The concluded doxology is
given…” For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.”
[Mt.6: [last of verse 13 in KJV only]. Think of this last proclamation from
about 1640 AD as an extended AMEN.
It pronounces heavenly
Father as true king. Jesus prays: He is with us. God’s Kingdom is a done deal,
and it is His energy, His power, His glory, and He should receive the
adoration.
God maintains the throne of
the universe. He has the last word. He decides any final outcome. And yet He
submitted His Son as a substitute example for us to share in the kingship as
both followers and rulers of a new kind of order, a new family of created
beings.
Full power means Jesus is involved
in remaking the Father’s kingdom through sacrifice and establishing the Holy
Spirit life in us. This new kingdom, based on willing submission will glorify
heavenly Father somehow.
We now belong to Him in a
new kind of kingdom and our task is learning how to live and die in it.
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