Mother’s Day 2020 - Thine Is The Kingdom - The Lord's Prayer Part 6 Series

Mother’s Day 2020 and Thine Is The Kingdom

(This sermon is a shorter sermon due to being delivered via Facebook/Live during the Covid-19 shutdown)

Today we will be reading from 1 Chronicles 29:10-13

If you would like to turn to that passage in your Bibles …

Over the past couple of months we have been going through a series on The Lord’s Prayer. And, today, we arrive at the second half of Matthew 6:13 that says, “For Yours is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory forever. Amen.”

Also, today is Mother’s Day, so, I tried to integrate the last phrase of the Lord’s prayer and Mother’s Day and no matter how hard I tried it seemed to come out like a sermon version of Frankenstein’s monster.

(Guarding Sunday worship)

I have always tried to guard Sunday morning Worship services against overlapping holidays honoring a person or a nationalistic holiday. That is not to say that I do not honor Mothers or Fathers or Memorial Day or Veterans’ Day. The truth is that I am just jealous for the one day a week where we set aside one measly little hour to gather together to worship the King of kings and Lord of lords.

In truth my desire is that every second of every worship service be focused on God and God alone. And in that hour we would only worship His great name and we would allow the Holy Spirit to do the transformational work that He most certainly needs to do in each and every one of our lives.

If we DO allow the Lord to transform us into His Holy Image then what we do as mothers, fathers and citizens will honor the Lord and be a vast improvement over what we would be without His transformation of our lives.

(Prayer for help in today’s message)

(The Last Phrase in The Lord’s Prayer)

This is a phrase that you will find in about half of the translations of the Bible.

In a few minutes we’ll get to why it is only found in about half of the translations of the Bible but first let’s see if we can find that truth anywhere else in the Bible.

Is there anywhere else that speaks of God’s majesty and His power and His glory and His eternal Kingdom???

Please read along with Pastor Karenle from 1 Chronicles 29:10-13

Amen! And if you read through the Bible you will find that this truth is contained from cover to cover.

(Only in about half the Translations)

Well, why isn’t this phrase that is sometimes found in Matthew 6:13 in ALL of the Bible translations?

Do you realize that there are no complete, original transcripts left of any of the books in the Bible? If that is true, how can we have any confidence in what we read in various translations of the Bible?

As of 2008 there were more than 5,600 Greek New Testament manuscripts that had been compiled. In addition, there are over 19,000 copies in the Syriac, Latin, Coptic, and Aramaic languages. The total supporting New Testament manuscript base is over 24,000.

A Greek translation called the Textus Receptus was used for Bibles around the time of the Reformation – KJV – Matthew’s Bible – Geneva Bible, The Bishop’s Bible, etc.

Since then many other, more ancient manuscripts have been discovered

By taking these fragments and comparing the common parts it was possible to “back into” the original text to a certainty of 99.5% accuracy and many of those differences are minor spelling or grammatical differences.

For instance, one “error” might be “Jesus Christ” being copied as “Christ Jesus”.

So, why are we talking about this? It is to explain why the second half of Matthew 6:13 only appears in some Bibles. It is a phrase that seems to have been added in a few of the most recent manuscripts and is not found in the most ancient manuscripts.

Think of it this way. When you have many manuscripts and they are dated and you only find this phrase in the most recent ones you know that somewhere along the line someone added them in.

Why was it added? We don’t know.

Is it in harmony with other Scriptures? Yes, it is.

Should it have been added? No it should not have been added.

But is it acceptable because it IS in harmony with the rest of the Bible?

Suppose a mother is rocking her infants’ cradle while quoting the Lord’s Prayer with the ending of, “For Thine is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory forever, Amen.”

Will that harm the child? No, because it is in harmony with the rest of the Bible.

So, the question that is uppermost in most minds is this, “Where is this sermon going, anyway????”