Your Kingdom
Bottomline: Praying your Kingdom come on earth as it is in Heaven requires our lives to match our words.
How does one help the kingdom come here on earth as it is in heaven?
“ ‘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 today our daily bread.
12 And forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
13 And lead us not into temptation, s
but deliver us from the evil one.’
How does one help the kingdom come here on earth as it is in heaven?
What is a kingdom?
Worldly kingdoms need 3 things: 1. Land
2. A king
3. Citizens.
In the Kingdom of God…
1. Heaven and earth is His land
2. Jesus is King
3. We are His citizens
9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. 10 Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
He has enabled you to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light. For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
We are to be the Kingdom of light who is reclaiming what the kingdom of darkness has stolen.
14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
“The church as the community of the Kingdom prays for the coming of the Kingdom, grows in the qualities of the Kingdom, trusts in the Lord of the Kingdom, rejoices in the spread of the Kingdom and looks forward to the consummation of the Kingdom.” -Gilbert Stafford
He has enabled you to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light. For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light. 13 For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring for the needy, loving your neighbour as yourself—all these things will last into God’s future. “ - NT Wright
16 Therefore do not let what you know is good be spoken of as evil. 17 For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit,
- “For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit...”
Your Will be done
39 Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.”