Got some of these out with regard
to our Bible conference. I'm looking forward to it. Two
weeks, Friday night, 7 p.m. Donny Bell and Paul Mahan. Pizza
will be served after the service, Saturday morning, 10 a.m. Speakers
Gabe Stoniker and Don Fortner, Saturday evening. Speakers Bruce
Crabtree and Frank Tate, Sunday morning. Speakers Joe Terrell
and Greg Elmquist. Isn't that going to be a blessing?
I'm very excited about this meeting. I hesitate to tell people to
do this. I think we all ought to know,
but as the Lord enables you, bring somebody to hear the gospel.
It would be a great blessing to them whether they believe
or not, just to have the opportunity to hear. Thy kingdom come. When the Lord teaches us to pray,
He teaches us to make six specific requests. Now I've heard it said
that when you maturing race, you do less asking for things
and more praising. And I imagine that ought to be
the way it is, but I find that every time I pray, there's a
lot of requests and needs I have. And when our Lord taught us to
pray, he taught us to pray for these six specific things. He said, thy kingdom come. Thy
will be done as in heaven, so in earth. Third, give us day
by day our daily bread. Fourth, forgive us our sins,
for we also forgive everyone that's indebted to us. Fifth,
lead us not into temptation. And sixth, but deliver us from
evil. And the first thing that he teaches
us to pray is thy kingdom come. Now the very making of this request
tells us it's not yet here and it's full of us. The thief understood
this. He said, as he saw the Lord hanging
on the cross and he knew who he was, he said, remember me
when you come into your kingdom, you're not going to stay here.
You're not going to stay dead. You're going to be raised from
the dead and you're going to come back as a mighty ruling
reigning king. Remember me when you come into
your kingdom. Now we desire his kingdom to
come in its fullness, in its final consummation, when all
sin and opposition will be put down. Sin will no longer oppress
the subjects of his kingdom. Don't you look forward to that,
to no longer deal with sin. There'll be no rebellion, no
revolts, no malcontents, no rivals. And here is the desire of our
heart and our very first request that our Lord teaches us to pray.
This is something that you and I should come from our heart
and we ought to pray this every day. Thy kingdom come. Now, what is the kingdom of God?
Well, it's more than I can possibly preach on in one sermon. I counted
11 parables in which our Lord said the kingdom of God is, or
it's likened to. There's the parable of the sower
and the four different types of hearers, the wayside hearer,
the stony ground hearer, the thorn choked hearer, and the
good ground hearer. There is the parable of the mustard
seed that starts out as the least and it grows into the greatest.
There's the parable of the leaven that goes throughout the whole
lump. It starts off small, but it ends
up permeating the whole lump. There is the parable of the man
sowing tares among the good seed. And he calls this the kingdom
of heaven is like this. And then there's the treasure
hid in the field that the man, when he finds it goes and sells
all he has and has and buys that field to have that treasure.
And then there's the parable of the pearl of great price where
a man was seeking goodly pearls, but when he found the one of
great price. He went and sold all he had to
have that one pearl. And then there's the parable
of the net, the gospel net bringing in good fish and bad fish. And he said the kingdom of heaven
is like that. And then there's the parable of the workers in
the vineyard. I love that parable. The ones that worked 12 hours
were given the same things as the one who worked one hours.
Everybody got the same. And then there's the parable
the marriage feast and the man coming in without a wedding garment.
Then there's the parable of the ten virgins, five wise and five
foolish. And there's the parable of the
man who went into a far country and gave his servants talents
to work with. Now, let me say some things that
the Bible says about the kingdom of God, and I'll do my best to
briefly make some comments about what the kingdom of God is from
the scriptures. But first, let me say some things
about the kingdom of God. The Lord said in Matthew chapter
six, verse 33, that it's to be sought first. The kingdom of
God is infinitely more important than anything else. And the Lord
said, seek ye first the kingdom of God. and his righteousness. I tell you what, when you seek
the kingdom of God, you're seeking his righteousness. You all woke
up this morning thinking about that glorious scripture, their
righteousness is of me. I love thinking about that. If
you seek the kingdom of God, you'll seek his righteousness.
You'll want to be clothed in his righteousness. It's to be
sought first. And you remember when our Lord
said, my kingdom is not of this world. It's not a worldly kingdom. It's not something where people
can say, aha, there is the kingdom of God. He said it's not of this
world. And he said it's at hand. Go
ye and preach saying the kingdom of God is at hand. It's very
near. It's very near you right now. The kingdom of God is at
hand. And it's a kingdom that cannot
be moved. You know, every kingdom can be moved. I mean, I think
of the great Roman empire that lasted for six centuries. Where
is it now? You know, I'm so thankful that
the Lord has given the United States the place it has in the
world. But if things continue, it'll
go down. Every kingdom is moved. But this is the kingdom that
cannot be moved. Turn with me to Luke chapter
17. Verse 20, and when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when
the kingdom of God should come. Now what they meant by that,
they thought of a kingdom where Roman rule would be put down
and that they would be once again placed in a position of prominence
and there would be a theocracy and they would be the top dogs
in this. And this is what they wanted. They wanted the kingdom
of God to come and get rid of this Roman rule. And when he
was demanded to the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should
come, he answered them and said, the kingdom of God cometh not
with observation. It's not something you can physically
see. Now that's so important. It's not something you can physically
see. They were looking for a visible
kingdom with armies and wealth and influence and power that
you could say, there's the kingdom of God or We're in this place. We're in the boundaries of the
kingdom of God. The kingdom of God cometh not
with observation. Anytime somebody says there's
the kingdom of God, they don't know what they're talking about.
It cometh not with observation. It's just hot air. Go on reading. Verse 21. Neither shall they
say lo here or lo there. For behold, the kingdom of God
is within you. It's not something that can be
Sing Christ in you the hope of glory. And I think this is very
interesting. The Lord said he came to preach the kingdom of
God and he sent his disciples to go out and say preach the
kingdom of God is in hand. Paul gave a summary of his ministry. He said I went about you preaching
the kingdom of God. The place of preaching in the
kingdom of God gives us some idea of its nature. Preaching,
we're called on to preach the word. Turn, this is what the
kingdom of God is all about. Turn to second Timothy chapter
three. Verse 14, but continue thou in
the things which you've learned and has been assured of. You know, it's something to learn
something with the Lord, isn't it? when you're assured of it
and you know this is the truth. What a blessing that is. It's
wretched to not be sure, but what a blessing it is when the
Lord teaches you something and you know it's so. Knowing of whom thou hast learned
it, and that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures,
which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith,
which is in Christ Jesus. Now look at this statement, all
scriptures, from Genesis to Revelation. Every doctrine of the scripture,
every truth of the scripture, all scripture, is given by inspiration
of God and is profitable, is beneficial for doctrine, for
reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,
and that's exactly what I need. I need to be taught doctrine,
proof. I need to, that word means to
expose, to make known. For correction, I need to be
corrected. I go in the wrong direction and I need to be corrected.
For instruction in righteousness, the righteousness of Christ,
that the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all
good works. I charge thee therefore before
God and the Lord Jesus Christ and shall judge the quick in
the day that is appearing in his kingdom, his kingdom. You
see that? Preach the word. the preaching
of the kingdom of God. Now, the preaching of the word,
he said, all scripture is given by inspiration of God. You know,
I have heard preachers say, well, this doctrine shouldn't really
be brought out to this particular demographic or this particular
people. An immature believer shouldn't have to deal with this.
We got to save this for somebody else. Or somebody else will say
something, well, you shouldn't deal with this scripture. I've
heard people say that about Revelation. You shouldn't preach from Revelation. Why? You can't understand that.
God's revealed all truth. He's revealed all Scripture.
All Scripture is given by inspiration of God. And does anybody think
that they have the sense to say, well, that doctrine shouldn't
be dealt with? No. Or that Scripture shouldn't be dealt with? No.
No, all Scripture is given by inspiration of God. And it's
plausible. And the spreading of the kingdom
of God comes through the preaching of the gospel. And that gives
us some idea as to the nature of this kingdom. He said, go
out and preach the kingdom of God. And that's exactly what
the Lord did. He went out and preached. the kingdom of God. I realize that preaching is belittled
and despised in our day, but it still plays God by the foolishness
of preaching to save them that believe. And you and I will know
nothing of the kingdom, nor will we hear from God apart from the
preaching of the Word, the preaching of the Kingdom of God. May God
give us a reverent attitude towards the preaching of the Word. This
is not just some man getting up and spouting off his opinion.
This is supernatural, and this is how the Kingdom of God is
spread, through the preaching of the Word. You go and preach
the Word of God, is what he said to do. Now, I love this scripture,
1 Corinthians 4, verse 20, the Kingdom of God is not in It's
not in talk, but it's in power. It's a kingdom that shall not
be destroyed and will have no end. His dominion is an everlasting
dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation,
and he doeth according to his will in the armies of heaven
and among the inhabitants of the earth, and none can stay
his hand or say unto him, what doest thou? Nobody can say, give
an explanation for yourself. You see, he's the king of the
kingdom and whatever he says is right. I turn with me to Romans
chapter 14. This is a very important verse
of scripture regarding the kingdom of God, because it just destroys
what most people think of when they think of the kingdom of
God, but it lets us know exactly what God says his kingdom is. Romans 14 verse 17. For the kingdom of God is not
meat and drink. It's not physical. It's not do's
and don'ts. It's not rules and regulations. If I refrain from this meat,
and if I don't drink this, I'll be acting according to someone
in the kingdom. The kingdom of God is not meat
and drink. If you eat something, it doesn't
make you any better. If you're afraid, it doesn't make you any
worse. That's what Paul said. The kingdom of God is not meat
and drink. But what is it? It's righteousness. It's peace. It's joy in the Holy Ghost. The kingdom of God is righteousness. Now, there's only one righteousness. David said that. He said that
in Psalm 71, 16. He said, I make mention of thy righteousness,
even thine only. The very righteousness of God
be my personal righteousness. And you know what I experienced
from that? Peace. Peace. What peace there is in knowing
that all God requires of me, I have because I have the very
righteousness of Christ. Do you derive peace from that?
You know, the kingdom of God is a kingdom of peace, not unrest,
not unquietness, not always looking for something else. It's got
to be something else when you never heard it. Because if you've
ever heard, you're going to know something about the peace of
having His righteousness. That's what the kingdom of God
is about. Peace. And what comes out of that peace?
Joy in the Holy Ghost. The fruit of the Spirit is love,
joy, peace. You know, this joy is not a joy
that's based on circumstances. The world's got a kind of peace
it can give you that you can be happy about. I mean, you can
get a raise and you feel happy and you have a sense of peace.
You can have a lot of money in the bank and have good health
and have a sense of peace. You can have no conflict in your
life. Maybe your relationships are all going well and you can
have a sense of peace. But that peace can leave so quickly. It can be taken away just like
that. But this is a peace that passes all understanding. It's beyond being able to intellectually
describe. I like the way Paul said that.
It's a peace that passes. It surpasses all understanding,
simply having his righteousness. Oh, what peace, what joy there
is in that. The kingdom of God is not meat
and drink. It's righteousness. It's peace. Oh, isn't it glorious to have
peace? God's at peace with me. I'm at peace with you. No conflict, we're going the
same direction. Christ is our peace. You know, I'm at peace
with the world in this sense. Why is the world always fighting?
Because they want what somebody else has. Whether it's nations,
whether it's people, I want what you have. Well, I'm satisfied
with what I have. Christ. And we have peace. Now that's the kingdom of God.
Righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. The kingdom
of God. Now, the word kingdom means sphere
of rule. The king of England is the king
of what? England. He's not the king of
France. He has no authority in France. He has no authority in
Spain. He's the king of England. The kingdom is the sphere of
rule. The sphere of God's rule is the
Lord ruleth over all. That's the sphere of his rule.
I love thinking about this. He rules in heaven. And where
else he rules? He rules in hell. And he rules
right here. I love this. Everybody is in
his hand and he controls why you think what you want to think
and you do what you want to do. People do what we want to do.
The Lord is in control of every bit of it. He rules over all
men. He rules all creation. He rules all angels. He rules
all demons. He rules lost men. He rules all
saved men. He's in control of all providence.
He has what is called sovereignty. That's his rule. He rules over
all. He doeth according to his will
in the armies of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth.
Doesn't that make you happy? Everything that's going on, he's
ruling in it. No need to worry. I'm carefree.
He rules, everybody's in his hand. He rules in the armies
of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth and none can stay
his hand. They're saying to him, what doest
thou? Now, in that sense, his kingdom
is infinite, but there's also a sense in which his kingdom
is finite or limited. Now, what do I mean by that? Well, we read of those who are
thrust out of the kingdom of heaven. And remember when the
Lord said to someone, you're not far from the kingdom of heaven,
you're not there, but you're not far from the kingdom of heaven. You see, the kingdom of heaven
is where his rule is acknowledged and embraced. Let me repeat that. The kingdom of heaven is where
his rule is acknowledged. You know, everybody, knows the
king, believes the king is the king. They acknowledge his rule. No believer has any problem at
all with the absolute sovereignty of God. We acknowledge he has
a will, he has the power to perform his will, he has the right to
perform his will, and he always does perform his will. We acknowledge
that and we embrace it. We love him being the king. We love to sing of Christ our
king and hail him blessed Jesus for there's no word here ever
heard so dear so sweet as Jesus. Now this is the kingdom we're
called upon to seek first and to seek his righteousness. Now
what is essential to a kingdom? Well there's three things that
are essential to a kingdom. The kingdom has to have a king. The
kingdom has to have subjects. And every kingdom has its own
particular laws. The laws of the kingdom. First
of all, a kingdom must have a king. I love the way Paul says, now
unto the king, eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God. You know, Christ was born the
king of the Jews, wasn't he? Where's the kingdom of God? Wherever
the king is. That's where the kingdom of God
is. Wherever the king is. He lived as a king. Angels, authorities, powers,
subject to him. I love thinking about he as a
king controlling the weather. Don't you? Can you imagine a
man that could control the weather? He could. He could. He created matter that was not
there before. He controlled demons. They were
scared to death of him. They said, we know who thou art,
the holy one of God. Suffer us to go into that swine.
They couldn't move from one place to another without asking him.
They knew who he was. The devils believe and tremble,
the scripture says. They tremble. He controls angels. All the hosts of heavenly angels,
which are greater in power and might than we are, they all seek
to do His will. They're just waiting for Him
to give the command, and off they go. He said, don't you know
that if I wanted to call upon 12 legions of angels, 72,000
angels, they'd come and take care of this problem. I love the way he controlled
diseases. Now, health. We're all interested in health.
We're all interested in not being sick. But he could say that any
disease or sickness, leave. And it would leave. It had to
obey whatever he said. He controlled death. You know, there were people who
actually died and went through the process of decay. And he
raised them from the dead. You see, he lived as a king. He had power over all flesh.
I love that scripture where Pilate comes up to him and he says,
speakest thou not to me? Don't you know that I have power
to crucify you and I have power to release you? I would love
to hear, and I hope one day I will, exactly the way the Lord said
it. You can have no power at all
over me. except it be given thee from
above. I love to think of the calmness
of the way he said it. You know, the Lord never worries. He's never, never gets upset. He's in absolute control of everything. He lived as a king. When they nailed him to the cross,
what was the accusation written over his head? It was written
In Hebrew, that was the language of the religious. It was written
in Latin. That was the language at that
time of the intellectuals. This is the Romans. They used
Latin for education and so on. It was written in Greek. That
was the language of the common man. That's what everybody spoke.
The Lord, when he preached, he preached in this Greek language. And in all these languages, the
religious, educated and the common people, they had the same message.
This is Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews. And you know,
when Pilate had them put that up there over the Lord's head,
you know, he hated the Jews. You read about him, I mean, you
read about his history and so on in extra biblical literature. He hated the Jews. And when he
put that up, he did this in some ways to gallop and to make them
mad. There's your king, there's your
king. And they said, no, get rid of that. We don't want him.
Say he said, I'm the king of the Jews. He said, what I've
written, I've written. and it stays there. He is the
king of the Jews. And he died as a mighty reigning
king. I love the fact that he said,
Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit. Do you know death
was not allowed to come to the Lord Jesus Christ until he gave
it permission to come. Oh, don't you love his kingship?
When he was raised from the dead, He was raised as a mighty king. He hath on his thigh and on his
vesture a name written, which is King of Kings and Lord of
Lords. When he ascended, I love the
Ascension Psalm in Psalm 24. Lift up your heads ye gates and
lift them up ye everlasting doors and the King of Glory shall come
in. Who is this King of Glory? The Lord, strong and mighty. The Lord mighty in battle, who
is the King of glory? The Lord of hosts is the King
of glory. Now with the kingdom, we have
this glorious King. You know, a King has a throne.
I love what God the Father said to God the Son, thy throne, O
God, is forever. That's what God the Father said
to God the Son. What a throne! It's an eternal
throne. It never had a beginning and
it'll never have an end. Oh, don't you love to think of
his throne? Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne.
But thank God this throne that he sits enthroned upon is a throne
of grace. Let us come boldly to the throne
of God. grace, that we may obtain mercy
and find grace to help in time of need. A king has a scepter
and the scripture says a scepter of righteousness is the scepter
of thy kingdom. A king has a crown and the scripture
says on his head were many crowns. He who now wears the crown of
glory, the crown of king, the crown of mediator has all these
because he one day wore the crown of thorns. A king has a royal
robe, and Revelation 1 says he has a golden garment. Speaking
of deity, down to his foot, the robe of the righteousness of
God, which is the righteousness every believer is clothed with. Oh, what a king we have. He's my king. I love saying that. He's my king.
He's my king. Oh, what a glorious king. I need
him as a king. I need him because kings have
all power. Their will must be done. I need
him to reign over me. I need him to rule me. I need
him to cause me to do his will. I have to have his kingship.
I need it. And I love his kingship. OK,
secondly, I'll be very brief. The king has subjects. The king
without subjects wouldn't be a king or a kingdom, would they?
King has subjects. Well, who are the subjects of
his kingdom? He's called in Revelation 15,
three, Oh, king of saints. How are his subjects described
in the scriptures? Now I love the way the subjects
are described in the scriptures. I'm going to give you some scriptures.
Matthew five, three, blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs
is the kingdom of God. I love in the Beatitudes the
way the Lord begins the Beatitudes by telling, by describing somebody
by what they, not by what they have, but by what they do not
have. Poor. You have nothing. Totally dependent on him for
everything. And then I love that scripture
in Revelation 17, 14. Let's turn there, Revelation 17, 14. These shall make war with the
lamb and the lamb shall overcome them for he is Lord of lords
and king of kings. And look at his cohorts. I love
the way they're described. These are his subjects. These
are the ones that are with him. They're called, they're chosen,
and they're faithful. Now, this is every one of his
subjects. They're poor in spirit, and they're
called, called by the sovereign grace of God. to them which are
called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ, the power of God, and
Christ, the wisdom of God. Every one of them will be called
by God's grace. Now, how can I know if I've been
called? Well, if you've been called, you're called. You'll be called
on the name of the Lord if you've been called. That's what you'll
do. If you're called, call. And the next way he describes
these who are called, he says they're chosen. They're elected. chosen before the foundation
of the world. And every one of God's subjects
know that the only reason they're saved is because he chose them. There's no arguments in the kingdom
of heaven regarding God's electing mercy. And then he says they're
faithful. They're faithful to the Lord.
Every single one of them, they believe and they can be believed.
They trust and they can be trusted. They're faithful. Every one of
God's people are faithful to the Lord. That doesn't mean they're
sinless, you know that. But I know this, every one of
them, they're faithful to the Lord. He is the king of their
heart. He is the king of their life.
They're called, they're chosen, they're faithful. And I love
Psalm 110.3, it says, shall be willing." Every single one of
them. Thy people shall be willing in
the day of thy power. In his kingdom, all of his people
are willing subjects. We love him being the king. We don't want it to be any other
way. We're willing to be saved by him. We're willing to worship
him. We're willing to bow before him.
We're willing that he is all. And he made us willing. You know,
how does, how can you be made willing? I don't know, but he
does it. He does it because, I mean, if you're willing, you're
willing. You know, if you're forced to be willing, it doesn't
seem willing, does it? But he makes his people willing
in the day of his power. You see, these people have been
born again. Except a man be born again, born
from above, he cannot enter the kingdom of heaven. And in this
kingdom, there are unalterable laws. Matthew 7, 21, he said, not everyone that saith
to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he
that doeth the will of my father, which is in heaven. Now there's
no entering the kingdom of heaven apart from doing his Now, is that vague? Is that just
kind of a, what's that mean? Well, first of all, it means
this. When Jesus Christ, the Son of God, did the will of God,
so did I. Really. When he obeyed God, I
obeyed God. Are you taking that too far?
No, I'm not. No, I'm not. Remember when he said to John
the Baptist, thus it becometh us to fulfill all righteousness.
You see, when I fulfilled all righteousness, he says to John,
you did too. Delphus, you did too. You fulfilled. When he obeyed God, when he did
his father's will, I did too. But this also is talking about
us actually keeping his commandments. Turn to 1 John chapter 3. And this is his commandment.
That we should believe on the name of his son, Jesus Christ. And love one another as he gave
us commandment. Now there are commandments we
keep. We do believe on his name. I
do. I myself, I believe on his name as the only reason I'll
be brought into glory. And I do, from the depths of
my heart, I love all those who love Him. I love the brethren. I love men. I love all men in
the sense I want to preach the gospel to them. I want to know
the truth. But he's speaking specifically of this love to
the brethren. If you go reading in 1 John chapter 3, turn to
Matthew 18. In his, here's the law of his
kingdom, there's a keeping of his commandments. Verse one. At the same time came
the disciples unto Jesus saying, who's the greatest in the kingdom
of heaven? And Jesus called a little child unto him and set him in
the midst of them and said, verily, I say unto you, except you be
converted and become as little children as infants you shall
not enter the kingdom of heaven you're talking about who's going
to be the greatest in the kingdom of heaven you don't even need to worry
about being there you won't be there except you be converted
turned around from this pride and become as little children
Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child,
the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. Oh, what to God that
you and I would humble ourselves under his mighty hand. You know, I don't want to be
humiliated. And listen, Lord knows how to abase those who
walk in pride. And I want to be someone who
humbles myself before him as a little child. What's the outstanding
characteristic of an infant? Complete dependence. They can't do anything. They
have to be fed. They have to be washed. They
have to be cleaned. They have to be carried. Complete
dependence. And may the Lord make me this
little child. The last scripture I want to
look at is Luke 9. Last verse. Verse 62. And Jesus said unto
him, No man, having put his hand to the plow and looking back,
is fit for the kingdom of God. Now picture in your mind a man
plowing, plowing a furrow. What is the object of plowing
a furrow? You want to plow a straight furrow. Now how do you plow a
straight furrow? Is it by looking behind you?
No, you go in circles that way. You'll never plow a straight
furrow like that. I wish that we could get out
of our head the thought of looking to the past for assurance right
now. When I learned this and when I did that, forget it. Forget it. Don't look to the
past. Faith is always in the present. Don't look back there
to when I learned this or when I did that. No, you look to Christ
right now the way you first looked. That's the only way to plow looking
straight ahead to the Lord Jesus Christ. not looking to the side,
not looking at other people to see how they're doing. Oh, may
we be rid of this comparative religion where I'm comparing
myself to somebody else. And it's meaningless. It's absolutely
meaningless. Any comparison you make or I
make to somebody else is nothing but foolishness. I'm not to look
to the side. If I look to the side, I'm not going to plow a
stray pearl, am I? I'm not to look at my feet. Well,
I need to keep my feet right. I'm not to look at my walk. It'll
mess me up. I can't look back. I can't look
to the side. I can't look down. I'm to look
straight ahead, looking unto Jesus, the author and the finisher
of our faith. Now, the Lord said, you go and
preach the kingdom of God. Now that's not just talking about
his disciples, it's talking about, I mean his apostles, it's talking
about every believer. You go and preach the kingdom
of God. And as you go, he gave all these
different instructions, but you go preach the kingdom of God,
the message of the kingdom, and you preach by your life the kingdom
of God, where people see that he is your king. And that's the one thing I would
like for men of this world to see regarding me, that the Lord
Jesus Christ is my King and my Lord and my Savior. When you pray, oh may God cause us truly to be
men and women of prayer. When you pray, say, Our Father
which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come. Let's pray.