Comment: Even
though I was participating in the prayer, I was like an observer! “Our Father
who art in heaven…” mostly all male voices reciting the LORD’s prayer. I was at
a firehouse in Southeastern Connecticut in a meeting for the Association of
Connecticut Fire Police. We came to the meeting at 0900; with little organization
the meeting did not begin until 1015. The Pledge of Allegiance and the LORD’s prayer
followed. However, I spent the first hour and fifteen minutes overhearing the
filthy language and various other fleshly conversations, that; I suppose when these
unsaved people stand at the Great White Throne Judgment (Revelation 20:11-15) may
seek to give this account. “LORD, I recited Your prayer at public and religious
gatherings my whole life and what do you mean when you say that I am not worthy
to enter Your Kingdom and that my name is missing in the Book of Life?
Devotional: Moving from this meeting: Sadly, everyone who
recites the LORD’s prayer may NOT be saved by the grace of God. Some are atheist,
most are simply religious and very few are saved. There are very few people who
do not know these sixty-six words in the Gospel of Matthew. These were spoken
by Jesus Himself to teach His disciples to pray. Matthew records this event in
Chapter 6:9b-13. Luke in his gospel records this prayer also in chapter eleven
of his gospel account. In either account, having memorized these words do not
make you a disciple of Christ.
If you are familiar with the Living Word of God
you may be reminded of another statement of Jesus which is recorded in the next
chapter of Matthew, chapter seven, verses 13-14. Enter
through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads
to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the
road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
If
you consider yourself a disciple of the LORD Jesus, then you are a learner, as
this is what a disciple is. He or she is one who follows the teaching of Jesus.
(He is the small and narrow Gate) Not because He was a good and humble
man, but because He is far better than good and humble, He is the
Messiah of God who was first sent to redeem all of mankind back to God, He came
as the suffering Messiah, the Lamb, Isaiah 53:1-12; John 1:29-34 and Matthew
28:1-8.
You
may know the LORD’s prayer, you may know of God, you may know of His death and
you may know of His bodily resurrection, but with all of this knowing you may
still lack one truth called FAITH. If you do not personally trust (by faith)
that He died for “your sin and rose again for your personal sanctification”
then you do not KNOW Him at all. Also, you do not know that He is coming again
to earth, not as the suffering Lamb of God, but as the KING of kings and the
LORD of lords. If this is your knowledge of God, then you are just another
member of those people in the broad way that leads to destruction, as in the
book of Revelation, the judgment at the Great White Throne.
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