What is your treasure?

1. The Hook

Opening: If I was to come over to you right now and ask for you phone so i could look through your bank account, calendar, and screen time for the last 30 days what would I discover?

Likely what I will find is what you treasure / value the most in your life.

Ecclesiastes 2:1–11 “1 I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure; enjoy yourself.” But behold, this also was vanity. 2 I said of laughter, “It is mad,” and of pleasure, “What use is it?” 3 I searched with my heart how to cheer my body with wine—my heart still guiding me with wisdom—and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was good for the children of man to do under heaven during the few days of their life. 4 I made great works. I built houses and planted vineyards for myself. 5 I made myself gardens and parks, and planted in them all kinds of fruit trees. 6 I made myself pools from which to water the forest of growing trees. 7 I bought male and female slaves, and had slaves who were born in my house. I had also great possessions of herds and flocks, more than any who had been before me in Jerusalem. 8 I also gathered for myself silver and gold and the treasure of kings and provinces. I got singers, both men and women, and many concubines, the delight of the sons of man. 9 So I became great and surpassed all who were before me in Jerusalem. Also my wisdom remained with me. 10 And whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them. I kept my heart from no pleasure, for my heart found pleasure in all my toil, and this was my reward for all my toil. 11 Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended in doing it, and behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing to be gained under the sun.”

“Solomon spent decades chasing treasures.”

“Jesus only needed one sentence.”

“Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”

“Solomon discovered something by experience.”

“Jesus teaches it as truth.”

“Whatever you convince yourself is your greatest treasure will eventually own your heart.”

*** Your Heart is Tethered to What You Treasure!

2. The Context

Matthew 6 Context

Teaching - Matthew 6:19–21 “19 “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”

Luke 12:15–21 “15 And he said to them, “Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.” 16 And he told them a parable, saying, “The land of a rich man produced plentifully, 17 and he thought to himself, ‘What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?’ 18 And he said, ‘I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. 19 And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.” ’ 20 But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’ 21 So is the one who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.””

When you were a kid which family was rich to you? Why were they rich? What was it that you said oh wow yall are soooo rich?

The one identifiable thing that I can remember is that if my friend had a drawer where their trashcan was is how I knew they were rich.

My perception of who is rich has totally changed as i have gotten older and as I have become more mature in my walk with Christ. I used to always think those who could afford the big house were rich.

But the ones that are truly rich are those who are loving God together.

Those who are able to be at services together.

Those who have faithful children

Those who have an awesome church family

Those who have a Bible filled with notes.

Those are the people I see as rich now a days.

Illustration - Matthew 6:22–23 “22 “The eye is the lamp of the body. So, 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. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!”

5. The Invitation

Exodus 21:5–6 “5 But if the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’ 6 then his master shall bring him to God, and he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall be his slave forever.”

— Pierce my ear o Lord my God

— Which master has pierced your ear?