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Introduction
Good morning and welcome to FCC, where we worship God is Spirit and in Truth, one verse at a time.
I wanted to say thank you from our family!
Thank you for your prayers, love, and support during a most difficult time.
Joseph’s service was absolutely amazing and the Lord showed up and showered us in his love and grace over and over...
We estimate that there was over 250 people there that day that my brother had impacted in some form or fashion, despite his battle with addiction.
He is at home now and his war with cancer and addiction is over.
No more tears, no more pain, no more struggles and his faith has be made sight.
So thank you, thank you, thank you for everything!
You are all amazing and full of love!
We have come as far as Matthew 6:22, but I would like us to turn to verse 19 and start there.
Read Matthew 6:19-24
Prayer
Lord, thank you for your faithfulness and because of your faithfulness, the faithfulness of the saints.
Heavenly Father, we come to you as broken cisterns that need repair, leaky cisterns, cisterns that need a fresh refilling of your generous and gentle Holy Spirit.
Would you please O’God fill us?
Would you purge out the leaven in our souls that produces sin in our lives and help us to grasp what is the height and depth of your love for us so that we can share it with a lost and dying world.
May you give us practical application today and may you make us more like Jesus.
We surrender all!!!
In Jesus Name, We Love You! Amen!
Review
In looking back, it is important for us to remember that we are in the greatest sermon ever taught by the greatest Teacher that has ever lived.
The Lord Jesus Christ!
We are in The Sermon of the Mount and Jesus is teaching his listeners, his readers, what true righteousness and discipleship is.
See the general context of Matthew 6 is the contrast between the false, external righteousness of the Jewish Pharisees and the genuine, internal righteousness of true Christians.
The Pharisees were very rich and they taught others that riches were a sign of God’s blessing.
Because they were rich, they thought that this was an evidence of God’s blessing on them in particular, for they believed themselves obedient to God.
They were very proud of their wealth and their so-called spirituality.
Here our Lord sets out to correct their false views concerning wealth.
Wealth, possessions, and money are not wrong in themselves, but the Word teaches us that is the love of these things:
Wealth, possessions, and money are wonderful servants church, but cruel masters!
However, I want to emphasize that God is not against His people having money or possessions.
For all material blessings come from God:
God prospered Abraham, Job and David and he is prospering each one of us in His own special way.
What then does the Lord oppose when it comes to treasure or our possessions or wealth?
It is an attitude that excludes Christ from our material possessions.
This is the person who is discontent and not happy with their lot and they live by the motto: more, more, more!!!
Today, we are going to look at the three two’s:
Two treasures, with two places to store or lay up...
Two eyes or vision...
Two Masters..
Having possessions in this life is not a sin.
The issue Jesus is addressing is not have possessions, but you possessions or treasures having you!
There is nothing wrong with working hard and achieving success.
The problem begins when we allow the love for our possessions and the desire to accumulate more and more dictate our lives, like the rich man who built bigger barns to store more...
Here in our text, Jesus is giving us an imperative in the Greek.
He is saying for us to not store up on the earth.
In todays, language, I think Jesus would be telling us to not hoard!!
When Jesus is talking about the various treasures, he is talking about the three things that wealth was measured by during those days:
Garments
Grain
Gold
Church all material possessions can perish or be stolen.
Moths eat expensive clothes, mice eat grains and jewels can be stolen as thieves dig through walls.
Earthly wealth is something one can have today and lose tomorrow.
Then what is Jesus saying?
He is saying that all earthly wealth is transitory and passing.
He is asserting the fact that financial and material wealth is never secure and certain.
Because we now have bank vaults which are far more secure than money hidden in a mattress does not mean it cannot be lost.
Other types of thieves are constantly threatening to steal our material possessions - illness, a business loss, depression, war, inflation and finally death itself.
One or the other of these thieves will eventually take our money from us.
Therefore we are not to selfishly horde up our money, for we cannot take it with us out of this world.
Salomon said it like this:
Some folks try to make this verse say that Christians should have no earthly financial security at all.
This is not the proper interpretation.
This does not mean it is wrong to have a bank account, a retirement fund or an insurance program.
The point is that money is not to be the driving passion of ones life.
We are not to find security in money.
Jesus shifts from the negative to the positive when he says this:
This is a positive command.
It first of all means that Christians are to be more concerned about spiritual and heavenly things than carnal and earthly things.
The great thrust of the Christian’s life is to glorify God.
Secondly this means that Christians are to employ their earthly treasures and money for spiritual ends.
Our material investments should be accumulating heavenly profits.
Money used for God down here on earth is actually put on deposit in heaven.
Every investment for Christ is eternally safe in the heavenly bank.
This is all of us church..
This is not an issue of being rich or poor, because both the rich and poor can covet, be discontent, and greedy and store up on earth...
Someone has said, “What I kept for myself; I lost; what I gave God, I kept.”
A recent survey of Discipleship Journal readers ranked areas of greatest spiritual challenge to them:
1. Materialism
2. Pride
3. Self-centeredness
4. Laziness
5. (Tie) Anger/Bitterness
5. (Tie) Sexual lust
6. Envy
7. Gluttony
8. Lying
Someone once said, the heart of the human problem is the problem of the human heart.
Not the blood pumping vessel that is the concern of your cardiologist, but the seat of your personality that is the concern of the Gospel.
Where we store our treasures goes right back to our hearts church.
Jesus taught us today that there are only two places that we store our treasures, either in heaven or on earth.
It is hear that we can say if we are storing on earth it is for self and that this is driving by fear, anxiety, and even in-security.
Or if we are storing in heaven, it is for God and others.
This means that storing in heaven means being generous toward God and others church
If we want joy in our lives church, storing in heaven is the great remedy.
Our joy is not dependent on our material possessions, but only on the living God.
If we don’t have joy in our life, it is because we storing in the wrong place.
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