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

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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 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 disciple's 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 and

on the street corners so that they may be seen by men.

Truly I say to you they have their reward in full, but you, when you pray, go into your

inner room, close the door, and pray to your Father who is

in secret, and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you. And when you're

praying, do not use meaningless repetition as the Gentiles do, for they suppose that they will

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