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ME: ORIENTATION: FIND COMMON GROUND WITH THE AUDIENCE

WE: IDENTIFICATION (MAKE IT CLEAR THAT YOU STRUGGLE)

GOD: ILLUMINATION (THE GOAL IS TO RESOLVE THE TENSION

I. God’s instruction in the Lord’s Prayer

10  Your kingdom come,

your will be done,

on earth as it is in heaven. (ESV)

A. What is the Kingdom of God?

a. We need to understand this prayer is also Jewish parallelism.

b. Hebrew language tends to say everything twice.

c. A thing is said the first way then it is repeated and amplified or explains the first way.

c. The psalms do this:

God is our refuge and strength,

a very present help in trouble.

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The Lord of hosts is with us;

the God of Jacob is our refuge.

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The Lord is my shepherd;

I shall not want.

He makes me lie down in green pastures;

he leads me beside still waters.

Psalm 23:1-2

B. We then have the perfect definition of the kingdom of God

We then have the perfect definition of the kingdom of God

The kingdom of God is a society upon earth where God’s will is as perfectly done as it is in heaven.

We then have the perfect definition of the kingdom of God—The kingdom of God is a society upon earth where God’s will is as perfectly done as it is in heaven.

The Gospel of Matthew, Volume 1 God’s Kingdom and God’s Will (Matthew 6:10)

The kingdom is in fact the most personal thing in the world. The kingdom demands the submission of my will, my heart, my life. It is only when each one of us makes a personal decision and submission that the kingdom comes.

a very present help in trouble.

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The Lord of hosts is with us;

the God of Jacob is our refuge.

()

The Lord is my shepherd;

I shall not want.

He makes me lie down in green pastures;

he leads me beside still waters.

II. The Kingdom

A. Past what to repent from

a. All will have to come to Christ

In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God but you yourselves cast out (ESV)

In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God but you yourselves cast out (ESV)

b. Where are you with Christ? ( This could be a God moment now)

B. The Kingdom in the present

Mountain of Transfiguration

They saw the Kingdom of God breaking in.

New Living Translation Chapter 17

The Coming of the Kingdom

20 One day the Pharisees asked Jesus, “When will the Kingdom of God come?”

Jesus replied, “The Kingdom of God can’t be detected by visible signs. 21 You won’t be able to say, ‘Here it is!’ or ‘It’s over there!’ For the Kingdom of God is already among you.”

C. The Kingdom of the future

a. Jesus taught the disciples to pray for the coming of the kingdom in the Lord’s prayer.

They saw the Kingdom of God breaking in.

a. Jesus taught the disciples to pray for the coming of the kingdom in the Lord’s prayer.

YOU: APPLICATION (TELL PEOPLE WHAT TO DO AND WHAT THEY HAVE HEARD)

Conclusion: