Lord' s Pray ③

 “Thy kingdom come.” This word means “Let God's kingdom be on this earth.” What is the kingdom of God? It is the place where the perfect rule of God is achieved. Governance is a place in the Holy Spirit. The concept of the kingdom of God is not a concept of place but of the working of the Holy Spirit. When the Holy Spirit comes 100%, God's kingdom comes and God's reign comes.

As Jesus says in John 17, "God and people become one, as the Father and Jesus are one." "Thy kingdom come" means "to come to this world", and "to make it in me." If Jesus asks, "Let the kingdom of God come," this is not the kingdom of God. The Bible says that humans have left God and realize it, so let the kingdom of God come.

The primary meaning of the coming of the kingdom of God is the coming of the Messiah's kingdom into this world. It is a nation where Jesus Christ returns and reigns. This refers to the millennial kingdom of Revelation. Secondly, it is God's kingdom for me. Jesus said in Luke (17:20-21). And when 『he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:  Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you. 』 Jesus speaks of the kingdom of God in you. If the kingdom of God is in me, then I will have perfect rulership of God. It is to be one with God.

In John (17: 11-15), Jesus said, "Be one." This word speaks of the perfect reign of God in the Holy Spirit. That is, perfect communion with God in the Holy Spirit. 『 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. 』 (Genesis 2: 23-24)

This content has profound meaning. Originally, because it was one, it must be one again. The apostle Paul says in Ephesians (5: 30-32):『 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.  For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.  This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. 』

What is the great mystery of the apostle Paul? It is not easy to see. This mystery is about the relationship between Christ and the church. The union of Christ and the church is one. In Genesis (2:25) the Bible says:『 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed. 』The word naked was unknowing about the kingdom of God. Jesus called the Pharisees blind, which is blind to the kingdom of God. The fact that Adam and Eve were naked is not physically naked, but spiritually naked. Paul says in 2 Corinthians (5: 1-3).

『 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. 』 This is a description of the tabernacle of the flesh and the tabernacle of the kingdom of God. It is spiritual nakedness that took off the tabernacle of the kingdom of God. Taking off the veil of the flesh is the death of the flesh. The apostle Paul explains the desire to put on the tabernacle of God after the death of the flesh.

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