October 18, 2009
SOVEREIGN GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH
Of Princeton, New Jersey

Matthew 6: 14: For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: 15: But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

MEETING LOCATION
Rocky Hill Firehouse, 2nd floor
150 Washington Street, Rocky Hill, NJ, 08553

SCHEDULE OF SERVICES
Sunday 10 AM Bible Class
11 AM Morning Service
Thursday 7:00 PM Mid-week Service

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Pennington, New Jersey, 08534
Phone: 615-513-4464
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A drowning man is a dangerous man. As he thrashes to save himself he will attempt to take down the very ones who attempt to save him. So it was when the flood of God's gospel brought us into helpless despair. How thankful for the patience of brethren, who waited on the power and wisdom of the God to draw us safely into Christ our fellow-Ship.

Matthew 6: 7: But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. 8: Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
The heathen thinks that prayer turns God to sinners. He thinks-he will be heard for speaking much--the more words repeated, the more prayers spoken, the more people praying will obligate God to hear. Prayer is not the child turning the Father to us, but prayer is the Father turning his children to him. This is the Master speaking! He says to every believer not to pattern your prayer after the heathen. But what comfort for the believer! Your Father KNOWETH. Your Father knoweth your NEED. Your Father knoweth BEFORE you ask him.

After This Manner Therefore Pray Ye (vv9-13.)
What our Lord is about to teach us is not that these are the only words to be used when praying to the Father. But rather, in each statement, he teaches us to guide and restrain our petitions no further than the pattern he gives here.

Our Father Which Art In Heaven
When a vessel of God's mercy has been regenerated and given the spirit of adoption, the child of God cries, Abba, Father. We acknowledge that our Father is the holy God. We acknowledge his rightful authority and place, as well as our place. He is our Father, we are his children. He is in heaven, we are below. He is our King, we are his subjects. His will is absolute; our will is for his to be done. By acknowledging him to be our Father in heaven we confess we believe him when he says that through the blood of his Son he accepts us and has given us liberty to approach him and that he will hear our petitions. We confess that we believe that he is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us (Eph 3: 20.)

Hallowed Be Thy Name
In prayer we own his name to be holy. Every aspect of the salvation of wretched sinners declares that his name is above every other name. By electing whom he would unto salvation in his Son our Father declares that his name is holy. By making his Son, who knew no sin, to be sin, to satisfy his holy justice on behalf of each of his elect, making his chosen children the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus--our Father declares that his love, his mercy and grace, his longsuffering, his abundant goodness and truth, his reservation of mercy for thousands, his forgiveness of iniquity and transgression and sin, magnifies his holy name. His good pleasure to save his children through the gospel causes those who are called to glory in only his holy name. The believer's desire in all our petitions is that he do for us only that which magnifies his holy name.

Thy Kingdom Come
First, we ask our Father that Christ our King Priest come into our hearts, that our hearts might be established in him. Secondly, by his Word and his Power, we pray for Christ our King to take up dominion in the hearts of his redeemed that are yet in darkness. Thirdly, we earnestly and joyfully await our Lord's return when in that final and glorious consummation he shall deliver us into the new heavens and new earth where we shall dwell with him eternally.

Thy Will Be Done in Earth, as in Heaven
We know the Lord will do his will (Dan 4:35.) But we acknowledge that we would have it no other way. Our prayer is: Father, in glorifying your holy name, in establishing your kingdom, thy will be done on earth, as in heaven. May God be glorified!

Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread
We know he shall (Is 49: 16; Ps 37:25.) But our Father will have us to ask him. Even in our daily portion of bread, we acknowledge that we can not provide for ourselves. Our Father is our provider.

And Forgive Us Our Debts, As We Forgive Our Debtors
We know that Christ has put away our sin by his one sacrifice (He 1: 3; 9: 12; 1 Jn 3:5.) But as long as we are in this body of death, sin is mixed with all that we do. Asking forgiveness, we confess to our Father that we are yet sinners. Asking his forgiveness we confess our sin is against our Father. Asking his forgiveness we confess that only our Father can forgive us. Forgiving others freely, we rejoice from the heart that our Father has forgiven us freely by his grace in Christ Jesus our Substitute and shall forgive us (1 Jn 1:9.)

And Lead Us Not Into Temptation, But Deliver Us From Evil
The Lord is not teaching us to pray that we are never tried of God. Trials are necessary and good for us, though we suffer under them. But rather, we ask our Father not to allow the power of evil to overcome us, but deliver us from the evil. Again, we have the promise that the Father shall (I Cor 10: 13.) But casting all our care on Christ is the Way. His grace is sufficient to enable us to bear the trial. We have no strength of ourselves. So our Lord instructs us as he did his apostle in the garden of Gethsemene: "Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak" (Mt 26:41.)

For Thine Is the Kingdom, and the Power, and the Glory, Forever. Amen.
The words expressed here, include what it is to pray in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. As we saw in a former lesson, "Amen" is the name of Jesus Christ. The Kingdom is God's and His Son is our King. All power is God's and he has given our Lord Jesus the Crown rights. He possesses all power in heaven and in earth. The glory of God is seen in the face of Christ Jesus the Son of God. In all our needs Christ has the Preeminence: we need the Living Bread daily, we need to be found in Christ where we have complete forgiveness by his blood, and we need to be kept in Christ Jesus our Sanctuary where no evil can come near. In all we pray to our heavenly Father in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ our Savior.

SERMONS
The Words That I Speak
One In One
Way of Life, Way of Death
Necessity of the Gospel
Simple Prayer

ARTICLES FROM OTHERS
Saving Faith - How Do I Know?
Their Sins I Remember No More
The Will of the Flesh
What We Say to Our Children