The Lord's Prayer (Our Father)
Weekly Reading
Monday: Numbers 4:21-49, Acts 1
Tuesday: Numbers 5, Acts 2
Wednesday: Acts 3
Thursday: Numbers 6, Acts 4
Friday: Numbers 7
Saturday: Psalm 71-72
Sunday: Ezra 5-10, Nehemiah 1-4
Tuesday: Numbers 5, Acts 2
Wednesday: Acts 3
Thursday: Numbers 6, Acts 4
Friday: Numbers 7
Saturday: Psalm 71-72
Sunday: Ezra 5-10, Nehemiah 1-4
Sermon Notes
Key Passage: Matthew 6:7-14
2 Corinthians 6:18
Luke 15:20-24
1. Relationship
2. Reverence
3. Reliance
4. Relinquishment
5. Rescue
"Our whole life is found in those three petitions, and that is what makes this prayer so utterly amazing. In such a small compass our Lord has covered the whole life of the believer in every respect. Our physical needs, our mental needs and, of course, our spiritual needs are included. The body is remembered, the soul is remembered and the spirit is remembered… Our Lord gives us these [petitions] and we fill in the details, but it is important for us to be sure that all our petitions should belong under one or other of the headings." -Martyn Lloyd-Jones
"Patricius endured six years of this woeful isolation, and by the end of it he had grown from a careless boy to something he would surely never otherwise have become— a holy man, indeed a visionary for whom there was no longer any rigid separation between this world and the next. On his last night as Miliucc's slave, he received in sleep his first otherworld experience. A mysterious voice said to him: "Your hungers are rewarded: You are going home." -Scholar Thomas Cahill
"Why should we ask that we may be kept from evil? For the great and wonderful reason that our fellowship with God may never be broken. If a man merely wants to be holy as such, there is something wrong with him. Our supreme desire should be to have a right relationship with God, to know Him, to have uninterrupted fellowship and communion with Him. That is why we pray this prayer, that nothing may come between us and the brightness and the radiance and the glory of our Father which is in heaven. 'Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.'" -Martyn Lloyd-Jones
2 Corinthians 6:18
Luke 15:20-24
1. Relationship
2. Reverence
3. Reliance
4. Relinquishment
5. Rescue
"Our whole life is found in those three petitions, and that is what makes this prayer so utterly amazing. In such a small compass our Lord has covered the whole life of the believer in every respect. Our physical needs, our mental needs and, of course, our spiritual needs are included. The body is remembered, the soul is remembered and the spirit is remembered… Our Lord gives us these [petitions] and we fill in the details, but it is important for us to be sure that all our petitions should belong under one or other of the headings." -Martyn Lloyd-Jones
"Patricius endured six years of this woeful isolation, and by the end of it he had grown from a careless boy to something he would surely never otherwise have become— a holy man, indeed a visionary for whom there was no longer any rigid separation between this world and the next. On his last night as Miliucc's slave, he received in sleep his first otherworld experience. A mysterious voice said to him: "Your hungers are rewarded: You are going home." -Scholar Thomas Cahill
"Why should we ask that we may be kept from evil? For the great and wonderful reason that our fellowship with God may never be broken. If a man merely wants to be holy as such, there is something wrong with him. Our supreme desire should be to have a right relationship with God, to know Him, to have uninterrupted fellowship and communion with Him. That is why we pray this prayer, that nothing may come between us and the brightness and the radiance and the glory of our Father which is in heaven. 'Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.'" -Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Discussion Questions
3DQ - 3 discipleship questions to ask each other: What is God saying to you? What are you going to do about it? How can I help?
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