Notes of Faith October 4, 2024
What Is Hallowed?
Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Matthew 6:10
Last year this answer appeared in the $200 box on the television program Jeopardy: “Our Father which art in heaven, ________ be thy name.” The three contestants looked perplexed as the buzzer sounded. The host supplied the answer with a question: “What is hallowed?” How tragic that people no longer know the Lord’s Prayer!
I personally call this the disciple’s prayer and John 17 the Lord’s prayer…go check it out. I think you can understand my reasoning.
Matt 6:6-13
When you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly. 7 And when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do. For they think that they will be heard for their many words.
8 "Therefore do not be like them. For your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him. 9 In this manner (don’t just recite these words and think that you are praying… pray like this…the themes that are given here are a perfect example. If you just recite this prayer, you are being like the heathen in their ridiculous repetitions.
Our Father in heaven,
Hallowed be Your name.
10 Your kingdom come.
Your will be done
On earth as it is in heaven.
11 Give us this day our daily bread.
12 And forgive us our debts,
As we forgive our debtors.
13 And do not lead us into temptation,
But deliver us from the evil one.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
NKJV
Every phrase of that famous prayer is meaningful. For example, when we pray, “Your kingdom come,” we are really praying for the Millennial reign of Christ. The Lord’s Kingdom is “already but not yet.” When He came the first time, Jesus established the Kingdom of His Church. Christ-followers are the vanguard of His Kingdom. We are already here, serving Him now. But the ultimate fulfillment is yet to come. When He comes again, He will establish an earthly, physical, geographical, political Kingdom. He will reign over the earth from His throne in Jerusalem.
Every time we pray, “Your kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven,” we are looking forward to God’s glorious thousand-year-long answer! It’s still important to know—and to pray!—the Lord’s Prayer.
When you pray “Thy kingdom come,” you are asking for the second coming of Jesus to this earth.
Elmer Towns
I am disappointed that this devotion did not speak to that for which it is titled. What is hallowed?
Isa 6:3
Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord of hosts,
The whole earth is full of His glory."
Lev 20:26
you are to be holy to Me, for I the Lord am holy; and I have set you apart from the peoples to be Mine.
1 Sam 2:2
There is no one holy like the Lord,
Indeed, there is no one besides You,
Ps 30:4
4 Sing praises to the Lord, O you his saints,
and give thanks to his holy name.
Ps 33:21
our heart is glad in him,
because we trust in his holy name.
Hab 1:12
12 Are you not from everlasting,
O Lord my God, my Holy One?
Heb 7:26
it was indeed fitting that we should have such a high priest (Jesus), holy, innocent, unstained, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.
1 Peter 1:15-16
as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, 16 since it is written, "You shall be holy, for I am holy."
Rev 4:8
8 And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say,
"Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty,
who was and is and is to come!"
I think you get the picture…hallowed means “HOLY.” God is holy! We declare at first when we pray that he is OUR Father, in HEAVEN, and that He is HOLY!
You might want to think about this prayer, given as an example by Jesus as to how we should pray, not to be a prayer of repetition, over and over, as if the Lord God does not know our heart and mind before we pray. Jesus teaches His disciples, and such we are, to know who to pray to, to give Him reverent awe and worship because He alone is holy!
Pastor Dale