The Three most important questions in your life
Matthew 6:19-21 Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Matthew 6:22-24 The eye is the lamp of the body Matthew 6:22-24 The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness! No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.
I. Where is Your Treasure? Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. - v19-21
I. Where is Your Treasure? A. Is your treasure only on earth? Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. - v19
I. Where is Your Treasure? A. Is your treasure only on earth? 1. How secure are earthly possessions?
I. Where is Your Treasure? A. Is your treasure only on earth? 2. How secure were they in ancient times? Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. - v19
I. Where is Your Treasure? A. Is your treasure only on earth? 2. How secure were they in ancient times? Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. - v19 a. Break in (διορύσσω) = dig through
I. Where is Your Treasure? A. Is your treasure only on earth? 2. How secure were they in ancient times? b. The Foolish Farmer - Luke 12:16-21
I. Where is Your Treasure? A. Is your treasure only on earth? 2. How secure were they in ancient times? b. The Foolish Farmer This is how it will be with anyone who stores up things for himself but is not rich toward God. - v21
I. Where is Your Treasure? A. Is your treasure only on earth? 2. How secure were they in ancient times? b. The Foolish Farmer I Peter 3:10 - But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare.
I. Where is Your Treasure? A. Is your treasure only on earth? B. Or is it in heaven? But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. - v20
I. Where is Your Treasure? B. Or is it in heaven? 1. How do you accumulate treasure there?
I. Where is Your Treasure? B. Or is it in heaven? 1. How do you accumulate treasure there? a. On earth: by getting posses- sions & focusing on your- self.
I. Where is Your Treasure? B. Or is it in heaven? 1. How do you accumulate treasure there? b. In heaven: by giving to those in need & focusing on Jesus!
I. Where is Your Treasure? B. Or is it in heaven? 2. Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also! For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. - v21
I. Where is Your Treasure? II. Where is Your Body? The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness! - v22-23
A. Is it in darkness? II. Where is Your Body? But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness! - v23
A. Is it in darkness? II. Where is Your Body? John 3:19-21 - This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God.
II. Where is Your Body? A. Is it in darkness? 1. Real darkness is separation from the Lord’s presence!
1. Real darkness is separation from the Lord’s presence! II. Where is Your Body? A. Is it in darkness? 1. Real darkness is separation from the Lord’s presence! Isaiah 42:6 - I, the LORD, have called you in righteousness; I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant for the people and a light for the Gentiles.
1. Real darkness is separation from the Lord’s presence! II. Where is Your Body? A. Is it in darkness? 1. Real darkness is separation from the Lord’s presence! John 9:5 - I am the light of the world.
1. Real darkness is separation from the Lord’s presence! II. Where is Your Body? A. Is it in darkness? 1. Real darkness is separation from the Lord’s presence! John 8:12 - I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.
II. Where is Your Body? A. Is it in darkness? 2. If you are not connected with the Lord, there will be “weeping & gnashing of teeth”.
A. Is it in darkness? B. Is it in the light? II. Where is Your Body? The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light. - v22
A. Is it in darkness? B. Is it in the light? II. Where is Your Body? The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light. - v22 Matthew 5:14 & 16 - You are the light of the world . . . let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
I. Where is Your Treasure? II. Where is Your Body? III. Who is Your Master? No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money. - v24
III. Who is Your Master? A. Is it money?
III. Who is Your Master? A. Is it money? 1. Money (Mammon) (μαμωνᾶς) = love of riches & material things.
1. Money (Mammon) (μαμωνᾶς) = love of riches & material things. III. Who is Your Master? A. Is it money? 1. Money (Mammon) (μαμωνᾶς) = love of riches & material things. No one has the ability or power to be a servant to two authorities. He will hate & think little of the one but cling on to & give sacrificially & unconditionally to the other. - v24
2. God’s word warns against loving money & possessions. III. Who is Your Master? A. Is it money? 2. God’s word warns against loving money & possessions. James 4:4 - You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.
2. God’s word warns against loving money & possessions. III. Who is Your Master? A. Is it money? 2. God’s word warns against loving money & possessions. I John 2:15 - Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
3. The consequences of focusing just on materialism. III. Who is Your Master? A. Is it money? 3. The consequences of focusing just on materialism. Luke 16:19-31
3. The consequences of focusing just on materialism. III. Who is Your Master? A. Is it money? 3. The consequences of focusing just on materialism. Acts 5:1-11
3. The consequences of focusing just on materialism. III. Who is Your Master? A. Is it money? 3. The consequences of focusing just on materialism. Matthew 26:47-49
III. Who is Your Master? A. Is it money? B. Is it God?
B. Is it God? III. Who is Your Master? Romans 6:20-23 - When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death! But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
III. Who is Your Master? B. Is it God? Freedom from sin means service to God - but service to God means real life!
“He is not fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose!” - Jim Elliot