The W. W. Prescott Armadale Sermons - Fred Bischoff

Chapter 5
The kingdom of God; or the great controversy
between good and evil
"Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it in heaven." (Matt.
6:10)
It may help us to understand more clearly our own relation to God, and
what the service of God means--what religion really is--if we study the fact
that the cross of Jesus Christ has to do with more than this earth. We take
altogether too limited a view of God’s plan of salvation if we confine its
working simply to this world of ours.
In this petition the contrast is drawn between heaven and earth, and the
prayer is that the will of God may be done on earth as it is done in heaven.
The fact that God’s will reigns supreme there, makes heaven what it is; and
because God’s will is not done here, makes this world what it is.
The universe interested in the plan of salvation
Let us first notice two or three scriptures which will call our attention to
the thought that heaven has been affected, and is still affected, by God’s plan
of salvation. Sin has affected more than this world, and more than this world
depends upon God’s plan of salvation. In his epistle to the Ephesians, Paul
says, "Having made known unto us the mystery of His will, according to His
good pleasure which He hath purposed in Himself: That in the dispensation
of the fulness of times, He might gather together in one all things in Christ,
both which are in heaven and which are on earth; even in Him." (Eph. 1:9,
10) "For it pleased the Father that in Him should all fulness dwell; and,
having made peace through the blood of His cross, by Him to reconcile all
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