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Can you believe that Easter is less than two months away?
It will be here before you know it.
When I was a kid I loved Easter Egg Hunts.
We would go over to my grandparents house and my cousins and myself and my sister would hunt eggs all afternoon.
It would start out with the parents hiding eggs and then the parents would get tired and we started hiding eggs for each other.
But the best part was the treasures that we found inside.
There was always some kind of coins or candy or little toys.
We would have the best time hunting our eggs with treasures in them.
Today, we have bigger treasures.
Right.
Some of have expensive treasures.
We work hard to obtain these treasures.
Some of us work and save to obtain these treasures.
These treasures become important to us.
When we go on vacations we like to bring back treasures from our trip.
In the sermon on the mount, Jesus teaches us about storing our treasures and how we should do that.
If you have your bibles, go with me to the book of Matthew.
This is the last passage from the sermon on the mount that we will talk about the rest of this series.
However, it would benefit you to finish reading Jesus sermon that goes through chapter 7.
But I want to read to you from chapter 6 of Matthew and begin with verse 19.
Having money is not evil.
Being wealthy is not a sin.
Money is neutral.
Did you know that you can actually love money and not have any?
Money is not having, having money is not evil, but if you love money or anything else that you might put before God then it becomes evil.
You start to worship it.
You depend on it and that is when the intent of your heart becomes evil.
There are three things this morning that Jesus is teaching us from our text.
Three things that Jesus is instructing us to do.
1. Keep Your Heart Pure
Where are you investing your treasure?
You should ask yourself this question, Am I generous?
What is generosity?
Generosity is becoming an unselfish person.
Think of it this way.
Generosity is love in action.
If I am not a generous person, then I am not a loving person.
Is love an important word?
The word love is mentioned 714 times in the Bible.
The word believe is mentioned 272 times in the Bible.
The word pray is mentioned 371 times in the Bible.
I believe that all of us would agree that each of these words are very important to the believer.
What about the word give?
Is that an important word?
I believe it is.
It is to God.
The word Give is mention 2, 152 times in the bible.
Three times as many as the word love.
Why do you think that is?
I believe it’s because God is a giver.
God gave His son to us so that we could have eternal life.
Jesus gave up His life so that we could have eternal life.
Did you know that in the books of Matthew, Mark and Luke, 1/6 of those books deal with our relationship with money.
And here in our text Jesus is telling us to Keep Your Heart Pure.
How do we do that?
He tells us don’t store up your treasures on earth but store up your treasures in heaven.
In other words, use your money now to send ahead in Heaven.
Do kingdom work with your money.
By investing your treasures in God’s kingdom here on earth your are sending it on ahead.
Have any of you heard of Humphrey Monmouth?
Have any of you heard of William Tyndale?
William Tyndale pioneered the translation of the Scriptures into English from their original languages of Greek and Hebrew.
If it wasn’t for Humphrey Monmouth William Tyndale doesn’t translate the Bible as we know it now.
Humphrey Monmouth was a wealthy businessman who financially support Tyndale as he translated the Bible.
Look at all the lives that the Bible has touched over the years.
It wouldn’t have been possible if it weren’t for Monmouth.
If you look in Paul’s writing, you will notice a name that he mentions, Phoebe.
It is believed that she helped to support Paul in his missionary journeys.
If you notice that when Luke writes the book of Luke and Acts he is writing to Theophilus.
It is believe that Theophilus helped support Luke’s ministry.
The gospel could not be spread if it weren’t for these people that stored up their treasures in heaven.
They invested in kingdom work.
A man by the name of J. Paul Geddy, an oil billionaire said this about money.
“Money is a lot like manure.
If you stack it up it stinks.
If you spread it around it makes things grow.”
Where are you investing your treasures?
That is where you heart is.
Are you focused on things that will give you pleasure now but will fade away or are you focused on things that will give you pleasure now and pleasure in heaven.
I’m make plans for the future and I want to invest in what God is doing.
That is a pure heart.
2. Keep Your Eyes Clear
For those of you that don’t know, I went back to school this semester.
After being out of school for 30 years, I made a choice to go back and get my degree.
One of the classes I am taking this semester is psychology.
One of our units of study focuses on the eye and the different parts of the eye.
The eye is a very fascinating part of our body.
If you look in a mirror and you can see your eye ball you will see the cornea.
Light is focused into the eye through the cornea.
Behind the anterior chamber is the eye’s iris, that’s the colored part of the eye.
And the dark hole in the middle of the eye is the pupil.
Muscles in the iris dilate or constrict the pupil to control the amount of light reaching the back of the eye.
Directly behind the pupil sits the lens.
The lens focuses light toward the back of the eye.
The lens changes shape to help the eye focus on objects up close.
By helping to focus light as it enters the eye, the cornea and the lens both play important roles in giving us clear vision.
In fact, 70% of the eye’s focusing power comes from the cornea and 30% from the lens.
Light that is focused into the eye by the cornea and lens passes through the vitreous onto the retina.
The retina has special cells called photoreceptors.
These cells change light into energy that is transmitted to the brain.
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