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Summary of Sunday Sermon

Hear the `Our Father' sung in Zulu by Kwasizabantu Youth Choir

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Sunday 09 September 2001 - How should we pray?

(Summary of sermon by Arno Stegen)

Mt 6:5 - 13

Do we love to be seen in our prayers and alms? Do we love to impress people with what we do and how we serve the Lord? Jesus said that our left hand should not even know what the right hand is doing. We ought to serve the Lord like that, without seeking recompence, reward or even to be thanked and recognised.

Firstly: Our Father - Not my Father, but our Father. Each and everyone who is a true Christian can pray to the same God and Father - whether a Christian for 60 years or just converted. He is also Father, and not only God. It is like writing a letter to a well-known friend's address. Our Father  lives in heaven.

Hallowed be Thy name: Do we, when we wake up in the morning, seek God's face that we would hallow and sanctify His name in everything we do? In what we speak?

Give us our daily bread: Here we see that we should pray for what we need and not what we want. We remember how He commanded us to seek first the Kingdom of God and then the other things will be added. But we need not to pray for those bonuses. They will be added as we seek God's Kingdom first.
Now this not only refers to our daily physical bread, but also His Word, as He said - My bread and food is to do the will of my Father. So we need to pray also for this daily bread that we would do His will and that He would help us.

Forgive us our debts as we forgive those who sin against us:

Do we realize how indebted we are to God for forgiving us our sins? Do we realize how lost we would have been, had He not forgiven our sins? But firstly, do we know this forgiveness?
But here we see something more and frightning - Forgive us like as we forgive those who sin against us? Do we really mean this? Eg. When someone really sins against us and does us wrong and then comes and says sorry. And we grudgingly say, ok I'll forgive you, but we think, I won't forget. And then we pray this prayer! We shouldn't be surprised if God takes us seriously and forgives us just as we forgave that person who had sinned against us.
This is true not only in forgiveness. The measure whereby we measure others, that is how we will be measured. Of course we will also be measured against God's Word, but God would also measure us with the measure we measure others with. Just think of all those you think owe you something and remember your prayer that God would treat you likewise. Just see vs 14 and 15

Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from the evil one: It is not God who lead us into temptation or tempt us, but He can keep us from the tempter and warn us. But do we, when we pray this, and He warns us, ignore His warning and go straight into the temptation. And woe to you if you are a stumbling block to others through what you speak. God says it is better that a millstone be hung around your neck and you be thrown into the depths of the sea.

O that we would pray and live this prayer.

Finally: For Thine is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory for ever. Amen.

This we need to remember always no matter in what situation we find ourselves. Do we have this faith and trust in Him? That we can go into all the world and proclaim His Word as he bade us, because all power belongs to Him.

Hear the Our Father sung in Zulu by Kwasizabantu Youth Choir

(To listen to the sermon in RealAudio click here)

 

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