What Did Jesus Mean When He Said...

[Pedrito]

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For those of us that recite the “Lord’s Prayer” regularly, whether during personal devotions, during corporate worship, or both:

1. What do we as individuals mean when we pray, “Thy will be done in/on earth, as it is in heaven.”?

2. What did the disciples understand that they should mean when they prayed, “Thy will be done in/on earth, as it is in heaven.”?

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[Fritz Kobus]

Well, how one takes that verse depends on what brand of Christianity they belong to:

Luther had regarded this world and its institutions as incorrigible, and was prepared to leave them to the devil. But for Calvin this world, created by God, still belonged to Him; it remained potentially His kingdom; and every Christian was obliged to devote his life to make it so in reality by reforming and bringing it under God’s law. ((William J. Bouwsma, “Explaining John Calvin,” Wilson Quarterly (New Year’s 1989), 73.))

Quote from: The Connection of Earth With Heaven - The American Vision

I believe Calvin was closer to the triuth, and that we are to work in this world as salt to make it a better place, and that includes the political realm. Those who abandon the world to the Devil are basically avoiding this responsibility:

One way to avoid the kingdom implications of the Prayer of Jesus is to claim that presently it’s a spiritual kingdom that will only have substantive, this-world manifestation sometime in the future, either in an earthly millennium or the inauguration of the New Heavens and the New Earth. This way, it’s safe to pray the Prayer of Jesus since there’s nothing anyone has to do about the kingdom since it is solely the work of God. We can only pray that it comes, that God’s will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Quote from: Let's Pray for God to "Enlarge Our Borders." - The American Vision

 

[Spindle4]

1. What do we as individuals mean when we pray, “Thy will be done in/on earth, as it is in heaven.”?

My Summation:
Three Perfect Heavenly Things:

• The Name of God
• The Kingdom of God
• The Will of God

Three Patterned Earthly Things:

• The Hallowing of God's Name
• The Coming of God's Kingdom
• The Doing of God's Will

Three Provisional Personal Things:

• Daily Bread for Sustenance of Self & Others
• Forgiveness for Self
• Forgiveness for Others

Three Practical Partnership Things

• Direction Alignment - lead us not into temptation
• Danger Abatement - deliver us from evil
• Divinity Acknowledgement - thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory.

 

[christfollowerlife]

Ten Commandments list & meaning
You shall have no other gods before Me.
You shall make no idols.
You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.
Keep the Sabbath day holy.
Honor your father and your mother.
You shall not murder.
You shall not commit adultery.
You shall not steal.
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
You shall not covet.
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[Josiah]

“Thy Will Be Done” (The Lord’s Prayer)

Midweek Lenten Service Wednesday, March 26, 2014 “Thy Will Be Done” (The Lord’s Prayer) We continue in our series on the Lord’s Prayer, “Lord, Teach Us to Pray.” And tonight we come to the Third Pe…

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[Spindle4]

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[atpollard]

1. What do we as individuals mean when we pray, “Thy will be done in/on earth, as it is in heaven.”?

I must be simple, because when I say it, what I mean is:

1. God’s will IS done in heaven (what God wants, every being in Heaven does).
2. I WANT God’s will to be done on earth (which looking around, the world has a way to go).

It wasn’t rocket science.