God] is forged, and through that partnership comes salvation. In heaven
we recite the Lord’s prayer every day just as people on earth do. When we
do so we don’t think of God the Father, because he cannot be seen. We
think of him in his divine-human manifestation, because in that he can
be seen. In that human manifestation he is called Christ by you, but the
Lord by us. To us the Lord is our Father in the heavens.
“‘The Lord taught that he and the Father are one, that the Father
is in him and he is in the Father, and that those who see him see the
Father. He also taught that no one comes to the Father except through
him, and that the will of the Father is that people should believe in the
Son. Those who do not believe in the Son do not see life; in fact,
God’s anger remains on them. From these teachings it is clear that
access to the Father is gained through the Lord and in him. Because
that is true, the Lord also taught that all power in heaven and on earth
was given to him.
“‘In the prayer it says, “Your name must be kept holy; your kingdom
must come.” We have demonstrated from the Word that his divine-
human manifestation isthe name of the Father; and that the Father’s
kingdom exists when the Lord is directly approached, but does not exist
at all when God the Father is directly approached. That is why the Lord
commanded the disciples to preach the kingdom of God. This is the
kingdom of God.’
[ 7 ] “When they heard that, our opponents said, ‘You are citing many
passages from the Word. We may have read things like that there, but we
don’t remember. Open the Word before us and read those things from it,
especially that point about the kingdom of the Father coming when the
Lord’s kingdom comes.’
“Then they said to the children, ‘Bring the Word,’ so the children
brought it.
“From it we read the following: ‘As he preached the gospel of the
kingdom, John said, “The time has been completed. The kingdom of God
has come near” (Mark 1 : 14 , 15 ; Matthew 3 : 2 ). Jesus himself preached the
gospel of the kingdom and that the kingdom of Godwas coming near
(Matthew 4 : 17 , 23 ; 9 : 35 ). Jesus commanded his disciples to preach and
evangelize the kingdom of God(Mark 16 : 15 ; Luke 8 : 1 ; 9 : 60 ); he gave a sim-
ilar command to the seventy he sent out (Luke 10 : 9 , 11 ).’ We also read
passages such as Matthew 11 : 5 ; 16 : 27 , 28 ; Mark 8 : 35 ; 9 : 1 , 47 ; 10 : 29 , 30 ;
11 : 10 ; and Luke 1 : 19 ; 2 : 10 , 11 ; 4 : 43 ; 7 : 22 ; 21 : 30 , 31 ; 22 : 18.
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