First Petition: Hallowed Be Thy Name
Minister: |
Rev. Ronald Van Overloop |
Date: |
12/8/2019 AM
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Text:
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Exodus 15;
Lord's Day 47
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Psalters: |
16, 335, 308, 282 |
- God’s name.
- God’s “name” is anything that reveals Him.
- If God did not reveal Himself, He would be unknowable.
- God must do several things for His highest creature to know Him.
- Two other things about God’s revealing of Himself.
- God’s name is seen in four places.
- This petition asks the Father so to work in us by His Spirit that we “hallow” His revelation, i.e., see it to be holy, held in awe.
- “Hallowed” is to identify something as holy (separate from others and dedicated to the highest good), as reverend, honorable. It is to recognize something to be holy; it is not to make something holy.
- Only those gifted with faith can know God (not just about Him), know Him to be holy and worthy of praise.
- May His Spirit work in our minds and hearts that we may more and more see Him and His glory in all things. Six thoughts.
- And vindicate Thy name of all dishonor (Psalm 83). Make us grieved when His Word is despised and His law ridiculed.
- What is the reason our Lord Jesus wants us to pray this petition and to pray it first?
- This is to be our greatest desire; with nothing more important to us.
- His transcendent glory makes Him worthy to be hallowed.
- Only when we love Him, are we able and willing to pray this petition.
- Ask for the grace to know and to love Him more and more.
- Know your Father more and more, with your knowledge of Him as the center of your life (I Cor. 10:31).