The Lord's Prayer

Location: Ballard Campus
Preacher: Mark Driscoll
Date:9/19/10
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Tags: Forgiveness, Father,
Luke 11:1-4
The Lord's Prayer
Observations
1 Luke wrote a more succinct version of the full Matthew Version
2 Prayer is verbal, thoughts, journaling, siinging, communication with God
3 Jesus Prayed, Prayer is trinitarian in nature, by the power of the Holy Spirit, to the Son for the Glory of the Father
The apostles were humble and even though they had been with Jesus for a while they knew they hade more to learn

Story: Fisrt time in prayer, asked to open in prayer, didn't know how asked to shut his eyes, not gonna happen grew up in Seatac

Father
Only 14 references to God as the Nation's Dad, never personal
60 times Jesus called God Father
God please help me not judge you by my father
Story: The abused father who adopts the street kid, and through continual love the kid eventually opens up to Dad
Story: The Fair holding hands with Dad, casual relationship with our dad
Eastern Religion:
Prayer Labrynth, being all by yourself in the center of your spiritual fashion
Pan/panentheist - God is part of creation and we are all connected, prayer flows in the stream of creations, the force
We do not prayer with other religions, we are members of other families, we don't want to offend our Dad by talking to a different Dad
God's Answers to Prayer
No: not his plan, not in my pest interest
Later:
Yes:
Story: Gideon - getting really good at the bike without training wheels, wants a motorcycle
God is Holy:
We should not take God's name in vain
He is perfectly Good, perfectly light
God is a King:
Huge benefits in being adopted by such a Dad
We want God to rule over all to bring his justice to help the hurting, we want grace and love to rule totally
Our privilege is to be part of making God's kingdom visible
God is Generous
Pray about my needs not my greeds
Dad is inviting us to be part of loving people: single mom's and all who are in need
Dad forgives Sins
Sin is the breaking of God's perfection in thought, word, deed, and motivation
Only in Christ are we forgiven of our debt, he is the only one with the ability to pay for my debt
Karma - Live a sinful life, die come back, sin some more....Retarded because the debt would just increase to infitity
Religiocity - The worst debt to pay to God, adding a zero to my statement of debt to God
What about the victim?
We need to forgive those who sin against us
Bitterness will lead to distance between to
Will cause me to be like the person I am bitter against.
Forgiveness is NOT:
1 Approving or diminishing the sin
2 Enabling Sin -
3 Denying a wrongdoing
4 Waiting for an apology
5 Forgetting - we can never forget the hard sins, God can't forget he is omnicient
6 Ceasing to feel the pain, allows us to feel mre deeply but now without bitterness
7 A one time event - We need to forgive everytime I feel the pain of the sin
8 Neglecting Justice, we can forgive and testify against someone in court
9 Trusting, reconciliation takes two plus a lot of time, trust is gained slowly but lost quickly
10 Reconciliation, takes two people
Forgiving someone is leaving their justice to Jesus, and if they do not repent, he will perfectly punnish them for their sin
Danger: a man who doesn't forgive his father will continue to pass the curse of unfrgiveness to his kids, will hurt the children's view of God, and will breed hatred and bitterness in his wife.
Dad leads well
God does not tempt us
The image is that of a child who is holding his Dad hand

Story: the Fair
Holding hands with Gideon and Allexi


Love letter of Father God


I remember my dad saying that finally I don't have to pay those payments to your mom.

The Cross: We cannot look at God as Father without the cross. The only way we can see mercy is with the cross. Otherwise there is only perfect justice and wrath poured out perfectly on this earth. Without the cross in God's mind, we ought to have all died at Noah.