Purity (5 of 5)
Series: Virtue
Jason Dees
Matthew 6:9-13
Our Scripture Reading for Today
9 “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. 10 Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. 11 Give us this day our daily bread, 12 and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. 13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.”
The Word of the Lord
We have been studying the Lord’s Prayer for five weeks but in a particular way, we have been looking at the virtue that this prayer produces in us. One of the ways that as Christians we understand the work of God in us the work that God is doing in us or the character or virtue that he is producing in us is through prayer and so as we have been looking at this prayer we have been thinking about the humility, and hope, and gratitude, and forgiveness that it produces in us but today I want to talk about a final virtue as we look at the final prayer in this prayer and that
is purity.
Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
In the ’80s there were all these movies about transformation, movies like “She’s Out of Control” and “The Breakfast Club,” people becoming someone new, someone different than they were. And the trick is that you had to hide any signs of your old life any of the evidences of the old less cool identity that you had. And actually about the same time maybe in the early ’90s or so, the American church began going through the same transition. American Christians kind of said, people think we’re are not cool or relevant, so let’s be really cool and let’s get rid of all of those things that you know people don’t see as relevant. And so the church started talking more about things like wisdom, or power, or experience and less about things like Holiness and purity, because after all I mean purity, that’s not cool, it seems so puritanical. So I think maybe especially where we sit in 2018, this is an important conversation and i ...
Series: Virtue
Jason Dees
Matthew 6:9-13
Our Scripture Reading for Today
9 “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. 10 Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. 11 Give us this day our daily bread, 12 and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. 13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.”
The Word of the Lord
We have been studying the Lord’s Prayer for five weeks but in a particular way, we have been looking at the virtue that this prayer produces in us. One of the ways that as Christians we understand the work of God in us the work that God is doing in us or the character or virtue that he is producing in us is through prayer and so as we have been looking at this prayer we have been thinking about the humility, and hope, and gratitude, and forgiveness that it produces in us but today I want to talk about a final virtue as we look at the final prayer in this prayer and that
is purity.
Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
In the ’80s there were all these movies about transformation, movies like “She’s Out of Control” and “The Breakfast Club,” people becoming someone new, someone different than they were. And the trick is that you had to hide any signs of your old life any of the evidences of the old less cool identity that you had. And actually about the same time maybe in the early ’90s or so, the American church began going through the same transition. American Christians kind of said, people think we’re are not cool or relevant, so let’s be really cool and let’s get rid of all of those things that you know people don’t see as relevant. And so the church started talking more about things like wisdom, or power, or experience and less about things like Holiness and purity, because after all I mean purity, that’s not cool, it seems so puritanical. So I think maybe especially where we sit in 2018, this is an important conversation and i ...
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