Thy Kingdom Come
Minister: | Rev. Ronald Van Overloop |
Date: | 11/6/2011 AM |
Text: | I Corinthians 15; Lord's Day 48 |
Psalters: | 273, 328, 184, 50 |
- The kingdom.
- The kingdom of God is the rule of God in Christ over those He makes willing in the day of His power.
- God is King, so He rules.
- This rule of God is through Christ (thus it is called the “kingdom of Christ”).
- It is also called the kingdom of heaven.
- The presence of the kingdom consists of all the spiritual powers, graces, and blessings in Christ.
- The kingdom comes through-out the history of this world.
- It was present in the Garden of Eden.
- After the fall the coming of the kingdom of God in the world is antithetical because there is also the kingdom of Satan.
- After the fall into sin God promised the Kingdom in the spiritual Seed of the woman.
- The kingdom will be perfectly and fully realized in heaven (Matt. 25:34).
- We pray for the kingdom to come.
- Personally we desire to be more and more ruled by God’s Word and Spirit, til we submit perfectly.
- We also pray for the preservation and increase of the instituted church of God.
- We pray antithetically, i.e., that every manifestation of the kingdom of Satan be destroyed.
- And we ask that the perfected realization of the kingdom come with the return of Christ.