290. Why did the Early Church include these words at the end of the Lord's Prayer?
These words joyfully confess that our Father is able to do all that we ask in these petitions.
1 Chronicles 29:11 Yours, O LORD, is the geratness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is Yours. Yours is the kingdom, O LORD, and You are exalted as head above all.
God our Father
A. is the king who bestows every good gift;
James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.
Psalm 103:2-3 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits, who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases.
B. has the power to grant our petitions;
Psalm 33:6 By the Word of the LORD the heavens were made, and by the breath of His mouth all their host.
Ephesians 3:20-21 To Him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to Him be glory in the Church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
C. is ealted as the one true God.
Psalm 113:4-5 The LORD is high above all nations, and His glory above the heavens! Who is like the LORD our God, who is seated on high?
1 Timothy 1:17 To the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
Eventual commentary
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