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This is Bible Project Podcast and this year we're reading through the sermon on the mountain. I'm John Collins with me as co-host Michelle

Hi Michelle. Hi, John.

So the sermon on the Mount is a large collection of teachings,

and right at the center of this collection,

Jesus talks about religious practices,

and the central religious practice he talks about is prayer.

Yes, prayer is at the center of the center of the Sermon on the Mount.

And it is in this section of teaching on prayer that Jesus gives us his own prayer, a simple prayer that we can pray with Jesus.

It's short, only 12 lines long.

In it is a universe of ideas that center us with the God of the universe.

Today we go over the first half of the prayer.

Our Father, who is in the skies, may your name be recognized as holy. may your kingdom come and your will be done as it is

in the skies, so also on the land.

Tim and I start our conversation where Jesus begins the prayer with the intimate words our father.

Thanks for joining us. Here we go. So we know Jesus address God as my father all throughout all four of the

gospel accounts in different lines and speeches and so on. So it's significant that when he shares a prayer

with his disciples, he takes his own prayer that he would have uttered to his father, but then he pluralizes it.

He includes his disciples within the relationship of prayer that he has with my father becomes our father. Now I can't think of where he would

have gotten this in the Hebrew Bible. Father? Yeah. Oh yeah it's everywhere, but there's probably about a dozen different

passages throughout the Hebrew Bible where God is either compared to a father or

actually called our father.

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