The Lord's Prayer

- Season 1

(2016)

Who better to teach us how to pray than the Lord Jesus Christ? The disciples understood this, and as followers of Jesus Christ, we understand this. In the first part of this series, Albert Mohler places the Lord's Prayer in the context of the Gospels.

Not only did Jesus teach us how to pray, He taught us how not to pray. In the second part of this series, Albert Mohler uses the parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector and common misconceptions about prayer to further introduce the Lord's Prayer.

The Lord's Prayer opens with the words "Our Father," an amazing declaration of our relationship to God through Jesus Christ. In the third part of this series, Albert Mohler explores the wonder of how it is that Christians are able to pray to God as Father.

The Lord's Prayer reveals to us that the Father to whom we pray is holy and transcendent. In the fourth part of this series, Albert Mohler explains the important distinctions that need to be made to understand the holiness of God.

When we pray the Lord's Prayer, we pray for Christ's right-now rule and reign to be extended over all the earth. In the fifth part of this series, Albert Mohler explains how Christians are to live and to pray as dual citizens until Christ's kingdom is fully realized.

To pray, "Thy kingdom come," we must know what God's kingdom is and how He wills to bring it about. In the sixth part of this series, Albert Mohler defines God's kingdom, following the progression of the Lord's Prayer into the third petition, "Thy will be done."

God's kingdom will be consummated on His terms, according to the perfection of His will. In the seventh part of this series, Albert Mohler corrects misconceptions concerning the will of God so that we might pray in a way that truly honors Him.

God has given us bread as a daily reminder of our need for Him. In the eighth part of this series, Albert Mohler traces a biblical theology of bread throughout the Bible, discovering that our deepest hungers can only be filled by Jesus Christ, the Bread of Life.

Jesus Christ has freed us from the debt of our sin, and because of that, we must freely forgive others. In the ninth part of this series, Albert Mohler develops the idea of debt as a picture of our sin, pointing toward the heart of the Christian faith-forgiveness.

Temptation is a fact of life in this fallen world, even for the most faithful believers. In the tenth part of this series, Albert Mohler clarifies what it means to ask the Father not to lead us into temptation and distinguishes the differences between trials and temptations.

In God's sovereign hand, our trials and temptations are not without purpose. In the eleventh part of this series, Albert Mohler points us to our hope amid such difficulties, that God is using them in this world of sin, evil, and death to His glorious ends.

Christians have an adversary, a reality we have to face, but not apart from the reality of his defeat. In the final part of this series, Albert Mohler explains how the devil's defeat is one of the reasons why we rightly conclude the Lord's Prayer with a doxology.