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Seeking the Face of God Using the Ancient Prayer Jesus Gave Us “Hallowed Be Your Name” The Gospel of Matthew 6:5-14

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Seeking the Face of GodUsing the Ancient Prayer

Jesus Gave Us

“Hallowed Be Your Name”The Gospel of Matthew 6:5-14

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Last Week’s Summary

Jesus invites us into a relationshipwith God that entails the privilege of

addressing and experiencing the Creator of the universe

as “Father.”

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What requests should

dominate our prayers

?

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5 And when you pray, you must not be

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like the hypocrites. For they love to standand pray in the synagogues and at thestreet corner, that they may be seen byothers. Truly, I tell you, they have receivedtheir reward. 6 But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door

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“…and pray to your Father who is insecret. And your Father who sees insecret will reward you. 7 “And when you pray, do not heap upempty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think they will be heard for theirmany words. 8 Do not be like them, for

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“your Father knows what you need beforeyou ask him. 9 Pray then like this:

“Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.10 Your kingdom come,your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

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11 “Give us this day our daily bread,12 and forgive us of our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.”

Leader: This is the word of the Lord!People: Thanks be to God!

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Seeking the Face of GodUsing the Ancient Prayer

Jesus Gave Us

“Hallowed Be Your Name”The Gospel of Matthew 6:5-14

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Some Key Questions

1 What does “hallowed” mean?

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“Hallowed”ˈha-(ˌ,)lōd / ˈha-lə-wəd

=(1) holy, consecrated

(2) sacred, revered

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1 What does

2 What’s does “hallowing” God’s name mean?

Some Key Questions

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“God said to Moses, ‘I am who I am.’”

~ Exodus 3:14

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YHWH = יהוה

“God said to Moses, ‘I am who I am.’”

~ Exodus 3:14

“self-existent / eternal one”

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YHWH = יהוה

“LORD”“Yahweh” or “Jehovah”

“God said to Moses, ‘I am who I am.’”

~ Exodus 3:14

“self-existent / eternal one”

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“God spoke to Moses and sad to him, “I am the LORD [YHWH]. I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and

to Jacob, as God Almighty [El Shaddai],

but by my name the LORD [YHWH] I did not make myself known to them.

~ Exodus 6:2ff

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“I take you to be my people, and I will be your God, and you

shall know that I am the LORD [YHWH]

your God.”~ Exodus 6:2ff

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“O LORD, our Lord, how majestic isyour name in all the earth.”

~ Psalm 8:1

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“Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.”

~ Psalm 20:7

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“Oh magnify the LORD with me, and

let us exalt his name together!”

~ Psalm 34:3

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“Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name!”

~ Psalm 96

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“You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.”

~ Exodus 20:7

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Pop Quiz!

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Pop Quiz!Q. What name did Jesus give us to use in addressing and experiencing God?

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“What name is prominent here in the Lord’s Prayer? ‘Father’ — ‘Abba.’ ‘Father, hallowed be your name.’

The name that we ask to be hallowed is Abba or Father.

This is revolutionary.

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“Certainly God’s name as Creator (Elohim) and his

covenant name (Jehovah), as well as his many other

names, are to be hallowed. But the emphasis here is on his name as Father. This is especially what

we pray for.”

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“Father”

OT: 39 books = 14xNT: 4 gospels = 60x

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“ ‘Father’ is the Christian name

for God.”

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“O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these

know that you sent me. I have made known to them your name, and will continue to make it

known…”~ Jesus of Nazareth in

The Gospel of John, 17:25-26

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Jesus invites us to fill our prayers with an earnest desire for God’s

name (aka “Father”) to be treasured above all else.

Summary

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We hallow God our Father’s name by believing in his Son, Jesus Christ

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“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God…. And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us,

and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth….

No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father’s side, he has made him known.”

~ The Apostle John in The Gospel of John, ch. 1

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~ The Apostle John in the Gospel of John, 1:12

“But to all who did receive him, who

believed in his name, he gave the

right to become children of God.”

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“…you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” The Spirit bears

witness with our spirit that we are children of God,

and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow

heirs with Christ….”

~ The Apostle Paul in Romans 8:15-16

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“Whoever does not honour the Son does not

honour the Father who sent him.” ~ Jesus of Nazareth in

The Gospel of John, 5:23

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We hallow God our Father’s name by answering this prayer with our lives

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~ Cyprian of Carthage (d. Sept 14, 258AD)

“We say, ‘Hallowed be your name,’ not that we wish for God that

he may be hallowed by our prayers, but that we beseech of Him

that His name may be hallowed in us.”

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“The plea, ‘Hallowed be your name,’ is the only petition in the Lord’s Prayer where an explicit act of the human heart is named. The act of hallowing. All the other petitions serve this. The kingdom comes for this. God’s will is done for this. Daily bread is for this. Forgiveness is for this. Escape from temptation and evil is for this”

~ John Piper “The Deepest Desire of the Christian Heart”

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We hallow God our Father’s

name by interceding

that the world would

come to know God as Father.

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