June 7, 2026 - Living in light of His Kingdom - Preparing to receive Kingdom fullness

I'm gonna put my own words to these, and this is where I'm gonna get in trouble, so bear with me. I I I like to just do things simple. I like to have things kinda alliteration or whatever. So as I've been praying these, this first one, I put down as problems. Life's worries, life's cares, but I just put it down as problems. The second one, I put it down as possessions. Alright? And this third one, I put down appropriately as pleasures. Problems, possessions, pleasures. [01:06:39] (40 seconds)  #ProblemsPossessionsPleasures

Now here's what I want you to know that the things I'm gonna talk about are not like you're bad if you do this. You're bad if you do that. You're bad. The question is, do you want to have a fruitful kingdom life? This isn't about you're bad because you did x or y or z. The the reality is is that he's just simply saying, if you do x or y or z, you're not going to get to have the fruitful part. So if you want the fruitful part, then you need to take these other things serious. So so hear me this morning. I'm not trying to judge anybody. What I'm doing is saying, holy spirit is saying to me, and he's saying to you, there's certain things that need to be done if we want to have the fruitful part. [00:59:17] (42 seconds)  #FruitfulKingdomLife

there's more space for him to fill me? I'm filled with the Holy Spirit. And tomorrow, tomorrow, it's my prayer that I'll be filled more with the holy spirit than I am today. I've been praying, Lord, pour again. The only way he can pour again, it would be silly for him to pour again again if there's nothing being removed. Pour again. Fill me. And I feel like sometimes you've been saying, Blake, I'm ready. I'm ready. Would you create a little more space? [00:56:29] (38 seconds)  #MakeSpaceForGod

or excuse me. Matthew brings it out as holy spirit. Luke says the finger of God. So put them together. But if I drive out demons by the finger of God, that is the holy spirit, then the kingdom of God has come upon you. Two big ideas I want you to hold on to. One is this is the external. This is the visible. You can see this. Right? This is visible. He's saying, look. You see this person set free. And when you do, you know the kingdom of god is here. This is external. This is visible. It's tangible. Holy Spirit is a key part of this. That's gonna be something we come back to. [00:48:31] (39 seconds)  #VisiblePowerOfSpirit

Possessions get like that. And then the third one, pleasures. God wants us to have pleasures. He put Adam and Eve together so they would enjoy each other. He put a fruit out there of all different kinds so that they would enjoy it. He gave them work to do that would bring them pleasure. God God's a god of pleasure. But there could be pleasures that then all of sudden go out of their boundaries, out of their lane, and they're no longer a gift. They're actually something that chokes us. [01:14:48] (35 seconds)  #PleasureInItsPlace

But as they go on their way, just live life. They become choked by life's worries, riches, and pleasures, and they do not mature. They do not mature. They do not ever get to the place of producing a crop. Life's worries, life's riches, life's treasures. When I've been praying to Jesus, sometimes Psalm one thirty nine, search my heart. Test me. other times from the temptation of Jesus. But most recently, it's been in these areas. Lord, are there any of life's worries, life's riches, or life's pleasures that are choking room of your holy spirit. [01:04:29] (62 seconds)  #DontLetWorriesChokeYou

And I make no apologies about the fact that we're still in this series because if you notice, I have some keywords there. This is a memory device. Because the kingdom of god, that message is the primary message of the entire New Testament. Let me say that again. The kingdom of god slash kingdom of heaven, same same concept that that God is reinstituting his reign on earth. What was taken away at the fall, it was imperfectly executed by Israel being the people of god. It comes in its perfection in Jesus coming as the messiah, the the king that god was sending to establish his kingdom. [00:34:41] (48 seconds)  #KingdomIsPrimary

It says that the kingdom of god this is what I I write this. The kingdom of god is both external that's visible. It's something out there, but it's also internal somewhat invisible. There's things that can happen that if a couple of you were to gather around a sister that is here and has a physical need, and you pray for her. And then afterwards, she's able to stand up and say, I I experience healing when these brothers and sisters pray for me. That's that's visible. That's tangible. That's external to us. We see it. But the kingdom of God is also meeting us in our quiet moments where no one else is seeing it. It's just us doing business with god. [00:44:57] (44 seconds)  #VisibleAndQuietMiracles