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Lord (2) (2)
People's Dictionary of the Bible
or Lord's Prayer. The name given to the prayer which our Lord taught his disciples, after their request, "Lord, teach us to pray," recorded in Matthew 6:9-13; Luke 11:2-4. Our Lord warns them against praying to be seen of men, and against using "vain repetitions, as the heathen do," and adds: "After this manner pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven," etc. This prayer is a model prayer, divinely authorized; simple, short; complete, so far as adoration, confession, supplication, and intercession go. As it is, a Jew, a Mohammedan, or a heathen, may use it with propriety; out it would not be a complete Christian prayer without it is offered in accordance with our Lord's additional teachings concerning prayer to his disciples. We must come to God through him. "No man cometh unto the Father, but by me." John 14:6. We must offer our prayers in his name. "Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full." "Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask anything in my name, I will do it," John 16:23-24; John 16:26; John 14:13-14; John 15:16. In the use of the Lord's Prayer, so called, we should remember our Lord's injunction when teaching it, "Use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do." Matthew 6:7.
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Rice, Edwin Wilbur, DD. Entry for 'Lord (2) (2)'. People's Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/rpd/l/lord-2-2.html. 1893.
