There is a wealth and a world of fulness which is not understood or appreciated until we have all the rest of the revelation by the Holy Spirit after the Lord Jesus had left this earth. So it is here with every fragment in the gospels and it applies to this prayer or this model, this bringing together into a brief, comprehensive statement of things.
HALLOWED BE THY NAME MEANING FULL
He tells us of their value and we have reason to believe that He speaks the truth, but we do not really, any more than the disciples did, come to the living enjoyment of what He said until the Holy Spirit quickens us and the Seed in us, and it grows, and when we get past the gospels into the other parts of the New Testament, we get out of the realm of the seeds into the realm of full growth, full blossom, and we know then what was in the seeds that the Lord Jesus dropped. The Lord Jesus therein says a great many things which are quite true. A seedsman may have his window full of seeds and he may have in his window a description of what those seeds are and what they will produce, but it is not until you have planted the seed and it has grown and you see the full bloom that you really know in a living, fruitful, profitable and enjoyable way what you have been told about those seeds. You may see seeds, but they do not convey very much to you, though you may believe that there is something there, or you may be told that there is something there. What He was saying was like a seed, and you never know exactly what is in a seed, and certainly you never enter into the enjoyment and value of what is in a seed until it has developed and grown. He said that, made it very clear, and of course it is borne out with overwhelming evidence that it was true, that they did not understand, and not until after His resurrection did they enter into the meaning and the value of all the things that He had said.īut the fuller meaning of that is this: that He did but speak things which contained an unrevealed fulness. This would be the time when they would understand what He was saying to them and that they would not understand until then.
That is, He pointed on to the dispensation of the Holy Spirit's presence as an inward reality and illuminator.
He Himself enunciated the truth, the fact, and the law, that it required for those who listened to Him in those days, in their disposition, a future state of things, in order that they should understand what He was saying. I refer to the fact that, whenever we are reading or listening to anything which the Lord Jesus said in the days of His flesh here on the earth, we are not by any means getting what He meant, and to take it in itself means that we are unable to know His meaning. May I repeat something that we have said so often, but to forget which, means to leave a gap and to make for weakness in the application and value of what is here. "After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. It is that last part of our Lord's instructions that I feel is to engage our attention now. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so on earth" (Matt. After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Be not therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of before ye ask Him. And in praying use not vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thine inner chamber, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father who is in secret, and thy Father who sees in secret shall recompense thee. Verily I say unto you, They have received their reward. "And when ye pray, ye shall not be as the hypocrites: for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Edited and supplied by the Golden Candlestick Trust.
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