Leen Ritmeyer – Using The Psalms For Overcoming – Class 4 – The Lords Prayer and the Psalms

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Good morning Britain and sisters
this morning so to have a look

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at the Lord’s Prayer in the
context of our Psalm study.

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The Lord’s Prayer, which we all
know by heart, is a beautiful

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and a powerful prayer and was
given by the Lord Jesus to his

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disciples to pray when they
asked him teach us how to pray.

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Many people know this prayer by
heart.

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Not only Christadelphians but
most church attending Christians

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know this prayer by heart.
I learnt in the Dutch Reformed

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Church and still know it by
heart in in Dutch.

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But because we know this prayer
so well, there’s a danger that

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we don’t always think about what
we are saying to our Heavenly

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Father and breaking off to start
their prayer.

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We come before thy throne of
grace, but you’ll be able to

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come before the throne of Queen
Elizabeth.

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You can’t say hi, old girl.
How are you going today?

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Because you talk in a different
way, don’t you?

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I’ve learned something from the
Jewish people who in the

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synagogues have got a saying.
Every synagogue has that a

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saying in Hebrew which says DA
livne MI Atta omed no before

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whom thou standest.
And that is very good advice

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because if you realise when we
pray, we actually present

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ourselves before the Almighty,
before whom nations are counted

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as a drop in the bucket, that
you will be more careful

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thinking how to address the
Almighty.

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Because actually I’m, I’m not
here to criticise anybody’s

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prayer.
I’m struggling myself still with

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it.
But we often suit our prayers to

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the situation which we find
ourselves.

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We have this meeting in mind or
at home we pray differently.

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We for our children, we pray
differently.

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We seem to pray more towards the
orders than sometimes to God.

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It’s just something to to think
about.

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It says in Ecclesiastes chapter
5, Keep thy food when thou goest

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to the House of God, and be more
ready to hear than to give the

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sacrifice of of fools, for they
consider not that they do evil.

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We need to consider when we come
to the House of God and how we

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address the Almighty.
The Lord’s Prayer is a beautiful

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prayer, and if we meditate on
its words and mean it with all

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our hearts still.
When I was preparing for this

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study on the Psalms and thought
again of the Lord’s Prayer, when

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they asked Jesus teach us how to
pray, why did Jesus not turn

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their attention to the book of
Psalms?

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You’ve got a whole prayer book
in the middle of our Bible.

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It has been said that the prayer
is a kind of template on which

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we can form our own prayers.
And as perhaps indicated by the

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word of Jesus when He introduced
this praise, that after this

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manner, therefore praying, It’s
a manner He didn’t say say only

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this prayer, but He sets out a
manner in which we ought to

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pray.
If you go to Matthew chapter 6,

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I’m sure you know this all by
heart, but still good to look at

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it.
We have to prayer there in verse

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9 of Matthew 6 and verse 9 after
this manner.

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Follow this pattern.
It seems to indicate to me,

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praying aside, this our Father,
which art in heaven, hallowed be

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Thy name, Thy Kingdom come, Thy
will be done in earth as it is

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in heaven.
Give us this day Our Daily

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Bread, and forgive us our debts,
as we forgive our debtors, and

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lead us not into temptation, but
deliver us from evil.

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For then is the Kingdom and the
power and the glory forever.

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Amen.
Should the prayer start, just

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like the prayer of David, which
we just read in One Chronicles

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chapter 29, with giving God the
honour He deserves, It’s

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followed by three petitions
which put God at the centre as a

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father and not ourselves.
It says hallowed be thy name,

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it’s thy Kingdom come, Thy will
be done on earth as it is in

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heaven.
So the prayer begins with the

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emphasis on thy God’s name,
God’s Kingdom, God’s will.

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That needs to be done, and only
then do we turn to our present,

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our past, and our future needs.
Give us this day, Our Daily

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Bread.
We’d need that today, don’t we?

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And God provides it every day
for us.

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Then forgive us our debts.
As we forgive our debtors the

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things we’ve done in the past,
we ask God to forgive, and then

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we look to the future, lead us
not into temptation, but deliver

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us from evil.
So the empty is now on us, our

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bread, our debts, and lead us
not into temptation to ask them

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for food.
We need it at the present.

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We pray for forgiveness of our
sins which we have committed,

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and we ask for help in the
future.

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We lay As for all our life
before God.

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And finally, we pray for the
Kingdom to come, and a prayer

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set us then before us the
glorious future of the Saints

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and indeed of the whole world.
So that is a pattern which Jesus

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undoubtedly learned from the
Psalms and from the prayer of

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David in Chronicles 29.
And it’s perhaps a pattern on

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which we should form or compose
our own prayers.

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So let’s have a look then at all
the different sayings in this

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prayer.
It starts with our father.

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Now, the phrase our father is
rarely used for God in the Old

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Testament, although God, of
course, was a father to Israel,

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and he often refers to Israel as
his sons.

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Moses said in Deuteronomy
chapter 14, Ye are the children

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of Yahweh U Alabin.
So it implies that God was a

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father to Israel.
Jeremiah plainly says that God

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was Israel’s father said I am a
father to Israel and Ephraim is

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my first born.
Remember.

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Well, let’s turn that to Hosea
Chapter 11.

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They looked at our first evening
study when it was said in

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Matthew that’s I have called my
son out of Egypt and I asked him

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the question why did the crowd
not come from Exodus but from

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Hosea, But in in Hosea, God
reveals himself as a father when

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Israel was a child says Yahweh.
I loved him and I called my son

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out of Egypt.
Verse three.

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I thought if I’m also to walk to
go talking them by their arms,

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but they knew not that I healed
him.

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I drew them with chords of a man
with bends of love, but I asked

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to them to take off the yoke of
their jaws, and I laid meat unto

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them.
So this despite their rebellion,

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God has revealed himself as a
father to Israel, like you to go

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to Isaiah chapter 63.
In Isaiah chapter 63

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here Isaiah is crying out to
God.

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He says look down from heaven
and behold sorry 1st 10 first,

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first ten.
He said surely they are my

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people.
That is God himself speaking.

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Surely they are my people,
children that cannot lie.

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So He became their Saviour.
In all their affliction He was

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afflicted, and the age of His
presence saved them.

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In His love and in His pity He
redeemed them, and He bared

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them.
He carried them all the days of

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old.
And that is what’s at first aid.

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Sorry, it was starting at first
aid.

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And so God looked after Israel
as a father does.

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In their affliction He was
afflicted.

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When our children suffer, we
suffer with them.

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And he, he, he bared them, and
he and he carried them.

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When the children are small,
they get tight, and you put them

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on your shoulders.
That’s what the Father does.

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And and that is how God dealt
with his people.

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But they rebelled and vexed His
Holy Spirit that he was turned

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to be their enemy, and he fought
against them.

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And perhaps we have here an
indication that in the following

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verses the Gentiles will call
God their Father.

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It says in verse 15, Look down
from heaven, and behold from the

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habitation of thy holiness and
of thy glory, where is thy zeal

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and thy strength, The sounding
of thy bells, and of thy mercies

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toward me?
Are they restrained?

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Doubtless thou art our Father.
Who’s saying it?

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Though Abraham be ignorant of
us, and Israel acknowledge us

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not, the Jews don’t acknowledge
us as having a right to the hope

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of Israel.
With thou Yahweh art our Father,

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our Redeemer.
Thy name is from everlasting.

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And it used to have to be
brought back to God in such a

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dramatic way that they all cry
out to Him as a father in the

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next chapter 64 and verse 8
says, But now Yahweh says,

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Israel, thou art our father, we
are the clay, and thou our

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potty, We all the work of thy
hand.

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Be not wroth very sore Yahweh
not to remember iniquity

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forever.
Behold, see, we beseech thee, we

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are all thy people.
And Israel have to be brought

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back to that frame of mind as
the prodigal son, which returns

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to his father.
But it was David who for the

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first time addressed Goddess our
father.

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We just read it in One
Chronicles 29 and verse 10.

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And that’s how David started his
prayer.

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Let’s go back to One Chronicles
just to have it fresh in our

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mind again, because there we
have David’s prayer in verse 10.

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After all the people offered
willingly and here is his prayer

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and it starts like the Lord’s
Prayer first.

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Then therefore David blessed
Yahweh before all the

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congregation.
And David said, how did he start

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his prayer?
Blessed thou Yahweh, elim of

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Israel, our Father forever and
ever.

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But it was really Jesus who
called his Father ABBA for the

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first time.
He said in the Garden of

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Gethsemane, ABBA, Father, all
things are possible unto thee.

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Take away this cup from me.
Neveness not what I will, but

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what thou wilt.
Thy will be done.

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Let me live in Israel.
My children called me ABBA, and

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they called Catherine IMA.
That’s how you say mum and dad.

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ABBA simply means daddy.
And I love it when my children

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call me ABBA or daddy and they
want to call me daddy because

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they know that I love them and
they also know that I’ll respond

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and help them when necessary.
And so it is with God.

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He wants to be our daddy and He
wants us to treat him like that.

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Not in a familiar way.
We can just have a Rumbo stumbo

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issue, kids.
But it’s this close relationship

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of a son with his Father,
because when Jesus first says

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it, he didn’t say the prayer
doesn’t start with my Father, it

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starts with our Father.
We are not an only child.

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We have brethren and sisters and
it is good to pray together.

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So starting our prayer with our
Father make us thinks about our

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relationship not only with God,
but also with our brethren and

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sisters.
And only through Jesus, of

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course, that we can address God
as our Father.

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And that’s the reason why Jesus
introduced this prayer.

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I believe it’s through his death
we are reconciled to God.

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And if we’re only through the
sacrifice of Christ, can we

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approach God in prayer?
It doesn’t brush aside the use

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of the Psalms, but it gives us
an opportunity to deepen our

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understanding of the Spirit of
Christ that is in the Psalms, in

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the hymns and the spiritual
songs.

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The disciples of course didn’t
at that time fully understand

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the Psalms because Jesus hadn’t
overcome sin and death yet.

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Jesus first had to fulfil all
what was written in the Psalms

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and in the prophets and in the
law concerning him, as he

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explained in Luke chapter 24 to
the disciples that were on the

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road to Emmaus.
And he opened understanding that

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they might understand the
Scriptures.

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Does it is written and does it
behold Christ to suffer and to

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rise from the dead the third
day?

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They didn’t know that yet when
they asked Him teachers how to

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pray.
The Psalms had not been yet

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fulfilled.
But after Jesus went up to

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heaven and the Holy Spirit came
down on them, you can read in

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Acts chapter 2.
They freely started to use the

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Psalms when they were preaching
the gospel used in Acts 2, Psalm

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2, and Psalm 16, read in the
letter to the Ephesians in in

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Hebrews, there’s one string of
Psalms.

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There are 333 quotations of the
Psalms in the New Testament.

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But only if we fully understand
how Christ fulfilled what was

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written in the Psalms can we
actually properly use them.

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And that’s why Jesus gave this,
this, this template on how to

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pray.
And it says our Father, which

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art in heaven, it says in
Ecclesiastes, be not rash with

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thy mouth, with Ecclesiastes
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And let not thy heart be haste
to utter anything before God,

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for God is in heaven, and thou
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Therefore let thy words be few.
And I apply this to myself in my

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prayer.
I used as much as possible the

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fruit of lips which God has
created.

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But of course I need to use my
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And it’s a balance in when I
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I use 100% my own words and then
I started to put, you know, one

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or two verses of the Psalms.
And then the more you mature in

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Scripture and the more you and
the more you can remember

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Scripture as we’ve heard in
quite a few prayers in in in

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this hall that the the more you
grow in the truth, the more you

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are able to express yourself in
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And the balance shifts then so
that the more we realise that

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God is in heaven, our Father,
which art in heaven that we are

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on earth and on balance, our
words become fewer and fewer and

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we learn more to express
ourselves in words of the Holy

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Spirit.
The many beautiful expressions

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about God in heaven in the
Psalms, the read out you first

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Psalm 11 verse four and five.
Yahweh is in his holy temple.

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Yahweh is in his is in the
heavens, but from there His eyes

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behold his eyelids Try the
children of men.

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Yahweh tries the righteous, but
the wicked and him that love is

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violence.
His soul haters our Father,

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which art in heaven.
Well, what’s she doing there?

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He’s looking down on us, He’s
searching our hearts, He’s

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testing our faith.
Psalm 14 Yahweh look down from

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heaven upon the children of men
to see if there were any that

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understands and that seek God.
So there’s so much in the very

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short sentence, the beginning of
our prayer, our Father, which

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art in heaven.
And the more we realise that God

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is in heaven, the less we use
our own words in our prayer.

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And it says, hallowed be thy
name.

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What does that mean?
What does it mean to hallow

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something?
It means to make it holy.

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Does that don’t mean that if we
don’t say the Lord’s Prayer that

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God’s name is not holy?
That’s not right either, is it?

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God’s name is holy, doesn’t
matter what we do or say.

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But yet you need to pray
hallowed be thy name.

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So what does that mean in In
Hebrew, all names have a

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meaning.
Melchizedek means king of

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righteousness, David means
beloved, Solomon means peace,

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and names are often used to
express the character of a

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person, and the same is God.
When he proclaimed his name

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before Moses in Exodus 34, Yah
descended in the cloud and stood

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with him there and proclaimed
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Yahweh passed by before him and
proclaimed Yahweh.

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Yahweh Eon merciful and
gracious, long-suffering, and

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abundant in goodness and truth.
How can we say hallowed be thy

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name if we don’t reflect God’s
character, if we are not

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merciful, if we are not
gracious, if we don’t show any

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long-suffering and so on?
What does name God mean?

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It comes from good.
Oh, God is good, we know that,

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but that is not his name.
We call him Lord now.

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That’s not his name either.
It’s his job.

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In England, in the government
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So that doesn’t help us either.
See go to Exodus chapter 3.

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And by the way, you use the
names of God, I know you are

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familiar with this.
It says in Exodus 3 and verse

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13, Moses said unto Elovim,
there is Exodus 3 and verse 13

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Bill.
When I come into the children of

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Israel, and shall say unto them,
The Elohim of your Father has

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sent me unto you, and they shall
say to me, What is his name?

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What shall I say unto them?
And Ellen said to Moses, I will

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be that I will be.
It’s definitely the future

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tense.
It’s not I am that I am.

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There’s no revelation in that.
I am what I am.

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You are what you are.
So what the God says I will be,

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that I will be.
If somebody says that I will be,

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what do you ask?
What are you going to be then?

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It’s quite a natural question,
isn’t it?

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Thus shall thou say unto the
children of Israel, I will be

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has sent me unto you.
There’s a little critical phrase

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has sent me unto you.
So verse 14, he says, I will be

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has said me unto you.
And the next verse explains what

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God is going to be.
And again you got this phrase

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has sent me unto you.
Those two verses are said in

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parallel.
And Ellen said moreover unto

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Moses, Thus shall thou say to
the children of Israel, Yahweh

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Ellim of your father’s, the
Ellim of Abraham, the Ellim of

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Isaac, and the Ellim of Jacob
has sent me unto you.

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So first it says, I will be has
sent me unto you, and now it

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says, Yahweh Ellim of Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob has sent me unto

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you.
So what does God want to be?

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He wants to be the mighty ones
of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

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So his, his name is Yahweh Ellim
and it means he will be mighty

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ones.
That is God’s name and this is

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my memorial says God and to all
generation this is my name

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forever.
No point saying God or no point

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saying Lord because that is not
his name.

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God is good, He is a Lord, He’s
a master, but that’s not his

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name.
So if you want to hallow his

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name, make that name holy.
We’ve got to take on this

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character.
We’ve got to learn to be mighty

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once Coseto Elvin actually means
remember Bob Lloyd once he’s got

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those wonderful illustrations
about Alexander the Great and he

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was great king and the big army
and they they caught a deserter

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a little while runaway.
He was scared.

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He was brought before Alexander
and Alexander says, what is your

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name?
And the boy said, Alexander said

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no, no, that’s my name.
What is your name?

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He says Alexander, Sir, No, no,
no, that is my name.

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If you’re Alexander, then either
you behave like an Alexander or

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you change your name.
If you call ourselves after the

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name of God, we got to be like
God.

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We must be merciful and
gracious, long-suffering and

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abundant in mercy and truth.
Because then we have taken on

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the character of God and then he
can use that name and then we

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make that name holy.
Then he can say hallow be thy

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name by the way we live.
Change your name or change the

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way you live, says Alexander.
And that is what we need to do

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if we want to hallow his name.
But a beautiful expresses in the

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Psalms 145 Alex told you my
Elvin the king now bless thy

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name forever and ever.
Every day that I bless thee and

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praise thy name forever and
ever.

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Great is yower and greatly to be
praised, and as great as is

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unsearchable.
What beautiful words, if you

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understand what we’re saying.
And if we change the way we

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live, and let me ask thy Kingdom
come.

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Well, we all want the Kingdom to
come as soon as possible.

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It’ll be a glorious time as we
may fall into the dangers.

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We look upon the Kingdom as a
kind of glorified pension

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scheme.
And it’s not this.

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Life is our training ground to
learn to be kings and priests in

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the Kingdom.
And again in Psalm 145, just

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let’s go to that Psalm.
I just quoted from it.

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Do you ever lived quietly in
Jerusalem?

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And we were not Christed off.
You’ve had much more time, and

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we spend our time learning many
Psalms by heart.

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That’s when you don’t have to
speak at Bible school.

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Then you’ve got more time to
think about your prayers.

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So I’ve just read out to you.
I will extol you, my Ellen the

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king, and I will bless thy name
forever and ever.

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And then if you go to verse 11,
it says they shall speak of the

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glory of thy Kingdom and talk of
thy power to make known to the

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sons of man his mighty acts and
the glorious majesty of his

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Kingdom.
Thy Kingdom is an everlasting

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Kingdom and thy dominion and
Jews throughout all generations.

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That’s what we will do in the
Kingdom, to make known to the

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sons of man his mighty acts.
And as we we need to do that now

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so that we can be doing that in
the Kingdom, so all that will be

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involved, no point saying thy
Kingdom come.

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We’ve got no clue what we’re
going to do in the Kingdom.

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You’ve got to Psalm 22.
You looked at this Psalm quite a

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few times.
The sound which Jesus said on

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the cross.
You look how Jesus cried out

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this Psalm on the cross.
Remember Ali Ali, Lama

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Sabachthani, why has thou
forsaken me?

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Why, a few thorn pushed me, and
we see all the crying out of

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Jesus on the cross.
And we come to verse 20.

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Deliver my soul from the sword,
my, my only one from the power

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of the dark.
Save me from the lion’s mouth.

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And then thou hast answered me
from the horns of the Unicorn.

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And what will he do then?
I will declare thy name unto my

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brethren.
In the midst of the congregation

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will I praise thee, because
Jesus is now fully clothed upon

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His immortality.
He is the personification of the

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name of God, and He’s going to
declare that unto His brethren.

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And we need to do that now so
that He can do it even better in

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the Kingdom.
It’s only after Jesus overcame

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sin and death that He could look
forward to the Kingdom.

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And then in verse 23 we see ye
that fear Yahweh, praise Him.

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You see that Jacob natural
Israel glorify him and fear him.

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O ye the seed of Israel,
spiritual Israel.

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And only then the all the ends
of the world’s remember and turn

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unto Yahweh.
And the kingdoms Kingdom will be

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Yahweh’s.
And then thy will be done in

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earth as it is done in heaven.
Our God’s will shall be done

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whatever.
But the question is, are we

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doing God’s will?
How can we pray this if you’re

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only willing to do our own will
and not God’s will, however hard

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it was, Jesus said not mine, but
thy will be done.

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If you pray this and we don’t do
it, we’re as hypocrites.

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But how do we do God’s will just
grudgingly?

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Well, if I have to or have got a
choice, or do we God’s will from

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the heart.
And again, Jesus our example.

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He did not come to do his own
will.

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He says my meat is to do the
will of him that sent me and to

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finish his work.
Jesus said no, like no

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importance for himself at all.
He only wants to do the will of

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His Father, as He said in the
Garden of Gethsemane.

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And it teaches us to accept
God’s will whatever difficult

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circumstance we may find
ourselves in, because only then

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is God really our Father.
And we need to pray for wisdom

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so that He can hallow His name.
And it’s a wonderful example of

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a short prayer for wisdom and
understanding in Psalm 119.

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It’s a section which we often
pray, and it starts with the

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letter hey, and it is in verse
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James, as the very man, let
wisdom, let him pray for wisdom,

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and God will give it to him.
God, this the way to pray for

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wisdom.
Teach me Thou the way of Thy

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statutes, and I shall keep it to
the end.

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Give me understanding and I
shall keep Thy law.

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Yeah, I shall observe this.
My whole heart.

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Make me to go in the path of Thy
commandments, for therein do I

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delight.
Incline my heart unto Thy

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testimonies, and not to
covetousness.

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Turn away my knives from
beholding vanity, and quicken me

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in thy way.
Establish thy word unto thy

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servant, who is devoted to thy
fear.

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Turn away my reproach, which I
have fear, for thy judgements

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are good.
We ought have longed after thy

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precepts.
Quicker me in thy righteousness

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and then God will is done and
not our will.

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And then give us this day our
daily breads.

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And he would says let him who
Cano the bread which we need.

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It isn’t a 4-5 course meal, but
it’s just the food which we need

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to sustain our soul.
And Jesus says, behold the fowls

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of the air they sow not neither
do the reap nor gather into

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barns, yet you heavenly Father
feed us them.

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Are you not much, much better
than they?

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It says Psalm 145 we looked at
earlier.

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That opens that hand and
satisfies the desire of every

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living thing, and it takes away
the worry of the want what we

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need for every day’s food.
It says in Psalm 104, He causes

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the grass to grow for the cattle
and herb for the service of men,

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that he may bring forth food out
of the earth.

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And often I conclude my prayer
with Psalm 136, Who give us food

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to all flesh.
For his mercy is forever is to

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the age for the O Lamb.
Well, the previous request was

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for Our Daily Bread.
And then it says, forgive us our

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debts as we forgive our debtors.
It’s also translated as trespass

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00:31:14,240 –> 00:31:17,840
and as sin.
Sin in it’s by the application

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00:31:17,840 –> 00:31:21,640
is of course missing the mark.
A failure to realise the true

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00:31:21,640 –> 00:31:26,720
aim of God’s will, a failure to
do what we should do, a failure

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00:31:26,720 –> 00:31:31,520
to obey God’s command.
And we remember that whatsoever

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00:31:31,520 –> 00:31:36,600
is not of faith is sin.
And Jesus didn’t tell the

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disciples that sinners only
should say this prayer.

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He said after this minute, pray
ye, we all need to ask God for

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forgiveness and we look before
the sin of David and it’s Psalm

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00:31:50,240 –> 00:32:07,220
51, let’s go to Psalm 51.
So did that great sin against

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Bathsheba and the killing of
Euriatia.

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It was a great sin against
Bathsheba and against Euriatia,

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but what does David actually
say?

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It says against thee the only
have I sinned, and then this

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evil in thy sight, that thou
might be justified when thou

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00:32:25,120 –> 00:32:27,960
speakest, and be clear when thou
art judged.

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When we sin against each other,
we first of all sin against God,

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00:32:37,240 –> 00:32:43,360
because we transgress.
His commandments teach us also

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00:32:43,360 –> 00:32:51,160
to forgive others, because God’s
ability to forgive us depends on

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our ability to forgive our
brethren and sisters.

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And David said so much in that
same sound.

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If you go down to verse 12, he
says, Restore unto me the joy of

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thy salvation and uphold me.
There’s a willing spirit only

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00:33:08,080 –> 00:33:11,080
then that I teach transgresses
thy ways, and Sinner shall be

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00:33:11,080 –> 00:33:14,360
converted unto thee.
He first had to restore that

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00:33:14,360 –> 00:33:17,080
mind of God, the joy of the
salvation.

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And the Lord’s Prayer is
teaching us to love our

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neighbours as ourselves.
For God’s attitude to men is

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determined by men’s attitude to
His fellow man.

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If you can forgive others, it
brings us closer to God.

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Then it says, lead us not into
temptation.

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Now we know that God doesn’t
tempt us to sin, but the world

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is full of temptations.
We know also that human

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existence without temptation is
impossible.

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That word actually means to test
or to try.

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James has let no man say when
he’s tempted.

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I’m tempted of God, for God
cannot be tempted with evil,

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neither temptethy any man to
sin, to do evil, but he is

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testing us.
That’s what Job said.

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He knows the way that I take.
When he has tried me, I shall

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come forth as gold.
Let’s go to Psalm 17.

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So it’s a prayer of David, a
prayer for the beloved here,

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right?
Yeah.

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I attended to my cry.
Give ear unto my prayer, not out

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of faint lips.
My sentence shall come forth

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from thy presence.
Thine eyes, behold the things

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00:34:49,080 –> 00:34:53,159
that I equal.
Thou hast proves my heart.

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00:34:53,920 –> 00:34:56,040
Thou hast visited me in the
night.

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00:34:56,520 –> 00:35:02,960
Thou hast tried me, tempted me,
tested me, shalt find nothing.

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What a wonderful state to be in.
I’m purpose that my mouth shall

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not transgress concerning the
works of men.

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By the word of thy lips I’ve
kept myself from the path of the

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destroyer.
The more we use the fruit of

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00:35:22,000 –> 00:35:31,520
lips, we will be saved from
temptation and deliver us from

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00:35:31,520 –> 00:35:34,320
the evil.
No point is doing what you like.

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I think Oh God will deliver us
from evil.

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We’ve got to know the danger
which we are in and although we

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realise the the inadequacy to
deal with evil on our own, we

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00:35:46,480 –> 00:35:51,640
need God’s help to overcome evil
by realising that we cannot

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overcome evil all by ourselves.
And again, Psalm 119 is such a

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00:35:57,040 –> 00:36:00,880
wonderful Psalm.
The first is in there which you

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00:36:00,880 –> 00:36:03,920
can apply to almost every
situation.

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Look at Psalm 119 verse 94 and
95.

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It says, I am dying, save me,
for I have sought thy precepts.

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The wicked have waited for me to
destroy me, but I will consider

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00:36:23,120 –> 00:36:29,360
thy testimonies.
It says in 146, I cried unto

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00:36:29,360 –> 00:36:34,040
thee, save me, deliver me from
evil, and I shall keep thy

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00:36:34,040 –> 00:36:36,920
testimonies.
I prevented the dawning of the

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00:36:36,920 –> 00:36:41,120
morning, and cried, I hoped in
thy word, when I prevent the

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00:36:41,120 –> 00:36:45,000
night watches, that I might
meditate in thy word.

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00:36:45,840 –> 00:36:50,160
You see, in both instances I
said, save me, for I’ve sought

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00:36:50,160 –> 00:36:53,640
thy precepts.
Save me, and I shall keep thy

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00:36:53,640 –> 00:36:56,280
testimonies.
It works two ways.

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00:36:56,360 –> 00:36:59,640
We can’t expect God to deliver
from evil and not to give

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00:36:59,640 –> 00:37:05,160
ourselves over to His Word.
The best way to be delivered

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from evil is to prayerfully
meditate on His Word, as the

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same Psalm 119 says in verse 97.
Oh, how love I thy law.

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It’s my meditation all the day,
and that will deliver us from

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00:37:23,000 –> 00:37:25,360
evil.
And that’s how God does it,

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00:37:25,640 –> 00:37:30,240
through His Word.
And then he ends that prayer,

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00:37:30,240 –> 00:37:33,640
the Lord’s Prayer, with
acknowledging God’s power and

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00:37:33,640 –> 00:37:36,080
glory.
Thine is the Kingdom and the

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00:37:36,080 –> 00:37:40,720
power and the glory forever.
And we’ve seen that reflected in

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00:37:40,960 –> 00:37:46,600
one Chronicles 29, where David
indeed says, when he blessed

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00:37:46,600 –> 00:37:50,000
Yahweh, said, blessed be thou
Yahweh, aim of Israel forever

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00:37:50,000 –> 00:37:51,800
and ever.
Thine, O Yahweh, is the

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00:37:51,800 –> 00:37:56,840
greatness and the power and the
glory and the victory and the

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00:37:56,840 –> 00:37:58,360
majesty.
And that’s how the Lord Jesus

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00:37:58,360 –> 00:38:00,840
Christ and his prayer and at
victory.

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Remember there was the word for
the chief musician to him that

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00:38:03,960 –> 00:38:08,400
overcometh and then dine is the
Kingdom.

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We look forward to the great
time of peace on the earth.

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Then Christ and the Saints will
rule in righteousness.

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We will have the power then to
look into men’s hearts and bring

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them back to God and the glory.
It will be such a glorious time

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00:38:23,520 –> 00:38:27,200
that we won’t even be able to
imagine how beautiful it will

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00:38:27,200 –> 00:38:29,080
be.
And then we end the prayer with

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00:38:29,200 –> 00:38:32,440
Amen.
That means this is faithful, it

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00:38:32,440 –> 00:38:34,720
is true.
That’s the word, That’s the

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00:38:34,720 –> 00:38:39,280
meaning of the word, Amen.
And that prayer binds us

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00:38:39,280 –> 00:38:42,200
together as brethren and sisters
in Christ who are all trying to

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00:38:42,200 –> 00:38:45,600
overcome sin with God’s help,
and we look forward to a new

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00:38:45,600 –> 00:38:52,200
life in the Kingdom.
And so that is how Jesus ends

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00:38:52,240 –> 00:38:56,480
his prayer, for that is the
Kingdom and the power and the

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00:38:56,480 –> 00:38:58,960
glory forever.
Amen.

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00:39:01,800 –> 00:39:04,240
Now bring me to the last
thought.

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00:39:06,240 –> 00:39:12,120
We so often end our prayers by
saying in the name of Jesus,

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00:39:12,680 –> 00:39:16,520
Amen.
Don’t he or something like it.

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00:39:17,480 –> 00:39:20,320
It’s not like the Lord’s Prayer.
He never said anything like it

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00:39:21,960 –> 00:39:26,880
and brings you to the question
we need to consider because we,

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00:39:26,880 –> 00:39:32,240
we, we say it because in John
14, if you go to John 14, Jesus

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00:39:32,240 –> 00:39:34,160
seems to indicate that we need
to say that.

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00:39:41,760 –> 00:39:47,920
So that’s verse 14.
If you shall ask anything in my

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00:39:47,920 –> 00:39:52,240
name, I will do it.
That’s quite handy, isn’t it?

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00:39:53,280 –> 00:39:56,040
You can say whatever you ask,
I’ll do it in my name.

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00:39:56,040 –> 00:40:00,560
So please Lord, give me a Rolls
Royce in the name of Yahweh, in

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00:40:00,560 –> 00:40:02,560
the name of Jesus, Amen.
And I’ll get it because it’s

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00:40:02,560 –> 00:40:05,280
what he says.
It’s not what it says.

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00:40:06,000 –> 00:40:11,520
Like he says we need to go to
1st next chapter, verse 15 and

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00:40:11,520 –> 00:40:20,180
16.
No, same chapter, sorry.

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00:40:21,420 –> 00:40:22,460
It says there.
Yeah, if you.

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Ask anything in my name, I will
do it.

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If you love me, keep my
commandments.

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So it depends that we first of
all keep the commandments.

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It actually doesn’t say.
I still got the right quote

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00:40:38,880 –> 00:40:41,400
here.
That’s the next chapter, verse

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00:40:41,600 –> 00:40:43,040
16.
That’s right, the end of verse

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00:40:43,040 –> 00:40:46,600
16, chapter 15 and 16.
So you’ve not chosen me, but

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00:40:46,600 –> 00:40:49,720
I’ve chosen you and ordained you
that you should go and bring

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00:40:49,720 –> 00:40:52,920
forth fruit, that your fruit
should remain, That whatsoever

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00:40:52,920 –> 00:40:56,120
you shall ask the Father in my
name, He may give it to you.

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00:40:56,800 –> 00:40:59,160
But first of all, it’s the
fruit, It’s the fruit of lips

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00:40:59,160 –> 00:41:02,120
which is to use in our prayers.
Then don’t say in the Greek

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00:41:02,360 –> 00:41:06,360
whatsoever you shall ask, Is
that whatsoever you may ask in

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00:41:06,360 –> 00:41:10,120
my name?
I don’t think it actually means

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00:41:10,120 –> 00:41:14,160
that we can end our prayer by
saying in the name of Jesus,

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00:41:14,320 –> 00:41:16,400
Amen.
As if that little phrase is a

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00:41:16,400 –> 00:41:20,880
magical formula that sanctifies
whatever list of demands we had

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00:41:20,880 –> 00:41:23,120
before presented before the
Lord.

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To say something in the name of
somebody else is a concept.

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00:41:30,520 –> 00:41:35,400
It’s not a magic formula.
I want you to go to One Samuel

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chapter 25.
They’ve got an example maybe the

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00:41:49,080 –> 00:41:52,800
story about Nabel and Abigail
and David being in the area and

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00:41:52,800 –> 00:41:56,000
looking after the shepherds to
show nothing was got lost.

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And then the time of shearing
came.

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And 1st 4 when David heard in
the wilderness that Nabel did

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00:42:05,200 –> 00:42:09,200
shear his sheep.
And David sent out 10 young men.

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00:42:10,880 –> 00:42:15,600
And David said unto the young
man, get you up to Carmel and go

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00:42:15,600 –> 00:42:21,440
to Nabel and greet him in my
name.

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Thus shall you say to him that
lives in prosperity.

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And now you get the words that
David wanted those young men to

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00:42:33,200 –> 00:42:38,560
say to Nabel.
Peace be to thee, and peace be

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00:42:38,560 –> 00:42:41,560
to thy house, and peace be unto
all that thou hast.

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And now I’ve heard that thou
hast cheerers now there, now thy

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00:42:44,760 –> 00:42:47,200
shepherds were with us, and we
heard them not.

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00:42:47,440 –> 00:42:50,080
Now there was their aught
missing unto them all the while

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00:42:50,080 –> 00:42:53,520
they were in Carmel asked thy
young men, and they will show

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00:42:53,520 –> 00:42:55,400
thee.
Therefore let the young men find

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00:42:55,400 –> 00:42:58,200
favour in thy eyes, for we come
in a good day.

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Give, I pray thee, whatsoever
cometh to thy hands, unto thy

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00:43:01,680 –> 00:43:08,600
servant, and to thy son David.
And when David young men came,

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they spake to Nabel according to
all those words in the name of

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00:43:14,480 –> 00:43:19,600
David and ceased they added
nothing to it.

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00:43:21,720 –> 00:43:25,800
So they didn’t expect them to go
to Nabel said Hi guy, have you

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00:43:25,800 –> 00:43:27,640
looked after your flock?
So please give us something to

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00:43:27,640 –> 00:43:30,480
eat.
If they would have said said

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00:43:30,480 –> 00:43:33,680
that, they didn’t say it in the
name of David.

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00:43:34,360 –> 00:43:40,000
They were to say exactly the
words which David spoke to them

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00:43:40,240 –> 00:43:43,880
word by word the same.
And they did that.

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00:43:43,880 –> 00:43:48,400
They added nothing to it, and
then they spoke those words in

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00:43:48,400 –> 00:43:53,120
the name of David.
So to say something in

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00:43:53,120 –> 00:43:59,320
somebody’s name, then we need to
use the exact words.

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00:44:00,480 –> 00:44:03,840
So if you use the words of
Christ, which is in the Psalms,

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00:44:03,840 –> 00:44:07,240
hymns, in the spiritual songs,
we don’t have to add on in the

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00:44:07,240 –> 00:44:10,560
name of Jesus because you have
just done it.

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00:44:12,600 –> 00:44:16,880
We need to do it not as a magic
formula at the end of our

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00:44:16,880 –> 00:44:20,560
prayer.
If you pray in the name of

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00:44:20,760 –> 00:44:27,000
Jesus, we need to use His words.
If you use our own words, that

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00:44:27,000 –> 00:44:30,520
is not praying in the name of
Jesus, we have no guarantee that

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00:44:30,520 –> 00:44:34,080
you’ll get what you want.
But if you use the Holy Spirit

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00:44:34,080 –> 00:44:37,320
words, the word of Christ, which
is in the psalms, hymns, and

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00:44:37,320 –> 00:44:42,960
spiritual songs, then we pray in
His name and we can just easily

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00:44:43,120 –> 00:44:45,120
end our prayer.
For that is the Kingdom, the

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00:44:45,120 –> 00:44:48,760
power, and the glory forever
because you’ve just done it.

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It’s not a magical formula at
the end of our prayer.

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Well, at the end, Jesus after
this manner praying.

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So here’s for example an example
that works for me, taking the

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00:45:06,600 –> 00:45:10,280
Lord’s Prayer and then using
some words to say the same

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00:45:10,280 –> 00:45:12,760
thing.
You can say something like this.

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00:45:13,120 –> 00:45:17,040
Our Father, our rock, our God,
the rock of our salvation.

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My help comes from Yahweh.
It’s made heaven and earth.

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00:45:19,960 –> 00:45:21,320
That’s what He does when it’s in
heaven.

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Teach me Thy way, Yahweh, our
walk and Thy truth.

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Unite my heart to fear Thy name,
Thy Kingdom come.

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Thy Kingdom is an everlasting
Kingdom, and Thy dominion and

632
00:45:32,080 –> 00:45:35,840
Jews throughout all generations.
And make me to go in the path of

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00:45:35,840 –> 00:45:40,320
Thy commandments, for therein do
I delights Our Daily Bread.

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00:45:40,320 –> 00:45:43,600
Thou opus Thy hand and satisfy
the desire of every living

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00:45:43,600 –> 00:45:46,760
thing, and bring Thou me out of
my distresses.

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00:45:47,000 –> 00:45:50,240
Look upon my infliction in my
pain and forgive all my sins.

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00:45:50,760 –> 00:45:52,920
And we prayed our may as two
major Jerusalem we praise in the

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00:45:52,920 –> 00:45:56,480
earth in that Kingdom that is
dying, and the power and the

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00:45:56,480 –> 00:46:00,240
glory, Amen.
That is just pray after this

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manner either substituted all
what Jesus said with phrases

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from the sons, and then you
actually do what Jesus wants you

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to do.
And because these are the words

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of Christ and we have prayed in
His name already, we don’t have

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to tag it on at the end of our
prayer.

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Still we need to, we can only
pray to God through the

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sacrifice of Christ.
But in the name.

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If you say something in
somebody’s name, you, you,

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you’ve got to use the exact
words, otherwise you don’t do

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it.
And I say this not to criticise

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anybody, but to to to make us
more aware how we address the

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Almighty in our prayer followed
the example of the Lord Jesus

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Christ and and play upon the
harp, as it were a different

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melody every time you can.
There’s so many beautiful

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sayings in the Psalm that you
can use in our prayer and we all

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feel inadequate.
I do in my prayer, certainly at

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composing prayers to God.
But this method had worked for

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us and Ioffer it only as a
suggestion.

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I think we need to spend a bit
more time and a bit more work in

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to formulate our prayers before
we say them to God.

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But if you do this, they’ll be
following the steps of David and

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of Solomon, of Hannah and of
Mary, who used part of the

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Psalms to make their own
personal prayers.

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And if we do that, then we are
instructed in the songs of

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Yahweh.
If you go finally to Psalm 119

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again, it says that thy statutes
have been my sons in the House

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of my pilgrimage, that we own a
pilgrimage.

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But Hebrew doesn’t say songs.
It used the word psalms, and the

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word order in the Hebrew would
go like this.

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Psalms have been my statutes in
the House of my pilgrimage, and

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I’ve found these the best tools
to help us on the way to the

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Kingdom.