"What Is Your Life?"

Bible Passage

Matthew 6:19–24 CSB

19 “Don’t store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal. 20 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves don’t break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. 22 “The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light. 23 But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. So if the light within you is darkness, how deep is that darkness! 24 “No one can serve two masters, since either he will hate one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

Hook (Grab Attention)

Illustration

What is it that you find yourself chasing most in life?

What is that ONE THING that is MOST IMPORTANT to be seen after in your life?

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Bible Passage

Explanation

“Don’t store up for yourselves treasures on earth”

What is a treasure?

Something that you find GREAT VALUE or WORTH in

What do YOU find yourself treasuring most?

Don’t tell yourself that it’s Jesus, if it’s not.

Don’t lie to yourself.

Be honest.

Is it physical things that you treasure??

Is it your emotions that you treasure most??

Your OPINIONS about life or the way YOU like to do things?

What is it that you find SO VALUABLE to you that you need to “store it up” so that no one can approach it?

The things that you don’t anyone to come close to because they may tear it down?

Matthew 6:19 CSB

19 “Don’t store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.

Jesus is saying that the things that we find here in this way of living are not steadfast and immovable or unshakable.

The things that we find in this world can leave us as soon as we found them.

Matthew 6:20 CSB

20 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves don’t break in and steal.

When your treasures are stored up in heaven, no one can touch them or manipulate them, especially not ourselves.

They cannot and will not die or be destroyed...

Matthew 6:21 CSB

21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Where is YOUR treasure?

I can easily tell you where your treasure is…all I have to do is to look at your life and observe what is most important to you.

How do I know what is most important to you?

Where do you spend the most time?

this will show what you prioritize as “important” in your life.

We MAKE time to do the things that we DEEM important.

We always do the things that we WANT to do...

What is it that YOU WANT to do?

Those around you know already.

They have two eyes and two ears.

WHERE IS YOUR TREASURE??

WHAT DO YOU VALUE MOST??

Matthew 6:22–23 CSB

22 “The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light. 23 But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. So if the light within you is darkness, how deep is that darkness!

What things in life have your GAZE?

What is it that you MUST behold on a daily basis?

In what things do you find your IDENTITY on a weekly basis?

Daily basis?

What aspect of life is constantly going into your eyes?

Is it Jesus or is it some other thing that you TREASURE?

Matthew 6:24 CSB

24 “No one can serve two masters, since either he will hate one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

What are you a SLAVE to?

Your work?

School?

Relationships?

WE CANNOT SERVE TWO MASTERS

we will hate one and love the other

we will be DEVOTED to one and DESPISE the other.

Illustration

If someone were to observe your life (and they are and do), what would they tell you that you are MOST DEVOTED TO??

Would that answer involve Jesus?

Would that answer involve the fellowship of the saints?

You say, “But Pastor Matt, there are things that need to be taken care of and no one will do them but me!”

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Application

Matthew 6:25–34 CSB

25 “Therefore I tell you: Don’t worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food and the body more than clothing? 26 Consider the birds of the sky: They don’t sow or reap or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you worth more than they? 27 Can any of you add one moment to his life span by worrying? 28 And why do you worry about clothes? Observe how the wildflowers of the field grow: They don’t labor or spin thread. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was adorned like one of these. 30 If that’s how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and thrown into the furnace tomorrow, won’t he do much more for you—you of little faith? 31 So don’t worry, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear?’ 32 For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be provided for you. 34 Therefore don’t worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

C. S. Lewis

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Challenge Application

Examine your lives.

The things that have the most of your attention and time are what you deem as MOST IMPORTANT IN LIFE…

How much time do you spend with Jesus and with His Bride in the fellowship of the saints?

How does that rank with you?

CHALLENGE: If you have seen today that your priorities are OUT OF FOCUS, what are you going to do today to change to come more in alignment with SEEKING FIRST THE KINGDOM OF GOD?

How are you going to change to put the kingdom of God first?

When you seek the kingdom of God FIRST, Jesus, the King and the Most High God, has told you that all of the necessities that you are so diligently seeking to attain on your own power and wearing yourself out to get and keep WILL BE PROVIDED FOR YOU…

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