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The Lord’s Prayer

Yesterday, we explored Jesus’ teaching about doing right by God and others in religious practices—specifically giving, prayer, and fasting. While teaching about prayer, Jesus gives his disciples a simple and profound prayer, which is often called the Lord’s Prayer.

In today’s video, we’ll walk through every line of the prayer, showing how it draws together the whole story of the Bible and the values most important in the Kingdom of God.

Let’s watch episode 7, The Lord’s Prayer.

Video Reflection Questions:

1. Why does Jesus tell his followers to address God as “our Father”?
2. What does it mean to pray for God’s name to be recognized as holy?
3. What is Jesus asking for when he prays, "your kingdom come, and your will be done"?
4. What does praying “give us today our daily bread” remind us about from the Old Testament, and what might it instill within us today?
5. Why does Jesus so closely connect God’s forgiveness of us to our forgiveness of others?
6. Jesus prays about temptation, or “testing,” and then prays about deliverance from the evil one. How do these concepts or ideas relate?

Let’s read Matthew 6:9-15. Below is the translation from the BibleProject Scholarship Team, and we always encourage you to read this passage in other translations as well.

9 Therefore, when you pray, do it this way:

Our Father who is in the skies,

may your name be recognized as holy.

10 May your kingdom come,

and may your will be done,

as it is in the skies

so also on the land.

11 Our daily provision of bread,

give to us today.

12 And forgive us our debts,

just as we also have forgiven those indebted to us.

13 And don’t lead us to be tested,

but deliver us from the evil one.

14 For if you forgive people their transgressions,

your Father in the skies will also forgive you.

15 But if you will not forgive people,

then neither will your Father forgive your transgressions.