Sermon
Hallowed Be Your Name
Bellevue Baptist Church
Speaker: Grant Gaines
December 2, 2014 · 30 min
Summary
Jesus teaches disciples to prioritize God's glory above personal needs through the first petition of the Lord's Prayer: "Hallowed be your name." God's name represents His character, person, and reputation, and to hallow it means treating Him as holy and consecrated. God's name is hallowed through salvation of sinners, sanctification of believers, and ultimately at Christ's return.
Highlights
Our needs are important to God, but they're of secondary importance. The primary importance in God's worldview, which ought to be the worldview we adopt, is his own name, is his own glory, is his own kingdom, is his own will.
God's name stands for His character and His activity, what he is known by, his reputation. When we talk about His name, we're talking about God. So when we pray, 'Hallowed be your name,' we're praying that people all over would hallow God, who He is, what He's all about.
When His people sin, they profane the name. And when they grow in grace and in the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and become more like Christ, they honor the name, they revere the name, they make it so that through their lives, God's name is hallowed.