What Makes God a Good Father | New Testament | Luke 11

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🗓️ 3 April 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Why do Christians pray to God as father? The idea of God as a father is controversial. But why is it still important? In today's episode, Keith looks at Jesus's prayer in Luke 11as an example of how to talk with God. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now. Join the TMBT community in reading the entire New Testament in one year. Get your FREE reading plan here. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it with others, so others can find it too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter@TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Passages: Luke 11

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life in the time it takes to get to work.
0:11.0	I'm Keith Simon. Prayer is not unique to Christianity. Every religion
0:17.0	encourage its participants to pray in one way or another. I don't know of any religion
0:22.2	that doesn't. Even atheists find
0:24.3	themselves praying. So when it comes to prayer if Jesus just taught us to pray or
0:29.5	pray more he wouldn't be saying anything unique. In Luke 11, Jesus is teaching us how to
0:36.2	pray prayers that aren't just religious prayers, but are truly Christian prayers.
0:41.6	See, the great divide in the world
0:43.4	is not the divide between the religious and the irreligious.
0:46.9	The great divide is between religious people and Christians.
0:50.6	The reason that I say that is that I don't think at least biblically speaking that there are any truly
0:56.7	irreligious people in the world. To one degree or another all people are religious. So the divide isn't between the religious and the
1:04.0	irreligious, the divide of the world is between religious people and Christians.
1:09.3	When Matthew is setting up the Lord's prayer, records Jesus as saying when you pray do not
1:15.4	keep on babbling like pagans for they think they will be heard because of their
1:20.0	many words do not be like them for your father knows what you need before you ask him.
1:26.7	Jesus teaches us there are two different ways to approach God when we pray. The first way to
1:31.2	approach God is what you might call the pagan way or the religious way or the non-Christian way.
1:36.0	However, you refer to these people that don't know Jesus,
1:40.0	we know that they have a great intensity of prayer.
1:43.6	I mean, like they pray for a long time.
1:45.6	They say a lot of words.
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