WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to The Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:13.199 practical ways. Hey, everybody, Welcome to the Bible guys. And 4 00:00:13.240 --> 00:00:14.039 happy Friday. 5 00:00:14.160 --> 00:00:14.679 Here we are. 6 00:00:14.880 --> 00:00:17.640 I said happy Thursday before I know, but it's even 7 00:00:17.679 --> 00:00:20.399 happier because Fridays are always happy. Let's be honest, Fridays 8 00:00:20.440 --> 00:00:21.399 are sort of better. 9 00:00:21.280 --> 00:00:25.600 Always happy. Yes, tgif Friday, Friday, Friday, that's right. 10 00:00:25.760 --> 00:00:29.120 And today we are wrapping up this week about prayers 11 00:00:29.160 --> 00:00:32.240 of intercessory. They're actually in the middle of our sort 12 00:00:32.240 --> 00:00:35.640 of bigger series, which is Dangerous Prayers and prayers of 13 00:00:35.679 --> 00:00:40.280 intercession have just been the theme this week. So anyway, 14 00:00:40.520 --> 00:00:43.679 before we get to that, we have a segment that 15 00:00:43.840 --> 00:00:48.759 is actually it's actually called the Praise Report with a twist. 16 00:00:49.000 --> 00:00:52.000 Oh and it says this desirata, each of you will 17 00:00:52.000 --> 00:00:54.520 share something you're grateful for. This is a good one, 18 00:00:54.560 --> 00:00:58.920 but you must describe it like it's a dramatic movie trailer. 19 00:00:59.439 --> 00:00:59.679 Oh. 20 00:01:00.119 --> 00:01:04.959 So I went to chat GPT for mine. Yeah, and yeah, okay, good, 21 00:01:05.000 --> 00:01:05.920 do you want to go first? No? 22 00:01:05.959 --> 00:01:07.719 You should you go first? You go first? 23 00:01:08.040 --> 00:01:12.439 So I told chat GPT, Well, should I just read. 24 00:01:12.280 --> 00:01:15.680 It read what you told chat GPT, No, or should 25 00:01:15.719 --> 00:01:17.719 I just read the trailer? Read the trailer and then 26 00:01:17.799 --> 00:01:18.799 tell them what you told me? 27 00:01:18.959 --> 00:01:21.959 Okay, here we go. Ready, Yeah, you'll be able to 28 00:01:21.959 --> 00:01:23.439 figure out what I'm paying for really quick. 29 00:01:23.480 --> 00:01:24.359 Okay, here we go. 30 00:01:25.599 --> 00:01:31.519 In a world filled with uncertainty, chaos, and cheap, scratchy 31 00:01:31.760 --> 00:01:37.640 sandpaper disguise this toilet paper, one man dares to hope 32 00:01:38.000 --> 00:01:42.799 for more, and then it happens. You walk in and 33 00:01:42.840 --> 00:01:49.760 it's there, soft, strong quality, like wiping with the embrace 34 00:01:49.879 --> 00:01:53.959 of an angel. Because when a company cares enough to 35 00:01:54.000 --> 00:01:56.879 give you this kind of comfort in a public restroom, 36 00:01:57.480 --> 00:02:01.239 just imagine the kind of excellence they bring to everything 37 00:02:01.280 --> 00:02:02.079 else they do. 38 00:02:02.200 --> 00:02:05.079 Wow, this is gratitude. 39 00:02:05.760 --> 00:02:13.360 This is luxury, This is hope softness. 40 00:02:13.599 --> 00:02:19.120 Okay, so good, good, TP. That's what you're that's what 41 00:02:19.159 --> 00:02:21.800 you're in a public place, in a public place. That's okay, 42 00:02:21.800 --> 00:02:24.360 it's the little things, Chris, Yeah, it's just a little thing. Well, 43 00:02:24.400 --> 00:02:27.199 I mean that's what you're grateful for. You could no, no, no, 44 00:02:27.479 --> 00:02:30.800 that's a thing I'm grateful for. Okay, that's not the thing. Okay, 45 00:02:30.879 --> 00:02:33.719 it just said type in something you're gr grateful for. Okay, 46 00:02:33.759 --> 00:02:35.840 I chose something small. Yeah, so what did you type 47 00:02:35.879 --> 00:02:37.879 in and tell it that you wanted it to help 48 00:02:37.919 --> 00:02:38.240 you with? 49 00:02:38.520 --> 00:02:41.400 This is what I said, Write me a ninety Write 50 00:02:41.400 --> 00:02:44.080 me a ninety second dramatic trailer about something I'm grateful for. 51 00:02:44.439 --> 00:02:46.319 The thing I'm grateful for is when I walk into 52 00:02:46.319 --> 00:02:49.439 a public restroom and there's a soft, quality, expensive toilet paper, 53 00:02:49.680 --> 00:02:52.120 because there's nothing worse than cheap toilet paper that feels 54 00:02:52.159 --> 00:02:55.120 like sandpaper. Include the fact that providing this kind of 55 00:02:55.159 --> 00:02:58.360 care must mean that whatever product they are selling must 56 00:02:58.400 --> 00:02:59.080 also be great. 57 00:02:59.360 --> 00:03:02.879 You you worked hard on that one. 58 00:03:03.960 --> 00:03:05.719 I did, but I wanted to be specific. 59 00:03:05.879 --> 00:03:10.280 All right, Wow, now I feel kind of corny about mine. 60 00:03:10.639 --> 00:03:14.560 Not corny because there's a serious and lovey yes. Okay, 61 00:03:14.680 --> 00:03:18.240 thanks you for a wife. Yes I am, But that's 62 00:03:18.240 --> 00:03:21.960 not what I wrote. Okay, this says deep booming voice, 63 00:03:22.439 --> 00:03:26.560 slow build with swelling Strings's that's the if you have 64 00:03:26.560 --> 00:03:29.719 a soundtrack in your head. In a world where small 65 00:03:29.759 --> 00:03:33.120 town kids may not make it very far, one young 66 00:03:33.159 --> 00:03:36.759 man discovers that God's plan is bigger than his wildest dreams. 67 00:03:37.120 --> 00:03:40.280 Blessed with a family, entrusted with a ministry, and carried 68 00:03:40.280 --> 00:03:43.599 by a grace he never earned this fall. He realizes 69 00:03:43.680 --> 00:03:47.240 the truth. It was never about me, It was always 70 00:03:47.280 --> 00:03:48.680 about him. 71 00:03:49.159 --> 00:03:52.240 Okay, all right, so wow that's a that's an big 72 00:03:52.360 --> 00:03:53.120 encompassing thing. 73 00:03:53.199 --> 00:03:55.319 Yeah. I just wrote I'm grateful for God's provision for 74 00:03:55.400 --> 00:03:57.280 me and my family, and I'm grateful for his incredible 75 00:03:57.280 --> 00:03:59.439 blessings on the ministries he's given me. I'm just a 76 00:03:59.479 --> 00:04:01.879 small coound kid that can't figure out how I got 77 00:04:01.919 --> 00:04:04.800 here from there. Okay, right there you go? 78 00:04:04.919 --> 00:04:08.439 Yeah, all right, so yeah, yours was the opposite of mine. 79 00:04:09.879 --> 00:04:13.280 I went, fun, yeah, and you went but yeah, he 80 00:04:13.479 --> 00:04:15.000 is a big deal to Chris. If you don't know 81 00:04:15.879 --> 00:04:18.079 one of his top five most important things in life, well, 82 00:04:18.120 --> 00:04:21.079 I got to tell you there are times where my wife. 83 00:04:21.279 --> 00:04:23.600 Every once in a while, my wife will stray and 84 00:04:23.680 --> 00:04:27.120 she'll say, oh, just buy this, and I rebel. 85 00:04:27.680 --> 00:04:28.079 Yeah. 86 00:04:28.199 --> 00:04:29.720 Yeah, no, it's got to be. It's got to be 87 00:04:29.720 --> 00:04:30.279 Sharman altra. 88 00:04:30.800 --> 00:04:31.319 Yeah, that's it. 89 00:04:31.360 --> 00:04:33.160 Sharman ultra is the thing in my home. 90 00:04:33.360 --> 00:04:39.120 So Chris is, uh, you are very aware of comfort, 91 00:04:39.519 --> 00:04:45.720 very aware, very aware, very aware of comfort, temperature, humidity, 92 00:04:45.759 --> 00:04:50.279 the comfort of your seats, the tpe, the clothes you wear, scratchy, 93 00:04:50.519 --> 00:04:51.160 are you wet? 94 00:04:51.800 --> 00:04:52.000 Yes? 95 00:04:52.079 --> 00:04:55.319 Right, all those things so comfort is a very very 96 00:04:55.439 --> 00:04:57.399 high value thing. Yeah. 97 00:04:57.680 --> 00:05:01.279 You know what, I never I never really I thought 98 00:05:01.480 --> 00:05:03.800 I've really put in those terms before. But yeah, all 99 00:05:03.839 --> 00:05:06.680 of that is comfortable, all of it, even being wet. 100 00:05:06.800 --> 00:05:11.319 Yeah, yeah, it's it's just your thing. It's uh, Chad 101 00:05:11.319 --> 00:05:14.000 asmin our executive pastor and I'll we'll talk about that 102 00:05:14.199 --> 00:05:16.279 right that. Hey, we want to make sure this is 103 00:05:16.319 --> 00:05:19.959 comfortable for Chris. Yeah, for real, because this big deal 104 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:22.879 for you. We want you to be comfortable and happy. So, 105 00:05:23.199 --> 00:05:26.399 like I just the fact that I don't think about 106 00:05:26.439 --> 00:05:27.639 that very much, The fact. 107 00:05:27.360 --> 00:05:32.279 That you even consider that is what a great jama's slippers, 108 00:05:32.399 --> 00:05:35.199 What a great thing that you even carelanket on your couch. 109 00:05:35.519 --> 00:05:37.639 I can't believe you think that you even care. 110 00:05:37.959 --> 00:05:38.279 We do. 111 00:05:38.439 --> 00:05:38.920 I care. 112 00:05:39.120 --> 00:05:42.120 We want you to be comfortable, man, Gray figure you 113 00:05:42.120 --> 00:05:44.720 know what, hey, this is what this is what good 114 00:05:44.759 --> 00:05:47.959 trainers do with race horses. Make sure they're comfortable. So 115 00:05:48.079 --> 00:05:50.079 when it's time they hit the track, they run hard 116 00:05:50.759 --> 00:05:52.920 and I figure, you got a good horse ride, so 117 00:05:53.040 --> 00:05:54.120 keep you comfortable on it. 118 00:05:55.079 --> 00:05:57.720 Yeah right, Yeah, all we have to do is make 119 00:05:57.759 --> 00:06:01.399 them comfortable it's really not that hard, that's right. 120 00:06:02.160 --> 00:06:06.399 Yeah, comfort is a thing. So good for you. Man, 121 00:06:06.600 --> 00:06:08.399 that was really a good one. I thought you you 122 00:06:08.480 --> 00:06:10.600 read it well, yeah, thank you you, thank you. 123 00:06:11.040 --> 00:06:13.160 Well, it was it was ridiculous. It was like, this 124 00:06:13.240 --> 00:06:13.759 is hope. 125 00:06:14.000 --> 00:06:17.399 Yes, this is hope. It's so fun. It doesn't take well, 126 00:06:17.519 --> 00:06:19.600 it's easy to lose hope when you're not come. 127 00:06:20.079 --> 00:06:20.319 Yeah. 128 00:06:20.360 --> 00:06:22.120 Sure, if that's a high value for you. Yeah. 129 00:06:22.199 --> 00:06:25.639 Well. And I've and I've always Chad's dreading what I'm 130 00:06:25.800 --> 00:06:27.959 He's he's hoping. I'm not going to say this, but 131 00:06:28.000 --> 00:06:30.199 I always poke fun of him at the deal that 132 00:06:30.199 --> 00:06:32.959 he made with Heritage toilet paper oh at Church. Yeah, 133 00:06:32.959 --> 00:06:34.759 because because it's a it's a deal. It's a company 134 00:06:34.759 --> 00:06:36.120 that says, hey, if you. 135 00:06:36.199 --> 00:06:37.920 Buy all of our products, yeah, yeah, you get a 136 00:06:37.920 --> 00:06:38.399 really good deal. 137 00:06:38.439 --> 00:06:39.519 You get a good discount. 138 00:06:40.160 --> 00:06:41.199 But it's not Shriman Ultra. 139 00:06:41.600 --> 00:06:45.560 It's it's a far cry. If you have sandpaper on 140 00:06:45.560 --> 00:06:47.639 one end and you have Sharman Alter on the other end, 141 00:06:48.160 --> 00:06:51.480 it's sort of like over fifty percent this way, it's 142 00:06:51.519 --> 00:06:53.600 past the fifty percent mark towards the sandpaper. 143 00:06:53.680 --> 00:06:56.560 Okay, well, and I'm just like, I'm like, so if 144 00:06:56.560 --> 00:07:00.800 we have any listeners left right right after riveting secon 145 00:07:00.839 --> 00:07:03.079 we're only six minutes and forty nine years. Yeah, after 146 00:07:03.120 --> 00:07:06.800 this riveting segment, maybe maybe what you need to do 147 00:07:07.040 --> 00:07:08.000 is pray about it. 148 00:07:08.480 --> 00:07:12.519 Oh, pray about the twelve favorite Yeah yeah, yeah, which 149 00:07:12.800 --> 00:07:13.480 funny enough. 150 00:07:13.920 --> 00:07:15.000 Jesus taught us to pray. 151 00:07:15.040 --> 00:07:19.519 You know that is funny. Yeah, But in the prayer 152 00:07:19.560 --> 00:07:21.000 he gave a terrible transition. 153 00:07:21.360 --> 00:07:28.639 In the prayer rile okayful, So here you go. In 154 00:07:28.680 --> 00:07:33.279 Matthew chapter six, verse five, it says, when you pray, 155 00:07:34.519 --> 00:07:38.399 don't be like the hypocrites who love to pray publicly 156 00:07:38.439 --> 00:07:40.879 on street corners and in the synagogues where everyone can 157 00:07:40.920 --> 00:07:43.240 see them. I tell you the truth. That is all 158 00:07:43.360 --> 00:07:45.680 the reward they will ever get. But when you pray, 159 00:07:47.319 --> 00:07:50.920 let me say again, but when you pray, go away 160 00:07:50.959 --> 00:07:53.240 by yourself, shut the door behind you, and pray to 161 00:07:53.279 --> 00:07:56.439 your father in private. And then your father, who sees everything, 162 00:07:56.439 --> 00:08:00.720 will will reward you when you pray. Don't babbel and 163 00:08:00.879 --> 00:08:03.000 on as the gentiles do. They think their prayers are 164 00:08:03.040 --> 00:08:06.399 answered merely by repeating their words again and again. Don't 165 00:08:06.399 --> 00:08:09.199 be like them, for your father knows exactly what you need, 166 00:08:09.279 --> 00:08:13.040 even before you ask him, pray like this, our father 167 00:08:13.120 --> 00:08:16.199 in heaven, may your name be kept holy. May your 168 00:08:16.279 --> 00:08:18.920 kingdom come soon, May or will be done on earth 169 00:08:18.920 --> 00:08:22.160 as it is in heaven. Give us today the food 170 00:08:22.199 --> 00:08:25.079 we need, and forgive us our sins, as we have 171 00:08:25.120 --> 00:08:28.079 forgiven those who sin against us. And don't let us 172 00:08:28.120 --> 00:08:31.480 yield the temptation, but rescue us from the evil one. 173 00:08:32.720 --> 00:08:34.919 If you forgive those who sin against you, your heavenly 174 00:08:34.960 --> 00:08:37.480 father will forgive you. But if you refuse to forgive others, 175 00:08:37.919 --> 00:08:42.720 your father will not forgive your sins. Well there you go. 176 00:08:43.200 --> 00:08:46.279 Well, there it is. And so this is an intercessory 177 00:08:46.519 --> 00:08:54.519 prayer because really it is praying on behalf of others 178 00:08:54.519 --> 00:08:58.279 because the language is us, right, So it's not just me, 179 00:08:58.600 --> 00:09:01.559 it's us. It's almost as if your prayer. 180 00:09:01.360 --> 00:09:04.320 Give us today, forgive us our sins. Yeah, let us. 181 00:09:05.039 --> 00:09:07.360 Either this is a prayer praying for a family unit 182 00:09:08.240 --> 00:09:11.279 or a community or people, or a king, kingdom or 183 00:09:11.320 --> 00:09:11.679 a nation. 184 00:09:11.960 --> 00:09:14.600 Right, but either way, so it can be a personal prayer, 185 00:09:14.600 --> 00:09:16.840 but it's written as a collective prayer it is, isn't it. 186 00:09:17.440 --> 00:09:20.039 Yeah, it definitely falls into the intercestor category. 187 00:09:20.120 --> 00:09:23.600 So this happens in Matthew chapter six. So Matthew five, six, 188 00:09:23.639 --> 00:09:25.799 and seven are what we call the Sermon on the Mount, 189 00:09:25.799 --> 00:09:29.120 which we referenced earlier this week in one of the 190 00:09:29.120 --> 00:09:32.480 games we played, and in the Sermon on the Mount, 191 00:09:32.600 --> 00:09:35.120 this is where Jesus teaches us. This is the longest 192 00:09:35.120 --> 00:09:37.480 message he preaches in the Bible, and this is where 193 00:09:37.480 --> 00:09:41.200 he teaches us almost all the things that have made 194 00:09:41.240 --> 00:09:44.519 it into mainstream society that we know. Jesus said, turn 195 00:09:44.600 --> 00:09:47.519 the other cheek, go the extra mile. Judge, not that 196 00:09:47.559 --> 00:09:50.279 you be not judged. He taught us the golden rule, 197 00:09:50.320 --> 00:09:51.720 treat people the way you want to be treated. 198 00:09:51.840 --> 00:09:53.120 Truth is such, you're free. Right. 199 00:09:53.159 --> 00:09:56.200 There's so many things in here that we know that 200 00:09:56.799 --> 00:09:59.440 have kind of made it into pop culture. Jesus taught 201 00:09:59.519 --> 00:10:02.399 us these things here, and then he teaches us to pray. 202 00:10:02.639 --> 00:10:05.320 But it's interesting this prayer thing is in the middle 203 00:10:05.399 --> 00:10:08.159 of three big things that he's kind of referencing. Is 204 00:10:08.559 --> 00:10:11.320 my followers, do these things. He says, when you give 205 00:10:11.799 --> 00:10:15.000 in verse two to someone in need, don't do his hypocrits, 206 00:10:15.080 --> 00:10:17.960 do looking for attention. Then he says, when you pray, 207 00:10:18.399 --> 00:10:20.399 don't go out in public and always just be showing 208 00:10:20.399 --> 00:10:22.600 off with your big, fancy words. Instead, this is a 209 00:10:22.639 --> 00:10:26.200 private thing between you and God. And then in verse sixteen, 210 00:10:26.240 --> 00:10:29.960 he says when you fast. So there's this expectation Jesus 211 00:10:30.039 --> 00:10:32.279 has that his followers are going to be generous to others. 212 00:10:32.519 --> 00:10:34.799 They're going to pray to God, They're going to fast 213 00:10:35.480 --> 00:10:39.200 on behalf of their own situations and the needs of others. Right, 214 00:10:39.559 --> 00:10:42.120 those three things, they're kind of an expectation. He doesn't 215 00:10:42.120 --> 00:10:44.679 say if you pray, or if you give, or if 216 00:10:44.720 --> 00:10:46.919 you fast. He says, when you do these things. And 217 00:10:47.000 --> 00:10:49.720 so there's kind of this understanding that there are certain behaviors, 218 00:10:49.879 --> 00:10:54.639 certain disciplines that Christians would do, followers of God would 219 00:10:54.679 --> 00:10:57.080 be doing. And this is one of the expectations. 220 00:10:56.519 --> 00:10:58.840 Which is the series that we're in. Yes, old school 221 00:10:59.000 --> 00:11:03.799 now old schools and attitudes and disciplines and habits of 222 00:11:03.919 --> 00:11:05.200 Christians and what Christians do. 223 00:11:05.519 --> 00:11:08.360 So then prayer should be a habit is kind of 224 00:11:08.399 --> 00:11:09.720 where I was going with that, Right, this is one 225 00:11:09.720 --> 00:11:11.799 of the things that God's God's people should be doing. 226 00:11:12.240 --> 00:11:14.679 And so he's not saying don't ever pray out loud 227 00:11:14.720 --> 00:11:16.759 in front of other people. You know, when you read 228 00:11:16.759 --> 00:11:20.480 that beginning, he says, hey, go go by yourself, shut 229 00:11:20.519 --> 00:11:22.519 the door behind you, pray to your father in private. 230 00:11:23.039 --> 00:11:24.039 You're talking about the motivation. 231 00:11:24.240 --> 00:11:27.600 He's talking about motivation, right, because the Pharisees and some 232 00:11:27.639 --> 00:11:30.360 of the hypocrites they loved just getting everybody's prayer, the 233 00:11:30.399 --> 00:11:35.919 big prayers, use the big words, deep voice, public humility 234 00:11:36.159 --> 00:11:37.960 and all that kind of stuff, and then Jesus just 235 00:11:37.960 --> 00:11:38.840 saying that fake and. 236 00:11:39.120 --> 00:11:41.639 That's and by the way, that's the again, that's the 237 00:11:41.679 --> 00:11:45.120 reason why my mind goes toward not giving the Pharisees credit, 238 00:11:45.200 --> 00:11:48.000 because it's like they just they were just all about 239 00:11:48.639 --> 00:11:52.080 not necessarily the heart of what's honest and real, Like 240 00:11:52.120 --> 00:11:54.080 the prayer didn't matter as much as the glory. 241 00:11:54.600 --> 00:11:58.159 Right, So anyway, does that does that? It doesn't say 242 00:11:58.600 --> 00:12:04.559 Pharisees are just as hypocrites are wrecked. 243 00:12:04.600 --> 00:12:08.200 But I think another version says pharisees another translations, another 244 00:12:08.240 --> 00:12:11.960 gospel saystem yeah, look it up, because that'd be an 245 00:12:11.960 --> 00:12:19.120 interesting tidbit. But anyway, I love how he says, don't pontificate, yes, 246 00:12:19.240 --> 00:12:22.639 don't don't use big words and just ramble on, and 247 00:12:22.679 --> 00:12:25.840 then he says don't use the words again and again. 248 00:12:25.919 --> 00:12:28.240 In other words, what he's saying, is repetition ain't going 249 00:12:28.320 --> 00:12:29.080 to get you anywhere? 250 00:12:29.200 --> 00:12:29.840 Right right? 251 00:12:30.200 --> 00:12:32.240 So, and by the way, it's a little ironic because 252 00:12:32.240 --> 00:12:36.720 then he lays out the Lord's prayer that's commonly known 253 00:12:36.720 --> 00:12:39.919 as the Lord's Prayer that people in a lot of 254 00:12:39.919 --> 00:12:43.080 faiths they actually repeat over and over, like, hey, say 255 00:12:43.159 --> 00:12:46.879 ten our fathers, right, and so, which is repetition? And 256 00:12:46.960 --> 00:12:49.559 yet it comes just a few verses after him saying 257 00:12:50.679 --> 00:12:52.320 repetition is not going to get you anywhere. 258 00:12:52.879 --> 00:12:55.600 And then interesting, and by the way, you don't have 259 00:12:55.600 --> 00:12:57.679 to keep saying the same thing over and over and over, right, right, right, 260 00:12:57.720 --> 00:12:59.759 So please forgive me God, Please forgive me God. Please. 261 00:12:59.840 --> 00:13:00.679 Let's and by the. 262 00:13:00.679 --> 00:13:05.759 Way, that right, And that's not me putting down a 263 00:13:05.759 --> 00:13:08.200 certain faith in general. I have actually a lot of 264 00:13:08.240 --> 00:13:10.720 respect for the faith that I grew up in, which 265 00:13:10.720 --> 00:13:13.480 taught this right. You know, hey, say a bunch of 266 00:13:14.279 --> 00:13:16.159 you know our fathers. I grew up in that faith, 267 00:13:16.519 --> 00:13:18.120 and I have a lot of respect for it. So 268 00:13:18.159 --> 00:13:20.399 that's not me disrespecting it. But what I am saying 269 00:13:20.440 --> 00:13:23.639 is this, there is a pretty fundamental difference in belief 270 00:13:23.639 --> 00:13:25.879 and that's okay. And so I believe that this was 271 00:13:25.960 --> 00:13:29.960 not given to recite. Now, do I believe reciting this 272 00:13:30.000 --> 00:13:32.200 prayer is a bad thing. No, of course, not reciting 273 00:13:32.200 --> 00:13:35.840 it's a good thing. That's fine. But the idea of 274 00:13:35.879 --> 00:13:37.960 saying like, okay, the greater the sin, the more you 275 00:13:38.000 --> 00:13:41.000 have to repeat. Well, that's clearly what Jesus said doesn't 276 00:13:41.000 --> 00:13:43.639 get you anywhere, right, And so that it's not. And 277 00:13:44.120 --> 00:13:46.600 besides that, here's the other reason why we know that 278 00:13:46.679 --> 00:13:49.000 it wasn't given to us as a prayer to recite 279 00:13:49.480 --> 00:13:52.000 is because in another gospel, when he teaches us how 280 00:13:52.000 --> 00:13:55.519 to pray, he leaves a certain part out right, So 281 00:13:55.559 --> 00:13:57.519 it's like, so it's like, so he taught us to 282 00:13:57.559 --> 00:14:00.480 pray differently. So it's almost as if, you know, you 283 00:14:00.519 --> 00:14:02.600 go to the other gospel and you say, Jesus, don't 284 00:14:02.600 --> 00:14:05.519 you know the Lord's prayer? Right? And Jesus like, that's 285 00:14:05.559 --> 00:14:07.480 because it's not something to recite. It's a it's a 286 00:14:07.559 --> 00:14:11.279 it's a pattern, isn't it. It's a model. It is 287 00:14:11.360 --> 00:14:13.879 Jesus is saying, hey, here's the building blocks of a 288 00:14:13.879 --> 00:14:14.600 great prayer. 289 00:14:14.759 --> 00:14:14.960 Yeah. 290 00:14:15.120 --> 00:14:18.840 Right, So anyway, was it the Pharisees and the other gospels? 291 00:14:18.879 --> 00:14:19.799 No, it was not. 292 00:14:20.679 --> 00:14:23.440 Okay, so I just think in translation, and so I 293 00:14:23.480 --> 00:14:27.720 attached it. Yeah, yeah, okay, okay, So so maybe it 294 00:14:27.799 --> 00:14:29.480 was the maybe it was the maybe I'm thinking of 295 00:14:29.480 --> 00:14:31.480 the Pharisee staying on the corner, putting ashes on the wall. 296 00:14:31.519 --> 00:14:34.960 He calls them hypocrites. Remember fast Yeah, remember. 297 00:14:34.720 --> 00:14:36.600 I think I think it's the Pharisees putting ashes on 298 00:14:36.639 --> 00:14:38.399 their heads. Yeah, it's fasting. 299 00:14:38.720 --> 00:14:43.559 So this idea, Jesus does teach us to be persistent 300 00:14:43.600 --> 00:14:46.039 in prayer. So he's not saying it's wrong to come 301 00:14:46.080 --> 00:14:47.919 back to God with the same prayer request you had 302 00:14:47.960 --> 00:14:50.840 last time. Correct, that's not wrong. So he teaches us 303 00:14:50.879 --> 00:14:53.519 to be persistent. He talks about the woman who keeps 304 00:14:53.519 --> 00:14:56.039 coming back to the judge. He talks about right, continuing 305 00:14:56.039 --> 00:14:58.919 to knock on the door, continue to ask, continue to 306 00:14:58.919 --> 00:15:04.279 see right. So he's not saying that persistence is wrong. 307 00:15:04.799 --> 00:15:08.799 He's saying that that going through the motions over and 308 00:15:08.840 --> 00:15:12.480 over and over again is wrong. Like, so I was 309 00:15:12.519 --> 00:15:15.960 with somebody from another faith who also is famous for praying, 310 00:15:18.120 --> 00:15:21.039 and we were getting ready to go do a thing, 311 00:15:21.039 --> 00:15:24.519 but it was time for prayers, and so I said, oh, okay, hey, 312 00:15:24.600 --> 00:15:26.320 you know what, I'll wait. Oh no, I get this 313 00:15:26.320 --> 00:15:31.279 done real quick. I know this prayer come back over right, 314 00:15:31.840 --> 00:15:35.120 So I just remember. So then I asked him about it, So, oh, 315 00:15:35.399 --> 00:15:37.320 I say that prayer every time I'm in a hurry, 316 00:15:37.360 --> 00:15:39.480 I just hurry up and do that one. I said, well, 317 00:15:39.480 --> 00:15:42.720 it feels a little perfunctory as well. We're commanded to 318 00:15:42.799 --> 00:15:44.320 we have to pray five times a day, we have 319 00:15:44.320 --> 00:15:47.600 to do this. And so then it turned into a 320 00:15:47.600 --> 00:15:49.799 conversation about prayer, and I said, you know, Jesus said, 321 00:15:50.879 --> 00:15:52.679 don't just keep saying the same words over and over 322 00:15:52.679 --> 00:15:56.320 and over again, repetitively. What God's looking for is a 323 00:15:56.360 --> 00:16:01.799 relational experience right where we're speaking from our hearts, your heart, right, 324 00:16:02.000 --> 00:16:05.720 he wants our hearts. And in another translation, it says, 325 00:16:05.759 --> 00:16:08.360 when you pray, don't Babylon and on as the Pagans do. 326 00:16:08.519 --> 00:16:10.919 It's what the King James says. Right here, he says, 327 00:16:10.919 --> 00:16:13.159 as the gentiles do, because they think their prayers are 328 00:16:13.159 --> 00:16:17.360 answered merely by repeating their words again and again. An incantation, 329 00:16:17.960 --> 00:16:21.519 a spell, right, some kind of that. That's how a 330 00:16:21.519 --> 00:16:22.360 lot of people feel. 331 00:16:22.399 --> 00:16:22.440 It. 332 00:16:22.519 --> 00:16:25.519 If I just chant this thing, oh, then I'm going 333 00:16:25.559 --> 00:16:27.960 to be able to get God's attention. And what Jesus 334 00:16:28.039 --> 00:16:31.320 is saying, listen, it's not spells, it's not incantations, it's 335 00:16:31.360 --> 00:16:34.679 not chanting. It's going to get my attention. It's a 336 00:16:34.720 --> 00:16:38.960 personal conversation between a child and his father. That that's 337 00:16:38.960 --> 00:16:40.840 what gets my attention. And then he goes, hey, here's 338 00:16:40.840 --> 00:16:42.120 a good framework if you're going to talk to your 339 00:16:42.159 --> 00:16:44.799 dad about these things. First of all, acknowledge who he is, right, 340 00:16:45.519 --> 00:16:47.759 our father, who art in heaven. That's so we're acknowledging 341 00:16:47.759 --> 00:16:50.840 who he is. Hollowed be your name or in this one, 342 00:16:50.879 --> 00:16:54.000 may your name be kept holy. That's the meaning of it. 343 00:16:54.200 --> 00:16:56.320 What we're doing now is we're celebrating him for who 344 00:16:56.360 --> 00:16:59.399 he is. That's that's really what you're doing there. You're 345 00:16:59.440 --> 00:17:01.679 the creator, you're the provider. You're the one that can 346 00:17:02.000 --> 00:17:04.440 you know, is not bound by this earth or no 347 00:17:04.559 --> 00:17:06.599 problem is too big for you. That's what we're doing. 348 00:17:06.599 --> 00:17:09.720 We're having a conversation. It's not specifically those words, it's 349 00:17:09.759 --> 00:17:12.920 that attitude. And then when he says, may your kingdom 350 00:17:12.960 --> 00:17:16.920 come soon, he's he and may year will be done 351 00:17:17.160 --> 00:17:18.640 as it is on earth as it is in heaven. 352 00:17:18.720 --> 00:17:21.319 Is saying now, and you're in charge, So I recognize 353 00:17:21.359 --> 00:17:24.519 who you are. I recognize that there's nothing you can't do, 354 00:17:25.160 --> 00:17:27.119 and so I want you to do what you decide 355 00:17:27.279 --> 00:17:29.319 is best. Right, that's really what you're saying there. 356 00:17:29.400 --> 00:17:30.200 Yeah. 357 00:17:30.359 --> 00:17:34.720 So the building so that you're just boring me, Yeah, 358 00:17:34.759 --> 00:17:37.559 sorry about that, bully, Chris is bored by prayer. 359 00:17:38.519 --> 00:17:41.960 So the uh, the building blocks that I was referring 360 00:17:42.000 --> 00:17:46.720 to earlier is our number one is declared God's greatness. 361 00:17:46.880 --> 00:17:48.559 Yes, and then then the second. 362 00:17:48.359 --> 00:17:52.200 One is acknowledge our dependence, right, our dependence for what, 363 00:17:52.519 --> 00:17:53.960 our dependence for his is? 364 00:17:54.440 --> 00:17:57.079 Uh, you know, give us today this is yeah, the food, 365 00:17:57.240 --> 00:17:58.279 forgive us our sins. 366 00:17:58.079 --> 00:18:00.240 Forgive us of our sins. And so there's there's there's 367 00:18:00.279 --> 00:18:03.039 a list of things that were dependent on him. But 368 00:18:03.039 --> 00:18:05.599 but declare God's greatness is the first building block, which 369 00:18:05.599 --> 00:18:08.480 I love. I love that most of us learned it. 370 00:18:08.519 --> 00:18:11.319 Hallowed be thy name, right, Yeah, and it says here, 371 00:18:11.440 --> 00:18:14.279 may your name be kept holy. But another translation for 372 00:18:14.359 --> 00:18:17.240 hallowed be thy name, actually a better translation is great 373 00:18:17.359 --> 00:18:21.119 is your name hallowed? How it means great, great is 374 00:18:21.160 --> 00:18:24.119 your name? And that's what it is. It's declaring God's greatness. 375 00:18:24.319 --> 00:18:26.240 It's recognizing just to it is your praying too, in 376 00:18:26.279 --> 00:18:26.920 the moment. 377 00:18:26.759 --> 00:18:30.079 I push on that just a little bit. Holy is 378 00:18:30.119 --> 00:18:35.000 what hallowed means, Hallowed means set aside. Yeah, so a 379 00:18:35.039 --> 00:18:40.160 better translation is holy is holy. But because your name 380 00:18:40.240 --> 00:18:43.200 is set aside, it's greater than every name. It's it's 381 00:18:43.240 --> 00:18:47.559 beyond right, So it's not wrong. It's just you know, 382 00:18:47.640 --> 00:18:50.279 to say, great is your name, but his name is 383 00:18:50.279 --> 00:18:52.519 only great because it's so far beyond all the rest 384 00:18:52.519 --> 00:18:55.119 of ours. That that's that's the idea You're saying. 385 00:18:55.119 --> 00:18:57.279 Greatness would be a byproduct of the real translation, which 386 00:18:57.319 --> 00:18:59.680 would be holyness accurately like holy. Yeah, yeah, so holy 387 00:18:59.720 --> 00:19:00.119 is your. 388 00:19:00.359 --> 00:19:03.759 Right, right, But we we think of holy raw, right, 389 00:19:03.799 --> 00:19:05.920 We tend to think of holy as like without sin. 390 00:19:06.440 --> 00:19:08.839 Of course, that's a word. That's a meaning of it. Yeah, 391 00:19:08.880 --> 00:19:12.160 But holy means set apart that that that's really what 392 00:19:12.200 --> 00:19:15.039 it means at its foundation is it's it's been set 393 00:19:15.079 --> 00:19:19.000 apart for God, only for God's use, only for God's benefit. 394 00:19:19.079 --> 00:19:21.200 Which was that could be the idea of great Yes, 395 00:19:21.319 --> 00:19:24.119 and that's it is. Your name is so far set 396 00:19:24.119 --> 00:19:28.640 apart from ours, it's almost incomprehensible how great you and 397 00:19:28.720 --> 00:19:31.799 your name are compared to interesting little people. Interesting? Yeah, yeah, 398 00:19:31.839 --> 00:19:33.759 so it's it's both. It's like flip sides of the 399 00:19:33.799 --> 00:19:36.480 same coin, right, Yeah, it's very interesting. 400 00:19:37.200 --> 00:19:39.400 Yeah. And then and then uh, and then he goes 401 00:19:39.440 --> 00:19:41.440