Our series on the Lord’s Prayer
Lesson 3: Our Father
The corporate nature of the prayer “Our”
The amazing revelation of God as our “Father”
This brings out the wonderful doctrine of adoption throughout the rest of the NT (see Ephesians 1:5; Galatians 4:4-5; Romans 8:14-17).
From The Westminster Confession of Faith, 12
All those that are justified, God vouchsafes, in and for His only Son Jesus Christ, to make partakers of the grace of adoption, by which they are taken into the number, and enjoy the liberties and privileges of the children of God, have His name put upon them, receive the spirit of adoption, have access to the throne of grace with boldness, are enabled to cry, Abba, Father, are pitied, protected, provided for, and chastened by Him as by a Father: yet never cast off, but sealed to the day of redemption; and inherit the promises, as heirs of everlasting salvation.
From the Westminster Larger Catechism, Question 189
Q. 189. What doth the preface of the Lord’s Prayer teach us?
A. The preface of the Lord’s Prayer (contained in these words, Our Father which art in heaven,) teacheth us, when we pray, to draw near to God with confidence of his fatherly goodness, and our interest therein; with reverence, and all other childlike dispositions, heavenly affections, and due apprehensions of his sovereign power, majesty, and gracious condescension: as also, to pray with and for others.
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