The Kingdom of Heaven

Notes

Our response to the Kingdom should be joyful, immediate, and complete

Matthew 13:44-45; 1 Peter 1:23-24; James 4:17; Philippians 3:7

Matthew 13:44-45

The Parables of the Hidden Treasure and the Pearl

44 “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field.

45 “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls.

1 Peter 1:23-24

23 For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. 24 For,

“All people are like grass,
    and all their glory is like the flowers of the field;
the grass withers and the flowers fall,

James 4:17

17 If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.

Philippians 3:7

7 But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ.