In the end of that ninth verse of Matthew chapter 6, we continue our studies on the revolutionary aspects of the Lord's Prayer. Pray then like this, Jesus is, or pray after this man. And we've been seeing that Jesus and the Lord's Prayer is giving us the pattern of prayer. We're setting Jesus, teaching on prayer, we're attending Jesus' school of prayer in a way as we study this Lord's Prayer. You remember his disciples, he's doing on another occasion. And I ask him to teach them to pray and once again, he taught them this. This is the way Jesus says his disciples are to pray. Now, he didn't teach us to pray this prayer, but to pray this prayer. He said, pray in this pattern. He didn't say these very words. He didn't say for us to say these very words, I mean. It takes 10 seconds to say the Lord's Prayer, but if we pray it, it takes more time and more of our hearts and we'll increase our faith. Because Jesus puts out territories and which he would be praised. All right, now then, just to give a bit of review, we're looking for one morning at the approach to prayer that Jesus gives us. We saw three things in the approach to prayer. First of all, Jesus teaches us to praise in the plural. And so all the way through, it's our and us. We, it's in the plural. Because always, even if we're in our closet, privately praying, and that's what Jesus is teaching us disciples to do here. In verse 6, he says, go into your closet and set the door. And then in secret with the Father, pray in this fashion, our Father and put it in the plural because we're praying along with our Savior. No way in the world, we can get a prayer thing about the God except as we pray in the name of and in identity with and an association with Jesus Christ, we come with him. The Father of our Lord Jesus Christ is our Father and our Savior makes an intercession in heaven, even if we do, and we're praying together. Our Father's are in heaven. Then we're praying in association with all the believers on earth. We're praying just as we are at that time. And we're praying along with all the saints in heaven, we're around the throne, the door. So we're praying in association with the leaders of the nations and with our great Savior and we say our Father. Then he taught us the throne concept. Think about the fact he said when you're buying and prayer, you're buying before the great king of king sitting on the throne of omnipotence and grace. He is able to do anything and he's willing to do for his people to come to him in Christ name. As any teachers, we begin our prayer by giving instead of getting. And so he says, begin like this. Hallelujah, be thy name, begin by giving praise to God, adoring God, magnifying God. And we were looking at this some yesterday morning. It's the very beginning of our fair life, also the adoration of God. When we think about who God is and what he is and what blessing he gives us, it will just sell our hearts with praise. And so we will call out his name for being the kind of God he is. Then yesterday, we moved into the first petition. And we saw that it comes up in these words. Jesus said, pray like this. I've seen them come by. We'll be done on earth as it is in heaven. We saw that this is the biggest thing we can ask God to do. Jesus says now, first of all, ask God's side. If you're coming to God, start out with the biggest thing you can ask him to detect all his activities. Ask something that will let him prove what a great God he really is. Ask something that will give God the opportunity to prove that he has always been all power. Ask for his kingdom to come so perfectly on the planet earth that it'll be just like it is in heaven. That is the biggest thing you could ask him to do. So Jesus finds us to see an intercessory life, his church, his people, the intercession for this planet earth and his human population. And it teaches us to pray for God's will to be done and he's seen them to come on earth as it is in heaven. Now yesterday, we were coming pretty close to the end. I think when I was pointing out that in order to pray with intelligence at this point, we're not going to just say the words, not just limit our prayer to just say in the words that your kingdom come to your will be done on earth as it isn't heaven. We're to identify and structure the avenues by which God promises to answer this prayer. He does declare that he will bring his kingdom and his will be done on earth as it is in heaven and through the whole past universe. And in the structure he gives us the key avenues by which this will come to pass. And so we pray for both of these avenues, we pray in both of these territories. If you turn to Daniel chapter two, we'll get a picture of the first avenue that the Lord opens up to us for the way he brings his kingdom into the world. And we'll see that for God begins to bring his kingdom visibly and moving on to his final form in the first coming of the Lord Jesus Christ into the world. On Daniel chapter three, chapter four, let's say about chapter two down around verse 36 and on down for about 10 or 12 verses, you have an account of the dream that never could miss his dreams that he wanted Daniel to give the interpretation to you. And in this dream he had seen in his dream vision, he had seen four great kingdoms, one was characterized by gold and one by silver, one by bronze, and one by iron. And these are very easy to identify as their description is given as the great empires in kingdom. First of all, of nibbic and misery himself and then the Persian kingdom or empires in the Greek kingdom and then the Roman, which was the last great world government, the Roman kingdom, which is described as the great monster of iron and the by-doubt of the king has chosen and the seed has made up of iron and clay mixed so that it has a part element of strength and elements of weakness. And then after describing those four great kingdoms in the last one that just arises, which is the Roman Empire, the great iron figure, then we have this statement given to us in chapter two, verse 44. And in the days of those kings, the god of heaven will set up a kingdom which will never be destroyed, nor shall its sovereignty be led to another people. It shall break in pieces all these kingdoms and bring them to an end and it shall stand forever just as you saw that a stone was cut from a mountain by no human hand and that it broke in pieces of iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold, a great god has made known to the king, such that he'll be here after a dream of certain and its interpretation sure. David said, look, following these great kingdoms and at the time of the great iron kingdom, which is the Roman Empire, God will establish a kingdom himself on the planet Earth and it will increase while these others pass away. Now what happened during the Roman Empire, during the reign of the Caesar? Well, we're told in Isaiah chapter three what happened. Chapter nine, we were looking at it the other day, that great prophecy, unto us, a son is born, unto us, a child is given, and the government will be upon his shoulders and his name should be called Wonderful Counselor, mighty god of the last name Father, Prince of Caesar, and of the increase of this government in Caesar will be no end and he says that the zeal of God will establish this and uphold it. So in the prophets, we have a declaration that in the course of the world empires it will rise, in the course of the last world empire that arises, God is going to send his king into this world who will take the throne of David, that's the Lord Jesus Christ, and he begins in his first coming, in his first appearance, he begins to kill them that never will have an end and will never be destroyed and will finally conquer it. And so we move on into the gospels of Luke, Francis, and Luke is telling the prophecy of Gabriel to Mary about the coming stages that he'll be the earthly mother of. He tells her in chapter one of the book of Luke, verse 31, behold, you will continue your room and bear a son and you should call his name Jesus, he will be great and he will be called the son of the most time and the Lord God will give him the throne of his father David and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever and obvious kingdom there will be no end. Talking about the birth of Jesus and then little later, you know, the baby is born and the shepherd is here to glad tidings with a grace, a savior and a Lord or a king has been born and then you remember when Jesus began his public ministry, the Bible tells us that he began his ministry by proclaiming, now the kingdom of heaven is here. The kingdom of heaven is at hand. The kingdom is here, that last, Jesus is here. Then you remember back up in the first chapter of the gospel of Matthew, Jesus says that the kingdom of heaven will be like a mustard seed, it starts out very small but it begins to grow until it lasts, it becomes the greatest of all the trees. And then in chapter 16, he further clarifies what he's talking about. He says to the disciples, who do you say that I am? And Peter tries out for all of them. You're the Christ, the son of the living God. And then Jesus makes that grace possibly. That has meant so much to the church and ought to be renewed in our minds today. He said this, blessed art thou thyme and barred Jonah for flesh and blood did not reveal this to you but my father who is in heaven. And I tell you that you're a Peter and on this rock I will build my church and the powers of death or the juice of hell will never prevail against it. And then when Jesus had died for the sins of these people and risen again and the gospel of Matthew right at the end, he declared to his disciples now this little infant church, just like a little tiny luster seed, which is going to grow and stand the earth until it does today. And he made this declaration to them. He said all authority and heaven on earth has been given the need. Go therefore and make the disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to serve whatever I commanded you. And go on with you always, even as the end of the age. You see the Church of Jesus Christ is God's kingdom on earth today. Every person who recognizes in the sky becomes part of that great Israel that made us of you and Gentile all who belong to the Messiah. And so when we're praying for God's kingdom to come, we're praying for his church. He has the kingdom on earth and if you're in the church, that is, if you've been born of a spirit, born into the kingdom of God and are part of a body of Christ, you belong to the body of Christ, the Church of Jesus Christ, and you're in the kingdom. Remember how Paul put it? In Colossians chapter 1, verse 13, he said, the God has delivered us from the domain of God and transferred us over into the kingdom of this year's time. So Jesus is our Savior, our Shepherd, and He's our great King. So when we praise the Lord, say, we're praying, God be your kingdom coming to your church. We pray for the church to show the unity of the kingdom. And so we pray for the doing the way of the Jesus. We pray for that day when there'll be one flock and and and be one shepherd and it'll be obvious that there's only one flock. We pray for the day when we grimp aside the human distinctions of the virus and and our unity is all together in our mutual peace and Christ and our love for one another. The church doesn't represent that as purposes at all to the day. They may be at does, but not nearly as clear as you'd also as it also until people on the outside are puzzled about the church and they can't see the church represents anything much better than the world offers because of our division and our protection for these priests and the unholiness of our life. So we need to be prayed, Lord God, make your church united. Make your church pure and it's about to make your church totally ungodly on this religion. Make your church to be bound together in the bonds of our mutual love that the world can recognize. All brings to be also the other seed in every base of the church. Pray for your local congregation. Pray for your denomination and pray for the time when it not be a denomination. So it will be grinned against the whole body of Christ across the face of the earth. We want to pray for that time. Jesus prayed for us. In John chapter 17 we have a record of his last great prayer, priestly prayer as he prays out in the garden close to midnight that night and he begins his prayer praying that God will make them one and when he comes to the end of his prayer come back to it. All Father, may they be one and year one. That's a world may see that I'm really alone. So we want to pray for this. We've got to agonize and pray for this and make them our particular. So we've got to pray for ourselves. We're part of the church. You're not only pray for the church in general but you pray for yourself. Now you begin to make your own surrender every day when you pray the Lord's prayer. You surrender your own eyes up to him a prayer. You pray that God will receive what you offer to him by his grace and will undo you with the Holy Spirit for that day and cause the fruit of the Spirit to be manifest in your life that day. Commit yourself to follow the scenes that day and to live under his belief and under his reign of grace. Then you pray for our others as you know. Love one who believes in Jesus but he can you've got concerns about because they're there. They're not as faithful in their Christian life as they ought to be. You pray for all of these. You pray for the laborers to be raised up out of the church to bear witness because in order to extend the kingdom we have to have more people brought into it and so by regeneration God is bringing more into the church by the new birth but he affects that new birth by the word and the church teaches the word and then the spirit takes it and brings it into the kingdom. So we want to be trained that God will raise up lasers that out of our congregation will come more lazy people who are witness to Christ. Out of our youth will come those who will commit themselves to preparation for the gospel ministry at home and abroad and then let's pray for those who are out there in ministry. Praise that God will bless them and make them preach them. Then pray for the people out there that the gospel is going to be. We and I have to be in people to pray for. We've got more people to pray for than other Christians have ever had. Paul told his disciples to hold the attendity and writing to him. He said listen pray for his team and people everywhere. Pray for him and so we need to be prayed for them that their hearts will be given to Christ and that they'll be open to him and God will take a great people out of them. So we pray for them. You know I was in a conference not too long ago or several years ago. One morning I just I don't know if I started thinking along this line but I began to think now look how many of the nations of the world have already prayed for by name. How many nations in the world have I listed that by name and intercession prayed for their president or team or dictator who ever was headed and prayed for the people in the witness for Christ there. So I got out my team intent and my team and said then decided I was going to make a list of all the nations that I can remember that I definitely prayed for. You know I ended up with only about five or six and I've been a Christian for a long time then and I saw that the geography of my prayer was particularly little and then I thought about that film around the world and around the earth in the 80 days and that's all made me think this. Will look I'm going to become a world traveler in my prayer. Every 80 days I'm going to go around the world. I'm going to pray for the nations of the planet earth. I'm going to pray for their rulers and their people and the witness for Christ there and I'm going to for the rest of my life be praying for all the nations of the world. That's been a great experience for me. I do every morning I'm praying to be with Mexico and I'll be moving on tomorrow but I'm praying to the leaders and these people in the witness for Christ and interceding that Christ will take your people out of that people and may they be in most of these the numbers. So the whole form of the government will be changed and that nation will stand as a holy stone before God. We need to be praying like this. This is what we're supposed to do and so you just can't say the Lord so we have to pray a little bit but not not only is Christ kingdom some in terms of his first coming to establish his church but his kingdom will never perfectly come so that the new heavens and the new earth are really here until he comes the second time and so if you look in the seventh chapter of the book of Daniel Daniel presents this aspect in chapter 2 in the vision that's given the nebuchadnezzar the truth is set for us that when God sent his Messiah his son into this world he'll set up a kingdom and it will be in his church and it will reign forever but then over in the book of Daniel in chapter 7 we have a other teaching that this gives us visions that Daniel himself had and let me see I haven't got the verse yet. In beginning with chapters with verse 1 Daniel begins to give an account of the vision that he had had and again he sees four great beasts and one is like a lion and one is like a bear and one is like a leopard and one is more terrible the last one is more terrible than the mall and has skin horns and they're again he's talking about the Roman Empire. Here again we have the same empire and the empire of nebuchadnezzar and then we have the Persian Empire and the Greek and then the finally the Roman Empire and then he talks about a strange being. After this fourth empire reading out of that system comes finally a little horn that becomes a very powerful figure in the world and seems to be identified with antichrist as he had been revealed in the New Testament and in the days of antichrist he says in beginning now at about the role let's see in chapter 7 verse 9 as I look that is after this very terrible dominant figure in the world a ruler leader in the world that he isn't he says I thought going to a place and one that was ancient of days that you see and his reign that was white as snow in his hair was as I hid like your will and the throne was fiery cleansed and his wheels were burning fire and the stream of fire he seemed to be forth from before him and thousands and thousands and thousands served him 10,000 times in thousands stood before him the court sat in judgment and the books were open. I remember the book of Revelation at the end of time we're told that the books then would be open. Then he says I look and behold the sound of great words which cahorn was speaking that is that great enemy that great antichrist and as I look the beast was slain and his body distorted given over to be burned alive as it were the rest of the beast their dominion was taken away and their lives were prolonged for a season and a time and I saw in the night visions and behold the sounds of heaven and their team one like the son of man and he teamed up into the base and was presented before him and to him was given dominion and glory and teamed him and all people's nations tongues your fervent is dominion is never lasting dominion which will not pass away and his kingdom one which will not be destroyed. This seems to imply the second coming of Jesus Christ. This is the description that we have with the coming of our blessed Savior and so those of us who are praying the Lord's prayer want God's kingdom to come on earth and his will to be done. It will be a company and great measure of Jesus church and the church's ministry in this world but not totally empty. The consummation return of Christ is also necessary so Paul tells us we're looking for that blessed voice and the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ. So if you turn now to March 13 we will see the verse where the statement that Jesus makes that draws our attention to the fact that it requires his second coming to finally bring the full answer to this prayer. So when we're praying for God's kingdom to come we're not only praying to the church and the ministry is a holy spirit and the church we're praying also for the second coming of Jesus. Look at verse 26 and then they will see the son of man coming in clouds with great power and glory and then he will send out his angels and gather his elect from the four winds from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven. What a declaration. Jesus now has become toward the end of the virtually ministry tell these disciples the time will come. From the son of man will come and bring power and glory as then he's going to put out all the rain of evil and the sadness forever the rain of righteousness. Power. When Jesus seen the first time he manifested power and miracles. He blessed people who had faith with his power but he didn't destroy the evil with his power. When Jesus was here on earth the first time he didn't breathe the breath of condemnation and foundation on everybody he met to the center. He had come on a saving mission and his power was manifest when it was in muted, muted harm manifest in stealing the storm and raising the bed and healing the sick and miracles like that. But when he comes the second time, when he comes the second time he comes with all his power the least to destroy this time all the people and his first coming he blessed the believers but he didn't come to destroy the evil. So when he comes the second time he comes to finish from the universe every intelligence that refuses to acknowledge him as the creator and the beamer and belongs to faith and he vanishes them all in the lake of fire and so Jesus is talking about this he's caught putting the eyes of his disciples he said now look I want you to look way down there and see but I'm coming and I'm coming the power to bring glory back in the universe again you see sin has robbed the world of glory sin has sealed this world with teens and crying and sickness and death and suffering and heartbreak and parties so when Jesus comes with power he's going to banish all of that so that nothing but glory will ring now then in Matthew 19 Jesus uses the terminology that's interesting let's look at that Matthew chapter 19 if you look at about verse 25 when the disciples heard this they were greatly astonished saying he can be saved
Jesus said to them with men it is impossible but with God all things are possible then Peter said in reply low we have left everything in power of you what then should we have Jesus said to them truly I say to you in the regeneration in the regeneration when the son of man shall sit on his glorious throne you who have followed me will also sit on 12th throne judging the 12 tribes of Israel and the regeneration and the new age that is to come now Jesus isn't talking now about the regeneration of an individual soul he's talking now about the regeneration of the world the planet earth and the whole physical universe that it belongs to he's talking about a strange regeneration of the whole course of this universe now Peter picks up this same kind of terminology if you look at his second term and over in the book of Acts in Acts chapter 3 in his second term and Peter uses a similar terminology to Jesus in verse 17 of chapter 3 he says and now brethren I know that you acted in ignorance as big your rulers he's talking to the very gist people to crucify Jesus but what God foretold was the mouth of all the prophets that his Christ must suffer less he fulfills repent therefore and turn again that your sins may be blotted out and that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord that he may sin Christ appointed for you Jesus to the heavens must receive until the time for the restitution that God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from our old now Peter any second sermon did this easy said come to Christ put your faith in him repent and embrace him for the heavens of receiving him until that time when God will send him back and the restitution of everything will come about that is everything will be restored to its original glory before there was ever anything the restitution of all things is very vast world and with later Peter said we look for that ye heaven through that ye earth very under us righteousness and so Peter and Jesus both were speaking and directing the eyes of the disciples for the fact that someday when Jesus comes back again there's going to be a regeneration a restoration and the universe itself is physical universe will be in bad with a glory that is almost incomprehensible now but what are they really talking about well it's given to us in Romans chapter 8 and the 8th chapter Romans we find a graphic picture of what these terms of Jesus and Peter's youth are using seem to seem to be referring to if you look at verse 18 in Paul says this in the 8th chapter Romans I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us for creation which was easier along for the revealing of the sons of God now what does that refer to the remember that Paul said in his collusion epistle when Christ to his own life fell appears then will we appear with him in glory when Christ comes in a second time and he's going to gather his elect from the east and the west and the north and the south of all the earth and heaven and bind us together with him forever and that seemed in a total victory now then Paul is talking about that the sons of God will be revealed in when Jesus comes then all these people will be with him forever and the sons of God will be revealed so he's talking about the second coming of Christ and then he goes on for a creation that's the physical universe this vast universe is so large that we haven't built telescopes yet large enough to show us really what God has fully done he says creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God for creation while subjected to the utility not of his own will but the will of him who subjected it in hope that is Paul is referring to the fact that when man entered into a bayon against God God even left the physical world began to show the evilness of sin so that man now lives in a world that's got a wild nature in it even the animals have a wildness of nature they're earthly and strong catastrophes of nature they're horns and missiles and attack on men God has already been that man he's heart is rebellious against God will live in a universe that will constantly be reminding him of his grace with God and the wisdom before a judgment now then Paul is talking about that when he says look creation now because of man sin has been subjected to a certain utility not of his own will but the will of him he suggested it but he did it in hope because creation itself will be set free from its bindings to decay and will obtain the glorious liberty of the children of God now do you know what the liberties of children have got on that's their resurrection from the bed he talks about that if he's gone down and verse the latter part of verse 23 we await the adoption of sons the redemption of our bodies the resurrection of our bodies Paul is saying here that just as the leaders when Jesus comes their bodies are in the grave their souls will come back with Jesus when he comes and the bodies that have been in the graves are they're just scattered throughout the earth and it's gone you'll raise up bodies now say they're free eternities Paul tells us in Philippians 3 our bodies will you may like this glorious body never to die again never to suffer geared not to eternity these bodies are only good for a while not a year's a hundred maybe a hundred and five and anywhere out but when God raises us and gives us our new bodies that they said it for eternity but now what Paul is saying is this remember that he's not only going to raise your mortal body and an immortal body he's going to raise this mortal creation and an immortal creation this very planet earth and all the heavens and belong to all the universe when Jesus comes is going to be made use this present time is going to pass away with all the evil of it and all the wild of it and God is going to take the wild and see them out and make them and then this whole vast universe which then will be called the new heavens and the new earth and that word you is the Greek word that means we need there is a Greek word on you that means something that never wiled before but the words of you for the new heaven and the new earth not leaders and in the book of God is the word that means something that already is that God makes over again and so when Jesus comes he's going to cleanse this vast universe of all symptoms of death and decay and it lasts forever because it will be more decay death and hell and evil and sin and all that belongs to it are vanished forever in the liquefile and now this vast universe will always show the glory of God and the great people that God has saved in Jesus the elect of God out of all nations and races and tribes from all the ages as men from Adam down to this present time that great hostion number he's wrote to have been watched quite in the blood of the land will be appeased him before he unfolds ever and ever and he'll serve him in the glory of that great Christ Jesus that's laid out before and so when we come to the end of the book over in the book of Revelation chapter is 21 22 we have that great beautiful picture of that eternal spirit when God now has brought his people back from heaven and given them their new bodies and and now the heavenly city to loosen this tongue down into its proper place for eternity and the earth and all its physical environments have been turned into immortality and the new heavens and the new earth then he says I saw them you heavens and the new earth first one for the first heaven and the first earth it passed away and the sea was no more and I saw the holy city that used Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God prepared like a bride adorned for her husband that's the present heaven coming down where God certainly is and where the same God and he will dwell with them as they will be his people and he will wipe away every tear from their eyes now he's talking here about drying up tears forever God is wiped my tears away many a time God over and over again will take the handcuffs of some Thomas in the Bible and dry my tears but they'll come back again when car is done but when this time comes the cars of tears will all be taken away and there won't be anymore tears because it says and this should be no more these are still the beginning morning or crying or anything anymore for the former things that passed away these words are obsolete I believe it was cotton matter I'm not sure one of the old features of a couple of recent years ago declared that if you look in a dictionary you will find a list of words that aren't used anymore they aren't current they belong to a generation that's passed but if you get a webtoot I'll try this if you get a webtoot dictionary and look at it you will find many words it has a little bracket on the side and in it that bracket will be obviously that means that word is used anywhere we dropped it out of languages and the words the best and crying and pain and all these things they won't be used in heaven they just belong to earth like they won't be part of our heaven the land and so we haven't hear the rest of the description but now look when you come down to the very end of the book of Revelation the last prayer is what I'm talking about and it's praying the Lord's prayer in verse 20 now Revelation 20 says the last prayer is John 10 come Lord Jesus hope friends that's what we're praying and we're praying the Lord's prayer we're praying for God's Christ to come in the power of the Holy Spirit in church and unified and purified and till it was witnessing these that it made the loud and capture souls for Christ and turn the world to Christ and bring government and systems of men under the subject of the word of God but also we pray because we know this can never be fully accomplished and because he comes back so we're at we're praying in old Lord send back the Son of Lord Lord Jesus come the pain may be over and the tears begin and the kingdom forever fully come all the hopes of the heart he fully realized and we pray for he's coming and we ought to do it in the Bible we're taught to love his appearance we're taught to look at his son we're taught to live in the life of his son and we're taught to praise for his son when the kingdom will have come all he will be passed in nothing but glory ahead the last sonnest and the book of Genesis that tells about the beginning of man and the beginning of sin peace of a grave and a team because now there's time but our last line in the book of Revelation is the grace of the Lord Jesus he would always think and that's the way to be forever especially if we've got a bright future for him our bright future we praise the Lord's prayer and Holy Spirit inside of the crowd inside of the enemy you can try to speak inside of the enemy Christ inside of the fight or any Christ inside of all of that Christ through his church is going to be gathering millions of the team and it's about all of our suffering Christ is going to make himself manifest in his church and as his church witnesses on the one hand the sinners and praise him coming on the other Christ is gonna come and when he comes everything we've done and his name will be crowned with victory we're on the winning side and you'll never be anything for God in good that is normally crowned with everlasting victory when that kingdom finally is consummated in his soul glory so let's pray for the last time that he's in time that will be done on earth is it isn't heaven praise for the church praise for the coming of Christ is the end of the age and then praise God and thank you that's it is his spirit he will bless the
and through his coming of his great son he will at last establish forever totally in hope throughout all the vast universe our Father we do praise you we thank you we're grateful that you're a God Lord who accomplishes his purpose and we're soul things after the council of your own will that you have the wisdom and the power to do all things and you have the love and the grace and the holiness to do what is right and to do what is good and you have the kind that enables you to face sinners like we are oh Father thank you for bringing us into your kingdom the beginning worship here today who still is in the kingdom of God following the course of their own nature the several meetings of faith and the thoughts patterns of the world thought if anybody is here today he's still living that life of darkness boom the glass of ruin forever oh Lord transperting by your grace from that domain of darkness this very day into the kingdom of your kingdom cause them just now as we bow in place to look up the Christ of last and own him as the Savior he purchased blood and written from the dead is the Lord to be our gracious blessed king to rule over us in a reign of blessed goodness and grace until he comes now while our heads are bowed I have to give you if anyone here has never embraced Christ in your kind of turn to be for your sins man and by the grace of God test yourself on his mercy declare yourself to be here call upon him to have mercy on you and to come into your life right now for whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be safe you call on him right now as we bow before him