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Benjamin Ng

The Lord’s Prayer

Father in heaven, thank you so much for this time that we have to come and study together.

And I pray that you would please grace us with thy presence.

Be with us, O Lord, lead us with thy Spirit.

And Father, May your words come alive to us this evening.

Guide us thoroughly with your Spirit we pray in Jesus' name.

Just before I close my eyes there I saw my good friend Panna from Zimbabwe in the US there, my first roommate when I was at Heartland.

So good to see you online with us, brother.

Happy Sabbath, even though it's not Sabbath over there yet.

But we are going to continue studying Matthew chapter 6 this evening.

So let's turn our Bibles to Matthew chapter 6.

Now do you remember what we studied last week?

We studied about alms, we studied about fasting, we studied about praying and how we should do all these things in secret and as we see in secret the Lord will reward us openly or as we do it in secret the Lord will reward us openly.

Or as we do it in secret, the Lord will reward us openly.

And there was some text that I missed intentionally because I wanted to study this section by itself.

Let's turn the Bibles to Matthew chapter 6 and we're starting in verse 9.

Matthew 6 verse 9, After this manner therefore pray ye, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, in earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever.

Look, we are studying the most famous prayer in the world.

I didn't go to an Adventist school growing up, but the school that I attended somehow was Christian and every week we would recite this prayer.

It's something that I memorized at a very young age, something we generally memorize faster than we memorize the 10 Commandments, isn't it?

But you know, I pray that as we go through this we will be able to see something fresh this evening.

And so look, I want to break this down into sections as we study this prayer together.

It starts off with our Father which art in heaven.

We come through the name of Jesus, but We actually address the Father in heaven.

We pray in his name, but we go to the Father in heaven to have our prayers answered.

Yes, I know that while He was on earth, He couldn't tell them to address Him, He had to address the Father, but even then, even now, Jesus Christ is our intercessor.

He intercedes on behalf of us to the Father.

And if we call God our Father, what does that imply about our relation to Jesus?

Let's turn the Bibles to Hebrews chapter 2 and verse 11.

For those that are joining, we are studying Matthew chapter 6, the Lord's Prayer, but we are now in Hebrews chapter 2 and verse 11.

The Bible says, For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of 1, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren." Friends, the fact that we call Jesus, our Father in heaven, God the Father, it implies that Jesus Christ is our brother.

He's the 1 that speaks on behalf of the whole human family to the Father in heaven.

And so what a wonderful reminder that we have that God is our Father and Jesus is our elder brother.

It says here, Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.

Friends, do you know that God's name is holy?

It's so holy that the third commandment reminds us to not take His name in vain.

We got to remember that God is holy, His name is holy, that angels shield their faces in heaven when they call out His name.

And even though he is our savior and he is a friend, like how he spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friends, brothers and sisters, I would like to remind you this evening that He is also the King of Kings, the Creator of the universe, and that we ought to remember to keep His name holy, that we ought to address Him properly, to give Him the respect that is due to his name and his position and who he is.

So friends, I want to remind us that as we start our prayers, we got to remember that God our Father in heaven is holy, very holy, not just His being, but His name as well is very holy.

But let's continue, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

We are praying for God's will to be done on earth just like it is in heaven.

When it comes to the will of God, Let's turn our Bibles to 2 quick texts, 1 Thessalonians 4 and verse 3.

Please, turn with me in your Bibles to 1 Thessalonians 4 and verse 3.

1 Thessalonians 4 and verse 3, the Bible says, for this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication.

Friends, the Bible says that if you're praying for God's will to be done on this earth today, you are praying for a sanctified life.

Let's turn the Bibles to Psalms 40, verse 8.

When we are praying, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven, what are we praying for?

I delight to do thy will, O my God, yea, thy law is within mine heart.

Friends when we are praying for God's will to be done on earth just like it is in heaven we are not praying for holy angels to do the work of protecting, to do the work of ministering.

We're not praying for God to pour out his spirit upon the whole world while we sit here in listless idleness.

No, friends, when we pray the Lord's prayer, Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.

Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Friends, what we are praying for is God to live through us for that day.

What we are praying for is for his law to be written in our hearts.

What we are praying for is that law would be written there so clearly that we would live a sanctified life.

That no matter what we do for that day, that wherever we go, the example that we set starting with our children in our home, the wife, the husband, whoever we stay with, our roommates, that they would see a sanctified life.

What we are praying for is not for the empowerment of missionaries out there.

What we are not praying for is the pastor to do his work better or the Bible worker to have more Bible studies and convert more souls.

When we are praying thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven we are praying that we would be part of the closing work in these last days and the only way that we can begin is to live a sanctified life.

So allow God to give him permission to write his law in our hearts and in our minds.

As we pray for God's will to be done, we are praying for the experience of the new covenant in Hebrews 10, verse 16.

The covenant that God would make with us after those days, He would write His law in our hearts and our minds.

We are praying that we would be a blessing.

Yes, physical bread, but also spiritual bread.

Well, friends, if we go turn our Bible, so John chapter 17 and verse 17, let's turn the Bible, so John chapter 17 and verse 17, then this connection is much clearer than just thank you Lord for the food and bless the food, amen.

We are praying more than just physical bread.

We are praying for God's will to be done on earth as it is in heaven.

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