Where is your treasure ?
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Call to Worship
17 Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
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6 I will freely sacrifice to You; I will praise Your name, O Lord, for it is good. 7 For He has delivered me out of all trouble; And my eye has seen its desire upon my enemies.
Today’s Text:
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.
Introduction:
If we are to start right the key to those massage is in the last verse of our text: (21) where your treasure us there your heart is also.
Jesus lays the ground work for our life when He tells us that earthly treasures will loose value and brake rust and be stolen!
so make sure you check yourself before you wreak yourself on what is driving your life!
1. The Dangers of Earthly inflation.
1. The Dangers of Earthly inflation.
19 “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal;
don’t lay up for yourself treasures on earth.
this is not about treasures its about what motivates your life.
so, I’d be wrong not to ask where is your motivation?
Jesus warns us about inflation right away.
he tells us right off treasures laid up on earth are subject to moth and rust.
Jesus further warns against another problem with wealth, people are just gonna want to take it from you.
2. Moving beyond deep spiritual Sunday school Answers to actual change!
2. Moving beyond deep spiritual Sunday school Answers to actual change!
20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.
When your motive is what the Lord has for you then you lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven. how do you do that? well, by living out and not just merely ‘talking out your faith.’
this is where things get sticky for me, I've sat in church my whole life, we like to talk about great and lofty things am not likely to get an chance to do. let’s avoid the temptation to be lofty. Let’s set the bar low enough that we can reach it.
what are some things we can do?
here are some things i thought of:
write a prisoner once a month.
I can give 20 dollars a pay check to the cross trainers once and the youth the next time and so on.
you can gather a team and clean the church once a month.
you can take some of the veggies to someone in need.
you can get to know someone you don't know better.
you can drive the van one week a month.
file praise team music.
on and on the list goes.
3. Where I spend my treasure determines where my heart is!
3. Where I spend my treasure determines where my heart is!
21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
9 “The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it?
all you have to do is look in two places calendar, and your bank account to tell where your heart is.
we often talk about what we would do if we ‘hit it big’ maybe we would it it big in life if we would do what we would do with five dollars, or five minutes, what you would do if you hit it Big!
Conclusion:
Let the Holy Spirit search your heart and speak you the truth about where your treasure is.
lets say you hit it big! just do whatever you would do in scale to what you have to what you would do if your ship came in.
of course if we do what we ought to do, we will have to make some changes to what we are doing now. its ok to change. another way to say that is growth.
finally put more emphasis on heaven then earth with your treasure.