Lord, Teach Us To Pray - Hallowed be Thy Name

• The Lord's Prayer is given to us in the Word of God in two passages, Luke 11, and Matthew 6

Matt 6:9-13 "After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. 10Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. 11Give us this day our daily bread. 12And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. 13And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen."

Luke 11:2-4 "And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth. 3Give us day by day our daily bread. 4And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil."

• Hallowed be thy name - God’s Name is Holy. His very person is Holy. Everything involved with God is absolutely Holy. It is pure. It is clean. It is perfect. God is righteous. God is without sin, without error. He is spotless. He is the essence of holiness Himself. His Name is Holy, and we call this Book, the Bible, the Holy Bible because it comes forth from the mouth of God. Since He is Holy, His Word is Holy. This name alone itself tells us that there is no error in the Bible. There can not be any error.

Luke 1:49 "For he that is mighty hath done to me great things; and holy is his name."

1 Pet 1:19 "But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:"


Rom 1:2 "(Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,)"


Rom 7:12 "Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good."


1 Pet 1:16 "Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy."

Psa 119:9 "Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word."

Psa 97:2 “Rejoice in the LORD, ye righteous; and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.”

• Holiness is required to enter into Heaven - The moment that sin or an error or a mistake enters into something, it ceases to be Holy. This is what happened with mankind. When we sinned, we were no longer holy. We all fell in Adam and became unholy, unclean, spiritually dirty, spiritually filthy. We became like a leper in God’s sight.

Heb 12:14 "Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord…”

2 Tim 3:2-4 "For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God…”

Job 15:16 “How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?”

Pro 30:12 “There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.”

• Salvation - Holiness from God - Yet Holy God has sent forth His Holy Word, Word in flesh, Lord Jesus Christ to redeem certain individuals to Himself, to gather an elect people whom He will make Holy. He will purge them from their sins and from all of their evil deeds and from everything else. He will wash them and make them clean, and they will become Holy. So God commands, “Be ye holy; for I am holy,” and He speaks this to every individual. You cannot be holy when you are committing sin. You might be holy in your heart, if God has saved you, but where is the evidence of this holiness? There should be a desire to do His will, to keep His commandments more and more in our life. We are becoming more like God, and He is a Holy God, so we would want to follow the Word of God.

Eze 36:25-27 "Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. 26A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. 27And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them."

Eph 1:4-6 “According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.”

Tit 3:5-7 "Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.”

Heb 9:14 “How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot [sin] to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?”

Eph 5:25-27 "Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; 26That he might sanctify and cleanse it [His Elect, The Church] with the washing of water by the word, 27That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish."

John 15:3 "Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you."

Col 1:21-22 “And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled. In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight...”

Eph. 4:24 “And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.”

Luke 1:74-75 "That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear, In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.”

1 Pet 2:9 “But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar [purchased] people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light: Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.”