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I praise God for the opportunity that the pastor of the church and the elders have considered that I should speak today. At the outset I would say that whatever I’m preaching I see myself also wanting, so what I would request as you listen to me is that you would listen in a way that you would examine the—or whatever I say—and accept only if it is according to the scriptures, because no man is above the scriptures.
So having said that, I pray that God would give me utterance and words that align with the scriptures and that I would speak his truth according to the scriptures. Today I’m going to speak on the Lord’s Prayer. The Lord’s Prayer is in Matthew chapter 6. So from that text I would want to speak to you. The Lord’s Prayer, before I get in there, first thing that I would like you to understand is that it starts in Matthew chapter 4 verse 17, because that’s where Jesus comes and starts preaching, saying, “The kingdom of heaven is at hand. Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”
That’s where he starts. And Matthew 5 is an exposition or the code of the king of heaven and earth. Matthew 5 is—we can draw a similarity to the experience of Moses on Mount Sinai. There you see the Lord descend in darkness and in thick smoke and fire. Here you see Jesus on the mount, and here you see he taking greater authority than Moses. He says, “You have heard, but I say unto you.” That’s how. And before he comes to that text he gives how one should be who belongs to the kingdom, how one should be who belongs to his kingdom, and how one should be who’s a citizen of his kingdom them.
That’s how he starts and he takes greater authority than Moses. He is the greater Moses. He is greater than Moses and he speaks that way. And as he speaks, he gives interpretation of Moses, the right interpretation of Moses, than what the Pharisees have been giving. And we can draw a parallel of every section of Jesus, whatever he’s saying, to the Old Testament law. We can look at it as the family law. We can look at it as the criminal law. We can look at it as the law of thoughts. We can draw parallels from Exodus to Deuteronomy, but that’s not what I’m going to do, because my text would be Matthew 6 verse 9 onwards, where Jesus says, “If you pray, this is how you should pray.” So I would speak from there. But what I want you to understand is the one greater
than Moses is giving the right interpretation, how to read Moses, how to understand the criminal law, how to understand the laws of divorce, which is based again on Jesus’s interpretation of Matthew 19. If you look at there, he anchors divorce in the creation itself, how God made man and woman. So this greater than Moses is giving the interpretation. This person who is the Lord of Lords and King of Kings and King of the Kingdom is giving his interpretation, the right interpretation, and is correcting the Pharisees. So that’s how you should understand the text. And when it comes to Matthew chapter 6 verse 9 onwards, he says, “Our Father,” this is how you should pray. When the text says, when Jesus is saying, “This is how you should pray,” it is not a request that he’s making. And one more thing that we should understand is this prayer
cannot be prayed by Jesus, because the text says, “Father, forgive us,” you know, “as we forgive others.” Thus, Jesus cannot pray that prayer. So this is not the Lord’s prayer. This is the prayer Jesus taught us to pray, how we need to pray. So what I’m going to do as I go through this text is, I want to run through this text and anchor it in the biblical theology from Genesis to the new heaven and the new earth. That’s what I want to do. Is, uh, you know, a tremendous requirement that I want to, you know, I’ve set myself to. But I would like to be fast and hope I would finish it before time. So what Jesus is saying is, this is how we should pray. He is commanding us to pray like this. It is not
a request. It is not that, you know, he’s pleading with us. That Greek text is a command of Jesus that we should pray like this. The king is commanding that you and I should pray like this. And he says, “Our Father in heaven,” that is your father, my father, the citizens’ father in heaven. This is the prayer of a citizen. This is the prayer of the one who belongs to God, one who belongs within his kingdom. And all the principles are the kingdom principles.
How we can come to that conclusion is, I would anchor it in one of the requirements of the kingdom. He says, after the prayer, he says, “If you forgive others, your sins are forgiven. If you do not forgive, your sins remain.” Is that a salvific forgiveness?
Is that a salvific forgiveness? It is not a salvific forgiveness that Jesus is placing there. It is the kingdom principle. You know, you remember the parable that Jesus speaks? The one who belongs to the kingdom is forgiven. And what does that guy do? He doesn’t forgive. And what is the reaction of the king? He throws him in prison. So this is the kingdom principle. If you received forgiveness, you have received something which is far greater than you can roll out to anybody else, so it is mandated upon you that you should give out forgiveness. You cannot be unforgiving. This is the kingdom principle. This is the principle of a citizen. If you belong to Jesus, this is how you should live, with your wife, with your children, with anyone within the kingdom, not just within the church but your parents may be going to
a different church, your children may be going to a different church. You have to live the kingdom principle. Everything Matthew 5, 6 and 7 is that. Hope you see the text going that way. It is not—Jesus is not speaking about receiving forgiveness in a salvific way, which is given free by the king, which is given because the son died, which is given because he rose again from the dead. So the kingdom principle, Jesus is speaking that way. So the first thing that he says is, “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be thy name.” When we look at this text I want to bring
In one kind of correction here, many people think that God's name is not hallowed. Many people think that God is not the king anymore. Many people think that, you know, we have to enthrone God. It is so wrong. God has always been the king, even after the fall of man. God king, and he's the king even after the fall of man. The earth and all things in the earth belong to our king. So what is God, what is Jesus teaching us then? What is Jesus teaching us when he says, “Hallowed be thy name”? You know, the text after that would, if you read that, you
would understand how his name can be hallowed. And before we go there, I want to go to Genesis. See, what I want you to understand is, as I said, God is always on the throne. He is the king. He is the ruler. He will rule even when you sin, even when you are in righteousness. That's what we see in Genesis 1, 2 and 3. You don't see anything else. He is the king. He says, “You shall die.” And what happened? What happened? Death happened.
He rules. There would not be anything that would happen which he hasn't commanded. When you sin, you shall die. And that's what Jesus — you know, the one who spoke there, you know, the self-revelation of God everywhere in Scripture, the anthropomorphic appearances and everywhere is Jesus, you know, that would be a completely different study — but the one who spoke, the one who declared that you shall die, it will happen. He rules even there, even in our sinfulness. He rules even in Adam's sin. He rules. How you can understand that? By the flood he rules, and after the flood the command, he rules, and how the animals enter the ark, he rules. You look at everything, he is still on the throne. You, nobody can dethrone
him. No sin of man can dethrone him. And what people do, there is a nonsensical interpretation in the church that the temptation of Jesus, they think, you know, that when the temptation is there, when Satan says, “I would give you everything,” you know, many people interpret it as that Satan had authority to give to Jesus, which is such a lie, such a nonsensical lie.
If you understand your God, you would never interpret that text like that. He is always on the throne. He is always ruling. Even as a servant, even as a servant when Jesus came to this earth, when he stands before Pilate, beaten, and Pilate asks, “Don't you know I have authority?” What does Jesus say? “You do not have anything until it is given from above.” Who is the one who is giving Pilate that authority? It is the Lord who is standing there.
Nobody else. He is the ruler. He is always on the throne. He is always exalted as the first, you know, first part of this verse says. And how do you exalt him? That is the next one that we see. What do you see? “Let your kingdom come, your will be done.”
Jesus is asking us to pray. Will his will be done? Will his kingdom come? Whether you do his will as the king wants, and if you don't do his will as he wants, the kingdom will come. Because he is the king. You can see that right in Genesis. As I already mentioned, if you look at Genesis, he is such a king that it defines everything. He defines everything. What a tree is, he defines it. What day and night is, he defines it. What are the stars and water, what, he defines it, that they should give light onto the earth, he defines it. What should be the sea, he defines it. The separation of the sea and the land, he defines it. By the word of his power he defines all creation, every reality, everything he defines. That is, in philosophy, it is
known as the ontological reality. Whatever exists, if at all there is something that exists. If you go to Colossians and John chapter 1 verse 1 to 3, what do you see? He made all things, whether visible or invisible. He is the definer of all things.
He is the one who proclaims what should be, how it should be, and what are its roles, what they should do as well. So there is nothing in this world which is not defined by God, in a way, if he has made it. The water quenches your thirst. Why does it do it? Why does it, water, quench your thirst? Why don't you drink kerosene? What you can drink, maybe, you know, go to the petrol pump and buy something and drink. Why wouldn't that quench your thirst? The definition of God, how it should function, that's why it does its job, not because you buy a bottle and drink. The very definition of what a water should do is defined by God. So he is such a king, always sustaining,
always ruling. Now what happens? He creates man in that, you know, in the definition, every, in his creation. And how does he do it? Man first is physical. Please get that very straight. Man first is physical. How do you understand that? He is what? He is made out of dust or out of mud. And what happens after he is being physical? He, God breathed, breathes into him the breath of life, and he becomes a living, he becomes a living soul. So the physicality of the spiritual, please get that, it is right from the creation. The physicality of the spiritual.
Spiritual is not non-physical. It is Platonic when you start thinking like that. It is Gnostic when you start thinking like that. Right from the start when God made man, he was first physical and then the soul was added to it. So when you want to think on the spiritual lines, you should start where you are, how God made it, he defined it that way. You cannot define any other way. You do not have the right if you want to submit to the king. So your spiritual reality starts with the physical because God defined it like that.
You can't rebel against the king. So, he is the king. And then, the next verse says, “Your kingdom come, your will be done.” And that's where we go to Genesis chapter 3. He gave a command. This is how you shall live in the world that he made, he defined, he created.
He said and given us, he gave us guidance as well, how to live. What happened? They did not. They thought that which will produce death, Eve thought it would produce life or it would make her like God. But what was the definition of God, what it will do? Just like water which will quench your thirst, what will this fruit do? It will bring death. What happened? It brought death. Even though you redefine things, you think you have the autonomy, you cannot live your life as you please in the world which God made. You cannot do that. You cannot and be successful if you do that. They would only be death. They will only be death. Now what happened? There was the first family, Adam and Eve, defined by God that this is the family, Adam and Eve, not Adam or whatever, because you know
I can't even say Adam and Steve, because now it is whatever you can be, it can be anything. So it is not Adam and whatever. God defined it in a particular way and it shall be so. And what happened when Adam or Eve and Adam sinned? What happened? Death entered. Where all? Death was there in the physical being. Death was there in the family.
We can see that death was there in the relationship because of the way Adam responded. Because of the way Eve responded. And death was there under everything whatever was put on the man. And whatever was given as a command to the woman. If they have to multiply, how they would multiply? It is by the woman. That's why, by the definition of God, family cannot be Adam and whatever or Eve and whatever. Family, to obey God, it has to be Adam and Eve. You, there cannot be any other definition. So when you look at it like that, the command of multiplying was affected for Eve, the command of multiplying was affected for Adam. And what you see in the story of great story of the Bible is the land is always affected by the sin of people. Do you see that? Do you see that? The blessing is, if
you obey you shall continue for long in the land. This is the blessing. And what is the new heaven and new earth? You shall continue in the new heaven and new earth, which is the land. For how long? Forever. The land, the multiplication of woman maybe not in the new heaven new earth, but the purpose for which God made everything is dead. In everything they would be death, because we do not do what do, because we would not do as Jesus is asking us to pray. What is he asking us to pray? Let your kingdom come, let your will be done. How it should be
done on earth as it is done in heaven. Man would not do it. And what will happen? Death would be there. When death is there, God is still on the throne. He is the implementer of death by judgment. Please understand that. He is the implementer of death by his judgment. He rules. He's never dethroned. He would rule when you sin in condemning and bringing death. He would rule when you do his will.
That's what you see. You see the family brokenness and the relationship broken. And what happens? This death continues in Cain. The relationship is broken. And with Cain you see two streams of people, and you can follow through the Bible these two three two streams of people, the people of God and the people of the world. And the people of God are the remnant, always spoken of in the New Testament. The people of God are within Israel and they are remnant, not the physical Israel but the remnant Israel. Those are the people of God and those are the people who are the salt of the earth. Those are the people who are the light of the world. And
that's the purpose even for Israel. You can read that in the Mosaic law. What was the purpose of Israel? That people would look at their lives and see what great laws they have and what great God they have. Who should see it? All the nations. All the nations. And when we come to all the nations, what happens before the flood? Is the rule of God. In the flood, people who are families and who grew, they perish as families. And there was one. See, I am speaking from the narrative, how it is rendered to us. They would have been tribes, but one family is saved. One
family is saved. That in the narrative story one family is saved, so rest of the families perish in the flood. Because there is brokenness and sin in the family, God rules. Then what happens? The table of nations. There are nations. You read Genesis chapter 10, you see before God speaks about Israel what you see is are nations mentioned in Genesis chapter 10. What happens to them? There is no light given. They, what happens to them? They perish. God rules. God rules even in among all nations who disobey. God still rules, is not he is the implementer of the judgment. Then what happens after
Chapter 10, in the end of chapter 10, what do you see? There is a mention of a nation of Israel through Abraham, and when the promises come to Abraham, God also speaks about the promises of how he would fulfill to Abraham, and he mentions the nations, the Canaanite nation. How will he judge it? How will he judge them? He speaks about that, after 400 years he would judge the Canaanites. Left without the light of God, what happens? The nations perish. God implemented that on Canaan after 400. No hand can stop him. No man could stop him. Abraham died and went to his grave.
Isaac and Jacob died and all his children died. But he implemented judgment on Canaan because they did not have that light. Without light of God, nations, you and I will perish. That is the story throughout the scriptures. What I want to propose here is this. This is the problem of evil, this is the problem of evil and the solution of evil that the scripture gives. The problem of evil is not why bad things happen to good people. The problem is why good things happen to such idiotic, crooked, evil people. That's a surprise.
That's what scripture is saying. Why good things happen to evil people. That is what the scripture is. That's the story of the scripture. That's how God is running the world. And he's telling us, left without light, the nations, families, everyone will die. They will only be death.
There will not be anything else. As he proclaimed, even before the fall, it happens. You see nations perishing? It is the judgment of God. Nations without the light, that's what will happen. Post flood, that's what Genesis 10 is. What happens to those nations? They perish. Canaan, they perish. And then the light as law is given to whom? The nation of Israel. What happens to them? What happens to them when the light of the law is given? They don't obey. What is the problem then? What is the right from the beginning? If you turn to, you know, I spoke this, you know, when I shared my testimony, I mentioned this verse.
If you go to Deuteronomy chapter 5, this has been the heartbeat of God. 29th verse, Deuteronomy chapter 5, verse 29. Right within the law, from the beginning, even when Adam and Eve fell, this is the heart of God. This is the desire of God for man. “Oh, that they had such a heart as this always to fear me and to keep my commandments, that it might go well with them and with their descendants forever.”
That is our inability. That is what Paul is speaking in Romans 1, 2, 3 and you know that's what he's speaking. They perished under the law, those who have under the law perished under the law, those who did not have the law perished without the law. The law is only a schoolmaster. The law only tells us how sinful and utterly lost we are. What is the hope? We need a heart that will always obey.
That's what even in the law God is speaking. That we do not have the ability to obey. And even because of that we will perish. Is it? No. Now we can get into the different angle of it, that God is the one who made us like this. But no, God in judgment does it and is right in doing it, that he, you and I, even our sinful nature, do not deserve any grace at all. He need not show any grace, but he shows grace. Even to Israel, the remnant has that grace. Joseph, without the light, with a broken family, with mass murderers, brothers, with brothers who sold him, had
the light. How? It is the grace of God that transforms. It is the remnant. God is gracious that way. He rules, he controls all things. So how will you, how will the rule of God come upon this earth, in our life? That is the priority. That's why we need to pray. Not in Jesus' life, not in the incarnated son of God's life, but in our life. How will, how will God's name be hallowed? How will the kingdom of God come in our life, in our family, in our home, in our children's life? How will it come? When you do the will of God as it is done in heaven.
Jesus does that. Doesn't he say that his prayer is always answered? And he doesn't say that I do the will of my father always. Doesn't he say that to do the will of my father is my bread, is my bread and drink? He does that. It is not about him that he is asking us to pray. It is about us that he is asking us to pray, that we will do his will.
So that the kingdom of heaven might come upon this earth, in the family, in our lives personally. The salvation starts individually, right? And the church is the, if you read the ecclesiology of the New Testament, church is the coming together, not just of individuals, but it is also coming together of families.
I want to anchor this in the nation of Israel, and before the nation of Israel, all nations are families. And what is the church? We are a holy nation, a royal priesthood. See, I want you to get the biblical line of how God is building. The nation of Israel, the remnant was the saved, and all nations are families which grew into nations. Israel was a family of Abraham, of Eber if you want to go back even little further. That family grew into a nation. So the church is individuals, families, coming together. We are a nation.
We are a holy priesthood. So, when the law is given to the nation, it is actually, if you understand the law really well, it is the family law applied to the collection of families. The law, if it says love your brother, love your wife, and you cannot take your brother's property, the Ten Commandments, rest of the law, from Exodus 20 onwards, if you read the law, the Ten Commandments, rest of the law is a longer interpretation to the nation.
Longer application as a case law to the nation. You know case laws? You know, maybe if you know, I don't want to get into that explanation because I do not have time. Please do that research as well. It is a longer explanation of the Ten Commandments as case laws. And from the Bible we have actually the laws across the globe. Before that we didn't have this law, we didn't have this kind of a law in the world, we didn't have the criminal law, we didn't have the law of torts, we didn't have the family law as we see even in our law, we didn't have that. We have useless Manu's law in our nation. So the law
of God was implemented in our nation, in every nation. It is such a blessing, isn't it? Gives you that equality as well, it gives you so many things. The law of God, the family law, the individual law is a, you know, has been interpreted in a longer way as case laws. That's how you should understand the Mosaic law. And if you go back and do your research, Matthew 5, 6 and 7 can be fitted perfectly into the Mosaic law. This is the lawgiver speaking from the mount. This is the lawgiver, one who's greater than Moses, who's speaking. And he says, what does he say?
in your life, in your family life, in your church life as a nation, if you want to prosper, what you should do, the will of God as it is done in heaven. There is no other way. That's how actually God can rule over your life. Otherwise he will. You will still rule, but rule in judgment. You will still rule.
So now the question is, how will you look at this reality and apply it in your life? It is not just about certain things. You have your clothing. God defines it, what a clothing should do. He defines it very clearly in the Scriptures, if you read it carefully. It should be modest. Yeah, it cannot be modest, definition of God. Food, God defines it clearly, even through judgments, even through the Exodus. God defines what a food should do, isn't it? Did they fall sick when God fed them? They did not fall sick. So the definition of food, what it should do, comes from God. So how do you apply this in your life? So when you cook, what should you do? It should produce sickness, it should produce health. That's how God defines it. See,
everything, whatever you have in life, you can take it, take the law of God, the understanding of God, how he defines it, and live your life. Everything in your life. You have some talents. How does, why did God give you? See, we read about— You have talents?
Are you a good teacher? Is your talent wasted? Are you a doctor? Are you an engineer? Who are you? I mean what did God give you? Are you using it? Are you multiplying it? You can do the will of God in whatever God gave you. You are commanded to multiply. All parables are the parables of the kingdom. Go read it.
You cannot not multiply. I'm guilty of that, not multiplying as I should, not being diligent as I should have been. We should multiply. If you have something, if you have an office, if you know, if you run something, if you run a restaurant, if you run a business, you are commanded to multiply for the kingdom. That's how you should do the will of the Father in your life. Your children. See, there is an epistemic need, that is to spread the knowledge of God in the family and in the church and in the nations. As I said, the family is the nation, is a bigger family. That's what you
see the definition of God in the Bible, in Genesis 5 and Genesis 10. That's— Nation is a bigger family. So when you live your life, it should serve that purpose. So if you are doing anything, it should be the will of God that you do. And the next part, that means you should define all realities as God defines. You should take those realities and live your life as God would want you to live. Then the next thing is, the later part of this text speaks about the provision of God to do the previous part. What is the provision of God? What do you pray? “Give us this day our daily bread.” Why should you eat? Why should God give you the bread? So that you might do
his will as it is done in heaven, that you would do that, his will on earth as it is done in heaven. This is not something like you leave and go to the Himalayas. This is not where we know as many Indians and in fact many churches also sort of believe that we should quit everything and prepare for what?
To be turned where the mortal will put on immortality. That’s what we are waiting for, which is nonsense. If you are waiting for that, you cannot pray this prayer. You seriously cannot pray this prayer. Because your eating should produce doing the will of God, hallowing his name. There is no other purpose for a citizen. There’s no other purpose for a citizen. He should eat to do his will, to hallow God’s name. That is the sole purpose of a citizen. That was the sole purpose why the law was given to Israel. They failed and what happened? They were, see the lack, when they, when they failed, what happened? The land was taken away. The land and man, land and man is always linked. Even in the second coming the land and man is
linked. So the — don’t lose focus on the physicality. All commandments are to be obeyed in the physical. You cannot feel nice about the commandment. There is nothing feel nice holiness. There is only flesh and blood holiness. How do you know that Jesus incarnated? See, if actually in a sense of Platonic or the Gnostic sense of evil of physicality, if that was real, Jesus shouldn’t incarnate as physical person. He sanctifies the physical. See, the physical has the purpose of glorifying God in our hands, or disobeying God in our hands.
That’s what Jesus is saying. Take the physical. Take every relationship which is actually physical. You look at the commandments in John. What does John and James say? Do not say to somebody when he has a need, “Oh, I’ll pray for you.” You should obey in the physical. And all commandments, all setting right of the Pharisaic interpretation is setting right in the physical, of the intent also. See, Jesus is correcting that the physical should be even in our intents and in our will or desires, even in our looks. Look is not non-physical. Is it non-physical?
So please understand, the physical can be taken to glorify God or to disobey. Whatever you do, God will rule. He is on the throne. Either He would rule in judgment or rule in being your father. And when He is your father, then you should pray this prayer, he would give you the strength by the food that you eat to glorify him, to hallow his name, to do his will as he does, as it is done in heaven.
And what does the next thing say? This is also categorically given by God. What does it say? “Lead us not into temptation.” You read in James that he is the keeper. In Jude, he keeps us from falling. So he is the one who categorically gives you and keeps you from falling. In every situation pray, you cannot keep yourself. See, when you’re lost, in the parable of the lost sheep, when you’re lost, what happens? You come back to Jesus. What happens? The sheep come backs, comes back to the shepherd. What happens when the sheep is lost? Shepherd goes. It is the strength of the shepherd that keeps you.
He comes in search of you. That’s what keeps you. He never gives up. That’s what keeps you. Nobody can take you from his hand. That’s what keeps you. That’s why we should pray. What is the prayer? Keep us from hard testing, or keep us from temptation. Why we should be kept from the temptation?
The temptation is, you know, not doing His will as it is done in heaven. We should do His will. Not doing His will brings death. We’ve seen that, right? So we should do His will. That’s where He should keep us. And He should give us strength by the food we eat so that we would do His will.
And then the principle of the kingdom, if you are forgiven you cannot not forgive. You look at the New Testament, you look at every command he says, tells husband and wife, what does he say? “Do not let the sun go down on your anger.” I mean, it can be applied to everyone, that is you. Before the sun goes down you have to forgive. You cannot live in unforgiveness as a citizen of the kingdom. If you want to serve the king there is no option. This is the word of God, I’m not saying it, Jesus says it. You can have your own definitions like Eve or
Adam. What will happen? Oh, I mean, I will forgive, or I will live, I would forgive when the opportune time arrives. That is your definition, my dear. You cannot live like that. You cannot live like that. Because the great king, to forgive you, costed his life.
He paid the greatest price. Peter says not by silver or gold, his blood is precious than silver or gold. That's what he's saying. So the — if the forgiveness costs that, can you not forgive? What does it cost you to forgive? Your ego, you saying sorry? Oh, you think that you are saying sorry and your ego is precious than the blood of Christ, which caused it to forgive you? You cannot not forgive as a citizen.
If you truly want to serve Christ, that is what he is saying. That is the kingdom principle. So when you look at it within the creation of God and the new heaven, new earth, because Jesus rose from the dead, if you go to Romans 6, 4, what does it say? What does Romans 6, 4 say? We'll go to that and read that Romans 6 chapter 6 verse 4 we were buried therefore with him by baptism into death in order that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father we too might walk in the newness of life when do you walk in the newness
of life? When? When? After you die, when your body and soul are separated? When do you walk in the newness of life? Later? Tomorrow? Now? Today? Right now? If you are a new creation, if you are a new creation, as Paul says somewhere else, you in the newness of life right now. Not when the mortal will put on immortality, not then, because you walk right now. You confess that one day you would put on immortality. Right now, in your decaying body, as Paul says, you should live in the newness of life, because His resurrection has brought the newness of life.
And when you do this will of God, right now, Paul goes on to speak in various places that we have this hope. What hope? And because of that he says, “Set your eyes on things above.” What is that, “set your eyes on things above”? It is the physical. Actually, see, we are lost in the temporariness of the separation of the body and the soul. We feel very happy. What will happen to you? Oh, where do you — where do you think you'll go after you die? No, sharing the gospel question, is that the ultimate reality? It is only a temporary reality for a short period of time compared to eternity.
The eternity is the new heaven, new earth. Eternity is the physical. When the soul will once again, all who died in Christ, what will happen? They will put on immortality, they would put on the physical, just like Jesus rose with the physical body. You and I will one day be physical, even though we die today, your soul and body is separated. Ecclesiastes says the soul goes to God who gave it and the body returns to dust. That's what it was right at the creation, the body which was dust shall return to dust. But the soul one day in the new heaven, new earth shall put on immortality.
Just like Jesus who put on immortality at his resurrection. That is our ultimate hope. That's why we should obey in the physical right now. In every way, in all your talents, in all your physical resources that you have, it to build his kingdom. You should use it to do — you should first define all your resources as God would define. You should use it as God would want it to be used. Not a single rupee that you earn is yours. 10 is not God's. Nothing is yours, actually. Your breath is not yours, it is given by God. Even the breath actually is physical, isn't it? So please live with the reality and the definitions of God in the physical world, for the physical world which would come. Don't be lost in
the intermittent or intermediary stage of the separation of the physical and the soul that's where the church has been forced through the preaching that's where the church has been forced the church has actually become Gnostic the church has actually become platonic in a away being lost in that you know this part where the body and the soul is separated that is not the ultimate reality you shall be like Jesus says John in first John when you see him you shall be like him with the physical body maybe not with the baldness that I have but with perfection Perfection That is the reality
That is our greatest calling. Every commandment should be looked through that lens. Every commandment should be looked through the lens of the individual, of the family, of the church and the nation. Because where should you do the will of God? Where? The place is mentioned where? On the earth. Because why you should do on the earth? Because of the new heaven and the new earth. If you tie it to the entire story, that's how you should look at it. So think about — that's the calling of Jesus. It is our prayer, it is our prayer, Jesus' prayer. It is we pray so that we might be transformed to do his will in such a way.
So that his name might be hallowed by the food we eat, by everything that we do. Shall we pray? Father God, we come to you and we pray, O God, that you would give us grace, understanding of your word, because your word is life. That you would give us a heart to always obey you, O God. We ask this because
to give us that heart you sent your son. To give us that heart that he died and he rose again, and we who have that heart would inherit immortality. O Father, we pray that you would give us that heart, in every situation, in every relationship, in understanding your word and in applying your word in our life. Look up to you, for we ask and you pray this in Jesus' name.