Treasure
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Discipleship Training Program
Discipleship Training Program
1) Our Purpose [good news of the kingdom],
2) Our Work [Righteousness in love // God, Others],
3) Our Prayer [model of thinking about, reliance on, modeling heart of, GOD!
4) Our Christian Discipline.
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.
Matthew 6:19-21
(luke 12:34 parallel)
( - money root of evil)
James calls out the failure of the BODY to keep this discipline. Specifically referencing money.
1 Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you. 2 Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure in the last days.
5 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine;
[TREASURE] What is it?
like:
44 “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up. Then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.
Response: IN HIS JOY ( faithful servant // enter into the joy of the Lord).
(breaking love of stuff)
21 Jesus said to him, “If you would be perfect, go, sell what you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”
JOY (kept in heaven for you)
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, 5 who by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. 6 In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials,
6 “For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, 5 who by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. 6 In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials,
Deut
1 Peter 1
IN THIS YOU REJOICE. (sunshine in my soul)
Joy, even in the midst of trials that grieve us.
Describes a Discipline: of storing treasures in heaven // acts of righteousness, kingdom activity. Other-focused. That Demonstrates a whole-self reliance on God.
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Matthew 6:22
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!
healthy=generous [disposition, full of light]
8 the one who exhorts, in his exhortation; the one who contributes, in generosity; the one who leads, with zeal; the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness.
generous
5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.
Rom 18
[EVIL EYE]
[GREAT Darkness!] = FRAUD.
?same idea as fruit?
22 A stingy man hastens after wealth and does not know that poverty will come upon him.
22 “The Lord possessed me at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of old.
6 Do not eat the bread of a man who is stingy; do not desire his delicacies,
9 Take care lest there be an unworthy thought in your heart and you say, ‘The seventh year, the year of release is near,’ and your eye look grudgingly on your poor brother, and you give him nothing, and he cry to the Lord against you, and you be guilty of sin.
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!
light in you [reflected] “What is ‘light in you’?”
[GREAT Darkness!] = FRAUD. Act.
?same idea as fruit?
8 the one who exhorts, in his exhortation; the one who contributes, in generosity; the one who leads, with zeal; the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness.
Explanation by way of TRUTH:
Explanation by way of TRUTH:
Matthew 6:24
24 “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
14 “Now therefore fear the Lord and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness. Put away the gods that your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. 15 And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”
money-god; mammon.
Joshua
THEREFORE.
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?