The Lord’s Prayer

1. The Lord’s Prayer St. Matthew Evangelical Lutheran Church -- Adult catechumenate --

2. Luther’s large catechism: “That we may know what and how to pray, our Lord Christ himself has taught us both the way and the words.”

3. Quiz time !!!

4. 1. The Lord’s Prayer was given by: • Jesus to Moses • Jesus to his disciples • The evil Lord Voldemort to a troubled youth named Harry Potter

5. 1. The Lord’s Prayer was given by: • Jesus to Moses • Jesus to his disciples • Lord Voldemort to a troubled youth named Harry Potter

6. 2. When it comes to the Lord’s Prayer, a petition is: • A prayer of praise • A request made of God • A paper you send to God with at least 1,000 signatures • Both A and B

7. 2. When it comes to the Lord’s Prayer, a petition is: • A prayer of praise • A request made of God • A paper you send to God with at least 1,000 signatures • Both A and B

8. 3. The first petition of the Lord’s Prayer is: • Hallowed be your name • Hollowed be your name • Harold be your name

9. 3. The first petition of the Lord’s Prayer is: • Hallowed be your name • Hollowed be your name • Harold be your name

10. 4. The fourth petition of the Lord’s Prayer is: • Give me everything I want • Give us this day our daily bread • Give me more than you give my sister

11. 4. The fourth petition of the Lord’s Prayer is: • Give me everything I want • Give us this day our daily bread • Give me more than you give my sister

12. 5. The final line of the Lord’s Prayer (Doxology): • Reads, “For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, now and forever.” • Doesn’t exist in most bibles • Was added as a fitting ending to the prayer long after Jesus taught the original • All of the above

13. 5. The final line of the Lord’s Prayer (Doxology): • Reads, “For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, now and forever.” • Doesn’t exist in most bibles • Was added as a fitting ending to the prayer long after Jesus taught the original • All of the above

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17. Notice anything different? Luke 11.2b-4 Matthew 6.9-13 “Pray then in this way: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And do not bring us to the time of trial, but rescue us from the evil one.” “When you pray, say: Father, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Give us each day our daily bread. And forgive us our sins, for we ourselves forgive everyone indebted to us. And do not bring us to the time of trial.”

18. Notice anything missing? Mark John ??? ???

19. Martin Luther connected our need to be in daily prayer back to the second commandment. Remember what that was?

20. Luther’s small catechism: The Second Commandment: “You shall not make wrongful use of the name of the Lord your God.” What is this? Answer: We are to fear and love God, so that we do not curse, swear, practice magic, lie, or deceive using God’s name, but instead to use that very name in every time of need to call on, pray to, praise, and give thanks to God.

21. Luther’s large catechism: “The first thing to know is this: It is our duty to pray because God has commanded it. We were told in the Second Commandment, ‘You shall not take God’s name in vain.’ Thereby we are required to praise the holy name and pray or call upon it in every need. For to call upon it is nothing else than to pray. Prayer, therefore, is as strictly and solemnly commanded as all the other commandments, such as having no other God, not killing, not stealing, etc.”

22. 1st: “Hallowed by thy name.” “But what is it to pray that his name may become holy? Is it not already holy? Answer: Yes, in itself it is holy, but not in our use of it… So we should realize that we are under the great necessity of duly honoring his name and keeping it holy and sacred, regarding it as the greatest treasure and most sacred thing we have, and praying, as good children, that his name, which is already holy in heaven, may also be kept holy on earth by us and all the world.”

23. 2nd: “thy kingdom come.” “You see that we are praying here not for a crust of bread or for a temporal, perishable blessing, but for an eternal, priceless treasure and everything that God himself possesses.”

24. 3rd: “Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.” “Thy will be done, dear Father, and not the will of the devil or of our enemies, nor of those who would persecute and suppress they holy Word or prevent thy kingdom from coming; and grant that whatever we must suffer on its account, may we patiently bear and overcome, so that our poor flesh may not yield or fall away through weakness or indolence.”

25. “Observe that in these three petitions interests which concern God himself have been very simply expressed, yet we have prayed in our own behalf.”

26. 4th: “Give us this day our daily bread.” From the Small Catechism: “What then does daily bread mean? Answer: Everything our bodies needs such as food, drink, clothing, shoes, house, home, fields, livestock, property, an upright spouse, upright children, upright members of the household, upright and faithful rulers, good government, good weather, peace, health, decency, honor, good friends, faithful neighbors, and the like.”

27. 4th: “Give us this day our daily bread.” Large Catechism again: “But especially is this petition directed against our chief enemy, the devil, whose whole purpose and desire it is to take away or interfere with all we have received from God.”

28. 5th: “And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.” “Here again there is great need to call upon God and pray, ‘Dear Father, forgive us our debts.’ Not that he does not forgive sin even without and before our prayer; and he gave us the Gospel, in which there is nothing but forgiveness, before we prayed or even thought of it. But the point here is for us to recognize and accept this forgiveness.

29. 5th: “And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.” “Inasmuch as we sin greatly against God everyday and yet he forgives it all through grace, we must always forgive our neighbor how does us harm, violence, and injustice, bears malice toward us, etc… But if you forgive, you have the comfort and assurance that you are forgiven in heaven. Not on account of your forgiving, for God does it altogether freely, out of pure grace, because he has promised it, as the Gospel teaches.”

30. 6th: “And lead us not into temptation.” “We have now heard enough about the trouble and effort required to retain and persevere in all the gifts for which we pray. This, however, is not accomplished without failures and stumbling. Moreover, although we have acquired forgiveness and a good conscience, and have been wholly absolved, yet such is life that one stands today and falls tomorrow. Therefore, even though at present we are upright and stand before God with a good conscience, we must pray again that he will not allow us to fall and yield to trials and temptations.”

31. 7th: “But deliver us from evil.” “[T]his petition includes all the evil that may befall us under the devil’s kingdom: poverty, shame, death, and, in short, all the tragic misery and heartache of which there is so incalculably much on earth… For if God did not support us, we would not be safe from [the devil] for a single hour.”

32. “But this petition he has put last, for if we are to be protected and delivered from all evil, his name must first be hallowed in us, his kingdom come among us, and his will be done. Then he will preserve us from sin and shame and from everything else that harms or injures us.”

33. Conclusion (Doxology): “For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever and ever. Amen.” From the Small Catechism: “What is this? Answer: That I should be certain that such petitions are acceptable to and heard by our Father in heaven, for God himself commanded us to pray like this and promised to hear us. ‘Amen, amen’ means ‘Yes, Yes, it is going to come about just like this.’”

34. The Lord’s Prayer St. Matthew Evangelical Lutheran Church -- Adult catechumenate --