Sermon
Following Jesus Is Worth It | Matthew 4:12-25
Treeline Church
Speaker: Andrew Hager
October 18, 2022 · 32 min
Summary
Jesus proclaims the kingdom of God—a spiritual authority in believers' hearts now and a future physical reality on earth. The kingdom comes with healing, transformation, and radical redemption, but requires complete surrender of all competing allegiances and entering with empty hands.
Highlights
The kingdom of God is a spiritual authority that Christ has in people's lives, and when it comes into someone's life, everything about who they are and what they love changes to be more in line with God.
The reason the bar is so high to get into the kingdom of God isn't because God is stingy, it's because he's generous. Jesus is trying to give you something so big, so miraculous, so amazing that you literally cannot hold on to it if you're holding on to anything else.
You cannot take hold of the kingdom of God if you do not drop everything else that you are putting your hope in.