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How do we pray ?
Old and new way
Luk 5 : 33 - 39
Luk 11: 1 - 4
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Old way of praying
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Luk 5:33 And they said to Him, “The disciples of John often fast and offer prayers, the disciples of the Pharisees also do the same, but Yours eat and drink.”
Old way
Based on man’s teaching
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Luk 5:33 And they said to Him, “The disciples of John often fast and offer prayers, the disciples of the Pharisees also do the same, but Yours eat and drink.”
Old way of praying
Prayer is a form of a religious life
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Luk 5:33 And they said to Him, “The disciples of John often fast and offer prayers, the disciples of the Pharisees also do the same, but Yours eat and drink.”
Old way of praying
Based on the concept of
“paying the cost”
The more we suffer, the better
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The time of Christ has come
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Luk 5:34 And Jesus said to them, “You cannot make the attendants of the groom fast while the groom is with them, can you? 35 But the days will come; and when the groom is taken away from them, then they will fast in those days.”
The time of Christ has come
The presence of the groom has changed the situation into joy
The blessings of the groom
has come
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Luk 5:34 And Jesus said to them, “You cannot make the attendants of the groom fast while the groom is with them, can you? 35 But the days will come; and when the groom is taken away from them, then they will fast in those days.”
The time of Christ has come
Without Christ, man will suffer
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Luk 5:36 nd He was also telling them a parable: “No one tears a piece of cloth from a new garment and puts it on an old garment; otherwise he will both tear the new, and the patch from the new garment will not match the old.
The time of Christ has come
New garment
cannot be mixed with
old garment
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Luk 5:37 And no one pours new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the new wine will burst the skins and it will be spilled out, and the skins will be ruined. 38 But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins.
The time of Christ has come
New wine
must be stored in
fresh wineskins
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Luk 5:39 And no one, after drinking old wine wants new; for he says, ‘The old is fine.’”
The time of Christ has come
Those who are already used to
old wine
will have difficulty in enjoying
new wine
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Christ teaches us how to pray
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Luk 11:1 It happened that while Jesus was praying in a certain place, when He had finished, one of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples.”
The disciples of Christ desired to learn how to pray
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Luk 11:1 It happened that while Jesus was praying in a certain place, when He had finished, one of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples.”
The way we pray will show
who are we following
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Luk 11:2 And He said to them, “When you pray, say:
‘Father, hallowed be Your name.
Your kingdom come.
Jesus taught His disciples
how to pray correctly
The groom has come
The time of Christ has come
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Luk 11:2 And He said to them, “When you pray, say:
‘Father, hallowed be Your name.
Your kingdom come.
Prayer according to Jesus
The important thing is not
our thought or words in prayer,
but it is
the existence of God who loves us
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Luk 11:2 And He said to them, “When you pray, say: ‘Father, hallowed be Your name.
Your kingdom come.
Prayer according to Jesus
God bless us not according to our thinking, but through the wealth of
the kingdom of heaven in our life
that is able to overcome all of our problems
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How to pray in the time of Christ
We depend on :
Everything is given thru the groom,
Jesus Christ
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Based on :
How to pray
In the time of Christ
According to Christ
The old way
According to John the Baptist and the Pharisees
Based on :
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What is the blessings of
the kingdom of heaven ?
(1)
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Luk 11:3 Give us each day our daily bread.
The wealth of
the kingdom of heaven
Will be like food to nourish and make us grow in Him
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Luk 11:3 Give us each day our daily bread.
The wealth of the kingdom of heaven is given continuously
because God is faithful
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Luk 11:3 Give us each day our daily bread.
Little children eat a little
Grown up eat more
The blessings will grow
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Luk 11:4 And forgive us our sins,
For we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And do not lead us into temptation.’”
The wealth of
the kingdom of heaven
Will grow us into adults and
set us free from
the bondage of religion
As we follow the way of love
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Exo 21:23 But if there is any further injury, then you shall appoint as a penalty life for life, 24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25 burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.
Religion is not forgiving
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Luk 11:4 And forgive us our sins, For we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And do not lead us into temptation.’”
The wealth of
the kingdom of heaven
Will make us grow into adults,
so that we will not fall into
the temptation of false prophets
As we depend on God’s love
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What is the blessings of
the kingdom of heaven ?
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Rom 8:26 Now in the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know what to pray for as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words;
Our weakness :
The Spirit desires Jesus to help us
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Rom 8:27 and He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
Jesus
Asks the Father to bless us with the Father’s love
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Rom 8:28 And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.
The Father
Will bless everybody that is willing to receive His love,
in “all things”
This is the blessings of the kingdom of heaven
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Jesus
Asks the Father to pour
the Father’s love to us
The Spirit
Desires Jesus to help us
Man does know how to pray
Focus on problems. Focus on self
The Father
Focus on blessing us in “all things”
According to His wealth
in the kingdom of heaven
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Mat 6 : 13b
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
We grow because of Him who owns
the kingdom of heaven