Healthy and Active Disciples Seek His Kingdom (2)

Matt. 6:19-23 -

I. Intro - Healthy and Active disciple series - the aim of this series in a world where there is so much cultural christianity that usually defines a Christian by what we do, what does the Bible say is a healthy disciple and what does that then look like for my everyday life.

A. Today we are going to look at the longest sermon that Jesus ever preached - The sermon on the mount - Jesus is going to look at a very religious culture and He is going to attack this idea of external based religion that is void of any heart pursuit

II. What does it mean to be a kingdom minded people??

Ex. of how I grew up and what the kingdom meant - big big yard where we can play football

Jesus is going to give a case study in kingdom mindedness - how do we interact with this statement?

III. Aim of the message - to ask the question what Kingdom are you seeking and do you need Jesus to go after it?

IV. Matt. 6:19-24 - transitional passage - it refers back to Matt. 5:1-12; 17-48 and 6:1-18 but at the same time provides the framework for the rest of chapter 6 and 7

The passage seeks to tie all the things that Jesus is saying together - a unified pursuit and focus on things that last

V. Explanation of the Passage - breakdown the verse -

Center this around the main idea of kingdom focus - we are all seeking something - we are all searching for a kingdom - what kingdom am I seeking/how am I trying to be king -

VI. Focus on eyesight - the kingdom minded person is fixed on that which is healthy and sees life through the lenses of what they value

Ex. worldview teacher - so many of my students who have told you with their mouth that they held to a Biblical worldview but when you pressed them on questions of truth, afterlife, good vs. evil - it became apparent that most of their convictions were not around the truth of Scripture but felt needs.

Answer the question of how we fix our eyes on the kingdom Jesus us laying and not make our own version of it.

Matt. 19:16-30 - the idea here is that he had created a kingdom that was comfortable for him - one where he got to define what it meant to pursue the kingdom and eternity - but Jesus

ex. here - I DON”T HAVE THEM YET

VII. What does it mean to live as believers in the yes but not yet -

Here is the heavy application part - WORKING ON THIS

VIII. Conclusion - v. 24 - a disciple cannot have divided loyalties - what kingdom am I pursuing and what end am i striving for - is it to see my kingdom built or is it to submit to the great king - who has allowed me access - even if only dimly to see the beauty of what He purchased on the cross.