Our Father
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 4 March 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Jesus taught His disciples to address the Ruler of all creation in an unexpected way: “Our Father in heaven.” Today, R.C. Sproul explains what the Lord’s Prayer reveals about our gracious adoption into the family of God.
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Meet Today’s Teacher:
R.C. Sproul (1939–2017) was known for his ability to winsomely and clearly communicate deep, practical truths from God’s Word. He was founder of Ligonier Ministries, first minister of preaching and teaching at Saint Andrew’s Chapel, first president of Reformation Bible College, and executive editor of Tabletalk magazine.
Meet the Host:
Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of ministry engagement for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, host of the Ask Ligonier podcast, and a graduate of Presbyterian Theological College in Melbourne, Australia. Nathan joined Ligonier in 2012 and lives in Central Florida with his wife and four children.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Jesus, when he gave the Lord's prayer to the church, did not say, when you pray, pray this prayer. |
| 0:07.0 | What he did say to his disciples was, when you pray, pray like this. |
| 0:14.0 | And he gave them an example of Godly prayer. |
| 0:18.0 | Although the Lord's of Godly prayer. |
| 0:28.8 | Although the Lord's prayer was not given to us to be mindlessly recited, |
| 0:31.3 | as you'll hear this week from R.C. Sprawl, |
| 0:35.9 | and each petition in it contains practical lessons to aid us in prayer. |
| 0:39.7 | Welcome to the Tuesday edition of Renewing Your Mind. |
| 0:41.4 | I'm Nathan W. Bingham. |
| 0:46.7 | Today, R.C. Sprawl will consider an astonishing line in the Lord's Prayer where we are told to address God as our Father. |
| 0:51.2 | To help us understand the significance and privilege of this, here's Dr. Spraw. |
| 0:57.0 | We are talking about prayer, and we raised this subject initially by looking at the disciples |
| 1:09.0 | who came to Jesus with this request, Lord, teach us how to pray. |
| 1:16.8 | And we've seen that Jesus began his teaching on prayer by telling us how not to pray, |
| 1:25.1 | how we ought not to emulate the hypocrites of his day, whose sole purpose |
| 1:30.7 | of praying was to be seen of men, to give a public display of piety that was in fact fraudulent, |
| 1:39.7 | and how that Jesus told us that we ought to go into our houses, into our closets, close the door, |
| 1:47.1 | and pray to God in secret who would reward us openly. |
| 1:51.0 | And we also saw that Jesus warned against not only praying like hypocrites, but also praying |
| 1:57.3 | like pagans, who thinking that they could manipulate God by certain formulae, by the recitation |
| 2:08.7 | or incantation of certain words and phrases that would be repeated endlessly, wrote formal prayers that were designed, as I said, to manipulate God. |
| 2:26.1 | We think that we can manipulate God through magic. |
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