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By Pastor Glenn Pease
There is only one of the 50 states that is named after a man, and that is the state of Washington.
It was originally named after King George III of England, and called New Georgia.
When America acquired it from Britain, they called it Columbia, and later changed it to Washington in honor of the first President.
This same piece of land bore the name of two great enemy leaders of the American Revolution: George III of England, and George Washington of the Colonies.
It bears the name Washington now, however, because he was the George that got the job done, and he won.
His name is honored in our land because he was victorious.
Some names are honored in more than one land.
One of the most fascinating cases is that of the great Russian Admiral, Ivan Pavel.
In 1788 Catherine the Great sent him to lead the Russian fleet against the Turks in the Black Sea, and Ivan won a stunning victory.
He won many other battles at sea as well.
But you say, so what, we never heard of the guy.
That is because, as Paul Aurandt points out in his book Destiny, the name sounds different in Russian.
Ivan in English is John, and Pavel is Paul.
This great Russian hero is none other than the great American hero, John Paul Jones.
This same man, because of the persuasion of Thomas Jefferson, made a name for himself in both the nations which became the super powers of the 20th century.
There are many who have made names that are honored in many lands, and some who are almost universally honored.
This is the ultimate objective of the plan of God for this earth, that his name be universally honored.
This is where prayer begins, says Jesus.
This is the unifying principle that makes Christians all over the world, one.
They might disagree on many things, but one thing all must hold in absolute unity is that God's name is to be honored universally.
When you care enough to pray the very best, you pray, hallowed be thy name.
Where ever the name of God is honored, people are open to God's rule, and there His kingdom will come.
And where His kingdom comes, His will will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
The first three petitions of the Lord's Prayer are very much like the three Persons of the Godhead in that they are one.
Any one of them includes the other two.
You cannot honor His name without His kingdom coming and His will being done.
You cannot see His kingdom come, and not honor His name, and do His will.
You cannot do His will, and not honor His name, and see His kingdom come.
In Luke 11, Dr. Luke records another occasion when Jesus taught this same prayer, and there He says only the first two, and the third petition is missing.
It is there by implication, however, for it is the logical result of God's kingdom coming.
If He rules and reigns in your life, then His will will be your supreme guide, and you will do it.
The fact that Jesus did not legalistically always say all three is evidence that He did not intend this prayer to be a magic formula.
It cannot please God by merely being repeated over and over.
It is not a form, but a guide by which we bring all of our desires into conformity with the purpose of God.
Here in the Sermon on the Mount Jesus gives us the balance of three God-centered desires, and three man-centered desires.
Three represents the nature of God, who is triune, and it is fascinating how the three runs through all Scripture, and nature.
God's Word and His world take on the nature of their Creator.
All of nature is categorized as animal, mineral, or vegetable.
It can also be, earth, water, and air.
It is also, solid, liquid, and gas.
There are hundreds of uses of three in the Bible.
We cannot begin to look at them, but just note a few examples that have influenced all of history.
The three friends of Job, the three wise men, with their three gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
On the Mount of Transfiguration, Moses and Elijah joined Jesus, making a three person conference, and Peter wanted to build three tabernacles to commemorate it.
Jesus said destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up, and as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so will I be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
I share just these few well known references in order to establish how important threes are in the Bible.
It has influenced all of literature.
Take children stories in our own culture, for example.
You have the three bears, the three little kittens, the three blind mice, the three little pigs, the three billy goats gruff, and the three little fishes.
So many of the stories of history are about the kings three sons or three daughters, or the three musketeers.
So many of the jokes you hear are of three men, or the Catholic, the Protestant, and the Jew.
There is something about threes that give balance.
So many of the popular sayings are three word sayings.
Blood, sweat, and tears.
Three cheers for the red, white, and blue.
Tom, Dick, and Harry.
Morning, noon, and night.
Tall, dark, and handsome.
Love, honor, and cherish.
Healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Faith, hope, and love.
A thorough study would produce many more examples.
Three point sermons are not just the whim of pastors.
The idea of three points to any message is based on the nature of God, reality, and the human need for balance.
In three there is unity, strength, and completeness.
Mary Davis wrote,
Three men, together riding,
Can win new worlds at their will;
Resolute, ne'er dividing,
Lead, and be victors still.
Three can laugh and doom a king.
Three can make the planet sing.
And I can add a line: Three can cover everything that God wants us to desire for Him.
When we get the first three desires of the Lord's Prayer dominating our lives, we have reached the heights of success in Christian living.
We want to focus on the third desire of this triumphant trinity of desires.
There are some powerful implications involved in praying thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
First of all:
I. IT IMPLIES A GREAT NEGATIVE.
If we need to pray constantly that God's will be done on earth, it is quit evident that God's will is not done on earth much of the time.
Everybody knows this is so, for it is self evident, even to the blind.
Yet, many Christians refuse to face up to this reality, and try to promote the cruel idea that everything is the will of God.
There is no way to measure the damage Christians have done with this perverted idea of the sovereignty of God, by which they mean, He is the cause of every terrible thing that happens in history.
If everything is the will of God, then there is no more meaningless prayer than one that asks that it be done.
We might just as well ask that the world be round, that the stars be up, that birds be able to fly.
Why not pray for the sun to be hot, and that fire would burn, and that gravity would hold us down?
Jesus is not toying with us here, and playing theological tricks.
He is teaching us the most important desires we can develop to be successful Christians, and one of them is the desire for God's will to be done.
There is no way you can honestly develop such a desire if God's will is already always done.
Therefore, any teaching that says all is the will of God, is a direct contradiction of Jesus.
The whole point of prayer is to cooperate with God in moving toward ideals.
The reason we are to pray that God's name be honored is because it is everywhere dishonored.
The reason we are to pray that His kingdom come is because God's rule and authority are rebelled against everywhere.
The reason we are to pray that His will be done is because it is everywhere just not being done.
These are the three great potentials of history, but right now they are not great realities.
Being aware of this is the only protection we have
against the wiles of the devil.
Christians who believe everything is the will of God are open game for every religious con artist, and cult leader, that comes along.
The world is so full of people who claim to know the will of God for everything, and everybody, that it takes a sucker being born every minute just to keep them all in business.
The tragedy is not only the deception, but the dishonor it brings to the name of God among people who are thinkers.
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