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Matthew 6:9 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven,
Hallowed be thy name.
Matthew 6:10 Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
Matthew 6:11 Give us this day our daily bread.
Matthew 6:12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
Matthew 6:13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For
thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
Matthew 6:33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness;
I. HEAVENLY KINGDOM VERSUS WORLDLY KINGDOM.
Matthew 6:10 Thy kingdom come, …”
Luke 17:20 One day the Pharisees asked Jesus, “When will the Kingdom of God
come?” Jesus replied, “The Kingdom of God can’t be detected by visible signs.
Luke 17:21 You won’t be able to say, ‘Here it is!’ or ‘It’s over there!’ For the Kingdom
of God is already among you.”
Luke 17:21 “… For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you.”
The kingdom of God is the souls of those that belong to Him eternally through
the salvation He has provided in His Son.
So to pray, “Thy kingdom come” is really a prayer for salvation of lost people.
John 3:3 Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless
one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
Matthew 6:10 Thy kingdom come … in earth, as it is in heaven.
Revelation 11:15 “… The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of
our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.
Prayer is not for the advancement of my kingdom but for the advancement
of His kingdom
Now in order for His kingdom to come my kingdom must go.
1 John 2:17 And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does
the will of God abides forever.
1 John 3:8 “…The Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works
of the devil.
His Kingdom cannot ever come until His will is done, because His Kingdom and
His will are one and the same.
II. HEAVENLY WILL VERSUS HUMAN WILL.
Matthew 6:10 “… Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
Psalm 103:20 Bless the LORD, O you his angels, you mighty ones who do
his word, obeying the voice of his word!
Matthew 18:14 Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one
of these little ones should perish.
This prayer means we must fight against the sinful will of the ungodly
John 2:14 And He found in the temple those who sold oxen and sheep and doves,
and the money changers doing business.
John 2:15 When He had made a whip of cords, He drove them all out of the temple,
with the sheep and the oxen, and poured out the changers’ money and overturned
the tables.
John 2:16 And He said to those who sold doves, “Take these things away! Do not
make My Father’s house a house of merchandise!”
John 2:17 Then His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for Your house
has eaten Me up.”
When we pray, “Thy will be done” we are not saying, “Whatever will be, will be.”
1. God has a will (or desire) for our life.
2. But we also have a will (or desire) for our life.
3. Only one will can be done at a time.
4. When we pray, “Thy will be done,” we are asking that His will take precedence
over ours.
5. We shouldn’t want anything that isn’t God’s will.
Matthew 26:39 “… nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will.”
