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“My worth is not in what I own” or “skill or name or wealth or might”
“My value fixed, my ransom paid
“At the cross”
Yes!
I need that reminder this morning
Intro
Welcome
My name is Mike and I have the privilege of being one of the Pastors here at One Hope Church
Today that means I’m going to open up God’s Word with you
Open your bible or bible app today we’ll be in
We’re in a short but significant series called “We Are One Hope Church”
We’re reminding ourselves of what defines us as a church
We started with the core: we are Gospel-centered, meaning we have set our orbit around the good news of Jesus
Then, we continued with the idea that we are Community-driven, meaning we prefer collaboration and connectedness because we believe life and faith are better experienced together
And today we’re going to look at what it means to be a Kingdom-focused church, seeing the world the way Jesus intended us to see it
Tension
We as a society are fascinated with kings, queens and kingdoms
Game of Thrones
Royal weddings
Lord of the Rings
Beyonce (Queen B)
This isn’t a new phenomenon
It’s been happening for thousands of years
Reading in the Jesus Storybook Bible about how Israel demanded a king like the other nations of the world ()
Samuel warned them: all earthly kings will be oppressive, set on wealth accumulation, and overall be takers
He provided Saul and thus began our seemingly never-ending disappointment with the people who lead us
What happens in our culture when the earthly kings and kingdoms let us down?
A leader, a president, a pastor?
We grab the crown and make ourselves the king of our own little kingdom
The result is our greatest source of our stress and anxiety
We are either fixed on building or protecting our kingdom from falling
Worry has 3 elements to it
Belief that you have control +
Fear for your own comfort =
Stress when you realize both are threatened
Building / Protecting our kingdom
Job
Validation
Sickness
All of these become blows to my kingdom
When you become a parent, our family can become our kingdom
They are easy to confuse
Family becomes the ultimate thing to defend
Jesus has something to say to us about our anxiety and worry
Context
Beginning in , Jesus is teaching what has come to be known as the sermon on the mount
He’d gained a following after healing people and performing miracles
He is setting forth principles for everyday life
In starting in verse 25 he addresses our tendency to worry about temporal things
He reminds us that because we’re more valuable to God than the animals and plants, we can put away our worry
We’ll pick up in verse 31 of
Scripture
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31 Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.
33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
Prayer
Jesus, I pray your Word would both deeply challenge and encourage us.
Would you take all internal and external distractions and bind them.
Protect this time we have together today.
Help us to hear with spiritual ears and see with spiritual eyes.
Your kingdom come today.
Your will be done today.
Amen.
Application
The first thing I want us to understand and notice is this word “seek”
33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
It appears in verse 32 and in verse 33
It is an emotionally charged word
It can mean “desire” or “to look for” or “run after”
Some translations add the word eagerly
There’s a contrast in our text
First, we see in verse 32 that the Gentiles or people who don’t follow Jesus seek the answers to questions that are all about their comfort
But when I see their questions, I see me
What are the questions you’re asking?
What am I going to eat?
What am I going to wear?
Where am I going to live?
Who are my friends going to be?
What am I going to study?
What am I going to do with these kids?
What questions are you asking out of anxiety?
Different Priorities
This is the first thing we’ll see today: [SLIDE] kingdom-focused church has different priorities.
Seek FIRST
In other words, replace all of those things with something greater, something better
Change your focus
Adjust your sight
Reassess your priorities
As a people, as the church, we should have clearly different priorities than the world around us
Driving Purpose
So what should take the top priority slot in our attention and affection?
This is where we’ll focus most of our time today
Jesus says “33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
So what is the kingdom of God?
This theme of the kingdom is central to many of the things Jesus specifically in his sermon on the mount but really for his whole time on earth
Even if I preached a 2 hour sermon on this, we wouldn’t have scratched the surface
I’d encourage you to do some further reading particularly with a book called “Seek First: How the Kingdom of God Changes Everything” by Jeremy Treat
It was an excellent resource for capturing a lot of the layers of this topic and is really where a lot of what I’m about to share came from
Treat says this:
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