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pray
Matthew 6:19 (NIV (Anglicised, 2011))
‘Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
How easy it is to store up wealth for ourselves.
Salaries on the whole are good to excellent compared to the rest of the world,
Promotions and training is a given for most.
Housing values go up and up - as long as you can get on the property ladder,
Banks are regulated to protect our savings,
a good legal and political system that protects us and our possessions.
And stuff - material possessions, cars, homes, clothes, gadgets - it’s all insured
- so if moth or rust or vermin do destroy them,
- well we get them back.
Life should be pretty good for us!
So why is it we ‘worry’ so much about money, material things, prosperity, pensions, homes.
Jesus isn’t so much against prosperity - so much as our ‘attitude’ towards it.
He says ‘do not ‘store up’ ‘for yourself’
The idea being that we collect and seek great prosperity and wealth for ourselevs
in a way that is demonstrating that is what we live for.
If we are ‘living’ to grow our prosperity says Jesus - then we are not living for God!
Not becasue prosperity is bad, but becasue our attitude is bad.
If we live for prosperity we are in effect worshipping money - and you cannot worship, or serve 2 masters.
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That word money - is translated form the word Mammon.
Originally it meant to ‘entrust’ like you would your money to a bank.
It then was used as a name for the false god of prosperity.
And then is merged into this idea that mammon ment to ‘trust in’.
IE - you would ‘trust in’ the god of prosperity - Mammon - to provide for your needs.
Or you would ‘trust in’ your savings for your needs.
IN other words then -
Jesus is talking about having an attitude towards money that trusts in it.
If only i had a bit more money than I have - and then I’ll have nothing to worry about.
If I have a big enough house then I’ll be sorted.
My life will be complete if I just have enough saved in the bank for a rainy day.
We trust in money to be ‘the god’ we trust in for a ‘fulfilled life’!
That is why we worry so much about money - becasue it is our god who we trust in to provide.
I wonder if that sounds like you today?
Worrying about our prosperity.
It’s not suprising we worry about material things, when
Mammon IS the god our world worships unashamably.
Our systems and thinking are all designed to protect and grow our wealth.
If our economy doesn’t grow we call it a recession - it’s a bad thing.
If we don’t get an annual pay rise,
- we consider it a slur against our hard work - a personal insult.
If our property doesn’t go up in value - we’re disappointed,
If we don’t have just the right dress for this occasion, (often a deep concern of mine)
or the right computer for our image,
or the quality of food we want,
it’s all a problem!
We worry about all this - all of the time - and our worry betrays who are god is!
What we Worry about is what we most likely worship.
That’s why Jesus says immedielty after saying you can’t serve both God and money
Matthew 6:25 (NIV (Anglicised, 2011))
‘Therefore, I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear.
Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?
If we’re worried about what clothes we have in our wardrobes - or will buy next,
what car we are driving,
how big our house is and if we can do the next extension,
how can we make sure we send our child to private school,
and how are we going to afford a better holiday than last year
- then it tells you about what we worship.
If we worrying about money, then we are trusting money for life, not God.
It’s ironic isn’t it.
The very thing that our world - perhaps we live for - is the very thing that brings us the most stress and worry into our lives.
We are all slaves to something,
and often it’s money!
We have to keep serving it to get more - to get what we need.
If you’re not a Christina here today - then you still worship something - you’re still a slave to whatever you are living for!
And it’s probably related to money in some way - and it’s almost certainly what you worry most about.
And money is a cruel master.
Moth and vermin destroy our wealth,
- the more we have the more we need,
There is always something else to grasp for,
never satisfied as the richest in our world will testify to,
And where does it all lead?
Nowhere - we’ll still die like everyone else!
We spend all our days worrying about it..
and as Jesus says,
What a sad world we live in - and how sad that as Christians we keep slipping back into the worlds ways.
We worry about all this.
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But there is a far better way...
There is another type of treasure - and a different place to keep it!
IN eternity - in heaven.
There are no destructive moths or vermin,
no thieves or recessions in heaven!
Our deposits are guaranteed and insured with unending interest!
We need to stop pursuing earthly treasure and pursue heavenly treasure instead.
And if our heart is in heaven - all the worries and concerns of this life disappear into insignificance by comparison.
So what is this treasure?
Tressure in heaven is seeking God’s kingdom and righteousness!
We’ve already had nearly 2 chapters on what righteousness and seeking the kingdom are.
Living for God and in obedience to Him in his Word - stores up treasure in heaven!
Don’t get angry, 5v21-25
Don’t look at others in lust, 27-30
Don’t seek divorce, 31-32
Don’t break your word, 33-37
Don’t seek revenge, 38-42
Love your enemies, 43-48
And do all this, chapter 6, not becasue you have to,
and not too look good,
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