Lord' s Pray ①

(Matthew 6: 9-13)

『After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread.  And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.  And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen. 』

Prayer is not telling my requirements before God, but asking God's will to be done on earth. God decides all wills and plans, but man's supplication to God is God's glory.

Jesus said 『Our Father which art in heaven』.『 God is in heaven. Those who pray are on earth, "God and I are not one." That is why humans on earth pray to God in heaven. This has the same meaning as God put Israel into Egypt. Those who pray are those who have left God and are confined in the world. In John (17:11), Jesus prayed.

『And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are. 』Jesus prayed in John (17:22).

『And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: 』 This is Jesus' prayer before the cross, and it is a prayer to be one. There can be many purposes for Jesus to come to the world, but ultimately humans are to be one with God. For the Father in heaven and the humans on earth were not one.

Why can't God and humans become one? Because he has left God. To be one, we need to return to God. Paul said in Ephesians (5: 30-32).

『For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.  For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.  This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. 』 Those who are in Christ are men of Christ. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. (Genesis 2:24) This means that Christ comes to earth and forms one body (union) with the church (those in Christ). It was originally one.

Through the Garden of Eden, the man (Adam) and the woman (Hawa) were originally one, which the Apostle Paul explains in Ephesians. "Christ and the Church were originally one. Who are the churches? Those who came into Christ. Therefore, they were one with Christ before they left God. The reason why Christ and the church were united was because they were originally one member. So, the apostle Paul says, "This secret is great." What great secret can be "to be one as a couple" between men and women?

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