Treasures in Heaven

Treasures in Heaven

Matthew 6.19-24 & 1 Timothy 6.17-19 CSB

Jesus is an equal opportunity offender…he will step on all our toes equally!

Matthew 6.19

• We are an accumulation nation.
• Why is this ridiculous? Because moths and rust destroy.
  

v.20

• If you aim at heaven, you get earth thrown in. If you aim at earth, you miss both. ~ CS Lewis

• 1 Peter 1.3-4

v.21

• Billy Graham – You give me someone’s checkbook and calendar, and I’ll tell you where their treasure is.
• What we treasure is what fills our hearts. And ultimately, what we value makes us feel valuable.

Money has your ear if it’s your source of:

1. Significance

2. Security

v.22-23

• A healthy eye is a generous eye

• Proverbs 22.9 CSB

Spiritually Nearsighted Diagnostics

• Discontentment
  • “If you cannot be content with what you have, you will never be content with what you want.” Howard Dayton

• Debt
  • “There are now three groups of people in our nation: The Haves, the Have-nots, and the Have-not-paid-for-what-they-have. Instead of living for the future, people are now paying for the past.” Tony Evans

• Disconnectedness
  • 1 John 3.17 – If anyone has this world’s goods and sees a fellow believer in need but withholds compassion from him—how does God’s love reside in him?
  • Prov 21.13 – The one who shuts his ears to the cry of the poor will himself also call out and not be answered.

v.24

Everyone can only have one master