Sermon: Lord’s Prayer – Part 1 – “Righteous, Pious”

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This is the first of (probably) five sermons on the Lord’s Prayer. This sermon is an introduction, exploring the context in which we find the Lord’s Prayer. I touch briefly on the context in Luke, but most of the sermon is spent on the Sermon on the Mount context.

Much of the sermon is spent discussing true vs. false righteousness and piety, true vs. false rewards, true vs. false kingdoms and how Christ’s disciples must hold to the correct, biblical understandings of these things. This leads to how the Lord’s Prayer appears to be Jesus’ instructions to his disciples on how to petition God to give them the proper perspectives as disciples of Christ.