A Month in the Life

Sorry to everyone who read my blog last night. I didn't finish sharing my amazing discovery. So here is my attempt at finishing that.

I learned that the Lord's Prayer is a missions statement. When Jesus was asked, "teach us to pray." They were really asking "What do you believe?" The disciples had grown up learning the law and learning to pray. They wanted to know if Jesus' message lined up with the law. When Jesus responds its his "prayer."

Our Father, who is in Heaven, hallowed is your name. The disciples didn't have a name to pray to at that point. Jesus' death gave everyone "The Name" to pray to. The hallowed part is a sense of separating oneself from the selfishness of the world by first gaining fellowship with and towards God.
Your kingdom come, your will be done in Earth as is is in Heaven. Jesus was literally asking for Heaven's ways to crash to earth and take over. Let heaven's thought be my thoughts and your way to become mine.
Give us this day our daily bread. This part was asking for God's daily provision. It was a call to remember the mana God had given. Literally when Heave comes to earth, everyone has enough food to eat every day. At that time in history, the Chosen People had become slaves on their own property. The Romans had come in and put these crazy taxes on them, so they barely had enough to fill their bellies.
And forgive us our debts, as we forgive have also forgiven our debtors. This was a call to remember the Year of Jubilee, when under Jewish law everyone who owed their brother something would whip the slate clean every seven years. It was a stab at the taxations of the Roman Government.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliever us from evil. Some translations of this part read, "save us from ourselves". The Evil spoken of here is both eternal and external. Literally, don't let us be tempted to harm or take advantage of others for my selfish gain. See the Jewish people didn't have money as we know it, They relied on trading something they possessed for something they needed from their neighbor. If someond become greedy, it threw off everything.
(The last part, For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever, Amen. Isn't mentioned in Luke only in Matthew.)

• Jesus was pushing for heaven's holy and separate ways to come to earth to rule. So our thoughts and way of treating others would match up to God's love for us. That way God could provide for our daily needs and let us live in Jubilee sin/debt free.

It sound to me like a missions statement of a good Christian. Yeah? What do you all think? Please feel free to E-mail!