NOT VERIFED: The transcription is a prayer where the speaker expresses gratitude and asks for forgiveness, healing, and deliverance. They also ask for the increase of the kingdom and for their loved ones to come to know the truth. The prayer ends with a request for love, peace, and the word of God. The speaker then transitions to a study of the book of Luke, specifically focusing on Jesus teaching his disciples how to pray. They explain that this prayer teaches an attitude of reverence and submission and emphasizes the importance of honoring God's name and surrendering to His lordship. The prayer also expresses a desire for God's heavenly kingdom to come (A reference to the coming of Christ.) The speaker highlights the need to have a proper understanding of God's being and power and concludes by emphasizing the importance of surrendering to God's lordship.
Father, we are thankful, Father, and we cry out to you right now, Father, with hearts that are set on giving you thanks at this moment. Father God, we are grateful for our many blessings, and Father God, we are thankful also that we can come to you in prayer, not only with thanksgiving and adoration, Father, and reverence for your name and your being as the Creator, but also, Father God, with large petitions we can bring because we come to a kingdom, and we come by the thoughts of Jesus.
Father God, we confess that we have sinned, Father God, and you know each and every one of our hearts on this phone, Father, and you know the hearts of those who ain't even present on the phone, Father God. You all know it. Nothing is hidden from your sight, Father, and there's not a place that we can go that you aren't there, Father. So, Father, we pray that we will step down, Father God, from the throne of our hearts, Father God, if we be seated on the thrones of our hearts because they rule for you and us on the throne of our hearts, Father, so help us to step down, Father, and allow you to sit on that throne and rule our hearts.
Father, we forgive those who sin against you, even though sometimes forgiveness seems so hard, Father, but that's where grace comes in, Father God, and you demonstrated that towards us, Father, by your son, Jesus Christ, death, fear, and resurrection. Father, we're thankful for the kingdom. We pray that the kingdom increase in numbers. We pray that all men everywhere will repent and come to the knowledge of the truth and obey the gospel. We pray that the kingdom will come, Father God, when Christ give all things over to you, Father, and pray that when all these things take place, Father God, that we'll be found watching.
Father God, we pray for our loved ones who haven't obeyed the gospel. We pray that your light will shine in their hearts and in their minds to help them to understand and obey. We beg for relief for those who are suffering and struggling. We pray for healing. We pray for deliverance for those who are going through hardships. We pray for love, that we be bound together by love and by peace, Father God, and by your word.
In Jesus' name we pray, and we thank you, Father. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, so tonight we're going to pick up a study in the book of Acts, I mean in the book of Luke. We didn't do Acts so long. Acts just stuck on one time. We're going to pick up in the book of Luke, and we're going to go back to some of the wonderful teachers of Jesus. And tonight we're going to be talking about this particular context in Luke chapter 11, and we're going to be reading like verses 1 through 4.
That's what our study is going to be tonight. It's going to be about how Jesus taught his disciples how to pray. And this is very important because it teaches us the type of attitude that we need to have in prayer. All right, so Jesus was asked to teach them how to pray, as we're going to see. So could I first read Luke chapter 11, verses 1 through 4. Okay. Now it came to pass, as he was praying in a certain place, when he sees that one of his disciples said to him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.
So he said to them, when you pray, say, I will follow you in heaven. Hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day by day our daily bread. And forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. All right. Amen. So starting in verse 1, we see that this is at a time when Jesus was engaged in prayer.
A disciple asked him to teach them how to pray, you know, like John had taught his disciples. Now what we don't know from this context is who asked this, nor do we know anything about what John taught his disciples. Now the time and setting of this prayer is different from the one recorded in Matthew chapter 6, verses 9 through 13. Because in Matthew chapter 6, verses 9 through 13, we see where, as in Matthew, the prayer is part of the Sermon on the Mount, when Jesus was teaching about prayer.
But here, in this context of Luke, the setting is a time when he had been praying. And the Sermon on the Mount is a time when Jesus was teaching. So these are two different incidents that occurred. This is not the same incident that occurred in Matthew chapter 6, verses 9 through 13, because that was the Sermon on the Mount when Jesus taught large crowds from the mountain. All right. But here, in Luke, we have Jesus was praying.
You know, as he was engaged in prayer, a disciple asked him to teach them to pray like John had taught his disciples. All right, so as we go on, we will also have to re-pause up that teaching on prayer in Matthew chapter 6 so that we can understand by comparing the two prayers, it will reveal that the structure and content are basically the same, although Luke is shorter and does not contain the doxology of Matthew 6.13.
Perhaps this comparison reveals that Jesus did not teach his disciples simply to memorize exact words to be said by right memory, but instead he taught them certain attitudes that prompt acceptable prayer. Okay? And so here we have the model prayer, you know, and it conveys an attitude of reverence and submission. That's what this prayer conveys. And we hear a lot of people these days use this prayer in vain. They even teach their children this prayer. And I may have been guilty.
I ain't going to say me. I know that there's some point in my life where I thought that this was an actual prayer that I just vainly repeat to God without thinking. But this was a model prayer. Jesus was teaching them how to pray. He wasn't teaching them, look, say this. He wasn't telling them, look, when you pray, this is what you say. You repeat this. No. He wasn't teaching them how for vain repetition. And that's what people do when they just say this model prayer in this form or fashion without thinking and just babbling words.
So as we get to Luke chapter 11, verse 2, we see that the name of God is exalted and adored. And that's why it's stated, Our Father, which indicates that this prayer is for believers in Jesus Christ. Let's read John chapter 14, verse 6 as a cross reference. So even Jesus called God Father. And out of the proper reverence and respect for God when we pray, we say Father. That's what disciples say, Father. That's what we cry, Abba, Abba, Father, Father.
This is how we address our Father in prayer. You know, when we start our prayers, you notice when I pray, I start off with Thanksgiving. I acknowledge Him as Father. I say, Father, we thank You. Then it leads to a heart of gratitude with exaltation. We honor You. We glorify Your name. We lift Your name on high. We are so thankful. So God is being adored, all right? God the Father is being adored. So this is a particular type of attitude that this prayer is being characterized by.
And it is an attitude of reverence and submission, showing God that He is the higher being and He's in control and that I surrender to Him. So it's a type of attitude that He wants to have in prayer. And as we continue through this prayer, we get down and it states, Hallowed be thy name. And His name represents His being, who He is as the creator and sustainer of life. Therefore, His name is to be revered.
Now, we ought to fear God, not in the sense of afraid of our Father. No, but we ought to fear Him in the point that we respect Him, we are obedient to Him, we honor Him. That's godly fear. Sinful fear is fear of yourself living in sin and expecting of judgment and death. That's a different fear from godly fear from reverential awe. That's a different type of fear. We talk about having that godly fear that's installed in you, like David had when he sinned.
And he told God that against you and you only have I sinned and committed this iniquity in your sight. David understood that even though he sinned by committing adultery with Bathsheba, and he sinned against Uriah and murdered him, but his real fault was that he understood that sin was a direct attack on God. It was disrespect to God. That's what he understood, the reverential awe of God, how that he should have been willing to obey God and not to commit that sin.
And that doesn't just go for adultery. It goes for every other sin that we may practice as Christians or even not as Christians. So we see how the prophet says, Hallowed be thy name, so we understand that his name represents his being, who he is as the creator and sustainer of life. Therefore, his name is to be revered. That's why we say, Hallelujah. We lift your name on high. We love to sing your praise. We love to sing your name.
We hallow in his name. Okay, let's read Psalms 34, verse 3. Okay. Almighty, oh, magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together. All right, so he said, oh, magnify the Lord. All right, lift his name on high. Lift the Lord up. All right, lift him on high. Let us glorify him. All right. So we see how that God is being hallowed. All right. His name is being exalted. All right. His being, what God represents, who he is as the creator and sustainer of life.
That's why we say, God, you have the power of life and death in your hands. Jesus even said, I have the power to lay down my life, and I have the power to take it up again. Now only God can have that power. Okay, and we hallow God's name for that very reason. And all men must surrender to his lordship. And that's why we see that the prayer goes on and state in verse 2, thy kingdom come.
Now let's be clear about this because we are reading the Old Testament at this point in the Gospel of Luke. Even though Luke, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John is grouped together with the rest of the New Testament books in your Bible, we understand that the New Testament time period didn't start until the death of Christ. So even though Luke chapter 1 all the way up until the point where Jesus, before the point that Jesus dies on the cross is a part of the New Testament books in your Bible, we understand that the New Testament time period don't start until Jesus dies.
So at this time Jesus told them to pray that the kingdom would come. Because the kingdom had not arrived yet. At this point in time the spiritual kingdom of God was going to be established. And let's read Mark chapter 1 verses 14 and 15 to get a clearer understanding. Mark chapter 1 verse 14 and 15. Now after that John was put in prison. Jesus came into Galilee preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God and saying, The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is at hand.
Repent ye and believe the gospel. Now pay attention to what Jesus came preaching. He came preaching the same thing that John had come preaching previously before him. John was preaching the kingdom. Jesus came preaching the gospel of the kingdom. All right. And then this place that Jesus said, The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is at hand. Now when he says at hand, he ain't telling you, look, here go the kingdom of God. He's telling you, look, it's right here at the door.
It's close by. The kingdom is going to be established. You need to make a straight path for your feet and repent and turn to God. This is what he was telling them. So that's why when Jesus conducted this model prayer to his disciples, he told them to pray that the kingdom would come because the kingdom was soon to be established. Whereas now God's spiritual rule is in existence, having been established by the resurrection and ascension of Jesus Christ as his king.
Let's take a look at Acts 2, verse 36. Tricia? Okay. Acts 2, 36. I'm sorry. Okay. Okay. 2, 36. It says, Therefore, let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ. So God has made this Jesus, whom they had crucified, both Lord and Christ. Doesn't have a lot of meaning to what he say, Lord and Christ. All right. That shows us the rule of Christ.
All right. We see that Christ's spiritual rule is in existence. David ruled over God's people, a physical nation, over a fleshly kingdom, an earthly kingdom. Jesus Christ is the son of David because he comes through the family lineage of David, and he rules over God's people now, today, forever. All right. But it's over a spiritual kingdom. He's seated on a spiritual throne in heaven at the right hand of God. And even in the verse, Hebrews 12, verse 28, it says that, Wherefore, we receive in a kingdom.
So we have received his kingdom. It say, We receiving, that's past tense, a kingdom which cannot be moved. Let us have grace whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. There go that word reverence. So Jesus was teaching them in this Mosul prayer about having reverence for God the Father when they address him. And then this scripture say let us serve God with reverence. All right. So it's important that when we come to God, we must reverence him.
We must reverence his name. He is to be revered. All right. That's why we say hallowed be thy name. That's why we lift up those type of praises. You have one minute remaining. This is very important. This is the attitude of prayer that God accepts. All right. Jesus conveyed to his disciples an attitude of reverence and submission in prayer. I don't want y'all to miss that point. I know I go to a lot of cross references, but don't miss it.
Now, Jesus' kingdom has been established, and entrance into this kingdom is by spiritual birth. As we've seen in John chapter 3, verses 3 through 5, where he told Nicodemus, for except a man be born by the water and not the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. Now, the kingdom hadn't yet been established yet, but he was already teaching by which a man go in him. His citizens manifest inward transformation of their lives. There's no more outward show of things.
There's no more beating of the flesh according to the law. Thank you for using Global Teleink. This is a really good lesson. I think I'm going to cut it out and send it out to everybody, send a copy of it. Anytime that there's one that you want to hear or you think everybody else ought to hear, let me know and I'll do that. Amen. Anybody else have a thought while we're waiting on Charles? I want to say that Jesus was always praying, and that's why he knew how important prayer was, and we should realize how important it is to pray often.
He was a very good example to his disciples because they understood how often he prayed, and that's the main reason why they asked, teach them how to pray. They knew the importance of it. Amen. Go ahead, Charles. All right, so here we see that the entrance into this kingdom is by a spiritual birth, and its citizens manifest inward transformation of their lives. All right, it is a circumcision of the heart. This is a change of the heart.
All right, it's not a circumcision of the foreskin no more, the flesh, but it's a circumcision of the heart. Everything is spiritual now, and the kingdom is spiritual, and its citizens ought to live spiritual and offer up spiritual sacrifices to God and even present our body as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God. Let's read Luke chapter 17, verses 20 and 21. Hey, Sylvia? Luke 17, 20 and 21. 17, 20 and 21? Yes, sir. Now when he was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God does not come with observation, nor will they say, See here or see there, for indeed the kingdom of God is with you.
So this is a spiritual kingdom that Christ would establish that he was explaining unto them. All right, they were already looking for the kingdom of God to come because we understand from the lesson in Acts last night that the prophets had already foretold the coming of the Messiah, and they had already predicted that his kingdom would be established in the last days. And even when Jesus came on earth to Pharisees, and now those others who were contradictory to the gospel, they even understood the Scriptures well enough to know that God would establish a kingdom.
Even though they didn't accept Christ as their king, they knew that a kingdom was coming, but they didn't understand the nature of that kingdom. And even some of Jesus' disciples didn't understand the nature of that kingdom, and that's why one of the mothers of the two of his disciples said, When you come in your kingdom, can one of my sons be granted to sit on your left and the other on your right? And Jesus said, I don't think you know what you're asking.
They thought that the nature of his kingdom was a fleshly kingdom, was a worldly kingdom. They thought that he was going to come and be like King David and fight. Jesus comes to establish a spiritual kingdom, and the citizens manifest inward transformation after being born into his kingdom by spiritual birth. That is why we undergo baptism. That is why when we become Christians that we have to learn to walk in newness of life so that our hearts can be circumcised.
That is why we grow in the knowledge of God to have our minds transformed from darkness into light. Let's read Colossians 1, verse 13. For he has rescued us from the kingdom of darkness and transformed us into the kingdom of his dear son. So God has delivered us, that is Christians. Only Christians have been delivered from the power of darkness, which is a life of sin and disobedience to God. So now they have turned and they should have their reverential awe for God.
They should hallow God's name. They should address Him as Father. Why? Because they have been translated. That E.D. at the end makes that word past tense. They ain't going to be translated. They have been translated. And two, so this is something that we have been translated into. And what is that? The kingdom. The kingdom of what? Of God's dear son. So Christ is a king and he does have a kingdom. And we all can become members of that kingdom by spiritual birth.
And once we become members of that kingdom by spiritual birth, we are manifest in the transformation of our lives. Like the book of 1 John talks about walking in the light, confessing all sin, repenting of sin, loving our brethren, acknowledging that Jesus is the son of God. All right. And the only kingdom to come, as we see the scripture stated, that thy kingdom come. Now, the only kingdom to come that Christians should pray for is the heavenly kingdom.
And notice when I prayed tonight, I stated and I said, we pray for your kingdom that it will continue to grow in number. So I acknowledge the fact that Christ's kingdom has been established here on earth. And that it does need to continue to grow by the spread of the gospel and obedience to the gospel. But I also stated that, Father, we pray that your kingdom will come when Christ returns from the church and be handed all things over to you.
So that is the day that we are praying for. That is the kingdom to come that we are praying for as Christians, the heavenly kingdom. Which will come at the end when the kingdom will be delivered up to God, even the Father. Let's read 2 Timothy 4.18. And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work and will preserve me until his heavenly kingdom should be glory forever and ever. Amen. Amen. So Paul said that the Lord is going to transfer him into his heavenly kingdom.
He was already in the kingdom of Christ. But he understood that there's a heavenly kingdom. We ain't just laboring here on earth for nothing. We ain't battling and struggling and walking through the valley of sin. Fighting our sin just so we can perish. And then that's it. No. There's a heavenly kingdom that's been prepared for those who remain faithful in the Lord. After undergoing this spiritual birth. And manifesting this inward transformation. God has many blessings that are stored up in Christ Jesus.
For Christians, that is the whole purpose of walking and living righteously. Not only because we love God and want to revere him and submit to him. But because we want to be preserved to his heavenly kingdom. Let's read 2 Peter 1.11. Christian? He said 2 Peter 1.11. Okay. For our soul and entrance will be supplied to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. All right. So if you read the previous verses.
And it's a wonderful context when he was telling Christians the type of virtues that they need to have in practice. And add to their godly character. And then he states in verse 9. But he that lacketh these is blind and cannot see afar. And hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. Now only Christians have been purged. That is cleansed from their old sins. Well, how is that? Well, they underwent that spiritual birth to enter this spiritual kingdom.
And when they are not manifesting this inward change. Then they live as if though they forgot. That they was cleansed from their past ways of living and practicing sin and walking in darkness. But if they remember that they were purged from these things and they practiced righteousness. And manifested this inward change. Then this is what Paul said. He said for so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
And then in the previous word before that he said well for the rather brethren. So when he said brethren this is how we know that he is talking to Christians. He said well for the rather brethren. Give diligence like above all else of high necessity. This is more vital like a pulse. You need this to survive in your spiritual life. He said give diligence to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things you should never fail.
For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom. All right. So the only kingdom to come that Christians should pray for is the heavenly kingdom. Which will come at the end when the kingdom will be delivered up to God even the Father. Let's read 1 Corinthians chapter 15 verse 24. He says after that the end will come. And when he will turn the kingdom over to God the Father having destroyed all the rulers and authority and power.
All right. So when is this going to take place? Well the context said in the end. In the end. Now we're living in the last day but we ain't seen the end. We ain't come to an end yet. Now when the end comes when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God even the Father. When he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. And then it goes on in the next verse saying for he must reign till he hath put all enemies under his feet.
The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he said all things are put under him. It is manifest that he has accepted. Which did put all things under him. And when all things shall be subdued unto him. Then shall the son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him. That God may be all in all. All right. So we see that the kingdom is going to be delivered up to God the Father at the end.
Jesus is going to deliver up the kingdom to the very one who gave him the kingdom. God the Father so we all can be all in all in God the Father. And in Christ Jesus if we remember the prayer of Jesus when he prayed. He said Father let them be one in us as we are one. That's what it's all about that unity, that oneness as we see in the eternal God here. With God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
God wants all the faithful and the saved to be one with him. But not only the faithful and the saved. He desired that no man should perish. But that all should come to repentance. And that is why the end heaven suddenly came upon us. Because he's patient and longsuffering towards mankind. All right. But we're going to close out with these last two scriptures. And I'm going to have to hang up and call right back right fast.
But as we go on through this context in Luke chapter 11 where it states, Thy will be done as in heaven so in earth. All right. Now some earlier manuscripts omit this phrase. But let's understand that God wants all men to be saved as I just stated. Therefore believers should pray for all men that they will submit to God's will so that they may inherit the everlasting kingdom. Let's read 1 Timothy 2.4 and also 2 Peter 1.11.
I'm going to hang up and call back. Tim, could you read 1 Timothy 2.4? Thank you for using global telling. Who desires all men to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth. 1 Timothy 2.4 which shows us that God wants all men to be saved. So therefore believers should pray for all men that they will submit to God's will so that they may inherit the everlasting kingdom. So now let's read 2 Peter 1.11.
That's the same scripture we just previously read. Okay. For so an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly and to the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. So we understand that God wants no one to perish. That is His will that no one perish. He wants that will to be accomplished on earth. But God did not leave man without free or choice. Man have a choice to submit to God. And this is what Jesus teaches about reverence and submission, having that attitude in prayer.
But we not only have to have this type of attitude in prayer, you guys. We got to have this type of attitude in our daily lives, in our daily living. We got to have that reverential awe for God, that fear of God, you know, that want to be obedient. We got to have that submission to Him to say not my will but Your will be done. Help me to step down off the throne of my heart, Father God, and allow You to sit on that throne and rule my life by Your scriptures.
That is the will of God. That's what we pray that God's will be done as in heaven, so in earth. But as of tonight, we're going to bring this to a close right here tonight. But as we pick up tomorrow, it will be an 8 o'clock night, and that will be better. If it was an 8 o'clock night tonight, I could have finished out, but I still got a little more to go. So we're going to understand a few more important points when we get down to verse 3 in Luke 11.
We got to understand that when He stated that give day by day our daily bread, that we completely trust in God for the daily necessities, all right? And then when we get to verse 4, and they say, and forgive us our sins, we acknowledge our sins and seek His forgiveness. You know, we must humbly repent and confess our own sins. And then we get on down, and it also states that, for we also forgive everyone that is indebted to us, but also we must be forgiving of others, and this is very important.
An unforgiving heart would not be forgiven, and Jesus makes it plain and clear. I never thought I could forgive the woman who killed my brother. I never thought that I could still love her and forgive her. But I was able to by the grace of God, and I watched my mother do it first immediately. So I know forgiveness is hard sometimes. And we also, as we get down in this context, we see that we desire God's continual protection and guidance, all right? So, and lead us not into temptation.
That's what it states. So we desire God's continual protection and guidance, you know? Guard us so that we would not enter into situations which expose us to the temptations of evil. But deliver us from evil. Now some early manuscripts omit this phrase, but the key point is help us to resist the evil one.
