Seek - to pursue, study, explore, understand, learn, and consider. To seek means to give diligent dedication to and to preoccupy one’s self with that which one is seeking.
First - must be our top priority. The main thing. The highest value for the believer...what we focus on more than anything else.
WHATEVER YOU SEEK FIRST ORGANIZES YOUR LIFE
The Kingdom - A kingdom is a governing influence of a King over his territory impacting it with his will, his purpose and intent. Producing a citizenry of people who express his culture and reflect his nature. - Myles Monroe - “Rediscovering the Kingdom”
The Kingdom is the priority of followers of Jesus
His Righteousness - To be righteous means to be in alignment with authority, to be in right
standing with God’s authority. It means seek a right relationship aligned with the King.
Jesus did not come to establish a religion. He came to establish a Kingdom.
Religion will keep you from the Kingdom of God
Religion preoccupies man with works until he finds the Kingdom.
Religion prepares man to leave earth; the Kingdom empowers man to dominate earth. Religion focuses on Heaven; the Kingdom focuses on earth.
Religion is trying to get to God; the Kingdom is God coming down to man.
Religion wants to escape earth to get to heaven; the Kingdom seeks to bring Heaven to earth.
The Kingdom of God is about bringing heaven to earth, not just one day, but now!