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North County Bible Study

Our next Bible study is scheduled for this next Tuesday, January 21 at our usual time and place, 6:30 at the Ed Brown Senior Center in Rancho Bernardo. We will be discussing the model prayer in Mt 6 / Lk 11. I have included a few more questions prompted by Victor Hou’s young adult bible study a few weeks ago, but I have kept the original numbering. We don’t need to answer each question, but it gives us something to think about and a framework to work with.

Mt 6:9-13; Lk 11:2-4 Model prayer

  1. In Luke, the prayer was prompted by one of His disciples asking Him to teach them to pray. This seems to have been given over a year later. Didn’t they get it the first time?
  2. V9 Jesus said to pray “in this manner”.  What does this indicate? Is it wrong to pray to Jesus Christ? The example begins by addressing “Our Father”. What did Jesus say elsewhere about God as Father? Why might He have included “in heaven”?
  3. V9 What does it mean to “hallow” God’s name? What is this referring to? Is it instruction for us, or hope for the world in the future? Is it a petition?
  4. V10 Two requests regarding our Father, that His kingdom would come and His will be done. Again, is this instruction for us, or hope for the future? What is involved in praying for God’s kingdom to come? What is involved in praying that His will be done?
  5. The pronouns in the first half of the prayer are primarily “your”. In the second half “us”. Can we learn something from this, both in the change, and the fact that “us” is plural?
  6. V11 What is “daily bread”? Why “daily”?
  7. V12 What is meant by “debts”?
  8. V13 Is this one petition or two? Why would we pray that God lead us not into temptation when the Bible says that God does not tempt us to sin? Who leads us into the temptation that we are hoping to avoid?
  9. The second half of v13 is missing in Luke. And non-AV manuscripts also leave it out. Are any issues resolved if it wasn’t there? What are ways to expound on the ending in Matthew?

 

Mt 6:14-15; Mk 11:25-26 Forgiveness

  1. V14 Debts is now trespasses. Why did Jesus elaborate on one aspect of the model prayer?
  2. What else did Jesus say about forgiveness?
  3. Mark related this in the context of the withered fig tree. Is it related? Or just more information?