What is their object? men. Where does Christ direct you to go when you pray? To whom must you pray ? Where is your heavenly Father? Where does he see? What will he do to those who pray to him in secret? What direction does Christ give you concerning your prayers? Who use vain repetitions? Who were the heathen? A. All who were notJews. Why do they use them? What reason does our Saviour give for not using vain repetitions? What has Christ here taught his disciples to do? Repeat his prayer. What do you pray respecting God's name? What is the meaning of being "hallowed ?" A. Used in a holy and reverent manner? What do you pray respecting his kingdom? What is meant by the petition that God's kingdom may come ? A. That the Gospel of Christ may be believed and practised upon earth, and that God would be pleased be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do; for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. Be not ye therefore like unto them for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of before ye ask him. After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy D to hasten his heavenly king- kingdom come. Thy will dom. What do you pray respecting God's will? What do you mean by that? 4. That it may be done by men on earth as readily and fully as it is by angels in heaven. What do we pray God to give us? What is meant by "daily' bread ?" A. All such things as are necessary for us. What do we pray that he will forgive? What do you mean by "debts or trespasses?" 4. Sins-offences. When do we trespass against God? A. When we break his laws. When do we trespass against our neighbour? A. When we in any way injure or ill-treat him. What do we pray God not to lead us into? What do you mean by "lead us not?" A. Suffer us not to be led. What do you mean by "temptation ?" A. A hard trial or enticement to sin. From what do we pray God to deliver us? What do we acknowledge to belong to God? be done on earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil : For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen. What is the head of this section? What does our Saviour here teach us to be one condition, on which God will forgive us our trespasses? If we do not forgive men, what will God not do? VER. 16-18. What is the head of this section ? Whom must you not be like, when you fast? What do the hypocrites do? What have they? A. The praise of men. What then.must be your conduct when you fast? What is the meaning of that? any dis A. Not to make play of it to men. To whom must you appear to fast? What then will your Father in heaven do to you? VER. 19-21. Repeat the head of this section. Where must you not lay up treasures? What will happen to treasures on earth? Where should you lay up treasures? VER. 14, 15. Forgiving our Brethren. For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. VER. 16-18. Fasting. Moreover, when ye fast, be not as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance : for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, they have their reward. But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face; that thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly. VER. 19-21. Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal; But lay up for yourselves treasures in A. Adviseth, or strongly cautioneth. What do you mean by " anxious?" A. Over careful. Whom can no man serve? What will be the consequence of a man's serving two masters? Which are the two masters whom you cannot serve? What is meant by "Mammon ?" A. The world, or worldly riches. What are you not to take thought for? What are you to understand by not taking thought for it? A. Not being over anxious about it. Why should we not be too anxious about what we eat? A. Because the life is of more value than meat. Why should we not be too anxious about what we put on ? A. Because the body is of more value than raiment or clothes. What does Christ tell us to look at? What must we observe in them? Who feeds them? What are you, when com pared with them? What do you learn from this? No man can serve two masters for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and Mammon. Therefore I say unto you, take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink ; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow. not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better that they? Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow, they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and to-morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, of little faith? ye D 6 |