2. The Sinless One

3. Bible Reading
Matthew 6:25–34

4. Seek first the Kingdom
Part 1

5. Jesus’ Words Challenging “Do not worry about your life...” Matt 6:25
“Do not worry about tomorrow...” Matt 6:34

9. Suppose one of you wants to build a tower
Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Will he not first sit down and estimate the cost to see if he has enough money to complete it?
For if he lays the foundation and is not able to finish it, everyone who sees it will ridicule him, saying, “This fellow began to build and was not able to finish.”
Luke 14: 28-30

16. Trusting God? We cannot live on past experiences of God.
Our walk with God
has to be renewed each day.

17. Seek first the Kingdom
Part 2

18. Look at the birds of the air...
Seek first
the
Kingdom

19. What is the Kingdom of God?
Seek first
the
Kingdom

20. The “places” where God rules
Seek first
the
Kingdom

21. What is the Kingdom of God?
A place or jurisdiction of:
no murder (wrongful anger),
no adultery (lustful looking),
no revenge, enemies are loved,
generosity, prayer, fasting,
God coming before possessions,
judging left to God,
God’s generosity surpassing ours,
open only to those who do what the Heavenly Father wants...

22. A pearl worth sacrificing everything for

23. A mustard seed growing into a huge tree – a place of new birth

24. For those of childlike faith

25. Hard for the
wealthy to get in

26. Requires
readiness
and preparation

27. Requires our investment Taken hold of by forceful people
Revealed in suffering

28. The Kingdom of God
separates people
weeds from the harvest

29. The Kingdom of God
separates people
bad fish - good fish

30. The Kingdom of God
separates people
goats - sheep

31. Who are “the least of these brothers & sisters of mine”?
Jesus
Who are “the least of these
brothers & sisters of mine”?
The poor & disadvantaged?
Children?
Other believers?
The Jews?

32. separated into His Kingdom
The Kingdom of God
Called as His sheep,
separated into His Kingdom

33. The Kingdom of God is unified under God’s sovereignty
Inconceivable that it could be divided
United, as Jesus and His Father are
A divided kingdom will fall (Matt 12:25)
Unity is not uniformity.

34. embraces diversity – as in Creation
The Kingdom of God
embraces diversity – as in Creation