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 --> 00:00:16.000 practical ways. Good morning, good morning, we talked hown that through. 4 00:00:16.079 --> 00:00:19.679 Good morning, good morning to you and you and you. 5 00:00:19.839 --> 00:00:20.839 Wow, I knew it. 6 00:00:21.120 --> 00:00:21.480 You knew it. 7 00:00:21.519 --> 00:00:23.480 I knew it because I saw you starting to lift 8 00:00:23.519 --> 00:00:26.480 your hands. Well, recognize that. 9 00:00:26.679 --> 00:00:30.519 That's it. Hey. By the way, uh, you know I 10 00:00:30.519 --> 00:00:33.039 I just talked to another couple and I was reminded 11 00:00:33.079 --> 00:00:36.240 that most of our listeners are actually it's after working 12 00:00:36.719 --> 00:00:39.759 that's actually yeah. Yet I've just started this thing where 13 00:00:39.880 --> 00:00:43.039 it's it's good, it's good the evening. 14 00:00:42.679 --> 00:00:43.280 Good evening. 15 00:00:43.479 --> 00:00:45.240 But by the way, I said this, say to an 16 00:00:45.280 --> 00:00:49.159 usher literally, uh, we came to what was it? Was 17 00:00:49.200 --> 00:00:52.119 it a oh? It was yesterday at church. We actually 18 00:00:52.159 --> 00:00:54.719 were talking about when I get up on the stage, 19 00:00:54.759 --> 00:00:58.200 I say good morning. That's and some people criticize pastors 20 00:00:58.240 --> 00:01:00.560 for doing that good morning, and every says good moie. Some 21 00:01:00.560 --> 00:01:03.200 people who criticized church, they don't like that, but I 22 00:01:03.200 --> 00:01:03.920 I've always done it. 23 00:01:03.960 --> 00:01:07.400 I don't know why because they're grumpy people. 24 00:01:08.400 --> 00:01:11.200 But for thirty years that's what I've done. I just 25 00:01:11.280 --> 00:01:14.120 I love hearing the people's feedback. It's the extrovert in 26 00:01:14.200 --> 00:01:16.959 me so anyway, But we have a one o'clock service now, 27 00:01:17.400 --> 00:01:19.120 and if I say good morning, people are like, it's 28 00:01:19.120 --> 00:01:22.040 not morning. And if I say good afternoon, nobody responds 29 00:01:22.079 --> 00:01:26.239 because nobody in our culture says good afternoon ever ever, 30 00:01:27.000 --> 00:01:29.719 And nobody says good evening except for Dracula, good evening. 31 00:01:30.599 --> 00:01:34.640 Nobody says that either. Right, and so, but when I'm over, 32 00:01:34.719 --> 00:01:38.439 when I'm over in the Dominica Good Days, when when 33 00:01:38.439 --> 00:01:43.120 I was over in uh Dominican Republic, it's always uh 34 00:01:42.760 --> 00:01:48.480 uh bun's dias. They say it all they use all three. Yeah, 35 00:01:48.560 --> 00:01:48.840 they do. 36 00:01:49.840 --> 00:01:50.359 Bring it back. 37 00:01:50.480 --> 00:01:52.519 Chris, what is that movie Good Days? 38 00:01:53.120 --> 00:01:57.519 Wasn't it that it was a musical Scrooged or something? 39 00:01:58.480 --> 00:02:00.280 Oh oh, oh, you're talking about that one. No, that's 40 00:02:00.319 --> 00:02:03.200 good afternoon, Good afternoon. Yeah No, but there's an actual 41 00:02:03.239 --> 00:02:05.920 one that says good day. So there's there's another one. 42 00:02:05.959 --> 00:02:08.560 I don't know what it's from, Chattle. No, Chad text me. 43 00:02:08.680 --> 00:02:12.319 Chen, Yeah he knows. All right, Okay, so here we go. 44 00:02:12.960 --> 00:02:15.479 It's New Year's Eve. Yes, so this is a big one. 45 00:02:15.479 --> 00:02:19.560 Everybody's getting excited. It's football, yes, all this stuff. It's 46 00:02:19.560 --> 00:02:23.120 a big night. And what's one thing you're proud of 47 00:02:24.199 --> 00:02:27.879 or a memorable moment from twenty twenty five or something 48 00:02:27.919 --> 00:02:30.000 that made this year special or stand out. 49 00:02:30.120 --> 00:02:32.879 And we're going to do a draft paper scissors and 50 00:02:32.960 --> 00:02:33.960 do a draft of three things. 51 00:02:34.000 --> 00:02:41.400 Yes, okay, okay, ready, paper scissors did yeah, yeah. 52 00:02:40.840 --> 00:02:41.800 One, two, three? 53 00:02:41.879 --> 00:02:44.120 Shoot? Oh I got beat you. 54 00:02:44.960 --> 00:02:45.759 All right, very good? 55 00:02:45.840 --> 00:02:47.520 I did paper he did yes. 56 00:02:47.840 --> 00:02:50.800 So I'll go first, and I'm going to say that 57 00:02:52.120 --> 00:02:55.599 I was very proud of in the summertime, as we 58 00:02:55.599 --> 00:03:00.280 were approaching the fall, our family didn't have time to 59 00:03:00.400 --> 00:03:03.199 take a vacation. We had we had zero time. And 60 00:03:03.240 --> 00:03:06.080 by the way, that was largely my fault. I literally 61 00:03:06.120 --> 00:03:09.800 scheduled twenty weddings. I said yesterday, I said yes to 62 00:03:09.919 --> 00:03:13.560 every wedding. Wow, And so it messed up every opportunity 63 00:03:13.560 --> 00:03:16.080 for us to do weddings. It was. It was ridiculous. 64 00:03:16.639 --> 00:03:18.960 So what ended up happening was Liz is like, hey, 65 00:03:18.960 --> 00:03:21.639 can we do this? Hey the family, and I'm like nope, 66 00:03:21.960 --> 00:03:24.599 And I messed I'm not kidding, I messed everything up. 67 00:03:25.199 --> 00:03:29.000 So all those people happy, people happy to be a 68 00:03:29.039 --> 00:03:31.199 part of the most important day of their life and. 69 00:03:31.240 --> 00:03:33.120 I just kept on saying yes. Anyway. The point is 70 00:03:33.120 --> 00:03:35.199 is that my family and I were like, what are 71 00:03:35.199 --> 00:03:40.439 we going to do? And we they fought and scrounged 72 00:03:40.439 --> 00:03:43.319 to find a date where my even my daughter flew 73 00:03:43.400 --> 00:03:46.599 up from Florida and we found just a weekend to 74 00:03:47.000 --> 00:03:48.879 go up north and it was only for like two 75 00:03:48.879 --> 00:03:50.759 and a half days. We spent a ton of money, 76 00:03:51.599 --> 00:03:54.599 but it was either that or nothing. But everybody chose 77 00:03:55.400 --> 00:03:57.280 to make this happen even though it was only like 78 00:03:57.560 --> 00:04:01.080 a day and a half. I'm not kidding, Like, we 79 00:04:01.120 --> 00:04:03.120 are determined to spend time together. 80 00:04:03.280 --> 00:04:03.800 That's awesome. 81 00:04:03.800 --> 00:04:04.560 That was a proud moment. 82 00:04:04.599 --> 00:04:08.080 Oh that's a good moment. Yeah. I was going to say, 83 00:04:08.280 --> 00:04:13.400 I think the thing I'm most proud of is within 84 00:04:14.479 --> 00:04:17.560 what we do where we were pastors at Heritage Church. 85 00:04:17.680 --> 00:04:17.920 Yep. 86 00:04:18.160 --> 00:04:20.399 I love the fact that we saw eight hundred and 87 00:04:20.399 --> 00:04:22.920 seventeen people make a public profession of faith for baptism 88 00:04:22.920 --> 00:04:26.519 this year. Oh yeah, that's one of my proudest things 89 00:04:26.639 --> 00:04:27.720 of twenty twenty five. 90 00:04:28.040 --> 00:04:30.879 Yeah for sure. Wow, So you're going work related huh spiritual? 91 00:04:31.000 --> 00:04:33.480 Well you went family Kingdom, Yeah, well you went family, 92 00:04:33.560 --> 00:04:34.519 So I went work. 93 00:04:34.839 --> 00:04:38.759 Okay, all right, I'm gonna do fine. I was going 94 00:04:38.839 --> 00:04:40.519 to talk about my shed in the backyard. 95 00:04:40.639 --> 00:04:42.040 Oh do it. I'm proud of your shed. 96 00:04:42.360 --> 00:04:43.600 Well, I'll be honest with you. 97 00:04:43.639 --> 00:04:46.800 Did you build it? No, I had it put in there. 98 00:04:46.759 --> 00:04:49.319 Turnkey bought it and they came and built it on site. 99 00:04:49.319 --> 00:04:50.879 But I gotta be honest with you. We call it 100 00:04:50.879 --> 00:04:54.120 a bar and it's really big. And but believe it 101 00:04:54.199 --> 00:04:57.160 or not, it is a fundamental It goes deep, bro, 102 00:04:57.560 --> 00:04:59.639 It goes deep. Let me tell you why. Because I've 103 00:04:59.680 --> 00:05:02.399 been looking for a barn for ten years. We have 104 00:05:02.480 --> 00:05:05.600 no basement. We're in a pre flood zone and I 105 00:05:05.639 --> 00:05:08.639 have no basement, and so our garage is our basement. 106 00:05:08.959 --> 00:05:12.680 And because our garage is our basement, are our cars 107 00:05:13.160 --> 00:05:16.959 are outside the garage, which means like there's mud outside 108 00:05:16.959 --> 00:05:20.240 of the car. So I literally built bricks papers on 109 00:05:20.360 --> 00:05:23.399 each side of the driveway and spend thousands of dollars 110 00:05:23.480 --> 00:05:26.240 just because I have no basement. Wow, And that means 111 00:05:25.879 --> 00:05:28.480 that it seems like it's not connected, but it directly is. 112 00:05:29.279 --> 00:05:33.360 So it's like, I literally everything has been horrible, But 113 00:05:33.639 --> 00:05:35.319 the only things that's been that's been horrible about my 114 00:05:35.360 --> 00:05:37.319 house is I have no basement. So finally I just 115 00:05:37.319 --> 00:05:40.120 said I'm getting this barn, and believe it or not, 116 00:05:40.279 --> 00:05:44.240 it translates into so much relief in my house. So 117 00:05:44.319 --> 00:05:45.000 it was a big deal. 118 00:05:45.040 --> 00:05:48.279 Good for you. Yeah, thanks, fantastic and we relas we 119 00:05:48.319 --> 00:05:50.480 love it. Congratulations. After how long have you lived in 120 00:05:50.560 --> 00:05:50.920 that house? 121 00:05:51.079 --> 00:05:51.639 Twenty years? 122 00:05:51.639 --> 00:05:52.120 Twenty years? 123 00:05:52.199 --> 00:05:53.920 So yeah, yeah, it's deserving. 124 00:05:53.959 --> 00:05:57.040 It's time. Yeah yeah. Yeah. So I was going to 125 00:05:57.120 --> 00:05:59.160 say one of the things I'm proud of is my 126 00:05:59.319 --> 00:06:02.600 daughter got engaged this year. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure, 127 00:06:02.600 --> 00:06:06.240 a big deal. Yeah, she's going to get married next 128 00:06:06.279 --> 00:06:09.160 May and hoping I can make it unless you want 129 00:06:09.160 --> 00:06:10.560 to do it. Sounds like you love doing weddings. 130 00:06:10.720 --> 00:06:14.199 Oh that's so funny. Well, guess what my third thing 131 00:06:14.279 --> 00:06:16.519 was going to be My daughter got engaged this year? Yeah? 132 00:06:16.759 --> 00:06:18.879 Oka, wait wait was it was it this year? Yeah? 133 00:06:19.079 --> 00:06:21.920 Was it Easter? Yeah? It was easter, wasn't it? 134 00:06:22.160 --> 00:06:25.120 Yes? Yeah, because remember you had to scoot out. 135 00:06:25.480 --> 00:06:27.680 Yeah, yeah, that's right, that's right. Easter. Yeah, So my 136 00:06:27.800 --> 00:06:30.160 daughter got engaged, and I can't have you say Jenny 137 00:06:30.160 --> 00:06:31.560 got engaged without me saying to. 138 00:06:31.720 --> 00:06:34.199 Okay, you want to just put those in as bonuses, 139 00:06:34.920 --> 00:06:36.720 So you want to do another one besides that, because 140 00:06:36.720 --> 00:06:37.319 we're kind. 141 00:06:37.120 --> 00:06:41.680 Of okay, all right, okay, uh, well, then I'm going 142 00:06:41.800 --> 00:06:45.000 to say that one of my other proud moments this 143 00:06:45.079 --> 00:06:50.279 year was how my kids look out for one another. 144 00:06:50.319 --> 00:06:52.519 And there's a specific example that I'm having in mind, 145 00:06:52.560 --> 00:06:54.120 but I'm not going to say it though, just because 146 00:06:54.120 --> 00:06:57.480 I don't want to embarrass my son. Uh embarrass him 147 00:06:57.519 --> 00:07:00.000 in a good way, right because he because he stepped 148 00:07:00.120 --> 00:07:04.560 up and shined in a way that made me so 149 00:07:04.879 --> 00:07:07.920 unbelievably proud. And they look out for each other. And 150 00:07:07.959 --> 00:07:11.959 I actually thought to myself, Wow, like that is unbelievable, 151 00:07:11.959 --> 00:07:13.600 because when they were in junior high they fought like 152 00:07:13.680 --> 00:07:16.480 cats and dogs. But now they're super close and it's 153 00:07:16.560 --> 00:07:19.480 like thank God, right yeah, and so it's like as 154 00:07:19.480 --> 00:07:20.920 a parent, you're like super proud. 155 00:07:21.120 --> 00:07:24.079 I was going to talk about closeness a family also awesome. 156 00:07:24.199 --> 00:07:26.439 So yeah, I was just gonna say this year was 157 00:07:26.759 --> 00:07:30.240 a very memorable year because in the beginning of the year, 158 00:07:30.240 --> 00:07:32.759 we lost my dad he was eighty seven, and then 159 00:07:32.800 --> 00:07:34.879 here at the end we lost my brother, and a 160 00:07:34.920 --> 00:07:36.959 lot of times, when you have that kind of stress 161 00:07:37.000 --> 00:07:39.519 on a family, it pulls a family apart, right, so 162 00:07:39.800 --> 00:07:41.360 to do two in one year, it can be really 163 00:07:41.399 --> 00:07:44.920 really hard. But my mom and my brothers really leaned in, 164 00:07:44.959 --> 00:07:48.879 and their wives really leaned in, and I feel like 165 00:07:48.920 --> 00:07:51.439 we drew closer to each other, not further apart. Yeah, 166 00:07:51.759 --> 00:07:55.279 during those things. So I'm very very proud of it. 167 00:07:56.480 --> 00:08:01.680 That's great, man, that's really good. Well, Hey, those those 168 00:08:01.720 --> 00:08:03.560 are definitely special moments. 169 00:08:03.680 --> 00:08:08.279 Could our viewers see that bug walking across there? I 170 00:08:08.319 --> 00:08:10.920 don't know if you were watching. We had a bug 171 00:08:11.000 --> 00:08:13.040 here and I just flicked it out into the room 172 00:08:13.079 --> 00:08:15.079 and it dawned me. I shouldn't inflicted it into the room. 173 00:08:15.279 --> 00:08:16.920 It was a box elder bug, is what it was. 174 00:08:17.000 --> 00:08:19.800 So it's so funny. Yeah, it's probably living right, Yeah, yeah, yeah, 175 00:08:19.839 --> 00:08:22.839 you didn't kill it. Know what I was going to 176 00:08:22.879 --> 00:08:26.399 say is those are very special moments, Jeff, not quite 177 00:08:26.480 --> 00:08:29.120 as special as the Sermon on the mount. 178 00:08:29.360 --> 00:08:31.560 Yes, and especially when Jesus taught us how to pray. 179 00:08:31.759 --> 00:08:35.200 That's true, that is very true, But there's still a 180 00:08:35.240 --> 00:08:36.679 special nonetheless. 181 00:08:36.200 --> 00:08:40.159 That's right. So Jesus said in the premise behind this 182 00:08:40.159 --> 00:08:45.240 whole series, is that the beatitudes set up the framework 183 00:08:45.360 --> 00:08:49.840 for much of what Jesus teaches us in the rest 184 00:08:50.039 --> 00:08:51.960 of the Sermon on the Mount, he has all these 185 00:08:52.000 --> 00:08:55.759 illustrations saying this is what I mean. And so this 186 00:08:55.840 --> 00:08:58.039 week we're talking about how Jesus said, blessed are those 187 00:08:58.039 --> 00:09:01.519 who are poor in spirit, and the New Living says, 188 00:09:01.519 --> 00:09:03.559 blessed those who are poor and realize their need for Him. 189 00:09:04.200 --> 00:09:08.519 And so today we're talking about how Jesus teaches us 190 00:09:08.639 --> 00:09:14.159 our dependency on Him through prayer. And that's I think 191 00:09:14.399 --> 00:09:17.600 a very significant thing. And for many of us, the 192 00:09:17.600 --> 00:09:22.279 Lord's Prayer is something that we repeat in church. Yep right, 193 00:09:22.399 --> 00:09:25.120 it's something that we just keep saying, we're at home 194 00:09:25.279 --> 00:09:29.360 by wrote right, And it's way more than that. So 195 00:09:31.240 --> 00:09:35.159 I think it reveals our need for God, and it 196 00:09:35.399 --> 00:09:38.279 trains us to depend on God daily. So here's what 197 00:09:38.320 --> 00:09:38.679 he says. 198 00:09:38.720 --> 00:09:40.159 Hey, can we start in verse five? 199 00:09:40.399 --> 00:09:43.919 That's where I was going to start. Awesome, Yes, we're 200 00:09:43.919 --> 00:09:46.679 going to go five through fifteen or five through fourteen. 201 00:09:46.799 --> 00:09:50.120 Fifteen fifteen, He says, when you pray, don't be like 202 00:09:50.120 --> 00:09:52.840 the hypocrites who love to pray publicly or on street 203 00:09:52.840 --> 00:09:55.639 corners and in the synagogue where everyone can see them. 204 00:09:55.799 --> 00:09:57.679 I tell you the truth, that's all the reward you 205 00:09:57.679 --> 00:10:00.399 will ever get. But when you pray, go, will weigh 206 00:10:00.399 --> 00:10:02.399 by yourself, shut the door behind you, and pray to 207 00:10:02.399 --> 00:10:05.360 your father in private. Then your father, who sees everything, 208 00:10:05.360 --> 00:10:08.960 will will reward you when you pray. Don't babble on 209 00:10:09.039 --> 00:10:11.399 and on as the gentiles do. They think their prayers 210 00:10:11.440 --> 00:10:13.919 are answered merely by repeating their words again and again. 211 00:10:14.480 --> 00:10:17.200 Don't be like them, for your father knows exactly what 212 00:10:17.240 --> 00:10:20.200 you need, even before you ask him. Pray like this, 213 00:10:20.879 --> 00:10:23.440 our Father in heaven, May your name be kept holy, 214 00:10:23.919 --> 00:10:26.960 May your kingdom come soon. May your will be done 215 00:10:26.960 --> 00:10:29.720 on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today 216 00:10:29.799 --> 00:10:33.159 the food we need. And forgive us our sins, as 217 00:10:33.159 --> 00:10:36.039 we have forgiven those who sin against us. And don't 218 00:10:36.080 --> 00:10:38.480 let us yield the temptation, but rescue us from the 219 00:10:38.519 --> 00:10:41.720 evil one. If you forgive those who sin against you, 220 00:10:41.720 --> 00:10:44.200 your heavenly father will forgive you. But if you refuse 221 00:10:44.240 --> 00:10:48.879 to forgive others, your father will not forgive your sins. Oooh, 222 00:10:49.720 --> 00:10:50.279 that's strong. 223 00:10:50.720 --> 00:10:54.840 Yeah. And this whole thing is about praying and fasting, 224 00:10:55.440 --> 00:11:00.399 and he's talking about you know again. Largely this is 225 00:11:00.440 --> 00:11:02.759 the way you should go to God. This is your posture, 226 00:11:02.960 --> 00:11:06.679 This should be your attitude, This is this is a 227 00:11:06.720 --> 00:11:11.559 template of how you should pray. This template represents you know, 228 00:11:12.399 --> 00:11:16.360 just about everything. And now I have I have a 229 00:11:16.360 --> 00:11:19.879 strong compassion toward people who grew up like myself. Right. 230 00:11:20.480 --> 00:11:24.440 So we didn't go to church very often, hardly at all, actually, 231 00:11:24.559 --> 00:11:27.480 but when we did talk about church, when we did, 232 00:11:27.519 --> 00:11:29.679 it was always under this premise, right, It was under 233 00:11:29.720 --> 00:11:32.639 the premise of saying, like, Okay, this is the prayer 234 00:11:33.039 --> 00:11:34.559 you know that that you should pray. If you're going 235 00:11:34.639 --> 00:11:37.960 to pray by yourself. That wasn't We had a different 236 00:11:37.960 --> 00:11:40.360 thing when we say grace. But but that was the prayer. 237 00:11:40.639 --> 00:11:43.919 And then it was always reciting, and it was always 238 00:11:44.320 --> 00:11:46.840 you know, attending. It was always just you know, you 239 00:11:47.279 --> 00:11:49.559 have to do these things in order to get in 240 00:11:49.600 --> 00:11:53.639 good with God. And this prayer was you know, referred 241 00:11:53.639 --> 00:11:57.399 to as like okay, say ten of these right, And 242 00:11:57.399 --> 00:12:00.759 and I honestly believe it saying say ten our fathers, yeah, see, 243 00:12:01.480 --> 00:12:02.399 or hail Mary's or whatever. 244 00:12:02.519 --> 00:12:02.720 Yeah. 245 00:12:02.919 --> 00:12:05.519 And the thing is, I don't believe that if you 246 00:12:05.600 --> 00:12:09.039 say ten of these our fathers, that's not a bad thing. 247 00:12:10.440 --> 00:12:13.559 Scripture is not a bad thing, right, just as long 248 00:12:13.600 --> 00:12:17.240 as we don't misinterpret the purpose in which it's given. 249 00:12:17.279 --> 00:12:18.799 We don't think it's like, Okay, if I see ten 250 00:12:18.840 --> 00:12:21.399 of these, then my sins are going to be forgiven 251 00:12:22.080 --> 00:12:24.440 or in paying penance. You know, it's like it's like, okay, 252 00:12:24.440 --> 00:12:27.519 if only say nine, it's not enough. It's like that 253 00:12:27.519 --> 00:12:29.919 that's my misunderstanding as a child. 254 00:12:29.960 --> 00:12:32.159 I don't think that there's any spiritual impact for saying 255 00:12:32.200 --> 00:12:33.919 ten of them. No, I don't even know that I 256 00:12:33.960 --> 00:12:36.919 think there's any spiritual impact in saying it exactly as 257 00:12:36.919 --> 00:12:39.720 it is. No, as much as it is the intent 258 00:12:39.840 --> 00:12:41.399 behind it, that's right, right, yeah, yeah. 259 00:12:41.399 --> 00:12:42.759 And the reason why we believe that this is a 260 00:12:42.799 --> 00:12:45.919 template and not something to be recited is because elsewhere 261 00:12:45.919 --> 00:12:49.679 in the Gospels, Jesus talks about the Lord's Prayer and 262 00:12:49.840 --> 00:12:53.120 he says it, only he says it slightly differently. Right, 263 00:12:53.360 --> 00:12:56.279 So if it was something to be recited, you would say, well, Jesus, 264 00:12:56.320 --> 00:12:57.360 don't you know the Lord's prayer? 265 00:12:58.039 --> 00:12:58.240 Right? 266 00:12:58.360 --> 00:12:58.559 Right? 267 00:12:58.679 --> 00:13:00.120 Yeah? It's like, come on, quote it right. 268 00:13:00.120 --> 00:13:01.679 Want, Jesus, what the heck you missed? 269 00:13:01.679 --> 00:13:04.879 The part you know you miss is where he quotes it. 270 00:13:05.000 --> 00:13:08.000 And it's like, so it's written differently, and and so 271 00:13:08.080 --> 00:13:09.799 it's like, so we don't we don't believe that it's 272 00:13:09.840 --> 00:13:14.759 a you know, a carefully recited worded prayer. It is. 273 00:13:14.879 --> 00:13:17.279 It is the reason why Jesus said pray like this. 274 00:13:17.399 --> 00:13:19.879 He didn't say pray this. And if it was something 275 00:13:19.879 --> 00:13:22.039 to be repeated, he would have said pray this, right, 276 00:13:22.120 --> 00:13:24.480 but he didn't say that. He said pray like this 277 00:13:24.799 --> 00:13:26.279 similarly to this. 278 00:13:26.440 --> 00:13:28.720 Yeah. In Luke eleven he says, this is how you 279 00:13:28.759 --> 00:13:29.279 should pray. 280 00:13:29.399 --> 00:13:29.799 That's right. 281 00:13:30.240 --> 00:13:32.200 And then here's what he says, Father, may your name 282 00:13:32.240 --> 00:13:35.000 be kept holy. That's different a little bit. It's the 283 00:13:35.000 --> 00:13:39.480 same idea mayor kingdom comes soon. That's as opposed to over. 284 00:13:39.600 --> 00:13:43.200 He says, mayor kingdom comes from mayor will be done 285 00:13:43.200 --> 00:13:46.360 on earth as it is in heaven. He doesn't say that, right. 286 00:13:46.639 --> 00:13:49.080 In Luke eleven, he says, give us each day the 287 00:13:49.120 --> 00:13:54.039 food we need. He says that there in Matthew, in 288 00:13:54.080 --> 00:13:58.840 Matthew chapter six. And then he says, and forgive us 289 00:13:58.879 --> 00:14:01.519 our sins as we forgive those who sin against us. 290 00:14:01.559 --> 00:14:02.159 That's the same. 291 00:14:02.320 --> 00:14:05.519 That's the same. And then he says, and don't let 292 00:14:05.600 --> 00:14:08.879 us yield the temptation. That's the end of it, right. 293 00:14:08.919 --> 00:14:10.879 And then in this one he says, but rescue us 294 00:14:10.879 --> 00:14:11.480 from the evil one. 295 00:14:11.559 --> 00:14:17.720 That's right. So it's it's the idea. Either Luke or 296 00:14:17.799 --> 00:14:21.200 Matthew misquoted him right, or he really does mean it 297 00:14:21.240 --> 00:14:24.440 when he says this is how you should pray. Don't 298 00:14:24.519 --> 00:14:26.799 pray this, that's not what he says. But he says 299 00:14:26.799 --> 00:14:29.559 this is how you should pray. In verse nine in 300 00:14:29.600 --> 00:14:33.240 Matthew chapter six, he says, pray like this, right, and 301 00:14:33.320 --> 00:14:35.320 so this is how you know I love We always 302 00:14:35.360 --> 00:14:37.159 say this. The Bible is its own best commentary. 303 00:14:37.200 --> 00:14:37.639 That's right. 304 00:14:37.720 --> 00:14:41.039 So if this was a prescription, pray ten of these 305 00:14:41.120 --> 00:14:45.360 and all your wildes streams are going to come true, right, then, boy, 306 00:14:45.399 --> 00:14:48.240 you better recite it exactly the right way. 307 00:14:48.240 --> 00:14:48.919 You better know it. 308 00:14:49.480 --> 00:14:51.600 And then and then, since none of us speak Greek, 309 00:14:52.440 --> 00:14:55.159 coin a Greek, well we really be in trouble because 310 00:14:55.159 --> 00:14:56.960 we're trying to do it from English. And which would 311 00:14:57.000 --> 00:14:59.679 that be? Would that be English from the sixteen eleven, right, 312 00:15:00.039 --> 00:15:01.879 or would that be English from the eighteen hundred? Because 313 00:15:01.879 --> 00:15:04.080 everybody English from that, I guarantee. 314 00:15:03.720 --> 00:15:09.840 You everybody knows. Everybody knows the King, James Father. Yeah, 315 00:15:09.919 --> 00:15:12.399 and and and uh and again that's even just a translation, 316 00:15:12.720 --> 00:15:16.399 it's just an outdated translation from normal speech, right, because 317 00:15:16.440 --> 00:15:20.080 nobody says thy anymore. But but that's how we know it. 318 00:15:20.360 --> 00:15:22.279 So when we recite it, that's how we recite it. 319 00:15:22.759 --> 00:15:25.360 And uh and the funny thing is, you know again 320 00:15:25.399 --> 00:15:28.360 it has a pattern. And so uh, I heard Andy 321 00:15:28.360 --> 00:15:30.440 Stanley talk about this, and I've mentioned it on the 322 00:15:30.440 --> 00:15:33.840 Bible Guys at least twice. But when he says how 323 00:15:33.879 --> 00:15:36.440 would be thy name? He means great as your name? 324 00:15:36.919 --> 00:15:40.679 And and and Andy I remember proposed the idea of 325 00:15:40.720 --> 00:15:44.600 acknowledging God's greatness at the beginning, because he says, because 326 00:15:45.720 --> 00:15:50.279 Jesus probably knew that our propensity was to go directly 327 00:15:50.320 --> 00:15:53.240 to our needs, wants and wishes. Because two days ago 328 00:15:53.279 --> 00:15:54.919 you said, if we if we took prayer request in 329 00:15:54.919 --> 00:15:57.360 the auditorium, a lot of it would be needs, wants 330 00:15:57.360 --> 00:16:00.480 and wishes. That's right, And uh, Any says, but if 331 00:16:00.480 --> 00:16:03.720 you take time at the beginning of your prayer to 332 00:16:04.080 --> 00:16:07.000 just realize just who it is you're talking to, then 333 00:16:07.039 --> 00:16:08.799 by the time you get your needs, wants and wishes, 334 00:16:08.840 --> 00:16:11.519 maybe you'll feel a lot more better about everything that 335 00:16:11.600 --> 00:16:14.679 you request. You know, you're just you'll feel less anxiety 336 00:16:14.720 --> 00:16:17.679 about everything that you're wanting God to take care of 337 00:16:18.000 --> 00:16:20.799 because if you spend time acknowledging who He is and 338 00:16:20.840 --> 00:16:24.759 who you're not, then that right size is our perspective. 339 00:16:25.320 --> 00:16:30.000 And again it's it couples, you know, very nicely with 340 00:16:30.200 --> 00:16:34.559 Blessed are those who are poor in spirit who acknowledge 341 00:16:34.600 --> 00:16:35.759 their dependency on God. 342 00:16:37.080 --> 00:16:43.559 So he's really driving home this idea that we're not God. 343 00:16:43.799 --> 00:16:47.559 That's what this phrase is, right right, I'm not God. 344 00:16:47.679 --> 00:16:50.840 You are. And when I begin to really be convinced 345 00:16:50.879 --> 00:16:54.440 of that that I do not have the ability to 346 00:16:54.559 --> 00:16:56.879 solve every problem in front of me. I don't have 347 00:16:56.919 --> 00:16:59.559 the ability to forgive my own sins. I don't have 348 00:16:59.600 --> 00:17:03.600 the ability to provide everything necessary for my life. I 349 00:17:03.639 --> 00:17:08.039 don't have the ability to fight temptation by myself. I 350 00:17:08.079 --> 00:17:14.079 don't have they not the most devastating temptations, those massive 351 00:17:14.119 --> 00:17:16.240 hurts or habits or hang ups that we all need 352 00:17:16.279 --> 00:17:19.559 to recover from. It's just not possible. I don't have 353 00:17:19.640 --> 00:17:23.000 the ability to forgive the way that I should forgive, 354 00:17:23.079 --> 00:17:26.079 let alone to be forgiven myself right, And so I'm 355 00:17:26.119 --> 00:17:29.000 desperate for God in all of these things. So when 356 00:17:29.039 --> 00:17:32.519 I put God in his right place, that automatically puts 357 00:17:32.559 --> 00:17:34.319 me in my right place. It puts me in the 358 00:17:34.359 --> 00:17:36.599 right frame of mind. It reminds me that I'm desperate 359 00:17:36.640 --> 00:17:39.599 for him, that I need him. And so there's a 360 00:17:39.640 --> 00:17:46.759 really good statement here. Life application study Bible in the 361 00:17:46.839 --> 00:17:50.440 Luke passage Luke chapter eleven says, notice the order in 362 00:17:50.519 --> 00:17:52.839 this prayer, which is what you were pointing out. First, 363 00:17:52.920 --> 00:17:56.559 Jesus praised God and then he made his requests. Praising 364 00:17:56.599 --> 00:17:58.680 God first puts Us in the right frame of mind 365 00:17:58.680 --> 00:18:00.960 to tell him about our needs. Too often our prayers 366 00:18:00.960 --> 00:18:04.759 are more like shopping lists than conversations. And so maybe 367 00:18:04.960 --> 00:18:08.240 one of the best disciplines you can learn today tomorrow, 368 00:18:08.279 --> 00:18:11.319 maybe in the new year, spend a little bit more 369 00:18:11.359 --> 00:18:15.240 time reading in the Book of Psalms, make notes about 370 00:18:15.279 --> 00:18:20.440 when David talks about God, right, and then talk about 371 00:18:20.599 --> 00:18:23.759 talk to God like David did. The Bible says David 372 00:18:23.799 --> 00:18:27.240 was a man after God's own heart. And David will say, God, 373 00:18:27.319 --> 00:18:30.200 you created everything. Without you, nothing can be created. God, 374 00:18:30.240 --> 00:18:32.400 You're like a shepherd, and I don't know where to 375 00:18:32.440 --> 00:18:34.960 go without you. God, You're a mighty warrior, and you 376 00:18:35.000 --> 00:18:36.920 go before me and you fight for me. Right, if 377 00:18:36.960 --> 00:18:41.240 you could start acknowledging who God is, start every one 378 00:18:41.240 --> 00:18:45.759 of your prayers. That way, it'll start to convince you 379 00:18:45.799 --> 00:18:48.920 more and more and more of your desperate need for Him, 380 00:18:49.039 --> 00:18:54.279 which is what the first beatitude tells us, right is, 381 00:18:54.680 --> 00:18:57.160 blessed are those who are poor in spirit. The more 382 00:18:57.400 --> 00:18:59.440 I see who God is, the more I see how 383 00:18:59.480 --> 00:19:01.640 little I am and how desperate I am for Him. 384 00:19:02.319 --> 00:19:04.759 And so that I think for twenty twenty six could 385 00:19:04.759 --> 00:19:06.519 be a great new habit. Oh for sure, for a 386 00:19:06.559 --> 00:19:08.839 lot of our listeners, go start reading through the Book 387 00:19:08.880 --> 00:19:11.720 of Psalms. My dad used to read what was it, 388 00:19:11.720 --> 00:19:14.599 there's one hundred and fifty Psalms. He'd read like I 389 00:19:14.640 --> 00:19:17.960 forgot two or three Psalms a day, and then the 390 00:19:17.960 --> 00:19:21.319 one proverb a day, whatever that was, And he'd get 391 00:19:21.319 --> 00:19:24.319 through the whole Book of Proverbs every month. And then 392 00:19:24.359 --> 00:19:26.160 he tried to get through the Book of Psalms a 393 00:19:26.200 --> 00:19:28.440 couple times a year. And it's because he felt like there. 394 00:19:29.079 --> 00:19:31.359 You know, David was a warrior, but he's also a poet. 395 00:19:31.400 --> 00:19:34.240 There's something that's both on the masculine side of how 396 00:19:34.240 --> 00:19:37.359 he writes, and then also on the art side, this 397 00:19:37.559 --> 00:19:40.680 this poetic side that kind of grabs your heart in 398 00:19:40.720 --> 00:19:43.640 a different kind of way, and particularly in how to 399 00:19:43.720 --> 00:19:47.319 know God. And so if that's what you do, just 400 00:19:47.559 --> 00:19:50.039 cruise through the Book of Psalms and find out how 401 00:19:50.119 --> 00:19:52.960