Sermon
Entering the Kingdom of God
Stonebrook Community Church
Speaker: Brad Barrett, with Matt Heerema
January 26, 2025 · 35 min
Summary
Jesus teaches that entering God's kingdom requires childlike humility and complete devotion to Him above all else. Through two stories—Jesus blessing children and a wealthy man's struggle with possessions—the pastor shows that anything we love more than Christ creates distance between us and eternal life. True salvation comes by surrendering pride and lesser loves to receive God's blessing.
Highlights
What keeps us from heaven is our stubborn insistence to find our value and our merit in ourselves.
Anything that comes between us and Jesus will inhibit us from eternal life.
His kingdom is an upside-down kingdom. We find it by humility, not pride, by boasting in Him, not in ourselves.