Hello and welcome to another Bible study with Aquinas. Last week we took a look at

Matthew chapter 6 verses 5 where it says, and when you pray you will not be as

the hypocrites who love to stand and pray in the synagogues etc. etc. Today here's

what we are going to look at. It's the next little bit and we'll see how much

how much we can get through here. So starting in verse, go into your room, I guess

is where we're going to go to. Yeah. Yeah, but when you pray, what's that verse 6?

But when you pray go into your rooms and shut the door and pray to your father who is in secret

and your father who sees in secret will reward you. Now I would like to say that we're going to

keep going and get through that next verse but I'm trying to keep these Bible studies to about

15 minutes for you. So we will see but here's the next bit just in case. And when you pray do not

heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do for they think that they will be heard for them any words.

Do not be like them for your father knows what you need before you ask him. And then it goes

into the our father. I actually think this is really important here because it does raise a very

interesting philosophical question. Right. Notice that Christ says, your father knows what you need

before you ask him. So don't heap up empty words. And that kind of raises the question, okay,

well, if you know what I need before I ask him, why do I need to use any words? And it kind of

spends a good deal of time talking about that. But we, as I said, we might not get to that. So

why don't we just jump in here? But before we do in order to kind of just prepare ourselves for

this, when we make the son of the cross in the name of the father and the son and the Holy Spirit

men. Okay. Therefore Jesus says, when you will pray, that is when you are disposed to pray,

enter into your chamber. Now this language is a little different to what we're reading here in

the English standard version. But you know, go into your room, enter into your chamber, same,

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