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We are on week 2 of our new series on Prayer. The very short passage but as it’s often the case in scripture, I don’t know if you have noticed this, sometimes it’s a verse. It’s sometimes a few words that you can learn so much from. Sometimes you don’t have to have the whole story. Sometimes there’s so much in just 1 or 2 verses together and that’s the way it is with this prayer that Jesus taught his disciples to pray.

Today we’re going to look at what it means to have humility and submission in prayer. You would think that those two things would come naturally. I thought so. I thought, “why I don’t pray with humility and submission? Father, I don’t know what this is about?” And then I started reading and listening and praying and realized maybe I need to check myself on that.

Jesus was a master of saying things that were simultaneously simple and also profound. I am so grateful that we serve a rabbi who was so competent and so wise. It is easy for us to just dump that on His God-ness. Jesus was also God. We can never forget that the man was also fully human. It was that big word we call hypostatic. It was the hypostatic union – fully God, fully man. He could have made choices that were different but he didn’t. And we say He couldn’t because He was God, wrong. If it was all God then there was no man to it. If there was no man to it, then there sacrifice doesn’t count.

He was a competent and wise human being. He was also God but He was a competent teacher. He was wise and He had that knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom until knowledge is taken in the world. Does that make sense? If you take knowledge and you apply it, that’s what wisdom is.

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