Matthew 5:1-6: What does a Citizen of the Kingdom of God Look Like? (Foundations)

Welcome to the 1st sermon in our series on the basics of the Gospel. (1 of 4)

Jesus’ message was “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand” (Matthew 4:17b). If the kingdom of heaven is here, where is it? What does it look like? What does it mean to be a citizen of the kingdom of God? In this sermon series we are going to look at the intro to Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, otherwise known as the Beatitudes, to try to understand what the kingdom of Jesus is really like. As Russell Moore puts it: “If the kingdom is what Jesus says it is, then that means that what matters isn’t just what we uniquely classify as spiritual. The natural world around us isn’t just a temporary environment; it’s part of our future inheritance in Christ. The underemployed hotel maids that we walk past silently in the hallway aren’t just potential objects of our charity; they are potential queens of the cosmos. Our jobs, whatever they might be, aren’t accidental. The things we do to serve in our local churches aren’t random. God is designing our lives individually and congregationally as internships for the eschaton [when Christ returns]. We are learning in little things how to be put in charge of great things.”