Your kingdom come
Your kingdom come. This has a close connection with the preceding petition. In order that the name of God might be hallowed, we pray that his kingdom, the kingdom of Christ, may come. This kingdom then comes to a particular person when he repents and believes the gospel (Mark 1:15), when he is taught by God not only to know himself but to know Jesus Christ and him crucified. As this is life eternal, to know the only true God (John 17:3) and Jesus Christ whom he has sent, so it is the kingdom of God begun below, set up in the believer's heart. The Lord God omnipotent then reigns (Revelation 19:6), when he is known through Christ Jesus. He takes to himself his mighty power, so that he may subdue all things to himself. He goes on in the soul, conquering and to conquer, until he has put all things under his feet (1 Corinthians 15:25), until every thought is brought into captivity to the obedience of Christ (2 Corinthians 10:5).
1771 text
8. Thy kingdom come. This has a close connexion with the preceding petition. In order that the name of God might be hallowed we pray that his kingdom, the kingdom of Christ may come. This kingdom then comes to a particular person, when he repents and believes the gospel: when he is taught of God, not only to know himself, but to know Jesus Christ and him crucified. As this is life eternal, to know the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent, so it is the kingdom of God begun below, set up in the believer’s heart: the Lord God omnipotent then reigneth, when he is known through Christ Jesus. He taketh unto himself his mighty power; that he may subdue all things unto himself. He goeth on in the soul conquering and to conquer, ’till he hath put all things under his feet, ’till every thought is brought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.
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Catalogue & scope
Sermon 26 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 6:1-15.
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