The image on the title slide — a pearl inside an open shell — points to the pearl of great price, the treasure worth giving up everything else to gain. From there the sermon moves through Scripture’s picture of God dwelling with His people, from the mercy seat where God met Moses between the cherubim, to the veil of the temple torn in two at the cross, opening access to His presence.
That access is what makes it possible to obey Christ’s command to seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, trusting that everything else will be added. The kingdom of heaven is described as the reign of God — God as King ruling the whole earth, the whole universe — not a future hope only but a present reality that should captivate the believer’s whole life and priorities.