That polo match next month-I'll be there wearing the blue and white striped shirt. You can count on me." "Princess Di, I love that china pattern you picked out and that dresslet's go shopping at the Galleria Friday and we'll have some lunch. We'll do lunch, Princess Di." O.K.?
Now, we would love to have that type of relationship with this royal couple, with this couple we read about in so many magazines, so many books, such a media hype about Princess Diana and Prince Charles. But do you realize that we as human beings, we as Christians, we as people who know the Lord, we are made to have a relationship with royalty? Not just a friendship. Much deeper than that. I'm talking about our lives should be a palace for the King of kings and the Lord of lords. Who is that? It's Jesus Christ.
The three words, "Thy kingdom come," these words are so vast, so deep, in fact, all of us could pretty much spend an entire life studying the kingdom of God. But I pray these words so much, "Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven." We've all gone through that motion. But what does it mean, "Thy kingdom come"? It's kind of like the little boy who stands on the beach of the Gulf of Mexico and looks out with a little plastic pail there and thinks, "How in the world can I get this great expanse of ocean into this tiny little bucket? How can I do that?"
Well, of course, we know that's impossible. So, there's no way I can articulate or explain everything that has to do with the kingdom of God, but I will promise you this: I will whet your appetite because God whets our appetite here in His Bible. And I firmly believe if God really told us what the kingdom of God was completely like, especially in the life hereafter, we would all want to die and be with the Lord so quick, we'd be standing out on MacArthur saying, "O.K. Hit me. Go ahead." That's how incredible it is.
Ed Young Contemporary Church talks about "Thy kingdom come." Three words in the english; three words in the koynais Greek. Because, we know the New Testament was written in the koynais language. But these three words introduce to us three questions.
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