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Subject: The Father Gives The Holy Spirit |
Bible Note: Prayer is prose and we find a composition of three petitions as prose, Mathew 6:11-13 up to part a1, sandwhiched in between praise of the Father God in Mathew 6:9,10 with a parenthetical verse, part 2 in Mathew 6:13 of adoration. "The Penteteuch contains some of the earliest examples of Hebrew poetry in all the Old Testament" (SURVEY OF THE OLD TESTATMENT, by Hill and Walton, pg. 50, par. 2). There is an Aaronic benediction which bears the marks of praise as being the entire context of the prayer. The Lord God gives Aaron a benediction which serves as a model of prayer, Numbers 6:22 - 27. There is a lot to be said in the Old Testament about prayer, the Hebrew concepts are rich, the terminology for prayer, along the lines of the different types of Hebrew words used in prayer, is varied and specific to the context of each model of prayer. The context of prayer in Deuteronomy 4:29 is to seek the Lord, :29 But from there you will find Him if you search with all your heart and all your soul, Deuteronomy 4:29. The word Bagas in Hebrew, means seek and is the type of prayer which appears in Deuteronomy 4:29. What is the nature of the Lord's Prayer, is it a petition, a praise, an intercession, a request, a cry for help, a beesching, a weapon, a tool, a desparate cry, an adoration, a charge, an entreaty, a declaration, or a promise? What compels prayer, it is need, or adoration, or the desire to be close to God, or is it sheer desperation. The Lord God in His infinite mercy has provided a place for us to find Him in the conversation of prayer. The Lord God is the one who initiates the conversation, Jesus said in John 10:3, :3 To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear His voice, and He calls His own sheep by name and leads them out. Jesus initiates the relationship, the sheep hear His voice and they respond to what He says and He leads them. Just as Jesus proclaims that He speaks to us and we hear His voice so too Jesus lets us know that if we abide in Him, He abides in the Father, so we may ask Him whatever we wish, John 15:7. If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. The one aspect most people miss about the statement, "ask whatever you wish, is that the disciples needed nothign that the Lord was not aware of; they had already given up everything in the world we might think to ask for when He sent them out without homes, extra money bags, extra sandals, or even a cloak. The Lord Jesus Christ was telling the disciples to ask for whatever tools they needed to perform the ministry He was leaving them to do. He tells them in John 14:16 that they will be given the Holy Spirit. Whey in the Lord's Prayer in Luke 11, are the disciples told in part of Luke 11:13 "how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him". Apparently the point is being made after Luke's rendition of the Lord's Prayer was that Jesus was saying that seeking, and knocking in persistence to the heavenly Father would bring the result that the Holy Spirit would be given to the disciples, not material needs. |
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