1 00:00:02,360 --> 00:00:09,560 As we come to our conclusion of our seventeen week series on the 2 00:00:09,560 --> 00:00:14,800 Lord's Prayer, as some of you are thinking, that is 16 more in 3 00:00:14,800 --> 00:00:18,560 a row than I've ever heard on the Lord's Prayer, and that's 4 00:00:18,560 --> 00:00:20,000 OK. That's OK. 5 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:25,280 I'm also aware that the Lord is warning us about wordiness this 6 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:30,360 morning as we come into this final message in this series. 7 00:00:31,480 --> 00:00:34,560 All joking aside, I've enjoyed very much engaging with many of 8 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:39,440 you about this series, and some of the most striking comments to 9 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:43,280 me have been from people who have, who are now or have in 10 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:47,280 their past been going through very deep water, whether that's 11 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:50,920 challenging trials or the waters of grief. 12 00:00:51,680 --> 00:00:55,760 How important this prayer is to your devotional life and to your 13 00:00:55,760 --> 00:00:59,360 processing of your grief, really to clinging to the Lord and 14 00:00:59,360 --> 00:01:00,400 faith. And that's what we're going to 15 00:01:00,400 --> 00:01:03,840 talk about this morning. I thought that it would be good 16 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:06,480 for us to do a review, sort of fly over of the whole series 17 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:10,280 this morning and then try to land the plane as we conclude on 18 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:12,720 this last and very pregnant word. 19 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:14,920 Amen. What does that mean? 20 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:18,880 We'll talk about that, but first of all, to remind us of why we 21 00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:20,640 even did this in the first place. 22 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:26,440 In my beginnings as lead pastor at UCC, I wanted to start off in 23 00:01:26,440 --> 00:01:30,040 the spring giving series on the basics. 24 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:35,200 And for centuries, the church has used the Apostles Creed, the 25 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:39,360 10 Commandments, and the Lord's Prayer as a very important way 26 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:43,400 to teach the basics of biblical Christianity and deep 27 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:45,960 discipleship. You can think of this, these 28 00:01:45,960 --> 00:01:51,640 three also as a way of a believing, a way of behaving and 29 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:55,920 a way of communing, communing with our Lord, things that are 30 00:01:55,920 --> 00:01:59,200 very important for our Christian journey with God. 31 00:02:00,720 --> 00:02:04,680 Again, to review, we looked very carefully at the opening our 32 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:06,920 Father in heaven. We spent several weeks just on 33 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:11,320 talking about what this means that the word father implies a 34 00:02:11,320 --> 00:02:16,360 family. It is a word of family and it 35 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:20,400 also implies if you are going to learn about Christianity, the 36 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:25,080 Christian God, which is the Holy Trinity, the Father, the Son and 37 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:28,240 the Holy Spirit. And the only way we can have a 38 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:32,040 relationship with God and call him Father is through a theology 39 00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:34,920 of adoption. Made possible because of God's 40 00:02:34,920 --> 00:02:39,000 will, made possible because of the mission, the person and the 41 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:43,200 work of his Son, Jesus Christ. Also, God, the God man by the 42 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:46,680 Holy Spirit, who is called the Spirit of adoption. 43 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:49,880 So we really focused in on that first word and talked about 44 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:54,920 prayer being a family affair. We cannot even pray without the 45 00:02:54,920 --> 00:02:58,560 good news of the gospel rescuing us from ourselves in order to 46 00:02:58,560 --> 00:03:03,400 restore relationship with God. Focused on Ephesians to build 47 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:08,040 out that theology. We also consider how important 48 00:03:08,040 --> 00:03:13,400 this first word is, which is a plural possessive pronoun that 49 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:17,720 reminds us that we are a part of a family, That indeed God is not 50 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:23,760 just adopting us as individuals, but he's adopting a whole group 51 00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:27,520 of people to be related to one another as brothers and sisters 52 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:32,000 in Christ his church. Very important to remember that 53 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:35,880 we pray this not only as individuals but as family 54 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:40,480 members of God's family. We also looked at this term 55 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:45,000 Father and continue to think about what this means with this 56 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:48,160 close association with heaven, our Father in heaven. 57 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:52,360 And we went to Isaiah 40 to talk about the fact that God is both 58 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:55,480 very close and intimate with us as a father. 59 00:03:55,800 --> 00:04:00,040 Indeed, He knows the number of hairs on our heads, which is a 60 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:03,640 far smaller number for me than it is for many of you. 61 00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:09,400 God be praised and yet he is also in this intimacy, the one 62 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:11,560 who made the heavens and the earth. 63 00:04:11,880 --> 00:04:15,560 He is the one that made the farthest galaxies and he's he's 64 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:19,399 has the the whole oceans in the palm of his hands and the the 65 00:04:19,399 --> 00:04:21,800 size of him. His immensity is beyond 66 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:24,760 comprehending. And yet this God, this big God 67 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:29,000 is also intimate and close with us because of the gospel. 68 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:33,280 These two things, his, his intimacy and his greatness are 69 00:04:33,280 --> 00:04:37,120 hard, hard to hold together. But the Bible does, our songs 70 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:38,360 do. And it is important for us to 71 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:42,040 know that he is not only a loving Father who is willing to 72 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:44,960 help us, He is also the maker of heaven and earth. 73 00:04:44,960 --> 00:04:48,920 And he's able to do the same. He is able to help us. 74 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:52,600 So with that framework, that theology which is grand and 75 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:56,160 beautiful and took weeks to unpack, we can now begin to make 76 00:04:56,160 --> 00:04:59,800 our petitions known to God. And we can notice that the 77 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:02,840 Lord's Prayer is presented as six petitions. 78 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:07,920 The first three are God centered and the latter 3 are according 79 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:11,960 to our needs. The order is very important to 80 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:16,800 getting our hearts tuned to God's heart, very important to 81 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:21,760 pray through His agenda before we pray through our needs. 82 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:25,320 They're very important for us to pray for His, His name to be 83 00:05:25,320 --> 00:05:27,160 honored and glorified throughout the earth. 84 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:31,360 That His Kingdom would continue to advance and come someday and 85 00:05:31,360 --> 00:05:35,480 that his His will would be done completely and eagerly here on 86 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:39,240 earth and even in our own lives, as much as it's done with 87 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:43,600 eagerness and completeness by the angels in heaven themselves. 88 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:46,760 And so we prayed through these and we worked through these and 89 00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:49,200 thought through these and hopefully those have settled 90 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:53,280 down deep in our hearts as a, as a way for us to, to pray not 91 00:05:53,280 --> 00:05:56,920 only in our private lives, but also in public. 92 00:05:57,960 --> 00:06:00,560 The latter 3 petitions now focus on our needs. 93 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:02,360 Now we're ready. We're ready to pray for our 94 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:03,920 needs. And we talked about our daily 95 00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:08,120 needs that we pray and ask God for daily grace for the daily 96 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:10,040 needs. He tends to give us grace like 97 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:13,960 manna one day at a time. We also talked about our need 98 00:06:13,960 --> 00:06:18,000 for forgiveness, not only our vertical forgiveness, our pardon 99 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:22,720 from God, but also to work consistently in life by 100 00:06:22,720 --> 00:06:26,520 forgiving others around us as they sin against us. 101 00:06:26,840 --> 00:06:30,600 One of the ways we show that we're a forgiven person is that 102 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:35,440 we become forgiving people, and that is hard work, particularly 103 00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:39,400 for very difficult things. And like the manna coming one 104 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:43,240 day at a time, we pray daily for the the strength to forgive yet 105 00:06:43,240 --> 00:06:45,640 again. That thing that has been done to 106 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:49,640 us didn't help us to remember to be quick with this as much as we 107 00:06:49,640 --> 00:06:53,480 can. The final set of petition or the 108 00:06:53,480 --> 00:06:56,040 third petition in this latter set has to do with protection. 109 00:06:56,440 --> 00:07:01,040 We pray against evil, we pray against the evil. 1 and we ask 110 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:04,280 the Lord to guard us and to guard our families and to guard 111 00:07:04,280 --> 00:07:07,640 our communities. So we worked our way through 112 00:07:07,640 --> 00:07:09,880 those, thought carefully about each of those. 113 00:07:09,880 --> 00:07:13,400 And then we got into the last section, which is not in the 114 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:16,560 text of your Bibles, but you'll see it down in the footnote. 115 00:07:16,840 --> 00:07:21,800 This doxology, this glory word, this word of praise, the way the 116 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:25,440 church has been in public worship concluding the Lord's 117 00:07:25,440 --> 00:07:30,720 Prayer for centuries upon centuries, that as we go into 118 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:33,880 the last things, we, we just thank God for what He has done. 119 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:36,640 And we noticed that this also, we broke this out into 3 120 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:39,600 sections. First we thanked God and praised 121 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:43,120 Him for His Kingdom and power. And we also the second week 122 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:47,520 talked about His glory being our chief end and our prime purpose. 123 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:50,920 And then finally this morning I'm going to talk briefly with 124 00:07:50,920 --> 00:07:53,160 you about this word. Amen. 125 00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:58,440 Amen is a Hebrew word actually, and it comes through into the 126 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:02,000 Greek New Testament as Amen. They just bring it right through 127 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:05,320 from Hebrew into Greek as Amen. And in English we've done the 128 00:08:05,320 --> 00:08:07,400 same thing. So it's kind of a nice little 129 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:10,480 tradition we have going. It's a Hebrew word that we tack 130 00:08:10,480 --> 00:08:17,560 on to the end of our prayers. It means it's true. 131 00:08:18,960 --> 00:08:23,880 It means may it be so it means don't you agree? 132 00:08:25,320 --> 00:08:28,720 And we use this all the time, even in our normal way of 133 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:31,640 talking. You hear people say in Spanish 134 00:08:31,640 --> 00:08:34,840 verdad, right. Verdad means is it true? 135 00:08:34,840 --> 00:08:35,760 True. Do you agree? 136 00:08:35,760 --> 00:08:37,440 True. In English, you hear people 137 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:41,919 saying, you know, you, you know, you say something, you know, you 138 00:08:41,919 --> 00:08:45,160 know, you trying to get people to say, yeah, I know and agree. 139 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:46,160 Yeah, but we do. We do this. 140 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:49,120 Notice that it's exclamatory, right? 141 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:52,720 You got this punctuation on there that lets you know it is a 142 00:08:52,920 --> 00:08:57,040 it is a Hardy thing to say. It is a firm agreement and 143 00:08:57,040 --> 00:08:58,560 endorsement. Yeah, I'm in. 144 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:01,640 Amen. That's right. 145 00:09:01,840 --> 00:09:05,760 Preach it. Miles of babes and infants. 146 00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:07,920 Praise God. Amen. 147 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:11,920 Thank you, Liz, we notice it all through scripture. 148 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:15,240 I will not regale you with text after text after text. 149 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:16,360 I'm going to give you some this morning. 150 00:09:16,360 --> 00:09:19,080 They're important, but it's all through your Bible. 151 00:09:19,320 --> 00:09:21,640 Lately in my devotions, I've been going slowly through 152 00:09:21,640 --> 00:09:24,600 Matthew in the Greek because I want to see more what's going 153 00:09:24,600 --> 00:09:26,480 on. And it's amazing how often 154 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:30,080 Jesus, when he really wants to emphasize, will say Amen, Amen, 155 00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:33,840 truly, truly, I'm I'm real listening now. 156 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:36,960 Listen to me now when he's about to really emphasize something 157 00:09:36,960 --> 00:09:43,320 that he wants them to remember you have in Psalm 106 verse 48. 158 00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:47,360 Blessed be the Lord. This is a word of doxology, a 159 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:49,640 song of doxology. Blessed be the Lord, the God of 160 00:09:49,640 --> 00:09:52,960 Israel from everlasting to everlasting and let all the 161 00:09:52,960 --> 00:09:56,720 people say good job, praise the Lord. 162 00:09:56,720 --> 00:10:00,680 See how exclamatory that is. The new English translation 163 00:10:00,680 --> 00:10:06,120 brings out this agreement thing with a we agree, praise the 164 00:10:06,120 --> 00:10:08,160 Lord. So when you hear people give a 165 00:10:08,160 --> 00:10:10,960 hearty Amen, they're they're lending their their whole 166 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:16,800 reputation to the thing that you're saying, punctuating it 167 00:10:16,800 --> 00:10:22,080 with a a hearty affirmation. We're supposed to do this. 168 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:23,640 We're supposed to do this in public. 169 00:10:23,960 --> 00:10:26,320 It's interesting that Paul in a couple of places in the New 170 00:10:26,320 --> 00:10:29,080 Testament kind of assumes that it happens in church. 171 00:10:29,480 --> 00:10:32,480 One place is in First Corinthians chapter 14, verse 172 00:10:32,480 --> 00:10:37,240 16, this context GR Paul is giving out instructions for 173 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:40,440 corporate worship. He's concerned in Corinth about 174 00:10:40,440 --> 00:10:43,920 people just talking over each other and not really caring 175 00:10:43,920 --> 00:10:46,200 about the people around them to make sure that they understand 176 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:48,560 what's happening. And so he asked this question, 177 00:10:48,560 --> 00:10:52,800 how can anyone say Amen to your Thanksgiving when he does not 178 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:57,040 know what you are saying? Paul is concerned about order 179 00:10:57,040 --> 00:11:01,080 and accessibility in corporate worship so that we can agree 180 00:11:01,080 --> 00:11:03,760 verbally with one another. Amen. 181 00:11:04,520 --> 00:11:09,600 Now I'm going to switch over and talk a little bit about faith, 182 00:11:09,920 --> 00:11:13,600 because what I think's going on when you give a hearty Amen is 183 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:18,000 that you're giving voice to some aspect of your faith. 184 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:22,600 Essentially by saying Amen, you're saying I believe that I 185 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:26,560 affirm that I want to live as though that's true Amen. 186 00:11:26,880 --> 00:11:29,480 So we got to talk about faith for a moment. 187 00:11:31,040 --> 00:11:33,800 Hebrews 11, verse 6, verse 6 says this. 188 00:11:34,600 --> 00:11:37,320 And without faith it is impossible to please him. 189 00:11:37,840 --> 00:11:41,760 For whoever would draw near to God must believe that He exists 190 00:11:42,160 --> 00:11:45,000 and that He rewards those who seek Him. 191 00:11:45,440 --> 00:11:48,080 Very important doctrines of faith. 192 00:11:48,080 --> 00:11:51,240 What is faith? How does faith work with prayer? 193 00:11:51,360 --> 00:11:53,360 And now we're entering into that place. 194 00:11:53,840 --> 00:11:56,520 Faith is the breath of your prayer. 195 00:11:56,640 --> 00:11:59,720 Your prayers are the breath of your faith. 196 00:11:59,920 --> 00:12:03,440 Faith and prayer are very, very closely related. 197 00:12:04,680 --> 00:12:06,760 Before I go a little further with this, we need to just 198 00:12:06,760 --> 00:12:09,280 define faith a little bit more and a little bit better. 199 00:12:09,680 --> 00:12:13,560 And I gave you some English words on this next slide. 200 00:12:13,560 --> 00:12:16,400 But also if you like other languages and you think that's 201 00:12:16,400 --> 00:12:20,520 easier to learn some of the theological words that go with 202 00:12:20,520 --> 00:12:23,560 this, I've put those up there for some of you who like that 203 00:12:23,560 --> 00:12:26,040 kind of thing that the rest of you can completely ignore it. 204 00:12:27,280 --> 00:12:31,360 There are three aspects when we teach about the definition of 205 00:12:31,360 --> 00:12:35,840 faith and the aspects of faith, we like to talk about 3 aspects. 206 00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:39,640 1 is knowledge. The second is ascent or 207 00:12:39,640 --> 00:12:42,800 agreement, and the third is trust. 208 00:12:43,320 --> 00:12:44,720 Third is trust. It's going to be hard to 209 00:12:44,720 --> 00:12:47,440 understand, but I like to illustrate with airplanes. 210 00:12:48,680 --> 00:12:53,200 OK, imagine you got yourself in a time machine and you went back 211 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:56,880 in time and you went back to to a time and a place before 212 00:12:56,880 --> 00:12:59,000 airplanes. And you're trying to explain 213 00:12:59,440 --> 00:13:02,760 from the future to these people in the past that in the future, 214 00:13:03,240 --> 00:13:06,280 people are going to be able to fly through the air in these 215 00:13:06,280 --> 00:13:09,200 special machines called airplanes and in helicopters. 216 00:13:09,760 --> 00:13:14,480 And you will probably be met by this person with disbelief. 217 00:13:15,360 --> 00:13:18,000 And you can argue and you can talk, and maybe you could 218 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:21,520 eventually convince one of them. Yeah, OK, I understand what 219 00:13:21,520 --> 00:13:23,360 you're saying. I think and kind of 220 00:13:23,640 --> 00:13:26,680 intellectually agree with you that, yeah, maybe people could 221 00:13:26,680 --> 00:13:29,120 fly if they had the right thing. Right. 222 00:13:29,640 --> 00:13:31,480 But maybe then you want to really kind of prove it. 223 00:13:31,480 --> 00:13:32,880 You really want to get them to believe. 224 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:35,520 And so you do a demonstration because your time machine is 225 00:13:35,520 --> 00:13:37,760 also a flying machine. So you say, OK, I'm going to get 226 00:13:37,760 --> 00:13:38,840 in the fly. I'm going to get in The Time 227 00:13:38,840 --> 00:13:40,800 Machine. I'm just going to show you how 228 00:13:40,800 --> 00:13:41,760 it flies. You're going to see. 229 00:13:41,760 --> 00:13:43,280 And then I'm going to land and you're going to see and you're 230 00:13:43,280 --> 00:13:45,440 going to you're going to then you're going to really believe. 231 00:13:45,440 --> 00:13:48,320 You're going to have a sense, you're going to agree with me 232 00:13:48,440 --> 00:13:50,960 that humans can fly. You just saw, saw me do it. 233 00:13:50,960 --> 00:13:54,920 But then there's a third level of faith, which actually has to 234 00:13:54,920 --> 00:13:57,680 do with will you stake your life on it? 235 00:13:59,680 --> 00:14:02,960 Whole different matter to think, yeah, intellectually people can 236 00:14:02,960 --> 00:14:06,000 fly in planes or agree. Yeah, I agree with you. 237 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:07,960 They can fly a place. Whole different matter to get on 238 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:11,520 the plane, strap yourself in the seat and trust your fates to 239 00:14:11,520 --> 00:14:16,040 whoever's driving. And so when we talk about faith, 240 00:14:16,040 --> 00:14:18,360 saving faith, we just say you got to, you got to know 241 00:14:18,360 --> 00:14:21,800 something about the gospel. Then you have to agree that it's 242 00:14:21,800 --> 00:14:23,240 true. You have to have a cent. 243 00:14:23,440 --> 00:14:27,560 But then saving faith is a trusting faith, a submitting 244 00:14:27,560 --> 00:14:31,360 faith, a living out as though it is true. 245 00:14:31,360 --> 00:14:33,760 And this is a kind of faith, a biblical faith that is 246 00:14:33,760 --> 00:14:37,200 important. How does it intersect and inform 247 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:39,880 our prayers? Bible teaches that it's 248 00:14:39,880 --> 00:14:43,480 important for us to pray from this faithful frame. 249 00:14:43,680 --> 00:14:47,520 Look at James one. If any of you lacks wisdom, let 250 00:14:47,520 --> 00:14:51,040 him ask God. That's a prayer should be 251 00:14:51,040 --> 00:14:54,080 praying that probably every day. Lord, help me have wisdom. 252 00:14:55,080 --> 00:14:57,640 Let him ask God, who gives generously to all without 253 00:14:57,640 --> 00:14:59,720 reproach. It's a beautiful fatherly thing, 254 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:04,560 and it will be given him. But let him ask in faith with no 255 00:15:04,560 --> 00:15:06,520 doubting. For the one who doubts is like a 256 00:15:06,520 --> 00:15:09,240 wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. 257 00:15:09,240 --> 00:15:12,320 For that person was not supposed you'll receive anything from the 258 00:15:12,320 --> 00:15:14,600 Lord. He is a double minded man, 259 00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:20,320 unstable in all his ways. Now that verse can make it. 260 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:24,280 You feel afraid like, oh, will I ever have enough faith to ask 261 00:15:24,280 --> 00:15:26,520 God? And how will I ever really 262 00:15:26,520 --> 00:15:29,680 receive anything that I need if I can't know for sure if I have 263 00:15:29,680 --> 00:15:31,280 enough faith? And I don't think that's exactly 264 00:15:31,280 --> 00:15:34,120 what James is saying. He says we need to know 265 00:15:34,120 --> 00:15:36,560 something about the character of God, that he knows what we need 266 00:15:36,560 --> 00:15:39,120 and that he's generous. Pray to that guy. 267 00:15:39,440 --> 00:15:42,000 He's going to give you what you need, right? 268 00:15:42,680 --> 00:15:47,640 Also, it's important to note biblically, faith and doubting 269 00:15:47,680 --> 00:15:52,400 are often commingled. They're often together. 270 00:15:52,760 --> 00:15:57,240 Look at this text from Mark 9. His father wants his child to be 271 00:15:57,240 --> 00:16:00,160 healed immediately. The father of the child cried 272 00:16:00,160 --> 00:16:03,320 out and said, I believe, help my unbelief. 273 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:06,600 That is an encouraging verse, isn't it? 274 00:16:07,400 --> 00:16:10,640 Such an encouraging verse. The Lord Himself makes up the 275 00:16:10,640 --> 00:16:14,840 lack and the defects in our broken prayers. 276 00:16:15,400 --> 00:16:20,520 He covers them in blood and the power of the Holy Spirit and and 277 00:16:20,520 --> 00:16:24,880 causes them to be effective and powerful even when our faith is 278 00:16:24,880 --> 00:16:27,480 weak. So may this be our prayer as we 279 00:16:27,480 --> 00:16:31,160 think about our relationship between our faith in God and the 280 00:16:31,160 --> 00:16:34,440 things that we are praying for. When we say Amen, we are trying 281 00:16:34,440 --> 00:16:38,160 to strengthen our own faith, strengthen the faith of those 282 00:16:38,160 --> 00:16:42,400 around us and to believe that which we have prayed about. 283 00:16:44,560 --> 00:16:48,000 Now, what are some pitfalls to prayer? 284 00:16:48,360 --> 00:16:51,120 What are some pitfalls to prayer? 285 00:16:52,480 --> 00:16:55,800 Important thing to think about, the verses that I'm going to go 286 00:16:55,800 --> 00:16:59,200 through now are actually right before the Lord's Prayer if you 287 00:16:59,200 --> 00:17:01,680 have your Bibles, and it's in Matthew chapter 6. 288 00:17:02,440 --> 00:17:08,040 Two important pitfalls that we need to be aware of, defects of 289 00:17:08,040 --> 00:17:13,839 faith, perhaps even unbelief that we need to be aware of as 290 00:17:13,839 --> 00:17:18,240 we conclude this series in the immediate context of the Lord's 291 00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:22,839 Prayer, Matthew chapter 6, beginning in verse 5. 292 00:17:23,640 --> 00:17:27,319 And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. 293 00:17:27,640 --> 00:17:29,800 So the first pitfall is hypocrisy. 294 00:17:30,560 --> 00:17:33,520 For they, the hypocrites, love to stand and pray in the 295 00:17:33,520 --> 00:17:37,120 synagogues and at the street corners that they may be seen by 296 00:17:37,120 --> 00:17:40,920 others. Truly, I say to you, they have 297 00:17:40,920 --> 00:17:44,360 received their reward in the context. 298 00:17:44,360 --> 00:17:48,720 You had professional holy people who had amazing reputations 299 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:52,160 because they could go out in public and make long showy 300 00:17:52,160 --> 00:17:54,840 prayers. Jesus doesn't like this. 301 00:17:54,840 --> 00:17:58,400 He's thinking that is not even prayer at all. 302 00:17:58,480 --> 00:18:01,920 It is performative self seeking nonsense. 303 00:18:02,400 --> 00:18:06,800 His antidote to this type of hypocrisy is secrecy. 304 00:18:07,520 --> 00:18:10,760 If you don't want to be a hypocrite and you have a problem 305 00:18:10,760 --> 00:18:14,640 with trying to perform in your prayers to get people to like 306 00:18:14,640 --> 00:18:17,000 you and think you're good. Jesus says I got the answer. 307 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:21,280 The answer is secrecy. Go practice in private for a 308 00:18:21,280 --> 00:18:25,240 long time before you're ready to come out here and try again in 309 00:18:25,240 --> 00:18:28,320 public. He's not forbidding public 310 00:18:28,320 --> 00:18:31,320 prayer. He's forbidding hypocrisy in 311 00:18:31,320 --> 00:18:34,600 public prayer. But when I but when you pray, 312 00:18:34,600 --> 00:18:39,240 verse 6, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your 313 00:18:39,240 --> 00:18:45,160 father who is in secret and your Father who sees in secret will 314 00:18:45,160 --> 00:18:47,680 reward you. This is a way to grow your 315 00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:50,600 faith, to grow your faith in prayer, to learn how to depend 316 00:18:50,600 --> 00:18:54,000 on the Lord and submission in privacy and secrecy before you 317 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:57,680 go out and attempt to lead others in corporate prayer. 318 00:18:57,680 --> 00:19:02,040 The first pitfall is hypocrisy. The second pitfall is 319 00:19:02,040 --> 00:19:03,720 superstition. Verse 7. 320 00:19:04,400 --> 00:19:09,120 And when you pray, do not keep up empty phrases as the Gentiles 321 00:19:09,120 --> 00:19:12,440 do, for they think that they will be heard for their many 322 00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:15,280 words. Do not be like them, for your 323 00:19:15,280 --> 00:19:19,440 Father knows what you need before you ask Him. 324 00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:24,040 This type of person is just adding words upon words upon 325 00:19:24,040 --> 00:19:27,880 words, particularly words about little details, thinking that 326 00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:32,800 superstitiously I will get God to do what I want by praying all 327 00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:38,240 of these words. Inane babblings about details 328 00:19:39,680 --> 00:19:42,440 and a couple of comments on this. 329 00:19:43,760 --> 00:19:47,360 One is from CS Lewis commenting on this verse. 330 00:19:47,360 --> 00:19:52,520 He says this. We say that we believe God to be 331 00:19:52,520 --> 00:19:55,040 omniscient. That means all knowing. 332 00:19:55,880 --> 00:19:59,800 Yet a great deal of prayer seems to consist of giving him 333 00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:04,280 information. And indeed, we have been 334 00:20:04,280 --> 00:20:10,120 reminded by our Lord to not pray as if we forgot his omniscience. 335 00:20:10,120 --> 00:20:13,320 And then he quotes the verse For your heavenly Father knows you 336 00:20:13,320 --> 00:20:18,080 need all these things. Lewis says this is final against 337 00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:22,200 one very silly sort of prayer. I have heard a man offer a 338 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:26,640 prayer for a sick person which really amounted to a diagnosis, 339 00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:30,520 followed by advice as to how God should treat the patient. 340 00:20:31,360 --> 00:20:33,360 Hilarious. Hilarious. 341 00:20:33,360 --> 00:20:36,320 We're trying to teach God. We're trying to explain things 342 00:20:36,320 --> 00:20:38,160 to God. And Calvin writes this. 343 00:20:38,760 --> 00:20:44,400 Christ does not forbid us to pray long prayers with much 344 00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:49,720 feeling, but He requires that we should not be confident in our 345 00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:55,480 ability to wrest something from God by beating upon His ears 346 00:20:55,480 --> 00:20:59,720 with excessive talkativeness, especially on trivial matters. 347 00:21:00,920 --> 00:21:06,960 This flow of talk, as if He was going to be persuaded as men are 348 00:21:06,960 --> 00:21:10,000 this this talkativeness childishly mocks God. 349 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:13,480 It is no wonder that it is forbidden by the Church, in 350 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:17,520 order that nothing shall resound there except what is earnest and 351 00:21:17,520 --> 00:21:20,440 comes forth from the depths of the heart. 352 00:21:21,040 --> 00:21:24,480 Now before you get too worried about your word count when 353 00:21:24,480 --> 00:21:27,840 you're praying, we need to think about relationship. 354 00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:31,240 These verses make more sense in relationship. 355 00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:34,520 If my children who are some of them are teenagers. 356 00:21:34,520 --> 00:21:42,640 Now we're excessively worried about the food in our home and 357 00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:46,960 we're constantly giving my wife, she does the lion's share, 99.9% 358 00:21:46,960 --> 00:21:49,360 of the food acquisition in our home. 359 00:21:49,360 --> 00:21:52,440 God bless her. She's very worried if something 360 00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:55,360 happens to her that I will try to survive on McDonald's. 361 00:21:56,360 --> 00:21:57,400 She might be right. I don't know. 362 00:21:57,760 --> 00:21:59,560 I think I would get sick of it. It's an ongoing debate. 363 00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:04,760 What if my kids were constantly worried about, did you remember 364 00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:05,960 to get this? Did you remember to get that? 365 00:22:05,960 --> 00:22:07,200 Here's my list. I got another list. 366 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:08,400 Don't forget that. Don't forget this. 367 00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:10,920 And don't forget that at some point, she'd be like, I got it, 368 00:22:11,360 --> 00:22:14,200 I got it. I I've done this a lot. 369 00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:20,280 Thank you. Please show your trust in this 370 00:22:20,280 --> 00:22:24,640 situation so it's not to clamp down and not make them ever want 371 00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:26,520 to talk again. We're supposed to pray, but what 372 00:22:26,520 --> 00:22:32,080 do you really need? Do I really need to give so many 373 00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:35,160 nitty gritty details about all the things to an omniscient God? 374 00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:37,400 No, I do not. He knows what I need before I 375 00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:39,400 ask Him. We're about to go on a trip. 376 00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:40,840 We're going to be gone for a few weeks. 377 00:22:41,040 --> 00:22:44,880 We usually have a prayer before we leave the driveway. 378 00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:46,920 We have a prayer. It's good to have a prayer. 379 00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:51,480 My kids would be annoyed if that prayer went on and on and on, 380 00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:54,960 praying against the potholes and praying about the semis and 381 00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:58,720 praying about, you know, the the traffic and on and on and on and 382 00:22:58,720 --> 00:22:59,760 on. We don't need to do that. 383 00:23:00,360 --> 00:23:05,080 It's fine to just say, Lord keep us safe on the road today. 384 00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:11,120 Luther points out with this, Jesus then demonstrates the very 385 00:23:11,120 --> 00:23:14,080 brevity he's trying to communicate. 386 00:23:14,120 --> 00:23:18,240 Have you ever thought, wow, the Lord's Prayer so short, it's one 387 00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:20,200 of the shortest prayers in all of Scripture? 388 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:24,320 Loser says, yeah, because the problem is if with show offs, 389 00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:27,880 with hypocrisy and people who are superstitious, who are 390 00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:31,840 stacking words on words and words, they need brevity, right? 391 00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:34,960 We still pray, but it needs to be shorter. 392 00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:39,200 Luther says it should be frequent and intense and 393 00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:42,080 authentic. That's much better than long 394 00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:46,000 drawn out and eloquent. Good advice. 395 00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:49,400 Now, I don't also want you to think that people who pray too 396 00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:52,080 long that we're judging you or that there's a problem here, 397 00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:54,200 right? But I also want to say I'm glad 398 00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:57,240 that in the corporate prayers in this church, I know the men who 399 00:23:57,240 --> 00:24:01,960 pray up here and they are coming from a deep well of walking with 400 00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:04,560 the Lord. You learn how to pray in public 401 00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:07,680 by praying in private, and you come in and they're brief. 402 00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:10,240 They're to the point. They're not informing God of 403 00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:13,680 what He needs to know, but are usually thankful and presenting 404 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:16,640 a request in a pattern very similar to the brevity 405 00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:18,920 demonstrated by a Lord in this prayer. 406 00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:21,480 Very helpful, very, very practical. 407 00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:28,520 The Bible says this in Ecclesiastes chapter 5 regarding 408 00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:32,360 corporate worship. Guard your steps when you go to 409 00:24:32,360 --> 00:24:36,840 the House of God to draw a near. To listen is better than to 410 00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:41,520 offer the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know they are 411 00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:44,600 doing evil. Do not be rash with your mouth, 412 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:48,840 nor let your heart be hasty to utter a word before God, for God 413 00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:50,520 is in heaven and you are on earth. 414 00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:57,600 Therefore let your words be few. I need help with this. 415 00:24:57,920 --> 00:24:59,600 I got a lot of words. I'm sorry. 416 00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:01,680 Lord help us. Lord help all of us. 417 00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:06,280 As we're thinking through our Lord's warnings and these 418 00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:09,240 potential pitfalls, I want to end with thinking about Christ 419 00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:13,120 ourself being our amens. We introduced a little bit about 420 00:25:13,120 --> 00:25:15,600 what this word means. Now let's talk about Jesus 421 00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:19,800 himself being our Amen as we land this plane. 422 00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:26,040 Ji Packer in his extremely helpful book, Short, Accessible 423 00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:31,280 Praying the Lord's Prayer, he goes back through the Lord's 424 00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:37,120 Prayer and asks if you and I can give our Amen to that section of 425 00:25:37,120 --> 00:25:39,240 the prayer. So I'm going to lead you through 426 00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:42,120 his words, thinking about giving, whether you're ready to 427 00:25:42,120 --> 00:25:44,120 give your Amen to certain sections. 428 00:25:44,360 --> 00:25:46,680 Some things you may not be ready to give your Amen to. 429 00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:48,840 Some things are going to be seem impossible. 430 00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:52,000 That's on purpose because the impossible things are going to 431 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:56,840 force us in humility to ask God for his strength and to confess 432 00:25:56,840 --> 00:26:01,400 our sins and ask Him to be the one who prays with and for us. 433 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:05,360 So I'll lead you through this and you can hear each part of 434 00:26:05,360 --> 00:26:08,960 the prayer. The traditional doxology, or 435 00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:12,680 this word of praise at the end teaches us to round off the 436 00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:15,920 Lord's Prayer with Amen. This is right. 437 00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:18,720 Amen. Best said loudly and with 438 00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:21,720 emphasis. I love that is our final 439 00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:26,600 profession of having meant what we have said and identifying 440 00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:31,120 completely with the attitudes, hopes, and goals that the Lord's 441 00:26:31,120 --> 00:26:35,720 Prayer expresses. So the fittest way to end, he's 442 00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:38,920 saying, end his book. The fittest way to end these 443 00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:41,720 brief studies in the prayer that takes a lifetime and more to 444 00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:45,200 master is with a checklist of the main items involved. 445 00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:51,040 Therefore, I ask, do you identify with the trust in Jesus 446 00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:54,120 as your own Savior and the faith in God as your own God through 447 00:26:54,120 --> 00:26:57,520 Him, and the recognition of every Christian as your own 448 00:26:57,520 --> 00:27:01,600 brother in God's family that is expressed by the words our 449 00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:07,080 Father? Amen Is the hallowing of God's 450 00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:10,920 name in and through you, whatever that may cost your own 451 00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:15,560 controlling purpose in life. I hope so, Amen. 452 00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:20,320 Do you want to see God triumph in His Kingdom and to see 453 00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:23,640 everything that does not match His perfection come to an end? 454 00:27:24,360 --> 00:27:27,640 Amen. Will you labor and suffer for 455 00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:31,680 the Kingdom, if need be, so as to become its agent, the means 456 00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:36,160 of bringing it into lives and situations where the gates have 457 00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:39,000 been locked against God? Amen. 458 00:27:42,360 --> 00:27:46,440 Do you happily take God's will of command for your rule and 459 00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:50,000 God's will of events for your destiny, knowing by faith that 460 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:53,080 both are supremely good? Lord, help us. 461 00:27:53,120 --> 00:27:55,800 Amen. Is there any matter in which you 462 00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:58,120 are flying in the face of God's will of command? 463 00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:03,040 Places where we're being wilfully disobedient, excusing 464 00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:05,840 ourselves on the grounds of there being other commands that 465 00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:11,240 you faithfully keep. If so, what will you now do 466 00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:12,920 about it? He talks about how the prayer 467 00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:18,080 confronts us, asks us to confess, and He'll even lead us 468 00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:20,480 in these words in a time of confession. 469 00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:24,320 Do you see and know that unless God acts to provide for today's 470 00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:29,120 needs and to and to pardon today's sins and to protect you 471 00:28:29,120 --> 00:28:31,480 in today's temptations, you are lost? 472 00:28:32,120 --> 00:28:35,360 Amen. Do you make it an issue of 473 00:28:35,360 --> 00:28:40,480 conscience never to bear a grudge or cherish bitterness 474 00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:46,200 against anyone, but to show forgiving mercy always because 475 00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:50,200 of the forgiving mercy that God always shows you? 476 00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:54,320 Lord help us. Is there any person whom 477 00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:56,840 hitherto you have refused to forgive for what he or she did 478 00:28:56,840 --> 00:28:58,880 to you? Will you ask the Lord this 479 00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:02,200 moment to help you change your attitude and get right with that 480 00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:05,360 person? Do you make it your habit to 481 00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:07,840 watch and pray against temptation? 482 00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:10,800 Will you make it your habit from now on? 483 00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:17,080 He asks us, Is the Lord's Prayer really in your heart? 484 00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:20,720 Are you honest when you say Amen to it? 485 00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:25,840 His next word is a direct quote from the English Prayer Book. 486 00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:30,400 He's a Anglican minister and in their prayer services, the 487 00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:34,000 congregation will respond with these brief words of confession 488 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:36,320 and contrition. So you're going to see this next 489 00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:38,760 sentence in quotes because it's coming from the prayer book. 490 00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:41,640 It's for the the words of the people in the response to all 491 00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:44,920 these questions. They say, oh God, make clean our 492 00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:49,600 hearts within us and take not thy Holy Spirit from us. 493 00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:52,160 They're pulling directly from Psalm 51 there. 494 00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:56,480 And then Packer will end with his own prayer. 495 00:29:56,840 --> 00:30:02,080 Lord, teach me how to pray by teaching me how to live for 496 00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:04,280 Jesus sake. And there's that word again, 497 00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:08,760 Amen. May it be so. 498 00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:14,200 It can only be so through Christ our Amen, which comes so clearly 499 00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:18,000 to us from Second Corinthians chapter 1, beginning in verse 500 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:20,600 19. For the Son of God, Jesus 501 00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:25,120 Christ, whom we proclaimed among you Sylvanus and Timothy and I 502 00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:29,080 was not yes and no, but in Him it is always yes. 503 00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:30,560 He's talking about Christ's faithfulness. 504 00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:32,600 He's not flaky. Neither are the apostles. 505 00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:37,440 For all the promises of God find their yes in Him. 506 00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:44,200 That is why it is through Him that we utter our Amen to God 507 00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:46,320 for His glory. Your faith may be weak. 508 00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:49,360 There's a big Amen at the end of your prayer, and it's Jesus 509 00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:53,840 Christ the righteous, and it is God who establishes us with you 510 00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:58,120 in Christ and has anointed us, and who has also put His seal on 511 00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:01,440 us and given us His Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee. 512 00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:04,480 Besides this big Amen, which is Jesus Christ, there's the 513 00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:08,240 anointing of the Holy Spirit who groans and utters prayers on our 514 00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:11,280 behalf even when we're so full of grief we can't do anything 515 00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:15,320 but cry. When our our hearts are cracked, 516 00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:20,280 we are shattered and we moan out to God by the Spirit. 517 00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:29,200 ABBA, help me man who has also put his seal on us and given us 518 00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:33,840 his spirit in our hearts as a guarantee it will happen. 519 00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:38,520 Amen. So I don't know what your 520 00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:41,520 experience is. I don't know where you're at 521 00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:45,800 right now. Our community is wracked in 522 00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:50,040 grief right now, even as we're trying to celebrate graduations. 523 00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:58,610 We are hurting. And all I know how to say as 524 00:31:58,610 --> 00:32:01,810 your pastor is to do what I'm doing is just try to model and 525 00:32:01,810 --> 00:32:04,930 follow the all that are better than me at this is to cling to 526 00:32:04,970 --> 00:32:09,490 Jesus as he clings to us. I'm so thankful for the the life 527 00:32:09,490 --> 00:32:13,050 and the ministry of Rich Mullins, who is now with Jesus. 528 00:32:14,970 --> 00:32:18,250 Because when my faith is weak and I feel fragile, I just 529 00:32:18,370 --> 00:32:20,770 resonate so much with the words from this song. 530 00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:26,400 And even the melody that he uses is so is so prayerful and achy. 531 00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:28,360 But it sounds like this. I'm not going to sing it to you, 532 00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:30,320 but I'm just going to read it to you. 533 00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:40,020 Well, sometimes my life just don't make sense at all when the 534 00:32:40,020 --> 00:32:44,700 mountains look so big and my faith just seems so small. 535 00:32:47,860 --> 00:32:52,540 So hold me Jesus, because I'm shaking like a leaf. 536 00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:59,080 You've been king of my glory. Won't you be my Prince of Peace? 537 00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:02,720 And I think that just hits right where a lot of us are living day 538 00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:06,480 by day right now. Hold me Jesus, because I'm 539 00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:10,160 shaking when we need his tranquility. 540 00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:13,200 That comes from the hope of knowing that all the promises of 541 00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:17,040 God find their, yes, their Amen in Jesus Christ by the power of 542 00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:20,760 the Holy Spirit. Praise God, praise God. 543 00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:25,320 You know, there's a tradition, a long tradition of having Amen at 544 00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:28,680 the end of songs. Some of the Psalms end with 545 00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:31,560 Amen. If you find a hymnal, a lot of 546 00:33:31,560 --> 00:33:33,400 times there's tacked on to the end Amen. 547 00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:37,000 We don't sing those that often, but it's that corporate 548 00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:39,600 affirmation of the truth of the song. 549 00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:43,080 And we're going to have a separate song of response. 550 00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:45,520 But I I thought that I could just lead us this morning in the 551 00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:50,560 doxology because I want to hear y'all say Amen to each other, 552 00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:54,360 sing Amen to each other. I want you to hear the harmonies 553 00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:57,920 that will inevitably come out of you and the consolation that 554 00:33:57,920 --> 00:34:00,920 comes from this word which means Jesus. 555 00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:08,400 Are you ready? Praise God, from whom all 556 00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:51,280 blessings flow. We've been concluding by saying 557 00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:54,920 the Lord's Prayer together. If you don't know it, that's OK, 558 00:34:56,280 --> 00:34:59,000 Just listen. When we get to the line about 559 00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:02,120 debts or sins or trespasses, we've been saying trespasses. 560 00:35:02,720 --> 00:35:09,000 So we pray with me to conclude, our Father who are in heaven, 561 00:35:09,720 --> 00:35:15,200 hallowed be thy name, Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done 562 00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:20,560 on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day Our Daily 563 00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:25,520 Bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those 564 00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:30,720 who trespass against us. Lead us not into temptation, but 565 00:35:30,720 --> 00:35:34,960 deliver us from evil. For thine is the Kingdom, and 566 00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:38,600 the power and the glory forever. Amen.