Our Father Shared By The Son of God and Seen Through Time

Covenant of Hope Ministries Sunday Sermon_6_15_2014

Good afternoon, and welcome to this Sunday Sermon for Covenant of Hope Ministries. I am Rev. Laura A. Neff. The ministry knows me as the Rainbow Minister. Find us posted on Sundays with occasional studies on Wednesday. Our locations are online only:

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We have email (instant messenger if you need me) through Facebook every day. These are now extremely variable. We’re still working this out between the two of us as to what will happen, our Elder, Cal Jennings and I. I will inform you further regarding changes. These changes were made due to health reasons. The sermon length has shortened dramatically. We are unsure as to when there might be video presentations.

Prayer List: We have many on our prayer list. Some wish to remain anonymous, and others only wish to have their first names mentioned. Our prayer list has grown from last week. This is our current prayer list for this week.

- Please keep Elder Cal Jennings in your prayers for his strength, his perseverance, and his health.

- Please pray for my friend Teresa’s sister who is in stage four cancer. Keep Teresa and her daughter in prayer for many other things that have been weighing down on their hearts, minds, and spirits.

- Please keep others known by any of us up in prayer for whatever they might need.

- Please keep my friend Heather in prayer for patience and safe haven.

- Please keep my whole family in prayer for the pain, suffering, and chaos we are going through. We bring praises for the upcoming changes for our family. May our move be one that will be good for us in many ways.

- Pray that the adversity and the pain we have seen around the world would be relieved, and swept away. May we find common ground in many ways, even if we start with just one step.

- Remember those who have been lost either violently or peacefully this week.

- Keep the ministry in your thoughts, each member, no matter their location, their circumstances, because a group of friends, a ministry, should support one another.

- There are many in our ministry who are searching for more in regard to our presence with my health, and with the health of others. We pray that there would be health found once more, and that we have answers to all and for all.

- Continue your prayers for Phoebe Fair’s family as they continue to grieve her loss.

Prayer: Father in heaven, we thank You for this day and for these who are here to share it with us. We thank You for being our Father and the Father of everything. We pray for those who have been brought to harm, those who have died, and those who suffer, that Your solace be with those surrounding them, and they, themselves, for comfort, protection, and more. We pray all this in Your Holy Name through our Savior Jesus Christ, and the gift of the Holy Spirit, Amen and so it shall be.

Opening Song: Pater Nostra http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhZBj1Runp8

Sermon: We’re going to have a unique sermon this day. The Lord thought to be humorous and show us four ways to say Our Father. These are many versions of the prayer Jesus taught us.

Matthew 6:9-13 Lamsa Greek

9 Therefore pray in this manner: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be thy name.

10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven so on earth.

11 Give us bread for our needs from day to day.

12 And forgive us our offences, as we have forgiven our offenders;

13 And do not let us either in temptation, but deliver us from error. Because thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory for ever and ever. Amen.

The Catechism of the Roman Catholic Church Latin

PATER noster, qui es in cœlis;
sanctificatur nomen tuum:
Adveniat regnum tuum;
fiat voluntas tua,

sicut in cœlo, et in terra.
Panem nostrum cotidianum da nobis hodie:
Et dimitte nobis debita nostra,
sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris:
et ne nos inducas in tentationem:
sed libera nos a malo.

This is the Catechism of the Roman Catholic Church version in English.

Our Father who art in Heaven, 
Hallowed be thy name; 
Thy kingdom come 
Thy will be done 
On earth as it is in heaven. 
Give us this day our daily bread; 
And forgive us our trespasses 
As we forgive those who trespass against us; 
And lead us not into temptation, 
But deliver us from evil.

Matthew 6:9-13 New American Standard Bible

9 “Pray, then, in this way:

‘Our Father who is in heaven,
Hallowed be Your name.
10 ‘Your kingdom come.
Your will be done,
On earth as it is in heaven.
11 ‘Give us this day our daily bread.
12 ‘And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
13 ‘And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil. [For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.’]

Matthew 6:9-13 King James Version

9 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.

10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

11 Give us this day our daily bread.

12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

Matthew 6:9-13 New International Version

9 “This, then, is how you should pray:

“‘Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
10 your kingdom come,
your will be done,
    on earth as it is in heaven.

11 Give us today our daily bread.
12 And forgive us our debts,
    as we also have forgiven our debtors.

13 And lead us not into temptation,
    but deliver us from the evil one.’

Here I have done my best to locate all the versions I’ve heard in regard to the prayer Jesus taught us. Notice how the subtle differences wouldn’t actually be all that different? That is, with the exception of the Lamsa Greek version. What was the reason for the transformation of the Hebrew and Greek to the Latin, King James, and New International versions? The translators often would see the words in the way their various languages portrayed them. God always says each path is our own, none would be the same, but none would be alone. So, if we look at this single prayer, the one prayer Jesus gave us, the differences are simply paths that walk side by side, holding hands, bridging the centuries, one to the next, Father to son, and so on, generation after generation. Today we celebrate Our Father, our forefathers, and our fathers. Let us remember them, as they would remember us, past, present, and future. Note also the very different views of the Lord’s Prayer in music.

Closing Song: Sister Janet Mead The Lord’s Prayer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGpnkPqjudM&index=6&list=PL614A115BF39E5936

~Shalom~

Rev. Laura A. Neff ~ The Rainbow Minister Facebook & Twitter & Google+ & Blogspot

Calvin Jennings ~ Elder Facebook & Twitter & Blogster

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