Our Father In Heaven Matthew 6:9 In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name

Our Father In Heaven

Matthew 6:9In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your

name


In a sense all are the offspring of God:

Acts 17:28-3128 for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, ' For we are also His offspring. ' 29 Therefore, since we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, something shaped by art and man's devising. 30 Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent, 31 because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead…


In a sense all are the offspring of God:

Luke 3.3838 the son of Enosh, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.

But it is clear early on that Jesus is speaking of something different from this “general” idea of God as our Father:

John 8:41b-42Then they said to Him, " We were not born of fornication; we have one Father — God."42 Jesus said to them, " If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and came from God; nor have I come of Myself, but He sent Me.


A. Jesus often began prayer with “Father”

Luke 22.42 saying, " Father, if it is Your will, take this cup away from Me; nevertheless not My will, but Yours, be done.“

Luke 23. 34 Then Jesus said, " Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do.” And they divided His garments and cast lots.

46 And when Jesus had cried out with a loud voice, He said, " Father, ' into Your hands I commit My spirit. '" Having said this, He breathed His last.


B. Jesus gave His immediate disciples this right

Matthew 5.16 “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.”

Matthew 5.43-48 " You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy. ' 44 But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, 45 that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. …48 Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect. “


B. Jesus gave His immediate disciples this right

Matthew 6.1 “Take heed that you do not do your charitable deeds before men, to be seen by them. Otherwise you have no reward from your Father in heaven.”

Matthew 6.9 “In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name.”


C. Jesus gives all God’s children that right. 1. Those born again are children (John 1:12,13; 3:5).

John 1:12-13 “12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name:13 who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.”

John 3.5 Jesus answered, " Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

2. Those baptized are children (cf. Gal. 3:26, 27)

3. Those who keep commandments children1 John 3.10 In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.


D. Many who call God, “Father” have no right

John 8:42-4442 Jesus said to them, " If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and came from God; nor have I come of Myself, but He sent Me. 43 Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word. 44 You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it

E. We need to get to know “our Father” - His attributes and His attitudes.

Some Attributes of Our Father

A. One of three persons in Godhead or Deity.

2 Cor. 13.14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.

Matt. 3.16-17 16 When He had been baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened to Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon Him. 17 And suddenly a voice came from heaven, saying, " This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased."


1. Each distinctive:

John 14.18-17 “If you love Me, keep My commandments. 16 And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever — 17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you.”

John 14.26 “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.”


2. Each is God. (John 1:14; 20:17,28; Acts 5:3,4).

John 1.14 “And the Word became flesh…”

John 20.17 “Jesus said to her, ‘Do not cling to Me, for I have not yet ascended to My Father; but go to My brethren and say to them, 'I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God. '“

Acts 5.3-4 “But Peter said, ‘Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back part of the price of the land for yourself? 4 While it remained, was it not your own? And after it was sold, was it not in your own control? Why have you conceived this thing in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God.’"


B. He is infinite.

1 Kings 8.27 “27 "But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain You. How much less this temple which I have built!”


1. Infinite In Power (Jer. 32:17,27).

Jer 32.17 “Ah, Lord God! Behold, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for You. “

Jer 32.27 " Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for Me?

2. Infinite In Knowledge.

1 Jn. 3:20 “20 For if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.”


3. Infinite In Presence.

Psa. 139:7-12 “7 Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence?8 If I ascend into heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there.9 If I take the wings of the morning, And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,10 Even there Your hand shall lead me, And Your right hand shall hold me.11 If I say, "Surely the darkness shall fall on me, Even the night shall be light about me;12 Indeed, the darkness shall not hide from You, But the night shines as the day; The darkness and the light are both alike to You.


C. He is eternal. (Is. 57:15).

Isaiah 57.15 “For thus says the High and Lofty One Who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, With him who has a contrite and humble spirit, To revive the spirit of the humble, And to revive the heart of the contrite ones.”


D. He is sovereign.

John 19:11 Jesus answered, " You could have no power at all against Me unless it had been given you from above. Therefore the one who delivered Me to you has the greater sin.“

Acts 17:24-26 24 God, who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands. 25 Nor is He worshiped with men's hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives to all life, breath, and all things. 26 And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings,

Some Attitudes of Our Father

A. He loves.

Rom. 5:8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

1 John 4:8,16 8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.16 And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.


B. He hates. (Psa. 5:5,6).

The boastful shall not stand in Your sight; You hate all workers of iniquity.6 You shall destroy those who speak falsehood; The Lord abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man


C. He is jealous.

Ex. 34:14 (for you shall worship no other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God),

Deut. 32:16 They provoked Him to jealousy with foreign gods; With abominations they provoked Him to anger

1 Cor. 10:22 Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?


D. He is long-suffering.

2 Pet. 3:9 “The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.”

E. He is forgiving.

Heb. 8:12 “For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more."


F. He is impartial.

Rom. 2:6 “who "will render to each one according to his deeds"

Col. 3:25 “But he who does wrong will be repaid for what he has done, and there is no partiality.”

1 Pet. 1:17 “And if you call on the Father, who without partiality judges according to each one's work, conduct yourselves throughout the time of your stay here in fear;


G. He is wrathful.

Rom. 1:18 “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,”

Rom 2:5 “But in accordance with your hardness and your impenitent heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God”


A.Let us get to know “our Father”.

Jno. 14:8-9 “Philip said to Him, ‘Lord, show us the Father..”

B. Let us worship and obey “our Father”.

1 John 2:3,4 Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. 4 He who says, "I know Him," and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

C. Let us talk to “our Father” in prayer often.

D. Let us let “our Father” talk to us through his word often.

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Our Father In Heaven Matthew 6:9 In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name