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Robert Jeffress - Straight Talk About Your Prayer Life (Part 1)

October 15, 2025 | 29:0

Robert Jeffress - Straight Talk About Your Prayer Life (Part 1)
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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Straight Talk About Your Prayer Life (Part 1) | October 15, 2025
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  • From the pulpit of the first baptist
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  • Church of dallas, texas, this is "pathway to victory"
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  • With dr. robert jeffers.
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  • Hi, i am robert jeffers,
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  • And welcome again to "pathway to victory."
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  • The lord's prayer is arguably the most famous
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  • And loved prayer in human history.
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  • But our familiarity with this prayer sometimes
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  • Blinds us to the bigger principles it teaches us.
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  • Today, we're going to learn how to pray, how not to pray,
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  • And how to use the lord's prayer
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  • As a model for our own conversation with god.
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  • My message is titled "straight talk about your prayer life"
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  • On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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  • Jesus, the master teacher, delivered very short sermons.
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  • Was only 18 minutes long?
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  • What is the greatest discovery in human history?
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  • Some might answer, well, it was copernicus
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  • And his discovery that the earth actually revolves
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  • Around the sun and not the other way around.
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  • Some people might point to newton
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  • Discovering the law of gravity
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  • When an apple plopped on his head.
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  • Other people might point to certain inventions,
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  • Like gutenberg's printing press
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  • Or edison's incandescent light bulb
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  • Or maybe more recent discoveries,
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  • Like the personal computer or the smartphone.
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  • But as miraculous as those discoveries are,
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  • They pale in comparison to this one.
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  • You and i have the ability
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  • To talk to the creator of the universe
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  • Anytime we want to, and by what we say,
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  • We can actually move him into action.
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  • Isn't that a remarkable thought when you think about it?
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  • Max lucado said it this way:
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  • "prayer impacts the flow of history.
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  • God has wired his world for power,
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  • But he calls on us to flip the switch."
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  • Prayer is that switch that unleashes the power of god.
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  • I don't agree with a lot of what theologian karl barth said,
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  • But he was right when he said this:
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  • "when we clasp our hands in prayer,
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  • It is a beginning of the uprising
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  • Against the disorder of the world."
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  • Of course, that begs the question,
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  • How do we know if we're praying correctly?
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  • How do we pray in such a way that god hears us
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  • And unleashes his power?
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  • I'm glad you asked that question,
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  • Because jesus answers that question for us specifically
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  • In the passage we're looking at today.
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  • If you have your bibles, turn to matthew chapter six.
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  • We're right in the middle of our series
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  • On the sermon on the mount.
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  • We're calling it "18 minutes with jesus,"
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  • Because you can read the sermon on the mount in 18 minutes,
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  • And yet jesus talks about the issues
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  • That are most important to us.
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  • And in chapter six, he's talking about
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  • How we should worship,
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  • A kind of worship that pleases god.
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  • The pharisees, the religious leaders of jesus' day,
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  • It was all external appearance to them
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  • To look a certain way, to look righteous.
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  • But jesus said, no, god's concerned about
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  • What's on the heart.
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  • And we talked last time about worshiping through giving.
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  • The pharisees, when they gave money to god,
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  • They blew their little silver trumpet
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  • And gathered a crowd around them
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  • So everybody could see how holy they are.
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  • Jesus said about that kind of giving,
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  • When you do it to be seen by men, apecho,
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  • You have your reward in full.
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  • God stamps the "paid in full" on your receipt
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  • When you get earthly praised for your righteousness.
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  • It's the same way with the topic of praying
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  • That we're going to look at today.
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  • Another way we worship is through praying,
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  • And jesus is going to say, "when you pray,
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  • Don't pray in order to be noticed by men.
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  • If you do, you have your reward in full.
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  • And just like the subject of giving,
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  • Jesus begins his discourse on praying
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  • By telling us how not to do it.
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  • Notice what he says in verse five.
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  • First of all, don't brag when you pray.
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  • When you pray, you're not to be like the hypocrites.
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  • Remember that word, ypokrites, actor,
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  • Somebody who wears a mask.
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  • Don't be a masked two-faced person,
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  • For the hypocrites love to stand
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  • And pray in the synagogues on the street corners
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  • So that they may be seen by men.
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  • Now, there's nothing wrong with praying in public.
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  • As we'll see in a moment,
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  • Jesus prayed in public occasionally.
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  • Elijah prayed on mount carmel in front of thousands.
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  • It's the motivation of the prayer.
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  • The pharisees did it so that they might be seen by men.
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  • Truly, i say to you, that they have their reward in full.
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  • Remember the story jesus told.
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  • We've talked about it often, luke 18,
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  • About the two men who went to the temple to pray?
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  • First of all, you had the pharisee.
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  • He lifted his head toward heaven.
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  • He stood.
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  • There was nothing wrong with standing.
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  • That's how jesus prayed.
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  • He stood, but what was in his heart was the problem.
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  • He said, "lord, thank you
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  • That i'm not like this guy over here,
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  • Unjust, immoral, but i'm a righteous man.
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  • I fast, i pray, i give alms to the poor.
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  • In fact, god, when you think about it,
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  • You're lucky to have such a holy man as me
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  • Standing before you."
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  • That was the pharisee.
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  • The tax collector, far opposite.
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  • He didn't try to brag about himself.
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  • He beat his chest and said,
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  • "lord, be merciful to me, the sinner."
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  • Don't brag when you pray.
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  • Secondly, don't babble when you pray.
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  • That's what he says in verses seven and eight.
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  • When you are praying, do not use meaningless repetition
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  • As the gentiles do, for they suppose that they will be heard
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  • For their many words, so don't be like them,
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  • For your father knows what you need before you ask them.
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  • The greek word translated "meaningless repetition"
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  • Is battalogeó.
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  • Battalogeó.
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  • It's what we learned in english class is an onomatopoeia.
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  • Remember that from your grammar classes?
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  • Onomatopoeia.
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  • An onomatopoeia is a word
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  • That sounds like what it's describing.
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  • "buzzz" or "hisss."
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  • Those words sound like what they're describing.
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  • Same thing with bottle of battalogeó.
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  • Batta, batta, batta, babble, babble, babble, babble.
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  • It's meaningless words.
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  • What does he mean meaningless words?
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  • Well, he could mean words literally that have no meaning.
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  • Remember, the gift of tongues was a real gift in the bible.
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  • It was the gift of languages to be able to speak
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  • A language you didn't know to spread the gospel.
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  • That's the first time it was used in acts 2.
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  • But by the time we get to corinthians,
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  • The corinthians had taken that real gift of tongues
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  • And had perverted it into something not good.
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  • They brought in their pagan worship practices to the church,
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  • And part of those pagan worship practices
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  • Was the practice of ecstasy,
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  • Where these pagan prophets would work themselves up
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  • Into a frenzy and they would race around the altar
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  • And they would get so worked up
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  • They started speaking babel.
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  • Just ecstasy, words that had no meaning,
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  • And some of the corinthians took that
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  • To be the gift of tongues.
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  • Now, jesus is saying, when you pray,
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  • Don't use words that have no meaning.
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  • By the way, when jesus prayed his most important prayer,
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  • The prayer in gethsemane,
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  • Or the prayer in the upper room for the unity of believers,
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  • He prayed in a way that was intelligible.
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  • He used words.
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  • When paul prayed, he used words that had meaning to them.
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  • Don't pray empty words.
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  • Or he may also have in mind just trite banalities
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  • That have no real meaning.
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  • Have you ever found yourself when you're praying,
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  • Do you kind of put your mind in neutral
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  • And you find yourself going into these meaningless phrases?
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  • Bless, bless, bless.
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  • That's one of them.
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  • Or lead, guide, and direct.
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  • Lead, guide, and direct.
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  • Can somebody tell me the difference
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  • Between leading, guiding, and directing?
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  • I mean, we just fall into these traps of praying
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  • That are empty words.
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  • They mean nothing.
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  • Don't do that.
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  • And notice he says part of this is meaningless repetition.
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  • Some people think if they'll just pray long enough
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  • And say the same thing over and over again,
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  • God will finally be coerced
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  • Into doing something he doesn't want to do.
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  • That's how the pagans pray.
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  • Remember, in 1 kings 18 on top of mount carmel,
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  • The pagan prophets of baal and asherah were praying
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  • That their false god would answer with fire
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  • And consume the sacrifice they had prayed on the altar?
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  • And 1 kings 18 says they started praying in the morning
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  • And they prayed until the time of the evening offering,
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  • But the heavens were silent.
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  • We're not to be like that.
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  • Somebody said, it's a heathen folly
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  • To measure prayer by the yard.
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  • We think the longer the prayer, the more effective it is.
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  • No.
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  • We do well to take solomon's advice in ecclesiastes 5:2.
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  • Don't be quick with your mouth.
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  • Don't be hasty in your heart to utter anything before god.
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  • God is in heaven and you're on earth.
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  • So let your words be few.
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  • Your heavenly father knows what you need.
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  • You don't have to ask and ask and over and over again.
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  • Don't pray.
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  • Don't pray by babbling things
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  • That are meaningless repetition,
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  • And certainly, don't brag when you pray.
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  • Now, he's going to tell us how to pray,
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  • Beginning in verse six.
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  • But when you pray, go into your inner room,
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  • Close your door and pray to your father who is in secret,
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  • And your father who sees what is done in secret
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  • Will reward you.
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  • Now, again, let me say
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  • Jesus is not condemning public praying.
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  • Jesus prayed before he fed the 5,000.
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  • Thousands heard it.
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  • Jesus prayed before he raised lazarus from the dead,
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  • And elijah prayed on mount carmel
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  • Before thousands of israelite.
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  • There's nothing wrong with praying in public.
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  • But as my friend david jeremiah says,
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  • Our prayer life ought to resemble an iceberg.
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  • Only one eighth of an iceberg is visible above the water,
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  • Where everybody can see it.
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  • Eight ninths of the iceberg
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  • Are below the water where nobody sees it.
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  • Our prayer life ought to be like that.
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  • We ought to pray a few times in public,
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  • But the majority of our prayer time ought to be in private.
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  • And by the way, d.l. moody had a great line.
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  • He said, "pray short in public,
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  • Pray long in private."
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  • We get it reversed.
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  • Have you ever known people that tried
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  • To get all their prayer time in
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  • While they had you as a captive audience?
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  • No.
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  • When you pray publicly, pray short.
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  • Pray long in private.
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  • Pray in your inner room.
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  • What does he mean by your inner room?
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  • That word "tameion," greek word tameion
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  • Means a storage room where treasures are kept.
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  • I love that picture.
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  • When we go before god, we're entering into a storeroom.
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  • Just think about it.
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  • God in his storeroom in heaven
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  • Has all kind of gifts he wants to give to you.
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  • Your name is written on those gifts.
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  • They're yours for the asking,
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  • But you have to ask.
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  • James said, "you have not because you asked not."
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  • If there are any regrets in heaven one day,
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  • I think it will be if we get to see
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  • What could have been ours,
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  • If only we had had the faith to ask.
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  • Go into your inner room.
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  • I think this is also saying that we need a private place
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  • To pray with god, and as we'll see in a moment,
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  • Prayer, you can talk to god anytime and ought to.
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  • It ought to be a continual discussion throughout the day,
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  • But there also ought to be an appointment
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  • Time and place that we meet with god.
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  • Do you have such a place?
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  • I remember when i was in high school,
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  • My place to pray was in a park
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  • Right across from our high school.
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  • I went there almost every morning to pray before classes.
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  • When amy and i first got married,
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  • There was a little ball field
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  • A couple of blocks from our house
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  • That i would walk to to pray at.
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  • Today, it's a couch in my office
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  • That i kneel beside every morning
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  • And go through my prayer list.
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  • We all need a place to pray
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  • And an appointment with god as well
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  • As a continuing conversation with god.
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  • Secondly, he said, when you pray,
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  • Not only pray secretly, pray simply.
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  • Pray simply.
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  • In fact, in verse nine, he's going to say,
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  • "pray in this way,"
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  • And he's going to give us that prayer
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  • That we know is the lord's prayer.
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  • Now, stay with me on this.
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  • Jesus didn't say, "pray this prayer."
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  • In fact, did you know there's no record
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  • Of the disciples ever actually praying this prayer?
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  • In fact, no prayer in the new testament
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  • Is this prayer ever, recorded except here in matthew 6
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  • And then the luke 6 version of it,
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  • The synopsis of it in luke's account.
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  • But outside of that,
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  • The new testament christians didn't pray this word for word.
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  • This is not a mantra to be repeated word for word.
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  • It's a model for how to pray.
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  • Pray in this way.
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  • And it's not an incantation,
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  • Incantation or a code we have to unlock.
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  • It's a simple prayer.
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  • Now notice in this model for praying
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  • The audience for our prayers.
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  • The audience for our prayers, our father.
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  • People ask me, "pastor, when we pray,
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  • Do we pray to god the father,
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  • Do we pray to jesus the son,
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  • Or do we pray to the holy spirit?"
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  • What did jesus say?
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  • You pray to your heavenly father
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  • Through the authority of the son of god, jesus christ,
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  • And in the power of the holy spirit.
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  • But our prayer is addressed to god, the father.
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  • Our father.
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  • Now, that term father in english,
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  • It has a certain formality to it
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  • That i don't think jesus intended necessarily.
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  • When our girls were little and living at home,
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  • If they wanted something from me,
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  • They didn't come into the living room
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  • With little frilly dresses and their hands clasped
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  • And looking like characters out of "little women," saying,
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  • "father.
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  • Oh, father.
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  • Could we please?"
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  • No.
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  • They'd say, "hey, dad."
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  • Or if they really wanted something, "daddy."
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  • They knew that would get to me.
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  • "daddy, would you consider?
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  • Would you do so and so and so and so?"
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  • Well, the word here jesus uses, it's aramaic.
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  • Jesus probably spoke aramaic,
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  • Which is a cousin of hebrew is the word "abba."
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  • You've heard it translated "papa" or "daddy."
  • 00:15:58.914 --> 00:16:01.984
  • That may be a little too informal.
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  • Maybe a better rendering is "dearest dad," "dearest father."
  • 00:16:04.186 --> 00:16:09.458
  • It is a term of relationship.
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  • We approach our father in heaven as a daddy,
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  • A father who loves us, who wants the best for us.
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  • That's the audience of our prayers.
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  • And then notice the petition of our prayers.
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  • Jesus mentions five things that we ought to pray for.
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  • Two are related to god, and three are related to us.
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  • First of all, pray for god's reputation
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  • To be honored in your life.
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  • "our father who is in heaven, hallowed be your name."
  • 00:16:37.286 --> 00:16:42.558
  • That word "hallowed"
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  • Is a translation of the greek word "hagiazo."
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  • It means holy.
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  • To be holy or to show to be holy.
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  • One of the chief characteristics,
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  • Attributes of god is that he is holy.
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  • Holy, holy, holy.
  • 00:16:57.306 --> 00:16:59.641
  • That word "holy" comes from a hebrew word
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  • That means to cut, to separate.
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  • When we say god is holy,
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  • What we're saying is he is separate
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  • Than anything here on earth.
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  • He is a cut above anyone or anything.
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  • That's what we mean by the holiness of god.
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  • And our lives should be dedicated
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  • To reflecting the holiness of god,
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  • Of pointing people to god as the one true god.
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  • That's why we are left here on earth to glorify god,
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  • To turn people to god.
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  • That's why god answered elijah's prayer in 1 kings 18.
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  • Just 64 words in the english language,
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  • And yet it brought down the fire of heaven
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  • To consume the sacrifice.
  • 00:17:42.217 --> 00:17:43.952
  • Remember, twice in 1 kings 18:36-37,
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  • Elijah said in this prayer,
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  • "let it be known today that you are the true god."
  • 00:17:49.791 --> 00:17:54.263
  • And then he said, "lord, answer my prayer
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  • That this people may know that you are god."
  • 00:17:56.098 --> 00:18:00.536
  • That's the kind of prayer that god answers.
  • 00:18:00.536 --> 00:18:03.405
  • And when we pray, we ought to remember,
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  • Our purpose in life is to glorify god.
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  • Hallowed be your name.
  • 00:18:09.745 --> 00:18:12.181
  • Secondly, he said, "pray for god's will
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  • To be done in the world and in your life."
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  • Pray for god's will to be done in the world and your life.
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  • "your kingdom come," verse 10.
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  • "your will be done on earth as it is in heaven."
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  • When we talk about god's kingdom, what are we talking about?
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  • Listen, a king's kingdom is wherever
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  • What the king wants done gets done.
  • 00:18:36.104 --> 00:18:40.008
  • That's what a king's kingdom is.
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  • It's the area over which he has authority.
  • 00:18:41.710 --> 00:18:45.614
  • So where is god's kingdom?
  • 00:18:45.614 --> 00:18:47.082
  • What is god's kingdom?
  • 00:18:47.082 --> 00:18:48.483
  • Where is it that god's will is being done perfectly?
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  • Did you know god's will is being obeyed perfectly?
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  • Throughout this entire universe,
  • 00:18:55.757 --> 00:18:59.394
  • Every square inch of this universe
  • 00:18:59.394 --> 00:19:02.397
  • Is subjected to the will of god,
  • 00:19:02.397 --> 00:19:05.200
  • Except one small corner of it,
  • 00:19:05.200 --> 00:19:08.070
  • A little dirt ball called planet earth.
  • 00:19:08.070 --> 00:19:12.074
  • And there's a little rebellion going on right now
  • 00:19:12.074 --> 00:19:15.043
  • On planet earth against the creator of the universe.
  • 00:19:15.043 --> 00:19:19.514
  • But soon, that rebellion is going to be quelled forever.
  • 00:19:19.514 --> 00:19:23.986
  • And when we're praying for the kingdom of god,
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  • "your kingdom come,"
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  • We're praying for that future time
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  • When what the king wants done here on earth
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  • Is actually going to be done.
  • 00:19:34.429 --> 00:19:37.733
  • We know in bible prophecy that that time, first of all,
  • 00:19:37.733 --> 00:19:41.169
  • Is the millennium when christ comes
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  • And sets up his kingdom.
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  • Christ rules from jerusalem,
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  • And everyone will be subject to the king
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  • Until the very last moment.
  • 00:19:48.977 --> 00:19:50.312
  • But we won't go there.
  • 00:19:50.312 --> 00:19:51.246
  • Too complicated today.
  • 00:19:51.246 --> 00:19:52.914
  • But for the most part, everybody will be subject to the king
  • 00:19:52.914 --> 00:19:56.118
  • And then god will destroy this present heaven and earth,
  • 00:19:56.118 --> 00:19:59.888
  • And in the new heaven and the new earth,
  • 00:19:59.888 --> 00:20:01.890
  • Everyone will obey god.
  • 00:20:01.890 --> 00:20:04.493
  • That's the kingdom of god.
  • 00:20:04.493 --> 00:20:06.461
  • We're praying for that future kingdom to come,
  • 00:20:06.461 --> 00:20:10.832
  • But in a sense, we're praying
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  • For aspects of it to come now.
  • 00:20:13.035 --> 00:20:15.837
  • We don't have to wait completely
  • 00:20:15.837 --> 00:20:17.639
  • For there to be an end to evil.
  • 00:20:17.639 --> 00:20:20.442
  • We need to do what we can right now
  • 00:20:20.442 --> 00:20:22.311
  • To push back against evil in the world.
  • 00:20:22.311 --> 00:20:25.547
  • I don't like the term social justice
  • 00:20:25.547 --> 00:20:28.717
  • Because it carries with it a lot of political baggage
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  • And connotates things we don't mean.
  • 00:20:31.653 --> 00:20:34.256
  • But i do believe there's such a thing as biblical justice,
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  • And i think christians ought to pursue biblical justice.
  • 00:20:38.393 --> 00:20:42.097
  • And by the way, when you pray for god's kingdom,
  • 00:20:42.097 --> 00:20:45.067
  • God's rule to extend to earth,
  • 00:20:45.067 --> 00:20:47.169
  • That includes your life and my life,
  • 00:20:47.169 --> 00:20:49.871
  • To pray for the kingdom to come,
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  • To pray for god's will to be done,
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  • Is to pray for it to be done in my life.
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  • I want you to think about this for a moment.
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  • If throughout all eternity,
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  • You and i are going to be obeying god,
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  • Don't you think we ought to get used to doing that now?
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  • Why would christians want to spend eternity with god
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  • If we're going to obey god continually
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  • If they find it so difficult to obey god now?
  • 00:21:13.295 --> 00:21:17.299
  • I was thinking about that old joke
  • 00:21:17.299 --> 00:21:19.601
  • About the tourist in new york city who was lost.
  • 00:21:19.601 --> 00:21:22.237
  • He was looking at a map.
  • 00:21:22.237 --> 00:21:23.538
  • He couldn't make sense of uptown from downtown,
  • 00:21:23.538 --> 00:21:25.907
  • And he asked a stranger on the sidewalk, he said,
  • 00:21:25.907 --> 00:21:29.044
  • "sir, can you tell me how to get to carnegie hall?"
  • 00:21:29.044 --> 00:21:32.114
  • And the stranger said, "sure.
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  • Practice, practice, practice."
  • 00:21:33.949 --> 00:21:38.453
  • How do you get to be an effective servant of god,
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  • A resident of the kingdom by practicing obedience now?
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  • When god says yes, you say yes.
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  • When god says no, you say no.
  • 00:21:52.067 --> 00:21:55.337
  • We need to start practicing obeying god now
  • 00:21:55.337 --> 00:21:58.206
  • Because that's going to be what we'll spend eternity doing.
  • 00:21:58.206 --> 00:22:01.376
  • Kent hughes talked about that implication when he said,
  • 00:22:01.376 --> 00:22:05.013
  • "when we pray 'your will be done,'
  • 00:22:05.013 --> 00:22:08.750
  • When we pray this prayer, we're asking god to do
  • 00:22:08.750 --> 00:22:11.586
  • What is necessary to make his will prevail in our lives,
  • 00:22:11.586 --> 00:22:16.191
  • And then comes with gracious kind violence
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  • To root out all the impediments to our obedience.
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  • To pray this prayer may terrify us,
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  • But it will also deliver us from ourselves."
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  • ♪ music ♪
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  • Most of us struggle with our prayer life,
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  • And that's what makes this study so relevant.
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  • Jesus' practical words have the power to transform
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  • The way we approach our conversations with god.
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  • Now, as we conclude today's program,
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  • I want to express my heartfelt gratitude
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  • To our pathway partners and the many faithful supporters
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  • Of pathway to victory.
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  • Your generous partnership enables us
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  • Adding cities to our broadcast roster,
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  • All these extensions of our ministry come at a cost,
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  • But we're grateful for friends like you
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  • Of jesus christ.
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  • Now, please stay right there.
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  • I'll be back with more pathway to victory in just a moment.
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  • When jesus spoke, he wasted no time in getting straight
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  • To the heart of what matters most.
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  • Did you realize that his famous sermon on the mount
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  • Can be read in only 18 minutes?
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  • In his sermon on the mount,
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  • Jesus delivers straight talk about the issues
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  • That matter to you most,
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  • Things like your happiness, faith,
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  • So please, keep standing with us
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  • That we might reach as many people as possible
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  • With the truth of god's word.
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  • Quiet time between you and god
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  • Can feel intimidating at times.
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  • The silence can seem deafening,
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  • As we struggle to find the right words,
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  • But when we follow jesus' model for prayer,
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  • Our prayer time transforms into something powerful.
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  • Next time, we'll continue working line by line
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  • Through what we call the lord's prayer.
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  • And then i'll share three important principles
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  • For stepping up your prayer life.
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  • Stay tuned for a preview
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  • Of what's coming up next in our series,
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  • "18 minutes with jesus."
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  • If you're angry, tell god about it.
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  • Are you disappointed in god?
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  • His shoulders are broad enough to take it.
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  • Tell him of your disappointment.
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  • Pray what is in your heart,
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  • Not what you think should be in your heart.
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  • Prayer, in the end, is an open, honest,
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  • Specific communication with the one who loves you.
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  • Set your dvr and join us next time
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  • For part two of the message,
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  • "straight talk about your prayer life"
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