The Lord's Prayer - Adult SS - Lesson 5: Forgive Us

So as I said, we're, we're onto that next line, "Forgive us our sins." Uh, and just as a reminder of the structure, remember you can break up the Lord's Prayer into three sections.

So there's the address, that's the first line, who we pray to.

Then the next two lines are petitions about God, asking things about God, and then petitions for us, asking things specifically about us.

But remember that, uh, the petitions about God that we did, uh, these aren't, uh, uh... and compare that to the things about us, uh, these aren't separate things, remember.

Uh, they're very related.

Remember, we saw last week, when we ask for our daily bread, we're asking for our essentials to survive in order that we can do the previous pet-pe-uh, petitions.

We ask for daily bread so that we can hallow God's name.

We ask for daily bread so that we can do God's will.

And so today's petition, as we think about it, uh, we must remember it's related to all of that, too, right? Now that we are alive, now that we have our daily bread, what is the most important thing for us? Being right with God.

This petition is acknowledging, uh, our sins to God and asking that He would forgive them, to have a right relationship with God.

Now that we are alive, we've got our daily bread, this is what matters, a right relationship with God.

And again, Jesus, He's teaching us something here.

So yes, He's teaching us how to pray, but He's also teaching us the essentials of the Christian sl- uh, the Christian life.

He's taking us to that mini zoo, remember? Filled with different topics of the Christian faith, and He's teaching us the essential doctrines, right? We are learning something here about the nature of sin, uh, about our great need in salvation, what Christ has done for us on the cross, and also how we need to forgive others.

And so there are lots of parts, parts of the zoo here today.

We've got God, sin, humanity, salvation, human relationships, and I want us to visit all these different places, right? But first, we need to define some of the terms here, clarify exactly what we're praying for here.

Because firstly, uh, you might kind of just realize there are different words used when we pray this, right? Is it sins or is it debts or is it trespasses? And also, what do we mean by forgiveness? We use that word a lot, but what do we mean by that? And also, we're gonna go on to the big question we can have about this, this line in the prayer.

If we are already forgiven by Christ on the cross, once and for all, then why do we need to keep asking for forgiveness in this prayer? So we will get onto that.

But first, let's clarify and define some things, sins and debts and forgiveness.

That's the first thing I want us to look at.

So as I said, we're, we're onto that next line, "Forgive us our sins." Uh, and just as a reminder of the structure, remember you can break up the Lord's Prayer into three sections.

So there's the address, that's the first line, who we pray to.

Then the next two lines are petitions about God, asking things about God, and then petitions for us, asking things specifically about us.

But remember that, uh, the petitions about God that we did, uh, these aren't, uh, uh... and compare that to the things about us, uh, these aren't separate things, remember.

Uh, they're very related.

Remember, we saw last week, when we ask for our daily bread, we're asking for our essentials to survive in order that we can do the previous pet-pe-uh, petitions.

We ask for daily bread so that we can hallow God's name.

We ask for daily bread so that we can do God's will.

And so today's petition, as we think about it, uh, we must remember it's related to all of that, too, right? Now that we are alive, now that we have our daily bread, what is the most important thing for us? Being right with God.

This petition is acknowledging, uh, our sins to God and asking that He would forgive them, to have a right relationship with God.

Now that we are alive, we've got our daily bread, this is what matters, a right relationship with God.

And again, Jesus, He's teaching us something here.

So yes, He's teaching us how to pray, but He's also teaching us the essentials of the Christian sl- uh, the Christian life.

He's taking us to that mini zoo, remember? Filled with different topics of the Christian faith, and He's teaching us the essential doctrines, right? We are learning something here about the nature of sin, uh, about our great need in salvation, what Christ has done for us on the cross, and also how we need to forgive others.

And so there are lots of parts, parts of the zoo here today.

We've got God, sin, humanity, salvation, human relationships, and I want us to visit all these different places, right? But first, we need to define some of the terms here, clarify exactly what we're praying for here.

Because firstly, uh, you might kind of just realize there are different words used when we pray this, right? Is it sins or is it debts or is it trespasses? And also, what do we mean by forgiveness? We use that word a lot, but what do we mean by that? And also, we're gonna go on to the big question we can have about this, this line in the prayer.

If we are already forgiven by Christ on the cross, once and for all, then why do we need to keep asking for forgiveness in this prayer? So we will get onto that.

But first, let's clarify and define some things, sins and debts and forgiveness.

That's the first thing I want us to look at.