The Treasure Worth Everything: Jesus on the Kingdom

can you thank my wife today for being our host the hostess with the mostess come on somebody they say beauty is in the eye of the beholder that's what they say is in the eye of the beholder meaning what's valuable to me may not be valuable to you what's valuable to you may not be valuable to me growing up as a young child my mother was obsessed with fabric fabric was the currency of her soul she just absolutely loved material and by the time she moved out of her home there were thousands of uh rockes of fabric it was underneath her beds it was stored in closets that's because my mother was a

quilter so for her she did not see material or fabric she saw the potential for art so she was willing to invest all of her money in fabric it was something I could not understand as a child for some not fabric for some it's cars for others it might be jewelry still for so many in Central Oregon it's guns what's valuable to you may not be valuable to me some of you are looking at me right now and you're saying those boots are dope there's a few people over here wondering is that guy on dope that's because these are Balenciaga

boots you want to buy these today you got to go to Neiman Marcus online you will find them for $1,350 some of you say I would never buy boots for that much money neither would I but the point is whether the boots are from Bart or they balen Yaga it's in the eye of the beholder and my son has taught me as he's into fashion like why would somebody spend so much for that listen these designers these creators they they don't create for the masses to conform the idea is that someone's willing to pay this so that they would have this because for them it has value to stand out to to be a living piece of art now before we go further blessed are

the feet of those who bring good news I'm going to change into some bands all right not sure I could preach in these all right so so the idea today is what do you value what do you value what are you investing in I'm going back to Vans does that look a little more normal for someone all right did anybody like the Balenciaga boots I'm going to be honest I felt a little judged when I came out here but I still love you today we're talking about the kingdom as a treasure the kingdom as a treasure what do you value in your life because what you value is what you're willing to invest in what you value is what you're

willing to sacrifice for what you value is what you're going to sell your life out for your life is showing the world what's important to you what you're investing in what you think about what you put your money towards what you talk about that tells the world what's important to you the first message Jesus preached according to the Book of Mark 1 verse4 and 15 now after John was arrested Jesus came into Galilee proclaiming the gospel of God and saying the time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is at hand repent and Believe In The Gospel there's an association to the kingdom and gospel gospel means what shout it out good news

so what's important to Jesus is that you know the kingdom because if you have the kingdom you have good news the author of The Book of Matthew was one of the 12 disciples of Jesus Matthew walked with Jesus he talked with Jesus he got to see Kingdom put into practice and as he writes about the life of Jesus he comes from a unique perspective and that Matthew was raised in a Jewish household he would have heard the Torah the Commandments the scriptures of God pointing forward to an anointed one a messiah what the Jewish people called the hamashiach what we call the Christ a king that would come as he writes the book of Matthew he tells us that Jesus

introduces himself in Matthew 4:1 17 from that time Jesus began to preach repent for the kingdom everyone shout Kingdom Kingdom of Heaven is at hand now in the New Testament when you read the phrase kingdom of heaven and Kingdom of God they mean the exact same thing Matthew's coming from a Jewish perspective it to those this Jewish household and Jesus your life align your thinking with God things because the kingdom is not someday the kingdom is not one day the kingdom is here the kingdom is now and as Matthew writes about the life of Jesus that we read in the account of the book of of Matthew this gospel account the good news of Jesus Christ he shows

us what the Kingdom looks like and it is the king of all Kings Jesus Kingdom implies there's a way of a king and that is Jesus Jesus is the kingdom for he is the king of all Kings what does this way look like Matthew tells us King Jesus the Christ he would heal the sick he would cast out demons he was willing to confront the contentious the religious the Hypocrites that's what the king of all Kings looks like some were drawn to Jesus in fact some that you might judge from the outside they were the Sinners the tax collectors even the drunkards were drawn to this message of the Kingdom now the world has been anticipating a

Christ and at this time when Jesus stepped into the story of History the Roman Empire was the greatest Kingdom on planet Earth Caesar was the greatest King so if Jesus is the Christ the King he must be a greater King than Caesar he must have a greater Kingdom than the Roman Empire so there was speculation of what that looks like when will he tax the world when will he come by force when will he demand his people to profess that he's Lord just like Caesar would do well his kingdom is so different and so as Jesus did what he did best reflect the kingdom God incarnate In the Flesh there was this raising tide of disappointment have you ever had that in your life you had one expectation of of

what God would do and tsunami came toward you're thinking that's not what I was expecting God a little more Prosperity a little more Health a little more Comfort Lord a little more blessing as in the first century they they came up with their own conclusion of what the Christ should look like what the kingdom would look like and when Jesus didn't act like they thought he should act when he he didn't look the way they thought he should look he had one of two choices change the way he's doing things meaning he has a marketing problem or continue on his way because he knows what he's

doing and Jesus not willing to be persuaded by the ways of man was doubted by so many even his own family thought he was a bit crazy hey Jesus can you settle down just a little bit even John the Baptist who came to prepare the way for Jesus when he was arrested say hey could you send a message to Jesus and just like verify are you the one are you the Christ are you the king and so it even be in the very cities where Jesus performed signs and wonders he healed the sick he preached the gospel demons were cast out and in those Galilean cities they started to get hard

Hearts so many of us Think Jesus if you just did this then I would be more devoted to you no you wouldn't he can do all the signs and wonders he could preach a clear message on the kingdom of God what it comes down to is your choice to surrender your will to King Jesus so when Matthew writes about the life of Jesus he shares how this message continues on the kingdom that by the time he gets to chapter 13 he's preaching a clear message he's using what's called Parables these short stories with a great big spiritual truth and he comes to one in Matthew Chapter 13 and it starts off in this chapter and Jesus says there's a sewer and he's sewing seeds Jesus loved agricultural stories because they're simple yall get

it you plant a seed and something grows and he Likens that story to the Son of God sowing the seeds and the the seeds represent the word of God but then he says in this story some a bird comes and snatches the seed and the Sun comes out and scorches the seed because it doesn't go deep enough and the weeds come out and and chokes the seed before it Bears any fruit but then there's this one seed that falls in good soil and what seems to happen in the good soil is a miracle it multiplies 160 30 times and Jesus tells this story he drops the mic walks up the stage and it's actually a boat but then the disciples asked Jesus hey what in the world are you talking about I thought we're talking

Kingdom let's talk Revolution Let's Go Jesus first century let's let's go I mean we got to get this message out Jesus what do you talking about and so he has to explain the kingdom not everyone who hears the word of God will bear fruit some don't understand it and Satan comes in and snatches it before can ever bear root so that it can grow fruit some still they they want it but but they allow this world to come in and just quench out anything that God can and would do some still have the worries of this world they're so concerned about their careers and their bills to be paid that they miss the opportunity to get choked out from the fruit of the Spirit but there are some and I wonder if there's some here

today that man if that seed just Falls at the right time in the right heart it's going to do more than you can imagine you can't even imagine it because it's it's it's a multiplying miracle of God that when the word of God goes in and you're willing to receive this God's going to do a work you couldn't do on their own so the disciples are listening to this and they're leaning in and Jesus goes on and he says all right while we're talking Parables and we're talking agriculture let me tell you more about the Kingdom of Heaven the Kingdom of Heaven is like wheat that's sewn by a farmer but then the enemy comes in and he doesn't like what the what the farmer is doing so he sews a different seed and those seeds are weeds so when the wheat starts to grow the Weeds start to grow so everyone starts saying should we go pull out the weeds and the and the

farmer says no because if we pull out the weeds we might pull out the wheat here's what we'll do we'll let them both grow at the same time and then the farmer is going to cut them down and separate the wheat from the weed so right now you can't even tell who's weeds and who's wheat and so he says that's how the kingdom is one day the angels are going to come and separate and God's going to know exactly who's good and who's not and sometimes there's people that look like they're wheat but they're not they're weeds he says that's the kingdom then he keeps telling these stories and he comes to this one that just it's gripped my heart and I want to just talk about the story for a moment it's in Matthew 13:44 he says the Kingdom of Heaven everyone shout Kingdom the kingdom is like treasure hidden in a field which a man

found and covered up then in his Joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field maybe I like this one because I'm just not that AG culturally minded but I do like me some treasure this is such a simple story don't you love Jesus that he he doesn't make things so complicated it's like you go to a yard sale and they're selling something for so cheap what are you going to do just be like that's worth so much more than that no you go and get your wallet you go to the ATM you go come back and you make sure you get that you're going to resell it on Marketplace for 10 times what they sold it for Jesus just he keeps it real so the kingdom is like what shout it

out come on Treasure the answer is treasure the kingdom is like what shout it out all right it's going to be better with some shout back the better you do it preaching the better I'll do the more you preach the shorter I'll preach all right so that's how this going to work now is treasure good or bad it's always good don't you love that Jesus left it up to our imagination for you to come up with what a treasure is like if my mom read the story she would have been like somebody found fabric I mean a whole boatload I don't know here is just thinking like so many bullets boxes of bullets I mean unused I mean the perfect I mean still somebody here they're just thinking cash is somebody found a winning lottery

ticket that1 billion doll win and they they they covered up now let's just understand Rabin law of the day we don't know anything about this guy does he work for this guy is he is he plowing the field and he stumbles upon this treasure did he take a shortcut and he's just walking through someone else's property and he stubs his toe and he looks back and there's this box full of gold we don't know anything about this guy but what Rabbi law tells us that if you find a treasure on someone else's property and it's not any treasure anything that's found on that property is the property owners so you can't say I found this Finders Keepers losers sweepers nope if it's on someone else's property it's theirs now it wasn't uncommon in this day to hide treasure you didn't go to the bank and give them a bat load of

gold coins and say could you hold this for Me Maybe with five or six% interest and I'll come back when I need it they didn't have those same luxuries you would actually bury your your coins or whatever was valuable and then you would come back to that place true story there was once a guy at Journey who owed tons of taxes to the government so anytime time there was money in his bank account the federal government would seize that money for his taxes so when he got paid he made sure he did things like you know a little differently so he could pay other bills so things can go okay well he would get paid in cash and what he started to do since he he he refused to use Banks because of this past taxes he would bury his money on his property now what happened is he rented some properties large High Deb and he buried this money

cash and remember so like the prayer request went something like this would you pray for me to find the money I had because I owe money to the government it's like Lord do you hear these prayers like uh I'm going to pray but I don't know exactly even how to pray so even today 2,000 years later people are still doing this so here we have a guy that finds this treasure and according to the the Jewish law of the day if he owns the property he gets whatever's on the property and when he finds this treasure he sees such incredible value that the Bible tells us in Matthew 13:44 it says

then in his Joy everyone shout joy joy I mean this is what the kingdom is it brings Joy I found something I need I found something I want I found something that gives me joy we learned about this last week when you abide in Jesus Jesus says at the end of this abiding it's not just God wants the best for wants you to have joy and not just some Joy John says Jesus wants you to the full he wants to fill your life Joy not just a little but a lot so he has such Joy he goes and sells what how much does he sell all of it

he doesn't keep some of it and say hey can we barter about the worth of this property no he knows the value of what's on that property and that's the treasure and he's willing to sell all of it he didn't keep half his Goods to get the kingdom too many of us think well I'll keep some of my old life and then I'll I'll still have the new life Jesus wants for us no this guy decides the kingdom is so valuable he's going to get rid of it all I'm willing to get rid of it all there's a point that Jesus is making that if you're going to take the king serious you need to take the kingdom serious and it could cost you everything I say could because for each one of us it's different but Jesus warns us to count the cost in Matthew chap 10:

34-39 Jesus is speaking and he says this do not think that I've come to bring peace to the Earth I've not come to bring peace but a sword for I have come to set a man against his father a daughter against her mother and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law and a person's enemies will actually be those in his own household whoever loves father or mother is not worthy of me whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy Jesus continues and says and whoever does not take cross and follow me is not worthy of me whoever finds his life will lose it whoever loses his life Jesus

says for my sake we'll find it now if you take Jesus teaching out of context you're going to miss this some of you will say well Jesus just came to divide is that what he does he just divides no Jesus came to unite but the seriousness of surrender is this you'll either take Jesus in the fullness of who he is and if you take his life you can't still have your life and there are times that when you take Jesus so serious and this was not an exhaustive list here this was not an exhaustive list that if you follow Jesus your parents are going to hate you or if you follow Jesus your mother-in-law won't understand that's not the point here the point here is that when you take Jesus so seriously there will be people that seriously misunderstand you if they misunderstood Jesus they will

misunderstand you if they persecuted Jesus they might persecute you if they crucify Jesus come on somebody you've got to be willing to count the cost so Jesus says you just don't go build a house with the materials you have you got to say how much is this going to cost and Jesus said if you want to follow me and he says this before he's crucified he says you've got to be willing to take up your cross daily to follow him meaning you've got to die to yourself all the dreams you thought King Jesus would be like everything you thought of God so that when you suffer like his brother James would eventually write and we just sang about today I will count it as Joy because I know God still sits on the throne I know God is still good I know nothing's wasted with him so I can rejoice in my sufferings because it produces endurance which produces character which produces hope

and that's where I set my hope is in the glory of God that his love doesn't stop when I suffer I don't give up on King Jesus when the world doesn't happen the way I thought it would I actually keep turning back to him so Jesus says count the cost even if the closest people to you don't understand it you got to decide will you conform to them you still surrender and serve King Jesus and by the way if you serve King Jesus you have the Holy Spirit which means you can still love you can still have joy you can still have peace kindness goodness gentleness it doesn't mean you hate your family and are vengeful towards them it means if they slap you proverbially over the face you don't do it back to them you don't shout back you don't comment on that post you don't fire a

text message all caps you simply get on your knees and say Jesus I give you my family you have authority you're my true heavenly father if you are my Lord I don't know how you're going to work this out but you're going to do it because I'm a part of your kingdom first I'm not a citizen of this world first and then a citizen of Heaven I've got to determine do I want to actually take Jesus at his word or not and the focus of this Parable is so simple there's a treasure the treasure represents what kingdom it's worth everything it all absolutely everything now is Jesus saying you've got to buy the kingdom absolutely not this is a free gift this treasure is absolutely free but you've got to still

be willing to count the cost Matthew chap 5:3 Jesus says blessed are the poor in spirit so you don't bring anything to God saying like okay I'm ready to buy this Kingdom now when you're empty and you say I'm ready to receive it blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven unless you think you've got to have it all figured out some of you are newer to church and you say I don't even know the Bible that well I don't know the language of this stuff that well you're talking Kingdom this is all new to me let me just tell you Jesus wants this to be simple in Matthew chapter 18 and Matthew chapter 19 says you actually have to be more like a child to get the Kingdom look at Matthew 18:4 look at vers four whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven there's a complete dependency I want what you have to offer

let's go mat 19 there were so many rebuking children saying you don't have place here we don't want crying when Jesus is preaching we don't want to be distracted by you little kids you you could be seen but not heard and Jesus rebuked them and bring in a child he says in verse 14 Matthew 19:14 Jesus said let the little children come to me and do not hinder them for to such belongs the Kingdom of Heaven I love that kids don't make it complicated a kid that loves Jesus doesn't say well my religion is Jesus they just believe they sing simple songs to Jesus they pray bold simple prayers to Jesus you can't buy the kingdom you can't be old enough to have it figured out there's a place of Simplicity just says

I want what Jesus offers what does Jesus offer to be the king of your life that you would follow his way which is his kingdom Romans 6:23 puts it this way for the wage of sin is death so you have a debt that one day when you get before God he looks at you with eyes of fire he knows every thought you've ever thought every deed you've ever done every word you've ever said that's a huge debt I don't know about you but that just scares me if if I have to be confronted with Who I Really Am that's vulnerable it's awful I Know Who I Really Am Jesus even knows the I am so if I go before God and he looks at me like son you're not the Bible doesn't stop there because in the king of the true Christ the anointed one the Messiah wages of sin is

death but the treasure the kingdom the free gift of God is eternal life in the Christ Jesus our lord come on somebody when I get to heaven God's not going to look at me and say boy you are a good boy you get in he's going to look at me and say you accepted the free gift your sins are forgiven you're not counted by what you thought what you said what you were born into what was done to you that's how you get the kingdom it's a free gift I like how Jesus said in Luke 12:32 fear not little flock for it is your father's good pleasure to give you the king Kingdom Jesus wants you to know that God sees you our heavenly father loves you

and he wants you to have it he doesn't want you to think that this is for someone else and not for you the father wants you to know that today this treasure is yours and it's not money that's going to buy the kingdom but money can absolutely distract you derail you or get your eyes off of the Kingdom Jesus said in Matthew 19: 23 he said to his disciples truly I say to you only with difficulty will a rich person enter the Kingdom of Heaven see there was a man who was young he was good-look he seemed to follow all the religious rules and when he asked Jesus how can he inherit eternal life Jesus went through all the religious rules and he says I've done all those but Jesus says go ahead and sell all

that you have and give it to the poor and not only is the kingdom yours even more follow me and you know what the Bible says is that man walked so there was that actually hindered him from receiving so much more now was Jesus asking all of us to actually sell everything and give it to him no but if that's what's stopping you from the kingdom that's absolutely what you need to do because you're going to more so the disciples were confused like wait a second if the rich don't get into heaven who does because it was believed that the rich were actually more favored by God they were blessed by God because if they had provision and abundance that somehow God blessed them more than the poor and Jesus says that's not the way it works so they said who can get to

heaven and Jesus looked at them and said this with man this is impossible but With God all things are possible you know what the Kingdom's about King Jesus it's not about the rich getting to heaven or the poor getting to Heaven you don't get to heaven because of what you've done this isn't about having enough money or not enough money this isn't about how good you are the things that you've done that some I'm good enough I get into heaven I was born into the right family I went to the right Church Jesus says no no no the only people that get into heaven are because God gets you into heaven because he gave you the free gift he did what needed to be done in Ephesians 2:8 it's written like this for by Grace you've been saved through faith so you receive this gift of Grace by believing which is called Faith this is not of your own doing it

is the gift of God what a great gift and by the way Grace doesn't run out so if you think you know I received the gift I was forgiven and then I went and messed up and I received the gift again and I went and messed up and then by golly I did it again do we have a god with a three strikes rule it's just like that's it no more grace for you my friend I'm going to give it to somebody else who will use it that's not how Grace works so God could care less what you did did last night what he cares right now is what are you going to do with the treasure right now because if you take him serious right now and start investing in the Kingdom right now that will shape your future but your past isn't going to help

you so you want to wallow in the pity of who you used to be you're rejecting the gift of Grace you Embrace Grace you're washed in the righteousness of who he is now why would God give you such good treasure I'm glad you asked that question Jesus it when he's talking to a religious man that just does not getting what he's talking about this for God so loved the somebody needs to put their today so that you can be reminded for God so loved you he loves you just point to your neighbor say God loved you you want to know why Jesus died on the cross you you want to know why Jesus stepped off the throne in heaven and came to this earth you you needed a savior and he's a great savior you needed a real King because

the ones we're electing aren't the best Kings but he's a king of all Kings it doesn't matter who it is or who steps in or what we think they're going to look like how young or how old or how talented or how smart it doesn't matter what we think we need a real king and God so loved us that he gave his only son that's called everything he gave everything that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life why did he do that for God send his son into the world to condemn the world receive re the Grace today he doesn't shame you he doesn't guilt you he doesn't reject you he came into this world that you'd believe in him and be saved that you'd receive the treasure in order that the world might be saved through him Jesus willingly took your sins on the cross he was crucified not because he deserved to die he who was without

sin took our sin this is Grace it's charity you can't pay him back he gives you everything so that you would be willing to give everything he demonstrates his love for you in this way that he gave his life now why would Jesus do this to set you free from sin that's Kingdom to release you from anxiety that's Kingdom to liberate you from your past that's Kingdom to heal your hurts that's Kingdom oh to give you eternal life that's Kingdom oh to to to break generational strongholds that's Kingdom to give you a new beginning beginning that's Kingdom when you have a dry drought in the desert of your heart the kingdom is Living Water provided by

King Jesus when you are so hungry nothing satisfies you you keep going after the same thing but it doesn't do it the kingdom is that Jesus is the bread of life when you've been seeking your whole life to figure out who you are trying to please everybody and you're still not pleased you know what the Bible says our heavenly father just wants you to shut up and be quiet so he could sing over you with love that's Kingdom nothing you can do can make you who God made you to be nothing you are Made In His Image so you can't be more talented or better looking or thinner or younger or whatever that is in your head that thinks I would be a better version of myself if no if you see yourself in God's eyes that's the best version of you you're still living and breathing God loves you he's got a great plan for you that means by believing in King

Jesus you're adopted into his family you're a child of God you can receive that today you get a great inheritance he doesn't hold anything back from you he doesn't say you're a stepchild you only get half of Heaven he says no you get to be with me forever you get the promised reward of hope that's Kingdom and if God gave his best for you what are you willing to give him what's your response today is it a one day I'll get my life in check one day I'll take god seriously one day I'll learn more about the Bible one day I'm going to be a Praying person the Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure that when you find it you don't wait for a one day or a better day or another day you today

surrender all so that you could receive what God has for you today there's nothing more valuable than the kingdom nothing what is the price to be forgiven of your sins could you ever earn that it's a gift for you today what is the price of seeing yourself in God's eyes pure holy righteous he looks at you and says you're royalty you're my priesthood you're my chosen people don't put an aster there and say but I don't know enough I'm not sure if that's me the word of God says it and you can believe it today Paul writes in Philippians 3 veres 7-9 he says whatever gain I had anything I've ever had on this side of Heaven I count it as loss for the sake of Christ

indeed I count everything as a loss because of the surpassing worth of just knowing Christ Jesus my Lord for his sake I've suffered the loss of all things I count them as rubbish in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law but that which comes through faith in Christ the righteousness from God that depends on faith if you find Jesus that's all you want is more Jesus there's nothing that compares nothing I know you want to go on vacation I know it's going to cost a lot of money but when you get back does it give you more joy what you did last night did it give

you more joy what you did last year did it give you more joy because the kingdom of God says here's what I want to give you more joy Joy more joy and actually here's the mystery of the Kingdom revealed in Jesus the less of you and the more of him the more you become who God wants you to be and the good news is God's grace is for you today some of you tragically have a wrong perspective of God and the kingdom and today he wants to realign that the kingdom of God is not like the kingdom of this world the kingdom of God is not a tax that's burdensome you don't owe God anything you can't ever pay him back for what he's done the kingdom of God is a treasure that when you find it you're willing to say that's all I want it

aligns so so why do we live in a world where people still mock Christianity why do they mock Jesus instead of embrace him he lovingly opened up his arms and died on Father forgive them they what they do the Bible tells tells us in Romans 1 claiming to be wise so many become fools they exchange the glory of the immortal God for images resembling man and birds and animals and creeping things meaning people worship what they see they make it up in their minds and they think they're going to be satisfied only to realize that's not Kingdom instead of a treasure we take a false gospel instead of Kingdom we take an instant

gratification and we seek pleasure and at the end of the day we're still lacking Joy the devil does anything he can to keep you away from the truth of who Jesus is 2 Corinthians 4:4 says in their case the God of this world that's the devil has blinded the minds of unbelievers so if you've wondered why haven't I received the treasure the devil has done a good job tricking so many of us to stay away from who Jesus really is to keep them from seeing the light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ who is the image of God see at the end of the day there's a real enemy that wants to stop you from this treasure we have a simple Mission here at Journey Church we

exist to lead people on a journey of transformation in Jesus meaning this all we want to do is point you to the treasure and there's a point where although you can have the kingdom here and now you don't ever quite arrive until you're with God in glory so the goal is this where you are now is not where God wants you to be he wants you to be transformed is there something you need to surrender to him to replace that with more treasure I can try to fill in the blank for you and tell you what it is do you need to quit binge watching that Series so that you would take God more serious someone needs to break up with a boyfriend that's not giving you Kingdom someone here needs to stop

getting high because you keep trying to find pleasure and peace and contentment and there's no judgment with this today just King what do you need to exchange for some of you keep going back to the lust of the eyes and you're looking at this thing that you think has giving you pleasure but you have no joy so what are you going to surrender to receive the treasure the Ultimate Surrender is your heart and too many times as Christians we say would you like to follow Jesus which I'm about to give you that invitation right now and if you say yes to him he will forgive you of your sins and by the way he will but it doesn't stop there you have to surrender all you have to allow Jesus to be the king of your life you have to be delivered of those demons just like he

set people free as you read in the scriptures he he's still doing it today it's aive the enemy to think somehow he can't do it today no he is doing it today you're looking at a preacher right now who shouldn't be one but I'm here but by the grace of God the people that are here when when you see us sing songs with passion that's because we've received the treasure we want more we want more do you want that treasure so I want to start by asking today if you've never said yes to King Jesus and said you be the Christ in my life and Christ means you be the one I'm willing to give my all for if that's you today it is by far the greatest question you could ever answer because the Bible says one day you're going to be faced

face to face with God in judgment and you will be accountable to what you did in your life and if you receed Jesus Christ as your savior and you believe what he's done for you that he forgives you of your sins he defeated death so that you can have eternal life if you believe that today you are saved there's nothing complicated about this message nothing but you must believe it and receive it a preacher can't do it for you a parent can't do it for you going to church does not save you but receiving Jesus Christ does so if you want to release your life from all your past and give your future to Jesus today he's yours that that's why he came to this world you've heard about Jesus Jesus but

now it's time to make him the Lord of your life the king of your life just with every eye closed I want this to be serious if that's you would you just throw up your hand and keep it up you're saying yes praise God so grateful keep your hand up if anyone else today you're saying yes to Jesus yes so message has been thinking I need this and King Jesus is ready and willing to give you exactly what you need peace Joy Freedom if you want freedom today and you're so sick and tired of being stuck that's you throw up your hand you're saying yes I want praise God he's exchanging that bondage for Freedom

right now Deliverance in Jesus name he sets you free anyone else this is your moment this is your time God's been chasing you your whole life waiting praise God yes amen this decision changes everything even when you don't feel it he sees you he loves you he's with you praise God anyone else here today you can put your hands down now I want to pray with those who said yes to Jesus for those who have done this before can we join in prayer I don't want to just recite words I want you to believe right now believe in the Treasure just repeat these words after

me Lord Jesus I believe in you you are the king you are the Christ you are my treasure forgive me of my sins I receive the gift today reive of who you are I receive salvation I receive the Holy Spirit I receive your kingdom and your will to be done in my life in Jesus name can we stay in a posture of prayer I want to just pray over you today Lord I pray for a church that would take you so wildly serious that the world wonders what we're doing that they too would stumble upon this treasure I pray that there would be

parents in this room that would take you so seriously that their kids see this treasure as well Jesus we thank you for putting your kingdom in such simple terms that we can understand help us to be childlike today I pray for a renewal of Faith all across the room that we would release that which is hindering us and receive that which you have for us today don't let the devil stop us from experiencing your kingdom Lord I plead your blood Jesus over your church in which you are building we just want more of you Lord we just want more of you Lord we just want more of you Lord in our families we release them right now and say you have authority in Jesus name anything that

causes worry or anxiety in here I know it's not of you so we release it right now in jesus' name I pray that Faith would increase so much that we would keep coming back to you the king and say you clearly are the one in charge not me we are terrible Kings of Our Lives Lord forgive us for trying to take your throne and Rule Our Lives as a nation I just pray for a spirit of repentance Lord that we would turn our hearts to you we would be a Praying people Lord help us to to to Bear good fruit God not bad fruit in a time when the world needs to see our good deeds and glorify you our Father in heaven let your church shine Lord Shine Jesus Shine through us oh those who think they're Sinners today in the name of Jesus Christ you're a

saint you're a child of God You Are Holy and blameless in his eyes release the lies of the devil over your life right now you are beautiful you are fearfully and wonderfully made God has a good plan for you and Lord we declare it's not just for us we speak over this region and say Central Oregon shall saved nothing is impossible with you god a Great Awakening is not impossible with you god a Revival is not impossible with you God so we say start in our hearts oh Lord light of fire within us all consuming fire send forth your fire upon this place in Jesus name I say it not just for those who are in this room right now I speak it over our

children I speak it over our teenagers that Lord there there's going to be a rising up right now of those if it just takes a few God the world will be changed just a few that are on fire for you I declare and I believe it right now a few Lord on fire for you as Pastor Brandon shared earlier in prayer time that there would be a Revival of the Bible that your word would come alive in our hearts that we are so consumed with your word there's no room for anything that's not of you that we would store your word in our hearts so that we wouldn't sin against you and so as I'm talking to you Lord I just want to speak to someone in the seriousness of this moment and say why not why not become a Jesus Freak and if you're hated Jesus already told you it

would happen why not why not he loves you love him back he gave his all for you why not give your all for him serve him sacrifice for him ask him what that looks like he'll he'll give you an answer thank you Jesus for this time today we pray in the name above of all other names the name by which we can be saved the king of all Kings Our Savior our Lord we pray in your mighty name Jesus amen and amen