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[859.02 --> 867.86] daily basis to be alone, quiet before the Lord without your phone and all of its notifications
[867.86 --> 877.76] and all of its distractions. Nicholas Carr has a great book called The Shallows. Has anyone heard of it?
[877.76 --> 885.78] It's The Shallows, subtitled What the Internet is Doing to Our Brain. Nicholas Carr won a Pulitzer Prize for
[885.78 --> 889.98] this book. I highly recommend it, in fact. And he's got a bunch of friends who have PhDs and they're
[889.98 --> 896.18] doctors, and he's in conversation with them. And Nicholas Carr is noticing that many of them are
[896.18 --> 903.14] saying, you know, I just don't read anymore. I don't read lengthy treaties anymore. I don't even like
[903.14 --> 909.14] reading long blog posts. I like the short blog posts. Tweets are best, actually, because you can really get
[909.14 --> 914.62] that little piece of information really fast. And people, and why not? And they're saying, because I can't hold
[914.62 --> 923.98] my concentration long enough. And so all of this is an attack, ultimately, on prayer. Because if you can't
[923.98 --> 932.42] concentrate for longer than five minutes, you cannot pray. And this is what Jesus is saying.
[933.38 --> 938.38] Right? And I got ADD. I mean, I feel sorry for people who don't have ADD. ADD's fun. You've got to
[938.38 --> 943.34] channel your ADD. By the way, it stands for Attention Deficit. Man, I really don't like the shirt that I'm
[943.34 --> 952.90] wearing today. It's flopping around. And not everyone gets that. And so I do, you know,
[953.00 --> 960.30] our Father who art in heaven, did I forget to turn off the stove? Hallowed be thy name. Your kingdom come,
[960.64 --> 965.00] man, are my children suffering right? And you're going to notice when you go in this prayer, here's
[965.00 --> 970.74] the concentration. Notice this prayer. We go to prayer with a shopping list of requests.
[970.74 --> 979.60] Christ's prayer, our Father in heaven. He is your dad. By his spirit, you can't cry, Abba, Father.
[979.74 --> 985.60] In heaven, to the Jew, meant he was in control. Psalm 115, 3, our God is in heaven. He does whatever
[985.60 --> 991.22] he pleases. Psalm 135, 6, our God is in heaven. He does whatever he pleases. Daniel 4, our God is in
[991.22 --> 995.28] heaven. The peoples of the earth are regarded as nothing, and he does as he pleases, and no one can
[995.28 --> 1002.64] hold back his hand. To say our God is in heaven is to assert that no one can hold back his hand,
[1002.68 --> 1007.58] and he's in charge regardless of what things look like. This is how you start your prayer.
[1008.32 --> 1015.58] And then you're saying, hallowed be thy name. That means may God's holiness be manifested in my life.
[1015.58 --> 1022.30] God is hallowed, holy. May he be regarded as holy in my life, in my family, in my marriage,
[1022.86 --> 1027.28] in my church, where I work, and ultimately in this world.
[1029.18 --> 1033.22] What is Jesus doing? When we pray, we go to prayer with all of our problems.
[1034.18 --> 1038.58] We pray our problems so much, we're more depressed by the end of our prayer than we were at the beginning
[1038.58 --> 1044.60] of the prayer. Because all we do in prayer is pray our problems. And Jesus is saying, that's not how you pray.
[1044.60 --> 1048.80] And of course there's the emergency prayer, and I understand. There's something that's an emergency,
[1049.24 --> 1052.72] and the first thing you do is you go to God and you bring it to him. And I understand that,
[1052.78 --> 1056.34] and we need to do that. And there's places in the Bible where that happens. But Jesus is teaching,
[1056.46 --> 1061.72] this is generally speaking, how you pray. When you pray, pray this way. By the way, I'm not even
[1061.72 --> 1067.10] gone through the Lord's prayer yet. Hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. All my life I walk around
[1067.10 --> 1071.56] thinking about my kingdom, my empire, my achievements, the things I'm accomplishing. And he's saying,
[1071.56 --> 1076.44] no, no, no, no, I'm pushing against that. I'm into my kingdom, not your kingdom. And while the kingdoms
[1076.44 --> 1081.88] of the world are collapsing, you need to pray for my kingdom to come. And I go to prayer with my will.
[1081.96 --> 1088.34] Lord, this is what I want. This is what I think I need. These are my problems. Please solve them.
[1088.34 --> 1097.72] And he says, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. And my mind is just going, hang on a minute.
[1097.96 --> 1104.04] And if you start praying this way, it will transform your life. And you know how? Because you're taking
[1104.04 --> 1108.06] your eyes off of yourself in prayer. Because that's what prayer is supposed to be, by the way. By
[1108.06 --> 1114.64] definition, this selfie culture needs nothing more than to take their eyes off of themselves. Stop
[1114.64 --> 1120.26] video recording every silly, stupid thing that happens. Stop taking pictures of your dumb breakfast
[1120.26 --> 1131.38] and start focusing on someone else. And this is what Jesus is saying. Go to a room. Be by yourself.
[1131.78 --> 1141.84] And don't bring your phone and all of its irritating notifications. And pray. When you pray,
[1141.84 --> 1152.22] the first thing Jesus says is where to go when you pray. John Piper said one of the great uses of Twitter
[1152.22 --> 1160.58] and Facebook will be to prove at the last day that prayerlessness was not from a lack of time.
[1161.64 --> 1168.28] In order to pray, we need to find a silent location. Prayer begins, Jesus says, not with our Father who is in
[1168.28 --> 1178.72] heaven, but our Father who is in secret. Second, he says, when you pray, don't pray like the hypocrite,
[1179.50 --> 1185.42] for they love to pray standing to be seen by others. And don't pray like the pagan. Okay, again,
[1185.48 --> 1191.08] we're not even at how to pray yet. Jesus is still busy telling us how not to pray. And this is
[1191.08 --> 1198.66] absolutely crucial because this is going to lead to our last point this morning. But how not to pray?
[1199.74 --> 1204.18] Don't pray like a hypocrite and don't pray like a pagan. Well, what is it about the hypocrite prayer
[1204.18 --> 1208.32] and what is it about the pagan prayer? First of all, the assumption here is that hypocrites pray
[1208.32 --> 1214.18] and that pagans pray. And the assumption here in that Jesus is talking to his disciples
[1214.18 --> 1221.64] is that disciples of Jesus can pray like hypocrites. And disciples of Jesus can pray like pagans.
[1222.08 --> 1227.98] I can honestly tell you that the first 10 or 15 years of my Christian life, I was praying like a
[1227.98 --> 1234.28] pagan. And I'll explain that to you in a moment. First of all, he says, when you pray, don't pray like
[1234.28 --> 1240.50] a hypocrite. The word hypocrite has a fascinating etymology development evolution of this word.
[1240.50 --> 1251.18] It used to refer to a stage actor in pre-Christ Greek theater. And so a stage actor was a hypocrite.
[1251.72 --> 1256.88] And it simply means someone who wears a mask. Okay, so that's what a hypocrite was. And of course,
[1257.04 --> 1264.26] in theater 2,500 years ago, the actors would simply wear masks. A mask that would have a very large smile
[1264.26 --> 1271.48] to show the facial expression of the actor and the theme and mood of the moment. Or a mask that was very large
[1271.48 --> 1277.30] that had a very large frown to show the opposite facial expression and emotion and so forth. So that the people
[1277.30 --> 1283.28] in the theater, and the theaters were quite large, could know exactly what the actor was feeling, their emotion.
[1283.82 --> 1290.36] A hypocrite is someone who wears a mask. And of course, we can see the development of the word hypocrite in that
[1290.36 --> 1295.56] now. Of course, it means, and then, by the way, this is what Jesus meant. It meant someone who's pretentious,
[1295.70 --> 1302.96] someone who pretends to be something that they're not. And when we do that, we do it in order to try to win
[1302.96 --> 1309.58] their approval. A hypocrite is an approval suck. A hypocrite is someone who needs the approval of other
[1309.58 --> 1316.68] people in order to validate themselves. And ultimately, because they don't have a deep and abiding sense
[1316.68 --> 1323.26] of the approval that they have with the God of the universe. And that's what Jesus is getting at here
[1323.26 --> 1328.52] when he says, when you pray, don't pray like this. Here's what he's saying. He's saying, when you pray,
[1328.82 --> 1335.22] pray with the approval that you have. And he'll get to that in a minute. And he says, then, don't pray
[1335.22 --> 1340.14] like a pagan. Well, how does a pagan pray? If a hypocrite prays to impress other people, a pagan's praying
[1340.14 --> 1349.18] to impress God. So a pagan thinks that the God he or she is praying to, and in this case, where Jesus is
[1349.18 --> 1354.60] talking to his disciples, we're praying to the real God, we think, when we're praying like a pagan, that the real
[1354.60 --> 1363.30] God we're praying to is hearing us because we're impressive with our words. Surely he's hearing me because
[1363.30 --> 1370.24] I've been impressive with my life. I don't know if you've read Homer's Iliad or any Greek mythology,
[1370.62 --> 1376.58] but pagans prayed all the time. And Homer's Iliad and Odyssey is full of pagan prayers. There's one
[1376.58 --> 1382.06] occasion where there's a woman named Thetis who's Achilles' mother, and she's aware of the fact that
[1382.06 --> 1389.70] Achilles is in danger. And so she goes to pray to the sky god Apollo who dwells on Mount Olympus.
[1389.70 --> 1399.88] And she says to him, O Father Jove, if I have ever done anything good for you in word or deed,
[1400.54 --> 1408.92] hear my prayer. Right? That's a classic pagan prayer. You say, well, I don't pray like that.
[1409.60 --> 1414.78] Okay, here's how I used to pray like a pagan. I used to go to God in prayer, and the very first thing I
[1414.78 --> 1419.86] did, when I was a new Christian, I was a new Christian. And so, I mean, I was quite a nasty
[1419.86 --> 1426.08] non-Christian, and so I kind of had a lot of things to work out, like bad language and drinking.
[1427.36 --> 1430.84] Anyway, I won't get into all that, but I'll tell you, I was glad there wasn't video recorders
[1430.84 --> 1436.72] running around all the time when I was 18 years old, I can tell you that. Anyway, it was a joke. You can
[1436.72 --> 1442.10] laugh. I wasn't that bad. I mean, I shouldn't be in jail or anything. I've not killed anybody
[1442.10 --> 1451.90] as far as I know. And so, when I prayed, I would always have to begin with the confession of my sin.
[1453.72 --> 1460.46] Jesus died for me. Christ died. Rose again. Conquered sin, death, and hell. Colossians 2 says that my sin
[1460.46 --> 1467.02] was nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more. Yet, I would have to begin with my sin because I didn't
[1467.02 --> 1475.66] believe that God could hear my prayer unless I confessed sin first. Or there were times where I
[1475.66 --> 1480.74] just would live in guilt, and if I was kind of having a bad sin week, I didn't think I could really
[1480.74 --> 1485.92] go to God in prayer. I had to first kind of have a couple of days where I'm not struggling so much
[1485.92 --> 1491.82] with that particular sin. Now, I want to go to the Lord's Prayer. There's six petitions in the Lord's
[1491.82 --> 1497.22] Prayer. Our Father who art in heaven, that's an address. Hallowed be your name. That's a request.
[1497.32 --> 1502.36] That's a prayer request. That's a petition. Your kingdom come. That's a prayer request.
[1503.22 --> 1509.12] Your will be done. That's a prayer request. Give us this day our daily bread. Okay, that's a prayer
[1509.12 --> 1514.90] request. Guess where the location of the confession is on the list of prayer requests in the Lord's
[1514.90 --> 1523.00] Prayer when Jesus teaches you to pray. It's absolutely remarkable. When I pray, I have to deal

[859.02 --> 867.86] daily basis to be alone, quiet before the Lord without your phone and all of its notifications

[867.86 --> 877.76] and all of its distractions. Nicholas Carr has a great book called The Shallows. Has anyone heard of it?

[877.76 --> 885.78] It's The Shallows, subtitled What the Internet is Doing to Our Brain. Nicholas Carr won a Pulitzer Prize for

[885.78 --> 889.98] this book. I highly recommend it, in fact. And he's got a bunch of friends who have PhDs and they're

[889.98 --> 896.18] doctors, and he's in conversation with them. And Nicholas Carr is noticing that many of them are

[896.18 --> 903.14] saying, you know, I just don't read anymore. I don't read lengthy treaties anymore. I don't even like

[903.14 --> 909.14] reading long blog posts. I like the short blog posts. Tweets are best, actually, because you can really get

[909.14 --> 914.62] that little piece of information really fast. And people, and why not? And they're saying, because I can't hold

[914.62 --> 923.98] my concentration long enough. And so all of this is an attack, ultimately, on prayer. Because if you can't

[923.98 --> 932.42] concentrate for longer than five minutes, you cannot pray. And this is what Jesus is saying.

[933.38 --> 938.38] Right? And I got ADD. I mean, I feel sorry for people who don't have ADD. ADD's fun. You've got to

[938.38 --> 943.34] channel your ADD. By the way, it stands for Attention Deficit. Man, I really don't like the shirt that I'm

[943.34 --> 952.90] wearing today. It's flopping around. And not everyone gets that. And so I do, you know,

[953.00 --> 960.30] our Father who art in heaven, did I forget to turn off the stove? Hallowed be thy name. Your kingdom come,

[960.64 --> 965.00] man, are my children suffering right? And you're going to notice when you go in this prayer, here's

[965.00 --> 970.74] the concentration. Notice this prayer. We go to prayer with a shopping list of requests.

[970.74 --> 979.60] Christ's prayer, our Father in heaven. He is your dad. By his spirit, you can't cry, Abba, Father.

[979.74 --> 985.60] In heaven, to the Jew, meant he was in control. Psalm 115, 3, our God is in heaven. He does whatever

[985.60 --> 991.22] he pleases. Psalm 135, 6, our God is in heaven. He does whatever he pleases. Daniel 4, our God is in

[991.22 --> 995.28] heaven. The peoples of the earth are regarded as nothing, and he does as he pleases, and no one can

[995.28 --> 1002.64] hold back his hand. To say our God is in heaven is to assert that no one can hold back his hand,

[1002.68 --> 1007.58] and he's in charge regardless of what things look like. This is how you start your prayer.

[1008.32 --> 1015.58] And then you're saying, hallowed be thy name. That means may God's holiness be manifested in my life.

[1015.58 --> 1022.30] God is hallowed, holy. May he be regarded as holy in my life, in my family, in my marriage,

[1022.86 --> 1027.28] in my church, where I work, and ultimately in this world.

[1029.18 --> 1033.22] What is Jesus doing? When we pray, we go to prayer with all of our problems.

[1034.18 --> 1038.58] We pray our problems so much, we're more depressed by the end of our prayer than we were at the beginning

[1038.58 --> 1044.60] of the prayer. Because all we do in prayer is pray our problems. And Jesus is saying, that's not how you pray.

[1044.60 --> 1048.80] And of course there's the emergency prayer, and I understand. There's something that's an emergency,

[1049.24 --> 1052.72] and the first thing you do is you go to God and you bring it to him. And I understand that,

[1052.78 --> 1056.34] and we need to do that. And there's places in the Bible where that happens. But Jesus is teaching,

[1056.46 --> 1061.72] this is generally speaking, how you pray. When you pray, pray this way. By the way, I'm not even

[1061.72 --> 1067.10] gone through the Lord's prayer yet. Hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. All my life I walk around

[1067.10 --> 1071.56] thinking about my kingdom, my empire, my achievements, the things I'm accomplishing. And he's saying,

[1071.56 --> 1076.44] no, no, no, no, I'm pushing against that. I'm into my kingdom, not your kingdom. And while the kingdoms

[1076.44 --> 1081.88] of the world are collapsing, you need to pray for my kingdom to come. And I go to prayer with my will.

[1081.96 --> 1088.34] Lord, this is what I want. This is what I think I need. These are my problems. Please solve them.

[1088.34 --> 1097.72] And he says, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. And my mind is just going, hang on a minute.

[1097.96 --> 1104.04] And if you start praying this way, it will transform your life. And you know how? Because you're taking

[1104.04 --> 1108.06] your eyes off of yourself in prayer. Because that's what prayer is supposed to be, by the way. By

[1108.06 --> 1114.64] definition, this selfie culture needs nothing more than to take their eyes off of themselves. Stop

[1114.64 --> 1120.26] video recording every silly, stupid thing that happens. Stop taking pictures of your dumb breakfast

[1120.26 --> 1131.38] and start focusing on someone else. And this is what Jesus is saying. Go to a room. Be by yourself.

[1131.78 --> 1141.84] And don't bring your phone and all of its irritating notifications. And pray. When you pray,

[1141.84 --> 1152.22] the first thing Jesus says is where to go when you pray. John Piper said one of the great uses of Twitter

[1152.22 --> 1160.58] and Facebook will be to prove at the last day that prayerlessness was not from a lack of time.

[1161.64 --> 1168.28] In order to pray, we need to find a silent location. Prayer begins, Jesus says, not with our Father who is in

[1168.28 --> 1178.72] heaven, but our Father who is in secret. Second, he says, when you pray, don't pray like the hypocrite,

[1179.50 --> 1185.42] for they love to pray standing to be seen by others. And don't pray like the pagan. Okay, again,

[1185.48 --> 1191.08] we're not even at how to pray yet. Jesus is still busy telling us how not to pray. And this is

[1191.08 --> 1198.66] absolutely crucial because this is going to lead to our last point this morning. But how not to pray?

[1199.74 --> 1204.18] Don't pray like a hypocrite and don't pray like a pagan. Well, what is it about the hypocrite prayer

[1204.18 --> 1208.32] and what is it about the pagan prayer? First of all, the assumption here is that hypocrites pray

[1208.32 --> 1214.18] and that pagans pray. And the assumption here in that Jesus is talking to his disciples

[1214.18 --> 1221.64] is that disciples of Jesus can pray like hypocrites. And disciples of Jesus can pray like pagans.

[1222.08 --> 1227.98] I can honestly tell you that the first 10 or 15 years of my Christian life, I was praying like a

[1227.98 --> 1234.28] pagan. And I'll explain that to you in a moment. First of all, he says, when you pray, don't pray like

[1234.28 --> 1240.50] a hypocrite. The word hypocrite has a fascinating etymology development evolution of this word.

[1240.50 --> 1251.18] It used to refer to a stage actor in pre-Christ Greek theater. And so a stage actor was a hypocrite.

[1251.72 --> 1256.88] And it simply means someone who wears a mask. Okay, so that's what a hypocrite was. And of course,

[1257.04 --> 1264.26] in theater 2,500 years ago, the actors would simply wear masks. A mask that would have a very large smile

[1264.26 --> 1271.48] to show the facial expression of the actor and the theme and mood of the moment. Or a mask that was very large

[1271.48 --> 1277.30] that had a very large frown to show the opposite facial expression and emotion and so forth. So that the people

[1277.30 --> 1283.28] in the theater, and the theaters were quite large, could know exactly what the actor was feeling, their emotion.

[1283.82 --> 1290.36] A hypocrite is someone who wears a mask. And of course, we can see the development of the word hypocrite in that

[1290.36 --> 1295.56] now. Of course, it means, and then, by the way, this is what Jesus meant. It meant someone who's pretentious,

[1295.70 --> 1302.96] someone who pretends to be something that they're not. And when we do that, we do it in order to try to win

[1302.96 --> 1309.58] their approval. A hypocrite is an approval suck. A hypocrite is someone who needs the approval of other

[1309.58 --> 1316.68] people in order to validate themselves. And ultimately, because they don't have a deep and abiding sense

[1316.68 --> 1323.26] of the approval that they have with the God of the universe. And that's what Jesus is getting at here

[1323.26 --> 1328.52] when he says, when you pray, don't pray like this. Here's what he's saying. He's saying, when you pray,

[1328.82 --> 1335.22] pray with the approval that you have. And he'll get to that in a minute. And he says, then, don't pray

[1335.22 --> 1340.14] like a pagan. Well, how does a pagan pray? If a hypocrite prays to impress other people, a pagan's praying

[1340.14 --> 1349.18] to impress God. So a pagan thinks that the God he or she is praying to, and in this case, where Jesus is

[1349.18 --> 1354.60] talking to his disciples, we're praying to the real God, we think, when we're praying like a pagan, that the real

[1354.60 --> 1363.30] God we're praying to is hearing us because we're impressive with our words. Surely he's hearing me because

[1363.30 --> 1370.24] I've been impressive with my life. I don't know if you've read Homer's Iliad or any Greek mythology,

[1370.62 --> 1376.58] but pagans prayed all the time. And Homer's Iliad and Odyssey is full of pagan prayers. There's one

[1376.58 --> 1382.06] occasion where there's a woman named Thetis who's Achilles' mother, and she's aware of the fact that

[1382.06 --> 1389.70] Achilles is in danger. And so she goes to pray to the sky god Apollo who dwells on Mount Olympus.

[1389.70 --> 1399.88] And she says to him, O Father Jove, if I have ever done anything good for you in word or deed,

[1400.54 --> 1408.92] hear my prayer. Right? That's a classic pagan prayer. You say, well, I don't pray like that.

[1409.60 --> 1414.78] Okay, here's how I used to pray like a pagan. I used to go to God in prayer, and the very first thing I

[1414.78 --> 1419.86] did, when I was a new Christian, I was a new Christian. And so, I mean, I was quite a nasty

[1419.86 --> 1426.08] non-Christian, and so I kind of had a lot of things to work out, like bad language and drinking.

[1427.36 --> 1430.84] Anyway, I won't get into all that, but I'll tell you, I was glad there wasn't video recorders

[1430.84 --> 1436.72] running around all the time when I was 18 years old, I can tell you that. Anyway, it was a joke. You can

[1436.72 --> 1442.10] laugh. I wasn't that bad. I mean, I shouldn't be in jail or anything. I've not killed anybody

[1442.10 --> 1451.90] as far as I know. And so, when I prayed, I would always have to begin with the confession of my sin.

[1453.72 --> 1460.46] Jesus died for me. Christ died. Rose again. Conquered sin, death, and hell. Colossians 2 says that my sin

[1460.46 --> 1467.02] was nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more. Yet, I would have to begin with my sin because I didn't

[1467.02 --> 1475.66] believe that God could hear my prayer unless I confessed sin first. Or there were times where I

[1475.66 --> 1480.74] just would live in guilt, and if I was kind of having a bad sin week, I didn't think I could really

[1480.74 --> 1485.92] go to God in prayer. I had to first kind of have a couple of days where I'm not struggling so much

[1485.92 --> 1491.82] with that particular sin. Now, I want to go to the Lord's Prayer. There's six petitions in the Lord's

[1491.82 --> 1497.22] Prayer. Our Father who art in heaven, that's an address. Hallowed be your name. That's a request.

[1497.32 --> 1502.36] That's a prayer request. That's a petition. Your kingdom come. That's a prayer request.

[1503.22 --> 1509.12] Your will be done. That's a prayer request. Give us this day our daily bread. Okay, that's a prayer

[1509.12 --> 1514.90] request. Guess where the location of the confession is on the list of prayer requests in the Lord's

[1514.90 --> 1523.00] Prayer when Jesus teaches you to pray. It's absolutely remarkable. When I pray, I have to deal