1 00:00:02,800 --> 00:00:04,600 It's good to see everyone that's here this morning. 2 00:00:04,600 --> 00:00:07,700 And if you're a visitor we welcome you and we have some 3 00:00:07,700 --> 00:00:11,400 visitors in our audience this morning from Washington State. 4 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:14,400 And also here in our community, we're glad that you're able to 5 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:17,900 be with us. I want to talk this morning 6 00:00:17,900 --> 00:00:22,400 about the treasures in heaven and I think this is good for us 7 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:26,700 to get a perspective of what we really put importance on in 8 00:00:26,700 --> 00:00:31,100 life. What becomes the driving, the 9 00:00:31,100 --> 00:00:36,800 driving force behind what we do? And how that's going to play out 10 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:41,800 in the end of our life, or when Christ comes again as well here 11 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:48,000 in Matthew the 6th chapter Jesus, is course teaching in The 12 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:52,600 Sermon on the Mount and he's kind of battling some of the 13 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:57,700 things that the Pharisees had been putting off for as a 14 00:00:57,700 --> 00:01:00,300 religion. And and we're going to notice 15 00:01:00,300 --> 00:01:04,000 some of that as well. But we CO2 are Our attacks this 16 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:06,100 morning and Matthew the 6th chapter. 17 00:01:06,100 --> 00:01:10,400 We're only going to read verses 19 through 21 because that's 18 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:13,800 really the the focus of our lesson this morning. 19 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:17,900 And so he says, Jesus says there, do not lay up for 20 00:01:17,900 --> 00:01:22,800 yourselves. Treasures on Earth, where moth 21 00:01:22,900 --> 00:01:27,400 and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal. 22 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:31,900 But lay up for yourselves, Treasures, in Heaven, where 23 00:01:31,900 --> 00:01:35,700 neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break 24 00:01:35,700 --> 00:01:40,700 in and steal for where your treasure is there, your heart 25 00:01:40,700 --> 00:01:47,000 will be also So when we read this text, it kind of brings the 26 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:50,600 questioned to mind of where is your heart? 27 00:01:51,700 --> 00:01:55,400 Well he tells us right here in verse 21, he says, it's where 28 00:01:55,400 --> 00:01:59,700 your treasure is. And when we talk about the 29 00:01:59,700 --> 00:02:03,400 heart, of course, some people would say, well, you know, I 30 00:02:03,408 --> 00:02:06,400 love you with all my heart and we put our hand about a heart, 31 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:07,800 but that's not what we're talking about. 32 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:10,500 We're not talking about that, physical heart this morning. 33 00:02:10,500 --> 00:02:15,400 It's it's talking about our motives, our attitude, our 34 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:19,600 thoughts, our passions, our deeds, and so on, that's what 35 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:23,500 Jesus is talking about here. What do you concentrate on? 36 00:02:23,500 --> 00:02:27,100 And what are you preoccupied with in life? 37 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:30,300 What do you spend? Most of your time thinking about 38 00:02:30,900 --> 00:02:35,300 most of your time planning. What is most of your energy 39 00:02:35,300 --> 00:02:40,300 spent on what particular object, if you want to say what is it? 40 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:44,200 When we wake up in the morning, what is it worth thinking about? 41 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:46,300 And what is the driving force behind? 42 00:02:46,300 --> 00:02:50,300 What we do all day long? Of course, we all have jobs. 43 00:02:50,300 --> 00:02:54,100 We all have chores, we all have things to do but beyond those 44 00:02:54,100 --> 00:02:56,800 things which we do just every single day. 45 00:02:57,400 --> 00:02:59,600 What do we think about? What is the passion? 46 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:04,300 What are we striving for? What is controlling our 47 00:03:04,300 --> 00:03:06,700 thoughts? And our passions in life? 48 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:11,300 If you think about a long enough, most people answer Is 49 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:17,200 that it's on a house. A car, a better job. 50 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:22,000 New clothes, new shoes staying up with the latest trends and 51 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:25,800 fashions. Most of our time planning for 52 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:28,200 something that we're going to do or vacation. 53 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:32,200 We're going to take its we're worried about sometimes our 54 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:36,500 savings in our investments and and our bank account and all 55 00:03:36,500 --> 00:03:38,900 these kinds of things. Those are the things sometimes 56 00:03:38,900 --> 00:03:43,100 that motivate us and drive us in life to keep us going on. 57 00:03:45,300 --> 00:03:49,300 And so, we lot of times get involved in, just focusing on 58 00:03:49,500 --> 00:03:55,300 material things. The things of this life, we live 59 00:03:55,300 --> 00:03:59,900 in a society that's obsessed with obtaining and Gathering 60 00:03:59,900 --> 00:04:04,400 things. We, we, that's, that's just part 61 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:08,600 of the society that we live in things are what's important? 62 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:11,000 If you don't think so, people will tell you, things are 63 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:16,100 important, the news and the media and the Advertisements on 64 00:04:16,100 --> 00:04:19,100 TV tell you that you need to buy this and you need to buy this 65 00:04:19,100 --> 00:04:21,899 and you need to buy this because if you don't have these things 66 00:04:21,899 --> 00:04:26,200 you really aren't in style or you really aren't keeping up 67 00:04:26,300 --> 00:04:29,900 with everything that you need to be keeping up with and so and if 68 00:04:29,900 --> 00:04:34,100 you don't have those things, your looked at sometimes as a 69 00:04:34,100 --> 00:04:38,100 failure. He doesn't have a nice shiny 70 00:04:38,100 --> 00:04:40,200 car. So he must not be very good at 71 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:45,500 what he does. So, we live in the society. 72 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:52,100 Of being obsessed with obtaining material goods and things in our 73 00:04:52,100 --> 00:04:55,400 life and not all societies are like that though. 74 00:04:55,400 --> 00:04:58,600 And if you think it is like that, you certainly haven't kind 75 00:04:58,600 --> 00:05:02,100 of stepped out of your little box, your comfort zone and gone 76 00:05:02,100 --> 00:05:05,500 into different parts of this world, in most of the world, the 77 00:05:05,500 --> 00:05:11,100 third world countries and seeing how other people live, We are 78 00:05:11,100 --> 00:05:16,000 rich. We are rich compared to what 79 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:20,600 other people in this world, have, but we live in a society 80 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:25,400 that craves after things. Listen to this little 81 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:28,000 illustration. I ran across mr. 82 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:31,800 And mrs. Thing by, we don't know who it 83 00:05:31,800 --> 00:05:34,700 says, Anonymous mr. And mrs. 84 00:05:34,700 --> 00:05:38,800 Thing, or a very pleasant and successful couple at least that 85 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:42,300 is the verdict of most people who Tend to measure success with 86 00:05:42,300 --> 00:05:46,100 a thing ometer when the thing, ometer is put to work in the 87 00:05:46,108 --> 00:05:47,500 life of mr. And mrs. 88 00:05:47,500 --> 00:05:51,500 Thing, the result is startling, there he is sitting down on a 89 00:05:51,508 --> 00:05:55,500 luxurious and very expensive thing, almost hidden by a large 90 00:05:55,500 --> 00:05:58,700 number of other things. Things to sit on things, just 91 00:05:58,700 --> 00:06:03,500 sit at things to cook on things to eat from all shining and new 92 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:07,100 things. Things things things to clean 93 00:06:07,100 --> 00:06:10,300 with and things to wash with things too. 94 00:06:10,500 --> 00:06:14,200 Wash, with, and things to clean and things to wash and things to 95 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:17,800 us, Muse, and things to give pleasure and things to watch, 96 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:21,300 and things to play things for the long, hot summer, and things 97 00:06:21,300 --> 00:06:25,400 for the cold short, winter things for the big thing, and in 98 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:28,700 which they live, and the things for the garden and things for 99 00:06:28,700 --> 00:06:32,000 the lounge, and things for the kitchen, and things for the 100 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:35,400 bedroom, and things on four wheels and things on two wheels, 101 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:38,700 and things to put on top of the four, wheels and things to put 102 00:06:38,700 --> 00:06:41,800 behind the four wheels. And things to add to the 103 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:47,800 interior of the things, on four wheels things, things things and 104 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:49,300 they're in the middle of mr. And mrs. 105 00:06:49,300 --> 00:06:55,500 Thing, things smiling, and and and pleased, pink with things 106 00:06:55,700 --> 00:06:59,400 thinking of more things to add to their things, secure in their 107 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:02,900 castle of things. While mr. 108 00:07:02,900 --> 00:07:04,800 And mrs. Thing, I have some bad news for 109 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:07,100 you. Well, you say, you cannot cannot 110 00:07:07,100 --> 00:07:10,400 hear me because there are things in the way. 111 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:14,200 Well, I just want you to know that your things cannot last. 112 00:07:14,500 --> 00:07:17,800 They're going to pass. There's going to be an end to 113 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:20,500 them. Well, you may be an error in 114 00:07:20,500 --> 00:07:24,000 judgment, may be a temporary loss of concentration, or maybe 115 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:27,300 you'll just pass them off to the second-hand thing dealer or 116 00:07:27,300 --> 00:07:31,500 maybe they'll wind up. They'll wind up a mass of 117 00:07:31,500 --> 00:07:33,900 mangled. Metal being towed, off to the 118 00:07:33,900 --> 00:07:36,300 thing yard. And what about all the things in 119 00:07:36,300 --> 00:07:38,900 your house? Well, it's time for bed. 120 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:43,200 Put out the cat. Make sure you lock the door to 121 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:46,100 put sure. Put to make, sure something 122 00:07:46,100 --> 00:07:50,800 taker doesn't come and take your things and that is the way life 123 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:54,900 goes, doesn't it? And someday when you die, they 124 00:07:54,900 --> 00:08:06,600 only put one thing in the Box. You so you see how Sometimes 125 00:08:07,300 --> 00:08:12,400 life does look at looked at by others that life is nothing. 126 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:21,600 But Motivation. To take and get an in and obtain 127 00:08:21,700 --> 00:08:24,200 these things. We basically live in a society 128 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:27,000 where were driven to acquire these things. 129 00:08:28,100 --> 00:08:32,299 Well, during the days of Jesus, they also had the same problem. 130 00:08:33,500 --> 00:08:38,400 They were also totally consumed with things especially the 131 00:08:38,408 --> 00:08:41,500 Pharisees among all the other problems. 132 00:08:41,500 --> 00:08:43,700 The Pharisees had. This was also one of their 133 00:08:43,700 --> 00:08:47,800 problems, they were thing oriented, they were greedy, they 134 00:08:47,800 --> 00:08:51,700 were materialistic, they were Covetous, and they wanted more 135 00:08:51,700 --> 00:08:54,500 and more things. And so, as we come to this part 136 00:08:54,500 --> 00:08:58,800 of the sermon, on the mountain Mel and Matthew 6 and verses 19 137 00:08:58,800 --> 00:09:04,700 through 21 Jesus says, Jesus was directing some of his teaching 138 00:09:04,700 --> 00:09:09,700 toward the Pharisees, about this materialistic attitude. 139 00:09:09,700 --> 00:09:13,700 In this, this wrong attitude, the Pharisees had come up with a 140 00:09:13,700 --> 00:09:18,800 whole system of religion that was man-made and it wasn't of 141 00:09:18,800 --> 00:09:22,200 God, it was something that they came up with. 142 00:09:23,100 --> 00:09:27,000 And about this this materialistic way of life. 143 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:30,800 And so the key to this whole sermon really, if we go back to 144 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:35,400 the 5th chapter and verse 20, where Jesus says for, I say to 145 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:39,500 you that unless your righteousness exceeds, the 146 00:09:39,500 --> 00:09:43,800 righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will, by no means 147 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:48,700 enter the kingdom of heaven, In other words to be in my kingdom 148 00:09:49,700 --> 00:09:55,000 you're going to have to live up to my standards, my teaching and 149 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:59,200 he uses the Pharisees as an example of how not to be. 150 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:07,400 And the Pharisees were only concerned with the external the 151 00:10:07,600 --> 00:10:11,600 physical and the materialistic passion that they had. 152 00:10:11,700 --> 00:10:15,100 They were concerned about what they looked like, how they 153 00:10:15,100 --> 00:10:20,200 appeared and all of these material things that were around 154 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:23,100 them. Then, in chapter 6, Jesus talks 155 00:10:23,100 --> 00:10:28,800 about the Pharisees, he says they fast, they pray they give 156 00:10:28,900 --> 00:10:35,200 but it's all hypocritical. they did these things to be noticed 157 00:10:35,500 --> 00:10:41,600 and to be seen by men, Not to glorify God. 158 00:10:43,500 --> 00:10:47,500 So Jesus tells them that they must fast and give and pray that 159 00:10:47,500 --> 00:10:50,400 with the right motives and with the right heart. 160 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:57,100 So, there is this contrast between the Pharisees between 161 00:10:57,100 --> 00:11:00,900 what the Pharisees were teaching and practicing and what Jesus 162 00:11:00,900 --> 00:11:03,800 was teaching here in The Sermon on the Mount. 163 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:08,700 And Jesus is saying God's standard exceeds their standard 164 00:11:08,700 --> 00:11:12,100 and it's God's standard that's required to be in his kingdom. 165 00:11:12,100 --> 00:11:15,600 Now, in chapter Six and verses 19 through 21. 166 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:22,100 He says, You must also have the right view toward wealth or 167 00:11:22,100 --> 00:11:25,600 luxury. And then from verses, 25 through 168 00:11:26,100 --> 00:11:29,000 30, for you must have the right understanding of what the 169 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:32,600 difference is between a necessity and a luxury. 170 00:11:32,900 --> 00:11:36,000 In other words, what we need as opposed to what we want. 171 00:11:36,300 --> 00:11:39,500 So he's talking about first luxuries and there's a 172 00:11:39,500 --> 00:11:41,400 necessity. So first necessity. 173 00:11:42,300 --> 00:11:47,000 We all have the need to eat. We all have the need to sleep. 174 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:50,600 We have the need to stay in a comfortable place and be able to 175 00:11:50,600 --> 00:11:56,800 sleep and some close to her. That's the necessities of life. 176 00:11:57,200 --> 00:11:59,900 We understand that God understands that as well. 177 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:02,100 And the Pharisees had missed it though. 178 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:07,100 They had the wrong perspective of wealth, and they had the 179 00:12:07,100 --> 00:12:09,900 wrong perspective of necessities and verse 19. 180 00:12:10,200 --> 00:12:14,400 They're doing exactly what Jesus says not to do. 181 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:17,900 They're laying up for themselves. 182 00:12:17,900 --> 00:12:23,500 Treasures here on the earth, they were consumed with greed. 183 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:29,000 And covetousness and not the way that Jesus wanted it. 184 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:33,200 But we live in a society where all of us have to deal with 185 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:40,600 this, because We are wealthy. And we have to compare ourselves 186 00:12:40,800 --> 00:12:44,500 with the word of God as well. So these verses are talking 187 00:12:44,500 --> 00:12:48,100 about how we handle these luxuries, that we have this 188 00:12:48,100 --> 00:12:55,400 richness that we have sitting here this morning So the first 189 00:12:55,600 --> 00:12:59,100 18 verses of the chapter show us the hypocrisy of the Pharisees 190 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:01,600 and the sit there system of religion. 191 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:07,200 And you know, wherever there's a false religion. 192 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:10,000 There's a false teacher and a lot of times there's greed 193 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:13,700 involved as well. And the Pharisees were doing 194 00:13:13,900 --> 00:13:17,600 that very thing. They were using their religious 195 00:13:17,600 --> 00:13:20,500 system to line their own pockets. 196 00:13:22,100 --> 00:13:24,900 Do them to be rich meant to be holy. 197 00:13:27,200 --> 00:13:29,900 They would say, if you want to say they would say, look at me 198 00:13:29,900 --> 00:13:33,900 how much I've got. I must really be holy, look at 199 00:13:33,900 --> 00:13:37,200 what I'm wearing. I must really be holy because 200 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:41,500 God has blessed me and God is blessing me because I am Holy. 201 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:44,700 That's what they thought. That's what they had in their 202 00:13:44,700 --> 00:13:48,000 mind when we might say well, where did they get that idea? 203 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:52,400 Because in Matthew 19 24, it's easier for a camel to go through 204 00:13:52,400 --> 00:13:55,000 the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter into the kingdom of 205 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:58,000 God, and that must have kind of flaw Lord the Pharisees when 206 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:01,400 they heard that because they were proud of their wealth. 207 00:14:04,600 --> 00:14:07,900 And they had the wrong understanding of their system of 208 00:14:07,900 --> 00:14:11,100 religion. And so they Gridley gathered 209 00:14:11,100 --> 00:14:14,400 money and the Richer they became the more they pretended to be to 210 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:17,800 the people. That this was a mark of their 211 00:14:17,800 --> 00:14:20,900 spiritual spirituality in righteousness. 212 00:14:21,200 --> 00:14:24,400 If they were wealthy, then they were thinking people to look at 213 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:28,700 them as being righteous That's wrong. 214 00:14:30,900 --> 00:14:34,500 That's wrong. Well, I don't know where they 215 00:14:34,500 --> 00:14:38,100 really got this idea. But if we go back to the book of 216 00:14:38,100 --> 00:14:45,200 Deuteronomy and chapter 28, It might have begun to the to 217 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:50,600 develop from from some of the teaching here when God had 218 00:14:50,600 --> 00:14:55,200 delivered Israel from the land of Egypt and brought them up to 219 00:14:55,200 --> 00:15:00,500 the edge of Canaan, the promised land there were conditions for 220 00:15:00,500 --> 00:15:02,600 them to enter into that Promised Land. 221 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:13,500 And on the basis of those conditions being met, there were 222 00:15:13,900 --> 00:15:16,900 the promises that they would receive the blessings that they 223 00:15:16,900 --> 00:15:20,800 would receive. But look at Deuteronomy. 224 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:26,800 And also notice this that All of the blessings were material 225 00:15:26,800 --> 00:15:34,800 things. they would God would bless them with big crops and 226 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:37,600 all these things if you read the first part of Deuteronomy 28. 227 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:41,600 But look at at the 15th verse here, you have the opposite of 228 00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:45,600 being blessed. But it shall come to pass. 229 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:50,300 If you do not obey the voice of the Lord, your God to observe 230 00:15:50,300 --> 00:15:54,400 carefully, all his Commandments and his statutes, which I 231 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:58,100 command you today, that all these curses will come upon you 232 00:15:58,100 --> 00:16:02,400 and overtake. You curse had cursed be cursed, 233 00:16:02,400 --> 00:16:05,700 shall you be in the city and cursed, shall you be in the 234 00:16:05,700 --> 00:16:09,700 country curses shall be your basket and you're needing Bowl 235 00:16:09,700 --> 00:16:14,100 curses, shall be the fruit of your body and the produce of 236 00:16:14,100 --> 00:16:17,500 your and the increase of your cattle and The Offspring of the 237 00:16:17,500 --> 00:16:21,800 flocks cursed, shall you be when you come in and curses show you 238 00:16:21,800 --> 00:16:26,800 behave when you go out, In other words, God tells them. 239 00:16:28,100 --> 00:16:32,200 Material blessings. I'll give you as a sign of your 240 00:16:32,200 --> 00:16:37,500 obedience, you'll be blessed. And so this may have been where 241 00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:41,300 they got this whole idea and the first place. 242 00:16:41,300 --> 00:16:46,800 I don't know, we don't know, but the Old Law was simply a law of 243 00:16:46,800 --> 00:16:51,700 obeying and receiving the blessing, doing things 244 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:55,600 ritualistic, and it didn't necessarily have to be from the 245 00:16:55,600 --> 00:17:02,900 heart. But out of this accumulation of 246 00:17:02,900 --> 00:17:06,599 wealth. It became their goal and they so 247 00:17:06,599 --> 00:17:08,300 that they could say and stand there. 248 00:17:08,300 --> 00:17:11,900 And say in, look at me all that. I've got, I've been blessed, be 249 00:17:11,900 --> 00:17:15,200 God by God, because I've been, I'm righteous. 250 00:17:16,700 --> 00:17:20,000 I'm rich. Look how holy I am, but the 251 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:23,099 Bible warns against this. Kind of an attitude. 252 00:17:24,099 --> 00:17:27,500 Many many places about warns against greed and covetousness 253 00:17:27,500 --> 00:17:30,300 and being rich. In spite of all those warnings, 254 00:17:30,300 --> 00:17:36,500 Luke 16 verse 14 says the Pharisees were lovers of money 255 00:17:38,700 --> 00:17:41,400 They were Covetous, they wanted money. 256 00:17:42,600 --> 00:17:45,000 They wanted material wealth. And possessions they wanted to 257 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:48,100 be seen by men as looking Wealthy. 258 00:17:48,700 --> 00:17:53,000 By the way they dressed, they wanted to impress by the things 259 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:55,900 they had in the dress and clothing that they had. 260 00:17:56,400 --> 00:17:59,900 They were Matisse mirror too materialistic and the religion 261 00:18:00,100 --> 00:18:04,000 was a false religion. And so we can see from the greed 262 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:07,500 of the greed of the Pharisees, why Jesus says what he does 263 00:18:07,500 --> 00:18:09,300 here. And what he is saying here is 264 00:18:09,300 --> 00:18:14,200 that we must have the proper perspective of money. and wealth 265 00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:19,700 and possessions make sure we don't put things in the wrong 266 00:18:19,700 --> 00:18:23,300 place and with the wrong importance above Heavenly 267 00:18:23,700 --> 00:18:30,500 wealth, And as long as people want more and more and more 268 00:18:30,500 --> 00:18:34,500 things, they'll think of more ways to make it and more people 269 00:18:34,500 --> 00:18:37,100 to sell it to and those who buy it will do. 270 00:18:37,100 --> 00:18:40,600 What they've got to do to buy it and it becomes this vicious 271 00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:44,100 circle of obtaining things. And then when you go and buy 272 00:18:44,100 --> 00:18:46,100 things and you spend all your money, you've got to go out and 273 00:18:46,100 --> 00:18:50,000 work hard so that you can buy more things and spend more money 274 00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:53,900 and we get into this vicious cycle, then maybe spending more 275 00:18:53,900 --> 00:18:56,200 than we make. And so we go pull out the credit 276 00:18:56,200 --> 00:18:59,300 card and we start spending money with our credit cards and we 277 00:18:59,308 --> 00:19:03,700 start buying things and we can't become obsessed with purchasing 278 00:19:03,700 --> 00:19:05,900 things even though we can't even afford it. 279 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:12,300 The problem is with the heart of man. 280 00:19:13,500 --> 00:19:17,500 So we must divert our hearts away from this materialistic, 281 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:21,600 thought process this covetousness and look at the 282 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:26,000 things that Jesus is saying here, and what he's saying is 283 00:19:26,600 --> 00:19:30,300 that he wants to divert us away from covetousness. 284 00:19:33,100 --> 00:19:36,500 We must handle all of our possessions in our wealth and 285 00:19:36,500 --> 00:19:39,700 our luxuries in life. And we must do it wisely with 286 00:19:39,700 --> 00:19:43,600 control of our passions and making sure that we're doing for 287 00:19:43,600 --> 00:19:46,300 the right reasons. Notice, First Corinthians, 10 288 00:19:46,300 --> 00:19:49,700 verse 31. Therefore, whether you eat or 289 00:19:49,700 --> 00:19:54,400 drink or water it, whatever you do, do it to the glory of God. 290 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:59,800 So when we go out and we buy all these things that We don't need. 291 00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:08,700 Is it for the glory of God? But we do so much to indulge the 292 00:20:08,700 --> 00:20:11,400 self. Now, let's look at our text in 293 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:14,300 verses, 19 through 21, Jesus talks about two different. 294 00:20:14,300 --> 00:20:18,900 Treasuries, notice he says, do not lay up for yourselves, 295 00:20:18,900 --> 00:20:25,300 Treasures on Earth. Verse 20 says, but lay up for 296 00:20:25,300 --> 00:20:28,700 yourselves, Treasures in Heaven. So there's two different 297 00:20:28,700 --> 00:20:33,200 treasuries here that he's talking about ones on earth and 298 00:20:33,200 --> 00:20:37,900 the others in heaven. He says, put your Treasures in 299 00:20:37,900 --> 00:20:40,400 one, not the other. He says, put them in heaven. 300 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:44,200 You have a treasure on Earth, you have a treasure in heaven 301 00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:47,300 and certainly, we understand the difference between Earthly 302 00:20:47,300 --> 00:20:52,500 things versus Heavenly things. And Jesus said, put it in 303 00:20:52,500 --> 00:20:55,600 heaven. Don't invest it here. 304 00:20:56,100 --> 00:21:00,500 Invested there. He says, for where your treasure 305 00:21:00,500 --> 00:21:05,400 is, that is where your what does it say. 306 00:21:05,900 --> 00:21:11,700 Your heart will be also So again, we ask ourselves where is 307 00:21:11,700 --> 00:21:14,900 our treasure? Well, it's wherever your heart 308 00:21:14,900 --> 00:21:18,700 is. That's where the treasure is. 309 00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:24,800 So, where is your heart? That's the question. 310 00:21:27,100 --> 00:21:30,800 This is talking about how we handle our money here on Earth 311 00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:35,600 and verse 19, the Apostle Paul told Timothy and Timothy 6 and 312 00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:37,600 verse 10. The love of money is the root of 313 00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:40,600 all evil. It isn't that money is the root 314 00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:42,400 of all evil. It's the love of money. 315 00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:45,900 That's the root of all evil. What did what drives us? 316 00:21:47,100 --> 00:21:50,700 What controls where our passions are. 317 00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:56,800 Or our motives are, is it all based on money or the gaining of 318 00:21:56,800 --> 00:22:00,800 money, or the gaining of things is that what drives Us in life? 319 00:22:03,300 --> 00:22:06,400 It's the love of money that corrupts and brings about sins. 320 00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:13,000 Solomon was the one who who kept gaining fortunes and wealth 321 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:15,600 until he was the wealthiest man in the world. 322 00:22:16,700 --> 00:22:19,000 Where and when it was all said and done, he said in 323 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:24,100 Ecclesiastes, Vanity Vanity, all is Vanity. 324 00:22:24,100 --> 00:22:26,500 In other words, it was emptiness. 325 00:22:27,700 --> 00:22:34,200 Uselessness meaningless, all these things really have no 326 00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:36,000 value. They really don't have any 327 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:43,500 wealth. Ananias and Sapphira were 328 00:22:43,500 --> 00:22:46,000 husband and wife who decided that they were going to keep 329 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:48,500 back part of the money that they sold some land for. 330 00:22:51,500 --> 00:22:55,000 Now, it was their money to do with as they wanted, but what 331 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:59,500 they did was, they deceived about what the way they gave it. 332 00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:03,200 They gave the impression that they were giving all the money 333 00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:06,900 that they sold the land for. When they only gave a portion of 334 00:23:06,900 --> 00:23:10,900 it, they wanted everyone to think they gave it all when they 335 00:23:10,900 --> 00:23:14,100 only gave a portion and they lost their lives instantly. 336 00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:20,300 And Judas who for a few pieces. Soldiers, silver sold out the 337 00:23:20,300 --> 00:23:25,300 son of God. Read covetousness. 338 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:35,300 Then there was Dimas, Paul said, he has forsaken me, having loved 339 00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:40,500 this present world. And we could go on and on 340 00:23:40,500 --> 00:23:43,700 through the Bible and find many other examples of people who 341 00:23:43,700 --> 00:23:46,100 because of Love of Money and the love of the world and things 342 00:23:46,100 --> 00:23:49,500 that are in the world. Had troubles because of the 343 00:23:49,500 --> 00:23:52,300 greed and the love of money. So we need to understand what 344 00:23:52,300 --> 00:23:55,400 Jesus is trying to say here. Let's go back to verse 19. 345 00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:57,000 Now. He says, do not lay up for 346 00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:01,300 yourselves, Treasures on Earth. What does that mean? 347 00:24:02,300 --> 00:24:07,000 The idea of the word treasure is a stayer, says the things laid 348 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:10,400 up in a treasury collected treasure. 349 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:16,100 In other words, he says, Don't Stop pile material. 350 00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:19,000 Things is basically what he's saying here. 351 00:24:20,700 --> 00:24:23,600 We know we understand and we know that we have necessities. 352 00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:32,200 And so, Jesus is talking about here, not what we live on every 353 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:36,000 day. But we pile up because of greed 354 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:40,600 and covetousness. It's not about our Necessities, 355 00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:43,600 it's not about what we use to meet the needs of our daily 356 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:46,800 life, and for our family, and for the poor, and for the Lord's 357 00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:50,200 work or setting, aside money for the future, or making a wise 358 00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:52,900 investment, so that we can better be better stewards of 359 00:24:52,900 --> 00:24:56,100 God's money later on in life. That's not what he's talking 360 00:24:56,100 --> 00:24:57,800 about here. He's talking about what you 361 00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:05,200 hoard and what you pile up. I think we need to. 362 00:25:07,100 --> 00:25:09,600 Sometimes get a bit come to a better. 363 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:12,500 Understanding about the blessings that God has given us 364 00:25:12,500 --> 00:25:16,600 the blessings that we have in this life are still God's, 365 00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:21,100 they're not ours. These are blessings that he has 366 00:25:21,100 --> 00:25:24,600 allowed us to use while we're here on this Earth with a short 367 00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:30,100 time sometimes, I think we come to the conclusion that what we 368 00:25:30,100 --> 00:25:37,100 have is ours. Our possessions are ours, not 369 00:25:37,100 --> 00:25:40,200 Gods. You know, my car and my the 370 00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:42,800 title to my car or the registration on my car. 371 00:25:42,900 --> 00:25:47,700 Has my name on it, so it's mine. My house has my name on it so 372 00:25:47,700 --> 00:25:51,600 it's mine. I bought it with my money so I 373 00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:53,200 own it. It's mine. 374 00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:57,500 And so we get the idea that everything we possess and 375 00:25:57,500 --> 00:26:00,700 everything that we are blessed with is ours. 376 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:05,400 It all comes down to where our heart is and about what is more 377 00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:09,900 important to us. What is what is stock piled up, 378 00:26:09,900 --> 00:26:14,200 just to pile up for our own selves or for what? 379 00:26:14,300 --> 00:26:16,200 We stopped pile up for heaven. What? 380 00:26:17,700 --> 00:26:19,600 That's what Jesus is talking about. 381 00:26:21,100 --> 00:26:24,100 He's talking about our luxuries here on Earth and how we can 382 00:26:24,100 --> 00:26:27,000 become distracted by those luxuries, if we're not careful. 383 00:26:28,700 --> 00:26:32,700 And the pursuit of them to where it becomes that total focus of 384 00:26:32,700 --> 00:26:36,000 our life, that that's the only thing that drives us through 385 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:40,900 life. So is he forbidding us? 386 00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:48,900 To obtain these things. And they will show you where 387 00:26:48,900 --> 00:26:52,300 that is is he forbidding us to have a bank account. 388 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:56,300 Has he been forbidden us to have a savings account to have a life 389 00:26:56,300 --> 00:26:59,600 insurance policy to maybe have some wise Investments, as he 390 00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:03,200 forbidding that when he says, don't put your Treasures here on 391 00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:10,300 Earth is that what he's saying? some people might say, well, you 392 00:27:10,300 --> 00:27:12,600 shouldn't possess anything, you should just sell everything you 393 00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:22,300 have and live the best you can. Someone might say, well, Jesus 394 00:27:22,300 --> 00:27:25,300 said to the Rich Young Ruler, sell all you have and give to 395 00:27:25,300 --> 00:27:26,900 the poor. What about that? 396 00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:33,200 The Lord is not condemning possessions here, the reason he 397 00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:36,300 told the Rich Young Ruler to sell all he had because those 398 00:27:36,300 --> 00:27:39,400 things were distracting him from following Jesus. 399 00:27:42,300 --> 00:27:46,800 That was his focus and the Rich Young Ruler wasn't able to do 400 00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:52,500 that. That's what happens though, as 401 00:27:52,500 --> 00:27:56,900 we get distracted by things in this life, the Lord is not 402 00:27:56,900 --> 00:28:00,000 pleased displeased with us when we have possessions. 403 00:28:00,900 --> 00:28:04,400 God has blessed us with these possessions and he is displeased 404 00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:08,400 us with us though then when, when the possessions become more 405 00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:15,100 important than serving him. But again, Whereas, our 406 00:28:15,100 --> 00:28:17,500 Hardware's are focused. Whereas, all of our time spent, 407 00:28:17,500 --> 00:28:19,100 where is all of our talents been? 408 00:28:19,500 --> 00:28:22,300 What is it, that motivates us through life. 409 00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:25,500 We can find all kinds of things that become more important to us 410 00:28:25,500 --> 00:28:28,000 than Heavenly things such as our jobs. 411 00:28:30,500 --> 00:28:34,600 Our education, maybe a sport, our own Comfort, our own 412 00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:38,800 pleasure activities, the pursuit of anything that would pull us 413 00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:41,300 away from God. That would distract us from 414 00:28:41,500 --> 00:28:46,300 Heavenly things. But God tells us sometimes about 415 00:28:46,300 --> 00:28:49,700 what is more important to us, the Lord has given us many 416 00:28:49,700 --> 00:28:53,400 blessings. And the right to possess those 417 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:57,700 blessings, all he wants is to be sure that our attitude is, 418 00:28:57,700 --> 00:28:59,500 right? And the manner in which we 419 00:28:59,500 --> 00:29:03,700 possess and listen to what Solomon, wrote regarding wealth 420 00:29:03,700 --> 00:29:08,800 and Ecclesiastes 5 and verse 10, through 20, He who loves silver 421 00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:11,000 will not be satisfied with silver. 422 00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:14,900 Nor he who loves abundance with increase. 423 00:29:15,100 --> 00:29:19,400 This also is Vanity. When Goods. 424 00:29:23,900 --> 00:29:27,200 When Goods increase, they increase who eat them. 425 00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:31,800 So, what profit have the owners except to see them what their 426 00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:37,000 eyes, The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats 427 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:40,400 little or much, but the abundance of a rich man will not 428 00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:44,000 permit him to sleep. There is a severe evil which I 429 00:29:44,008 --> 00:29:47,000 have seen Under the Sun. Rich has kept from their owners 430 00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:52,300 to his hurt but those Rich riches perish through 431 00:29:52,300 --> 00:29:55,500 Misfortune. When he begets a son, there is 432 00:29:55,500 --> 00:29:59,500 nothing in his hand as he became from as he came from his 433 00:29:59,500 --> 00:30:01,300 mother's womb and naked, shall he? 434 00:30:01,300 --> 00:30:05,500 Return to go as he He came and he shall take nothing from his 435 00:30:05,500 --> 00:30:08,800 labor, which he may carry away with in his hand. 436 00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:13,700 And this also is a severe evil. Just exactly as he came. 437 00:30:13,900 --> 00:30:18,800 So shall he go? And what prophet has he who has 438 00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:22,000 labored for the wind and all his days? 439 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:30,500 I'm sorry and all his days. He also eats in darkness and he 440 00:30:30,500 --> 00:30:35,000 has much sorrow in sickness and anger here is what I have seen. 441 00:30:36,300 --> 00:30:41,500 It is good. And fitting for one to eat and 442 00:30:41,500 --> 00:30:46,200 drink and to enjoy the good of his labor and in which he toils 443 00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:50,000 under the sun, all the days of his life, which God gives him. 444 00:30:51,100 --> 00:30:56,300 For it is his heritage. As for every man whom God has 445 00:30:56,300 --> 00:30:59,900 given riches and wealth, and given him power to eat of it, to 446 00:30:59,900 --> 00:31:02,600 receive his Heritage and rejoice in his labor. 447 00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:09,500 This is the gift of God. For He Who for he will not dwell 448 00:31:09,500 --> 00:31:13,800 unduly on the days of his wife because God keeps him busy with 449 00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:17,200 the joy of his heart, God has blessed us. 450 00:31:18,500 --> 00:31:20,200 What do we do with the blessings? 451 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:27,000 Do we squander him? Do we use it for our pleasure? 452 00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:32,900 To hoard up. Or we doing it for his glory. 453 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:37,600 Notice in Proverbs also 21 and 20, there is a desirable 454 00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:43,000 treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise but a foolish man 455 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:46,500 squanders it. In other words, a wise man knows 456 00:31:46,500 --> 00:31:52,100 how to manage money, how to plan, Proverbs 24 and 3 through 457 00:31:52,100 --> 00:31:53,900 wisdom. A house is built and by 458 00:31:53,900 --> 00:31:56,800 understanding it is established by knowledge. 459 00:31:56,800 --> 00:32:00,700 The rooms are filled with precious and pleasant riches. 460 00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:05,200 In other words, a Wiseman knows how to build a house and fill it 461 00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:09,100 with these Pleasant things for us to enjoy in life. 462 00:32:09,100 --> 00:32:12,800 God's not against that. God has given us these wonderful 463 00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:14,000 things. So we see them that the 464 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:17,000 scriptures tell us that whether we are laying up, Treasures in 465 00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:20,200 Heaven, or laying up Treasures on Earth, it's not that we're 466 00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:26,400 not to possess anything. That were not to enjoy anything 467 00:32:27,700 --> 00:32:31,900 that were not to accept these things that God has blessed us 468 00:32:31,900 --> 00:32:36,300 with in life. But what do we do with those 469 00:32:36,300 --> 00:32:40,100 blessings and how do we Deal with them. 470 00:32:41,700 --> 00:32:43,100 The New Testament says the same thing. 471 00:32:43,100 --> 00:32:46,400 Notice 1st, Timothy 5 and verse 8, but if anyone does not 472 00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:48,800 provide for his own and especially for those of his 473 00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:52,100 household, he has denied, the faith and is worse than an 474 00:32:52,100 --> 00:32:56,200 unbeliever. So it is our duty also to go out 475 00:32:56,200 --> 00:33:00,200 and work hard so that we can provide so that we can have the 476 00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:03,000 things that we need to sustain life. 477 00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:06,200 As we know it and enjoy the blessings of God. 478 00:33:06,500 --> 00:33:08,800 He is in condemning being blessed. 479 00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:16,500 But what motivates us? To achieve those riches. 480 00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:19,600 And that wealth, what is it that motivates us? 481 00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:27,400 In that. He's not talking about what we 482 00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:29,800 have is talking about the attitude that we have. 483 00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:36,000 It's right to seek needed things and to provide for our families 484 00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:39,600 and to plan for the future and to make wise choices, through 485 00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:42,300 life, about what we purchase, and things of that nature. 486 00:33:42,300 --> 00:33:45,800 It's right to have enough money to contribute for the, for the 487 00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:47,700 work of the church. And so, the preachers can be 488 00:33:47,700 --> 00:33:50,400 supported in the work of the church can go on for the 489 00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:53,200 preaching of the Gospel. It's right to do that. 490 00:33:54,300 --> 00:33:58,200 It's wrong to be greedy. It's wrong to be Covetous. 491 00:33:58,700 --> 00:34:02,100 It's wrong to be materialistic. It's wrong to place more 492 00:34:02,100 --> 00:34:05,000 importance on, gaining Earthly wealth. 493 00:34:06,700 --> 00:34:10,300 Than Heavenly wealth, it's wrong. 494 00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:16,300 When that becomes the whole focus and passion of our daily 495 00:34:16,300 --> 00:34:20,000 life is the striving for material wealth. 496 00:34:21,100 --> 00:34:25,000 The gaining of wealth and then letting the Heavenly goals go by 497 00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:28,600 the wayside. And we come right back to you. 498 00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:34,300 And then to the same motive, if I'm gaining to stockpile up to 499 00:34:34,500 --> 00:34:41,400 hoard it, And keep it to indulge my selfish passions in it to 500 00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:45,199 show off to my friends about. Look at me what all I've got. 501 00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:54,300 That's in. That's a simple attitude Steve 502 00:34:54,300 --> 00:34:56,400 Jobs. One of the owners of Apple worth 503 00:34:56,400 --> 00:35:01,200 about ten point two billion dollars at the time of his death 504 00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:04,900 at age 56. One of the wealthiest men in the 505 00:35:04,900 --> 00:35:07,200 world at that point at one point. 506 00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:11,900 Supposedly had this to say at his Deathbed He said, I've 507 00:35:11,900 --> 00:35:14,900 reached the Pinnacle of success in the business World. 508 00:35:14,900 --> 00:35:19,200 Another in other's eyes, my life is an epitome of success. 509 00:35:19,700 --> 00:35:25,300 However, aside from work, I have little joy in the end, wealth is 510 00:35:25,300 --> 00:35:29,400 only a fact of life that I am accustomed to at this moment, 511 00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:32,000 lying on the sick bed and recalling my whole life. 512 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:36,200 I realized that all recognition and wealth that that I took so 513 00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:40,400 much pride in have paled and become meaningless in the face 514 00:35:40,700 --> 00:35:43,600 of impending. In death and the Darkness. 515 00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:46,400 I look at the green lights from the life support machines and 516 00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:49,600 hear them. I mean, mechanical sounds, I can 517 00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:52,900 feel the Breath of God, the breath of god of death drawing 518 00:35:52,900 --> 00:35:56,100 closer. Now, I know when we have 519 00:35:56,100 --> 00:36:00,400 accumulated, sufficient wealth, to last our lifetime we should 520 00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:03,800 pursue other matters that are unrelated to wealth. 521 00:36:05,700 --> 00:36:08,000 Should be something that is more important. 522 00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:13,200 Non stop pursuing of wealth will only turn a person into a 523 00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:17,900 twisted being just like me. God gave us the sense to let us 524 00:36:17,900 --> 00:36:19,700 feel the love of everyone's heart. 525 00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:23,400 Not the illusion brought about by wealth. 526 00:36:24,300 --> 00:36:26,600 The wealth. I have one in my life. 527 00:36:26,900 --> 00:36:30,800 I cannot bring with me. Some said that that's a hoax, 528 00:36:31,100 --> 00:36:35,300 but still good words, still meaningful to us as Christians. 529 00:36:36,700 --> 00:36:39,700 So we ask ourselves a question Earthly wealth. 530 00:36:40,900 --> 00:36:44,300 For what? For what? 531 00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:50,100 I think about the work of the church that goes on sometimes on 532 00:36:50,100 --> 00:36:55,400 a shoestring budget. Struggling and stretching for 533 00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:57,000 everything. The church does. 534 00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:01,400 It isn't that they were giving it all that we can give is it. 535 00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:07,700 It's just that were possessive and we're materialistic with 536 00:37:07,700 --> 00:37:09,700 what God has blessed us with, isn't it? 537 00:37:12,700 --> 00:37:17,800 That's the problem. It isn't the issue of whether 538 00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:21,600 you have. It's the issue of what you do 539 00:37:21,700 --> 00:37:25,300 with, what you have whether it's for your for the kingdom of God. 540 00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:30,800 And his purposes Colossians 3 and 5 says, covetousness is 541 00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:35,500 idolatry. And that's what Jesus had in 542 00:37:35,500 --> 00:37:41,600 mind here in these verses. Money can become Our God if 543 00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:47,300 we're not careful. And they can become an idol to 544 00:37:47,300 --> 00:37:52,500 us if we're not careful if we're just consumed with piling up 545 00:37:52,500 --> 00:37:56,800 stuff. And that's what drives Us in 546 00:37:56,800 --> 00:38:01,200 life. Selfish, accumulation of worldly 547 00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:07,600 Goods. If I want to invest, if I want 548 00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:10,800 to pursue a successful business, and I want to be aggressive in 549 00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:14,100 that and honest, and what I do and do the best I can for 550 00:38:14,100 --> 00:38:16,000 others. And for God, and for my 551 00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:19,000 children, and my parents and the poor and those in need, and 552 00:38:19,100 --> 00:38:25,100 that's one thing, but when I start piling it up for myself 553 00:38:25,100 --> 00:38:28,600 and extravagant living and become materialistic and 554 00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:35,800 covetous, and that becomes more important than giving to God, 555 00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:40,600 then I violated the God's principle and it becomes sin. 556 00:38:43,700 --> 00:38:46,100 There's an illustration of a rich man, that passed away. 557 00:38:47,700 --> 00:38:50,100 And one of his coin said to the other, hey, I heard that 558 00:38:50,100 --> 00:38:53,900 so-and-so died. He said, that's right. 559 00:38:54,100 --> 00:38:57,000 Said well. What did he leave? 560 00:38:57,900 --> 00:39:05,000 And friend replied all of it? That's what happens when we die 561 00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:06,000 believe. All of it. 562 00:39:07,100 --> 00:39:10,500 So, why? Why? 563 00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:17,000 Put. Our deposits and Heavenly things 564 00:39:17,300 --> 00:39:21,500 because that's what matters. That's what's important not the 565 00:39:21,500 --> 00:39:24,600 Earthly things put our importance, our passions, 566 00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:27,300 everything that we live for in this life. 567 00:39:27,300 --> 00:39:31,900 Now it's not wrong to have these things as we noticed but that 568 00:39:31,900 --> 00:39:36,100 should not be the driving force behind what we do is to 569 00:39:36,100 --> 00:39:44,100 stockpile these things up. You know. 570 00:39:58,500 --> 00:40:01,200 There is a danger I believe in having too many worldly, 571 00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:03,900 treasures and becoming distracted by those treasures. 572 00:40:03,900 --> 00:40:10,500 And not planning for our Heavenly future. you know, one 573 00:40:10,500 --> 00:40:18,000 of the reasons that there is so much success in foreign works is 574 00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:23,500 because those people don't have the things to distract them. 575 00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:30,800 From Heavenly things. We're too distracted. 576 00:40:32,500 --> 00:40:36,300 The least little thing seems like it comes along it distracts 577 00:40:36,300 --> 00:40:41,200 us from serving God. From worshipping him. 578 00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:45,100 From reading our Bibles from studying. 579 00:40:45,100 --> 00:40:48,600 And from helping those, maybe who are in need the things of 580 00:40:48,600 --> 00:40:50,700 this world while I don't have time to do that. 581 00:40:51,600 --> 00:40:53,800 What are we doing? We're putting more importance on 582 00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:58,800 things than we are. On Heavenly things, Earthly 583 00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:02,600 things than Heavenly things. Albert Barnes says this about 584 00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:08,000 verse 20 in our text, he says do not exhaust your strength and 585 00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:10,800 spend your days in providing for the life here. 586 00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:15,000 But let your cheap anxiety be to prepare to be prepared for 587 00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:18,500 eternity in heaven. Nothing corrupts nothing 588 00:41:18,500 --> 00:41:21,900 terminates know. Any enemies plunder or destroy 589 00:41:22,100 --> 00:41:27,000 to have treasure in heaven is to possess, is is to possess is 590 00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:31,100 evidence that its Purity and Joy's will be ours. 591 00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:36,700 It is to be Heirs of God and Joint heirs with Christ to an 592 00:41:36,700 --> 00:41:40,700 inheritance Incorruptible undefiled and that fadeth not 593 00:41:40,700 --> 00:41:46,500 away First Peter 1 and for the heart our affections will of 594 00:41:46,500 --> 00:41:51,600 course be fixed on the treasure to regulate the heart. 595 00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:55,400 It is therefore important that the treasure or object of 596 00:41:55,400 --> 00:42:02,000 attachment should be right. So, where is our heart today? 597 00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:06,500 Wherever it is, that's where your treasure is. 598 00:42:08,500 --> 00:42:11,100 We thank you for listening to our podcast, put on by the 599 00:42:11,100 --> 00:42:16,900 Church of Christ at 22:15 plans. 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