 44:45 and I said I don't know how. 44:47 And He said, "Pray for his salvation." 44:52 And you know what I said? 44:54 I don't want him to be saved. 44:56 I didn't. 44:57 That's, I actually first time in my life 45:00 had hatred in my heart. 45:01 I didn't care if this man was saved, 45:03 it was like, let him face the other. 45:06 And so finally I told the Lord, 45:09 "Okay, I'll pray for his forgiveness. 45:13 But you know, I don't mean it." 45:14 That's, I mean, 45:16 I may as well confess it because it's in my heart. 45:20 And so I'm praying 45:23 for his forgiveness dutifully every night, 45:26 didn't mean it. 45:28 About two weeks into it, 45:30 I'm praying for this man salvation, 45:33 and I'm in it. 45:36 God had put His love. 45:40 He's shown me this man as God saw him as a lost 45:44 and suffering human. 45:46 And God had poured His love for this man into my heart. 45:50 And you know, the neatest thing, 45:52 and I've used this before, 45:54 but I'm going to put it in here real quickly. 45:55 Because when you were saying like, 45:57 it's like you're saying to them, 45:59 "Well, that's excusing him." 46:01 No, no, no. 46:02 I asked God for an illustration. 46:05 "Lord, explain this." 46:06 Because as soon as I forgave him, 46:09 it was just like this burden rolled off 46:11 of my back, I was freed. 46:14 And I said, "Show me." 46:15 And what God showed me 46:17 was if there's this little mount or hill, 46:20 and there's a stream coming down the hill 46:23 into the valley, well, if you take a wire 46:26 and you anchor it on either side of that stream, 46:28 anybody upstream that throws trash into the stream, 46:33 guess what happens? 46:34 It floats down and it catches on that wire. 46:39 And trash after trash collects around the wire, 46:42 it begins to build up like a beaver 46:45 would build a dam stick by stick, 46:48 it blocks the flow of water. 46:50 And you know what the Lord showed me? 46:52 He said, "Unforgiveness in your heart is 46:55 like that wire." 46:57 And you let all these, you know, 47:00 people say hurtful things. 47:02 They do hurtful things. 47:04 And it begins to collect around that wire 47:06 till you wake up one day, 47:08 and the flow of the Holy Spirit, 47:11 the living water is no longer flowing through you. 47:13 And it's like you forgive him. 47:15 And here it is, again. 47:18 It's like you've opened, so, 47:20 God asks us to forgive even our enemies. 47:24 It's, you know what? 47:25 This guy could have cared less that I forgave him. 47:28 But it made all the difference in the world in my life. 47:31 Amen. Want that water to run for you. 47:34 Amen. All right. 47:36 Whose turn? You want to take one? 47:38 Rise. Rise's turn? 47:40 Whose turn? Okay. 47:41 Matthew 6:13. 47:43 You know, I just had a question 47:45 about this forgiveness thing, if you don't mind. 47:46 Sure. 47:47 'Cause sometimes I think we read this, 47:49 and we're like, God is saying, 47:50 "Oh, if you forgive, then I'll forgive you." 47:54 And I don't think that's what it's saying, is it? 47:56 No. What is it saying? 47:59 It says as we... As. 48:02 Yeah. There is a parallelism there. 48:03 Yeah. 48:04 Yeah, we talked a little bit about... 48:06 About that already, yeah. 48:07 As forgiveness comes into us, it flows out of us to others. 48:09 Yeah. Yeah. 48:10 If we're healthy. 48:12 And you know, there's this thing, 48:14 some people will say, you've already been washed. 48:19 Why do you, I mean, you've confessed your sins, 48:21 you've accepted Christ, 48:22 why do you need to confess daily? 48:26 Why do we need to confess daily? 48:27 You know... 48:30 'Cause we need to confess daily. 48:33 And even Jesus when He was washing the feet, 48:35 and Peter said, "No, no, no, no, 48:37 you'll never wash my feet." 48:38 And He says, "You're washed already." 48:41 But the, how can you say this? 48:44 The defilement of the world gets on our faith. 48:50 We're walking through it, 48:51 we end up seeing things, doing things, 48:54 we need, and, Angela, 48:56 what is 1 John 1:9-10 say? 49:02 Because, it's important that 49:06 we come before the Lord. 49:08 We're washed in the blood 49:10 and justified and acquitted 49:11 from the guilt of our sin, 49:13 but I guarantee we need our feet washed daily. 49:17 What does 1 John 1:9-10 say? 49:20 "If we confess our sins, 49:22 He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins 49:25 and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." 49:28 If we say that we have not sin, 49:30 we make Him a liar and His word is not in us. 49:33 Praise God. 49:35 We can turn to Him to be cleansed day by day. 49:38 Amen. 49:39 And then in Luke, it talks about Mary 49:43 with the alabaster box and it says, verse 7, 49:46 "Wherefore I say unto thee, 49:48 her sins which are many are forgiven, 49:50 for she loved much, 49:52 but to whom little is forgiven, the same love is little." 49:54 And I think that last part of the verse 49:57 gets it correct for us 49:59 and puts it in order that we understand. 50:01 So he says again... 50:02 That's Luke 7:47, one of my favorite verses. 50:04 Yeah. 50:05 "To whom little is forgiven the same loveth little." 50:07 So she backwards, she gave much 50:12 because she loved much or she's forgiven much 50:13 because she loved much, but really, it's, she... 50:16 Received... You're right. 50:17 First. 50:19 Received the love first, 50:20 and then the forgiveness comes out of that. 50:21 Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. 50:23 Okay, now what verse you want me to read? 50:24 Verse 13. Thirteen. 50:26 "And do not lead us into temptation, 50:29 but deliver us from the evil one." 50:32 Amen. So does God ever tempt us? 50:36 No. No. 50:38 What's your justification for saying no? 50:40 So... 50:41 What scripture tells us that? 50:44 Well, James 1. James 1. 50:46 Okay, so yeah, James, 1:13-14. 50:51 You want to read that? Sure. 50:52 And it says, "Let no one say 50:54 when he is tempted, 50:55 I am tempted by God, 50:57 for God cannot be tempted by evil, 50:59 nor does He Himself tempt anyone. 51:02 But each one is tempted 51:03 when he is drawn away 51:05 by his own desires and enticed." 51:08 So He doesn't tempt us, this God allow us to be tested. 51:12 Why? 51:14 To prove what's in us, 51:16 to help us to see what's in us, 51:18 and to develop our characters. 51:19 I mean, there's many reasons 51:21 we can't even talk about them all. 51:22 But I love those verses, 51:23 because they really lay out how it works. 51:26 Every man is tempted 51:27 when he's drawn away of his own desires. 51:28 Yes. 51:30 And that word desire is not 51:31 a negative word through Scripture. 51:32 It's a neutral word. 51:34 You know, Jesus desire to eat the supper with the disciples. 51:38 So it was the same word that was used there. 51:40 But if the desire 51:42 is not in harmony with God's will, 51:43 guess where it's taking us? 51:45 In another direction. 51:46 And so God allows us to face desires that 51:49 may or may not be in harmony with His will. 51:51 What are we going to do with those desires? 51:53 Are we going to surrender them to God? 51:54 Are we going to pray about them? 51:56 Are we going to ask for His lead? 51:57 You know, are we just going to do our desires? 51:58 When Jesus was standing before Herod, 52:00 Herod brought in a bunch of sick people. 52:02 And Jesus' inclination for, you know, 52:05 the last three and a half years is heal, heal, heal. 52:07 And so Satan comes in through Herod and says, 52:10 heal, heal, heal. 52:12 That was his natural desire, that was a good desire, 52:14 but it wasn't God's will. 52:16 It wasn't in harmony with God's will. 52:17 And so that was not the time for him to heal, heal, heal. 52:20 And so with us, we have to be 52:22 so connected with the Holy Spirit. 52:24 We can think, well, that's not a bad thing, 52:26 turning those stones into bread, 52:27 that's not a bad thing. 52:28 I'm hungry, we're hungry, right? 52:30 But then there's other times 52:31 when Jesus does actually multiply the bread 52:33 and the loaves and the fishes, 52:35 and it's God's will, and it's a desire that He has. 52:37 So God lets us be tempted in the sense that 52:40 our desires are brought up. 52:42 And then we ask the question 52:43 is this desire in harmony with God's will? 52:45 And you really don't know, 52:46 our responsibility is to step out in faith 52:48 and do the very best we can. 52:51 Okay, it doesn't promise great results. 52:55 Ours is to be faithful to do it. 52:59 All right. It's amazing. 53:01 Okay, we want to continue that just a second. 53:04 But here's what we'll just say. 53:07 God always provides a way out. 53:09 The Bible tells us He tests us, allows us to be tested, 53:13 so that our faith will be purified, 53:16 and it will be genuine as gold. 53:18 And if you don't ever face a test, 53:20 you don't even realize what's in your own heart. 53:23 But He always provides a way out according to 53:25 1 Corinthians 10:13. 53:28 And James goes on in Chapter 4 53:30 just to say, resist the devil, 53:33 you draw near to God, 53:35 He draws near to you, resist the devil, 53:36 and he will flee. 53:38 So, let's look though, 53:39 'cause we've only got like three minutes left. 53:42 So let's look at the conclusion 53:44 because this is the last petition. 53:47 Here, He's centered our hearts on God, we're praising God, 53:52 then we've looked at how we need to be humble, 53:55 how we need to be forgiven, 53:57 how we need to avoid, depend on God to avoid evil. 54:02 But Matthew 6:13, J.D. 54:06 Okay, we've gone through lead us not into temptation. 54:09 This is... Yeah. 54:10 Yes. 54:12 "For Yours is the kingdom 54:13 and the power and glory forever. 54:16 Amen." I can't help it. 54:19 I get so excited when I read that because, 54:22 you know, this is just an affirmation 54:25 of faith in God's power. 54:27 You know, when we recognize how powerful God is, 54:31 and we can just say to Him, 54:33 "Oh, Lord, Yours is the power, 54:37 the power that is going to change my heart, 54:40 the power that's going to 54:42 change the dynamics of a marriage. 54:46 The power of love that will 54:49 eventually change the world." 54:51 Somebody jump in there. 54:53 Well, what I see is we started with our Father 54:56 which separated Him from everybody else, 54:58 and then we end and what I'm giving you is, 55:02 for Yours is the kingdom and the power 55:06 and the glory forever. 55:07 So you tie those in, 55:08 He starts off as the creator of the universe. 55:11 And because He is the creator of the universe, 55:13 He ends being the creator of the universe. 55:15 Yeah, God knows that 55:17 His is the kingdom and the power and the glory. 55:19 We're not telling Him anything He doesn't know. 55:20 Exactly. But do I know it? 55:22 And do I live on that truth and that faith? 55:25 Is that my foundation? 55:27 You know, for everything I do? 55:28 Because if did live on that, man, some of that power, 55:31 and I'd be experiencing that in my life. 55:33 Yeah. Amen. 55:35 And I want, Angela, would you read Ephesians 3:16 for us? 55:40 Because, you know, Peter tells us that 55:44 God is hit by His divine power. 55:46 He's given us exceedingly great 55:49 and precious promises that through Him we can become 55:54 partakers of His divine nature. 55:56 But how do we get this power? 55:58 How do we even recognize? 56:00 'Cause, like we said earlier, praise isn't changing God, 56:04 it changes us. 56:05 How do we get this power? 56:07 What is Ephesians 3:16 say? 56:10 "That He would grant you, 56:11 according to the riches of His glory, 56:13 to be strengthened with might through His Spirit 56:17 in the inner man." 56:18 So how do we get the power, Ian? 56:21 Holy Spirit. 56:23 Through the Spirit Through the Holy Spirit. 56:25 How do we get the Holy Spirit? 56:27 We pray and ask. Right? 56:30 Barely ask. 56:32 Amen. Keep on asking. 56:35 Seeking, keep on seeking. 56:36 Knocking, keep on knocking. 56:38 And how much more will heavenly Father 56:41 give us the Holy Spirit, 56:42 you know, if we ask Him? 56:44 Amen. 56:45 Quick thoughts, we got 20 seconds. 56:47 All right. 56:48 I've just, you know, 56:50 this was the first time that I studied this prayer. 56:52 And it's just completely changed 56:55 how I look at my prayer life with God and just... 56:57 Praise God. 56:58 It's just a way to strengthen my relationship 57:00 and our relationship with Him. 57:01 Amen. Praise, God. 57:03 Oh, we're so grateful that you did. 57:05 Ten seconds. 57:07 I love the fact that this is an outline of prayer. 57:10 It helps us, it directs us, 57:12 it reminds us that this world is temporary 57:15 and the evil in this world is not God's kingdom, 57:17 but His kingdom is coming. 57:18 Amen and amen. 57:20 Thank you all so much for being here 57:21 for all of your wonderful input. 57:24 Thank you so much for joining us at home. 57:26 And our prayer is that 57:28 the grace of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, 57:30 the love of the Father, 57:32 and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit 57:34 will be with you today, and always. 57:37 Happy Sabbath. Amen. |
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