The Lord's Prayer

The Lord’s Prayer

Matthew 6:9-13

Gain Perspective:

Adoption: our special relationship to God (our father)

Assurance: the sovereign ruler ship of God (who is in heaven)

Awe: Our sincere reverence of God (hallowed be your name) it gets your attention, our minds shouldn’t wander

Anticipation: seeking the return of God (Your kingdom come)

Acquiescence: Submission to the rule of God (you will be done on earth as it is in heaven)

Give our Petitions:

Concerning Provisions (6:11)

(Give us this day our daily bread)

Matthew 7:7-11

Concerning Pardon (6:12)

(and forgive us our debts, as we, we also have forgiven our debtors)

Proverbs 16:2

Matthew 18:23

Concerning Protection (6:13a)

(and do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil)

Glorified through Praise

I Chronicles 29:11

Kingdom 6:10a

Power 6:11-13a

Glory 6:9

For yours is the kingdom and the power and glory forever amen!

The Importance of Christian Character

The Importance of Christian Character

Galatians, II Peter 1, I Corinthians 13, Colossians 3, Ephesians 4

Matthew 5:1-16

Introduction to Jesus’s sermon on the mount.

Matthew 4:23,24 healing diseases

God met with Moses on a mountain to give him the law

3 Applications…

He repeats the word blessed

Fulfill

Be a person of influence

BE Attitudes

Blessed are those who know their need of God

Isaiah 6 humbling himself

Peter when he realized he needed the grace of God in His life.

Through Christ we are made rich, but we must realize that we are in poverty and in need of Christ before they receive Him

You ant to be blessed?

Be poor

Be humble

Blessed are those who mourn, He will comfort them.

II Corinthians 7

Blessed are the meek

            Meekness – Greek – a horse that is not wild but can now be ridden

            Those who are under authority

            Under authority – David, Moses, Joseph

            Jesus was meek, He was under the authority

Matthew 5:20

Is the US on the Road to Armageddon?

Is the US on the Road to Armageddon?

Revelation 16:13,14,16

When is Armageddon?

            Compare Revelation 16:4 and Joel 2:30-31

            Armageddon occurs between 6^th bowl and the second

Where does it take place?

            Joel 3

            Isaiah 34

            Jeremiah

            Zechariah 12:2-3

            Zechariah 14:1-2

Who will be at Armageddon?

            Armies

Why will they gather?

- Earthly

            Daniel 11:44, Revelation 16:12 to battle one another

            Zechariah 12 and 14 destroy Israel and Jewish people

            Revelation 19:19 Turn on Jesus

- Heavenly

            Luke 21:24 times of the Gentiles

            Joel 3:12-14

            Divine Proclamation – Genesis 12:3a Abrahamic covenant

Israel: Past, Present, Future

Romans 9:10,11

Chapters 1-3a                Sin

Chapters 3b-5               Salvation

Chapters 6-8                Sanctification

Romans 9-11                 Sovereignty

Chapter 9         Past                  Selected

            - Privileges

Chapter 10        Present             Rejected

            - Problems

Chapter 11         Future

Biblical Considerations

            Romans 9:6

            Romans 11

Key Questions

What method of interpretation is used when handling the scriptures? Literal or spiritual

Major position replacement theology

            - Knox Theological Seminary

                        D. James Kennedy

            - Ligonie Minismes

                        RC Sproul

            - Hank Hanegraff

                        Bible Answer Man

            - The Catholic Church

            - Most Presbyterians, Methodists, Lutherans, Episcopalians

Martin Luther

            - The Nazi researched him

Paul’s unfinished Business

            - Promised by the prophets

            - Priority of the Jewish People

            - Adavantage of the Jewish people

            - Yet we must deal with the Jewish rejection of Christ

            Romans 1:2; 3:1

Why are so few Jewish saved?

            It started well and then?

                        - Acts 2:41 records 3,000 saved

                        - Acts 4:4; 6:7 5,000 were saved

Paul’s outline of Israel’s Privileges

            - They are special

            - They are adopted Deuteronomy 14:1; Jeremiah 31:9

            - They had the glory

            - They had unconditional covenants

            - They had the law

Romans 10

Paul’s heart

Paul’s hurt

Paul’s hurray

Romans 11

May it never be

Look at me

Look at Elijah

Always has a remnant