9 Pray then like this:
“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 this day our daily bread,
12 and forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
13 And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For yours is the Kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen.
14 For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, 15 but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
-Matthew 6:9-15
I cannot comment on the Lord's Prayer in any way that would add to what Dr. Luther says about it in the Catechism. I recommend checking that out here, it takes only a short time:
https://bookofconcord.org/small-catechism/the-lords-pr... But I will add this, that if you want any of your prayers to be heard then you must forgive. If you do not forgive, then do not think to yourself that you hallow God's Name. If you do not forgive, do not expect God's Kingdom to be with you, nor that His Will is going to be done in your life - not in a pleasant way, at any rate. If you refuse to be a forgiving person, shudder in fear because you have no right to expect your daily bread from God. And since the unforgiving man has already led himself into every temptation and evil, he ought not hope for God to deliver him from them.
When Christ says, "if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses," He means it. But if someone is unforgiven then they do not belong to God, so any prayer they make at all will fall on deaf ears. It angers our Heavenly Father greatly that someone would dare to receive the Blood of His only Son only to deny pardon and mercy to others. It is a hypocrisy of the lowest kind and a stench in His nostrils.
Whatever forgiveness you have withheld, do so no longer. Do not look for some talmudic excuse to withhold it - "they did not apologize!" or "it isn't my place to forgive!" or "this sin is unforgivable by definition!" No. Don't play games with God and don't gamble your salvation on staying mad at an offense that won't matter a million years from now. He did not say that you should forgive everyone except that one person that you really don't want to. If you would call yourself a Christian, then forgive them all and do not discriminate in your pardon.
So your dad left when you were a kid. So your teacher gave you a bad grade. So a bully beat you up. So you got canceled. So your politician made gas prices higher. Insofar as these affect you, forgive and then pray for their repentance so that God will forgive them. No, forgiving doesn't mean forgetting, and no it doesn't mean being best friends with them. But none of what they did will matter in 400,000 years of being in Paradise; why risk losing that on account of your vapor like anger during this earthly sojourn? Let go of any right of vengeance you have, let go of their debt, let God handle it and you will find great joy on the other side.
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