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Where Is Your
Treasure?
“FOR WHERE YOUR TREASURE IS, THERE YOUR
HEART WILL BE ALSO. ” MATT. 6:21
Where Is Your Treasure?
There is nothing wrong with having
material things.
Just remember who is your source.
Put God first-Seek Him first and all
other things will be added to YOU!
Where Is Your Treasure?
“No one can serve two masters; for either he will
hate the one and love the other, or else he will be
loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot
serve God and mammon” (Matthew 6:24). Jesus
tells us here that we cannot serve two masters. We
cannot serve money and God; we cannot serve
popularity and God; we cannot serve ourselves and
God; We can have only one master.
Where Is Your Treasure?
Are our hearts were set upon the things of this
earth, and are we willing to disobey God for the
sake of temporal riches that do not last.
Are we more concerned with the things we gather
here on earth that are temporal; and not
considering things that last for eternity?
Where is your treasure?
Where Is Your Treasure?
Are you earthly-minded or heavenly-minded?
Are you investing in the future eternity to come, or
are you investing in the here and now?
Are you enthralled with the temporary versus the
permanent?
Where Is Your Treasure?
What are something you value as important in your
life?
Where should we focus our time and efforts?
Why is it important to have more than money and
material items?
Where Is Your Treasure?
What you deem as valuable shows you where your
heart is?
Maybe it is money and wealth;
maybe it is power and the desire to be recognized
as a leader;
Where Is Your Treasure?
What You May Feel is Important:
Maybe it is looking spiritual on the outside so that
people think you have it together.
Maybe it is popularity and acceptance through nice
clothes,
Maybe a home, or an X-box gaming console.
Maybe it is your family and how you have raised
great kids.
Where Is Your Treasure?
None of these desires may be wrong, but how do
we prioritize them in our lives?
To get to the heart of the matter, how important
are they to us.
We know the earthly treasures we store up cannot
be taken with us. They are only temporary.
Set your affections on things above not beneath.
Where Is Your Treasure?
I want you to realize that God is not condemning us
for being wealthy or rich. Money is not bad; it is the
love of money that is the root of evil. “For the love
of money is the root of all kinds of evil, for which
some have strayed from the faith in their
greediness, and pierced themselves through with
many sorrows” (1Timothy 6:10).
Where Is Your Treasure?
We don’t want to seek to find security and
satisfaction in temporary things instead of what we
already have in our relationship with God the
Father through Jesus Christ.
Things come up to tempt us and to distract us from
what truly matters – our relationship with God the
Father.
Where Is Your Treasure?
For where your treasure is, there your heart will
be also.” There are a lot of things competing for
our heart, as this is the control center for life.
“The Scripture teaches that a person’s life is a
reflection of his heart. Proverbs 4:23 states it like
this: ‘Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the
well spring of life.’
Where Is Your Treasure?
The word picture here is graphic. The heart is a well
from which all the issues of life gush forth.”
Therefore, we must guard our hearts and watch
over them so that our heart follows hard after the
things of God and is not distracted by the things of
this world.
Where Is Your Treasure?
but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where
neither moth (riches can be eaten) nor rust (grow
old/wear away) destroys and where thieves ( take
away from others) do not break in and steal.” Matt.
6:20
Nothing wrong with having the material things, God
wants us to know all our needs will be supplied.
Here Jesus is talking about also laying up eternal
treasures that do not fade away.
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Command those that are rich in this present age
not to be haughty, nor to trust in uncertain riches
but in the living God, who gives us richly all things
to enjoy. Let them do good, that they may be rich
in good works, ready to give, willing to share,
storing up for themselves a good foundation for the
time to come, that they may lay hold on to eternal
life (1 Timothy 6:17-19).
Where Is Your Treasure?
Ways We Can Be Rich-discuss how we can be rich in
the things listed below-Please have scripture
references.
Group 1: GRACE
Group 2: MERCY
Group 3: FAVOR
Children Group 4: LOVE
Where Is Your Treasure?
Have you ever tried on someone else’s glasses and
noticed how it affects your vision?
“How is your vision?” James Boice states:
Do you see spiritual things clearly? Or is your vision
of God and his will for your life clouded by spiritual
cataracts or near-sightedness brought on by an
unhealthy preoccupation with things?
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The Parable of the Rich Fool (Luke 12:13-21). In this parable,
Jesus states in verse 15 that “one’s life does not consist in
the abundance of things he possesses.” The parable of the
rich fool suggests this very thing. This parable tells of a rich
man who has yielded a great crop. He decides to tear down
his old barns and build newer, bigger barns. Then after he is
done, thinking that he has enough stored up and he can sit
back, relax, and take it easy. What happens? God calls him a
fool and says that his life is required of him that day. Jesus
completes this parable by saying, “So is he who lays up
treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”
Where Is Your Treasure?
Don’t put material things before your relationship
with God.
Don’t commit idolatry by making things your god.
How do we lay up treasures in heaven?” The
answer is by living the way God has asked us to live
and following after Him in all that we do.
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For example:
Being a cheerful giver
honoring God in your marriage & friendships
guarding your mind against wrong thoughts,
sharing the good news of the gospel with those around
you.
Loving the Lord your God with all your heart, soul,
mind, and strength, and loving your neighbor as
yourself.
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Don’t worry about what you don’t have. Thank God for what you do
have.
Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands.
2 Serve
the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.
3 Know
ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not
we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
4 Enter
into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise:
be thankful unto him, and bless his name.
5 For
the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth
to all generations. Ps. 100: 1-5
Where Is Your Treasure?
Reference
Where Is Your Treasure ( Matt. 6: 19-24)?”
Copyright 2003 by Community Bible Chapel, 418 E.
Main Street, Richardson, TX 75081. This is the
edited manuscript of Lesson 29 in the Studies in the
Gospel of Matthew series prepared by Lenny
Correll on September 7, 2003. “