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[192.86 --> 201.56] noticed something about Jesus. They noticed that he spent a lot of time praying. They noticed that he
[201.56 --> 211.88] would go away from them to be by himself. And he did it a lot. And so on one occasion, upon seeing him
[211.88 --> 221.12] pray, they said, Lord, teach us to pray. And so Jesus taught them to pray. And he said this,
[221.12 --> 231.02] when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray, standing in synagogues and on
[231.02 --> 238.04] street corners in order, excuse me, in order to be seen by others.
[240.72 --> 245.00] That's not COVID water, by the way. That was just put there before the service, so don't worry.
[245.00 --> 252.50] Truly I tell you, they have received their reward. Okay, the hypocrite prayer. They like to be seen
[252.50 --> 258.80] by others. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door, and pray to your Father who is
[258.80 --> 264.78] unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. I'm just going to pause
[264.78 --> 269.66] there. Actually, it's the word secret that is used twice. But when you pray, go to your room, close the
[269.66 --> 275.52] door, and pray to your Father who is in secret. Okay, the word is crypto in Greek, in fact, which
[275.52 --> 282.54] is where we get our word cryptic from. Something that's done in a confined and solitary location.
[282.68 --> 287.42] That's kind of what Jesus is getting at, though of course we pray as community as well. Pray to your
[287.42 --> 293.54] Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you. And when you
[293.54 --> 301.80] pray, don't babble like pagans, for they think that they're going to be heard by their God because of
[301.80 --> 308.14] their eloquent words. Don't be like them. Your Father knows what you need before you ask Him. Do you
[308.14 --> 316.08] think you can impress Him with your words? This then is how you should pray. Our Father in heaven,
[316.68 --> 323.42] hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today
[323.42 --> 329.76] our daily bread. Forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into
[329.76 --> 342.44] temptation, but deliver us from evil. My life actually in this COVID environment, in fact, hasn't
[342.44 --> 348.70] changed one iota. I work for the Salvation Army, as many of you know, and we oversee quite a project
[348.70 --> 353.40] there in Abbotsford with a lot of street entrenched people who we're working with and people
[353.40 --> 358.54] who are living on the cusp of homelessness. And so we work hard to keep them housed, as well as
[358.54 --> 363.54] working with homeless people. And so it's an essential service. I'm still going. I'm teaching
[363.54 --> 370.20] online humanities. It's online, so that's still going. And so life hasn't changed a lot for me in
[370.20 --> 376.78] that regard, except for, of course, we are and have established COVID protocol, which we maintain
[376.78 --> 382.98] at the Salvation Army. And what we're noticing during this particular COVID period is that our
[382.98 --> 388.92] homeless people have a lot more money. Isn't that interesting? Many of the homeless people are
[388.92 --> 396.54] receiving the CERB. So please pray for the liberal government. Because giving a homeless person $2,000
[396.54 --> 405.06] with the idea that one day you'll audit and you will be able to recoup funds that has been
[405.06 --> 412.90] indiscriminately distributed across our country means the jokes on you. Because you're not getting
[412.90 --> 419.62] that money back. And I saw two weeks ago, I saw a man named, a boy named Jeremy Trellenberg, 30 years
[419.62 --> 426.10] old. I watched him die before my eyes because he's got too much money in his pocket, too many drugs that
[426.10 --> 434.50] he's using. And it finally killed him. There are more deaths by overdose in British Columbia than COVID
[434.50 --> 441.28] since January 1. And to some degree, our government is responsible for that because they're putting too
[441.28 --> 448.10] much money in the hands of people who cannot handle these kinds of funds. They're not ready for it.
[448.94 --> 453.96] This is the world in which we're living right now. And then we turn our attention to what's going on
[453.96 --> 462.94] down south and the civil unrest, the racial tension, white police officers killing black men.
[463.72 --> 470.84] And in response, police officers getting murdered in the United States right now. And we're not sure
[470.84 --> 478.72] what we're supposed to do. We live in a world where insanity seems to rule. But it's not the first
[478.72 --> 483.78] time this has taken place. And here's what I would like to draw your attention to. There's another
[483.78 --> 492.48] place in Scripture where insanity follows a self-absorbed narcissistic personality disorder.
[492.98 --> 498.06] And I believe our culture, generally speaking, is certainly the most narcissistic probably in the
[498.06 --> 504.40] history of the world. Narcissism has to do with those who are absolutely self-absorbed. And we used to
[504.40 --> 510.28] joke about the selfie and the self-focus that our culture lives in. And to some degree, now we are
[510.28 --> 516.36] seeing the consequences of a narcissistic lifestyle in regard to how we're responding to what's taking
[516.36 --> 522.86] place in the world today. Narcissism is a focus on self to the exclusion of others.
[523.72 --> 529.94] Secularism, from the Latin word saeculum, which means present. Secularism, do you realize by definition,
[530.40 --> 537.30] means simply now-ism. It means simply to live in the present without consideration of the past
[537.30 --> 545.06] and without consideration of the future. And this is what's taking place. We have this
[545.06 --> 553.18] combination of narcissism and secularism in this cultural moment. And it's happened before.
[553.48 --> 559.28] There was a man named Nebuchadnezzar. Nebuchadnezzar was like Donald Trump on steroids. Donald Trump,
[559.50 --> 565.66] all he's got, other than a very big mouth, is... And man, I'm not even getting into American politics.
[565.66 --> 569.72] I don't even mean to say that because, boy, I don't even know where you... I don't even want to comment.
[569.88 --> 574.76] But what a mess, right? I mean, what a mess. I don't... I have opinions on everything.
[575.12 --> 576.42] But I don't even know what to say about that.
[578.48 --> 583.54] But there's a... Nebuchadnezzar was Donald Trump on steroids. All Donald Trump has is his Trump
[583.54 --> 589.76] towers and a big mouth. Nebuchadnezzar also had a big mouth. He walked around having people worship
[589.76 --> 595.92] him and he walked around his palace and his gardens and he had the hanging gardens of Babylon.
[596.38 --> 603.12] That's Nebuchadnezzar's thing. One of the seven wonders of the ancient world. And on one occasion,
[603.56 --> 610.52] he was walking around his palace and saying, look at the splendor of my glory. And look at all that I
[610.52 --> 617.04] have accomplished for myself. I am the most powerful human being on the face of the earth
[617.04 --> 622.08] with the largest military and the largest city and the most technologically advanced
[622.08 --> 630.18] palace on the face of the planet. Look how great I am. And as those words were on his lips,
[630.38 --> 640.30] do you know what happened to him? Insanity. Narcissism leads to insanity, my friends. And do we not see
[640.30 --> 647.40] that in our culture today? And it didn't end until finally he raised his eyes to heaven.
[648.06 --> 654.38] Here's the call of the church, a call of God to the church, that we would raise our eyes to the
[654.38 --> 660.94] heavens on behalf of our culture, which is losing its sanity. And he says, at the end of the days,
[660.94 --> 667.50] I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to heaven and then my sanity was returned to me. I blessed the most
[667.50 --> 672.96] high God and praised and honored him who lives forever. For his dominion is an everlasting dominion,
[673.02 --> 678.10] regardless of what it looks like on the streets of Seattle. And his kingdom endures from generation
[678.10 --> 683.38] to generation, regardless of the fact that the kingdoms of our world are crumbling before our
[683.38 --> 688.90] eyes. All the inhabitants of the earth are regarded as nothing and compared to his glory.
[688.90 --> 697.22] And he does as he will according to his, according to the host of heaven. None can stay his hand or say
[697.22 --> 705.62] to him, what have you done? And when I said that, King Nebuchadnezzar says, my sanity was restored to me.
[706.54 --> 710.46] This is a call to prayer. Now I'm not going to go through the entire Lord's Prayer. We're actually
[710.46 --> 715.60] just going to look at the introduction today. Three points really simply. This is all that Jesus is
[715.60 --> 721.86] getting at as he introduces. When he's teaching us to pray, the first thing he says is, this is where
[721.86 --> 728.32] you pray. It's literally that important to Jesus that when he teaches us to pray, he teaches us where
[728.32 --> 735.02] to go and spends a significant amount of time on teaching us where to go to pray. And then he teaches
[735.02 --> 743.96] us how not to pray before he teaches us how to pray. And from this is inferred the foundation of our
[743.96 --> 749.28] prayer. Okay, so the first thing that Jesus does, he says, when you pray, okay, don't pray like the
[749.28 --> 754.34] hypocrite, don't pray like the pagan. We'll get there in a minute. He says, go to your room. And notice he
[754.34 --> 761.16] says, close the door behind you. What's Jesus getting at? Right at the outset, he's getting at the most
[761.16 --> 768.60] practical dimension of our need to pray. And probably the primary reason why many of us don't pray is we
[768.60 --> 773.76] ought. And by the way, this is all of us. Every time I speak on prayer, I feel like a hypocrite, which I'm about to
[773.76 --> 780.32] talk about in a minute. I'll explain to you what that means. But why don't we pray well? Here's what
[780.32 --> 784.98] Jesus is saying, is because you don't get a silent location. And he's not simply talking about a
[784.98 --> 789.36] location for the sake of a location. I mean, when my kids were young, I spent, and I had to pray, I just
[789.36 --> 793.80] spent more time in the bathroom. And I know some of you have that same situation, because when you have
[793.80 --> 798.96] young kids and it's hard to find silence, but here's the point that Jesus is making, is that we need
[798.96 --> 807.60] to learn to focus. We need to learn to concentrate. We need to learn to look to the heavens and pray to
[807.60 --> 814.98] our Father who is in heaven. And in order to do so, he says, we go to our room and we close the door.
[815.30 --> 822.36] And so do you have that location in your life? And have you bracketed out the time in your life?
[822.36 --> 831.48] Because this is the most important thing in your life. Do you have time to pray? And I know we talk
[831.48 --> 835.36] about praying on the way to work, and I pray on the way to work. And we talk about praying on the
[835.36 --> 840.34] way home from work, and I pray on the way home from work. Paul says that we must pray without ceasing,
[840.54 --> 845.94] and to be sure, we must pray without ceasing. This isn't the only thing the Bible says about prayer,
[846.02 --> 851.30] but this is God come in the flesh talking to us about prayer. And he says that although all of that
[851.30 --> 859.02] is absolutely important, there is something about you bracketing out that time in your day and on a

[192.86 --> 201.56] noticed something about Jesus. They noticed that he spent a lot of time praying. They noticed that he

[201.56 --> 211.88] would go away from them to be by himself. And he did it a lot. And so on one occasion, upon seeing him

[211.88 --> 221.12] pray, they said, Lord, teach us to pray. And so Jesus taught them to pray. And he said this,

[221.12 --> 231.02] when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray, standing in synagogues and on

[231.02 --> 238.04] street corners in order, excuse me, in order to be seen by others.

[240.72 --> 245.00] That's not COVID water, by the way. That was just put there before the service, so don't worry.

[245.00 --> 252.50] Truly I tell you, they have received their reward. Okay, the hypocrite prayer. They like to be seen

[252.50 --> 258.80] by others. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door, and pray to your Father who is

[258.80 --> 264.78] unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. I'm just going to pause

[264.78 --> 269.66] there. Actually, it's the word secret that is used twice. But when you pray, go to your room, close the

[269.66 --> 275.52] door, and pray to your Father who is in secret. Okay, the word is crypto in Greek, in fact, which

[275.52 --> 282.54] is where we get our word cryptic from. Something that's done in a confined and solitary location.

[282.68 --> 287.42] That's kind of what Jesus is getting at, though of course we pray as community as well. Pray to your

[287.42 --> 293.54] Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you. And when you

[293.54 --> 301.80] pray, don't babble like pagans, for they think that they're going to be heard by their God because of

[301.80 --> 308.14] their eloquent words. Don't be like them. Your Father knows what you need before you ask Him. Do you

[308.14 --> 316.08] think you can impress Him with your words? This then is how you should pray. Our Father in heaven,

[316.68 --> 323.42] hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today

[323.42 --> 329.76] our daily bread. Forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into

[329.76 --> 342.44] temptation, but deliver us from evil. My life actually in this COVID environment, in fact, hasn't

[342.44 --> 348.70] changed one iota. I work for the Salvation Army, as many of you know, and we oversee quite a project

[348.70 --> 353.40] there in Abbotsford with a lot of street entrenched people who we're working with and people

[353.40 --> 358.54] who are living on the cusp of homelessness. And so we work hard to keep them housed, as well as

[358.54 --> 363.54] working with homeless people. And so it's an essential service. I'm still going. I'm teaching

[363.54 --> 370.20] online humanities. It's online, so that's still going. And so life hasn't changed a lot for me in

[370.20 --> 376.78] that regard, except for, of course, we are and have established COVID protocol, which we maintain

[376.78 --> 382.98] at the Salvation Army. And what we're noticing during this particular COVID period is that our

[382.98 --> 388.92] homeless people have a lot more money. Isn't that interesting? Many of the homeless people are

[388.92 --> 396.54] receiving the CERB. So please pray for the liberal government. Because giving a homeless person $2,000

[396.54 --> 405.06] with the idea that one day you'll audit and you will be able to recoup funds that has been

[405.06 --> 412.90] indiscriminately distributed across our country means the jokes on you. Because you're not getting

[412.90 --> 419.62] that money back. And I saw two weeks ago, I saw a man named, a boy named Jeremy Trellenberg, 30 years

[419.62 --> 426.10] old. I watched him die before my eyes because he's got too much money in his pocket, too many drugs that

[426.10 --> 434.50] he's using. And it finally killed him. There are more deaths by overdose in British Columbia than COVID

[434.50 --> 441.28] since January 1. And to some degree, our government is responsible for that because they're putting too

[441.28 --> 448.10] much money in the hands of people who cannot handle these kinds of funds. They're not ready for it.

[448.94 --> 453.96] This is the world in which we're living right now. And then we turn our attention to what's going on

[453.96 --> 462.94] down south and the civil unrest, the racial tension, white police officers killing black men.

[463.72 --> 470.84] And in response, police officers getting murdered in the United States right now. And we're not sure

[470.84 --> 478.72] what we're supposed to do. We live in a world where insanity seems to rule. But it's not the first

[478.72 --> 483.78] time this has taken place. And here's what I would like to draw your attention to. There's another

[483.78 --> 492.48] place in Scripture where insanity follows a self-absorbed narcissistic personality disorder.

[492.98 --> 498.06] And I believe our culture, generally speaking, is certainly the most narcissistic probably in the

[498.06 --> 504.40] history of the world. Narcissism has to do with those who are absolutely self-absorbed. And we used to

[504.40 --> 510.28] joke about the selfie and the self-focus that our culture lives in. And to some degree, now we are

[510.28 --> 516.36] seeing the consequences of a narcissistic lifestyle in regard to how we're responding to what's taking

[516.36 --> 522.86] place in the world today. Narcissism is a focus on self to the exclusion of others.

[523.72 --> 529.94] Secularism, from the Latin word saeculum, which means present. Secularism, do you realize by definition,

[530.40 --> 537.30] means simply now-ism. It means simply to live in the present without consideration of the past

[537.30 --> 545.06] and without consideration of the future. And this is what's taking place. We have this

[545.06 --> 553.18] combination of narcissism and secularism in this cultural moment. And it's happened before.

[553.48 --> 559.28] There was a man named Nebuchadnezzar. Nebuchadnezzar was like Donald Trump on steroids. Donald Trump,

[559.50 --> 565.66] all he's got, other than a very big mouth, is... And man, I'm not even getting into American politics.

[565.66 --> 569.72] I don't even mean to say that because, boy, I don't even know where you... I don't even want to comment.

[569.88 --> 574.76] But what a mess, right? I mean, what a mess. I don't... I have opinions on everything.

[575.12 --> 576.42] But I don't even know what to say about that.

[578.48 --> 583.54] But there's a... Nebuchadnezzar was Donald Trump on steroids. All Donald Trump has is his Trump

[583.54 --> 589.76] towers and a big mouth. Nebuchadnezzar also had a big mouth. He walked around having people worship

[589.76 --> 595.92] him and he walked around his palace and his gardens and he had the hanging gardens of Babylon.

[596.38 --> 603.12] That's Nebuchadnezzar's thing. One of the seven wonders of the ancient world. And on one occasion,

[603.56 --> 610.52] he was walking around his palace and saying, look at the splendor of my glory. And look at all that I

[610.52 --> 617.04] have accomplished for myself. I am the most powerful human being on the face of the earth

[617.04 --> 622.08] with the largest military and the largest city and the most technologically advanced

[622.08 --> 630.18] palace on the face of the planet. Look how great I am. And as those words were on his lips,

[630.38 --> 640.30] do you know what happened to him? Insanity. Narcissism leads to insanity, my friends. And do we not see

[640.30 --> 647.40] that in our culture today? And it didn't end until finally he raised his eyes to heaven.

[648.06 --> 654.38] Here's the call of the church, a call of God to the church, that we would raise our eyes to the

[654.38 --> 660.94] heavens on behalf of our culture, which is losing its sanity. And he says, at the end of the days,

[660.94 --> 667.50] I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to heaven and then my sanity was returned to me. I blessed the most

[667.50 --> 672.96] high God and praised and honored him who lives forever. For his dominion is an everlasting dominion,

[673.02 --> 678.10] regardless of what it looks like on the streets of Seattle. And his kingdom endures from generation

[678.10 --> 683.38] to generation, regardless of the fact that the kingdoms of our world are crumbling before our

[683.38 --> 688.90] eyes. All the inhabitants of the earth are regarded as nothing and compared to his glory.

[688.90 --> 697.22] And he does as he will according to his, according to the host of heaven. None can stay his hand or say

[697.22 --> 705.62] to him, what have you done? And when I said that, King Nebuchadnezzar says, my sanity was restored to me.

[706.54 --> 710.46] This is a call to prayer. Now I'm not going to go through the entire Lord's Prayer. We're actually

[710.46 --> 715.60] just going to look at the introduction today. Three points really simply. This is all that Jesus is

[715.60 --> 721.86] getting at as he introduces. When he's teaching us to pray, the first thing he says is, this is where

[721.86 --> 728.32] you pray. It's literally that important to Jesus that when he teaches us to pray, he teaches us where

[728.32 --> 735.02] to go and spends a significant amount of time on teaching us where to go to pray. And then he teaches

[735.02 --> 743.96] us how not to pray before he teaches us how to pray. And from this is inferred the foundation of our

[743.96 --> 749.28] prayer. Okay, so the first thing that Jesus does, he says, when you pray, okay, don't pray like the

[749.28 --> 754.34] hypocrite, don't pray like the pagan. We'll get there in a minute. He says, go to your room. And notice he

[754.34 --> 761.16] says, close the door behind you. What's Jesus getting at? Right at the outset, he's getting at the most

[761.16 --> 768.60] practical dimension of our need to pray. And probably the primary reason why many of us don't pray is we

[768.60 --> 773.76] ought. And by the way, this is all of us. Every time I speak on prayer, I feel like a hypocrite, which I'm about to

[773.76 --> 780.32] talk about in a minute. I'll explain to you what that means. But why don't we pray well? Here's what

[780.32 --> 784.98] Jesus is saying, is because you don't get a silent location. And he's not simply talking about a

[784.98 --> 789.36] location for the sake of a location. I mean, when my kids were young, I spent, and I had to pray, I just

[789.36 --> 793.80] spent more time in the bathroom. And I know some of you have that same situation, because when you have

[793.80 --> 798.96] young kids and it's hard to find silence, but here's the point that Jesus is making, is that we need

[798.96 --> 807.60] to learn to focus. We need to learn to concentrate. We need to learn to look to the heavens and pray to

[807.60 --> 814.98] our Father who is in heaven. And in order to do so, he says, we go to our room and we close the door.

[815.30 --> 822.36] And so do you have that location in your life? And have you bracketed out the time in your life?

[822.36 --> 831.48] Because this is the most important thing in your life. Do you have time to pray? And I know we talk

[831.48 --> 835.36] about praying on the way to work, and I pray on the way to work. And we talk about praying on the

[835.36 --> 840.34] way home from work, and I pray on the way home from work. Paul says that we must pray without ceasing,

[840.54 --> 845.94] and to be sure, we must pray without ceasing. This isn't the only thing the Bible says about prayer,

[846.02 --> 851.30] but this is God come in the flesh talking to us about prayer. And he says that although all of that

[851.30 --> 859.02] is absolutely important, there is something about you bracketing out that time in your day and on a