Jeff Durbin:The Lord's Prayer - Part 3

And we are in the Sermon on the Mount, and Jesus gives to us, not only in this text, the most popular sermon in the history of the world, but also the most popular prayer in the history of the world. And so, Matthew chapter 6, we're in the Lord's Prayer, we're going to start at verse 7.

Hear now the words of the living and true God. And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him.

Pray then like this, 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 have also forgiven our debtors.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

As far as the reading of God's holy word, let's pray together and ask for God's blessing. God, thank you that you've given your word to us. Father, we love you, and we're just so sorry, we're so broken, and we ask for your forgiveness, God, collectively, for our falling short, for our lack of prayer.

Lord, thank you so much that you love us with an everlasting love, and that you set that love upon us before the world even began. Thank you that you, Father, chose to save, to give us mercy, knowing all about us when.

You did it.

And Lord Jesus, we worship you now. Let our prayers rise up to you, God, and be glorifying to you. Help God, me, as I teach your people today, I pray that you would speak through me to your people. I pray that you would shape us all by the prayer life of Jesus.

Help us to know how to pray. I just pray, Lord, as we come out of this text that we have been studying, I pray that we would not walk away unchanged. I pray that you, even today, would work in our mind and our hearts, Lord, to challenge us, come to you in prayer like you call us to.

God, that the fact that you even ask us to come to you and to speak to you cannot be fully understood by us. I know that, God. But help us, Lord, to see how much you want us to come to you as Father, and to speak, and to ask, and seek.

God, work, Lord, in this message through a jar of clay. Allow me to get out of the way today, and I pray that you'd teach by your spirit in Jesus' name, amen. So we've talked through this series. I'll give you a little bit of a summary today, since it's the very last one.

We've talked about the fact that in history, you have so many examples, great examples of people who have been redeemed, people who are sinners, people who are absolutely broken in themselves. They've been washed by God, cleansed by God, they've been given mercy by God, written books on prayer, and sometimes really, really amazing books on prayer.

I mentioned sort of as a highlight, because I want to kind of nudge you towards it. I want to say that in history, I don't think that anybody really prayed like the Puritans. Their theology was so full, and rich, and deep.

For the Puritans, theology was not merely about what happened inside of your head and what you could explain. It was really about life and how really what you believe gets legs on it and starts walking around in the world.

And so if you read things like this little book, it's on my shelf, I encourage you guys to get it on your shelf, The Valley of the Vision, and it's the prayers of the Puritans. I mean, it is really, really amazing.

It'll make you feel kind of small, because you can see how their theology impacted how they talked to God. And I do think that their time in the Psalms definitely impacted their prayer life. So here's the thing, if you want to learn how to pray better and worship God a lot better, I think you need to spend time in the Psalms, which I think is what Jesus did a lot of.

That's the worship ceremony right there. It's just popping off constantly about how great God is and how much we hurt, and there's so much honesty and integrity in the Psalms. Coming to God, not as we're supposed to be, as we often try to do in our prayers, is really try to look like we're supposed to be, but the Psalms really is a lot of brokenness and it's coming to God as we are.

We ought to do that. And the prayers of the Puritans were just amazing. I think it's important for us to learn, again, from the people that have come before us, to spend time with our Savior, to learn from them, to learn from their theology, from their life of prayer, and to be changed by it.

Of course, I think that's important. Paul basically says, he says, follow me as I follow Jesus, and I think we should do that with great saints in history. But there is nobody that has a better prayer life than Jesus, obviously.

I've talked about something foundational, I wanted us all to grab it because it is so utterly unique. You have paganism rampant all around us, and there's so many false religions out there that are ultimately just pagan.

I mean, even Mormonism that borrows Christian terminology and tries to look Christian as ultimately polytheistic, right, just believes in many gods, it's just a typical man-made religion. It's pagan, it's many gods, right?

But even religions like Islam and Judaism today that are monotheistic, they believe there's only one God. Listen, there's a distinction there. People say there are these three great monotheistic faiths in the world.

There is Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. Yeah, they're all monotheistic. Islam borrows from Christianity and Judaism. Judaism today is not true Jewishness, Christianity is Jewish. It's the true Jews, the heirs of Abraham, okay?

So they're monotheistic, yes, but listen, Judaism and Islam believe in only one person who is God. So one God, one person, just one God. But what's unique and distinct about Christianity, and it really is in the Old and New Testaments, it's one unified message, is it's one God who exists eternally as three co-equal and co-eternal persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

And the Trinity is the foundation for so much, and I can't I'm resisting talking about what that so much is right now. I'd love to do it, but we need to finish the Lord's Prayer at some point in the next 10 years, okay?

But the Trinity is foundational. But here's what's important about the Lord's Prayer, and I want to make sure that if you get anything from the message, in terms of why it's important to listen to Jesus when he tells you how to pray, you have to get the Trinity and how beautiful it is, not simply how heady it is and grand it is and how distinct it is from the religions of the world.

But you need to really get the beauty of this, Jesus teaching you to pray. John chapter one, verse one. You know it, right? In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

That one little passage from the Gospel according to John, I think is something that you could spend your whole life talking about, diving into and treasuring, and you will never ever really plumb its depths.

You will never really be able to fully understand, really, the glory of how things come into being except through him, and that God became flesh, the Word became flesh, and dwelt among.

Us.

There's so much there, but in the sense of the Lord's Prayer, and thinking about the Lord's Prayer, and Jesus' relationship to the Father, I think this should be something that we really let really connect to us, to our hearts and minds.

So I want you to just think about it for a second. In the beginning was the Word. In Arche Ein Hologos, I want you to memorize that, because it's important. Let's do it together. In Arche Ein Hologos, you do it after me, ready?

In Arche Ein Hologos, in the Greek, in Arche Ein Hologos, in the Greek, what that really means is, as far back as you want to go to the beginning, push it back as far as you want to go forever, no stopping point, just keep going, the Word was already there.

Jesus was already there. He's eternal. He's always existed. So John is telling you something that means a lot when you think about the Lord's Prayer, and Jesus telling you how to talk to the Father. This is important.

He's had a really good relationship with him for a long time. You should listen to how he tells you to speak to him. Do you get it?

Right?

There's a relationship there. What's a father like? Well, Jesus can tell you. He can explain him to you, which is actually what John says further down. Listen, John chapter one, in the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, the Word was God.

The same was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and nothing came into being except through him. The Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and then it says this, it says, no one has seen God at any time, but the monogamist theos, the unique and one-of-a-kind God, Jesus, who is in the Father's bosom, he has explained him.

He has exegeted him. He has told us about the Father. He's explained him to us. So watch, Jesus has always existed, and it says, in Archein halagos kai halagos ein prostom theon, kai halagos ein prostom theon, prostom theon in the Greek is toward God, face to face with God.

So Jesus, the one telling us how to pray here in the Lord's Prayer, is the one that's always existed forever and ever and ever. Yeah, but who made him? Where did he come from? Well he didn't come from anywhere, he's always existed for all eternity, before the mountains are brought forth.

From everlasting to everlasting, you are God. Yeah, but really, who made Jesus? No, nobody made Jesus, he's always existed like forever and ever and ever. Well like, what was it like there? Like, was he bored?

Right, was he somehow lacking delight and joy? What was it like for God to always exist before he made us? What was it like for God to exist before there were stars? Before there was the Milky Way? Before there were like baboons to look at, which are really crazy creatures?

Where was... What was God doing before there were like really crazy, creepy spiders fighting, praying mantises? Like, before that action was taking place, like what was it like? What was it like when there was no dancing?

What was it like when there was no beautiful banquet to eat from? What was it like when there were no oceans and beaches to hang out on? What was it like before there was Guinness? I don't know. Like think about it.

Like before all the sensations that we have today, what was it like for God? Well, here's what it was like. It was perfection and bliss and delight and fellowship forever between the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, lacking in utterly nothing.

Perfect intimacy, no sin, no brokenness, nothing was distorted. It was delight and happiness forever. It says in the Bible that God is the happy God. Do you believe that? Forever, needing nothing from you or from me.

It doesn't need your praise. It wasn't like he made people because he was lacking in anything. Like he really does well with me. Like I'm hot stuff. Like before the world began, he looked through history and he was like trying to wade through like people and he was like, not that one, not that one, oh you.

And you were just standing there like, he's like, that one, I'm going to get that one because this one is just amazing and I would be so incomplete if I don't have this one.

Right here.

It's nothing like that. God really was looking through time and seeing nothing but a graveyard of wicked, dead, hostile rebels. That's what he saw. And so he didn't need you to make him happy. He didn't need you to bring him glory.

Listen, here's the thing. If he doesn't have you bringing him glory, all of creation would do it anyways. The stars would bring glory to God. Rocks would bring glory to God. As a matter of fact, when everyone's shouting and praising, Hosanna, Hosanna, when Jesus comes into Jerusalem as prophesied, by the way, on a donkey, their king coming now, and tell your people to shut up, Jesus.

Jesus tells them like, look, if they stop, the rocks are going to start screaming. So why don't you let them, like, why don't you let them? Like that's the truth, is that this is this God who was so perfect in the need of absolutely nothing and yet he gives us so much.

And you see in John chapter one, he's always existed. He's existed face-to-face with the Father in this intimate relationship with the Father and everything God was, John says, Jesus was God. The Word was God.

Okay, so that's who we have talking to us. No Puritan had that intimacy with the Father, nobody. Athanasius didn't have that intimacy with the Father. The Westminster divines didn't have that intimacy with the Father.

They caught a little glimpse of the Father in their relationship with God they had for like 60 years on earth, after, by the way, being a rebel against him and hostile and at war with him for just a bit, right?

But now they're in Christ and they tell you how to pray, but now Jesus comes and this is like the grandmaster of prayer. He's had this perfect relationship with the Father forever and he can tell you what it's like to talk to him.

So we should listen. Now, I want to say this because I was thinking this week as I was praying about finishing this message up, I want to tell you this, this is really important. I was thinking about, okay, what have I missed?

What have I failed to communicate? And as I was praying about it and thinking about what maybe have I failed to communicate going through the Lord's Prayer, I thought about something that when Jesus gives us a Lord's Prayer, it's not meant to be this rote prayer that you just keep reciting over and over mindlessly and it's just stuff that you say.

I mean, that's really dry if you think about it. And I think one of the things that we all want to get away from is the kind of hypocritical religion that is just merely lip service where it's not really in the heart.

And I think if we turn the Lord's Prayer into something we just simply quote, then I think that we're falling into the very thing that Jesus tells us not to do one verse ahead of.

It.

And that's what? He says when you pray, don't be like the Gentiles with empty phrases where you just babble. So what should you not do with the Lord's Prayer? Turn it into empty phrases where you're just saying it to say it, like, oh, I did my Lord's Prayer, my duty today, right?

I said my thing, right? I said what Jesus told me to say, and so it's like a magical prayer. That's like Eastern mysticism, guys. That's not Christianity. And Jesus, I think what I don't want to fail to communicate to you, Jesus gives to you a pattern of prayer.

He's telling you, prayer is like this, this is how you talk to the Father. This is what he wants you to do when you come to him. This is how he wants you to enter into his presence. Hey, I know the Father, I've known him forever, and when I talk to him, this is how I talk.

To him.

You should follow me. This is what he likes to hear from you. This is what he wants to hear from you. And so as you get into the Lord's Prayer, you need to recognize that it's a pattern of prayer that Jesus gives to us, and it's really giving you the nuts and bolts of what it's like to have an intimate relationship of conversation with the Father.

This is what it's like to talk to the Father, the one who made everything, who sustains you, even as you sit, the one who actually gives you your heart, said this last week, said, you know, it's going super fast, and God's pinning everything together and holding on to you, making sure that your molecules don't blow apart and fly out into space.

That God, he wants to talk to you. He's given you his revelation, his word, creation shouts to you constantly, but there's something else he's given to us. He's given to us his Son, who speaks to us. He walks among us.

And Jesus has a prayer life that blows yours and mine away. Better than that, it's blown away the prayer life of any saint in history, no matter how.

Godly.

Jesus does something in prayer that I think is hard for us to do, right? People wake up and they're like, where's Jesus? I got up to use the bathroom. The sun's not up yet. I'm looking around for Jesus.

He was just laying over here on this rock. Where is he at now? Oh, he's gone to that mountain over there before the sun even rose to go and meet with.

The Father.

He didn't ever do it out of mere obligation, like I'm the Messiah, I must do this, right? He did it because he wanted to. He spent time with the Father because he loved being in the Father's presence.

He loved to talk to the Father. That's the kind of relationship of prayer that Jesus has with the Father. Here's the thing, you might say to yourself, well, here's the thing, I'm not God in the.

Flesh.

I'm not perfect, and I don't have a lot of strength like Jesus does, and so I don't know that I can have that kind of prayer life. Well, here's the point, Jesus is the image of God. He's what man, men and women, were supposed to be like in God's world.

God creates his image in the garden, and he says, now you're to image me into the world. We completely fail at that. Israel fails at that. Jesus comes in, and he says, no, it's like this. Adam didn't do this.

This is how you're supposed to live in God's world as his image. He's the perfect image of God. Watch, the Father is constantly pointing to Jesus going, it's like this, guys. It's like this. This is how you're supposed to live in my world.

This is what I made you for. This is the kind of relationship that I intended for my image to give back to me. This is what I wanted it to be like, and so Jesus gets up, rises early, early in the morning, my prayer shall rise to thee.

That's in the Psalms, right? It's so funny. Don't you love it? It's kind of awkward for me. I kind of feel challenged when the psalm will come up here, and we're singing it together, and it's like, Lord, I lift my hands to you, and everyone's in here like, Lord, I lift my hands to you.

You realize you're lying in worship, right? You're sinning right now in worship, right?

Isn't it crazy?

Like, Lord, we fall to our knees, and everyone's like, like, I mean in my heart, God, like, in my heart, I'm on my knees right now, right, or something like, you know what I mean? Like, but Jesus takes it like really serious.

Like he's taking the Psalms like literal, like early in the morning, my prayers, my song rises to you. Jesus doesn't say it with his lips and not really do it. He actually does it. Some of you guys are like, oh boy, Pastor Jeff's trying to get me up early in the morning.

To pray.

Maybe.

But Jesus, when he tells us how to pray, and again, this is sort of a summary of the beginning part of the prayer, but before we get to forgiveness, watch, this is important. Again, it's not about just like saying a certain prayer, because Jesus says Gentiles do that, and it's like babble, don't do that, don't speak to God in that way.

It's a really low way to talk to God. You don't talk to any person like that, so stop doing that to God. What if people did that, right? Like we talked about this. You have a friend who when they come to you, every time they come to you, they say the same memorized script.

How awful would that be to have a relationship with that person? Tell the truth. You wouldn't hang out with them like ever.

Right?

If every time you walked up to them, when they greeted you, it was the same thing. They were like, y 'all, y 'all, y 'all, y 'all, you'd be like, that's not a relationship I really like care about having.

Like this person's kind of weird. Your mind is set on what matters to God. Your mind is set on the things of God. Your mind is set on God. Notice how the prayer starts. It says, our Father in heaven. First point you have to get is that it's interesting that Jesus calls him Father.

In that day, they were very superstitious about the name of God. I mean, we talked about the fact that scribes in history, when they would write down like a text of the Bible, when they got to the name Yahweh, they would stop, wash their hands from fingertip to elbow.

They would change the pen or writing device and they would continue writing. Imagine writing Isaiah. Every time you get to Yahweh, you have to stop and wash your hands. You need like a lot of like myrrh and frankincense and stuff to, you know, some essential oils, got to, you know, whatever you got to do to stop it from being chapped.

But that's what they did. And so now Jesus says, our Father in heaven. Compare that to Gentiles who don't even know God. He says, don't be like a Gentile when they pray. It's just meaningless phrase. It's just babble.

They don't know God.

So, of course, he talked to God like that.

They think they're going to be heard for their many words. They think because they pray a lot and say a lot of stuff that somehow they're manipulating God like he's really going to hear me now because I'm saying a lot of stuff to him.

He's not fooled by that. And Jesus says he already knows what you need before you even ask him. So you go into his presence and you're talking to God about things that he already knows.

About.

Like before the world even began, he knew and decreed that you would actually have this moment where things fell apart. He controlled it so much to give himself glory. And he puts you on your knees and he decrees that you'll talk to him about this certain situation that he decreed would happen in your life for his purpose and glory.

He puts you on your knees, knows exactly the outcome, what's going to happen in the middle of it, behind it. You know, he already has even the end part figured out of like how it's going to end up to his glory.

He knows everything. And he says, now come talk. And Jesus says, look, Gentiles don't even know God. He knows what you need before you ask him. So now you come to his presence and you say, first and foremost, Father in heaven.

It's not like you're saying simply, watch. It's not like you're saying simply, Father in heaven, like that's your location, right? Like you're saying, oh, Father in Las Vegas. Like you're saying, like this is where you're at.

It's a recognition about God's position. Our Father in heaven has to do with God's presence, his power, his position. But notice something really important here. He's your father. And I want to emphasize this because many of us come from homes with bad and broken family lives and parents that are just awful.

Maybe some of you guys came from a single parent home. Maybe you don't even know what it's like to have a father. Maybe you have a father who's completely a wreck. Maybe you have a father who was abusive, a father who didn't care about you, he didn't listen to you, he never came to you and told you that he loved you, a father who was heavy-handed.

And we're all a mess when it comes to being dads. I'm a mess. I have a lot of things to make up for as a dad. I have a lot of growth to do as a father. But some of us have really, really hard father-son, father-daughter relationships.

And the beauty of the Lord's Prayer, I think the opener is just for God's children. You've been adopted into God's family, you've been washed of all your sins. God doesn't hold anything against you ever.

He has not destined you for any condemnation or wrath ever again. And he says, you come into my presence and you call me father. And so you go and you go to this father who is perfect, who loves you with a perfect everlasting love, who will never betray you, who does everything for your good.

Every little thing in your life, no matter how broken it seems, is for your good because the Father set his love upon you. And so you go into his presence and you're like, father in heaven. Jesus says you first focus in upon him as father.

And your prayer is not leaping into God's presence simply as, well, God, I need this and I need that. And you're rubbing God like a genie in a bottle, telling God to be better than he is, or, God, let me help you, God, with your blueprint of history.

John Piper said that for like 20 some odd years as a minister, when he read the Lord's Prayer and even said the Lord's Prayer, he wasn't paying attention to really the details of what it meant. Hallowed be thy name is not, like Piper said, and I think I believed exactly the same thing because we don't sometimes dive into it and say, what does it really mean?

He thought that it meant you were saying like an acclamation, like, hallowed be thy name. Like you're awesome. You are amazing. Hallowed be thy name. Like you're shouting it out to God like in praise, right?

Hallowed be thy name. It's not that. The structure is not that. The structure is you're telling God, do it. Do this. Hallowed. We don't even know what it means.

Hallowed.

Sounds like an uber-spiritual thing for a Christian to say. Hallowed be thy name, right? Hallowed, holied. God, Father, your name, your name, be holy all over the world. You're actually telling God, God, would you do this?

Would you have your name holied right now in Africa? All of Africa, God, may all of Africa holy your name.

Revere it.

See you as holy. Separate you from the rest of everything else and say, this is supreme.

God.

God, your name be holied in all of life. Your name be holied in my life, my children's lives, my family life, my business, my home, my neighborhood, my church, my state, my government. God, your name be holied everywhere.

You're praying it. I said this to you guys, and I'm going to say it again, because I think it's something we need to think about. Who cares about the titles? I don't care about Postmill, Aumill, Premill.

I'm not jealous for the title at all. I'll tell you what I'm jealous for. I'm jealous for us seeing things like this in the Lord's Prayer, where Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, God in the flesh, teaches us to pray.

And he tells us to pray that God's name would be holied in all the earth. I think that Jesus told us to pray that because he intends on doing something.

About it.

And so when we see that Jesus comes in proclaiming the kingdom of God, preaching the kingdom of God, and then he tells you to pray towards his name being holied in all the earth, I think that he means it.

And I think that the Father in Psalm chapter 2, when he says to the world, right, this is his testimony, he says first to the Son, he says, ask of me and I shall give you the nations for your inheritance, the very ends of the earth for your possession.

And then the Father actually has a message go out to the kings of the earth. He says something to them that he wants everyone to hear, right? It's in the word of God. He says to the kings, he says, be warned, be wise, oh kings.

He says, obey the Son or you'll perish when his wrath is kindled.

Okay?

And so Jesus comes in as the king of kings, bringing the kingdom. What does he tell you to do? He says, okay, pray like this. You pray to your Father that his name would be holied everywhere. Okay, now stop, pause, pause, pause, pause, pause.

This is important. Okay, so this is what I didn't want you to miss this week, and I don't want to miss it. It's not about just memorizing a prayer and saying, God, your name be holied. Do it, God. But you're actually, I think, supposed to be changed by that prayer.

Is that right?

You're supposed to be changed by that prayer. So the question is, how in your life is God calling you to be holied for him? Because you're praying for it. Why is it a prayer that means anything? Is it just for somebody else?

Is that how you heard it just now? Is that how I heard it? Oh, that it's actually us telling God to do something. And so did you do this in your mind? Did you think about all the ways that everybody else in the world doesn't remember God's name and they blow it?

Because that's good that you did, but it shouldn't stop out there with everybody who doesn't holy God's name. How about you're not careful what you ask God for?

Right?

Hey, do you do this or is it just me? Like, you catch yourself about to ask God for something and then you go, no. Like, you know what I mean? Like, you're like, God, like, you realize like you were just like being impatient with your kids.

And so like, you're like, you know, you ask for forgiveness, you ask God for forgiveness, and the next thing out of your mouth is about you're about to ask God to give you more patience. You're like, Lord, just give me...

Praise you, Father.

I'm good.

I'm patient. I'm patient. Because you know that if you ask your father, if he's in it, right? He loves you and he saved you and God lives in you. You know that if you ask God for patience, he's going to give it to you.

But here's the thing we know about our father, he does not give to us patience by osmosis. Like, you're like, give me patience and he's like, right? And you're like, oh, I'm good, right? Like, I'm fine.

No, no, no, no, no. Now, if you ask God for patience, right? It's time for like stress and pressure and hardship and difficulty. So God teaches you to trust him and to hold on to him and to love him and to believe his promises and to be spirit-led.

And to be patient.

Okay, so ready?

Think about that. In light of that, when you ask God, hallowed be thy name. God, holy your name in all the earth, everywhere, right? Does God have permission to do it in you? Listen, here's the thing.

You cannot pray the Lord's Prayer and meet it and not be changed. You just can't. Because if you're asking God to holy his name in all the earth, you're saying to do it, God, then it means it has to start first in you.

So how is your life not holy in God's name? How is it not set apart for God? In what way is your life not holiness to the Lord and holy in God's name? So it's all God-centered, right? Focusing it upon God's purposes, not your purposes, but God's.

Prayer is first on your knees before God, asking God to be glorified and his purpose is to be done in the world. And then Jesus goes into the next part of the prayer and he says, your kingdom come. Which, by the way, is the substance of the entire story.

People will be like, man, apology of church. Man, you guys are obsessed with the kingdom of God. I'm like, that's a compliment. You talk about it all the time. Praise God. We're doing something right.

Because you see, watch, if you get the kingdom of Christ, if you get the kingdom of the Messiah, if you get that right, like when it was supposed to come, first century, the nature of it, and what's supposed to happen in the world,.

Who rules over it.

If you get that right, did you know you get everything? Like if you get the fact that Jesus is reigning now and he's king and he's seated on his throne and he's accomplished redemption, do you realize that now you get the whole thing?

You get sanctification, you get redemption and salvation, you get the world transformation, you get resurrection at the end of history, you get a final judgment, you get history under the feet of Jesus.

If you get the kingdom of Jesus, you get everything. You see, listen, the kingdom of Jesus encompasses the whole thing. People are like, oh, it's about the cross. Well, that's in the kingdom of Jesus.

That's a kingdom issue.

Oh, it's about the resurrection.

Well, that's in the promise of the kingdom. It's about Christ's lordship and authority. Oh, that's because of his kingdom. Well, it's about God's spirit working active in our lives in the world. Okay, but that's a promise that God was going to do in his kingdom, do you see?

And so watch Jesus saying, you pray, your kingdom come. But the kingdom is, watch, his sovereign rule, his sovereign rule. That's what it means, kingdom, his sovereign rule. So when we say as Christians, king of kings, lord of lords, it ought not to be a T-shirt only.

But king of kings and lord of lords is supposed to mean something. It's the rule of the Messiah, God himself taken on flesh, dying and rising again for bows to Jesus Christ. Every knee will bow, every tongue confess what?

That Jesus Christ is what? Lord, that's his kingship, authority. And so you're praying, watch, in your prayer, your heart set on this, your mind is set on this as you pray before God, Father, I'm your child, you're my father, you're above me, you are in heaven, God.