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Introduction
Jewish thinking placed high importance on meterial wealth.
In His public ministery Christ repededly rebuked this way of thinking.
The attitude tward weath is a mesurement of ritchousness.
The pharesees believed wealth is anothe barometer of righteousness The pharesees believed the Lord meterillelly blessed all he loved.
They were intent on building great tresures on earth.
but tresures built here are subject to decy
I. your tresure (V.19-21)
A true Believer would lay up his tresuers in Heaven where they would be exempt from moth which would eat silks and rust which would corrupt jewelry
tresure on earth-detatchment from earthly goods is a prominrnt theme in Matthew’s Gospel
there your heart will be-Jews of the time typically perceived the heart as the seat of intellegence and will.
Jesues’ teaching reflects this view: People’s choices and actions are shaped by the things they carish most.
It is not the weath Christ in concerned with but their loyalty
Serve God and money: The Problum that Jesues identifies is not money itself but the divided loyaltees that resault from the persuit of money being a diciple of Christ requires complete devotion to God
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Point 2 (22-24)
This is the call for individulized loyalty to God the eye is the lamp of the Body it enables the body to find its way
full of life-In this section light and darkness are used as a metephores for a persons spiritual condition
Serve God and money: The Problum that Jesues identifies is not money itself but the divided loyaltees that resault from the persuit of money being a diciple of Christ requires complete devotion to God
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