How does the coming kingdom of God bring you hope? Can you identify "strongholds" of the enemy and how they have affected your life? If so, list them. How has or could God use you to invade Satan's domain and build His kingdom? These and other questions are addressed in the biblical study.
2. 9 In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father
in heaven, hallowed be Your name. 10 Your
kingdom come. Your will be done on earth
as it is in heaven. 11 Give us this day our
daily bread. 12 And forgive us our debts, as
we forgive our debtors. 13 And do not lead
us into temptation, but deliver us from the
evil one. For Yours is the kingdom and the
power and the glory forever. Amen.
5. Ruled by Satan
Matthew 4:8 Again, the devil took Him up on an
exceedingly high mountain, and showed Him all
the kingdoms of the world and their glory.
6. John 12:31 Now is the judgment of this world;
now the ruler of this world will be cast out.
2 Corinthians 4:4 whose minds the god of this
age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light
of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the
image of God, should shine on them.
Ephesians 2:2 in which you once walked according
to the course of this world, according to the
prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now
works in the sons of disobedience,
Ruled by Satan
7. Envy, Strife & Confusion
John 18:36 Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not
of this world. If My kingdom were of this world,
My servants would fight, so that I should not be
delivered to the Jews; but now My kingdom is
not from here.”
James 3:14–16 But if you have bitter envy and
self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie
against the truth. 15 This wisdom does not
descend from above, but is earthly, sensual,
demonic. 16 For where envy and self-seeking
exist, confusion and every evil thing are there.
8. John 16:33 These things I have spoken to you, that in
Me you may have peace. In the world you will have
tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the
world.”
Temporary
9. Temporary
Colossians 1:13 He has delivered us from the power
of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of
the Son of His love,
10. Temporary
1 John 3:8 For this purpose the Son of God was
manifested, that He might destroy the works of
the devil.
11. יל ֵא ָר ְִׂש Yisra'el
Isra = struggle + El = God
Genesis 32:22-32
"He who
struggles with
God"
12. John 3:3–6 Jesus answered and said to
him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless
one is born again, he cannot see the
kingdom of God.” 5 Jesus answered, “Most
assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born
of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter
the kingdom of God.”
Ruled by Christ
13. Romans 10:9–10 that if you confess with
your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in
your heart that God has raised Him from
the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the
heart one believes unto righteousness,
and with the mouth confession is made
unto salvation.
Ruled by Christ
More accurately translated:
“that Jesus is Lord”
14. The first words of Jesus recorded in the
Gospel of Mark: “The time is fulfilled, and
the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent,
and believe in the gospel.” (Mk. 1:15)
Ruled by Christ
The first words of John the Baptist:
“Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at
hand” (Mt. 3:2)
15. Location:
Luke 17:20–21 Now when
He was asked by the
Pharisees when the kingdom
of God would come, He
answered them and said,
“The kingdom of God does
not come with observation;
21 nor will they say, ‘See
here!’ or ‘See there!’ For
indeed, the kingdom of God
is within you.”
Within the true Christian
16. Righteousness, Peace & Joy
Romans 14:17 for the kingdom of God is
not eating and drinking, but righteousness
and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
Matthew 6:33 But seek first the kingdom
of God and His righteousness, and all these
things shall be added to you.
17. Duration: Eternal
John 3:16 For God so loved the world that
He gave His only begotten Son, that
whoever believes in Him should not perish
but have everlasting life.
John 17:3 And this is eternal life, that
they may know You, the only true God,
and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.
18. Matthew 12:25–28 But Jesus knew their
thoughts, and said to them: “Every kingdom
divided against itself is brought to desolation,
and every city or house divided against itself
will not stand. 26 If Satan casts out Satan, he is
divided against himself. How then will his
kingdom stand? 27 And if I cast out demons by
Beelzebub, by whom do your sons cast them
out? Therefore they shall be your judges. 28 But
if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, surely
the kingdom of God has come upon you.
19. (Matthew 13)
The SOWER & the SOILS (1-23)
The TARES among the WHEAT (24-30, 36-43)
The MUSTARD SEED (31-32)
The LEAVEN (33-35)
20. (Matthew 13)
The HIDDEN TREASURE (44)
The PEARL of great price (45-46)
The DRAGNET (47-51)
The HOUSEHOLDER (52)
21. Revelation 21:24–26 And the nations of those who
are saved shall walk in its light, and the kings of the
earth bring their glory and honor into it. 25 Its gates
shall not be shut at all by day (there shall be no
night there). 26 And they shall bring the glory and
the honor of the nations into it.
23. “Lord Jesus, I ask Thee, give unto me
movement in Thy love without measure;
desire without limit; longing without
order; burning without discretion. Truly
the better the love of Thee is, the
greedier it is; for neither by reason is it
restrained, nor be dread thronged, nor
by doom tempted.”
Richard Rolle (1290?-1349)
The first petition, “Hallowed be Thy name,” concerns God’s glory itself, whereas the second and third have respect to the means whereby His glory is to be manifested and promoted on earth. God’s name is manifestatively glorified here only in the proportion in which His Kingdom comes to us and His will is done by us. The relationship between this petition and the former one, then, is quite apparent. Christ teaches us to pray first for the sanctifying of God’s great name; then He directs us to pray subsequently for the means thereto. Among the means for promoting God’s glory, none is so influential as the coming of His Kingdom. Hence we are exhorted, “But seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness” (Matthew 6:33). But though men ought to glorify God’s name upon earth, yet of themselves they cannot do so. God’s Kingdom must first be set up in their hearts. God cannot be honored by us until we voluntarily submit to His rule over us.
Pink, A. W. (2005). The Lord’s Prayer (Mt 6:9). Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc.
Is it ever called the “kingdom of Satan”
Satan is not a king, but a prince
Therefore his domains are called “principalities”
Jacob (deceiver) is called Israel – God prevails or prince with God