The Kingdom of the Father

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In this aspect the Lord Jesus presents the kingdom especially to His disciples as the Father’s, for it ever is God the Father’s kingdom, over which Christ has been appointed by the Father as its King and Administrator, in its future establishment on the earth. And in the few passages (Matt. 6:910; Luke 11:2; Matt. 13:43; Matt. 26:29; Luke 12:32) in which this aspect is given, all plainly relating to the millennium, our blessed Lord’s particular purpose in uttering these gracious and comforting words to His disciples appears to be to point them to the marvelous assurance that they should be partakers with Him in the coming glory of the kingdom, in the same relationship to the Father as Himself, and as helpers in the administration of His and their Father’s Kingdom—a millennial verification of the memorable words in John 20:17, “I ascend unto My Father, and your Father; and to My God, and your God.”
J. A. Savage from The Kingdom
of God and of Heaven