The Prayers of Jesus - Session 3 - Joining in Jesus' Prayer

Insights:

• When Christians pray "Your Kingdom come" they are praying for the completion of a kingdom which has already come with Jesus. (Oscar Cullmann)
  
• The term "bread" has multiple meanings. In antiquity "bread" was never taken as something merely material.
  
• The term "Father" is used with reference to God in the Old Testament 40 times; but in the New Testament 260 times. Jesus has radically changed the believer's view of God as "Father." (I. H. Marshall)
  
• The complete experience of God's will on earth occurs only when his kingdom comes to earth in its final form, causing an overthrow of all evil rule.
  
• The prayer is for our needs, not our greeds. (D. A. Carson)
  
• He only denounces his disciples' anxiety about the future, not responsible care for the future. (Michael Wilkins)
  
• We are taught to pray in the first person plural: "us," "we," and "our." The Lord's Prayer never leads to individualistic prayer. (Michael Wilkins)
  
• He wishes to be called Father rather than Lord, so that he may give us great confidence in seeking him and great help in beseeching him.
  
• When we know God as our Father, we understand that he cares about his will for our lives even more than we do. To place our lives in his hands means that he will always bring about what is best for us, even when it may mean sacrifice, or hardship, or difficult times. (Michael WIlkins)
  
• People who pray for the coming of the kingdom of God rightly pray that the kingdom of God might be established in them. (Origen, an early church father)

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