1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,160 Amen, well I had kind of an eventful week the last week. 2 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:07,680 We got back on Sunday, last Sunday late, 3 00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:09,640 after a long day of travel. 4 00:00:09,640 --> 00:00:12,500 I love flying two or three hours, 5 00:00:12,500 --> 00:00:15,640 but I don't like flying four or five hours. 6 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:17,440 I end up standing in the aisle a lot, 7 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:19,160 just looking over people's shoulders, you know, 8 00:00:19,160 --> 00:00:20,760 there's a weirdo on the airplane. 9 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:26,120 But we got back and then crashed for a little while. 10 00:00:26,120 --> 00:00:28,520 Monday, I remembered that I needed to go to the dentist. 11 00:00:28,520 --> 00:00:31,680 I had a temporary crown on one of my teeth, 12 00:00:31,680 --> 00:00:35,200 and which, praise God, lasted the whole time in Guatemala. 13 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:38,400 That would have been weird to have that pop off. 14 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:40,440 But I was able to go in and got one put in. 15 00:00:40,440 --> 00:00:41,680 I went with the all metal, 16 00:00:41,680 --> 00:00:44,040 so I'm feeling a little piratey today, you know, 17 00:00:44,040 --> 00:00:46,120 a little, if I smile. 18 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:49,960 But then, Tuesday was a full day, 19 00:00:49,960 --> 00:00:53,280 and by the time I hit Wednesday, I was feeling sick. 20 00:00:54,200 --> 00:00:56,460 Flu, a cold, something caught up to me, 21 00:00:56,460 --> 00:00:59,640 and Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 22 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:01,920 and I'm just starting to feel a little bit better. 23 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:04,320 But you know, they say you're battling a flu, 24 00:01:04,320 --> 00:01:06,760 or you're battling a sickness, 25 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:08,600 and in my case, it doesn't really look like 26 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:09,440 a whole lot of a battle. 27 00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:12,120 It looks like me, kind of in a fetal position, 28 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:13,320 yelling to the other room, 29 00:01:13,320 --> 00:01:18,120 Adrian, give me a sippy cup, I need another drink. 30 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:19,960 Can you bring me this? 31 00:01:19,960 --> 00:01:21,720 There's no battle whatsoever. 32 00:01:23,920 --> 00:01:24,760 It won. 33 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:27,680 But luckily, it's only for a short time, 34 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:29,280 and everyone adapts. 35 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:32,180 Oh, Dad, he's got the sniffles. 36 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:34,600 He'll be out for a little while. 37 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:36,200 And then I rebound a little bit. 38 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:39,240 But it's good to be here this morning, 39 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:42,840 and to be with our family, the church, you guys. 40 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:44,360 Just really, really, 41 00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:46,820 as I really enjoyed our time in Guatemala, 42 00:01:46,820 --> 00:01:48,400 but we were traveling all last Sunday, 43 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:50,440 and it's hard to miss a Sunday morning 44 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:53,080 with the family of God. 45 00:01:53,080 --> 00:01:55,320 And so I'm glad to be here today, 46 00:01:55,320 --> 00:01:57,680 and just excited to dive into the Word. 47 00:01:57,680 --> 00:02:01,160 We've been going through a study on the Lord's Prayer, 48 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:03,320 and we've been breaking it down line by line. 49 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:05,160 We're gonna go ahead and say the Lord's Prayer together. 50 00:02:05,160 --> 00:02:06,400 It'll be up here on the screen. 51 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:08,800 Why don't you just say it with me. 52 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:13,800 Our Father in heaven, your name be honored as holy. 53 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:17,520 Your kingdom come, your will be done 54 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:20,600 on earth as it is in heaven. 55 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:23,520 Give us today our daily bread, 56 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:25,300 and forgive us our debts 57 00:02:25,300 --> 00:02:29,320 as we also have forgiven our debtors. 58 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:32,120 And do not bring us into temptation, 59 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:35,760 but deliver us from the evil one. 60 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:37,520 Now a lot of people have grown up with that prayer. 61 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:39,940 In fact, it's probably the most well-known prayer, 62 00:02:39,940 --> 00:02:42,280 even outside of the Christian faith. 63 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:44,980 Moms and dads have taught their kids that for a long time, 64 00:02:44,980 --> 00:02:48,160 whether they're practicing Christians or not. 65 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:49,320 And yet one of the things I think 66 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:51,680 that's most misunderstood about it, 67 00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:53,200 as we tend to think of prayers, 68 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:58,200 especially in the more liturgical fashions of church, 69 00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:00,320 we tend to think of them as recitations 70 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:03,360 that what we just did there was the whole thing. 71 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:05,920 You recite it, and then you move on. 72 00:03:05,920 --> 00:03:08,560 But what we're missing out of Jesus' teaching 73 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:13,040 is that he was giving us a pattern, not a performance. 74 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:17,200 He was giving us a pattern to follow, not a performance. 75 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:20,240 And it actually takes some deeper thinking 76 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:22,740 and examination of the Lord's Prayer 77 00:03:22,740 --> 00:03:24,820 to understand the pattern that he was laying out, 78 00:03:24,820 --> 00:03:29,200 the model, so that it can inform the way that we pray. 79 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:30,360 And that's what we've been looking at. 80 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:33,240 Now verse nine and 10 of the Lord's Prayer, 81 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:35,800 the first two and the one that we looked at last week 82 00:03:35,800 --> 00:03:38,420 was nine and now we're diving into 10. 83 00:03:38,420 --> 00:03:41,360 These are more than just the place to start. 84 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:43,720 I would say that these are foundational 85 00:03:43,720 --> 00:03:48,040 for all acceptable prayer in the Christian faith. 86 00:03:48,040 --> 00:03:51,440 Our verse nine and 10 of the Lord's Prayer. 87 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:53,920 Because it begins by teaching us about the nature 88 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:58,920 of our relationship with God, that God is our Father, 89 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:00,800 and as a Father we relate to him. 90 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:03,920 Now as humans, we've had all kinds of Father figures 91 00:04:03,920 --> 00:04:06,720 in our life, and not all of them have been good. 92 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:09,280 And so that can really skew the way that we relate to God 93 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:11,640 if we bring all of that baggage and we say, 94 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:13,720 oh, I don't like fathers. 95 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:15,680 The one I had or the ones that I had 96 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:18,000 just weren't that very good. 97 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:19,680 But that's why when we understand Father, 98 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:21,720 we have to look at all of scripture to understand 99 00:04:21,720 --> 00:04:24,720 what is a good Father in the first place. 100 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:27,280 Because when our fathers have failed us, 101 00:04:27,280 --> 00:04:29,140 they failed us against some standard 102 00:04:29,140 --> 00:04:30,520 that we were holding them to. 103 00:04:30,520 --> 00:04:33,080 And I would say that that standard that we're holding them 104 00:04:33,080 --> 00:04:34,940 to, if you trace it all the way back, 105 00:04:34,940 --> 00:04:38,400 is the standard set forward in scripture for who God is. 106 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:43,400 The good, perfect Father that all of our fathers 107 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:46,400 in some way or shape or form failed to be. 108 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:48,240 But we begin with our relationship to God, 109 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:50,800 and God is our Father. 110 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:52,080 And where is God our Father? 111 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:54,520 Well, he's in heaven, and the one in heaven 112 00:04:54,520 --> 00:04:58,080 has a much bigger, better perspective on the world 113 00:04:58,080 --> 00:05:01,040 and the things happening in the world than you or I do. 114 00:05:01,040 --> 00:05:04,160 We can only see what's right in front of us. 115 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:08,300 And so God, our Father who is in heaven, 116 00:05:08,300 --> 00:05:11,540 who has total authority and dominion, 117 00:05:11,540 --> 00:05:15,000 who has perfect wisdom and insight and oversight 118 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:17,680 of all things, that's where our prayers begin. 119 00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:19,820 And that has to be in our mind and our heart 120 00:05:19,820 --> 00:05:24,160 when we begin to pray an acceptable prayer. 121 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:27,600 And then last week, if you were here, 122 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:30,040 Nick, one of our servant leaders, filled the pulpit 123 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:33,700 and he talked about the first petition that takes place 124 00:05:33,700 --> 00:05:34,540 in the Lord's Prayer. 125 00:05:34,540 --> 00:05:38,360 It begins with our Father in heaven, 126 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:42,720 and then it says, your name be honored as holy. 127 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:43,800 Your name be honored as holy. 128 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:45,480 It's the first petition. 129 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:48,760 And one of the things that he pointed out is it's a request. 130 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:50,340 It's not merely a statement of worship. 131 00:05:50,340 --> 00:05:53,640 You may have grown up thinking that was some way of saying, 132 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:56,100 praise Jesus or praise God, right? 133 00:05:56,100 --> 00:05:57,680 Howl o'd be your name if you were 134 00:05:57,680 --> 00:05:59,840 the old King James version, right? 135 00:05:59,840 --> 00:06:02,280 Howl o'd be your name, as if that was a statement 136 00:06:02,280 --> 00:06:03,120 of worship. 137 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:04,360 It's not a statement of worship. 138 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:05,880 It's actually the first petition, 139 00:06:05,880 --> 00:06:08,520 the first request in the prayer. 140 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:11,240 And what is the first request that you're asking God 141 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:13,280 before you ask anything else, 142 00:06:13,280 --> 00:06:15,360 before you ask for your needs or for him 143 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:19,420 to give you anything, what's the first thing you ask? 144 00:06:19,420 --> 00:06:22,060 You ask that his name be honored as holy. 145 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:25,160 His name be honored as holy. 146 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:27,900 It's a call for God to act in a way 147 00:06:27,900 --> 00:06:32,160 that brings reverence and esteem to his name, 148 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:35,000 ensuring that his holiness and his character 149 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:39,200 are respected and exalted above all else. 150 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:42,360 And this honor invokes recognizing God's infinite worth 151 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:44,480 and his infinite wisdom and power 152 00:06:44,480 --> 00:06:48,640 and asking for his reputation to be seen as sacred 153 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:50,460 and set apart from all creation. 154 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:54,240 And by focusing on this as a foundational request 155 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:58,240 for all of our prayers, other requests then are placed 156 00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:03,120 under the desire to see God's name exalted as holy. 157 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:05,820 And that impacts the way that we approach everything 158 00:07:05,820 --> 00:07:07,360 in our prayer life. 159 00:07:07,360 --> 00:07:11,840 Everything becomes subservient to your name 160 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:13,360 be honored as holy. 161 00:07:14,380 --> 00:07:16,000 It changes things. 162 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:18,240 I think Nick said it's a key that unlocks 163 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:20,920 all kinds of power in prayer. 164 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:22,680 And I believe that, absolutely. 165 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:26,200 But today we're looking at the third 166 00:07:26,200 --> 00:07:28,080 and the second and third petitions, 167 00:07:28,080 --> 00:07:30,400 which are found in verse 10. 168 00:07:30,400 --> 00:07:32,320 So your name be honored as holy, 169 00:07:33,300 --> 00:07:34,920 and then there's a second petition 170 00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:38,320 and a third petition, and together they make up 171 00:07:38,320 --> 00:07:41,160 this first part of the Lord's Prayer. 172 00:07:41,160 --> 00:07:43,800 Today we're looking at your kingdom come, 173 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:47,880 your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. 174 00:07:48,840 --> 00:07:50,240 So if you're taking notes 175 00:07:50,240 --> 00:07:52,360 and you want a heading to write down, 176 00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:53,400 the first thing I'll have you write down 177 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:54,500 is the kingdom of God. 178 00:07:54,500 --> 00:07:57,240 We need to unpack what is the kingdom of God 179 00:07:57,240 --> 00:07:59,080 if we're praying for the kingdom to come, 180 00:07:59,080 --> 00:08:01,580 we need to understand it just a little bit better. 181 00:08:04,160 --> 00:08:07,760 The word in Greek that was written in the original 182 00:08:07,760 --> 00:08:11,000 translation of the New Testament 183 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:13,380 that translates to English kingdom 184 00:08:13,380 --> 00:08:16,000 is used about 160 some times. 185 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:17,880 And it's not so much about the physical 186 00:08:17,880 --> 00:08:21,200 geographical territory or boundaries 187 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:23,000 or even the subjects of a kingdom. 188 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:24,320 We tend to think of a kingdom 189 00:08:24,320 --> 00:08:26,200 and we immediately think of a globe 190 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:28,920 and boundaries, borders of a nation, right? 191 00:08:28,920 --> 00:08:31,700 Oh, it's the kingdom of X, Y or Z. 192 00:08:31,700 --> 00:08:32,920 That's the kingdom. 193 00:08:32,920 --> 00:08:35,200 Well, that's not what the word kingdom, 194 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:38,200 at least in the scripture in the Greek really means, 195 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:39,980 not primarily. 196 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:44,480 It's not so much about the physical, geographical 197 00:08:44,480 --> 00:08:46,560 or the subjects even of the kingdom, 198 00:08:46,560 --> 00:08:48,480 the people of the kingdom. 199 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:51,340 But first and foremost, the word kingdom 200 00:08:51,340 --> 00:08:53,800 means rule and reign. 201 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:56,200 The rule and reign. 202 00:08:57,280 --> 00:09:01,760 And the kingdom of God primarily means God's reign. 203 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:05,640 That's R-E-I-G-N. 204 00:09:06,620 --> 00:09:08,640 If you're thinking of rain coming from the sky. 205 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:11,080 Okay, just side note. 206 00:09:12,760 --> 00:09:14,380 Can't wait for the rain. 207 00:09:15,480 --> 00:09:16,720 R-A-I-N, is that right? 208 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:17,560 Yeah. 209 00:09:17,560 --> 00:09:18,400 Ha ha. 210 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:19,660 Ha ha. 211 00:09:19,660 --> 00:09:20,500 Can't wait for the rain, 212 00:09:20,500 --> 00:09:22,040 but we're talking about the other rain. 213 00:09:22,040 --> 00:09:26,320 God's reign, his authority and his rule. 214 00:09:26,320 --> 00:09:29,980 And rather than a specific place or group of people, 215 00:09:29,980 --> 00:09:33,160 in other words, the Bible talks about the kingdom, 216 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:36,640 it's talking about God actively ruling. 217 00:09:36,640 --> 00:09:38,260 Not necessarily in a physical realm 218 00:09:38,260 --> 00:09:39,900 or in some nation somewhere. 219 00:09:41,680 --> 00:09:42,760 The kingdom of God. 220 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:45,080 And so sometimes you might even get, as a kid, 221 00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:46,960 you might have thought of the kingdom of God 222 00:09:46,960 --> 00:09:48,760 because Matthew uses this interchangeably. 223 00:09:48,760 --> 00:09:51,280 He says, he'll use the word the kingdom of God 224 00:09:51,280 --> 00:09:53,680 and then he'll say the kingdom of heaven. 225 00:09:53,680 --> 00:09:55,360 The kingdom of God, the kingdom of heaven. 226 00:09:55,360 --> 00:09:57,560 And when you maybe read the kingdom of heaven, 227 00:09:57,560 --> 00:09:59,560 you thought, oh heaven, the place that we go to 228 00:09:59,560 --> 00:10:02,280 where we float on clouds, we shoot little arrows 229 00:10:02,280 --> 00:10:04,000 and we frolic all day long, right? 230 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:06,080 That's heaven where we're going, 231 00:10:06,080 --> 00:10:09,120 so the kingdom must be that place that we're going to. 232 00:10:09,120 --> 00:10:10,320 But that's not it at all. 233 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:13,120 In fact, the word kingdom of heaven, 234 00:10:13,120 --> 00:10:15,280 when Matthew uses that in his writings, 235 00:10:15,280 --> 00:10:17,640 it's actually a Jewish way of writing 236 00:10:17,640 --> 00:10:21,400 in order to not exhaustively use the word God. 237 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:24,000 They so revere the name and they so wanna stay away 238 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:26,080 from the line where they exhaustively use it 239 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:29,320 and use it in vain, that they start to substitute in 240 00:10:29,320 --> 00:10:31,280 other words like heaven. 241 00:10:31,280 --> 00:10:34,400 And heaven is just a substitute word for God. 242 00:10:34,400 --> 00:10:37,280 So it's just another way of saying the kingdom of God. 243 00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:39,000 The kingdom of God. 244 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:43,640 Now, heaven in our concept is the realm of God, right? 245 00:10:43,640 --> 00:10:44,840 But it's the kingdom of God. 246 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:47,720 It's the place of his rule and his reign. 247 00:10:47,720 --> 00:10:51,360 In Psalm 103, verse 19, the psalmist said, 248 00:10:51,360 --> 00:10:53,960 the Lord has established his throne in the heavens 249 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:57,600 and his kingdom rules over all. 250 00:10:59,040 --> 00:11:02,920 But this doesn't mean that God's kingdom is a place 251 00:11:02,920 --> 00:11:06,520 ruling over all other places. 252 00:11:06,520 --> 00:11:09,720 It means that it's God's power and authority 253 00:11:09,720 --> 00:11:11,720 that extends out to everything. 254 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:16,200 So while God's reign creates a people and even a place, 255 00:11:16,200 --> 00:11:19,800 the essence of the kingdom of God is God's active rule, 256 00:11:19,800 --> 00:11:20,640 his authority. 257 00:11:21,840 --> 00:11:23,240 And we might ask, why do we need this? 258 00:11:23,240 --> 00:11:26,960 Why do we want God's active rule to come? 259 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:29,040 Why would we pray that? 260 00:11:29,040 --> 00:11:29,880 Well, I don't know about you, 261 00:11:29,880 --> 00:11:32,280 but have you seen how things are going around here? 262 00:11:33,560 --> 00:11:37,840 The kingdom of this world ain't working out. 263 00:11:38,840 --> 00:11:41,160 We just came back from Village of Hope. 264 00:11:41,160 --> 00:11:43,640 The kingdom of this world has experienced 265 00:11:43,640 --> 00:11:46,160 in the stories of these young ladies. 266 00:11:46,160 --> 00:11:50,680 The kingdom of this world sells their daughter for food. 267 00:11:52,880 --> 00:11:55,000 When I say sells, it's not just like sells 268 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:55,960 and then buys back. 269 00:11:55,960 --> 00:12:00,320 Sells in order to be sexually assaulted 270 00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:03,120 so that they can eat. 271 00:12:04,520 --> 00:12:06,280 That's the kingdom of this world. 272 00:12:06,280 --> 00:12:09,880 The kingdom of this world abuses one another. 273 00:12:09,880 --> 00:12:14,880 The kingdom of this world is at one another's throats. 274 00:12:14,880 --> 00:12:18,320 The kingdom of this world right now is in election season. 275 00:12:19,480 --> 00:12:22,080 Get your piss forks and we're dividing the room 276 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:23,880 into red and blue, right? 277 00:12:23,880 --> 00:12:25,440 No, please don't. 278 00:12:26,680 --> 00:12:28,240 Let's not do that. 279 00:12:28,240 --> 00:12:30,720 But that's what the kingdom of this world 280 00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:33,160 riles us up and gets us at one another. 281 00:12:33,160 --> 00:12:34,000 You saw this rile up. 282 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:37,920 In the story of the Bible, right after the fall of mankind 283 00:12:37,920 --> 00:12:41,520 as they fell into sin, disobeying God's law, 284 00:12:41,520 --> 00:12:44,120 that immediately, what's the next story? 285 00:12:45,080 --> 00:12:45,920 Cain and Abel. 286 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:50,720 One acceptable sacrifice, one not. 287 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:52,080 I'm gonna kill you for it. 288 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:56,600 And then pretty soon, humanity spiraled out of control. 289 00:12:57,480 --> 00:12:58,320 Why do we want this? 290 00:12:58,320 --> 00:13:01,280 Why do we want the kingdom rule to come? 291 00:13:01,280 --> 00:13:03,880 Because when the kingdom rule comes, 292 00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:06,480 all the benefits of the kingdom come with it. 293 00:13:07,160 --> 00:13:12,160 Perfect justice, perfect love, shalom, peace. 294 00:13:13,560 --> 00:13:16,560 Peace like we've never experienced. 295 00:13:16,560 --> 00:13:18,880 When the kingdom comes, 296 00:13:18,880 --> 00:13:22,440 the characteristics of the kingdom come with it 297 00:13:22,440 --> 00:13:24,360 and it breaks in. 298 00:13:24,360 --> 00:13:26,200 And the things of this world, 299 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:29,880 the characteristics of this world began to be broken. 300 00:13:29,880 --> 00:13:33,840 The things of this world began to be undone and overturned 301 00:13:33,840 --> 00:13:36,480 and things are made right that are wrong. 302 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:40,000 And so we pray for the kingdom because we saw that. 303 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:40,840 Now, how do we know that? 304 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:43,520 Well, we know that because of Jesus when he showed up. 305 00:13:44,560 --> 00:13:46,160 We know that when Jesus showed up, 306 00:13:46,160 --> 00:13:49,840 the things that were wrong began to be made right. 307 00:13:50,880 --> 00:13:54,160 Eyes that couldn't see were open for the first time. 308 00:13:55,880 --> 00:13:56,720 Right? 309 00:13:56,720 --> 00:13:59,840 Diseases that had inflicted someone from birth 310 00:13:59,840 --> 00:14:00,680 to death. 311 00:14:00,680 --> 00:14:04,320 And then in a moment, Lazarus, who had died, 312 00:14:04,320 --> 00:14:09,320 was resurrected to life so that we might see, 313 00:14:09,560 --> 00:14:13,000 oh, the kingdom, the kingdom, 314 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:18,000 God's active rule at work in our broken world. 315 00:14:19,440 --> 00:14:21,040 In Matthew 12, Jesus said, 316 00:14:21,040 --> 00:14:23,640 if I drive out demons by the spirit of God, 317 00:14:23,640 --> 00:14:26,920 then the kingdom of God has come upon you. 318 00:14:26,920 --> 00:14:29,280 And what Jesus is saying in Matthew 12 319 00:14:29,280 --> 00:14:30,800 is that the kingdom of God is present 320 00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:34,720 wherever God's power and authority are actively at work, 321 00:14:34,720 --> 00:14:39,320 particularly through the spirit of God and his people, 322 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:41,280 as we'll see a little bit later. 323 00:14:41,280 --> 00:14:42,640 When Jesus casts out demons, 324 00:14:42,640 --> 00:14:45,840 he's demonstrating that God's reign, his kingdom, 325 00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:47,880 remember God's rule and reign, his active rule and reign, 326 00:14:47,880 --> 00:14:49,720 that's what kingdom means, 327 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:53,080 is breaking into the world in a new powerful way, 328 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:59,280 directly confronting and overthrowing the powers of evil. 329 00:14:59,280 --> 00:15:01,720 Again, in Luke chapter 17, some Pharisees, 330 00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:04,760 these are people who were really well-versed in the law, 331 00:15:04,760 --> 00:15:07,320 the law of Moses, and they prided themselves 332 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:09,840 in being religious because they knew the law 333 00:15:09,840 --> 00:15:13,200 and they, quote, did everything it commanded. 334 00:15:14,520 --> 00:15:18,080 The Pharisees came to Jesus in Luke chapter 17, 335 00:15:18,080 --> 00:15:20,920 and they say, hey, when's the kingdom going to come? 336 00:15:20,920 --> 00:15:22,600 When's it gonna show up? 337 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:24,200 If you're the Messiah, if you're the king, 338 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:25,240 where's the kingdom? 339 00:15:26,040 --> 00:15:28,760 And understandably, at least to how our minds think, 340 00:15:28,760 --> 00:15:30,760 they thought of the kingdom as a physical kingdom, 341 00:15:30,760 --> 00:15:33,760 that Jesus was gonna come, an army was gonna follow him, 342 00:15:33,760 --> 00:15:35,080 they were gonna overthrow the Romans, 343 00:15:35,080 --> 00:15:36,560 they were gonna recapture Israel, 344 00:15:36,560 --> 00:15:39,080 and they were gonna set up a physical kingdom 345 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:39,920 with Jesus as king. 346 00:15:39,920 --> 00:15:41,160 You know, the way things used to be 347 00:15:41,160 --> 00:15:44,080 when David was on the throne, when Solomon was on the throne, 348 00:15:44,080 --> 00:15:47,240 when's it going back to the way it used to be? 349 00:15:47,240 --> 00:15:49,520 And Jesus responds to them and says, 350 00:15:49,520 --> 00:15:53,160 the kingdom of God is not coming with something observable. 351 00:15:55,160 --> 00:15:59,200 No one will say, see, hear, or there it is, 352 00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:03,200 for you see the kingdom of God is in your midst. 353 00:16:04,920 --> 00:16:06,440 That's cloak and dagger a little bit, 354 00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:10,040 but the kingdom of God is not something that appears 355 00:16:10,040 --> 00:16:13,400 with outward signs or physical boundaries. 356 00:16:13,400 --> 00:16:16,760 In our election season, I'm sorry to let you down, 357 00:16:16,760 --> 00:16:18,960 but the kingdom of God is not going to fly in 358 00:16:18,960 --> 00:16:20,240 on Air Force One. 359 00:16:22,320 --> 00:16:26,240 The Pharisees were expecting a visible political kingdom 360 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:30,600 to be established, but Jesus points to a different reality, 361 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:33,600 that the kingdom of God is already present among them. 362 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:36,560 They just can't see it or perceive it 363 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:40,160 because it's in an unexpected way. 364 00:16:40,160 --> 00:16:44,040 How is the kingdom of God in their midst? 365 00:16:44,040 --> 00:16:47,560 Well, the active rule and reign of God 366 00:16:47,560 --> 00:16:50,600 is no longer relegated to a building like the temple 367 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:53,800 or to a land like the state of Israel, 368 00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:56,760 but it is now centered in a person, 369 00:16:56,760 --> 00:17:00,360 namely, the rule and reign, the active rule and reign of God 370 00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:05,000 is wherever the presence of King Jesus is. 371 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:09,520 Where King Jesus is, the active rule and reign of God 372 00:17:10,360 --> 00:17:11,200 is present. 373 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:15,440 And so when we pray, your kingdom come, 374 00:17:15,440 --> 00:17:18,480 we're asking for God's active rule and reign 375 00:17:18,480 --> 00:17:22,080 to break into our earthly reality. 376 00:17:22,080 --> 00:17:23,360 There's another scripture many of you 377 00:17:23,360 --> 00:17:25,080 are probably very familiar with. 378 00:17:26,240 --> 00:17:31,240 Seek first the kingdom and his righteousness 379 00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:33,360 and all these things. 380 00:17:33,360 --> 00:17:34,880 What were all the things that he was talking about 381 00:17:34,880 --> 00:17:36,120 right before that? 382 00:17:36,120 --> 00:17:36,960 Anyone know? 383 00:17:39,640 --> 00:17:42,680 Food, clothing, basic provisions. 384 00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:47,160 Seek first the kingdom and his righteousness 385 00:17:48,320 --> 00:17:50,120 and all these things will be added to you 386 00:17:50,120 --> 00:17:51,040 or given to you. 387 00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:53,920 Well, doesn't that sound a little bit familiar? 388 00:17:53,920 --> 00:17:56,320 If you lay that over top of the Lord's prayer 389 00:17:56,320 --> 00:17:58,080 and if you begin to understand that the kingdom 390 00:17:58,080 --> 00:18:00,760 is not a physical place or some place that we go to 391 00:18:00,760 --> 00:18:02,600 or some place that we have to migrate to, 392 00:18:02,600 --> 00:18:04,760 but it's wherever the King's presence and power 393 00:18:04,760 --> 00:18:09,200 is at work active, well, then it's seek the active 394 00:18:09,200 --> 00:18:12,200 rule and reign of God. 395 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:15,880 Seek the active rule and reign of God in your life 396 00:18:17,080 --> 00:18:18,680 and righteousness, what's righteousness? 397 00:18:18,680 --> 00:18:21,760 Well, it's doing, it's an obedience, right? 398 00:18:23,280 --> 00:18:26,680 It's through faith that Abraham believed and acted 399 00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:28,520 and it was credited to him as righteousness. 400 00:18:28,520 --> 00:18:30,720 Righteousness is obedience to God's will. 401 00:18:31,640 --> 00:18:33,000 Faithful obedience to God's will, 402 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:35,480 that's the Lord's prayer. 403 00:18:37,040 --> 00:18:40,360 Your kingdom come, your will be done. 404 00:18:40,360 --> 00:18:42,920 Seek first the kingdom and all these things 405 00:18:42,920 --> 00:18:45,560 that give us our daily bread, forgive us, 406 00:18:45,560 --> 00:18:47,840 all these things will be added to you 407 00:18:47,840 --> 00:18:51,120 if we seek the active power, 408 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:54,680 rule and reign of God in our lives. 409 00:18:58,040 --> 00:19:02,360 We need ultimate justice, we need ultimate grace, 410 00:19:02,360 --> 00:19:07,360 we need peace, we need the kingdom to break through 411 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:09,040 into our lives. 412 00:19:09,040 --> 00:19:11,560 Some of you need the kingdom of God, 413 00:19:11,560 --> 00:19:13,960 the active rule and reign to break through 414 00:19:13,960 --> 00:19:15,280 into your marriage. 415 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:19,680 There's strife, there's a lack of peace, 416 00:19:19,680 --> 00:19:22,040 there's something of the world that has crept 417 00:19:22,040 --> 00:19:24,400 into your marriage or into your relationship 418 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:28,720 and what you need is the active rule and reign of God 419 00:19:28,720 --> 00:19:31,640 to intervene, to break into that reality, 420 00:19:31,640 --> 00:19:34,080 to change the way things are and the way that Christ 421 00:19:34,080 --> 00:19:37,320 showing up on the scene changed everything, 422 00:19:37,320 --> 00:19:42,320 undid the way things were, restored the kingdom in Shalom. 423 00:19:46,360 --> 00:19:51,360 Some of us are anxious, anxious for where we will 424 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:56,080 get our provision or where we will lay our head 425 00:19:58,320 --> 00:20:02,120 or what God is doing in our life or our families. 426 00:20:02,120 --> 00:20:06,680 We need the kingdom, the active rule and reign of God 427 00:20:06,680 --> 00:20:09,800 to enter in to that situation. 428 00:20:11,880 --> 00:20:14,600 One key to understanding the kingdom of God 429 00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:18,400 is realizing that it exists in what theologians 430 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:22,360 and Bible nerds have called the already but not yet, 431 00:20:22,360 --> 00:20:26,120 the already but not yet state. 432 00:20:26,120 --> 00:20:30,120 When Jesus came, he inaugurated the kingdom of God on earth. 433 00:20:30,120 --> 00:20:32,520 He brought with him, he broke through, you can think of it 434 00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:36,000 as this is the kingdom of the earth and the kingdom of God 435 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:38,360 was somewhere out here and he entered in, 436 00:20:38,360 --> 00:20:41,320 they began to cross over as half circles crossing 437 00:20:41,320 --> 00:20:44,120 and that little space was Jesus and he was bringing 438 00:20:44,120 --> 00:20:46,560 in the kingdom and you had almost like a portal 439 00:20:46,560 --> 00:20:49,840 to another world, to the rule of God beginning 440 00:20:49,840 --> 00:20:51,680 to break free on earth. 441 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:55,400 But that was just the beginning because it didn't fully 442 00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:57,280 engulf all things. 443 00:20:57,280 --> 00:20:59,120 Not everything was set right. 444 00:20:59,120 --> 00:21:01,480 We know that because we're 2000 years later 445 00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:03,560 and many of us experience the brokenness 446 00:21:03,560 --> 00:21:06,280 of this world, don't we? 447 00:21:06,280 --> 00:21:08,400 And so we know that everything hasn't been set right 448 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:09,600 so where's the kingdom? 449 00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:12,680 Well that's why we pray kingdom come 450 00:21:12,680 --> 00:21:14,960 because there's a part of the kingdom that is already here 451 00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:17,480 for those who are in Christ where the spirit of God 452 00:21:17,480 --> 00:21:20,120 begins to live in them so the act of rule and reign 453 00:21:20,120 --> 00:21:23,160 of Jesus is present in every single believer 454 00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:25,760 and yet there's not a fulfillment or the totality 455 00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:29,560 of that rule and reign has not yet fully been realized 456 00:21:29,560 --> 00:21:34,560 and will only be realized when Christ the King returns. 457 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:39,520 When he returns he brings with him the totality 458 00:21:39,520 --> 00:21:40,960 of his kingdom. 459 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:43,880 Because we don't just believe in a God who stepped down 460 00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:47,480 from heaven and became man in the form of Jesus Christ 461 00:21:47,480 --> 00:21:50,720 and walked to this earth and lived a perfect life 462 00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:54,080 and died on the cross, was buried and by God's power 463 00:21:54,080 --> 00:21:57,760 resurrected so that we might believe and have faith in him. 464 00:21:57,760 --> 00:21:59,880 We don't just believe in that God who then ascended 465 00:21:59,880 --> 00:22:02,560 to heaven, we believe in one that will come back. 466 00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:07,120 And too many Christians sit around and think 467 00:22:07,120 --> 00:22:10,760 that this world is all there is and they invest everything 468 00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:13,240 into this world and they invest all their emotions, 469 00:22:13,240 --> 00:22:16,960 all their strength, all their energy into this world 470 00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:18,600 and when this world fails them, 471 00:22:20,440 --> 00:22:22,520 that was your only shot, right? 472 00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:24,560 You only get one life. 473 00:22:24,560 --> 00:22:26,840 If you missed it, you didn't win the lottery, 474 00:22:26,840 --> 00:22:29,040 you didn't hit all the things that you aimed for, 475 00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:30,200 guess what? 476 00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:32,320 No do-overs, this ain't a video game. 477 00:22:34,600 --> 00:22:38,400 That's the sad reality of those who put all their stock 478 00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:42,800 into this life and this world without realizing 479 00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:45,840 that this is transient, this is temporary. 480 00:22:45,840 --> 00:22:49,600 This is the in-between, this is the already but not yet. 481 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:53,120 We're in that in-between while we wait for Jesus 482 00:22:53,120 --> 00:22:56,560 to appear again, to return and when he returns 483 00:22:56,560 --> 00:22:59,920 he brings with him the totality of the kingdom. 484 00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:05,960 All wrongs made right, all injustice is fixed, 485 00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:08,600 all evil overcome. 486 00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:17,800 In Revelation chapter 11, there's this song on that day, 487 00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:22,280 it's Revelation chapter 11, there's been seven seals 488 00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:26,080 in Revelation, you know, Revelation's just a crazy cool book 489 00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:29,800 and I'm so glad I get to study it with some godly folks 490 00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:32,840 at Campus Commons, thank you Krista, 491 00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:33,960 for having me every day. 492 00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:36,760 I get to get together with what, 10, 12 people, 493 00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:40,080 something like that and we study the book of Revelations, 494 00:23:40,080 --> 00:23:42,240 we've been in it for a while, we're into chapter 11 495 00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:44,920 this week and as we're sitting there and I'm thinking 496 00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:47,320 about this sermon and everything that we've been talking 497 00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:51,160 about, we hit what is the seventh trumpet 498 00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:55,800 and from the perspective that I approach Revelation, 499 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:58,640 I would be what was called like, again, Bible nerdy, 500 00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:01,760 like all millennial and so we're in the church age 501 00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:03,920 and we're awaiting Christ's return 502 00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:07,280 and we're looking for him to come and when he comes, 503 00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:09,800 he brings with him the kingdom of God 504 00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:12,160 and the seventh trumpet is the end of all, 505 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:15,440 it's the sounding of the judgment of the world. 506 00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:18,160 The king has come and all evil must be judged 507 00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:20,720 in his presence and the righteous will be brought 508 00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:24,360 into his kingdom and heaven erupts in this song 509 00:24:24,360 --> 00:24:26,600 and these are the lyrics to the song. 510 00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:30,160 The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom 511 00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:33,360 of our Lord and his Christ and he will reign 512 00:24:33,360 --> 00:24:35,840 forever and ever. 513 00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:38,360 That's the day. 514 00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:41,080 That's the money right there. 515 00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:42,200 That's the day. 516 00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:45,880 Everything made right. 517 00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:49,880 The kingdom comes and so the already, 518 00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:54,320 the access to the power, what the Bible calls are deposits 519 00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:58,400 in Christ, the Holy Spirit, the act of rule and reign 520 00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:01,880 at work within each believer and together as a church. 521 00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:05,400 But that's not everywhere, right? 522 00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:09,360 It begins to burst out little by little as we go out, 523 00:25:09,360 --> 00:25:14,360 as we talk to people, as we let that part of our life shine 524 00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:17,280 and reflect the glory and goodness of God. 525 00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:20,040 The kingdom of God advances in these little places 526 00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:23,000 and pockets in your workplace or at the coffee shop 527 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:24,840 or in your home, wherever you're at, 528 00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:26,800 the kingdom of God begins to advance 529 00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:29,720 as the act of rule and reign of God in your life 530 00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:32,760 begins to come out and people see it 531 00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:34,680 and they wonder what's going on, 532 00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:37,600 what is this thing that's breaking into my reality? 533 00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:42,640 But they're not yet when Christ comes. 534 00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:47,040 And so to pray, to pray this prayer, 535 00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:52,040 to pray the prayer, your kingdom come, 536 00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:57,160 your kingdom come is to pray that through the witness 537 00:25:57,160 --> 00:26:02,160 of the church, all those who believe in the name of Jesus 538 00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:05,760 for salvation, that the witness of the church, 539 00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:09,440 through it, more people would submit 540 00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:11,800 to the rule and reign of Jesus. 541 00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:15,880 When we pray your kingdom come, the already part of it 542 00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:20,880 the already part is Lord, use us to bring your kingdom 543 00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:25,560 that more people would submit to your rule and reign. 544 00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:32,320 And the not yet part is Lord, wrap all this up, 545 00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:34,680 let's get moving. 546 00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:39,320 Maranatha, right? 547 00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:44,320 Lord come, Lord come, wrap it up, if you've ever lost someone 548 00:26:47,360 --> 00:26:52,360 that you really loved, you know that moment when time stops 549 00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:56,680 and you've probably prayed something like that, 550 00:26:56,680 --> 00:27:01,680 let's just wrap it up, I'm done, let's just wrap it up. 551 00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:06,680 And he writes the biblical scholar and all around cool dude 552 00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:10,680 because he talks with a British accent, he said when Jesus 553 00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:14,400 told his followers to pray that God's kingdom would come, 554 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:17,040 he was not talking about people going to heaven, 555 00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:20,520 rather he was talking about the rule of heaven 556 00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:21,840 coming to earth. 557 00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:24,760 That begins with us. 558 00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:27,200 Taking notes, write down the will of God. 559 00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:28,800 We're gonna jam through this, 560 00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:33,800 the will of God. 561 00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:38,800 This goes hand in hand with the other two petitions, 562 00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:42,920 your name be honored as holy, your kingdom come 563 00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:45,200 and your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. 564 00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:48,040 To pray for God's will to be done is to pray 565 00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:50,760 that God gets what he desires. 566 00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:54,280 That God gets what he desires and the modern self 567 00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:57,080 is diametrically opposed to what God wants. 568 00:27:57,080 --> 00:27:58,920 I can tell you that. 569 00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:03,920 The modern self prioritizes desire, comfort, 570 00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:07,480 personal goals over any external authorities. 571 00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:11,240 You don't have the right to tell me how to define 572 00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:15,760 and shape my life, how to frame my life or what I pursue. 573 00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:17,440 That's something that has to come from within. 574 00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:18,840 This is the modern self. 575 00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:20,920 The modern self says that's all originated 576 00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:23,880 from the spark of light within that I created 577 00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:24,720 out of nothing. 578 00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:29,720 As we ascend the throne and take on our own God likeness 579 00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:33,160 to say we self-determine everything, 580 00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:38,160 our lives are the product of whatever we want them to be. 581 00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:40,160 And this is opposed to the kind of gospel 582 00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:42,320 that Jesus brought where he came 583 00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:44,640 and he modeled for a self-denial. 584 00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:49,640 Self-denial and submission to God's will. 585 00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:51,560 And that's what we're gonna do. 586 00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:55,640 Submission to God's will over his own will 587 00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:56,800 or any other will. 588 00:28:57,920 --> 00:28:59,480 Obedience to God. 589 00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:03,960 Surrender of control. 590 00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:05,440 Surrender of control. 591 00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:06,840 That's a tough one, man. 592 00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:10,440 And along with that, sacrifice. 593 00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:12,600 Now you and I sometimes will deceive ourselves. 594 00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:15,320 We'll be like, man, I sacrifice all the time. 595 00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:17,200 Like I sacrifice that one thing that I want 596 00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:19,560 so that I can get that other thing that I want. 597 00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:21,760 I'm really good at sacrificing that one thing 598 00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:23,200 for the other thing. 599 00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:24,040 No. 600 00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:27,600 Talking about laying down your life. 601 00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:32,520 Laying down all, putting it all on the line. 602 00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:37,480 That's the kind of model that Jesus gave us. 603 00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:40,320 And so when we talk about the will of God 604 00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:42,440 and we say your will be done, 605 00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:43,920 there's two facets to God's will 606 00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:45,720 and the first one I'll go really quickly through 607 00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:47,800 because really there's not much we can do about it. 608 00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:49,360 It's called the sovereign will of God 609 00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:50,720 and the sovereign will of God, 610 00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:52,040 that's his will, his purpose, 611 00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:54,440 his ultimate unchanging purpose for the world. 612 00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:58,040 That includes the creation, the fall of mankind, 613 00:29:58,040 --> 00:30:00,160 redemption and restoration. 614 00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:02,800 This is a plan that God had in his own wisdom 615 00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:04,320 before any of us were around. 616 00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:07,280 He didn't ask any of us what we thought about it. 617 00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:08,960 He didn't consult with us. 618 00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:10,960 He didn't ask for our pros and cons. 619 00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:13,320 He didn't consult us for our wisdom 620 00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:14,720 or what we thought about it. 621 00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:19,720 And he's gonna steer that ship across the bay 622 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:24,640 into the port right on time, whether you like it or not. 623 00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:26,280 That's God's sovereign will. 624 00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:32,720 Any God with lesser than that is no God at all. 625 00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:35,840 It's just a God in competition with other gods, right? 626 00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:39,000 This God gets that prime place, the sovereign will. 627 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:40,680 But there's another kind of will that God has. 628 00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:43,640 It's another facet of his will and that's his moral will 629 00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:48,040 and this is what God desires for his people or his creation, 630 00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:51,680 how they are to live in order to reflect his character 631 00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:53,040 and his holiness. 632 00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:56,240 His desire for us, how we ought to live 633 00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:59,000 in order to reflect his character and his holiness. 634 00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:01,760 And you know that one can definitely be thwarted. 635 00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:06,680 We oftentimes want him to consult with us on that one. 636 00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:11,720 We oftentimes take his word when his word is plain as day 637 00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:15,680 as whatever that guy's name is. 638 00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:17,320 I can't think of, Soren is his first name, 639 00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:21,760 but he has a statement where more or less it says, 640 00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:25,480 hey, numbskulls, Christians, we oftentimes pretend 641 00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:28,480 like we don't understand what God's word is asking us. 642 00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:30,960 But in truth, we understand it perfectly. 643 00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:32,800 We just don't wanna do it. 644 00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:34,800 We just, so we all go, I don't understand. 645 00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:37,120 There must be some Greek word that I need to study 646 00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:41,680 really deeply to understand that scripture, right? 647 00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:42,520 We know. 648 00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:49,520 And in his moral will, God is asking us 649 00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:52,800 or he's preparing us or he's working in us 650 00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:55,680 in order that we might become a reflection of his character 651 00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:57,120 and his holiness on this earth, 652 00:31:57,120 --> 00:31:59,200 so that this earth might catch a glimpse 653 00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:01,360 of what heaven is like. 654 00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:03,000 That's where his will comes in. 655 00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:05,200 What his will for us is not just some, 656 00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:07,400 again, if you import a whole lot of your upbringing 657 00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:10,120 or the way that you were treated and how you were raised 658 00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:12,320 or the way that you think things ought to be done, 659 00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:14,360 you might hear the will of God 660 00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:16,160 or the things that God wants you to do 661 00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:19,040 and you go, oh man, that's a law, that's restrictions, 662 00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:20,320 that's like having a curfew, 663 00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:22,120 I don't want anything to do with that. 664 00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:27,120 But if you understand his name as holy is prime 665 00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:29,440 and you understand that his will is in order for us 666 00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:32,680 to best reflect his divine character and holiness 667 00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:35,240 on this world and so that heaven can be brought down 668 00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:38,240 to earth a little bit at a time through each one of us, 669 00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:43,240 in heaven there's no resistance to his desire, 670 00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:46,400 no resistance to God's desire and no counter force 671 00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:47,960 that works against what he wants, 672 00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:50,040 but on earth it's a different story, isn't it? 673 00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:54,960 To pray, our Father in heaven, 674 00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:57,320 your name be honored as holy, your kingdom come, 675 00:32:57,320 --> 00:33:00,280 your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. 676 00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:02,720 It's to pray for God to act in a way 677 00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:05,800 that brings himself maximal glory and honor 678 00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:09,360 to break into our world and flood it with his rule and reign 679 00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:13,720 and to see it, see to it that he gets 680 00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:15,480 what he desires out of it, 681 00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:19,200 to see to it that he gets what he desires 682 00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:20,440 out of his creation. 683 00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:23,400 And so you know how he answers those prayers? 684 00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:29,720 He answers those prayers by God acting in a way in us 685 00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:31,760 to bring him maximal glory. 686 00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:34,560 He answers those prayers by God's kingdom 687 00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:37,280 and his rule and reign breaking into our lives 688 00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:41,240 so that we are more and more submitted to Jesus. 689 00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:48,160 And he accomplishes that by having us let go of our will, 690 00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:51,680 teaching us and training us and by his spirit empowering us 691 00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:54,360 to lay aside our will and our self-centeredness 692 00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:57,520 and our pursuit to make our name great 693 00:33:57,520 --> 00:33:59,480 and to build our own kingdom. 694 00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:02,280 And to exercise our will and get our desires. 695 00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:05,840 He helps us to wean off of the world 696 00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:10,840 so that we are all about his name, his kingdom, his will. 697 00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:17,280 I think together these two verses, nine and 10, 698 00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:20,360 is properly understood and believed and lived out 699 00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:22,320 will radically change your entire life. 700 00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:24,760 I said this to the first service, 701 00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:26,320 I'll say it again here, 702 00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:29,480 at the second service, this teaching on the Lord's Prayer, 703 00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:32,320 I think it's properly understood and meditated on 704 00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:34,120 and really, really dug into. 705 00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:35,640 And that's gonna take a whole lot of work 706 00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:37,600 from you away from here. 707 00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:40,920 We can like, we can salt a little bit here, 708 00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:43,240 but we can't make the main course. 709 00:34:43,240 --> 00:34:44,640 We're just adding a little flavor to it. 710 00:34:44,640 --> 00:34:47,600 You gotta go and dig in, you gotta go and pray, 711 00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:49,280 you gotta go and read the scripture 712 00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:51,240 and meditate on each line of it 713 00:34:51,240 --> 00:34:54,120 to understand what the Lord is willing to do. 714 00:34:54,120 --> 00:34:56,640 And I think I'm gonna go on and go into the second line 715 00:34:56,640 --> 00:34:58,880 of it to understand what the Lord is wanting 716 00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:02,480 to speak to you, but I think this series and this teaching 717 00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:04,800 could have the most radical effect on our body 718 00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:06,880 in a congregation that we've seen of anything 719 00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:09,920 that we've taught so far or looked at. 720 00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:12,520 Because this reorients every one of our lives 721 00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:13,920 around something completely different 722 00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:16,440 than this world once had reoriented around. 723 00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:18,800 This reorients our lives around God's glory. 724 00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:23,120 You know what happens in the past in history 725 00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:48,980 that the Lord had made a short-lived 726 00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:51,540 and hahaha cost. 727 00:35:51,540 --> 00:35:54,420 is because the kingdom of God was so alive 728 00:35:54,420 --> 00:35:57,460 and ripe within them that they had to spill it out 729 00:35:57,460 --> 00:36:00,940 in some way that the kingdom, God's act of rule and reign 730 00:36:01,940 --> 00:36:05,740 moved their life to quit jobs and move to Guatemala. 731 00:36:05,740 --> 00:36:08,080 And for the first few years, not even have the license 732 00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:10,980 to do the work that they came down there to do. 733 00:36:10,980 --> 00:36:12,420 When we went and visited those homes 734 00:36:12,420 --> 00:36:14,320 and delivered those food packages, 735 00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:16,140 those were the people they had connected to 736 00:36:16,140 --> 00:36:18,460 before they got the license to do the home, 737 00:36:18,460 --> 00:36:20,980 to care for the kids, because they couldn't just sit around. 738 00:36:20,980 --> 00:36:22,420 And so they decided to go door to door 739 00:36:22,420 --> 00:36:23,980 and hook up with other ministries 740 00:36:23,980 --> 00:36:26,580 and try to provide food and care for the neighbors. 741 00:36:32,460 --> 00:36:33,700 Should we pray for the sick? 742 00:36:33,700 --> 00:36:35,500 Should we pray for our jobs? 743 00:36:35,500 --> 00:36:38,300 Should we pray for difficult relationships? 744 00:36:38,300 --> 00:36:40,860 Yes, we should cast all our cares on Jesus. 745 00:36:42,820 --> 00:36:46,220 But you know that you don't have to be a born again believer 746 00:36:46,220 --> 00:36:47,980 to want sick people to get better. 747 00:36:47,980 --> 00:36:49,840 You don't have to be a born again believer 748 00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:52,240 to want to get married to the right person. 749 00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:55,480 And you don't have to be a born again believer 750 00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:57,720 to want to get that job, 751 00:36:57,720 --> 00:37:00,480 or want help getting out of a tricky situation. 752 00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:03,600 Those are prayers absolutely necessary, 753 00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:06,880 but they're not uniquely born again believer prayers. 754 00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:10,480 But you know these three petitions, 755 00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:14,600 your name be honored as holy, your kingdom come, 756 00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:16,000 your will be done. 757 00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:21,000 These will move your prayers into kingdom prayers. 758 00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:26,880 These will move you into distinctively Christian prayers. 759 00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:33,400 God's name honored, his kingdom come, his will be done. 760 00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:34,920 I'm gonna ask the worship team to come. 761 00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:36,840 They're gonna close us out in a song 762 00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:40,440 as we do communion in just a moment. 763 00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:43,360 I think the effects of these prayers, well, 764 00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:44,720 they're gonna be powerful and effective 765 00:37:44,720 --> 00:37:47,560 because the world should see the Christian community 766 00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:49,360 and see what heaven is like. 767 00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:52,720 How we treat those who are on the inside, 768 00:37:52,720 --> 00:37:54,680 how we treat those who are on the outside, 769 00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:57,120 how we care for the least of this world, 770 00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:00,160 how we are radical truth tellers 771 00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:03,120 and how we are radical grace givers, 772 00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:05,760 and how we honor those who are on the outside, 773 00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:07,920 how we care for the least of this world, 774 00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:09,840 how we are radical grace givers, 775 00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:13,240 and how we honor God's name as holy. 776 00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:16,560 One thing that I'll point out before 777 00:38:17,720 --> 00:38:19,200 we go into our time of communion, 778 00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:22,600 notice something that Jesus doesn't teach his disciples 779 00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:23,840 about prayer. 780 00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:26,320 And maybe some of you have struggled with this. 781 00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:29,640 You struggled with how long do I pray? 782 00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:32,120 I should pray more. 783 00:38:33,240 --> 00:38:34,800 I should pray more often. 784 00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:36,560 You know that Jesus doesn't teach his disciples 785 00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:38,240 how long to pray? 786 00:38:38,240 --> 00:38:40,160 He doesn't say five minutes, he doesn't say 10 minutes, 787 00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:41,640 he doesn't say two hours. 788 00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:46,640 You know what else he doesn't teach his disciples to do? 789 00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:51,640 He doesn't tell them how to feel when they pray. 790 00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:52,840 How many of you guys have ever been praying 791 00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:55,040 and you're like, I just don't feel it today? 792 00:38:56,080 --> 00:38:57,080 Doesn't teach on that. 793 00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:02,960 Doesn't spill any ink telling us 794 00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:05,040 how we're supposed to feel when we pray. 795 00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:08,960 You know what he does? 796 00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:12,800 Does tell us only what we should pray for. 797 00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:16,560 What we should pray for. 798 00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:18,920 And that may be a two minute prayer, 799 00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:21,040 that may be a five minute prayer, 800 00:39:21,040 --> 00:39:23,160 that may be a prayer with no words, 801 00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:25,320 just sobbing tears, 802 00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:29,120 but your heart reaching out to your father God in heaven. 803 00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:32,200 That may be all kinds of prayers. 804 00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:34,800 See it releases the legalism of like, 805 00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:37,360 oh, well, Christian prayer is 20 minutes a day, 806 00:39:37,360 --> 00:39:39,840 every day and proper devotions in the morning. 807 00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:44,040 No, Christian prayer is our father in heaven. 808 00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:47,320 Your name be honored as holy first. 809 00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:51,160 Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth 810 00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:53,280 as it is in heaven. 811 00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:58,320 It is our duty to bring forth in our lives 812 00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:02,360 the fruits of grace and of holiness, 813 00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:06,840 that men may see what the kingdom of God is 814 00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:10,080 and what they may become if they yield themselves 815 00:40:10,080 --> 00:40:29,080 to the dominion of the savior.