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Lesson 8 - What About Prayer? Part I. Cont'd.(Text Version)

To Whom Should Prayer Be Addressed? (Cont'd.) 

   In Acts 4:24, after Peter and John had been persecuted and
threatened by the Jewish council for preaching Jesus, they "went up
to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and
elders had said unto them. And when they heard that, they lifted up
their voice to God with one accord, and sad Lord, thou art God,
which hast made heaven, and earth, and the sea. and all that in
them is.... 
   There is record in the Bible of praying directly to Jesus both
while he was on earth and after he ascended back to Heaven (Acts
7:59). 
   "There is (only) one God and (only) one mediator between
God and man, the man Christ Jesus" (1 Timothy 2:5). 

Should Prayer Be Addressed To Anyone Other Than God?
(Father, Son, Holy Spirit)

   In praying, one should worship. God's Word says, "Thou shalt
worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve" (Matthew
4:10; Deuteronomy 6:16). 
   The Apostle Paul wrote, "Let no man beguile you of your
reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding
into those things, which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his
fleshly mind" (Colossians 2:18). The Apostle John was forbidden to
do so when he was shown things to come. "I fell at his feet to
worship him. And he said unto me, See that you do it not: I am your
fellowservant, and of your brethren that have the testimony of Jesus:
worship God" (Revelation 19:10). It is assumed that it was an angel
that showed John these things that are prophecies of the future. If
the context of his statement, "I am your fellowservant, and of your
brethren that have the testimony of Jesus" indicates he was a saint,
now in Heaven, the next statement would apply. No place in
Scripture are we told or given permission to worship Mary, the
mother of Jesus, nor any of the saints.

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