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I don’t believe it is ever God’s will for someone to beat his or her spouse, child, or significant other. For example, I don’t believe it is ever God’s will for a child to be abused.
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Human free will exercised under the influence of selfishness, sin, and evil produces actions and behavior outside of God’s will and desire for humanity. Jesus wouldn’t have told his disciples to pray for God’s will to be done on earth as it is in heaven, if it was already being done on earth. God wouldn’t have had to send Jesus to the world if everything that happened in the world was according to the will of God. Everything that happens in the world is not the will of God. As Christian, we don’t fatalistically accept everything that happens to us or to others, as God’s will.
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Praying for God’s will to be done on earth, by the power of God’s Spirit working among us and through us, requires our active participation and our full engagement. Some Christians seem so fatalistic they could go out on the Brewster flats at low tide and sit on the sand until high tide came in and they drowned – then they’d say, “I guess it was God’s will.” Nonsense. There’s a significant difference between being a Christian and a fatalist. Our participation begins with our prayers but it can’t stop there. “Thy kingdom come,” or “let your kingdom come,” demonstrates the need for our active participation in the coming of God’s kingdom and the doing of God’s will. This phrase of the Lord’s Prayer is a constant reminder that we want to act within the flow of God’s actions and will for us and for the world. This is very often not the case on this troubled earth. “Thy kingdom come.” In other words, that what God prefers is what actually happens. This part of the Lord’s Prayer is a petition or plea that God’s kingdom would fully come on earth. Paradoxically, one could also argue that very few of us who pray this prayer have a clear notion of what we are asking for, especially when we reach the second petition: ‘Let your kingdom come.’ Yet in many ways this is the central focus of the only prayer Jesus taught us, just as it was the central focus of his entire ministry.” It could be argued that no single minute passes when it is not being uttered. In his book, Rediscovering New Testament Prayer, John Koenig writes about the Lord’s Prayer, “Every day, in countless languages, in public and in private, in virtually every country of the world, this prayer ascends to God. We don’t pray, “my will be done,” we pray “thy will be done.” This isn’t easy if we’re serious about it. Praying this prayer we begin by focusing on God and what God wants actually being accomplished.
The Lord’s Prayer is spoken to “ Our Father, the one in the heavens” or “ Our Father always near us.” The Lord’s Prayer speaks first about God’s name and then about God’s kingdom and God’s will being done on earth.
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In Week One of our series on The Lord’s Prayer, we learned that God is the focus of our prayer.
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 24:07 - 22.1MB) Matthew 6:7-13, Your Kingdom Come, Your Will Be Done Doug Scalise, Brewster Baptist Church 13 And do not bring us to the time of trial, but rescue us from the evil one. 12 And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. 9 “Pray then in this way: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. 8 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. Last week I shared the Lord’s Prayer from Luke’s Gospel, today we hear it from the Gospel of Matthew 6:7-13: 7 “When you are praying, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do for they think that they will be heard because of their many words. A simple definition of prayer is talking to God about what we are doing together. Jesus says when we pray we’re to be more concerned with praying to God than praying in places that enable us to be seen or heard by others while we pray.
In Matthew 6, the Lord’s Prayer is given as part of the Sermon of the Mount when Jesus moves from teaching about giving to the subject of prayer.
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