The Lord's Prayer Part 3 - David Borg

here's the name of the Lord turn our Bibles tonight as you know to Matthew chapter 6 we're still dealing with the the Lord's Prayer and I have been enjoying ministering this particular subject it's something that is very dear to my heart and something that is in my spirit and it's always a pleasure and a blessing for me to have the opportunity to minister this and we we dealt with in the previous Sunday night a few weeks ago we dealt with the first topic of this particular prayer of the Lord's Prayer on our Father which art in heaven hallowed be thy name and we're gonna deal tonight with the kingdom of God thy kingdom come Thy will be done and just two to recap a little bit of what we covered alright and what we what we've dealt with going back to verse 5 Jesus would say and when you pray you shall not pray as the hypocrites are for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and the corners of the streets that they may be seen of men verily I say unto you they have their reward but thou when thou prayest enter into thy closet and when thou hast shut thy door pray to thy father which is in secret and thy father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly shall we dealt with this in the first session that we need to understand that we have to have a time and a place that we spend with the Lord amen a prayer closet and every believer needs to have that and if you don't have that then you need to avail yourself to that and I'm convinced I'll just make this comment here right now that if you don't have a a prayer life as a believer as a Christian that you are very little experiencing the benefits of the Cross the benefits of the New Covenant now as you've heard me say before and I'll continue to say it that I don't teach and I don't proclaim that our victory is in prayer our victory is in the cross it is in the new covenant amen our victory and everything that we have is as a result of who Jesus Christ is and what he did on the cross of Calvary so I will never promote that victory is in prayer however I will promote this and I will promote it with deep conviction that prayer is what connects you to if I could say it this way connects you to those provisions connects you to those benefits so therefore if you don't have a prayer life if you're not spending time with God and you aren't getting in your prayer closet on a consistent daily basis then you are very little experiencing the benefits and the provisions that Calvary affords you you know I don't think that we really understand the the depth and I don't think we understand the glory and the power of this cross and what we can experience as New Covenant believers I am convinced that most believers most believe in I'm talking about even us who understand the cross we've been hearing the message of the cross we're being taught that and and we we understand it theologically we understand that doctrinally and and we're even experiencing some of the benefits but I believe that we are just skimming the surface as to what we can really experience regarding the cross the Covenant what God has provided for us in Christ he's got a whole lot more for us to experience and and my desire my heart is is that every believer will walk in and experience that so you need to have a prayer closet you need to have a time that you spend with the Lord on a consistent basis enter into that closet when you have shut the door pray to your father which is in secret your father which sees in secret shall reward the openly well when you pray use not vain repetitions as the heathen do well they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking be naughty therefore like unto them for your father knoweth what things you have need of before you ask him stir this manner therefore pray ye and I dealt with this as well what Jesus said there was not a suggestion it was a command and what he was commanding is that we enter into our prayer closet and we pray according to the pattern the New Covenant pattern that he lays out here regarding prayer and when you when you look at this pattern the whole of this pattern you will find that every single need that you have as a believer will be met in these requests that he commands us to pray and petition before him it's not a suggestion all right and as I said before it's not necessarily the words that you say but it is the spirit in which you pray it's how you enter in and how you approach God regarding the New Covenant in the context of Calvary in the context of the New Covenant and you see a beautiful flow here in this pattern Jesus said after this manner therefore pray ye our Father which art in heaven hallowed be thy name thy kingdom come thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven and we're gonna deal with the 10th verse there thy kingdom come Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven pray with me tonight Heavenly Father we thank you tonight for the opportunity to stand before you and your people and father we're asking once again that you will help us to communicate this truth and your word Lord father we're asking that you would open up the eyes of our heart that you would open up the eyes of our understanding Oh God and Lord even as we travel through this pattern that you have given us in your word that Lord God that you will grant us a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of the Son of the Living God that father as we travel through this that you will open up the New Covenant to us in a greater capacity Grannis revelation regarding this covenant lord reveal it to us Lord we ask it in Jesus name and everybody said amen and a men we dealt with as I said the last time our Father which art in heaven hallowed be thy name and at that aspect of the Lord's Prayer it's entering into his gates with Thanksgiving and entering into his courts with praise the first thing that we must do when we get into our prayer closet is we must spend some time praising and worshipping our God and thanking him for the opportunity that we have as believers to approach our Heavenly Father and you see it is on the basis of the blood of Jesus Christ that you can do so it's not based on your performance it's not based on what you do or what you do not do it is entirely based on the blood of Jesus again what you'll find in this pattern is every point in this outline this pattern that Jesus Gabe has new covenant implications and it points to the blood of Jesus Christ because of the blood you have the privilege now to be able to call God your father God the everlasting God Jehovah God your father a man that ought to make you shout get her into his gates with the father I thank you that I have been adopted into your family you see God wants you to approach him with boldness with confidence not in yourself not in your performance but boldness and confidence in the blood of Jesus Christ amen and because of that blood you can boldly come before your heavenly father and say father I thank you that you love me I thank you that you have adopted me into your family you have brought me in behold what manner of love the father has bestowed upon us that we should be called the sons and daughters of the Living God thank God we're no longer under the spirit of bondage to fear oh but we can try Oh to our God Abba Father glory to God daddy daddy you need to get into your prayer closet and begin to thank him for that right and for that privilege remember the Bible says as many as received him received Christ to them he gave the power that means the right and the privilege to become sons and daughters of the Living God and then you begin to hallow his name that's how you enter into the presence of God how many of you want to walk in God's presence on a continual basis you do that by entering in to his gates with Thanksgiving and his courts with praise by hallowing his name and we looked at this the last time that hollowing his name means that you setting his name apart in praise and adoration and in worship and you're praising him on the basis of covenant on the basis of the promises and we looked at those promises last time you have the promise of sins forgiven and the power and the Dominion of sin broken over your life found in the names Jehovah sidqa knew Jehovah makka desh you have the promise of the fullness of his spirit thinking that because of the covenant because of the blood Jesus Christ that you as the temple of the Holy Ghost now the Spirit of God dwells in you and you have the promise of his presence his overflowing presence in your life found in the name jehova shamma meaning God is here that speaks of the promise of his presence his overflowing presence in your life and in your midst jehova sholom he's your peace meaning that the veil has been written to access has been granted the way has been made into the Holy of Holies and now you can experience and walk in the presence of Almighty God Oh hallo would be your name and all of those benefits are fulfilled in the Lord Jesus Christ those are the Old Covenant names that depict the aspects of God's nature and character that God wants to be to his people amen you have the promise of health and healing in the name Jehovah Rapha Jesus is your healer hallow would be your name Jehovah Rapha Bible says by His stripes you are here praise him thank him thank him for who he is and what he's done for you you have the promise of success and prosperity in the kingdom of God it's found in the name Jehovah Jireh because of that name you are no longer under the curse of the law because of that name you are no longer under the curse of falling short of his glory because of that name he provides for you it expresses God's desire and willingness to provide for his children hallow would be your name lord I praise you for who you are to me good things happen when you get in your prayer closet and you do that he praise him for who he is and you'll begin to experience him in your personal life you'll begin to experience those benefits in a greater capacity you have the promise of victory and security and deliverance found in the names Jehovah Nissi the Lord our banner and found in the name jehova rohi the Lord our Shepherd glory to god lord I praise you today that your banner over me is love and victory that because of the blood of Jesus Christ that I have victory today over the world over the flesh over the devil because of the blood I have victory over the lust of the flesh over the lust of my eyes over the pride of life hallowed be your name Jehovah Nissi Bible says that we're more than conquerors through him who loved us we triumph over all of our enemies because he triumphed this is the victory that overcometh the world even our faith faith in Jesus Christ and what he did on the cross of Calvary Oh hallowed be your name you're my shepherd my jehova rohi Bible says he's a good shepherd he's the good shepherd the Lord is my shepherd I shall not want oh praise him thank him for who he is to you hallelujah glory the gun's everybody knew the praises God y'all lookin at me like a calf had a new gate you look bored to death my god I'm tellin you what your God is to you I'm telling you what he's done for you and what he's provided for you [Applause] and that's where praise and confession comes in my friend would you begin to believe in your heart and you begin to confess with your mouth who he is then you will begin to experience his presence in your life you begin to feel like you are overshadowed with his covenant blessings and provisions Halla would be your name and then after you've done that for a period to say well how long no you're led by the spirit you don't have a time frame remember this is a pattern Jesus never intended for us to take those 66 words and just recite them no it's a pattern that you enter into by the Spirit of God it might be 10 minutes it might be 20 it might be 30 there's times I've gone an hour just praising him and thanking him for who he is to me in covenant my friend I'll tell you what the presence of God will be all over your life you will sense his presence in such a way that you want to be able to put words to it and then the next point in the prayer he says to pray this pray thy kingdom come thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven now it's important that we understand first of all what the kingdom of God is and how it pertains to us here and now Jesus wasn't just referring to heaven or the coming kingdom age when he said pray in this manner he didn't say hope in this manner Amen we have that blessed hope amen but he said pray in this manner thy kingdom come thy will be done here in earth as it is in heaven you see God wants some heavenly activity to be taking place here in earth in your heart and in your life he wants you to experience some heaven you see you don't experience heaven just when you get to heaven God wants you to experience heaven now and yes I realize that we have an earnest we have a down payment but there is a place that we can walk a place regarding the kingdom of God that we can experience here and now that again as I said before that I believe very few Christians are walking in and experiencing first of all the word kingdom itself it's basilia in the Greek and it simply means the rule the realm and the rain it's very simply this it's the rule around the rain of God it is wherever God is in control of course God is in control in heaven that's why we can say is kingdom is in heaven of course in the coming kingdom age we can say that God is at his kingdom is there because God isn't going to be in control in the coming kingdom age now how it applies to us is this is Jesus Christ reigning and is he in control of our hearts and our lives you see the kingdom that God is building here and now is in the hearts and the lives of his people I got one amen the kingdom that God is establishing now is in the hearts and lives of his people it's Trice reigning upon the throne of your heart I heard someone say that requests I kingdom come thy will be done as thy kingdom come here in this earthen vessel Lord you reign you see don't get the impression that just because you're saved just because you are a Christian that Jesus Christ is reigning in your life in fact I am convinced and I I hate to say this but in most Christians lives Jesus Christ is not raining and he is not in control you say well what is reigning sin sin is dominating our lives self remember whatever is king whatever has dominion whatever is controlling you sin self the spirit of the world Satan himself Christians are being dominated by everything other than what they should be dominated by and that is the Lord Jesus Christ so when you are praying thy kingdom come it's actually the the verbs are at the beginning of the sentence and you are making a strong affirmative appeal it is as if you are making a strong declaration and a commitment and you're saying Lord you reign in my life your kingdom Tom in me your kingdom come in my family let me ask you something is there a greater prayer for you to pray for your children for your spouse for your family members than Jesus you reign in their lives your will be done in their lives so in this aspect of the Lord's Prayer you're making that strong affirmative appeal that declaration and you'll have a boldness come over you my friend have you spent about 20 30 minutes hallowing his name in recognizing who he is to you in covenant and you'll begin to declare the kingdom of God over your life the will of God be done in my life in my children in my family in my wife in my husband in every family member you see we look at the scripture and this gives us an indication of what the kingdom of God is to us here and now and how it applies to us Romans 14:17 it says this it says the kingdom of God is not in meat and drink but in righteousness and peace and joy in what in the Holy Ghost so let's put this together here when you're praying thy kingdom come you're saying lord may I may my family may they walk in righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost you see when you're walking in the kingdom you're living in the Holy Ghost in the realm of God's Spirit you're walking in the spirit you're walking after the spirit that's what it means to live in the realm of the kingdom of God anybody in here want righteousness the peace and joy so may I look at your countenances I don't see much joy until a lot by a person's countenance I can pretty much tell if you're living in the kingdom I see people come in to church and you're you're dominated by things by sin by self by Satan by the things of this will by your emotions you see you get in your prayer closet and you make that strong affirmative appeal that declaration Jesus you are going to reign in this temple sin will not have dominion over me self will not reign Satan will not reign the spirit of the world will not reign amen praise God if I could get every one of you in here to get a hold of this and begin to pray this and declare this you'd come into this house full of righteousness peace and joy living in the Holy Ghost my god what would God be able to do the problem is we come into God's house and we're all beat down we're all overcome we're all dominated by sin and powers of darkness and yeah I'm even talking about you they've been going to this church for twenty years and here in this message you can have it up here my friend but if you're not living it and you're not experiencing it it's really not doing you any good what I'm talking about here is living in the reality of the cross of the New Covenant remember everything about this prayer goes back to the New Covenant to the blood what you have in the Covenant Lord you reign you reign and my children you rain and my spouse you rain I pray for this church every day Lord your kingdom come your will be done another place in scripture that can give us an indication of what the kingdom is in 1st Corinthians chapter 4 and verse 20 Paul said this he said the kingdom of God is not in word but in power how many know that's a pretty good thing to pray when you pray thy kingdom come Lord we want your power glory I want the power of God in my life I want the power of God in this church I want the power of God in my family pretty good pretty pray in it maybe Jesus knew what he was talking about when he said when you pray do it this way what about that don't you understand that do it this way because he wants you to experience this new covenant and doesn't it make sense that the pattern that he would give and His Word would cause us to walk in and experience the new covenant the one who came to establish and ratify the new covenant wouldn't it make sense that he would give us a pattern that if we would obey Him and get in our prayer closet and begin to hallow his name and thank them and praise them and declare his kingdom that it would cause us to walk in the glory and the power of the cross of Calvary get us out of a form of godliness but walking in the power thereof glory to God when you're praying thy kingdom come you're praying for an assertion of God's power his miracles his signs his wonders to be manifest here in earth remember when the disciples were sent out two by two Jesus said when you go under this to that house and you speak peace to that house you eat whatever is set before you you heal the sick and then he said this that you will know or they will know that the kingdom of God has come nigh unto them so we see here that a manifestation of God's miracles his healing his power manifest is the kingdom of God being realized and being manifest here in earth as it is in heaven when Jesus said this he said if I cast out Devils by the finger of God or the power of God you will know that the kingdom of God has come nigh unto you you see we want the kingdom of God to come nigh unto us you know I'm not talking about a wacky kingdom mal thing we're gonna take over the political and economical and social aspects of our society no I'm talking about Jesus Christ reigning in hearts and lives I'm talking about the glory of God the power of God being made manifest in the midst of our lives and in the midst of this assembling healing miracles signs and wonders you know in acts one in 14 when the disciples were in the upper room and they were praying Mary the mother of Jesus and they were praying and it says that they were they were in supplication and at what it says in your Bible it'll say in prayer but someone brought this out to me that actually the definite article there before prayer and it says this they were in supplication and the prayer it's known that the Lord's Prayer was known as the prayer and there are historical findings or letters or things that they found throughout history that that indicate that the disciples in the early church that they were instructed to pray the Lord's Prayer three times a day in fact they even found record of the the whole outline written out why they did that I don't know and it would take them about an hour to pray and they would do that three times a day maybe that's why God moved the way that he did in the early church how many of you prayed three times a year for an hour and whether or not all that's true or not you really won't know but prayer causes God to move prayer also lines us up with his covenant with his provisions don't ever think that God is just gonna do what he's gonna do because he's sovereign here now oh there's coming a time would any going to matter what you pray in the coming Kingdom ain't gonna matter but right now in this dispensation of grace that we live in here and now God only moves in this earth to the degree that God's people pray as it regards his church as it regards the manifestation of his power and His glory it will only be manifest to the degree that God's people pray otherwise the Bible wouldn't say if my people which are called by my name will humble themselves and seek my face and pray turn from their wicked ways so on and so forth then I will do the stencil why did he just say oh I'm just gonna do it why does the Bible say the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man does what it availeth much you want God to move in your life you want God to move in your family we want God to move in our church we gotta pray don't just think that good music and good preaching is gonna do it my friend and we've got some of the best but that ain't gonna do it it's only gonna be if we get serious in the place of prayer and whether you want to believe what I'm saying regarding this Lord's Prayer or not just get on your face and pray I'm just trying to help you to give you some direction and what Jesus said it'll line you up with the Covenant it will help you in your prayer life I get testimonies all the time people and I get discouraged with this because I think I had any nobody getting this nobody even cares but there'll always be some will get an email or someone will come up to me in a meeting say brother boy thank you for teaching that Lord's Prayer pattern and the ones who really get a hold of it this is what they say everyone brother I'm experiencing the cross in a way like I never had I'm walking in the presence of God like I never had before it should be no surprise because that's why Jesus gave it to us so that we could walk in and experience his presence in his power and its glory this new covenant that's what he wants for us that's what he had he has so much more for us we have to avail ourselves to it actually in the Hebrew the Hebrew literal rendering of this statement here really means this may he cause his kingdom to reign Jesus words would have been in the imperfect tense which indicates on complete action the idea is that a process is taking place the idea or prayer is this may you continue establishing your kingdom you see God is still in the process in this dispensation of grace of establishing his kingdom I heard one commentators say this the kingdom has come in the sense that Jesus Christ has come he is the embodiment of the kingdom and then the kingdom of God is here and that he wants to reign or in this timeframe he wants to reign in the hearts and lives of his people that's the kingdom that we're dealing with now and then the kingdom shall be in the coming kingdom age but you know what we got to realize something that we're not there yet we're not there yet you know we sung a lot of songs today this morning and tonight about heaven and glory to God we got that hope thank God that we're not gonna have to live in this earth in this state in this condition forever but we ain't there yet and there is a kingdom that God wants to build here and now in the hearts and lives of his people and it's Jesus Christ having his way in people's lives Jesus Christ reigning as king upon the throne of the hearts of God's people that's what this gospel is that we pre Jesus referred to it as the what the gospel of the kingdom amen that's the gospel that's the message of the Cross it's the gospel the good news that God Jesus can reign in your life that you don't have to be dominated by sin and self and the powers of darkness the spirit of the world you can be the head and not the tail glory to God a person who accepts God's Authority in his or her life has entered the reign of God the kingdom can be viewed as the reign of grace set up in the hearts of God's people the father's kingdom is first and more generally his universal rule his absolute dominion over all creatures and things as I said before the kingdom of God is very simply the rule reign and Dominion of God and is not limited to any given place it is actually more of a position very simply this the kingdom is wherever God is in control wherever he's in control in the question that I have to ask you tonight is Jesus in control of your life is he raining on the throne of your heart or a sin dominating you self your emotions your circumstances the spirit of this world or Satan himself Jesus Christ made paid a great price for you so that he could reign over you and by praying that prayer you are making that bold declaration that Jesus you reign you are in control of my life Laurita God do you see the practicality of this do you see the really the simplicity of this request your kingdom and then of course I know I didn't deal much with your will be done that's pretty self-explanatory and let me just make this statement as well the kingdom of God is not your work it's not your labor it's not your ministry it's not your church it's not an organization it's not this ministry we are here for one reason and that's to proclaim the gospel of the kingdom don't make this your kingdom some of you can get so focused on this and you lose sight of the kingdom of God or your church your denomination whatever the case may be again the kingdom of God everything everything in this prayer deals with your covenant relationship with God Almighty it deals with the reign of Christ the reign of Christ in your life now concerning the will of God I think of what Paul said in Colossians 1 a 9 I think it was somewhere around there he said I'm praying for the calash and believers he said that they may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding that they may walk a walk worthy of him unto all pleasing bearing fruit in every good work so the will of God is not just what you do the will of God is again you experiencing the reality of Christ this new covenant that you may walk a walk worthy of him the only way they're gonna walk a walk worthy of him is to live in the realm of God's control and Dominion and living your life in Christ that's the only way to put it very simply to pray thy kingdom come you're asking as I said for righteousness peace and joy and the Holy Ghost to reign in your life today God's kingdom has a king his name is Jesus therefore when we pray thy kingdom come we are simply asking Jesus to establish his rulership over our lives again Paul said the kingdom of God is not in word but in power it's really referring to the power of the Cross that produces righteousness peace and joy in the Holy Ghost I'm gonna ask the singers and musicians to come back up I'm gonna read something to you here this an ancient manuscript called the mcil 'te not familiar with it myself but it's as I said here an ancient manuscript that includes a commentary on most of the book of Exodus includes this parable listen to this now a man came to a province and asked the people if he could reign over them are EIG in if he could reign over them they said what good have you to do for us and why should we accept your reign re IgM in response the man built him a wall he brought them water he fought battles for them then he asked the question again may I reign over you and they responded yes yes thus it was with the omnipresent talking about God Jehovah God he redeemed Israel from Egypt he parted the sea for them he brought them manna he provided them with a well he sent them quail he fought the Battle of Amalek for them and he said to them may I reign over you and they replied yes so what I'm saying to you tonight your God provided everything that you needed in his covenant he's taken away the penalty of sin broken the power of sin over your life he's given you access to his presence in the spirit and giving you peace he's healed you he's provided for you he's given you victory over every one of your enemies he's done it all everything that God has in his covenant he has made it available to you and now it is up to you to say Lord may you reign over me again don't just assume because you're a Christian that he's reigning in most he's not some when I appeal to you tonight and as the singers as you get ready to sing here and I'm gonna open up these authors for a few moments my appeal to you tonight is are you ready and are you willing to make that declaration and say Jesus you reign over my life I appeal to you over television listening by radio whatever means are you willing and ready to say Jesus you reign over me I want as many as can to gather around this altar and this is what I want us to do I want if you are serious about the kingdom of God you want the kingdom of God in your life you want the kingdom of God in your family the reign of Christ if you're serious about the kingdom of God in this church and in this ministry I'm talking about miracles signs and wonders and power I want you to come to this altar we're gonna agree together and declare thy kingdom come thy will be done here in earth [Music] as it is and just slip up your hands just begin to worship and just begin to pray in your own way all hallelujah as you sing it glory to God Oh hallelujah [Music] hallelujah I'm still the same Rico Rico Rico [Music] would we declare your we declare it over lives today we declare your kingdom reign over of families over children over our spouses Oh God we need Claire your kingdom come your will be done in this house Lord that miracles and signs and wonders what we wrought for oh yes [Music] this night in the main a change [Music] we claim that way works let's pose [Music] in the name right [Applause] [Music] yes [Applause] and the name [Music] yes yes yes [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] your will be done here at our [Music] Oh [Music] [Applause] father we claim the nation's we placed the nation's for the kingdom rather come [Music] hearts will be open to the small [Music] my god [Applause] [Music] [Applause] do it Lord in the name of Jesus [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] worship [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Jesus [Music] she's can you appreciate that word tonight

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Published: Sun Apr 01 2018