1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:03,680 This is City Post Church. We're about three things. 2 00:00:03,960 --> 00:00:08,160 Build equipped and send. All under the Lordship of Jesus 3 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:10,240 Christ. A small church plant in Fort 4 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:12,400 Worth, TX. Who decided to do things a 5 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:15,800 little differently? Adoramos, Ajesu Cristo. 6 00:00:16,560 --> 00:00:18,920 I love City Post because of the people. 7 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:21,960 It's where I belong. We truly preach the Word. 8 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:24,680 I love City Post because of the community we've been able to 9 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:26,680 build. To do ministry like Jesus. 10 00:00:26,880 --> 00:00:32,560 For light to push back darkness. This is city post podcast. 11 00:00:37,970 --> 00:00:40,050 We're going to be in Matthew chapter 6. 12 00:00:40,530 --> 00:00:42,570 We're going to. Continue in our journey through. 13 00:00:42,890 --> 00:00:48,010 For the love of money now whenever I have friends coming 14 00:00:48,010 --> 00:00:49,170 in. From out of town. 15 00:00:49,570 --> 00:00:52,330 Or other countries. There's two places that I like 16 00:00:52,330 --> 00:00:55,770 to take them in Fort Worth. The 1st place I like to. 17 00:00:55,770 --> 00:00:59,400 Take them is La Gran Plaza. Because it's like, come get 18 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:00,360 some. Culture. 19 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:03,160 You know, like where? Else can you go and get a 20 00:01:03,160 --> 00:01:05,760 license A. Tag and a Taco. 21 00:01:06,640 --> 00:01:08,520 All in one location. It's it's I. 22 00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:11,360 Love that place I. Love just the environment, I 23 00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:13,040 love the diversity. There. 24 00:01:13,400 --> 00:01:16,960 But then the second place I like to take them is Texas Roadhouse. 25 00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:19,320 Yes. And I felt that. 26 00:01:19,720 --> 00:01:21,960 I felt that too. All right, so I. 27 00:01:21,960 --> 00:01:24,800 Love going to Texas Roadhouse some years. 28 00:01:24,800 --> 00:01:27,440 Ago there was a missionary. That we worked with in. 29 00:01:27,440 --> 00:01:30,280 Gujarat named Samson and he came to visit. 30 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:32,040 Because he was. Going to move his family to 31 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:35,400 Irving and. In the state that he lives in, 32 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:39,080 in India, it's all vegetarian. So when he came into town, I was 33 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:40,760 like, dude, I got. To get you a steak. 34 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:43,440 Man like and. I don't want to drop a bag on 35 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:45,800 it, so we go to Texas Roadhouse and. 36 00:01:46,040 --> 00:01:49,720 So we go to Roadhouse and this is new for Samson. 37 00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:51,520 So I was like. Man, just follow me. 38 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:54,600 Don't worry about it. You get a 22 ounce Porterhouse, 39 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:56,840 whatever you. Want you want the marbleization? 40 00:01:56,840 --> 00:01:59,360 In it for your foodies. You know what I'm talking about, 41 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:01,160 but. Here's the thing with Texas 42 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:02,800 Roadhouse. That a lot of people. 43 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:07,080 Kind of know what it's for. So they sit you down and then 44 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:08,400 what? You know what they put in front 45 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:10,440 of you? The rolls. 46 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:13,360 That's right, yeah. They sit you down, They're like, 47 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:14,880 here you go. Boom. 48 00:02:14,880 --> 00:02:18,000 Like. Magic and so Samson. 49 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:19,920 Is like, what is this? I'm like they're rolls. 50 00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:21,200 And they're. Free. 51 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:25,360 You get as many rolls as you want, and they are delicious, 52 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:26,480 right? They're like little. 53 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:30,360 Drops of Heaven. Right in your table and not just 54 00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:32,000 the rolls. The butter? 55 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:37,200 Yes Sir. Right, They put crack in it. 56 00:02:37,320 --> 00:02:41,200 And I'm joking, right? Somebody can like call him up. 57 00:02:41,920 --> 00:02:45,400 No, like, man, that butter, like they put some sugar in it, makes 58 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:48,400 it even sweeter. And he's trying to be all 59 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:49,720 polite. And I was like. 60 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:51,240 Nah, dude, just. Dip the thing in. 61 00:02:51,240 --> 00:02:52,600 There you get your own. Butter. 62 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:56,400 And he's eating these rolls, and then he has butter. 63 00:02:56,560 --> 00:02:59,440 And then he he wants. More and he just keeps on eating 64 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:00,920 these. Little rolls of bread. 65 00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:03,240 And I'm like, dude. Slow your roll man, you still 66 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:06,560 got this. 22 ounce quarter house coming and he doesn't care 67 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:08,240 though, right? Because we're in Texas. 68 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:11,480 You get as much as. You want And finally the steak 69 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:13,640 comes out and we're hanging out. He. 70 00:03:13,640 --> 00:03:14,960 Takes some. Bites of the steak. 71 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:17,200 And he is like. This is delicious. 72 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:20,360 But then, after about the third or fourth bite, he starts. 73 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:24,120 Kind of laughing to himself. And and then he looks at me and 74 00:03:24,120 --> 00:03:26,600 there's some that just, I remember what he said. 75 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:29,200 He goes, man, Rick, I think I. Filled up on the wrong thing. 76 00:03:30,880 --> 00:03:34,640 I said yeah, you did. And for many of us. 77 00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:38,240 When when we read this passage, Jesus is going to. 78 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:44,640 Address how we view our materialistic things, our our 79 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:47,880 treasures in heaven. And what many of us do is that 80 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:51,240 we fill up on the wrong thing. And how do we know that we fill 81 00:03:51,240 --> 00:03:53,760 up on the wrong thing? Because we find our treasure. 82 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:58,520 In the wrong thing. It all bleeds out and there's a 83 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:00,960 difference between access and appetite. 84 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:04,680 And many. Of us have access to Jesus right 85 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:06,840 we live in the Bible belt there's churches all over the 86 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:10,160 place we have like YouTube we we have everything we. 87 00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:11,920 Need. Right in front of us. 88 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:14,880 In our palm. But the question that I have 89 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:16,519 for. Us as a church today. 90 00:04:16,640 --> 00:04:18,800 Is not if you have access to Christ? 91 00:04:18,959 --> 00:04:22,960 Do you have an appetite for Christ like do you want to know 92 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:24,680 him? Do you want to pray to him? 93 00:04:24,680 --> 00:04:27,600 Do you want to read his word? Do you want to serve him? 94 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:30,160 Do you want to love people like him? 95 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:34,200 And listen, when you have an appetite for Jesus, the way that 96 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:37,000 you view things in life come out differently. 97 00:04:37,840 --> 00:04:40,720 You don't look at things you don't you don't pursue the 98 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:42,480 treasures of this world. If you have a. 99 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:45,320 Strong appetite for Christ. But if you have a strong 100 00:04:45,320 --> 00:04:48,280 appetite for yourself. You pursue the treasures of this 101 00:04:48,280 --> 00:04:50,920 world. And Jesus is saying. 102 00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:53,480 No, it's not about. The treasures of this world. 103 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:57,680 It's about accumulating. Treasures in heaven. 104 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:01,480 That's the goal. That's the goal. 105 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:04,320 That's what we reach into. And I believe that, I think. 106 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:07,480 Sometimes the way that we view our money, the way that we. 107 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:09,880 View our stuff. Has a lot to do. 108 00:05:10,280 --> 00:05:13,160 What we have an appetite for. And what we're filling. 109 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:15,360 Ourselves with. So my. 110 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:19,600 Question to you today is what do you have an appetite for? 111 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:23,720 What are you living for? And what Gabe showed us last 112 00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:27,280 week, which he so brilliantly talked about, was, man. 113 00:05:27,280 --> 00:05:30,160 Like the way that you steward things are tied to the 114 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:31,920 relationship. That you have with Christ. 115 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:34,920 And if the stronger? Relationship that you have with. 116 00:05:35,080 --> 00:05:38,920 Jesus, the different type. Of outlook that you have and 117 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:40,360 you're going to live differently. 118 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:43,360 So the way that. You live. 119 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:46,040 Shows the type of appetite you have, but also. 120 00:05:46,040 --> 00:05:48,520 The type of appetite you have. Shows what you're filling. 121 00:05:48,520 --> 00:05:50,000 Your life. With and then what? 122 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:52,360 You fill your life. With shows how you view 123 00:05:52,360 --> 00:05:56,880 treasures and Jesus on the. Sermon of the Mount, Matthew 124 00:05:56,880 --> 00:05:59,840 chapter. 6 is going to address this, he's going to talk about 125 00:05:59,840 --> 00:06:01,000 it so. We're just going to look at a 126 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:02,280 few verses and then we'll be done. 127 00:06:02,280 --> 00:06:04,000 We'll be out here. And then maybe we'll go to Tex. 128 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:05,640 Roadhouse. Who knows Now it's like. 129 00:06:05,640 --> 00:06:06,880 A2 hour Wait. Crazy. 130 00:06:06,880 --> 00:06:09,200 All right. Look at verse 19. 131 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:11,760 We're going to look at verse 19 and 20. 132 00:06:12,840 --> 00:06:14,240 Actually this. Should go through 21. 133 00:06:14,320 --> 00:06:16,040 This is what the. Word of the Lord says it says 134 00:06:16,440 --> 00:06:17,200 do. Not. 135 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:19,960 Store up for yourself treasures. On. 136 00:06:20,080 --> 00:06:22,960 Earth where moths and vermin destroy. 137 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:27,640 Where thieves? Break in and steal, but store up 138 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:30,520 for yourself treasures in. Heaven where? 139 00:06:30,520 --> 00:06:35,080 Moths and vermin do not. Destroy and where thieves do not 140 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:36,680 break in. And steal. 141 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:39,640 And in verse 21. For where your treasure is, 142 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:44,480 there your heart will also be man. 143 00:06:44,480 --> 00:06:47,920 This is one of the. Most clear cut pictures in 144 00:06:47,920 --> 00:06:50,760 scripture and what we're going to see here is Jesus. 145 00:06:51,080 --> 00:06:53,840 Is giving kind of like a little compare and contrast. 146 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:59,840 He's doing this whole like do this but don't do this and 147 00:06:59,840 --> 00:07:03,360 here's the reason why. But then we're going to see 148 00:07:03,640 --> 00:07:07,560 another section of Scripture as he continues to teach us he's. 149 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:10,760 Going to do the same exact. Thing but the thing with. 150 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:14,200 Jesus is. Jesus is not only after the way 151 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:18,200 that you view your material things, not that He's not only 152 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:19,640 after the way that you see money. 153 00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:25,160 There's a deeper issue here because the people that look for 154 00:07:25,320 --> 00:07:28,080 treasures on this. World or in this world? 155 00:07:28,520 --> 00:07:33,480 There's something underlining that we have to address because 156 00:07:33,480 --> 00:07:36,560 Jesus always goes to the heart. Of things. 157 00:07:37,640 --> 00:07:39,840 So what is he telling us in verse 19? 158 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:42,600 He's telling. Everybody's like, listen, do 159 00:07:42,600 --> 00:07:45,960 not, please don't do, he says. Look what it. 160 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:47,080 Do not. It's an. 161 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:49,520 Order. It's a derivative what we call 162 00:07:49,520 --> 00:07:51,600 in Scripture. It's a command. 163 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:56,240 He's not giving advice. This is not a suggestion. 164 00:07:57,920 --> 00:08:01,000 Like when somebody tells me, like when it ices outside and 165 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:04,320 like Ricky man, you should not run on the ice. 166 00:08:05,240 --> 00:08:07,000 In my mind like challenge. Accepted. 167 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:10,640 I bet you I can. I bet you I won't. 168 00:08:10,640 --> 00:08:13,880 Fall that bad? What Jesus is saying? 169 00:08:13,880 --> 00:08:15,280 He's like no, no, no. He's like, don't. 170 00:08:15,800 --> 00:08:17,320 I don't want you to test this thing out. 171 00:08:18,040 --> 00:08:21,560 He's giving you a command. He's saying listen, do not store 172 00:08:21,560 --> 00:08:23,520 up for yourself treasures on Earth. 173 00:08:23,640 --> 00:08:25,800 Why? Because the stuff that you're 174 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:27,880 going to. Accumulate the stuff that you're 175 00:08:27,880 --> 00:08:30,720 going to. Just just take in all that stuff 176 00:08:30,720 --> 00:08:32,840 is you're going to sit there and be useless. 177 00:08:33,720 --> 00:08:35,720 And the Bible says right here, it's like, man, that's where 178 00:08:35,720 --> 00:08:39,039 moths and vermin destroy it. So listen the stuff. 179 00:08:39,039 --> 00:08:42,400 That you accumulate the stuff. That you put all your hope in. 180 00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:46,520 It's either going to be wasteful and be eaten up and be thrown 181 00:08:46,520 --> 00:08:50,280 away, or it's somebody's going to take it. 182 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:52,800 Either way, it's not going to serve for. 183 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:56,040 Anything. So what Jesus is saying he's 184 00:08:56,040 --> 00:08:58,360 like, don't amass all this earthly wealth. 185 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:00,960 It's useless. It does nothing. 186 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:04,880 Instead, the stuff that you should amass should be for 187 00:09:04,880 --> 00:09:06,960 heaven. It should be for heavenly 188 00:09:06,960 --> 00:09:10,560 treasures, but store yourself verse 20. 189 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:12,920 Treasures in heaven. Why? 190 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:15,040 Because it's not going to go. To waste. 191 00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:18,480 Monster not going to eat it. It's not going to get destroyed. 192 00:09:18,680 --> 00:09:20,000 These are not going to break in and. 193 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:22,880 Steal it and listen. To something I was thinking. 194 00:09:22,880 --> 00:09:25,640 About like people that. Amassed treasures in Earth. 195 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:29,440 Live a life of frustration. And emptiness. 196 00:09:30,320 --> 00:09:32,200 Why? Because the things. 197 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:35,440 That you are amassing and accumulating are not going to 198 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:38,960 serve its purpose and potential. It's going to be. 199 00:09:38,960 --> 00:09:41,480 Eaten by moths. Or somebody's going to take it. 200 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:45,160 Listen when you pass away from this Earth, when you die. 201 00:09:45,520 --> 00:09:48,360 All of your stuff is either going to go to a garage sale. 202 00:09:48,560 --> 00:09:50,040 Or end up on. Storage Wars. 203 00:09:52,640 --> 00:09:55,720 You can't take it with. You there's a saying. 204 00:09:56,600 --> 00:09:58,280 You never see a U-Haul behind a hearse. 205 00:10:00,760 --> 00:10:03,160 You can't take nothing with you. Like your kids just going to 206 00:10:03,160 --> 00:10:06,080 fight over it. So what Jesus is pointing? 207 00:10:06,080 --> 00:10:08,120 Out to he's like. Listen, don't store up all that. 208 00:10:08,520 --> 00:10:10,200 You know, and I'm. Doing some research that's 209 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:13,400 looking at our our. The state of our country, it's 210 00:10:13,400 --> 00:10:15,360 really interesting. In in 1990. 211 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:18,280 Two, there was a study that was done and I want to go to 90. 2 212 00:10:18,280 --> 00:10:19,440 because this. Is when like the dot? 213 00:10:19,440 --> 00:10:22,400 Com boom hit and and. People in the US, you know they. 214 00:10:22,640 --> 00:10:24,080 They're making a little bit more bank. 215 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:30,760 And the question that Forbes asked was how much do you have 216 00:10:30,760 --> 00:10:34,160 to have in order to achieve? The American Dream. 217 00:10:34,800 --> 00:10:37,640 How much? And what was interesting, it 218 00:10:37,640 --> 00:10:40,920 says those who. Earn 20. 5000 or less a. 219 00:10:40,920 --> 00:10:45,520 Year said they would need around. 54,000 in order to 220 00:10:45,520 --> 00:10:49,560 achieve the American dream. Those who made 100,000. 221 00:10:49,560 --> 00:10:52,200 As an annual income. Bracket said they would. 222 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:57,560 Need at least 190. 2000 in order to achieve the American. 223 00:10:57,560 --> 00:10:59,160 Dream. You know what? 224 00:10:59,160 --> 00:11:02,000 This tells us there's. Never going to be. 225 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:04,280 Enough. No matter. 226 00:11:04,280 --> 00:11:06,880 Where you are in life, many of us think. 227 00:11:06,880 --> 00:11:09,000 If I just had a little bit. More. 228 00:11:09,240 --> 00:11:12,120 I would be fulfilled. I would be happy and I would be 229 00:11:12,120 --> 00:11:13,480 able. To get what I. 230 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:15,600 Want. When the truth is maybe. 231 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:18,880 If you just managed and steward what God gave you, then you 232 00:11:18,880 --> 00:11:21,520 would be happy and then you would be fulfilled and then you 233 00:11:21,520 --> 00:11:23,320 would be able to do things that. You want. 234 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:26,480 The problem is that we mismanaged. 235 00:11:26,480 --> 00:11:30,520 We don't trust God with what He's blessed us with, so we make 236 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:34,480 terrible financial decisions. We live lives with fist closed. 237 00:11:35,680 --> 00:11:39,280 And God can't bless that. The average American throws 238 00:11:39,280 --> 00:11:40,600 away. About 65. 239 00:11:40,600 --> 00:11:45,160 Pounds of clothes a year, one in every ten Americans. 240 00:11:45,160 --> 00:11:48,440 Rents an off site storage unit to store their stuff. 241 00:11:49,480 --> 00:11:53,440 There's over 50,000 storage. Facilities in the United States. 242 00:11:54,800 --> 00:11:57,160 That's a lot. I need to invest in that. 243 00:11:58,440 --> 00:12:02,320 They did an interview with David Rockefeller, you know, with the 244 00:12:02,560 --> 00:12:05,600 Rockefeller. Family, tons of money, oil, all 245 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:07,680 that stuff, I mean. Dude is. 246 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:13,600 Loaded for every, passed away in 20. 2017 and they asked him the. 247 00:12:13,760 --> 00:12:15,480 This. Question, they said. 248 00:12:15,480 --> 00:12:18,120 How? Much money is enough money. 249 00:12:18,560 --> 00:12:21,720 And his response? His reply was just a little bit 250 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:25,680 more. And the truth is that no matter 251 00:12:25,680 --> 00:12:28,800 how much we make, no matter how. Much stuff we have no matter 252 00:12:28,800 --> 00:12:29,800 what we. Accumulate. 253 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:33,000 We have that same attitude, it's just we just need a little bit 254 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:36,960 more and we see that all through our culture. 255 00:12:38,440 --> 00:12:40,480 And then the stuff that we end up accumulate moths. 256 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:44,160 Eat it. Actually, the text here where it 257 00:12:44,160 --> 00:12:48,280 talks about treasures, the the original languages talks about 258 00:12:48,280 --> 00:12:51,640 that there's an erosion, right? Like they're like even if you. 259 00:12:51,640 --> 00:12:57,160 Store gold and. Silver there is like that rust 260 00:12:57,480 --> 00:13:02,960 it starts to eat away at the meadows but when we talk about 261 00:13:02,960 --> 00:13:06,000 storing up treasures of. Earth and out of heaven. 262 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:09,240 There's a deeper issue here. And I. 263 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:11,160 Think This is why like a lot of our. 264 00:13:11,160 --> 00:13:15,040 Culture Why we prefer symbols of wealth rather than wealth. 265 00:13:15,040 --> 00:13:19,600 Itself, That's why we have super high car payments, but yet we're 266 00:13:19,600 --> 00:13:22,440 renting. That's why we have a lot of 267 00:13:22,440 --> 00:13:25,280 flash. And and expensive clothes and 268 00:13:25,440 --> 00:13:28,000 and all. These things to try to show off. 269 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:30,080 We haven't built anything that lasts. 270 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:34,600 We have it. Backwards and I and what what it 271 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:37,520 really gets down to what our wealth what our. 272 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:40,000 Stuff. What everything gets down to? 273 00:13:40,720 --> 00:13:46,320 Is contentment and Jesus points. This out he's like listen, don't 274 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:49,520 store yourself treasures. In Earth, focus on treasures of 275 00:13:49,680 --> 00:13:51,920 heaven. Invest in the Kingdom. 276 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:54,200 Here's why. Here's the bottom line. 277 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:56,880 This is this is what he's getting at verse. 21. 278 00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:03,080 For where your treasure is, there your heart will also be. 279 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:08,800 And we have and if we think about. 280 00:14:08,800 --> 00:14:10,360 This and I was like. Why? 281 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:12,880 Why is it that we put so much emphasis? 282 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:18,080 On earthly treasures, and it gets down to the heart and it 283 00:14:18,080 --> 00:14:21,120 gets. Down to ourselves. 284 00:14:21,560 --> 00:14:25,520 Why? Is it that I spend money I don't 285 00:14:25,520 --> 00:14:29,360 have to buy things I don't need? To impress people that don't 286 00:14:29,360 --> 00:14:33,440 care. About me and the reason is 287 00:14:34,440 --> 00:14:37,640 because I want people to like me. 288 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:40,760 Then my question is why do you want? 289 00:14:40,760 --> 00:14:44,640 People to like you so bad. What is it in our? 290 00:14:44,640 --> 00:14:47,280 Hearts. That we want the adoration. 291 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:48,920 Of man so. Bad that we're. 292 00:14:48,920 --> 00:14:52,760 Willing to turn our investments from treasures of heaven. 293 00:14:52,960 --> 00:14:55,880 To Earth just so that somebody could give me an applause or a 294 00:14:55,880 --> 00:14:58,920 like. And I'm reading. 295 00:14:58,920 --> 00:15:00,560 This I'm like, man, Jesus is getting to the. 296 00:15:00,560 --> 00:15:04,520 Heart of the issue because it's not about to stop. 297 00:15:04,520 --> 00:15:07,720 It's about the way that we view the Kingdom of God and the 298 00:15:07,720 --> 00:15:09,200 Kingdom of heaven. And he's. 299 00:15:09,200 --> 00:15:14,040 Calling it out right here and he comes to us with this conclusion 300 00:15:14,040 --> 00:15:17,720 the conclusion is that listen whatever you have in your heart 301 00:15:17,840 --> 00:15:22,840 is going to show out to people it's going to show you listen 302 00:15:22,840 --> 00:15:24,040 your. Treasure is going to show. 303 00:15:24,040 --> 00:15:29,560 Out with people and Jesus is not attacking materialism like our 304 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:31,240 stuff. He's saying like, listen, 305 00:15:31,240 --> 00:15:35,600 materialism is in direct conflict to loyalty with God 306 00:15:36,520 --> 00:15:39,360 because in the next couple of verses he's going to even go. 307 00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:41,640 Deeper. He's going to say no. 308 00:15:42,640 --> 00:15:44,640 Your heart shows where your treasure is. 309 00:15:44,960 --> 00:15:48,320 So if your treasures in heaven, your heart's going to show that 310 00:15:48,560 --> 00:15:50,640 if your treasures. With the things of this world, 311 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:51,920 your heart. 'S going to show. 312 00:15:51,920 --> 00:15:54,040 That. Either one. 313 00:15:54,640 --> 00:15:56,200 And when he's. Also getting that. 314 00:15:56,840 --> 00:16:00,680 Is that he is aligning. He's like you cannot do heaven. 315 00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:02,360 Treasures of heaven and treasures. 316 00:16:02,360 --> 00:16:06,240 Of Earth at the same time. You have to pick your. 317 00:16:06,240 --> 00:16:08,320 Heart cannot be aligned with both of them. 318 00:16:09,880 --> 00:16:12,960 Kind of a heavy. Statement right there, right? 319 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:15,280 Romans. Chapter 1 says it like this. 320 00:16:15,640 --> 00:16:18,360 You rather worship the. Creation than the creator. 321 00:16:20,440 --> 00:16:23,680 And that's what it's showing us. We can't. 322 00:16:23,680 --> 00:16:26,280 Store up treasure here on. Earth and on. 323 00:16:26,280 --> 00:16:27,960 Heaven at the same exact. Time. 324 00:16:28,240 --> 00:16:31,160 Jesus is going to push against that and that is the conclusion. 325 00:16:31,160 --> 00:16:34,040 That he comes out with, He said. You have your treasure in your 326 00:16:34,040 --> 00:16:37,000 heart in one place. You can't store up treasure in 327 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:39,840 earth and in heaven at the same exact time. 328 00:16:40,040 --> 00:16:44,080 You must choose which one you will invest. 329 00:16:44,080 --> 00:16:47,760 In period. It's kind of a hard teaching 330 00:16:48,480 --> 00:16:50,720 because some of us are like, well, Ricky, like, you know, 331 00:16:50,760 --> 00:16:52,680 that's kind of. I could do. 332 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:57,200 Both no you can't and. We're going to see here why. 333 00:16:58,200 --> 00:17:02,120 Jesus is going to address. That So let's look at the next 334 00:17:02,120 --> 00:17:03,880 couple of verses because this is pretty cool. 335 00:17:04,119 --> 00:17:07,760 Look at the next verse, verse 22 through. 23 now. 336 00:17:08,040 --> 00:17:09,920 He talks about like. Think about the compare 337 00:17:09,960 --> 00:17:10,720 contrast. Right. 338 00:17:11,079 --> 00:17:12,880 He's like. Do not stalk treasures. 339 00:17:12,880 --> 00:17:14,640 On Earth. Because that stuff is useless. 340 00:17:14,640 --> 00:17:16,720 It's going to go away. Monster can eat it, right? 341 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:21,800 Then, but instead of this, stalk the treasures in heaven, right 342 00:17:21,800 --> 00:17:24,280 that that's. Going to be for all eternity and 343 00:17:24,280 --> 00:17:28,200 the reason why you do. That is because wherever your 344 00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:30,720 treasure is your heart. Is as well. 345 00:17:31,040 --> 00:17:33,440 We're going to see that. Now. 346 00:17:33,600 --> 00:17:35,240 He's going to give some examples. 347 00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:37,040 He's going to go a little bit. Deeper, right? 348 00:17:37,040 --> 00:17:38,320 He's going to look like like this. 349 00:17:38,480 --> 00:17:41,360 Decision making. Our choices are not. 350 00:17:41,360 --> 00:17:45,360 Just a materialistic issue. Our choices is a heart issue. 351 00:17:45,680 --> 00:17:48,440 It's a holistic issue. Look at verse 22. 352 00:17:48,920 --> 00:17:53,960 The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your 353 00:17:53,960 --> 00:17:56,880 whole body will be full of light. 354 00:17:57,320 --> 00:18:01,720 But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of 355 00:18:01,720 --> 00:18:04,840 darkness. If then the light within you is. 356 00:18:04,840 --> 00:18:07,280 Darkness. How great is that? 357 00:18:07,280 --> 00:18:10,600 Darkness. What Jesus did here is. 358 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:13,480 Brilliant all. Right, let's geek out. 359 00:18:13,480 --> 00:18:16,200 For just one second can. We geek out a little bit. 360 00:18:17,120 --> 00:18:20,200 All right, so listen in Hebrew. Right, this is a Hebrew. 361 00:18:20,240 --> 00:18:22,640 Idiom. This is the latest favorite. 362 00:18:22,640 --> 00:18:24,640 Word right now I. Told her I was like. 363 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:26,920 Elena, we're going to talk. About idioms tomorrow and then? 364 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:28,160 I asked. Her I was like, Elena, can you 365 00:18:28,160 --> 00:18:29,480 give me an example? Of an idiom. 366 00:18:29,720 --> 00:18:31,920 And she goes, yeah. Spill the beans. 367 00:18:32,640 --> 00:18:36,040 And I was like, you so smart girl, right? 368 00:18:36,040 --> 00:18:38,720 So an idiom is something like like, like, that's a great 369 00:18:38,720 --> 00:18:40,120 example. Like I'm so hungry if they eat a 370 00:18:40,120 --> 00:18:42,560 horse. I feel like the weight of the. 371 00:18:42,560 --> 00:18:47,600 World's on my shoulders. So in Hebrew this is actually. 372 00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:50,320 Jesus is using a Hebrew. Idiom of the. 373 00:18:50,320 --> 00:18:53,880 Culture so go ahead and put that slide up so I could just I just 374 00:18:53,880 --> 00:18:57,240 want to walk through this with us when we talk about idioms 375 00:18:57,720 --> 00:19:00,480 Jesus here is. Talking about the good eye. 376 00:19:00,680 --> 00:19:02,920 So. In Hebrew when you read this in 377 00:19:02,920 --> 00:19:05,680 its original text when he talks about. 378 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:09,880 The eye, healthy eyes or. A better translation is The good 379 00:19:09,880 --> 00:19:13,120 Eye. The way you say it in Hebrew is 380 00:19:13,360 --> 00:19:18,200 Ian havat. So Ian havat means that you have 381 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:19,600 a a good. Eye. 382 00:19:19,760 --> 00:19:21,400 So when? Somebody in the culture, says 383 00:19:21,440 --> 00:19:23,760 Ian Havat. It means that you have a good. 384 00:19:23,760 --> 00:19:27,680 Perspective of life. You're very positive, you're 385 00:19:27,680 --> 00:19:31,040 very like cup half fool. The way that you view life is 386 00:19:31,040 --> 00:19:33,200 really. Good, but on the flip side of 387 00:19:33,200 --> 00:19:35,280 that, if you have a bad. Eye, they say. 388 00:19:35,960 --> 00:19:38,840 Yvonne. He's Yvonne. 389 00:19:39,600 --> 00:19:41,760 Right there. These are idioms in the Hebrew. 390 00:19:41,760 --> 00:19:44,560 Language in this time. They say it all the. 391 00:19:44,560 --> 00:19:47,440 Time. So if you are a very positive 392 00:19:47,440 --> 00:19:51,680 person, if something goes wrong but yet you are solution minded 393 00:19:51,960 --> 00:19:54,440 or you, you tend to just be happy in those. 394 00:19:54,560 --> 00:20:01,640 In that sense you are Yvonne. But if you are a negative Nancy. 395 00:20:02,280 --> 00:20:05,800 And you always look at things with the cup half empty and 396 00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:08,560 you're always talking about things in a negative light. 397 00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:12,520 You are Yvonne Hurrah. And guys, it's an idiom that. 398 00:20:12,600 --> 00:20:16,200 They would always say this so if you have a negative. 399 00:20:16,280 --> 00:20:17,640 Viewpoint on stuff. Here I'll give you an. 400 00:20:17,640 --> 00:20:21,000 Example so if somebody. Has a swimming pool. 401 00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:23,760 And I. Look at their swimming pool and 402 00:20:23,760 --> 00:20:25,280 I'm like, man, I can't man, it's going to be. 403 00:20:25,280 --> 00:20:26,800 Awesome. The kids are going to be able to 404 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:28,120 use it. It's going to be great. 405 00:20:28,360 --> 00:20:29,840 That's Yvonne. Hurrah. 406 00:20:30,280 --> 00:20:35,160 I mean, that's Yvonne Hava. But if I'm in a negative eye and 407 00:20:35,160 --> 00:20:36,720 I'm like. You have a swimming pool? 408 00:20:36,720 --> 00:20:38,160 Oh my gosh. People are going to drown. 409 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:42,760 Someone's going to fall in it. Insurance is going to take. 410 00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:44,440 It all like. Dude, you're going to be charged 411 00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:45,160 with. Murder. 412 00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:48,520 You have to. Clean the young, expensive 413 00:20:48,520 --> 00:20:49,520 swimming. Pools are. 414 00:20:49,840 --> 00:20:53,040 That's Yvonne Hara. It describes. 415 00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:55,960 A person, now what? Jesus does here is brilliant. 416 00:20:55,960 --> 00:20:58,640 Why? Because he's talking about 417 00:20:58,640 --> 00:21:03,200 treasures, he's talking about materialism, he's talking about. 418 00:21:03,280 --> 00:21:06,640 Stuff. So because he puts the subject 419 00:21:06,640 --> 00:21:10,440 first, he ties the idiom to the treasure piece. 420 00:21:11,080 --> 00:21:15,440 So you say, listen, if you have a good eye, if your eyes are 421 00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:20,280 healthy, if you are Yvonne Hava when it comes to. 422 00:21:20,560 --> 00:21:23,960 Seeing the treasures of heaven. That means. 423 00:21:24,040 --> 00:21:27,080 That the way that. You see, this is optimistic. 424 00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:28,400 You have a. Good. 425 00:21:28,520 --> 00:21:33,240 Perspective of God the Father. You see Him as the source of 426 00:21:33,240 --> 00:21:36,640 every good and perfect gift. All blessings come from God. 427 00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:39,120 God is the giver. Of all, we are only. 428 00:21:39,120 --> 00:21:42,360 The ones that Stewart. God is generous and because you 429 00:21:42,360 --> 00:21:44,840 have a good eye. What verse 22 says? 430 00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:46,560 Means that your whole. Body will be. 431 00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:51,000 Full of light. So I don't just see the outpost 432 00:21:51,040 --> 00:21:53,040 of it all, I don't see the outcomes of it all. 433 00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:56,880 Because I have a good. Eye it it impacts my holistic 434 00:21:56,880 --> 00:22:01,120 self so I just don't see things that the way that God. 435 00:22:01,120 --> 00:22:04,080 Has it now. I'm like, I see the goodness of 436 00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:08,560 God and I want to mimic. It because of my perspective. 437 00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:12,280 And because my perspective changes, my purpose changes, and 438 00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:15,680 when my purpose changes and it aligns with the purposes of God. 439 00:22:15,880 --> 00:22:20,880 I act out on it, so that means that my stuff is no longer mine 440 00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:23,320 now. Whenever I get stuff. 441 00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:25,560 It's not like mine mine mine mine no, it's. 442 00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:29,200 Lord, you have given this to me. How can I bless? 443 00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:31,160 You with it? What can I? 444 00:22:31,160 --> 00:22:34,640 Do to build Kingdom. With it, who needs it? 445 00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:36,800 It's not mine, it's all. Yours. 446 00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:43,360 Yvonne Kharva Jesus is talking about this, but on the flip side 447 00:22:43,360 --> 00:22:45,160 of it. If you have a bad eye. 448 00:22:46,080 --> 00:22:48,400 He says in verse 22. I mean verse 23. 449 00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:51,240 If your eyes are unhealthy, that means like the whole body's 450 00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:53,360 going to be full of darkness. And if. 451 00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:56,200 Then the light. Within you is darkness. 452 00:22:56,360 --> 00:23:00,800 How great of a darkness is that? Like if you're if your. 453 00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:02,960 View of your perspective is. Wrong. 454 00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:06,360 And you're storing. Up treasures of Earth there's. 455 00:23:06,360 --> 00:23:09,040 Nothing that you can do. There's not a light that will 456 00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:12,600 cause you to see. It's impossible, so that means 457 00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:14,720 that you align. With things that are. 458 00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:17,200 Opposite you see life through this terrible lens. 459 00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:20,000 You don't see God as a source of blessing. 460 00:23:20,120 --> 00:23:22,240 You don't see that God is the one that's giving you 461 00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:24,760 everything. It's all about you doing it and 462 00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:26,760 yourself doing it. You have the wrong. 463 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:28,840 Perspective. And when you have a wrong 464 00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:32,440 perspective, you become greedy and stingy and you don't want to 465 00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:35,600 let things go. So you. 466 00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:40,200 Live a life unfulfilled and frustrated because nothing is 467 00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:42,640 ever enough and I need to please. 468 00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:46,400 People instead of pleasing God. And that sends you. 469 00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:50,120 Deeper and deeper. Not just in debt, but. 470 00:23:50,120 --> 00:23:52,600 Deeper and deeper into attaining. 471 00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:54,960 Stuff. That you think is going to 472 00:23:54,960 --> 00:24:01,040 satisfy you access versus appetite you're. 473 00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:03,680 Eating the wrong things. And. 474 00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:05,760 Jesus is like man if. You would just trust me. 475 00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:10,880 I see God as generous and and because I see God as generous, I 476 00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:13,720 too will be generous. But if I don't see. 477 00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:16,400 God as generous, therefore I will become. 478 00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:19,920 Not generous I will become. Materialistic I will be. 479 00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:23,400 Miserable I will be a selfish Christian and. 480 00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:26,120 Check this out. I'm going to justify my sin. 481 00:24:26,360 --> 00:24:29,720 By saying this is just. One area of my life. 482 00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:34,600 That I need to control. I give God everything else. 483 00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:37,160 But when it comes to my money, when it comes to my. 484 00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:39,840 Stuff like that's. Mine, Ricky, you don't know. 485 00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:41,360 How I grew up. I grew up with nothing. 486 00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:46,160 So I'm going to try to get my stuff with something that's the 487 00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:48,680 wrong viewpoint now. Jesus, look what he does here. 488 00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:52,080 This is crazy, right? So this is kind of the attitude 489 00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:54,800 that we have. It's just one area of my life. 490 00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:56,800 And. Jesus is like no listen. 491 00:24:56,960 --> 00:24:58,800 If that is your viewpoint you played. 492 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:01,280 Yourself. I don't have to say it. 493 00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:04,520 Look at verse 24. Look what Jesus does. 494 00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:06,960 Jesus drops the hammer here verse 24. 495 00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:12,280 No one can serve 2 masters. Period. 496 00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:16,960 That means that you. Cannot withhold something and 497 00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:19,520 say. Yes to God in some things and 498 00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:21,000 say. No to him and others. 499 00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:24,400 You cannot serve 2 masters. You're going to have to make a. 500 00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:27,400 Decision. It's either treasures of heaven 501 00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:28,520 or treasures. Of Earth. 502 00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:30,800 It's either a good eye or the bad eye. 503 00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:34,840 You can't turn both. And Jesus is pulling this, he 504 00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:36,400 says. Either you. 505 00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:40,040 Will look what we say. Heed the text. 506 00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:45,440 Heed the advice. Either you will have hate, you 507 00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:50,280 will hate the one or love the other, or you will be devoted to 508 00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:52,680 1. And despise the other you. 509 00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:55,480 Cannot both serve God? And money. 510 00:25:57,000 --> 00:26:00,480 So when you are choosing and when you are flip flopping and 511 00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:03,720 when you are and you and and when you're just like limping 512 00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:07,400 back and forth, what's going to happen in life is you are going 513 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:10,120 to put in a position. Where you have to choose. 514 00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:13,600 And you're either going to. Hate one and love. 515 00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:16,680 The other you're going to. Despise 1 and despise the. 516 00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:21,000 Other and as I'm reading. This I started thinking like. 517 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:24,040 Man, you know. There's so many people that talk 518 00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:26,600 about. Deconstruction and like church. 519 00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:29,280 Hate and hurt and stuff like. That and I'm starting. 520 00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:35,360 To wonder maybe if you choose an allegiance because going back 521 00:26:35,360 --> 00:26:38,120 and forth you're going to start hating one side because. 522 00:26:38,120 --> 00:26:42,520 You love the other side so much and guys like you have to decide 523 00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:45,560 which one is it. Which one is it? 524 00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:48,160 That you are going to choose today. 525 00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:52,680 Now it. Says either you then look. 526 00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:54,160 Look how. It ends in verse 24. 527 00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:56,920 You. Cannot serve both God and money. 528 00:26:57,320 --> 00:27:00,760 Another translation of. Scripture says you cannot. 529 00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:04,600 Both serve God and Mammon and in. 530 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:06,560 Luke. He uses Mammon. 531 00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:08,080 Mammon is. Pretty. 532 00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:11,760 Much a it was a. False idol false God that talked 533 00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:16,560 about giving earthly material treasures anything that provides 534 00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:19,280 for you pretty. Much and Jesus is saying. 535 00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:23,960 You you can't do that. It's simply impossible and if 536 00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:26,480 you think you could successfully serve 2 masters. 537 00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:29,480 You have deceived yourself. You can't so. 538 00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:32,840 You can't do it. So what I'm going to do, I just 539 00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:35,320 want to end with a few thoughts for today. 540 00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:39,760 Jesus is very clear about this. It's a hard teaching, but I 541 00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:40,920 think that there's. Freedom in it. 542 00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:44,320 I think there's a freedom in this. 543 00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:47,000 So that's just. Three quick things and then 544 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:49,080 we're out of here. Number one, what can? 545 00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:52,320 We learn from this passage. This is the way you live your 546 00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:54,040 life. Actually shows where your 547 00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:56,240 treasure lies. Simple. 548 00:27:57,320 --> 00:27:58,720 You want to know what you love, you want. 549 00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:01,920 To know what you're passionate about, take out your bank. 550 00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:03,800 Statements and start looking through where your money's 551 00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:07,200 going. See where things? 552 00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:10,720 Are going and. You're going to start seeing 553 00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:13,560 what your love and passionate about. 554 00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:18,520 You know, what I love about this text is that Jesus is very 555 00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:19,880 clear. Cut This is a sermon on the 556 00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:22,280 Mount, so. He's he's preaching to thousands 557 00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:25,600 of people, even his disciples, and he's. 558 00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:28,040 And he's telling them he's like, man, don't waste your time 559 00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:32,120 stirring up treasures on Earth. Why would you say that? 560 00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:34,680 Because I'm pretty. Sure, there's others. 561 00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:37,800 That would come to him. Like the rich young ruler. 562 00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:39,840 And say I want to. Follow you and he's like well go 563 00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:41,480 sell all your stuff. Give it to the poor then. 564 00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:43,320 Come follow me. And he's like, I can't do that. 565 00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:50,280 It's really easy to say things, but what he's saying is that 566 00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:53,920 where your heart is, your treasure is there as well. 567 00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:57,640 So as you live your life. As a Christian like. 568 00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:01,040 As you live your life as a believer in Christ, it's really. 569 00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:03,840 Easy to see it it. Bleeds. 570 00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:06,440 Through. Your treasure is going to. 571 00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:10,160 Show to the whole world what it is and listen. 572 00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:12,440 And if your. Appetite is not Christ. 573 00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:15,480 If your appetite. What you want to consume? 574 00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:19,400 If it's not Jesus, then. Other things are going to bleed 575 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:22,640 out to the. World and they're going to be 576 00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:27,480 like that's that's supposed to be what what what Jesus is 577 00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:29,080 right. Like, no, it's, it's not. 578 00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:32,920 It's there's a confusion there. And the confusion comes because 579 00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:35,760 you're trying to serve 2 masters, which is impossible. 580 00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:39,240 You can't do that. So if you want to live your 581 00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:42,120 life, we could easily see where your treasure lies. 582 00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:45,000 We see it because it bleeds through the. 583 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:51,080 Heart and remember. What you feed grows, so whatever 584 00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:52,400 you're feeding, you're fighting with. 585 00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:55,200 Sin and I know many of us. We talk. 586 00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:57,120 About this Like man Ricky, how do I fight? 587 00:29:57,360 --> 00:29:59,960 My sin. I'm addicted to this like how do 588 00:29:59,960 --> 00:30:02,280 I stop viewing pornography? How do I? 589 00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:05,560 Stop with my addictions. How do I stop just I just feel. 590 00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:08,000 Angry all the time. Think about what you're feeding 591 00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:11,680 when you feed the flesh that that's going to grow. 592 00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:13,600 But listen if you feed the Spirit. 593 00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:16,640 You spend time in this word, time in prayer. 594 00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:20,000 Time in worship, surround yourself, then that's going to 595 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:22,320 begin to grow as well. That's going to begin to grow 596 00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:25,920 and the sin is going to get. Smaller and smaller and smaller. 597 00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:30,400 And then remember you have to be devoted to 1 and despise the 598 00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:33,720 other the. Question is how do you fight? 599 00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:35,960 Sin you get to the point. Where you hate it. 600 00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:38,360 So I can't. Stand it no more. 601 00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:41,000 I'm. Angry at it I despise. 602 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:47,080 That sin because the other one has grown so #2 something about 603 00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:48,760 money that we can learn from this. 604 00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:54,640 Don't serve money. Listen, money is a great 605 00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:58,720 servant. But a terrible master don't 606 00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:02,800 serve money right. Let money serve the Lord, and 607 00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:03,880 then it will serve. You. 608 00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:07,160 Guys, when it comes to these biblical. 609 00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:10,760 Principles when we talk about. Finances when we talk about 610 00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:14,840 materialistic things. You got to, you got to put the 611 00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:18,720 Lord in it first, and whenever you give it to the Lord. 612 00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:21,280 First, whenever you seek the. Lord first, when you give to 613 00:31:21,280 --> 00:31:24,200 Him, what's His? 1st when you serve. 614 00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:27,960 The Lord with your money. Then then your money will come 615 00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:31,440 and it will serve you back because God will allow that to 616 00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:36,840 happen. You have to be able to give it 617 00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:40,560 to him. 1st and then the third one and we'll end with. 618 00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:44,080 This Jesus is the Lord of everything. 619 00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:48,080 Or nothing at all. Man, that. 620 00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:50,960 Was difficult. But not really. 621 00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:56,840 It makes total. Sense What Jesus requires is 622 00:31:56,840 --> 00:31:58,640 total. Allegiance and he's. 623 00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:01,840 Either the Lord of every single aspect of your life or. 624 00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:07,240 He's not Lord of anything at all, even your finances, even 625 00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:09,000 your. Stuff Jesus says you can't 626 00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:13,640 serve. 2:00 You got to pick one. There is no back and. 627 00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:18,000 Forth, you've got to pick. What are you feeding your 628 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:21,160 appetites? With what are you hungry? 629 00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:23,800 And then that's my challenge. To us as a church. 630 00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:26,920 As something that I could not get out of my head was this 631 00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:29,200 whole idea of. Access versus. 632 00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:30,800 Appetite. I don't know why the Lord. 633 00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:32,920 Has this like the Holy Spirit just put this in me? 634 00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:35,880 It's like, man, I want to. Challenge us like what is your 635 00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:39,760 appetite for Jesus look like? Like, do you love him? 636 00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:42,240 Do you want to pursue him? Do you want to serve him? 637 00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:43,680 Like do you say you know what, God? 638 00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:45,760 Whatever it is that you want me to do, I'm going to do it. 639 00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:48,240 It sounds crazy. I'm going to do it. 640 00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:50,880 It's uncomfortable, but I'm going to do it. 641 00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:52,600 I'm going to follow your word. I'm. 642 00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:59,320 Going to do it as we close. I know some of y'all are 643 00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:01,640 thinking. About it did Samson. 644 00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:06,560 Finish his steak and. It was 22 oz when? 645 00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:08,280 Ricky said he took four bites. I mean what? 646 00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:11,000 Did he do with it? Did he really finish his steak? 647 00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:20,200 Now he took it home though. But the reason why he couldn't 648 00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:24,600 finish it was because. He ate way too much bread. 649 00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:30,480 And my challenge? To you as a church today. 650 00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:39,080 Is eat way too much bread? John 648 Jesus says. 651 00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:41,240 I. Am the bread of life. 652 00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:47,040 Listen, if you eat of this bread that's from heaven, you will 653 00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:52,000 never hunger again. When you. 654 00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:57,840 Fill your life with treasures of this earth you're. 655 00:33:57,840 --> 00:34:01,040 Eating empty. Carbs you're going to be. 656 00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:03,760 Full and satisfied for just one moment. 657 00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:05,440 And. Then you're going to be hungry. 658 00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:09,520 Again, looking and pursuing for the next best. 659 00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:11,800 Thing and then you're going to start storing. 660 00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:15,520 Yourself up, treasures of earth. In order for you to get the 661 00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:19,440 applause of man and for people to like you, when really what 662 00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:21,320 your heart is saying is that I'm hungry. 663 00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:28,719 But if you eat the bread of life, if your appetite is for 664 00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:33,960 Christ, if you consume him. If you're constantly in his 665 00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:38,480 word, if you're chased after him, listen this bread when you 666 00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:41,120 feed him. Your appetite with it for your. 667 00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:44,719 Soul, you will never be hungry. Again and. 668 00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:48,920 When depression starts to creep in and when your. 669 00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:52,159 Anxiety hits. And when all these thoughts and 670 00:34:52,159 --> 00:34:56,520 angers and hurts and pains start coming through and, and and you 671 00:34:56,520 --> 00:34:57,840 want to. Fill. 672 00:34:57,840 --> 00:35:00,760 Yourself with something in order to stop those hunger. 673 00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:08,680 Pains, Jesus says I'm the. Bread of life if you consume. 674 00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:11,720 Me if you fill your appetite with me. 675 00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:18,800 Ian, have a you have. A good eye and you're going to 676 00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:21,200 see the light. It's going to consume your whole 677 00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:23,920 body and your perspective is going to change. 678 00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:25,800 And your outlook is going to change. 679 00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:28,520 And when these things start creeping in your life, because 680 00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:31,160 I'll be, I'll be real with you. Let's just let's just be honest 681 00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:32,280 here. Just become you. 682 00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:33,800 Come to Jesus. Don't mean your life gets. 683 00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:36,640 Easy things just don't disappear. 684 00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:39,560 He's not a genie. You're still going to fight with 685 00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:40,560 sin. You're going to still have your 686 00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:42,520 sinful nature. But when those things start 687 00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:44,600 creeping in. You have the bread of. 688 00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:46,360 Life you're like, you know what man? 689 00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:47,920 I am not. I'm hungry for that. 690 00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:53,200 Because I have consumed Christ. I have eaten him, I have taken 691 00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:55,560 him in. Oh, and what I love about the 692 00:35:55,600 --> 00:36:00,320 end of Matthew 6, because. He also talks about man, you 693 00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:02,400 know what? When you talk about treasures, 694 00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:08,280 don't worry about tomorrow. Oh, there's a peace that came 695 00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:11,840 with that. Matthew 633 What does he say? 696 00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:15,880 But see first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness and 697 00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:18,160 everything will be given to you as well. 698 00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:23,000 Listen, when you when your appetite is Christ, you don't 699 00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:24,240 only just. Fulfill your life. 700 00:36:24,240 --> 00:36:27,600 With the good things, you don't only just build treasures in 701 00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:30,600 heaven. But there's a peace about. 702 00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:34,040 Knowing who has your life so when I'm. 703 00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:36,400 Concerned when I'm worried. When all this stuff I said, man, 704 00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:40,440 God's got me Jesus. Has me the bread of life. 705 00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:43,160 I don't have to worry because if I seek first his. 706 00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:45,760 Kingdom and righteousness. Everything will be. 707 00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:48,640 Given to me as well. He's going to take care of me. 708 00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:53,920 Submit to the Lordship of Jesus Christ today. 709 00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:59,120 What? I'm going to say is going to get 710 00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:00,760 me in trouble. I'm going to say it anyway. 711 00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:07,760 I think one of the biggest misconceptions of our therapy 712 00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:14,400 culture is this whole idea about submission, because what I read 713 00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:19,040 here when I read his word, yes, life is difficult. 714 00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:20,400 Yes, there's some trauma. I got to work. 715 00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:22,840 Through yes, there's some. Things that happened in my life 716 00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:24,560 that I, I'm trying, I'm trying to figure it out. 717 00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:28,760 Let let see. Somebody talk to somebody. 718 00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:31,920 Well, Jesus. Say listen man, if if. 719 00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:36,680 If you just take the bread of life, if you stop. 720 00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:40,160 Serving 2 masters if you just focus on treasures of heaven, 721 00:37:41,720 --> 00:37:44,440 I'm going to take care. Of you, you're going to be 722 00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:46,760 filled. I'm going to walk with you. 723 00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:49,920 It's going to fill your heart and your life. 724 00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:54,920 It's going to be great. I think maybe, just maybe, if we 725 00:37:54,920 --> 00:38:00,080 stop serving or try to serve. 2 masters, you might feel better. 726 00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:04,880 So what I want to do is, man, we're going to pray. 727 00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:08,160 And as we worship. We're going to have some 728 00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:11,160 brothers and sisters the the front. 729 00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:13,280 Corners if you want somebody. To pray with you. 730 00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:16,280 Ma'am, please don't leave here today without that we. 731 00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:17,360 Want to pray with? You. 732 00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:19,360 It's just nobody's. Going to be taking a pic. 733 00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:22,040 It's going to. Be fun if you want to come to 734 00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:23,800 the altar. Whatever it is, I'll be in the 735 00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:24,960 front too if you. Want to come pray? 736 00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:26,240 I'll love. To pray with you. 737 00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:33,320 But don't leave here today. Don't leave here today hungry. 738 00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:36,800 Have the bread of life. We pray for you so. 739 00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:40,520 Father, we love you. And we thank you so much. 740 00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:46,640 For what you've done for us, Jesus, I pray, Lord, that if 741 00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:51,680 there's anybody in this room, Lord, who is struggling, God, 742 00:38:51,720 --> 00:38:54,840 whose? Soul is hungry, Father. 743 00:38:55,680 --> 00:39:00,400 For whatever it is, Lord, whether it's hurt, acceptance, 744 00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:04,880 addictions, whatever it is, God, I pray that your spirit come. 745 00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:08,600 Down on them right now. And that they see the beauty of 746 00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:12,200 Christ and they see that you are the bread of life, Father. 747 00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:15,480 And that they see that you're the one that takes care of us 748 00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:18,080 and that you love us so much that. 749 00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:22,120 You want to see us? Be well and thrive and Lord, you 750 00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:25,960 want to see the forgiveness of sin to have a relationship. 751 00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:29,600 With. Us So Jesus, I pray, Father, 752 00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:32,200 that you help. Us not to. 753 00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:36,800 Accumulate earthly treasures, Lord, but to accumulate 754 00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:41,800 treasures in heaven. Lord Jesus, we love you and we 755 00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:43,880 pray all these things in. Your holy and matchless name. 756 00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:45,760 Amen. Let's stand and worship. 757 00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:46,160 Together.