Title [2011] The Lord's Perfect Prayer ( III )
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(Matthew 6:9-13)
Following the northern kingdom of Israel in 722 BC, the southern kingdom of Judah was destroyed in 586 BC and those who became diaspora (scattered) pray earnestly to God. In the meantime, prayers were developed from the prophet Malachi, who was active in the 4th century BC to the time of John the Baptist. However, as we passed the era when there was no spiritual leader (the age of absence of prophets), prayer became a formality and reduced to a means of revealing one's own righteousness. At that time, the Pharisees of the rabbis had a common prayer presented by the leader for each faction to the disciples who followed him. John the Baptist also taught the sect's prayers to his disciples (Luke 11:1), and the disciples of Jesus were envious of this, and this became the background for asking Jesus. Jesus taught his disciples to pray because he knew what true prayer to God was, not a formalized and instrumentalized prayer.
We had the Lord's Prayer for two weeks and talked about God's existence and God's intentions. Today, we are talking about God's blessings for mankind. Verses 11-13 of the text are prayers about problems that are essential in human life.
The food I seek in today's prayer is not just food, but I wrote the expression "Give me my daily bread," which means that I can live only with God's help every day. That's a prayer. Moreover, when Jesus asks for bread, he gives us daily bread, not only my food, but prayer for himself, but “our food.”