The Lords Prayer | Week 1
July 13, 2025

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Pastor Jason

Matthew 6:5-8 (NIV)

5 “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. 6 But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. 7 And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. 8 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

  • Hypocrites and Pagans

  • Stage actor

  • Pray in secret so your father will reward you

  • Pagans

  • Babblings and many words

  • Praying like the pagans takes a posture that God is against us

Matthew 6:9 (NIV)
“This, then, is how you should pray:
“ ‘Our Father…

  • By starting the prayer Our Father, Jesus is establishing the baseline, the foundation for how we see and approach God.

  • Jesus could have started the prayer Our Creator

  • Jesus could have started the prayer Our Provider

  • Jesus could have started the prayer Our Mighty God

  • Jesus could have started the Lords prayer Our Righteous Judge, Our Wise Counselor, Our Best friend, Our Healer, Our Deliverer so many options for Jesus to start the prayer but Jesus doesn’t choose any of those names even though they all would be true.

  • Jesus is pointing us to the closest relationship possible with God.

  • When Jesus identifies God as our Father, God goes from being useful to being beautiful.

  • How do you see God?

“If you want to judge how well a person understands Christianity, find out how much he makes of the thought of being God’s child, and having God as his father. If this is not the thought that prompts and controls his worship and prayers and his whole outlook on life, it means he does not understand Christianity very well at all.” —JI Packer

  • When I pray, I have a Father who cares deeply for every heart in ways that only a father can.

When speaking of God as “Father”, Jesus is not summoning all our painful memories of the way too human weaknesses of our earthly fathers. He speaks instead of a divine Father, whose attributes are our hope and joy. He is never too busy for us, never too tired to talk, never too limited in knowledge or wisdom to be of any help, and He is never absent. He will never desert us, never disappoint us, never die, and never get sick or old or senile. His resources are never depleted, His love knows no limits, His power is boundary-less, and His grace has no frontiers. —Mark Rutland

Matthew 6:9-13 (NIV)

9 “This, then, is how you should pray:
“ ‘Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
10 your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
11 Give us today our daily bread.
12 And forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
13 And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one. ’