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The second petition, ‘Your kingdom come’, brings us back to the central theme of the Gospel.
Christ has come to inaugurate God’s reign on earth.
There’s two categories that I’m aiming at this morning, in terms of preaching on the coming of God’s Kingdom.
Extensively and Intensively.
The Extent of Kingdom advancing.
The kingdom comes increasingly as more and more people willingly submit to the King’s authority.
The Kingdom expands.
God’s sovereign reign in the general sense is always in operation; it does not come and go.
This petition “Your Kingdom come” concerns the effective reign of God in the
hearts and lives of men through their faith in, and service of, King Jesus.
The kingdom that was typified in the Old Testament and
that drew near in the ministry of John
is now established in Christ’s coming and
grows in extent and depth as the gospel of Christ spreads and men and women submit to His rule.
describes how: "May he rule from sea to sea and from the River to the ends of the earth.”
() "Let all kings bow in homage to him, all nations serve him.”
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"The dominion will be vast, and its prosperity will never end.
He will reign on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish and sustain it with justice and righteousness from now on and forever.
The zeal of the Lord of Armies will accomplish this.” ()
In the context of this Gospel, and especially 5:20, the mention of ‘righteousness’ in is very significant.
The kingdom will finally come in its eternal form at the end of the age, when the Saviour returns:
"Then comes the end, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father, when he abolishes all rule and all authority and power.”
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We must continue to offer this second petition until that final kingdom comes.
In practice this covers all our praying extensively and intensively for the
success of the gospel,
the extension,
reviving and
building up
of the church,
the work of the ministry at home and abroad,
the conversion of sinners and
the spiritual growth of saints and
the work of the Holy Spirit.
Doubtless, God will be glorified and His name hallowed in the judgement of the Last Day,
but primarily it will be by the coming and extension of His kingdom.
So the desire of the petition is not only that the kingdom mar come extensively
Legg, J. (2004).
The King and His Kingdom: The Gospel of Matthew Simply Explained (p.
106).
Darlington, England: Evangelical Press.
but also that it may more and more be established intensively, that is, that
He Himself and all those already converted may increasingly acknowledge God in Christ as their sovereign Ruler.
With God’s help we see our MAIN POINT.
We pray that others are brought out of the kingdom of darkness and that the kingdom of grace would be set up in their hearts and increase!
In our praying for the God’s Kingdom to come we’re praying for the kingdom of darkness to be demolished!
And at the same time, we’re praying for the kingdom of grace to be set up into the hearts and everyone around us and advance!
This Kingdom of grace set up in the heart of a man is what leads him to the Kingdom of glory.
This seed of the Kingdom of grace turns into the flower of the Kingdom of glory!
The kingdom of grace is glory militant, and
the kingdom of glory is grace triumphant.
Our PAST
A. The World’s PLIGHT
The first thing implied in this petition, “Your Kingdom come” it’s implied that the world currently sits in the kingdom of darkness.
So we pray for them to be brought out of that kingdom.
In this kingdom sin is reigning.
In sin is described in it’s former state as it “reigned in death” (v21).
Now that the gospel has come (in Romans 6) we’re commanded to “not let sin reign” (v), “sin will not rule over you” (v14); as enslaved to sin and obeying it leading to death (v16).
In it’s described as law that wages war and takes us prisoner and how we need rescue!
(vv23-24).
Which means that those who are in Christ (by grace) are currently under the reigning death sentence of sin!
Sin reigns, rules, enslaves, wages war and holds prisoner everyone that is not saved by the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ!
This is their PLIGHT.
As you hear about what God did to us through Christ, listen also to the plight of everyone else!
"He has rescued us from the domain of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son he loves.”
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They’re in a ‘domain of darkness’.
We’re in this domain of darkness a few different ways.
Answer 1. Deep Denseness.
"They are darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them and because of the hardness of their hearts.”
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Darkened understandings cause us to be ignorant and then hardens our hearts.
Ignorance is a black veil drawn over the mind;
people by nature, may have a deep reach into the things of the world, but ignorant in the things of God.
Ignorance draws the curtains around the soul,
"But the person without the Spirit does not receive what comes from God’s Spirit, because it is foolishness to him; he is not able to understand it since it is evaluated spiritually.”
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Answer 2. Defiling Dirtiness.
A natural man us under the darkness of corruption and defilement.
In , sinful actions are called “deeds of darkness”.
Pride and lust darken the glory of the soul.
The plight of the lost soul who’s hear is a dark secret, it’s blacker than hell itself!
B. The Church’s PRAYER
Answer 3. Difficult Dilemma.
A natural man is under the darkness of misery.
They are exposed to divine vengeance.
And the sad part of this darkness is that the lost person is aware and sensible to it!
Though blind, they think that they see.
The darkness of Egypt was such thick darkness as “may be felt,” .
By nature, lost people, are in thick darkness, but here is the misery;
the darkness cannot be felt; they will not believe they are in the dark, till they wake up in the lake of fire!
Do you see the nature of this kingdom of darkness?
It’s a bewitching darkness.
It actually causes people to love darkness and hate the light (according to ).
What comfort is their, from this plight, in earthly things?
While the Egyptians were in such darkness, which was "felt", they could take no comfort in their food, gold, and silver.
So also, the natural man may have riches and friends to delight in, yet he is in the kingdom of darkness, and how dead are all these comforts?
If you’re here today, and you’re in this kingdom of darkness, you’re not aware of where you’re going!
And if you die in this natural state, while in this kingdom of darkness, blackness of darkness is reserved for you forever! ()!
So what can we do?
B. The Church’s PRAYER
We pray what Jesus says.
“Your Kingdom come”!!
So implicitly we pray against the devil’s kingdom!
We pray that Satan’s kingdom may be demolished in the world!
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