I'd like you to open your Bible again to Matthew chapter 6. We begin with verse 9, where Jesus says, praise in like this, or pray after this manner. We also talk about the privilege of prayer. Often when somebody leads in prayer, the first thing in prayer, this person will do, will be to thank God for the privilege of prayer. And that's a proper thing to do, because prayer is a privilege. But if it's not our natural right, by nature, we're children of wrath and children of disobedience. It's only by God's grace that now we have become his children through Jesus Christ. In our natural state, God's word to us, those something like this has given an Isaiah chapter 59. Your sins and your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and he will not hear you. But through Jesus Christ, God has made access now for his central people, redeemed by the blood of Jesus through faith in him, past, access to him. So when we come to God in prayer, it's a privilege. It's something God uses so we don't deserve, and it's proper to thank him for that. So we also think much of the privilege of prayer. Then we think a great deal about the power of prayer. And often when we think about prayer, we speak about prayer, we think about the tremendous power that God has given to the prayers of his people who are afraid in Christ's name and trade in faith. The promises of the Bible are literally staggering as they are made to those who approach God in Jesus' name and in faith. But this week, we're looking at a different aspect of prayer, which certainly includes the privilege and the power of prayer, but we're looking at the pattern for prayer that Jesus gives. Jesus teaches his disciples how to pray in the terminal amount. We're looking at that portion of scripture. When Jesus says that his disciples should pray like this, then we ought to pray this way. We opt for the rest of our lives to pray the Lord's prayer. The violin only takes 10 seconds to say the Lord's prayer, if you pray the Lord's prayer, it will take longer than probably you have been praying, if you hadn't been praying the Lord's prayer pattern. Because in the Lord's prayer, Jesus really gives us territories to pray in. He gives us certain territories to pray out in. And if we pray as Jesus opens these territories up in the Lord's prayer, our prayer life will deepen and link in those and quality and quantity of our prayer life will increase. Now yesterday, we were looking at the opening land of Jesus' prayer. He teaches us to pray. He says now pray in this pattern, in this fashion. Our fathers who are in heaven, how would these I name? Here he gives us the approach to prayer. We looked at that, we began looking at that yesterday. We're looking at revolutionary aspects of the Lord's prayer. We're looking at how the Lord's prayer really sets counter to our ordinary thinking and causes us to pray in a entirely different and more effective way. And this comes out in the approach that he gives us to pray in. Yesterday morning, we looked at the fact that Jesus and this approach calls for us to remember that we always pray out of our Christian relationship. He says now when you go into your room and privately pray, pray like this, and then he teaches us to pray in the plural. The very first word in the English translation is our father and all the way through the prayer we're praying in the plural. Why does he do this? Because we can only approach God as we're related to somebody else, so that somebody else is Jesus Christ. The father of our Lord Jesus Christ is now our father. And so when I knew the prayer in the morning and I'm praying the Lord's prayer, I began by saying our father, not my father, in my own name, in my own self, he isn't my father, he's my good, only as I approach him in Christ, is he my father. The father of the Lord Jesus Christ is my father. And when I bow to pray in the morning, my savior in heaven is making intercession for me. And together we're approaching the father and we're praying, and I'm seeing with him our fathers who aren't in heaven. That's praying in his name, praying, identified with Christ. Also, we pray in the plural because we always pray in association with other Christians. You never pray alone, but you're in all your life. You may have been in a room alone, but when you prayed, your prayer was joining the prayers of other believers all around the planet Earth. You at the same time, we're praying just as you are. People around across the same county, the same state, the same nation around the same planet. When you're praying, many of your brothers and sisters in Christ are to afraid. And God is receiving not only your prayer, at the same time you're receiving the prayers of many of your brothers and sisters. And so you're praying in the plural, but if you're not praying alone and you know it, you belong to a body. You belong to one clock of heat that belongs to Jesus. There's one shepherd and one fold. This takes us past transbacteria. This takes us past the denominational church of Christ. This takes us past the bad discharge, the messengers church, the official church. This takes us into that one clock that we really belong to. And so when we deal to pray, we're praying an association with the body of Christ where we don't recognize any more distinction. Not only that, when we're needing to pray, we're praying along with the redeemed of the ages who now are in heaven. Love ones that we used to pray with on earth, who now are in heaven, we're still praying with them. They're around the throne, praising God just as we are down here. And so in prayer, we join a great centennial faith. We're praying along with our blessed sage who makes an association for us. We're praying with all the saints of the heaven around the throne. We're praying with all the believers on earth if that time are praying. So we properly pray our Father. And this causes us to just give God thanks for thanking for Jesus who makes it possible for us to come to Him. So thank you for our brothers and sisters, for thanking that we don't do anything alone. Just thank you that we have a great family, most of whom we'll never meet so we get to heaven. But we've got brothers and sisters and a big family of them who were thankful for us. One of these days we'll have that great family reunion in heaven and we'll get to know each other. We'll be together forever. But now we're praying together. And all this enters into the significance of praying in the prayer. Then Jesus, we saw yesterday, he teaches us a concept of praying with a throne tall. He says, when you pray for our Father who art in heaven, think about God. He says, sitting in heaven on the throne. Now the omnipresence of God is wonderful, but in prayer it's the omnipotence of God that counts. The almighty power of God. We're bowing before the throne of one who is the king of all and he's our Father. And he is able to be exceeding abundantly above all that we ask to think according to the power of work within it. We're told in Scripture. Now the castle of what is this? At least county here is this leaf, Michele is it. The capital of Michele, the county of Philadelphia isn't it? The capital of Mississippi is Jackson. The capital of the United States is Washington. The last world castle was Rome. But the capital of all creation is heaven. The biblical concept is the real concept of creation. And that is the center of the universe is heaven. And it's from the throne in heaven that God proves everything in words all things that the council of his own will. And the whole physical universe revolves in its relationship in orbit around heaven and its throne. And the one who sits there who created all things and opposed all things by the word of his power. So when we bow and prayer our faces toward the green, usual, it's toward the capital city. So every time we bow and prayer our faces toward that great throne, first it's this great God he's saving. He can meet our needs and we'll listen to our prayers and bless our lives. And so Jesus teaches us to come with that throne in time, that he has a sad face is thrown in heaven. And he rules over all the Bible fairs. From the heavens he does whatever he will. There's a Scripture. So we're dying before the throne of a great king who is our heavenly Father. Now then, here's the next revolutionary aspect of the Lord's fair. In our approach to prayer, Jesus leads us immediately into adoration. So we begin praying, our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, that's adoration. In other words, instead of using prayer first to get something from God, the Lord's fair teaches us first of all to give to God. We give him the glory of his name. We give him the adoration and praise that properly belongs to him. So when you praise the Lord's fair, prayer stops being just a guinea exercise, guinea this, guinea that, guinea this. And it begins at the very beginning to be a gift. It is more blessed to give than to receive and prayer too. And so we begin by giving to God. Prayer is the way his people redeemed by the blood of the Lamb gives to their great Father who loved them and saved them, the adoration that belongs to him. And so we begin by glory and human praise and giving. Look at Psalm 145 for a sample of the, you know, David was one of the great prayers of all times. And he's a great one to teach us how to praise. And you may already have noticed that in David's prayers, he just can't help but he's actually praises to God. He's just great, forth and doxology to God. Paul does the same thing. So that's proper for all of God's people. And so in Psalm 145, just a sample, listen to this. I will expose you my God and King. And bless thy name forever and ever. Every day I will bless thee and praise thy name forever and ever. Great is the Lord and great is to be praised and his greatness is unsearchable. One generation shall all thy words to another and shall declare thy mighty act on the glorious splendor of thy majesty. And on thy wondrous work thy will meditate. Then should proclaim the might of thy terrible deeds and on and on he goes. He says two things here. He says when I think of the majesty of your being and I think of the mightiness of your words, I just praise you. Now that's what we also do when we praise the Lord's prayer, very much. Let's let David help us learn how to praise the Lord's prayer. It and Halloween God's name and getting him adoration. If you just stop to think about your praise, then no empty praise now. That feels your prayer. If you stop to think about who this is your praise you and what he does, you'll be filled with praise and adoration. Who is he? He's the creator of all the words. He's the one who sustains that the address of our life. He's the one who has faith in Jesus Christ. What is he? He's infinite. He turned on, unchangeable, in all his being wisdom, power, justice, holiness, goodness, truth, immeasurable in his mercy and love. This is who he is. This is what he is. His attributes are perfect. He has every attribute he also has. Who doesn't have any attributes missing that he ought not to have? He would be terrible friends to have a lot of God. It would be terrible to have any kind of God except the kind of God we have. The answer they are just all on my face, support him and thank you for being the kind of God he is. That's what I'm just telling Lord, I just thank you for being like you are. So be in the kind of God you are. If you were anything different, if you were changed in any way, you would be defeated. Thank God, he's infinite without any measure. In measurement. He turned on. He always has and always will be like his unchangeable, will never change in every attribute. In all those dimensions, he's perfect. That is, has every attribute he also has? Every attribute balanced with another. I'll tell you friends, you start to think about it. How would it be to have a God who is all powerful but he just wasn't all that smart? Now that would be a bad God to have. Think about having a God in this universe that had all power, but he just wasn't all that wise. He'd be dangerous. Better to have no God at all than have a God like that. Or to have a God who had all wisdom. You everything, but he was a little handicapped on power. He just couldn't handle everything he'd made it. That would be a bad God wouldn't. To have a God who was absolutely holy, so that he hated all sin and sinners and the Bible says that God hates all sin and sinners. Sometimes you hear that God hates sin and love sinners but the Bible says he hates all who he is. Wouldn't it be terrible for us if God were just holy, like that, and wasn't a God of grace and love so that he can embrace, give love to people he hates. God has hated me because of my sin, but in grace he has given me love. God is still of the world that he gave his only begotten son, but whoever believes in him should not perish. And you will never understand the measure of God as a love unless you know he loves that with you. But that's the measure of his love. Thank God for a God like this. You know, you can't hardly get around to asking him for anything. You just keep thinking about it. And he's so wonderful. Everything about him is so wonderful. And so we praise him. How I would be thy name. We praise him. He also praises him for all he does. And I've been gotten around to that. I just talked about who he is and what he is. And you remember how David does and Psalm 103 blessed the Lord on my soul and all that is within me blessed his holy name? Bless the Lord on my soul. And forget not all the benefits he gives to his people. He says, give us all our niceties. He heals all our diseases. He sees our lives in destruction. He crowns us with loving kindness and tend to mercy. He satisfies our mouth with good things. He's taken our sins and removed the discharge that he's just in the way. Has a father has some passion on his children. So the father has some passion on her. He's here. I mean, he just goes on and on telling about the disease. God does for his people. Our friends, this is a way to praise. This is what Jesus opens us up to in the Lord's praise. All our names. Bless the name. Think about who you're praying to. What is life and what he does for us? And you'll be praising him and adoring him. Nice one. Think about that song over a thousand times to sing my great Redeemer's praise. Now then we move into the second aspect of this Lord's praise or first year approach. Now we're going to look at the petition. The petitions that are given to us in the Lord's praise. And here we come on another revolutionary aspect. Jesus said now, when you praise praise after this pattern, praise our father's word and heaven. Recognize your relationship to realize that you're kneeling now before the great King of kings and there's omnipotence on the throne. Then, hallelujah's name. Think about that one you're praying to who he is and what he's done and what he's like. And then praise thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on purpose if it isn't heaven. For the petition. Now, Ryzen and Rinker has written a set of books on prayers. And as I recall, one of the books, and I'm not, I don't recall which one. One of the books picks down a principle that is fascinating. Ryzen and Rinker says, now when you're beginning to develop a prayer life, at the beginning, let your prayers be in proportion to your faith. In other words, he says, when you first begin your prayer life, you won't be able to ask very big things of God because your faith is a very big yet. Always pray in the limits of your faith. When is your faith grows, your petitions will grow. Now, I say that's fascinating. These are faces that are very opposite to one of these. These are faces that are asked for the biggest thing we can ask God for first. And the first petition of the Lord's Prayer is by all odds, the biggest thing we could ever ask God to do. You could think from not an eternity, and never think of any good as God to do than what this first petition does. Jesus, our God, by saying this, you ask that on omnipotent God, ask Him for something that will cause Him to demonstrate every attribute He's got. Pack to the limits. Every attribute He's got to let you know that you can't ask what He's got. And here's the hardest thing. God takes the planeters with all His misery and pain. This was this planet. The earth, and cause your teeth in the tongue, and your will to be done as perfectly here as it's now being done in heaven. That's the greatest thing you can ask God to do. You see in the very first petition, Jesus signs His people to a sense of responsibility for the planet earth. There's an unbiblical teaching going on among the church that has us so heaven-oriented that we discount and scrap this earth as of no value. We don't realize that this earth has an eternal destiny in God's great predestination. We think so often that the world belongs to the devil and heaven belongs to God, and so we just think about heaven. But the Bible tells us that the earth is the Lord and the phoenix thereof. He created this world. We oppose it in this thing. Its form and fashion will pass away, but its reality will endure and be resurrected just like our body of the earth. You'll see tomorrow in our city. Jesus teaches us to have a sense of responsibility for the planet earth and not to get so as somebody put his heavenly mind that we're no earthly good. He teaches us to praise for this planet earth. We're intercessors for the earth. Everything's alright, and heaven we don't need to praise for heaven. The place that needs prayers, this planet, this world we live in, so praise. Praise our God that His kingdom will come and will be done on earth just as perfectly as it is in heaven. You see God has invested a lot in this planet earth as far as revelation, scripture or science has thus far taught us. There is no place in all the universe like the planet earth. It may be a little tiny flash thick of a planet around a medium sized star in a every size galaxy and a universe that's in measure of it, but nevertheless God has designed this tiny little thick and in doubt it was a significant that neither science nor scripture has revealed concerning any other place in the physical universe. This is the one spot as far as any revelation is ever shown it yet in all the physical universe with all its vastness that God has in doubt with the capability of producing life. And only on this little planet that God ever make a life made in His own image. As far as we know in all the physical universe, this little planet is the only spot in the physical universe where there is open rebellion against God. As far as we know in all the physical universe, this is the only part of the universe that God ever became part of by coming at the one time and leading in it as part of that universe as He did when Christ came and carnage here. This is the spot of the physical universe where God's bad, God the Son, gave up His life. On behalf of His simple creatures, it's the little planet earth that God has since the good use of salvation and redemption. And God has invested a great deal here. God is curious and gone down over this earth. His blood has been shed on this earth. His love has been poured over this earth. And God tells His people, look you pray for this planet earth. I've got too much invested there for you not to care about it. Pray for the earth. Not let me ask you a question. Do you believe this petition will ever be answered? Do you believe that when you pray for Father, may your kingdom come and your will be done is perfectly honest as it is in heaven. Do you believe that will ever happen? Our friends with Jesus, Jesus Church, for 2000 years, first of all, to pray for something that he knew God never intended to do. Father, some thinkable. You see, here's why you put thanksgiving when you're praying. The way Jesus tells you to pray, you can always be a thanks to God's gonna answer your prayers. Please remember how to put over in first John over in the last chapter of first John, we're given our confidence in prayer and it's put like this. And this is the confidence which we have in him that if we ask anything, according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us and whatever we ask, we know that we obtain what we have asked. So you see, friends, we know that Jesus teaches us what is the will of God. If Jesus teaches me to pray for God's kingdom to come on earth and his will to be done on earth, and I know it's gonna happen, he's teaching me to pray right, pray right down the middle of God's will. Look at Revelation, chapter 11. We will probably be coming back to this on another study. But right now, chapter 11 of the book of Revelation, that's the last book in the Bible that tells how the thing is gonna wind up. If you get real concerned about our things to grow on earth, and you think God's live and lose this battle, you just read the book of Revelation, you see these in control, and you see who wins. And at chapter 11, we have a revelation of this given in verse 15. Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet. That's the last time. That's the end of the age. And there were loud voices in heaven saying, the kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ. And he shall reign forever and ever. And the 24 elders representing the faith of the ages in heaven who sit on their throne to the four gods, tell on their faith and worship God to say, we just thanks to God to thee, Lord God Almighty who art and who wants for thou hast taken thy grace power and begun to reign. The nations raised, but thy wrath came in the times of the dead to be just the rewarding of servants and prophets and saints, and those who fear thy name, those small and grace, and for the destroying of the destroyers of the earth. God will destroy those who just increase his earth and his human life here. All right, the declaration is clear here. There is going to be a time when all the voices of heaven and earth will cry out, oh God, that great power now is concentrated on consummating your kingdom at last. And now all the world has become your kingdom. And you're going to reign forever and ever. Yes, friends, when they're praying the Lord's prayer, we're praying for what's going to happen. Righteousness will run down like a mighty stream, the time will come when every voice on the planet earth will praise God. Nobody will have to teach anybody about believing Jesus for all will know and live. And the issue of this is that you have an earth that we find in the book of Revelation. And it's beginning is now in our lives as Christians. All right, now then how does God's kingdom come? This is the direction we get in praise. If I'm to pray for God's kingdom to come and it is real to be done on earth to have substance to that fair, I need to know what the Bible teaches me about how God intends to answer that prayer so I can pray in those areas. And the Bible teaches a two-fold way God answers that prayer. He does it first of all and now. He already is at work answering this prayer. Because already he has established his kingdom on earth and the church is his kingdom. And we're part of it. We're in the church in Christ. And he's going to consummated in completeness when the king comes back. Now his kingdom is coming in the church. In the regeneration of sinners bringing him into the church. In the renewal of the church and the reach out of the church bearing witness and bringing more in, the church is the king's place. Those hymns are right that he's just saying about this. I love thy kingdom, Lord. And that speaking of the church, the house around a boat, the church that Jesus fought with his own blood, the church is the kingdom of God. On earth right now, we need to remember that. You see, there's such a deep view of the church today. Such a deep view. The keepers of you, the more denominational we are. The daughters of you, the less denominational we are. I don't mean less loyal to our denominations because I believe a person ought to be loyal to their denominations, but I'm talking about concept now. Look, and Isaiah chapter nine, we have the possibility of the coming king. You'll turn to the ninth chapter of Isaiah, and you'll see that prophecy. That is so often used to Christmas time. So our two as a child is born, two as the son is given, and the government will be upon his shoulder and his name should be called wonderful counselor, mighty God, everlasting father, principal peace. The increase of his government and peace, there should be no end up on the throne of David and over his kingdom to establish it and uphold it with justice and righteousness. From this time forth, from this time forth, from that baby tongue, from that time forth, his kingdom is going to increase. It'll never have an end. And it's the zeal of the Lord, I suppose it will do this. Jesus Christ came born in this world and took the throne of David. When you say the baby was king of Israel, absolutely, that's what the church is. Do you not know that the church of Jesus Christ is the only Israel there is now? And the Old Testament days, the Jews were Israel. But in the coming of Christ, Paul says, God is done something new. Now he's facing Jew and Gentile, making neither Calvin their ownites bringing them all together and putting them together in a new humanity. The official position is written to this point. And this new humanity is this kingdom. In relation to chapter three, we have Paul calling our attention to this blessed state that we enjoy. He says in the third chapter of verse 14, that in Christ Jesus the blessing that Abraham might come up on the Gentiles, that they might receive the promise of the spirit through faith. So through Jesus Christ, all the blessings that belong to Israel now are communicated over to those who Gentiles who believe in him. So he says in chapter three, verse 26, for in Christ Jesus, you all are sons of God, three faith. And then as it closes his little official to Galatians, he says in verse 16 of the last chapter, peace and mercy be upon all who walk by this roof that's on the Israel of God. He says in the church of Jesus Christ, made up of believers out of all the races he tried to the world are the Israel, the Kingdom of God right here on earth. Jesus in the beginning of this terminal amount told his disciples who he's seen them. He said, let's draw the line of the world. You're showing forth the life of heaven. You're showing down here this pagan world what it's like in heaven. Every Christian congregation, every Christian individual is to be reflecting in his or her life, the very reign of Christ in heaven. The blessedness of heavenly life in the fruit of the spirit and our relationships as one another and the holiness of our life. You are the source of the earth. He said, you're going to be impregnating to earth with these various things that you live and witness in it. The church of Jesus Christ is a great, tremendous kingdom on earth of Jesus Christ. And we're to be reflecting His glory. Paul and Ephesians, enrollments in all ages as opposed to the matter of fact, drive home this truth that in the church of Jesus Christ we have the most amazing things that God has ever done. This is God's creation. How we also pay attention to particular those of us who are Christians to know who we really are. We're His Kingdom and He's our King and His reign in us. And we're on earth of coloring down here. Our heaven, down here in our pagan world, reflecting before the eyes of this pagan world, Jesus is what He's really like and how His people live together in heaven. So Paul says, God has done a great thing. Now He's doing this. He's reaching out into every race and tribe and people on the face of the earth and He's bringing His election. He's bringing people who are different, all kind of different people and He's bringing them together and He's not taking away their differences and He's putting them together in one kingdom, one body, one church, one family, with such a mutual love that all the world can look at them and say, if the world were like the church. There wouldn't be any wars in this really. Would you have an honor? I think I've just described to you what the church is supposed to be. Look, some of us belong to other organizations. All human organizations are put together on the basis of the differences that people have bringing together in that clever organization, people that are alike. All the other organizations in the world go like this. Some of them are for girls. You can't be a boy and belong to it. Some are for boys and you can't be a girl and belong to it. Some are for men and you can't be a woman and belong to it. Some are for women and you can't be a man and belong to it. Some are for children. You can't be a grown person and belong to it. Some are for grown persons. You can't be children and belong to it. Some you have to be nice and belong to. If you're black, you can't come as they're black for black people. If you're white, you can't belong to it. Some are for your Russians. You can belong to, but if you're an American, you can't be some organizations. If you're an American, you can belong to, but if you're a Russian, you can't. Every organization of men is geared to get together, people who are alike and separation from people who are different. Have been Jesus comes along and breaks the pattern and does the marvelous thing that exists for heaven on earth. He moves out into all areas where people are different. Nail and teammates. Ridden tiny infant child and an old old man. Everybody in between, the educated, the uneducated, the black, the white, the red, the yellow, the Americans, the Russians, the French, the Chinese, the Jews. In all of them and he brings his elect together and he puts them together in Jesus Christ and he binds them together in a mutual prison Christ and the harmony of a devoted love to one another so that they live together as a family. Difference is a little child and the church is still a child. He doesn't become a man just because he's converted. A woman doesn't become a man which he's converted and the man doesn't become a woman. The differences aren't taken away by conversion. When a black man is converted, he isn't turned white and when a white man is converted, he's been turned black. When a prince comes into converted, he doesn't become a citizen in the United States and when an American is converted, we don't become citizens of Russia. The differences continue, but the division is taken away. Now people who are different are all put together and they're brought together in the Lord Jesus Christ and they're delivered together in that blessed harmony and so we had this in Colossians. Here that is in the church. There cannot be Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised barbarian, Christian, free man, but Christ is all in all. Put arms in because that's true. Put arms as God's elect, holy and beloved, compassion, time is low in its weaknesses and faces for a very one another. And if anyone has a complaint against another, for giving one another as the Lord is forgiving you, so you must be given above all these, put all love which binds everything together in perfect harmony. You see the church is to be manifesti how God takes all kinds of different people and brings every little congregation right here in this community, Carolina. Carolina faces the three entries. It's to be a reflection in this community that how God takes people in Christ, no matter who they are and puts them together, so they love each other and support one another and live together in harmony and witness and blessedness and holiness and God is in such a way that those who would look and think would realize if everybody was like this, what a good world it would be. That's the kingdom that's already coming. So we have to praise the God. God, review the church, revive the church. This is Lord the church is here, but the church isn't showing this. The way is marked with the divisions of the world is the world. The world has literally influenced on the church and Christ sometimes it looks like. Friends, I'm going to tell you something that I think it's true if I didn't read it. It wouldn't say it because I'd be scared to say it. I'd be scared to say it. I was talking with a man who has been actually in the Billy Graham's he's saying they're in Jackson. He's a black man who's been doing a great work among his people, down in South Mississippi. He's one of the most humble, finest Christians I believe I've known. We were sitting in the city there, my office is seminary talking. And our concerns were, we were just talking about the cause of Christ and it was just obvious. I mean, here he was a white man, here was a black man. And yet there's no question about the common ground. We were so different and I was going to say, why in all my life he was going to stay black all his life. But the common ground between this was a mutual devotion to Jesus Christ and a love for him. That couldn't help but just make us feel black way long each other. And it occurred to me something that I thought of in times past, here's the tragedy that occurred. This is why the church really isn't functioning as a church. And I'm just using black and white because down here in our South land this is where the difference is degraded. And therefore we can illustrate how we declare the significance of Jesus Christ. The tragedy is this that those of us who are a white Christian, most of the time, really have a more brotherly feeling and a greater loyalty to you, blaspheming Christ, regressing, cursing, Christ people who don't love Jesus than we do to a black who loves him and honors him and adores him. And that's the same thing with black. Black to a Christian to ask him, have greater loyalty and brothers who live, blaspheming Christ, regressing, cursing, black, when they do with their fight and brothers and sisters. Half friends, we need to be trained God and let the church really show the world that in Jesus Christ, why the differences are there that the patients are gone. And we show the world how we love one another and live together and work together and the fellowship of his church and the cause of Jesus Christ so that people can listen to you if the world is like that. And friends, that's the way the world is going to be someday. That's the way it's going to be. That's the kingdom that gets to come. But it ought to be coming now in the church so we need to be praying to the church, oh God, we have the church, help us to see what we are to be. These are whole minutes of Christ's reflection in our lives, so love a Christ we see now. And so the kingdom is coming in his church. Now the kingdom also comes to the outreach of the church. You see Jesus gave his church a permission. He said, going to all the world to teach the gospel. Now God uses the gospel, he uses the word to bring to faith, click in the hearts of sinners that he brings to Christ. And so every time a soul is saved, the kingdom of God increases to see. So every time a soul is born again, born into the kingdom, the kingdom of God is in free soul. The church has to be busy, increasing the kingdom. We do it by sharing witness to Christ in the way you live and by the preaching of our lives so that people come to think of him. And so we want to be praying for the revival of the church that the church will really show the unity that all Christians no matter who we are have, and we must manifest it and demonstrate it. And then we want to be reaching out to others and bringing as many as we can into the kingdom of God as we preach the gospel to them and appeal to them to come to Christ. So we need to pray about the revival of the church and the outreach of the church, the evangelistic mission of the church. Jesus called us in Luke's censor standing. The field is tight under the heart of it. It's a labor of the church. God has massacred obvious or left out there yet you haven't come to Christ who are just waiting to miss it and the labor of the church. And so Jesus said, pray is the Lord of the harvest within labor. We ought to be praying every local congregation ought to be praying. God reigns us out of our church, young men and young women who will go out and proclaim the gospel. Every church ought to be praying out into the field all the time out of this congregation. Jesus will be witnesses, lay witnesses, and ministerial witnesses. We ought to be praying to the labor. And then we ought to be praying for those who are laborers. Paul and his letters ask for these things. He writes to four different churches and he says, pray for me like this. He says to the Romans, pray that I'll be kept safe as I witness the Jesus. So we ought to pray for those who really are, the missionaries, the pastors and ministers, the evangelists, the lay witnesses. Those who really will witness the Jesus we ought to be praying to God will protect them. We ought to be praying that God will do what Paul said that he wanted the believers to pray for him for, that he would have opportunity. Opportunity to give the gospel to unbelievers. Secondly, that he devolves when he freaks the gospel, that he wouldn't be afraid, that he would boldly set forth the words and forcefully set praise that I'll be preaching. That's the word that I preach will bear fruit and then we'll come to Christ. So when we're praying in the morning, we're praying for the revival of the church that God will purify the church and unify the church and take our decisions away. And it lasts a radiator of all these divisions that we've artificially put in so that we'll all be one and then we want to pray for the outreach of the gospel. Pray that men will be saved. God will raise up labor, that he'll bless them with praise. You give them opportunity. You give them through the way witness today. And that's what we pray for you to see them. Now then, the other way to see them come is through the second coming of Jesus. We'll look at that tomorrow. That'll be our study tomorrow. When we're praying, may your kingdom come. You will be done on earth if it isn't heaven. First of all, it comes through the work of his spirit and his kingdom on earth right now, the church. So we pray for the revival of the church because we reflect so little of the kingdom. And we pray for the outreach of the church that most of you who are yet out of Christ might come into him and be here. But then finally and fully, his kingdom comes when the kingdom comes back. Now the church is on earth, but her kingdom is invisible. He's sitting on a throne in heaven and he's living in our hearts. But all the world can see is that the church, the visible Christian, that some they are invisible to him is coming back. The ones who now can be seen that human eyes is coming back and firing glory in every eye will see. And when he comes, he's going to put out all the evil and establish forever. Here's a reign of righteousness and blessedness and the new heavens and the new earth. So we'll be looking at that tomorrow. Oh, heaven, they father, we thank you for giving us a praise, you're not only bad for us, but part of how we're to live now that we've been redeemed by the blood and cut us out of praise. God help us to praise Jesus' way. We pray in his name, amen.