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Fall is here in full effect
(or winter?
first day of winter is dec 21)
It’s really starting to rain
Yesterday I was driving home in the rain…
I couldn’t hardly read the exit signs
And to make matters worse the windows were fogging up
and even though I could see… my perspective out of the car was all messed up
If our perspective of what holds value is tainted at all, then we are effectively blind.
This has been the refrain over and over in ch 6
From
where it is saying if we value man’s reward over God’s reward, then we will receive man’s reward and not God’s
And then last week the Lord’s prayer shows us what we should even as for
ad notice how much of it isn’t expressed for all the things we want, but the only material thing that is requested is what we need just for today
Now while the V 24 says “You cannot serve God and money” this passage isn’t limited to just money.
The NASB is closer to the original language and it reads
“you cannot serve God and wealth”
The word money in the ESV or wealth in the NASB is best as material possessions
it includes money… but is not limited to money…
It includes everything and anything that we have
It could be your car (or a dream car)
It can be a house (or your dream house
It can be your grades, your friends, your job, your status, yes even your own family....
IF OUR PERSPECTIVE OF WHAT HAS VALUE IS TAINTED(BE IT ANY POSSESSION THAT WE HAVE) THEN WE ARE EFFECTIVELY BLIND.
Let’s look at how the Scripture puts it:
Instead of starting at the top of the passage let’s start at the center:
Look at the word healthy… it’s a difficult word in greek to translate in from Greek to English while still giving us comprehension…
Again the NASB is helpful… translates as this word HEALTHY as CLEAR
Healthy does not mean clear… and yet what would it mean for an eye to see clearly?
Well it means it’s not healthy…
But clear is closer to the original meaning of the word and it serves as an important way of understanding what Jesus is getting at:
The original word means: single, sincere, or morally whole
How can an eye be single?
Does it mean you can’t have two eyes?
no…
Single, sincere, or morally whole
Let me uses a different word, focused on only one thing
Our eye, that is our perspective, and our focus must be undivided on the only thing that has true and lasting value
Material wealth has no value beyond this life.
we know this to be true from experience
How many of you have a cell phone…
now how many of have had to get a new phone because your other one broke
This is true of everything
cars break down
Matt 1
houses go bad
Just found out today that the furnace in the house that we are in the process of buying just broke… we haven’t bought the house yet
You cannot depend on the things that are here today to be here tomorrow
So then where should we place our trust and our confidence?
How many of you have a cell phone…
now how many of yo
Heavenly treasures can never be destroyed.
Heavenly treasures can never be destroyed.
How can you know where you are laying up treasure?
The heart is the seat of the affections and emotions
so where are your affections?
what do you do with the majority of your time
Matt 19:21
If Jesus called you to leave something in order to follow him… would you do it?
Lk 14:
Matt 19:
Do you want more instructions on what it means to lay up treasures in heaven?
(now keep in mind what was said back in matt 6:1-4)
Let’s get back to tonight’s text
If God is not your only treasure, then he is not your god.
the little g is intentional
Deut
No
4:25-
Matt 8:18-
Is it evil to enjoy things on earth?
NO!
The Scriptures speak to those who would twist God’s word to teach this sort of thing
The creation isn’t evil
The refrain over and over again throughout is that God saw his creation and saw that it was good.
Creation isn’t evil, but man’s heart is evil and he worships the creation instead of the creator
Money is not evil…
it’s the love of money that is the root of all evil
So then what does this mean in light of the gospel of grace…
because this sounds like a lot of works…
Matt 13:
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