Title Meaning is Done /Revelation 21:1-4
Content Today, as we enter the fourth Sunday of Lent, we will meditate on the fourth part of the Lord's Prayer. The fourth prayer is “Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” This prayer is the prayer that Jesus insisted on while He was on this earth. He prayed that God's will be done at every opportunity. In John 4:34 he said, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to complete his work." He clearly stated that the purpose of his coming was to perfectly accomplish God's will on this earth, and that that was the significance of his existence (Raison d'etre). What is the reality of this prayer? What is the content of this prayer for God's will to be done on this earth?
First of all, this prayer overturns our common sense of religion. When we think of the concept of "prayer," we think of prayer as some kind of request to heaven with the world behind us. As you can see from this general idea, when we talk about religion, we usually think of it as something beyond heaven. In other words, we are reminded first of some extraterrestrial meaning that transcends this land, which has nothing to do with it.
Last week, there was a devastating incident in Korea where a university professor murdered his father, and in Japan, a shocking incident occurred in which many people were killed by spraying poison cutlet on the subway. It turns out that this poisonous cutlet spraying was committed by a new religious group, a pseudo-group that is engrossed in the eschatology and denies the world. Most of the emerging religious groups or cults that cause problems in the world have strong negative thoughts about the world. They only speak of hope for the other world. So they are obsessed with eschatology.
Surprisingly, though, people think that the general tendency of religious thought is precisely this eschatological tendency. The eschatological equation is that this world perishes and there is hope in the other world. But the true eschatology of Christianity is not. The true eschatology of Christianity is manifested in this "Lord's Prayer."
Your kingdom come...
Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
This is the eschatology of Christianity. The eschatology of Christianity is to pray that God's reign will be spread out on this earth, that your plans and wills will be fulfilled on earth as it is in heaven, and that the kingdom of God will be realized on this earth. This is when Jesus Christ fully reigns on the earth - although the New Testament sees it as the second coming of Christ - that will be the end, and the end of the world will never be the end. The creation of God's paradise on this earth is the eschatology of Christianity.
May the LORD make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you; the LORD turn his face toward you and give you peace.
The direction that human beings should face here is not on the contrary to the earth. The direction humans should take is the sky. God. It is secularism, which is what man is towards the earth.
Man should always have his face facing the sky. We must ask God's will and ask God's will. It is for this reason that the Lord commands us to pray, “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”
Another thing to think about here is the area covered by this prayer. The realm of this prayer is "heaven and earth". “Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” In the ancient Near East and the Old Testament, when "heaven and earth" are used together, they mean all of God's creation. In other words, it means all the worlds in which every corner of this world is missing. What this means is that when we pray, "Thy will be done on earth," it does not simply mean the religious realm or the spiritual realm. refers to all areas. It starts with our psyche and includes the political realm, social realm, economic realm, all spheres. Therefore, when we pray this prayer, we do not pray only for the religious dimension in the church, but the Father's will is done in all realms of heaven and earth, political realm, social realm, military realm, economic realm, and cultural realm. We must not forget that we must pray for the loss.
"Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven."
Now, then, what is the meaning of the will that must be done on earth as it is in heaven? The ultimate meaning is shown in Ephesians 1:10. Ephesians 1:10 says:
that all things in heaven and on earth might be united in Christ.
We can see this will of God in a little more detail. That is what we see in today's Bible verse.
And I saw a new heaven and a new earth, and the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and God dwells with them, and they shall be God's people, and God Himself was with them and wiped every tear from their eyes again. There will be no more mourning or crying or pain, for the first things have passed away.
God's will is done on earth as it is in heaven. There are three phases of change here. First, the adorned New Jerusalem comes down from heaven. Second, God dwells with man. Third, because God wipes away all human tears, there will be no more death, mourning, crying, or pain, and the first things have passed.
Let's take a look at the world we live in. How many tears are there in the world we live in now? How many deaths, how many weeping and mourning? How much pain do you have? Our entire lives are stained with tears, death, weeping and pain. The beginning of crying at birth continues until you leave this world. In the past, we often heard self-helpful voices from our mother, who had lived many lives and was old, saying, "When all the tears I shed are gathered together, they will be more than enough to make up a river." It sounds like a metaphor, but it's true. We need to change this culture of tears, culture of death, culture of mourning, and culture of pain into a culture where these things do not exist again.
This is the specific subject we should pray for, "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven," which we must pray earnestly with the Lord with our arms outstretched toward heaven.
Heavenly Father,
our Father in heaven,
Come quickly and wipe the tears from our eyes
death that threatens our lives and
All the bitterness, oppression, and bitterness accumulated in life in this world,
Take away our weeping and our pain.
Lord, wipe away our tears.
Save lives dying on the battlefield
Even though we are born with the same life, we are abandoned and regarded as negligible
Please take away this despair of wanting to take my own life.
Lord, these tears that flow endlessly from our human eyes
Lord, take away our sorrow for weeping and striking the ground.
Lord, many precious lives are suffering from disease
suffering from heartache
So now our intestines are rotten to the point of rot.
Lord, take away this pain from us.
The prayer "Thy will be done in heaven" contains all these prayers. To summarize this prayer in one word, it is Shalom. "Shalom" is not simply the absence of war, but the state of enjoying the freedom and peace that humans must enjoy while living as human beings. In other words, this world, where tears are abundant and death is upon us, and where weeping, mourning, and pain rule, will be in a state where there are no tears, death, crying, mourning, and pain will be no more. . The Lord is trying to make this earth that way to save all things and to be united in Christ.
In this world where tears do not stop, death and crying do not cease, weeping does not cease, and pain does not cease, in this world where there is no more death, no crying, no mourning, no pain, no more peace. To create the world, the kingdom of Shalom, today we must hold our hands together and pray, "Our Father in heaven, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven."
Black people who were taken into slavery in the United States sang a lot of hymns especially longing for heaven. Suffering from the wretched oppression of white people, black people prayed and sang together for the victory of civil rights, hoping that "one day this suffering will end and there will be a day when eternal freedom and peace will come before God." And struggled. Among the black spirit songs they sang, "One day we will win!" There is a hymn.
We shall overcome.
We shall overcome.
We shall overcome someday.
Oh, deep in my heart,
I do believe.
We shall overcome someday.
1. We will win
we will win
on that day we will triumph
Oh with all my heart I believe
we will win
2. No Fear
no fear
we have no fear
3. hand in hand
hand in hand
we will join forces
4. Live in Peace
live in peace