09/06/2026
Kingdom Thinking-1 “Field Of Treasure”
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Matt. 13:44 The kingdom of heaven 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.
The Treasure is Jesus The Eternal King.
The Field is His Kingdom.
WHY does the man Sell all he has to Purchase the Field?
The answer is at the heart of kingdom Thinking: Because the Treasure and the Field it’s in are inseparable. Like an Oil Field—you must Purchase the Field to Possess the Treasure that’s in it.
But here’s where Kingdom Thinking and Religious Thinking differ:
Religious Thinking sees Jesus and the Kingdom as 2 separate things. I can possess Jesus but visit the Kingdom.
Kingdom Thinking sees the Kingdom as the RESULT of Jesus.
Wherever Jesus is His K’dom is.
Luke 11:20 But if I am casting out demons by the power of God, then the Kingdom of God has arrived among you.
Where the King is His Kingdom is.
The Kingdom is emanating from His Presence. In essence, the KOG isn’t an institution, organization, denomination, political structure, geographical territory, or even the church. It originates in the Divine Authority residing in Jesus.
The Field isn’t real estate Jesus resides in.
It’s the Condition His Presence Creates!
The Kingdom is the inevitable, irrepressible, effulgence of the King. Jesus’ explanation of His Kingdom prohibits us from thinking about Jesus and The Kingdom of God as 2 separate things—Jesus over here and His territory over there.
His Presence is His Kingdom!
Rom. 14:17 for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
Visualize Jesus moving through the Gospels. He doesn't travel around looking for “The Field”—places where the Kingdom already exists—so He can enter them and be the King.
He arrives—and Kingdom happens…
He enters a place dominated by sickness: healing occurs.
He encounters demonic power: deliverance occurs.
He encounters condemnation: forgiveness occurs.
He encounters chaos: peace occurs.
He encounters death: life occurs.
He encounters religious distortion: truth occurs.
Jesus shows up. The Kingdom shows up.
Think again about this statement: The Kingdom is the inevitable, irrepressible, effulgence of the King.
Effulgence comes from Heb. 1:3 where the Bible states, Jesus is the RADIANCE (EFFULGENCE) of God’s glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power.
Effulgence/Radiance is central to Kingdom Thinking…�
Light doesn't negotiate whether it will illuminate its surroundings.
Fire doesn't deliberate about whether it will produce heat.
The sun doesn't decide whether radiance will accompany it.
Radiance belongs to what IT IS.
Therefore the person who finds Jesus can no more take Him from the KOG, than you can have the Sun w/o its Radiance.
Declining to “purchase the Field”—the Radiance, the Kingdom—is Declining to RELOCATE and be with Jesus.
Sometimes our Christian language can unintentionally leave our old center of gravity intact:
Jesus has brought meaning to…
My life.
My plans.
My values.
My ambitions.
My identity.
My worldview.
But Jesus illustration of Kingdom overturns the concept of receiving Jesus as simply Remodeling our old property with Christian furnishings. It replaces it with a total call to RELOCATION. Leaving a sign at the old door, “We’ve moved. New address: KOG”
Our Story: Kathy & I Found Jesus. Sold all. Left home. Moved in with Him. Became Jesus People. And I immediately began sharing the gospel up and down the East Coast of America: Atlanta, Washington DC, Baltimore, New Haven, Connecticut. After four years, the Lord called us to leave everything and go to New Haven and plant a great revival church.
Selling the world and buying the Kingdom had set in motion a trajectory of Kingdom Thinking that would guide us for decades to come. By the time the call to New Haven came Kathy & I had already MOVED. Not geographically, but Governmentally. So when the King said GO, the primary question wasn’t:
Is this financially secure?
What resources do we have?
What's our backup plan?
Does this fit the normal career trajectory?
Those aren't foolish questions. But they no longer occupied the throne. The governing question had become: WHAT IS THE KING SAYING?
We arrived in New Haven empty-handed, but FULL. The amazing things took place in New Haven were because that church was founded upon a 100% Relocation. Not from FLA to CONN, but from the world to the Field of Treasure.
This story isn’t a pattern that you must follow, but a principle testimony for your own journey with The King!
No other message is more central to the Gospel than Kingdom Thinking.
The Gospel isn’t so much the story of Jesus coming into the world, as much as it is Jesus’ Presenting the KOG to the world!
Luke 4:43 Jesus said, “I must preach the Good News of the Kingdom Of GOD
The KOG is the Good News that the Bad News of the World is looking for. And your life must be its proclamation…��Luke 9:59-60 To another he said, “Follow me.” But he said, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.”And Jesus said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead. But as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.”
