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   tian.roman-catholic   
   From: robert@no.way   
      
   Who did Jesus teach to pray to?   
      
   “After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven,   
   Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is   
   in heaven.” (Mat 6:9-10, KJV)   
      
   Notice that it was to His Father, Our Father who is in heaven. Jesus was on   
   earth when He spoke that.   
      
   This is repeated elsewhere in the Gospels.   
      
   When Jesus left this earth, he left instructions to us on to whom we should   
   pray.   
      
   “And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you,   
   Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give ityou. Hitherto   
   have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy   
   may be full.” (Jhn 16:23-24, KJV)   
      
   “For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have   
   believed that I came out from God. I came forth from the Father, and am come   
   into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.” (Jhn   
   16:27-28, KJV)   
      
   Jesus was clearly very specific about this. Then in another place he gave the   
   understanding of this.   
      
   “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I   
   do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go   
   unto my Father. And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that   
   the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask any thing in my name,   
   I will do it.” (Jhn 14:12-14, KJV)   
      
   How is this possible?   
      
   “These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said,   
   Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify   
   thee: As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give   
   eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. And this is life eternal,   
   that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast   
   sent. I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou   
   gavest me to do. And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with   
   the glory which I had with thee before the world was.” (Jhn 17:1-5, KJV)   
      
   “And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in   
   heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them   
   in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching   
   them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am   
   with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.” (Mat 28:18-20, KJV)   
      
   Yes to the end of this world. But then what?   
      
   “And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also   
   himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be   
   all in all.” (1Co 15:28, KJV)   
      
   Obviously the first begotten Son of God had someone to whom he returned the   
   power given to him.   
      
   All things are to the Glory of the Heavenly Father, and through His Son, that   
   we might be made part of the Family of God the Father.   
      
   You have a choice. To know God, or know the religious traditions of men.   
      
   “Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to   
   escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son   
   of man.” (Luk 21:36, KJV)   
      
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