In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus teaches us to pray like this, Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. There's much more contained in these 14 words than we may think.
Today, we'll explore four key questions. What is the kingdom of God? Where has the kingdom gone?
When will it come? And why should we pray for it to come? From Chicago, welcome to The Moody Church Hour with Pastor Philip Miller. Stay with us for a time of worship and teaching as we continue a series on the upside-down kingdom. From the book of Matthew, we'll learn about praying to the Father as Jesus did, your kingdom come. Here now is Pastor Philip and worship leader Tim Stepford. Well, good morning, Moody Church.
It's so good to see you here in Chicago. We're gathered and all around the world by radio and internet as well, and we're so glad you're here. You know, the world is a broken place, isn't it? And what we need more than anything else is for the kingdom of God to break in to this sin, curse, broken, and dying world. And that's what we're going to be learning about today, the kingdom come, the prayer that Jesus taught us to pray, your kingdom come. So would you, wherever you are, just pray with me now as we begin. Father, we thank you that you are in the business of bringing your kingdom to this broken world.
And boy, do we need it. And Father, our own lives are broken, and we need your kingly rule and reign to come and set things to rights. And so, Father, we give you ourselves.
We hold nothing back. Come meet us this morning and set things to rights, even today in our lives. We pray this in Jesus' name. Amen. Great to see you all this morning.
Thanks for coming. Would you stand as we sing today? The Lord is King. He is Lord over all.
No one is above Him. Let's praise Him today. From the ends of the earth, from the depths of the sea, From the heights of the heavens, from the heights of the heavens, Your name we praise. From the hearts of the weak, from the hearts of the weak, From the shouts of the strong, from the shouts of the strong, From the lips of all people, from the lips of all people, This song we raise, Lord, throughout the endless ages.
You will be proud with praises, Lord, most high. Exalted in every nation, sovereign of all creation, Lord, most high. We can fly from the ends of the earth, from the depths of the sea, from the heights of the heavens, and your name be praised from the hearts of the weak, from the shouts of the strong, from the lives of all people. This song we raise, Lord, throughout the endless ages. You will be proud with praises, Lord, most high. Exalted in every nation, sovereign of all creation, Lord, most high.
We can fly, we can fly, throughout the endless ages. You will be proud with praises, Lord, most high. Exalted in every nation, sovereign of all creation, Lord, most high.
We magnify, oh, we magnify, we magnify, we magnify. We worship you, Lord, this morning. There is no king like you, no one else who made the heavens.
We are created one, the offer of salvation, we are created one, the offer of salvation, hearts of space and time, a fashion world to his design. The one whom angel hearts revere, hung the stars like chandeliers, numbered every grain of sand, knows the heart of every man. He is king forever, he is king forever, he is king forevermore. Lord, fortress and our strength, no rock on which we can depend. Virtuosic in his majesty, no rock on which we can depend. Virtuosic in his majesty, no rock on which we can depend. Virtuosic in his majesty, no rock on which we can depend. Unshaken by the schemes of man, thereby changing when I am, and keep us all.
He is faithful to it all. Drown Him, King forever. Drown Him, King forever.
Drown Him, King forevermore. White He got immortal flesh, forsaken by a traitor's kiss. The curse of sin and centuries did pierce the lowly prince of peace. Oh, lifted high the sinners then and crucified the small land's land.
Buried by the sons of Ebony was rescued by the Father's hand. So they'd ask Him forever. They'd ask Him forever.
They'd ask Him forevermore. Eternal the love breaks. We crown You in the highest place. Heaven shouts and sings adore. Your holy, holy, holy Lord. What joy in everlasting life. All is warm and faithless life.
Justice rolls with praise and pride at the name of Jesus Christ. King of kings forever. King of kings forever. King of kings forevermore. You're the King of kings forever. King of kings forever.
King of kings forevermore. Yes, Lord Jesus, ruler of all nations. O thou of God and and the Son. He will I cherish.
He will I honor. Thou my soul's glory, joy, and crown. Truly the Savior, Lord of all nations.
Son of God and Son of Man. Glory and honor. Praise our glory nation. Glory and honor. Praise your glory nation. No one but you.
No one but you. For a number of weeks now, we've been studying the Sermon on the Mount about the upside down kingdom of God. If you think about a kingdom of this world, we would say you're looking at things right side up the way the world sees it. But God's kingdom is upside down. It's the other way. It's the real kingdom. But we think it's upside down.
We're actually upside down. And the kingdom of God is upside right. We have to understand that there is no authority other than the Lord in the universe.
We should have confidence in nothing other than him. Would you stand as we read from Daniel 7 this morning? This passage may be hard to understand, but one thing I know for sure it tells us no one can contest God's authority. He does what he pleases. His throne is in the heavens.
This is God's holy word. As I looked, thrones were placed and the ancient of days took his seat. His clothing was white as snow and the hair of his head like pure wool. His throne was fiery flames. Its wheels were burning fire. A stream of fire issued and came out from before him. A thousand thousands served him. And ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him.
The court sat in judgment and the books were opened. I looked then because of the sound of the great words that the horn was speaking. And as I looked, the beast was killed and its body destroyed and given over to be burned with fire.
As for the rest of the beasts, their dominion was taken away, but their lives were prolonged for a season and a time. I saw in the night visions. And behold, with the clouds of heaven there came one like a son of man. And he came to the ancient of days and was presented before him. And to him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom that all nations, peoples and languages should serve him.
His dominion is an everlasting dominion which shall not pass away and his kingdom, one that shall not be destroyed. When I was little, I loved fairy tales, knights, princesses, dragons, and most of all happily ever afters. I was full of wonder and innocence and merriment and endless possibilities. Life was the happiest dream on earth. And then one day I woke up. It was the day my pet gerbil gave birth to five squirming hairless pink babies. And I discovered the miracle of life one morning, nestled in their little bed of wood shavings, their eyes tightly shut against the dawn of the first waking day. And I thought to myself, what a wonderful world. But when I returned later that afternoon, they were gone. Their mother had eaten them all alive.
Oh, sorry. And for the first time in my life, I realized the world was a broken place. That this is not the way it's supposed to be. Since then, the world's brokenness has become a settled fact in my heart and soul. Cancer, tsunamis, pandemics, injustice, war. There is so much tragedy and loss and trauma and pain and sorrow down here.
Something has gone terribly wrong with the world. And sometimes I'm not even sure how to begin to pray about it. But Jesus, the man of all sorrows who is acquainted with grief, he knows what it's like to live in this broken down world. And he knows how to pray his way through it. And today he's going to teach us, his followers, how to pray our way through the brokenness of this life.
Would you grab your Bibles? We're going to be in Matthew chapter six, verses nine to 13. We're looking at the Lord's Prayer.
And I want to read it in its entirety. And since, again, it's so familiar to you and me, would you just say this out loud with me? Can we recite the Lord's Prayer this morning as we read? Jesus introduces it in Matthew six, nine and says, pray them like this.
Now let's do it together. Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen. Amen. Let's pray together.
Father, as we open your word and look at this famous prayer, would you teach us what it means to follow you in all the brokenness of this difficult world? We pray this in Christ's name. Amen.
Amen. Today we are going to focus on just one sentence, verse 10. Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. I'd like to organize our thoughts around four key questions this morning. The first one, what is the kingdom? The second question, where is it gone? Third question, when will it come? And the fourth question, why pray for it? What is the kingdom? Where is it gone? When will it come? And why pray for it?
Let's jump in this morning. What is the kingdom? What is the kingdom? Jesus is teaching us to pray, your kingdom come.
But what exactly does that mean? Well, in the most simple, straightforward sense, the kingdom of God is the reign of God. The kingdom of God is the reign of God. The kingdom of God is where God reigns as king. Psalm 103 verse 19 says, the Lord has established his throne in the heavens and his kingdom rules over all. And so you see in that verse, you see the language of reigning.
The king is on his throne and he is reigning. That is the kingdom of God. Wherever God reigns as king, there his kingdom is. Or another way to think about it is that God's kingdom is the realm over which he has say. The sphere in which his will is carried out.
Wherever the will of God is done, there his kingdom is. Now, we can all relate to this because in a sense, we all have a bit of a kingdom, don't we? Each of us has a sphere. We have a domain over which we exercise our will in life. We have our own space, right? We have our own belongings. We have our own areas over which we exercise our will.
And we're very territorial about the borders of our kingdom if you think about it. That's mine. Keep out. Stay off my bed. That's my purse.
Stay in your lane, right? That's kingdom language. My dad owned a 1984 Buick LeSabre. Does anyone remember what those things look like? This is like ancient history. It had velvet bench seats.
Can I have an amen? Yeah. The velvet bench seats and we would sit, my sister and I would sit in the back seat and we would use our fingers and we would draw a line in the nap of the velvet. Her side and my side, right? We're delineating kingdoms.
My domain, your domain. What did my sister do? With a finger, she invaded my kingdom, right? And we got to bickering. We had a border dispute about the back seat of our Buick LeSabre.
And then dad reached back and started swatting at us to make us stop fighting. Why? Because whose kingdom does he think the whole car is? It's his, okay? That's kingdom language. We all have a kingdom. It's what we have say over in life. It's part of what it means to be created in the image of God, the imago Dei. We are created for dominion, to keep and cultivate our little space in the world, to wield as C.S.
Lewis said, to wield our little tridents, you know. It is the image of God, this kingdom impulse that is reflective of our father who is king, who rules over all. So when we pray your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven, we are asking God to extend the reign of his rule of his kingship to establish it in the here and now.
We are asking that the range of God's effective will where he is followed and obeyed as king would extend to and envelop this world. In heaven, everything is just as God wants it. And we're asking God to make it so down here as well, on earth as it is in heaven.
Now the logic of these phrases is basically cause and effect. May your kingdom come with the result that your will is done on earth as it is in heaven. See the problem friends is that heaven and earth are out of sync. In heaven all is well, on earth not so much.
In heaven God's will is done perfectly, but on earth not so. So our prayer is father, would you sync it up? Would you bring the rule and perfection of heaven down to earth? Would you make everything right and whole?
Would you match everything up again? Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Now it's interesting, the fact that Jesus tells us to pray your kingdom come implies something, doesn't it? It implies that in some sense God's kingdom is not here.
That it is far off, that it is absent. It's not here, that's why it has to come. The fact that Jesus tells us to pray your will be done implies that it is not being done on earth as it is in heaven. So while the Bible asserts that God is king over all, remember Psalm 103 19, the Lord establishes his throne in the heavens and his kingdom rules over all, Psalm 115 verse 3 says our God is in the heavens, he does whatever he pleases.
Ephesians 1 11 says that God works all things in accordance with the counsel of his will, that while all of those things are true, this prayer of Jesus assumes your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven, assumes that this world is in some sense operating outside the rule of God, that it is functioning contrary to his will. And we are taught to pray your kingdom come, which means it's absence, it must be missing. So the question is where is it gone?
Where is it gone? Where is the kingdom gone? Well Jesus gives us the answer, the Bible gives us the answer. If you look at the story arc of the Bible you will discover that the kingdom has been hijacked by rebels. The kingdom has been hijacked by rebels. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth and there was perfect peace and harmony and all things were right as God presided, enthroned as king and creator of all. But then came the rebellion. It started with the angels when Satan decided that he wanted to be God and he led a rebellion against God and was eventually cast out of heaven. And ever since then Satan has been hell bent on warring against God seeking to destroy all that God holds dear. His greatest success was when he convinced humanity, God's own image bearers, to join up with the rebellion. And he tempted our first parents, Adam and Eve, to disobey God, to become gods in their own rights for themselves and they fell.
They fell into sin, rebellion, darkness. So friends, Satan hijacked this world to become his kingdom and sinful humanity fell under his dominion. Which is why Paul refers to Satan as the god of this world in 2 Corinthians 4.4.
That's why Jesus calls him the ruler of this world in John 12 31. Remember when Satan was tempting Jesus in the wilderness in Luke chapter 4? One of the temptations was at the end Satan offered Jesus all the kingdoms of the world if only he would bow down and worship him.
It was a legitimate offer. Satan who has hijacked this world was offering it back to Jesus if only he would bow down and worship Satan. Friends, this world designed for beauty under the kingdom rule of God has been hijacked by Satan and has fallen under his dominion. And we are part of the rebellion ourselves. Every time we disregard what God says and choose to do what we want instead, we ratify the rebellion against God. We take our God-given lives and hijack them for ourselves.
We exile the king and crown ourselves in his place. And having kicked out the source of life, we find ourselves dying from the inside out. We find ourselves captive to sinful desires within us. We find ourselves enslaved to the rule of Satan in this world. We find ourselves dominated by the fear of death. Oh to be free again.
Friends, this is not the way it's supposed to be. Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come.
Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. We desperately need the kingdom of God. The question though is when will it come?
When will it come? Well in a sense, the kingdom of God never really left. This is a very complicated area of theology by the way.
I'm going to give you my best thinking on this subject. But in a sense, the kingdom of God never really left. The kingdom is forever. Psalm 145 13, your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom and your dominion endures throughout all generations. So all the anarchy of our lives and of Satan has in no way actually subverted the sovereign rule of God. He remains seated on his throne, unmovable, unshakable, and unequaled. Satan is on a leash.
Our rebellion is given a limited range in which to run amok for a season. But never for a moment has God abdicated his throne or his rule. He is biding his time until kingdom come. Now in another sense, the kingdom has come. The kingdom has come. When Jesus arrived, he said things like this. Matthew 4 17, repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. It's right here.
It's on offer. Just reach out. Take my hand and follow me into the abundant life of the kingdom of heaven. Luke 11 verse 20 says, if it is by the finger of God that I cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you. Jesus' miracles, friends, were evidence that he was indeed the Messiah and that the age of the kingdom had arrived in his coming. As Jesus said to John the Baptist when he wondered if Jesus was the Messiah, the true king, he said, he answered, the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is proclaimed to the poor. So in Jesus' ministry, his miracles, all that he came to do in his life on earth, the kingdom of God was breaking into space and time. Luke 17 verse 20, Jesus says, behold, the kingdom of God is in your midst. And never was this more clearly displayed than in Jesus' death, resurrection, and ascension.
For in this threefold event, as Jesus goes to the cross, rises again, and ascends to the Father's right hand, sin was defeated, Satan was conquered, and death itself was undone forever. That's why Jesus says in Matthew 28 verse 18, all authority in heaven and on earth has been given unto me, go therefore and make disciples of all nations. All authority. What does that leave out?
Nothing. He is the King of kings, the Lord of lords, the resurrected and exalted Son of God. He will ascend to his Father's right hand where he will be seated, enthroned, as his Father says to him, sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet. That's Psalm 110 verse 1, the most quoted passage in the New Testament.
It's applied to Jesus in Acts 2, 34 to 35, 1 Corinthians 15, 35, Hebrews 1, 13, and Hebrews 10, 13. The point is this, in Jesus, the kingdom of God has come. He is seated on his throne.
He is exalted to the Father's right hand. His reign and rule is established forever. And yet, his enemies have not yet been made his footstool. They have not yet been brought into full submission to him. Oh, sin is defeated, but it still ravages us, doesn't it? Satan is conquered, but he can still oppress.
Death is undone, but it still bites. So the kingdom has come in Jesus, and yet is not fully here, which is why the Bible also speaks about the kingdom to this very day that the kingdom is coming now. The kingdom is coming now.
As the gospel goes forth, friends, and people believe in the good news that Jesus died in their place and for their sake, bearing all of their sin and shame on the cross and rising again to make them right with God, with every soul that believes on Jesus Christ, Paul says in Colossians 1 13, God the Father has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of his beloved Son. Kingdom language. So when we come to place our faith in Jesus Christ, we are adopted as sons and we are transferred from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of his beloved Son.
Kingdom language. When people confess Jesus as Lord, the kingdom of God expands as each life is surrendered to King Jesus. Now sometimes we don't think of the kingdom of God as being connected with the life of the church, but the Bible puts these things together.
For example, in Acts 28 verse 31, at the very end of the book of Acts, Paul is said he went about proclaiming the kingdom of God and teaching about the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness and without hindrance. So the work of the church as churches are being planted, as Paul is on his missionary journeys, he is proclaiming the kingdom of God in this moment as the church is being built. In Matthew 16 verse 19, Jesus gives the keys of the kingdom of heaven to the church. And so the kingdom of God is coming even now as Jesus builds his church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it. And yet, there's a sense in which the kingdom is yet to come.
The kingdom is yet to come. In Luke 19 verses 11 and 12, just prior to the triumphal entry, the week that Jesus is going to be crucified, Jesus tells a parable. It says, Jesus proceeded to tell a parable because he was near to Jerusalem and because they supposed that the kingdom of God was to appear immediately. He said, therefore, a noble man went to a far country to receive a kingdom and return. So Jesus is trying to correct something. The kingdom is not coming in fullness this week.
No, no, no, no, no. I'm going to be crucified, buried, raised and ascend and go to heaven and I will return with the kingdom. When I come back as king, the kingdom will come. In Acts 1 verses 6 to 8, just before Jesus ascends to the father, the disciples asked Jesus, Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel? And Jesus said to them, it is not for you to know the times or seasons that the father has fixed by his own authority, but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and in Samaria and to the very ends of the earth. You guys don't worry about when the kingdom's coming.
You have a job to do. Go into all the world in the power of the Holy Spirit and you will be my witnesses to the very ends of the earth. The kingdom will come on the father's timetable. Friends, one day Jesus will return and his kingdom will come in all of its fullness and all that is broken will be mended and all that is marred will be made beautiful.
And all that is wounded shall be healed and all that is wrong will be righted and everything sad will come untrue. And the kingdoms of this world will become the kingdom of our God and of his Christ and he will rule and reign forever and ever. Revelation 11 15. And so there is a sense, friends, this is very complicated, that the kingdom of God has always been.
It's always been here. In a sense, it's come in Jesus. In a sense, it's still coming even now as people bow to the lordship of Christ and it is yet to come when the king returns. All of this happens on God's timetable, which leads us to the last question, which is why pray for it? Why pray for it? If God's going to do what God's going to do, if the kingdom is going to come when God wants it to come and we can't hurry Jesus along, you know, why pray your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven?
Here's why. When we pray this prayer, we're acknowledging God as king. When we pray this prayer, we're acknowledging God as king.
God, you're king and I'm not. When we pray this prayer, we're submitting to his rule in our lives. As Jesus prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane, not my will, but yours be done.
That's what we're praying. Your kingdom come, not my will, but yours be done. When we pray this prayer, we're aligning our hearts with God's. We're saying, have your way in this world.
That what God most wants, the redemption and renewal and writing of all things in the universe, we're aligning with what he wants. Have your way, oh God. When we pray your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven, we are praying it on at least three different levels.
Let me give them to you. Number one, your kingdom come in me. Your kingdom come in me. Father, I'm submitting my own little kingdom to yours.
I'm getting off the throne of my life and I'm surrendering to you. Not my will, but yours be done. Be my Lord, be my savior, be my king, be my everything.
Here I am, I'm yours. I will live for your priorities. I will abide in your presence. I will walk by your spirit. For I am yours and I'm yours forever.
This is amazing friends. Anyone can conquer another kingdom by force. But God wins our allegiance through his sacrificial love so that we willingly kneel and worship before him.
This is amazing. Your kingdom come in me. Secondly, we're praying your kingdom come through me.
Your kingdom come through me. Friends, each of us has a little kingdom, a domain, a space over which we have say. We shape our homes that we live in. We express ourselves in our work, in our vocation.
We live through relationships. We influence and touch other people. And as Christ increasingly has say over our lives and all dimensions of our lives, as we come under the rule and reign of the king, our little kingdoms also come under his rule and reign.
Do you see that? We are bringing our kingdoms under his kingdom. Our kingdom comes under his rule. And so we start to ask questions like what would it look like if Jesus was the Lord of my home, of my business, of my vocational life? How would Jesus live my life if he was me? How would he serve others? How would he act justly? How would he cultivate peace?
How would he love his neighbors? How would he share the good news of Jesus? And friends, as we live by the Spirit, following the way of Jesus, bringing our little kingdoms under his rule and reign, our lives become extensions of the kingdom rule of God. And people can begin to glimpse what it might look like when God's will is done on earth as it is in heaven. Your kingdom come through me. The third thing we're praying is your kingdom come and take over.
Your kingdom come and take over. This broken world, friends, will never be fully right until Jesus returns. We cannot bring in the fullness of the kingdom of God. Not through social action, not through political leverage, we cannot bring in the kingdom of God.
The kingdom will come at the return of the king. He will mend this broken world. He will make beautiful everything that is marred. He will heal all that is wounded. He will make right everything that is wrong.
And he will make everything sad come untrue. Revelation 21 verses 3 to 5, one of my favorite passages, John's vision of the heavens and earth being made new. This is what he says, And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more. Neither shall there be mourning nor crying nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away. And he who was seated on the throne said, Behold, I am making all things new.
All things new. Your kingdom come, take over, take over. Which is to say, come quickly, Lord Jesus. Come quickly, Lord Jesus.
It's the same thing. Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Come quickly, Lord Jesus. Amen? Amen. Let's pray.
Let's pray. Father, would you hallow your name in all the earth? Wherever you are seen as holy, this world is made whole. May your kingdom come, rule and reign over every space and corner of this creation. For where you reign, all is right.
And may your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. In Chicago as it is in heaven. In our families as it is in heaven. In our lives as it is in heaven.
In our neighborhoods and workplaces and streets. Everywhere we go on earth as it is in heaven. For when your will is done, the world is a wonderful place. Come, make us new.
Bring your light to shine through our lives that all might see and follow Jesus Christ. And we wait for the return of the King when all things will be made new. We wait with longing expectation. Come quickly, Lord Jesus, we pray. Amen.
Amen. Do you feel the world is broken? Do you feel the shadows deepen?
Do you know that all the dark won't stop the light from getting through? Do you wish that you could see it all made new? Is all creation groaning? Is a new creation coming? Is the glory of the Lord to be the light within our midst?
Is it good that we remind ourselves of this? Is anyone worthy? Is anyone whole?
Is anyone able to break the seal and open the scroll? The Lion of Judah who conquered the grave? Is it true that we're not to rest on the same? Is he worthy? Is he worthy of our blessing and honor and glory? Is he worthy of all things he is? Does the Father truly love us? Does the Spirit move among us? Does Jesus, our Messiah, hold forever those he loves?
Does our God intend to dwell again with us? Is anyone worthy? Is anyone whole?
Is anyone able to break the seal and open the scroll? The Lion of Judah who conquered the grave? Is David true that the Lamb who died to rest on the same? From every people and tribe, every nation and tongue, He has made us the kingdom and grace to come to reign with the Son. Is he worthy? Is he worthy of our blessing and honor and glory? Is he worthy? Is he worthy? Is he worthy?
Is he worthy? This is Daniel chapter 7 verse 13. Behold, with the clouds of heaven, there came one like a son of man.
This is Jesus. And he came to the ancient of days, his father, and was presented before him. And to him was given a dominion and a glory and a kingdom that all peoples, nations and languages should serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion which shall not pass away. And his kingdom is one that shall not be destroyed. Come quickly, Lord Jesus. Amen and amen. On today's Moody Church Hour, we heard Pastor Philip Miller telling us about praying to the Father, your kingdom come. The 13th in a 24 part series from the Sermon on the Mount in the book of Matthew. For most people, life feels manageable.
We feel self-reliant, independent and free. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus opens our eyes to what real freedom looks like. And he does it with a simple prayer.
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