Kingdom of God Series - The Kingdom Is Worth Everything

If you haven't been here yet in the series, Niall started with a wonderful foundational base for this Kingdom of God series being the fear of the Lord.

And it can kind of seem like, oh, well, what's that? What do you mean? But he did just a wonderful, wonderful job of describing and of articulating and demonstrating what What Scripture means when it talks about the fear of the Lord.

This foundation that we see God as a loving Father, but we see Him with the all and wonder that He is due.

Of His great power.

Of His deep love.

And it's a great foundation because it's a great way of saying when we talk about the kingdom, when we pray about the kingdom, when we see the kingdom experience, that we have to know what kind of king is at the head of this kingdom.

And we do that and experience that by knowing the fear of the Lord.

And then we've been reminded or confronted or challenged with just how small the kingdom of God can often be.

How many people did the yeast that did the bread this week? Like, were you confronted by, what have the rest of you done with those peckers? I gave about 50 of them out.

But once you mix that through, have you noticed? Like it's impossible.

Once you've opened up that packet of yeast and mixed it into the ingredients, it's impossible to see it.

And so Jesus often, in these parables, in these stories of the kingdom, is reminding us, challenging us, because we expect the kingdom to be like fireworks.

Hey! We expect the kingdom to be like a forceful power coming in that everything bows to.

Strength.

We still today are corrupted by how our world says what power looks like.

What strength looks like.

We need to be as confronted and as challenged in those viewpoints as that first century audience did.

That the kingdom is much quieter than we ever imagined.

I think that's why Jesus used, other than the fact that all good followers of Jesus, the best followers of Jesus.

No, I won't even finish my sermon.

No, I won't say it.

But I think that's why Jesus used like horticulture and seeds.

You've made the link.

Yeah, good.

But like, oh, Lisa's here.