It's good to see everyone that's here this morning.
And if you're a visitor we welcome you and we have some
visitors in our audience this morning from Washington State.
And also here in our community, we're glad that you're able to
be with us. I want to talk this morning
about the treasures in heaven and I think this is good for us
to get a perspective of what we really put importance on in
life. What becomes the driving, the
driving force behind what we do? And how that's going to play out
in the end of our life, or when Christ comes again as well here
in Matthew the 6th chapter Jesus, is course teaching in The
Sermon on the Mount and he's kind of battling some of the
things that the Pharisees had been putting off for as a
religion. And and we're going to notice
some of that as well. But we CO2 are Our attacks this
morning and Matthew the 6th chapter.
We're only going to read verses 19 through 21 because that's
really the the focus of our lesson this morning.
And so he says, Jesus says there, do not lay up for
yourselves. Treasures on Earth, where moth
and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.
But lay up for yourselves, Treasures, in Heaven, where
neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break
in and steal for where your treasure is there, your heart
will be also So when we read this text, it kind of brings the
questioned to mind of where is your heart?
Well he tells us right here in verse 21, he says, it's where
your treasure is. And when we talk about the
heart, of course, some people would say, well, you know, I
love you with all my heart and we put our hand about a heart,
but that's not what we're talking about.
We're not talking about that, physical heart this morning.
It's it's talking about our motives, our attitude, our
thoughts, our passions, our deeds, and so on, that's what
Jesus is talking about here. What do you concentrate on?
And what are you preoccupied with in life?
What do you spend? Most of your time thinking about
most of your time planning. What is most of your energy
spent on what particular object, if you want to say what is it?
When we wake up in the morning, what is it worth thinking about?
And what is the driving force behind?
What we do all day long? Of course, we all have jobs.
We all have chores, we all have things to do but beyond those
things which we do just every single day.
What do we think about? What is the passion?
What are we striving for? What is controlling our
thoughts? And our passions in life?
If you think about a long enough, most people answer Is
that it's on a house. A car, a better job.
New clothes, new shoes staying up with the latest trends and
fashions. Most of our time planning for
something that we're going to do or vacation.
We're going to take its we're worried about sometimes our
savings in our investments and and our bank account and all
these kinds of things. Those are the things sometimes
that motivate us and drive us in life to keep us going on.
And so, we lot of times get involved in, just focusing on
material things. The things of this life, we live
in a society that's obsessed with obtaining and Gathering
things. We, we, that's, that's just part
of the society that we live in things are what's important?
If you don't think so, people will tell you, things are
important, the news and the media and the Advertisements on
TV tell you that you need to buy this and you need to buy this
and you need to buy this because if you don't have these things
you really aren't in style or you really aren't keeping up
with everything that you need to be keeping up with and so and if
you don't have those things, your looked at sometimes as a
failure. He doesn't have a nice shiny
car. So he must not be very good at
what he does. So, we live in the society.
Of being obsessed with obtaining material goods and things in our
life and not all societies are like that though.
And if you think it is like that, you certainly haven't kind
of stepped out of your little box, your comfort zone and gone
into different parts of this world, in most of the world, the
third world countries and seeing how other people live, We are
rich. We are rich compared to what
other people in this world, have, but we live in a society
that craves after things. Listen to this little
illustration. I ran across mr.
And mrs. Thing by, we don't know who it
says, Anonymous mr. And mrs.
Thing, or a very pleasant and successful couple at least that
is the verdict of most people who Tend to measure success with
a thing ometer when the thing, ometer is put to work in the
life of mr. And mrs.
Thing, the result is startling, there he is sitting down on a
luxurious and very expensive thing, almost hidden by a large
number of other things. Things to sit on things, just
sit at things to cook on things to eat from all shining and new
things. Things things things to clean
with and things to wash with things too.
Wash, with, and things to clean and things to wash and things to
us, Muse, and things to give pleasure and things to watch,
and things to play things for the long, hot summer, and things
for the cold short, winter things for the big thing, and in
which they live, and the things for the garden and things for
the lounge, and things for the kitchen, and things for the
bedroom, and things on four wheels and things on two wheels,
and things to put on top of the four, wheels and things to put
behind the four wheels. And things to add to the
interior of the things, on four wheels things, things things and
they're in the middle of mr. And mrs.
Thing, things smiling, and and and pleased, pink with things
thinking of more things to add to their things, secure in their
castle of things. While mr.
And mrs. Thing, I have some bad news for
you. Well, you say, you cannot cannot
hear me because there are things in the way.
Well, I just want you to know that your things cannot last.
They're going to pass. There's going to be an end to
them. Well, you may be an error in
judgment, may be a temporary loss of concentration, or maybe
you'll just pass them off to the second-hand thing dealer or
maybe they'll wind up. They'll wind up a mass of
mangled. Metal being towed, off to the
thing yard. And what about all the things in
your house? Well, it's time for bed.
Put out the cat. Make sure you lock the door to
put sure. Put to make, sure something
taker doesn't come and take your things and that is the way life
goes, doesn't it? And someday when you die, they
only put one thing in the Box. You so you see how Sometimes
life does look at looked at by others that life is nothing.
But Motivation. To take and get an in and obtain
these things. We basically live in a society
where were driven to acquire these things.
Well, during the days of Jesus, they also had the same problem.
They were also totally consumed with things especially the
Pharisees among all the other problems.
The Pharisees had. This was also one of their
problems, they were thing oriented, they were greedy, they
were materialistic, they were Covetous, and they wanted more
and more things. And so, as we come to this part
of the sermon, on the mountain Mel and Matthew 6 and verses 19
through 21 Jesus says, Jesus was directing some of his teaching
toward the Pharisees, about this materialistic attitude.
In this, this wrong attitude, the Pharisees had come up with a
whole system of religion that was man-made and it wasn't of
God, it was something that they came up with.
And about this this materialistic way of life.
And so the key to this whole sermon really, if we go back to
the 5th chapter and verse 20, where Jesus says for, I say to
you that unless your righteousness exceeds, the
righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will, by no means
enter the kingdom of heaven, In other words to be in my kingdom
you're going to have to live up to my standards, my teaching and
he uses the Pharisees as an example of how not to be.
And the Pharisees were only concerned with the external the
physical and the materialistic passion that they had.
They were concerned about what they looked like, how they
appeared and all of these material things that were around
them. Then, in chapter 6, Jesus talks
about the Pharisees, he says they fast, they pray they give
but it's all hypocritical. they did these things to be noticed
and to be seen by men, Not to glorify God.
So Jesus tells them that they must fast and give and pray that
with the right motives and with the right heart.
So, there is this contrast between the Pharisees between
what the Pharisees were teaching and practicing and what Jesus
was teaching here in The Sermon on the Mount.
And Jesus is saying God's standard exceeds their standard
and it's God's standard that's required to be in his kingdom.
Now, in chapter Six and verses 19 through 21.
He says, You must also have the right view toward wealth or
luxury. And then from verses, 25 through
30, for you must have the right understanding of what the
difference is between a necessity and a luxury.
In other words, what we need as opposed to what we want.
So he's talking about first luxuries and there's a
necessity. So first necessity.
We all have the need to eat. We all have the need to sleep.
We have the need to stay in a comfortable place and be able to
sleep and some close to her. That's the necessities of life.
We understand that God understands that as well.
And the Pharisees had missed it though.
They had the wrong perspective of wealth, and they had the
wrong perspective of necessities and verse 19.
They're doing exactly what Jesus says not to do.
They're laying up for themselves.
Treasures here on the earth, they were consumed with greed.
And covetousness and not the way that Jesus wanted it.
But we live in a society where all of us have to deal with
this, because We are wealthy. And we have to compare ourselves
with the word of God as well. So these verses are talking
about how we handle these luxuries, that we have this
richness that we have sitting here this morning So the first
18 verses of the chapter show us the hypocrisy of the Pharisees
and the sit there system of religion.
And you know, wherever there's a false religion.
There's a false teacher and a lot of times there's greed
involved as well. And the Pharisees were doing
that very thing. They were using their religious
system to line their own pockets.
Do them to be rich meant to be holy.
They would say, if you want to say they would say, look at me
how much I've got. I must really be holy, look at
what I'm wearing. I must really be holy because
God has blessed me and God is blessing me because I am Holy.
That's what they thought. That's what they had in their
mind when we might say well, where did they get that idea?
Because in Matthew 19 24, it's easier for a camel to go through
the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter into the kingdom of
God, and that must have kind of flaw Lord the Pharisees when
they heard that because they were proud of their wealth.
And they had the wrong understanding of their system of
religion. And so they Gridley gathered
money and the Richer they became the more they pretended to be to
the people. That this was a mark of their
spiritual spirituality in righteousness.
If they were wealthy, then they were thinking people to look at
them as being righteous That's wrong.
That's wrong. Well, I don't know where they
really got this idea. But if we go back to the book of
Deuteronomy and chapter 28, It might have begun to the to
develop from from some of the teaching here when God had
delivered Israel from the land of Egypt and brought them up to
the edge of Canaan, the promised land there were conditions for
them to enter into that Promised Land.
And on the basis of those conditions being met, there were
the promises that they would receive the blessings that they
would receive. But look at Deuteronomy.
And also notice this that All of the blessings were material
things. they would God would bless them with big crops and
all these things if you read the first part of Deuteronomy 28.
But look at at the 15th verse here, you have the opposite of
being blessed. But it shall come to pass.
If you do not obey the voice of the Lord, your God to observe
carefully, all his Commandments and his statutes, which I
command you today, that all these curses will come upon you
and overtake. You curse had cursed be cursed,
shall you be in the city and cursed, shall you be in the
country curses shall be your basket and you're needing Bowl
curses, shall be the fruit of your body and the produce of
your and the increase of your cattle and The Offspring of the
flocks cursed, shall you be when you come in and curses show you
behave when you go out, In other words, God tells them.
Material blessings. I'll give you as a sign of your
obedience, you'll be blessed. And so this may have been where
they got this whole idea and the first place.
I don't know, we don't know, but the Old Law was simply a law of
obeying and receiving the blessing, doing things
ritualistic, and it didn't necessarily have to be from the
heart. But out of this accumulation of
wealth. It became their goal and they so
that they could say and stand there.
And say in, look at me all that. I've got, I've been blessed, be
God by God, because I've been, I'm righteous.
I'm rich. Look how holy I am, but the
Bible warns against this. Kind of an attitude.
Many many places about warns against greed and covetousness
and being rich. In spite of all those warnings,
Luke 16 verse 14 says the Pharisees were lovers of money
They were Covetous, they wanted money.
They wanted material wealth. And possessions they wanted to
be seen by men as looking Wealthy.
By the way they dressed, they wanted to impress by the things
they had in the dress and clothing that they had.
They were Matisse mirror too materialistic and the religion
was a false religion. And so we can see from the greed
of the greed of the Pharisees, why Jesus says what he does
here. And what he is saying here is
that we must have the proper perspective of money. and wealth
and possessions make sure we don't put things in the wrong
place and with the wrong importance above Heavenly
wealth, And as long as people want more and more and more
things, they'll think of more ways to make it and more people
to sell it to and those who buy it will do.
What they've got to do to buy it and it becomes this vicious
circle of obtaining things. And then when you go and buy
things and you spend all your money, you've got to go out and
work hard so that you can buy more things and spend more money
and we get into this vicious cycle, then maybe spending more
than we make. And so we go pull out the credit
card and we start spending money with our credit cards and we
start buying things and we can't become obsessed with purchasing
things even though we can't even afford it.
The problem is with the heart of man.
So we must divert our hearts away from this materialistic,
thought process this covetousness and look at the
things that Jesus is saying here, and what he's saying is
that he wants to divert us away from covetousness.
We must handle all of our possessions in our wealth and
our luxuries in life. And we must do it wisely with
control of our passions and making sure that we're doing for
the right reasons. Notice, First Corinthians, 10
verse 31. Therefore, whether you eat or
drink or water it, whatever you do, do it to the glory of God.
So when we go out and we buy all these things that We don't need.
Is it for the glory of God? But we do so much to indulge the
self. Now, let's look at our text in
verses, 19 through 21, Jesus talks about two different.
Treasuries, notice he says, do not lay up for yourselves,
Treasures on Earth. Verse 20 says, but lay up for
yourselves, Treasures in Heaven. So there's two different
treasuries here that he's talking about ones on earth and
the others in heaven. He says, put your Treasures in
one, not the other. He says, put them in heaven.
You have a treasure on Earth, you have a treasure in heaven
and certainly, we understand the difference between Earthly
things versus Heavenly things. And Jesus said, put it in
heaven. Don't invest it here.
Invested there. He says, for where your treasure
is, that is where your what does it say.
Your heart will be also So again, we ask ourselves where is
our treasure? Well, it's wherever your heart
is. That's where the treasure is.
So, where is your heart? That's the question.
This is talking about how we handle our money here on Earth
and verse 19, the Apostle Paul told Timothy and Timothy 6 and
verse 10. The love of money is the root of
all evil. It isn't that money is the root
of all evil. It's the love of money.
That's the root of all evil. What did what drives us?
What controls where our passions are.
Or our motives are, is it all based on money or the gaining of
money, or the gaining of things is that what drives Us in life?
It's the love of money that corrupts and brings about sins.
Solomon was the one who who kept gaining fortunes and wealth
until he was the wealthiest man in the world.
Where and when it was all said and done, he said in
Ecclesiastes, Vanity Vanity, all is Vanity.
In other words, it was emptiness.
Uselessness meaningless, all these things really have no
value. They really don't have any
wealth. Ananias and Sapphira were
husband and wife who decided that they were going to keep
back part of the money that they sold some land for.
Now, it was their money to do with as they wanted, but what
they did was, they deceived about what the way they gave it.
They gave the impression that they were giving all the money
that they sold the land for. When they only gave a portion of
it, they wanted everyone to think they gave it all when they
only gave a portion and they lost their lives instantly.
And Judas who for a few pieces. Soldiers, silver sold out the
son of God. Read covetousness.
Then there was Dimas, Paul said, he has forsaken me, having loved
this present world. And we could go on and on
through the Bible and find many other examples of people who
because of Love of Money and the love of the world and things
that are in the world. Had troubles because of the
greed and the love of money. So we need to understand what
Jesus is trying to say here. Let's go back to verse 19.
Now. He says, do not lay up for
yourselves, Treasures on Earth. What does that mean?
The idea of the word treasure is a stayer, says the things laid
up in a treasury collected treasure.
In other words, he says, Don't Stop pile material.
Things is basically what he's saying here.
We know we understand and we know that we have necessities.
And so, Jesus is talking about here, not what we live on every
day. But we pile up because of greed
and covetousness. It's not about our Necessities,
it's not about what we use to meet the needs of our daily
life, and for our family, and for the poor, and for the Lord's
work or setting, aside money for the future, or making a wise
investment, so that we can better be better stewards of
God's money later on in life. That's not what he's talking
about here. He's talking about what you
hoard and what you pile up. I think we need to.
Sometimes get a bit come to a better.
Understanding about the blessings that God has given us
the blessings that we have in this life are still God's,
they're not ours. These are blessings that he has
allowed us to use while we're here on this Earth with a short
time sometimes, I think we come to the conclusion that what we
have is ours. Our possessions are ours, not
Gods. You know, my car and my the
title to my car or the registration on my car.
Has my name on it, so it's mine. My house has my name on it so
it's mine. I bought it with my money so I
own it. It's mine.
And so we get the idea that everything we possess and
everything that we are blessed with is ours.
It all comes down to where our heart is and about what is more
important to us. What is what is stock piled up,
just to pile up for our own selves or for what?
We stopped pile up for heaven. What?
That's what Jesus is talking about.
He's talking about our luxuries here on Earth and how we can
become distracted by those luxuries, if we're not careful.
And the pursuit of them to where it becomes that total focus of
our life, that that's the only thing that drives us through
life. So is he forbidding us?
To obtain these things. And they will show you where
that is is he forbidding us to have a bank account.
Has he been forbidden us to have a savings account to have a life
insurance policy to maybe have some wise Investments, as he
forbidding that when he says, don't put your Treasures here on
Earth is that what he's saying? some people might say, well, you
shouldn't possess anything, you should just sell everything you
have and live the best you can. Someone might say, well, Jesus
said to the Rich Young Ruler, sell all you have and give to
the poor. What about that?
The Lord is not condemning possessions here, the reason he
told the Rich Young Ruler to sell all he had because those
things were distracting him from following Jesus.
That was his focus and the Rich Young Ruler wasn't able to do
that. That's what happens though, as
we get distracted by things in this life, the Lord is not
pleased displeased with us when we have possessions.
God has blessed us with these possessions and he is displeased
us with us though then when, when the possessions become more
important than serving him. But again, Whereas, our
Hardware's are focused. Whereas, all of our time spent,
where is all of our talents been?
What is it, that motivates us through life.
We can find all kinds of things that become more important to us
than Heavenly things such as our jobs.
Our education, maybe a sport, our own Comfort, our own
pleasure activities, the pursuit of anything that would pull us
away from God. That would distract us from
Heavenly things. But God tells us sometimes about
what is more important to us, the Lord has given us many
blessings. And the right to possess those
blessings, all he wants is to be sure that our attitude is,
right? And the manner in which we
possess and listen to what Solomon, wrote regarding wealth
and Ecclesiastes 5 and verse 10, through 20, He who loves silver
will not be satisfied with silver.
Nor he who loves abundance with increase.
This also is Vanity. When Goods.
When Goods increase, they increase who eat them.
So, what profit have the owners except to see them what their
eyes, The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats
little or much, but the abundance of a rich man will not
permit him to sleep. There is a severe evil which I
have seen Under the Sun. Rich has kept from their owners
to his hurt but those Rich riches perish through
Misfortune. When he begets a son, there is
nothing in his hand as he became from as he came from his
mother's womb and naked, shall he?
Return to go as he He came and he shall take nothing from his
labor, which he may carry away with in his hand.
And this also is a severe evil. Just exactly as he came.
So shall he go? And what prophet has he who has
labored for the wind and all his days?
I'm sorry and all his days. He also eats in darkness and he
has much sorrow in sickness and anger here is what I have seen.
It is good. And fitting for one to eat and
drink and to enjoy the good of his labor and in which he toils
under the sun, all the days of his life, which God gives him.
For it is his heritage. As for every man whom God has
given riches and wealth, and given him power to eat of it, to
receive his Heritage and rejoice in his labor.
This is the gift of God. For He Who for he will not dwell
unduly on the days of his wife because God keeps him busy with
the joy of his heart, God has blessed us.
What do we do with the blessings?
Do we squander him? Do we use it for our pleasure?
To hoard up. Or we doing it for his glory.
Notice in Proverbs also 21 and 20, there is a desirable
treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise but a foolish man
squanders it. In other words, a wise man knows
how to manage money, how to plan, Proverbs 24 and 3 through
wisdom. A house is built and by
understanding it is established by knowledge.
The rooms are filled with precious and pleasant riches.
In other words, a Wiseman knows how to build a house and fill it
with these Pleasant things for us to enjoy in life.
God's not against that. God has given us these wonderful
things. So we see them that the
scriptures tell us that whether we are laying up, Treasures in
Heaven, or laying up Treasures on Earth, it's not that we're
not to possess anything. That were not to enjoy anything
that were not to accept these things that God has blessed us
with in life. But what do we do with those
blessings and how do we Deal with them.
The New Testament says the same thing.
Notice 1st, Timothy 5 and verse 8, but if anyone does not
provide for his own and especially for those of his
household, he has denied, the faith and is worse than an
unbeliever. So it is our duty also to go out
and work hard so that we can provide so that we can have the
things that we need to sustain life.
As we know it and enjoy the blessings of God.
He is in condemning being blessed.
But what motivates us? To achieve those riches.
And that wealth, what is it that motivates us?
In that. He's not talking about what we
have is talking about the attitude that we have.
It's right to seek needed things and to provide for our families
and to plan for the future and to make wise choices, through
life, about what we purchase, and things of that nature.
It's right to have enough money to contribute for the, for the
work of the church. And so, the preachers can be
supported in the work of the church can go on for the
preaching of the Gospel. It's right to do that.
It's wrong to be greedy. It's wrong to be Covetous.
It's wrong to be materialistic. It's wrong to place more
importance on, gaining Earthly wealth.
Than Heavenly wealth, it's wrong.
When that becomes the whole focus and passion of our daily
life is the striving for material wealth.
The gaining of wealth and then letting the Heavenly goals go by
the wayside. And we come right back to you.
And then to the same motive, if I'm gaining to stockpile up to
hoard it, And keep it to indulge my selfish passions in it to
show off to my friends about. Look at me what all I've got.
That's in. That's a simple attitude Steve
Jobs. One of the owners of Apple worth
about ten point two billion dollars at the time of his death
at age 56. One of the wealthiest men in the
world at that point at one point.
Supposedly had this to say at his Deathbed He said, I've
reached the Pinnacle of success in the business World.
Another in other's eyes, my life is an epitome of success.
However, aside from work, I have little joy in the end, wealth is
only a fact of life that I am accustomed to at this moment,
lying on the sick bed and recalling my whole life.
I realized that all recognition and wealth that that I took so
much pride in have paled and become meaningless in the face
of impending. In death and the Darkness.
I look at the green lights from the life support machines and
hear them. I mean, mechanical sounds, I can
feel the Breath of God, the breath of god of death drawing
closer. Now, I know when we have
accumulated, sufficient wealth, to last our lifetime we should
pursue other matters that are unrelated to wealth.
Should be something that is more important.
Non stop pursuing of wealth will only turn a person into a
twisted being just like me. God gave us the sense to let us
feel the love of everyone's heart.
Not the illusion brought about by wealth.
The wealth. I have one in my life.
I cannot bring with me. Some said that that's a hoax,
but still good words, still meaningful to us as Christians.
So we ask ourselves a question Earthly wealth.
For what? For what?
I think about the work of the church that goes on sometimes on
a shoestring budget. Struggling and stretching for
everything. The church does.
It isn't that they were giving it all that we can give is it.
It's just that were possessive and we're materialistic with
what God has blessed us with, isn't it?
That's the problem. It isn't the issue of whether
you have. It's the issue of what you do
with, what you have whether it's for your for the kingdom of God.
And his purposes Colossians 3 and 5 says, covetousness is
idolatry. And that's what Jesus had in
mind here in these verses. Money can become Our God if
we're not careful. And they can become an idol to
us if we're not careful if we're just consumed with piling up
stuff. And that's what drives Us in
life. Selfish, accumulation of worldly
Goods. If I want to invest, if I want
to pursue a successful business, and I want to be aggressive in
that and honest, and what I do and do the best I can for
others. And for God, and for my
children, and my parents and the poor and those in need, and
that's one thing, but when I start piling it up for myself
and extravagant living and become materialistic and
covetous, and that becomes more important than giving to God,
then I violated the God's principle and it becomes sin.
There's an illustration of a rich man, that passed away.
And one of his coin said to the other, hey, I heard that
so-and-so died. He said, that's right.
Said well. What did he leave?
And friend replied all of it? That's what happens when we die
believe. All of it.
So, why? Why?
Put. Our deposits and Heavenly things
because that's what matters. That's what's important not the
Earthly things put our importance, our passions,
everything that we live for in this life.
Now it's not wrong to have these things as we noticed but that
should not be the driving force behind what we do is to
stockpile these things up. You know.
There is a danger I believe in having too many worldly,
treasures and becoming distracted by those treasures.
And not planning for our Heavenly future. you know, one
of the reasons that there is so much success in foreign works is
because those people don't have the things to distract them.
From Heavenly things. We're too distracted.
The least little thing seems like it comes along it distracts
us from serving God. From worshipping him.
From reading our Bibles from studying.
And from helping those, maybe who are in need the things of
this world while I don't have time to do that.
What are we doing? We're putting more importance on
things than we are. On Heavenly things, Earthly
things than Heavenly things. Albert Barnes says this about
verse 20 in our text, he says do not exhaust your strength and
spend your days in providing for the life here.
But let your cheap anxiety be to prepare to be prepared for
eternity in heaven. Nothing corrupts nothing
terminates know. Any enemies plunder or destroy
to have treasure in heaven is to possess, is is to possess is
evidence that its Purity and Joy's will be ours.
It is to be Heirs of God and Joint heirs with Christ to an
inheritance Incorruptible undefiled and that fadeth not
away First Peter 1 and for the heart our affections will of
course be fixed on the treasure to regulate the heart.
It is therefore important that the treasure or object of
attachment should be right. So, where is our heart today?
Wherever it is, that's where your treasure is.
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