Longing For The True King & The New World | Matthew 6:10

Scripture

• Matthew 6:10

About this sermon

Introduction: When we read the “Disciple’s Prayer” we must always remember who’s teaching us. This model prayer came from God incarnate. God with us, teaching us the proper manner of prayer. This is God teaching us to pray. This is the perfect man teaching us to pray. The perfect seeker of God’s face. The one who is one in essence with the very one who is sought — the Son of God, the one and only begotten of the Father. This is “very God of very God” as the Nicene creed puts it, who is teaching us how to seek God. It is significant to remember this because what we have in the prayer is therefore WHAT GOD DESIRES in our prayers. Do you want to pray as God desires that you pray? And, do you know that if we pray as God desires, then God answers? ESV 1 John 5:14 And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. PRAY LIKE THIS, THEN, AND YOU PRAY WITH FULL CONFIDENCE. This is the kind of prayer THAT IS HEARD. This is the kind of prayer that can be certain of its answers. IF WE ARE FAITHFUL TO THE TRUTHS TAUGHT IN THIS PRAYER, WE WILL PRAY WHAT GOD IS CERTAIN TO ANSWER. WE DESIRE THAT GOD’S NAME BE TREATED AS HOLY — AND IT WILL BE. And it will be treated as holy, not just in heaven, but on the earth, and that is what this request is about. THIS IS THE SECOND REQUEST THAT WE COME TO IN THIS PRAYER, THE SECOND WORSHIPFUL DESIRE — WE ASK GOD FOR THE COMING OF HIS KINGDOM TO EARTH. WE ASK GOD THAT HIS WILL WOULD BE DONE ON THE EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN. • THE DESIRES EMBODIED IN THIS REQUEST When we pray like this, what are we asking for? This request is a good reminder of our dim vision during THIS age. ESV 1 John 3:2 Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. God gives us license — God gives us MORE than license; HE GIVES US INSTRUCTION — to ask for things that we can’t fully conceive of. We have SOME understanding of what we are asking for. We have SOME knowledge about it. We lack complete understanding, yet we ask. Just as a child is told about something wonderful by their parents, so that they desire it, and anticipate it, and ask about it, BUT THEY HAVE NO true concept of what they are asking for like their parents do — so it is with us as the children of God. Our Lord has told us that He is coming, and when He comes, He will usher in a kingdom on this earth. It is wonderful. We desire it. We ask for it. We have some understanding of it, but it will be more wonderful than we can conceive of. It will be a day of salvation for God’s people. It will be a day of separation, as God’s people are delivered, and the lost are judged.