{"id":33345,"date":"2005-08-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/preaching\/sermons\/real-lords-prayer\/"},"modified":"2005-08-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-26T00:00:00","slug":"real-lords-prayer","status":"publish","type":"sermons","link":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/preaching\/sermons\/real-lords-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Lord&#8217;s Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2005\/08\/18761.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n<p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">This is truly the Lord&#8217;s Prayer&#8212;not the one we pray every Sunday\nwhen we say &#8220;Our father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.&#8221;\nThat is the Disciples&#8217; Prayer, which Jesus taught them in answer to their\nrequest to teach them how to pray. This\nis truly the Lord&#8217;s Prayer, and a cursory examination of these verses in John\n17 will also show that it&#8217;s divided into three sections. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">In the first five verses, Jesus prays for himself about his own\nglory that he had with his father before the foundation of the earth. In the\nnext section, verses 619, Jesus prays for his immediate disciples. In the last\nsection, verses 2026, he prays for us specifically. That&#8217;s the way you can\ndivide up the high priestly prayer of Jesus. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">I&#8217;m not going to handle this the way the prayer is traditionally\nhandled. This morning I want to talk about the one who prayed. You can tell a\nlot about somebody by listening to their prayers. Then next week I want to talk\nabout the one to whom he prayed. You can see a lot about the Father by looking\nat the way Jesus prayed. The third Sunday I want to talk about the ones for\nwhom he prayed. And that&#8217;s us. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">As I said, you know you can tell a lot about the way a person is\nby listening to his or her prayers. Two\nmen were adrift in an open boat in the ocean and it looked like the end. For\ndays they had been drifting. Nobody had shown up, and they were dry, they were\nhungry, and the sun was beating down, and they knew the end had come. One of\nthe men knelt down in the boat and prayed: &#8220;Oh Lord, I&#8217;ve broken most of your commandments. I&#8217;ve been a hard\ndrinker, but if my life is spared now I&#8217;ll promise you that I never will again\n. . .&#8221; And about that time his companion tapped him on the shoulder and\nsaid, &#8220;Wait a minute Jack. Don&#8217;t go too far. I think I hear a boat\ncoming.&#8221; He was a man who made deals, and he figured he could make deals\nwith God. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">You can tell a lot about people by listening how they pray. In the mountains of North Carolina there was\na mountaineer leaning against a tree when a tourist drove by and he noticed the\nmountaineer&#8217;s house was on fire. He said, &#8220;Good man, your house is on\nfire!&#8221; The mountaineer said,\n&#8220;I know it.&#8221; &#8220;Aren&#8217;t you\ngoing to do something?&#8221; He said,\n&#8220;I am doing something. Ever since the fire started, I&#8217;ve been praying for\nrain.&#8221; The man was lazy, and you could see the reflection of his nature in\nthe prayer he prayed. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">A little girl&#8217;s brother set a trap to catch birds and the little\ngirl thought it was wrong, and her demeanor was sad and woebegone. Then one day\nher demeanor changed. Her mother asked what had happened. &#8220;I prayed for my\nbrother to be a better boy.&#8221; &#8220;What else did you pray?&#8221; &#8220;That the trap would not catch any birds.&#8221; &#8220;What else?&#8221; the mother said. &#8220;I went out and kicked the trap to\npieces.&#8221; She was not a sitter; she was a doer. She was going to help God\nout a bit. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">You can tell a lot about people by the way they pray. Or the little boy who prayed &#8220;And God\nplease make Jimmy quit throwing rocks at me &#8230; and by the way I&#8217;ve mentioned\nthis before&#8221; is someone who felt he could manipulate God. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">You can tell a lot about people by the way they pray. When the Westminster Assembly met to write\nthe greatest confession in the history of Christendom, one of the divines\nprayed, &#8220;Lord lead us aright for we are very determined.&#8221; When the tax collector in Luke 18 prayed &#8220;Lord\nbe merciful to me a sinner,&#8221; you knew as much about the  as you\ndid about the prayers. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">In our text this morning we&#8217;re given an insight into the Son of\nGod that you can&#8217;t find any other place in the Bible so clearly. This is holy\nground. We must be very careful when we tread on it, but let&#8217;s begin to examine\nthe nature of the one who prayed. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <strong>\n        <span style=\"\" class=\"\">Jesus\nhad a deep relationship with the Father.<\/span>\n      <\/strong>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">First you ought to note from the prayer of Jesus that he had a\ndeep relationship with the Father. There is not one conditional sentence in the\nwhole prayer. He prays as one who was , who had a relationship with\nGod before we ever knew the name of Jesus (John 17:5). Paul says in Romans 8:26 that we do not know\nhow to pray as we ought. Well, Jesus knew how to pray as he ought, and this is\nexactly how he ought to pray. Why? Because of the totally intimate relationship\nhe had with the Father both in the flesh and before the foundation of the\nearth. An interesting thing is happening here: a conversation within the\nTrinity. Something so close, so intimate, it&#8217;s almost as if one prays to\noneself. God is praying to God. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">Bill Glass had a son named John&#8212;an  athlete in the\neleventh grade, a 250 bruiser, the apple of his father&#8217;s eye. Then John\nhad a knee injury that put him out for months and in the hospital for weeks.\nOne time Bill came home and couldn&#8217;t find John. Upstairs he noticed the door to\nhis son&#8217;s room was cracked just a bit, and his son was on the bed sobbing as if\nhis heart would break. Bill said,\n&#8220;As I listened to my son cry, I wanted to do something, but I didn&#8217;t know\nwhat to say. So I stood outside that door and listened to him sob, and I said\nto myself, I will go in to my son and say to him, &#8220;John it&#8217;s OK, son.\nWe&#8217;re going to lick this thing. Were going to ask the Lord to lead us. We will\nfind the best doctors. We&#8217;re going to lick this thing.&#8221; So Bill finally pushed the door open, walked\nin, and then he started crying. He put his hand on his son&#8217;s shoulder, and the\nson looked up and noticed his dad crying and said, &#8220;Dad, it&#8217;s OK. We&#8217;re\ngoing to lick this thing. We&#8217;ll ask the Lord to lead us, and we&#8217;re going to be\nall right.&#8221; In other words, the son said to the father what the father was\ngoing to say to the son. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">Something like that is happening in John 17. We see a\nrelationship so intimate that before the petition poured forth from the Son, it\nwas in the mind of the Father. What a beautiful relationship, and more\nimportant, it is the relationship God the Father would have us have with the\nSon in our intimate prayers. We ought to pray, &#8220;Father draw me so close to\nyou by your grace that I make no requests, utter no sentence, make no appeal\nexcept the request, the sentence, the appeal that which you would have me\nmake.&#8221; Prayer is not an exercise\nin getting, it is an experiment in intimacy. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <strong>\n        <span style=\"\" class=\"\">Jesus\nlived a perfect life.<\/span>\n      <\/strong>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">Second, Jesus not only had a deep relationship but a perfect\nlife. Throughout the prayer, there&#8217;s something missing. Remember when Jesus\nresponded to his disciples&#8217; request to teach them how to pray, he said,\n&#8220;Pray then like this .. . forgive us our debts as we forgive our\ndebtors&#8221;? You&#8217;d think Jesus would follow his own instruction, but\nsomething is missing. There is no confession of sin, no place where Jesus lists\nbefore the Father his sin and asks for forgiveness. Why? Because there was no\nsin. He had lived an absolutely, totally perfect life. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">In Exodus 12, the institution of the Passover, you will remember\nthe people of God were ready to leave Egypt. They had tried everything, or God\nhad tried everything, to get them out of Egypt. Finally God had his big guns\naimed at old Pharaoh. He told the people of God to kill a paschal lamb, a lamb\nthat was perfect, and then they were to take the blood of the lamb and put it\non the doorpost. When the angel of death should pass over (hence the word\nPassover), he would pass over those who had the blood of the lamb on the\ndoorposts. In that action God was prefiguring something that was going to\nhappen in the cross of Christ. Jesus is the Lamb of God that taketh away the\nsin of the world. There was a requirement about that lamb. You&#8217;ll find it in\nExodus 12:5. This was the commandment of God. &#8220;The lamb shall be without\nblemish.&#8221; The reason the death of\nJesus accomplished so much is that he sinned not at all. Jesus would have us pray\nwith the same sinless perfection! The problem is, we can&#8217;t do it the way he did\nit, but we can do it in the purity in which he did it because it&#8217;s his purity,\nhis righteousness, infused into the life of the believer. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">Did you know you can go before God totally clean because he died\nthat you might be free? I had a friend\ncall not too long ago who&#8217;s been away from the Father for almost two years. I\nsaid, &#8220;Sam, when was the last time you slept clean?&#8221; He said, &#8220;Steve, it&#8217;s been a long time,\nbut I want you to know I&#8217;m going to sleep clean tonight.&#8221; How? He&#8217;d done\nsome pretty horrible things the last two years. He got on his knees and he got\nclean because Jesus was clean and perfect and covered his sin. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">April made an interesting observation the other day about\nshadows: &#8220;Have you ever noticed how shadows follow you around? We always\nthink that the sun causes shadows. The sun doesn&#8217;t cause shadows; we cause\nshadows. It&#8217;s the object that causes the darkness that follows us around. &#8220;I noticed something else. Have you\never noticed that the closer you get to the sun, in it&#8217;s direct sunlight, the\nshorter the shadow?&#8221; That&#8217;s the way it is with the Christian life as we\nmove with the Father and grow in his grace. The place we can&#8217;t make he made for\nus because he was totally righteous. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <strong>\n        <span style=\"\" class=\"\">Jesus\nlived in complete obedience.<\/span>\n      <\/strong>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">Third, you ought to note from the prayer that Jesus also had a\ntotal obedience. John 17:4&#8243;I glorified Thee on the earth, having\naccomplished the work which Thou hast given Me to do.&#8221; How often have you\nbeen able to pray like that at the end of the day: &#8220;I did what you told me\nto do today. I was in the center of your will today.&#8221; There&#8217;s often a\ndirect correlation between the power of your prayers and the reality of your\nobedience. (1 Pet. 1:22; Rev. 22:14; Matt. 12:50). Somebody told me not too long ago a lot of people feel free to\nsow their wild oats all week long and come to church on Sunday and pray for a\ncrop failure, and it doesn&#8217;t work that way, ladies and gentlemen. Obedience is\nthe necessary ingredient for power within prayer. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">There&#8217;s a Jewish parable about a fox who saw the fish in trouble\nas the fishermen were trying to catch the fish in their nets. The fox said to\nthe fish, &#8220;Why don&#8217;t you come out in the air and get away from the nets of\nthe fishermen?&#8221; Then, during the time the GSyrian kings were\nthreatening with death all who observed the law of God, the Rabbi said,\n&#8220;We, like the fish in the stream are indeed in danger, but yet while we\ncontinue in obedience to God we are in our element. But if to escape the danger\nwe forsake that, then we inevitably perish.&#8221; A good point. Saying to God\n&#8220;I did what you told me to do&#8221; is no mean thing. You see, I&#8217;d rather\npray in obedience in trouble than to pray in trouble. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">Let me illustrate. If I send my girls to the store to buy an\nobject for me and they don&#8217;t have the money, then their problem is my problem\nbecause they&#8217;re acting in obedience to me. So when they ask for the money\nthey&#8217;ll get it. When I tell my girls to mow the lawn, then their safety as they\nhandle the power mower is my responsibility. My problem. Because they&#8217;re acting\nin obedience to me. Now if you&#8217;re\nliving in obedience to God, then you have the power to go to him and talk as if\nyour problem were his problem, because that&#8217;s exactly the reality of the\nsituation. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <strong>\n        <span style=\"\" class=\"\">Jesus&#8217;\nmission was limited.<\/span>\n      <\/strong>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">Fourth, you ought to note that Jesus also had a limited concern.\nJohn 17:9&#8243;I&#8217;m not praying for the world but for those whom thou hast\ngiven me for they are thine.&#8221; Next\nSunday we&#8217;re going to talk about the doctrine, one of the five points of\nCalvinism, called &#8220;particular atonement.&#8221; That means when Christ came\nto die, he didn&#8217;t do it by accident. He came to die for you if you&#8217;re a\nbeliever. He came with you in mind. We&#8217;ll talk about particular atonement\nlater, but right now I want you to notice what Jesus was saying to God:\n&#8220;Look, I didn&#8217;t do everything. I didn&#8217;t save everybody. Didn&#8217;t heal\neverybody. I didn&#8217;t meet every need. I didn&#8217;t solve every problem, but I did\nwhat you told me to do.&#8221; I&#8217;ve\noften said from this pulpit that if you&#8217;re so busy you can&#8217;t breathe, if you&#8217;re\nso worn out you can&#8217;t move, if you&#8217;re so hurried you can&#8217;t pray, you&#8217;re doing\nmore than God asked you to do. In other words, he gives you a task, and he\ngives you exactly the amount of time in your lifetime to do what he told you to\ndo, and if you&#8217;re worn out inside, it&#8217;s because you&#8217;re doing something\nelse. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">Somebody quoted that to me not too long ago, and the one thing I\nhate worse than anything is for somebody to quote my words back to me. When I\nwas extremely busy they said, &#8220;I heard a preacher say one time that if\nyou&#8217;re the way you are, then you&#8217;re doing something God didn&#8217;t tell you to\ndo.&#8221; I thought about that a long time, and I&#8217;m beginning to cut back and to\nsee those areas where I&#8217;m trying to solve problems thinking that the problems\nin themselves are the call of God. They aren&#8217;t. That&#8217;s the peculiar proclivity of Americans. We see a problem and\nthink if that problem is there, God must want us to solve it. So we run around\nputting BandAids on cancers, and nothing gets accomplished. Let tell you\nsomething: The problem does not constitute the call of God. The call of God\nconstitutes the call of God. Billy\nGraham has been asked to run for political office. He&#8217;s been asked to take a\nlate night television show. He&#8217;s been asked to take stands on all kinds of\nsocial causes. And every time Mr. Graham says this: &#8220;I&#8217;m an evangelist;\nI&#8217;ve been called to be an evangelist, and I&#8217;m going to do what God told me to do.&#8221; <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">We walk around with a guilt complex because we&#8217;re not meeting\nevery need. You aren&#8217;t supposed to meet every need or solve every problem or\nheal every hurt. Find the place God has sent you, the task he ordains for you,\nthe goal he has set for you, and then go to it no matter what everybody else\nsays. No matter how much guilt people lay on you. Find out what he says and do\nit, and you&#8217;ll have enough time. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <strong>\n        <span style=\"\" class=\"\">Jesus\nhad a vibrant love.<\/span>\n      <\/strong>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">Fifth, note that Jesus had a vibrant love (John 17:26). This\nabsolutely amazes me. This is the sacrificial prayer of Jesus, the &#8220;high\npriestly prayer he&#8217;s praying before the lamb is offered, and the lamb is\nhimself! He&#8217;s facing the most cruel, horrible death anybody could ever face.\nAnd you don&#8217;t have the slightest idea what he went through. It was not in the\nnails where the pain was. It wasn&#8217;t the crown of thorns. It was not the\nhorrible death on the cross&#8212;a lot of folks have died that way. But he died in\nthe total blackness without a single resource, including the resource of God. At that point the Father had to let go of\nthe son and the intimate relationship they had shared from the foundation of\nthe earth was broken completely and totally. And you think you&#8217;ve been without\nGod? You don&#8217;t know anything until you have an absolute relationship with him\nand it&#8217;s broken. Jesus was facing that. He knew it would be a most horrible\nthing through which any man could go, and you know what he did when he was\nfacing all that? He was praying for me. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">Stephen followed his example in Acts 7. They stoned him to\ndeath, and as he was dying he said, &#8220;Father, lay not upon them this\nsin.&#8221; He had a good example. Jesus&#8217; disciples have been doing it ever\nsince. Praying for others and loving others and reaching out to others. That&#8217;s\nwhy he left us around&#8212;so we can define the love for the world the way Jesus\ndefined it for us. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">You&#8217;ve heard the story about the little girl in an orphanage\nwhen the people from the church brought baskets of fruit on Thanksgiving. She\nput her basket of fruit up in the window and somebody asked why she didn&#8217;t eat\nit, and she said, &#8220;Because I wanted everybody to see that somebody loved\nme.&#8221; Little girl, that&#8217;s not\nenough. Once you see that, then you&#8217;ve got to go give some baskets of fruit to\nsome other people. Don&#8217;t put that sign on the back of your car that says,\n&#8220;Smile, God loves you&#8221; unless you put another one that says &#8220;And\nI do too. That&#8217;s what it&#8217;s all about. That&#8217;s why he came. That the love\nreflected in his life might be reflected in our life to the world. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">I&#8217;m reading a great trilogy right now. Let me recommend it to\nthose of you who like fantasy The Dragonriders of Pern by Ann\nMcCaffrey. One of the things the dragonriders do when the dragons come out of\ntheir eggs is to stand in front of them and look them in the eye, and at that\nmoment what Ann calls &#8220;the impressing of the dragon&#8221; takes place. At\nthat point there&#8217;s a relationship set up between the dragonrider and the dragon\nthat goes for life. And when a dragon gets killed in battle, the rider dies too\nbecause that relationship is so close. We&#8217;ve been &#8220;impressed&#8221; by Jesus of Nazareth just like that\nwith his love, and if you don&#8217;t have that love you don&#8217;t have him. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <strong>\n        <span style=\"\" class=\"\">Jesus\nhad a truthful witness.<\/span>\n      <\/strong>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">Sixth, Jesus also had a truthful witness (John 17:17). I don&#8217;t\nknow about you, but I&#8217;ve been lied to so much I can&#8217;t believe anybody anymore.\nI mean the next guy that says &#8220;The check&#8217;s in the mail&#8221; or &#8220;Your\ncar&#8217;s going to be ready this afternoon,&#8221; or &#8220;Don t worry, your goods\ncame in today&#8221; &#8230; It&#8217;s so wonderful\nin our world to go to one place and know we&#8217;re going to be told the truth. It\nwon&#8217;t always be a happy truth, but it&#8217;s true. He told us the truth about the\nworld&#8212;it&#8217;s dark. He told us the truth about us&#8212;we&#8217;re bent. He told us the truth\nabout death&#8212;it&#8217;s real. He told us the truth about heaven&#8212;it&#8217;s possible. He told us the truth about\nhimself&#8212;he&#8217;s the way. And it&#8217;s like going into a safe harbor because he&#8217;s never\nlied to me. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <strong>\n        <span style=\"\" class=\"\">Jesus\nhad an exuberant joy.<\/span>\n      <\/strong>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">Finally you ought to note from the prayer of Jesus that he had\nan exuberant joy (John 17:13). The amazing thing about this prayer is that when\nhe prays it, he&#8217;s not woebegone; it&#8217;s an exuberant, joyful, happy prayer. Why\nis that? Because he&#8217;s going home. And his joy is increased because he&#8217;s not\ngoing there for the first time. He&#8217;s going there for the second time. Dr. Barnhouse talks about seeing the\ncoronation of King George VI. He said he was dressed in his coronation robes,\nall this purple and ermine and gold crown, and he said it was obvious that he was\nthe king. Then, he said, a number of years later when they had bombed east\nLondon, he saw a picture of the king again dressed in the clothes of everybody\nelse and you couldn&#8217;t pick him out. They had to put an arrow in the picture\nthat said &#8220;the king.&#8221; He was every bit as much a king dressed in the\nclothes of the common people as he was when he had a crown on his head. Jesus was too. You can&#8217;t forget that. He\nstarted there. He who was rich became poor that by his poverty you might become\nrich. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">Let me tell you something else about it. Sorrow is magnified in\nproportion to how much you have known joy. Living for us is difficult, but\nwe&#8217;ve never known anything else. We&#8217;ve always lived in a fallen world, so while\nour sorrow is horrible, it&#8217;s not half as horrible as was the sorrow of Jesus,\nbecause he knew better. Sorrow is magnified in proportion to how much you have\nknown joy. Let me tell you something\nelse. Joy is magnified in proportion to how much you have known sorrow, and\nbecause Jesus knew desperate, horrible sorrow, the joy was magnified to\nunbelievable proportions as he realized he was going home. He was going home to\nassume the glory that he had before the foundation of the earth. Jesus&#8217; prayer\nis prayed for us, but the Bible teaches that Jesus didn&#8217;t stop praying in John\n17. He&#8217;s still doing it (Heb. 7:25). <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">When things were not going well with the Reformation,\nMelancthon, the younger colleague of Luther, walked by the room with some\nchildren, and the door was cracked, and he heard the children praying. Then he\nwent out to his followers much bolstered in spirit and he said, &#8220;Take\nheart, the children are praying.&#8221; When you&#8217;re going through it tough, when it&#8217;s not working, when it won&#8217;t\ncome together take heart. The Son of God is praying for you. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <em>\n        <span style=\"\" class=\"\">Stephen W. Brown is president of Key Life Network and a\nprofessor at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, Florida<\/span>\n      <\/em>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">. <em>He\nhas written one book, entitled <\/em>When Being Good Isn&#8217;t Enough<em>.<\/em><\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">\n      <\/span>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">Stephen W. 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