matthew 6:10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. - Free Bible Online
matthew 6:10 'Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, On earth as it is in heaven.
Second Petition:
10. Thy kingdom come--The kingdom of God is that moral and spiritual
kingdom which the God of grace is setting up in this fallen world, whose
subjects consist of as many as have been brought into hearty subjection
to His gracious scepter, and of which His Son Jesus is the glorious
Head. In the inward reality of it, this kingdom existed ever since there
were men who "walked with God"
(Ge 5:24),
and "waited for His salvation"
(Ge 49:18);
who were "continually with Him, holden by His right hand"
(Ps 73:23),
and who, even in the valley of the shadow of death, feared no evil when
He was with them
(Ps 23:4).
When Messiah Himself appeared, it was, as a visible kingdom, "at hand."
His death laid the deep foundations of it. His ascension on high,
"leading captivity captive and receiving gifts for men, yea, for the
rebellious, that the Lord God might dwell among them," and the
Pentecostal effusion of the Spirit, by which those gifts for men
descended upon the rebellious, and the Lord God was beheld, in the
persons of thousands upon thousands, "dwelling" among men--was a
glorious "coming" of this kingdom. But it is still to come, and this
petition, "Thy kingdom come," must not cease to ascend so long as one
subject of it remains to be brought in. But does not this prayer stretch
further forward--to "the glory to be revealed," or that stage of the
kingdom called "the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus
Christ"
(2Pe 1:11)?
Not directly, perhaps, since the petition that follows this--"Thy will
be done in earth, as it is in heaven"--would then bring us back to this
present state of imperfection. Still, the mind refuses to be so bounded
by stages and degrees, and in the act of praying, "Thy kingdom come,"
it irresistibly stretches the wings of its faith, and longing, and
joyous expectation out to the final and glorious consummation of the
kingdom of God.
Third Petition:
Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven--or, as the same words
are rendered in Luke, "as in heaven, so upon earth"
(Lu 11:2)
--as cheerfully, as constantly, as perfectly. But
some will ask, Will this ever be? We answer, If the "new heavens and
new earth" are to be just our present material system purified by fire
and transfigured, of course it will. But we incline to think that the
aspiration which we are taught in this beautiful petition to breathe
forth has no direct reference to any such organic fulfilment,
and is only the spontaneous and resistless longing of the renewed
soul--put into words--to see the whole inhabited earth in entire
conformity to the will of God. It asks not if ever it shall be--or if
ever it can be--in order to pray this prayer. It must have its
holy yearnings breathed forth, and this is just the bold yet simple
expression of them. Nor is the Old Testament without prayers which come
very near to this
(Ps 7:9; 67:1-7; 72:19,
&c.).
JFB.
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