The following sermon is by John MacArthur, pastor, author, and Bible teacher with Grace

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And now unleashing God's truth one verse at a time.

Here's Grace to You, Bible teacher John MacArthur.

As I was thinking about Father's Day, I couldn't get past one particular portion of Scripture

because it has so much to say about the most important Father and it is the past that

Father.

And it is the passage in Matthew 6.

So open your Bible if you will to Matthew 6 and I want to read what is a very familiar

portion of Scripture often called the Lord's Prayer when reality it is the disciples'

prayer, but you'll recognize the truth that's here.

Matthew 6.

Let me read starting at verse 5.

I just want to have the framework of this in your mind and then we'll particularly focus

on a narrow but critical priority in this passage.

Verse 5.

When you pray, you're not to be like the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues

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