“CHRISTIAN” means CHRIST-LIKE, it does not mean church-goer.
What are we choosing?
What are we becoming?
Examining “As it is in Heaven” (Matthew 6 : 9-13) means examining what we are choosing. Choosing His Kingdom AUTOMATICALLY means saying “no” to the kingdom of the Earth. It is a love relationship with the King of Kings, Jesus, that causes lesser loves to fall away.
When the Kingdom of Heaven comes, it will not fit into the ways of the world. (John 18
Matthew 6:9–13, John 18:36
What if everything we’ve ever known about Church, is not like it is in Heaven?
What if what we’re comfortable with is not God?
What if what makes us comfortable doesn’t make Him comfortable?
Church it’s not about us. It’s about Jesus, and God wants to break a culture of religion that is picky and preferential. God is wanting us to transition from singing about someone to seeing Him, for our worship to become about Him, and not just words we sing. As it is in Heaven. The challenge is sacrificing our will and choosing and trusting that what God wants is better than what I am sure is good. It’s laying our crowns down. It’s looking at Him and saying Holy, Holy, because He is worthy of all the praise on the Earth as it is in Heaven.
Matthew 6:9–13
Jesus has all authority in the Earth. This is Jesus’ earth, and He’s looking for ambassadors who will possess it for Him as authorized representatives of Jesus, as God pleads through our lives for people to be reconciled to Him. Our lives should be a walking billboard, through our words and actions – “Be reconciled to God.” It’s our job to take back the earth, teaching people to obey and conform their lives to be like Jesus. Church, we have to stop apologizing about the message of Jesus on the Earth, while the Kingdom of Darkness is boldly shouting its agenda. It’s Jesus’ earth!
Matthew 6:9–13, Romans 8:29, Genesis 1:26, Matthew 28:18–20, 2 Corinthians 5:18–21
Church, we have an assignment! It is God’s original plan. It is to bring the Kingdom of Heaven to the Earth. It is through Jesus that we are redeemed from a dead spirit to a born again, living spirit that can house Holy Spirit. It’s the same power as Jesus himself was anointed with to fulfill God’s plan. Jesus used the power He was given to “do good” everywhere He went teaching, praying, laying on of hands, healing, delivering and pouring the Kingdom of Heaven into people. In turn, as “you go,” you are to release the Kingdom of Heaven into others teaching, praying, laying on of hands, healing, and delivering. This is how we bring Heaven to Earth!
Matthew 6:9–13, Genesis 1:26, Acts 10:38, Luke 9:1–2, John 14:16–17
From the very beginning, God’s desire was Heaven on Earth. Jesus said to pray for the will of God to be on earth AS it is in Heaven. So we are to pray that Earth is the same way it is in Heaven. God assigned us to make Earth like Heaven from the beginning, when He put us in the Garden of Eden that we were to tend/work and keep/protect, as we increased it to spread around the world. Even the building of the Tabernacle and everything in it was God’s pattern as it is in Heaven. We are to build our lives according to the pattern God gives us on the mountain, and not the pattern of the world. We should look, talk and live different, and not learn to follow the world’s abominations against their gods, rather we are to conform and transform to be like Jesus. We are predestined to be like Jesus.
Genesis 2:8, Genesis 2:15, Exodus 26:30, Genesis 1:26–27, Deuteronomy 12:29–32