The Lord’s Prayer: And Do Not Bring Us Into Temptation

Steve Poole

TEXT – Matthew 6:9-13 CSB

1. A better understanding of “Temptation”

* James 1:13

* “Do not bring us into trials.”

2. Jesus prayed to remove a trial. (Matthew26:39)

* “But trials of another kind, persecution, spiritual conflicts, agony of body or of spirit, these may come to us as a test or as a discipline.” ~ Ellicot

* Trial, meaning to ‘pierce through, as with a spear or spit’.

* A better translation could be “Do not allow us to come into trials beyond which we can endure for Your glory and our growth.”

3. Persevering THROUGH trials brings God’s blessing

4. God allows trials to come into our lives in order to build us in the faith.

APPLICATION

1. Share your trial, then pray, “Lord, bring us not into trial, but deliver us from the evil one,” together with another Jesus-follower who gets it.

2. Pray for deliverance with perseverance.

3. Pray for the global church.