Your Kingdom Come, Your Will Be Done!
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Intro:
Intro:
5 “Whenever you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites, because they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by people. Truly I tell you, they have their reward.
6 But when you pray, go into your private room, shut your door, and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
7 When you pray, don’t babble like the Gentiles, since they imagine they’ll be heard for their many words.
8 Don’t be like them, because your Father knows the things you need before you ask him.
Point #1: Speak to God Honestly, From the Heart!
Point #1: Speak to God Honestly, From the Heart!
1. There is no tricking God into anything...
2. God knows your heart...
3. God knows that this is hard...
14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold as a slave under sin.
15 For I do not understand what I am doing, because I do not practice what I want to do, but I do what I hate.
16 Now if I do what I do not want to do, I agree with the law that it is good.
17 So now I am no longer the one doing it, but it is sin living in me.
18 For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For the desire to do what is good is with me, but there is no ability to do it.
19 For I do not do the good that I want to do, but I practice the evil that I do not want to do.
9 “Therefore, you should pray like this: Our Father in heaven, your name be honored as holy.
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 do not bring us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.
14 “For if you forgive others their offenses, your heavenly Father will forgive you as well.
Point #2: We Must Pray Until Our Will Becomes God’s Will, Not the Other Way Around!
Point #2: We Must Pray Until Our Will Becomes God’s Will, Not the Other Way Around!
1. Most times when pray we ask for the things that we want...
Who remembers writing Santa a Christmas List?
Often that’s the way that we treat prayer...
Let’s See what I can talk God into!
25 “Therefore I tell you: Don’t worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food and the body more than clothing?
26 Consider the birds of the sky: They don’t sow or reap or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you worth more than they?
27 Can any of you add one moment to his life span by worrying?
28 And why do you worry about clothes? Observe how the wildflowers of the field grow: They don’t labor or spin thread.
29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was adorned like one of these.
30 If that’s how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and thrown into the furnace tomorrow, won’t he do much more for you—you of little faith?
31 So don’t worry, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear?’
32 For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.
33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be provided for you.
34 Therefore don’t worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Seek First the Kingdom of God and his righteousness…this is the path to God’s provision...
This is the path to our mission as the Church!
2. God’s plan was always to send Jesus to reconcile a dying world to himself!
ii. That make us as Jesus followers, ministers of reconciliation!
14 For the love of Christ compels us, since we have reached this conclusion, that one died for all, and therefore all died.
15 And he died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for the one who died for them and was raised.
16 From now on, then, we do not know anyone from a worldly perspective. Even if we have known Christ from a worldly perspective, yet now we no longer know him in this way.
17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come!
18 Everything is from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ and has given us the ministry of reconciliation.
19 That is, in Christ, God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and he has committed the message of reconciliation to us.
20 Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, since God is making his appeal through us. We plead on Christ’s behalf, “Be reconciled to God.”
21 He made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
3. If this is what Jesus is all about, this is what we must be all about!
Point #3: The Kingdom of Heaven is Like...
Point #3: The Kingdom of Heaven is Like...
Jesus taught the cost of believing and following Him!
44 “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure, buried in a field, that a man found and reburied. Then in his joy he goes and sells everything he has and buys that field.
45 “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls.
46 When he found one priceless pearl, he went and sold everything he had and bought it.
*Gaining the Kingdom of Heaven will cost you everything...
33 He told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and mixed into fifty pounds of flour until all of it was leavened.”
TS: SUMMARIZE PARABLE OF THE WEDDING FEAST - MATTHEW 21:33-45
1 Once more Jesus spoke to them in parables:
2 “The kingdom of heaven is like a king who gave a wedding banquet for his son.
3 He sent his servants to summon those invited to the banquet, but they didn’t want to come.
4 Again, he sent out other servants and said, ‘Tell those who are invited: See, I’ve prepared my dinner; my oxen and fattened cattle have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.’
5 “But they paid no attention and went away, one to his own farm, another to his business,
6 while the rest seized his servants, mistreated them, and killed them.
7 The king was enraged, and he sent out his troops, killed those murderers, and burned down their city.
8 “Then he told his servants, ‘The banquet is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy.
9 Go then to where the roads exit the city and invite everyone you find to the banquet.’
10 So those servants went out on the roads and gathered everyone they found, both evil and good. The wedding banquet was filled with guests.
11 When the king came in to see the guests, he saw a man there who was not dressed for a wedding.
12 So he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without wedding clothes?’ The man was speechless.
13 “Then the king told the attendants, ‘Tie him up hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
14 “For many are invited, but few are chosen.”
Point #4: Gaining the Kingdom of Heaven is All About Knowing and Following Jesus!
Point #4: Gaining the Kingdom of Heaven is All About Knowing and Following Jesus!
TS: But Some Refuse to Acknowledge and follow him!
33 “Listen to another parable: There was a landowner, who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a watchtower. He leased it to tenant farmers and went away.
34 When the time came to harvest fruit, he sent his servants to the farmers to collect his fruit.
35 The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.
36 Again, he sent other servants, more than the first group, and they did the same to them.
37 Finally, he sent his son to them. ‘They will respect my son,’ he said.
38 “But when the tenant farmers saw the son, they said to each other, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and take his inheritance.’
39 So they seized him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.
40 Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those farmers?”
41 “He will completely destroy those terrible men,” they told him, “and lease his vineyard to other farmers who will give him his fruit at the harvest.”
42 Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. This is what the Lord has done and it is wonderful in our eyes?
43 Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people producing its fruit.
44 Whoever falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; but on whomever it falls, it will shatter him.”
45 When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they knew he was speaking about them.
CS Lewis, “Liar, Lunatic or Lord!”