Matt 6 1 4 Dont give to impress

Matt. 6: 1 -4 Don’t give to impress others Matt. 6: 5 -8 Don’t pray to impress others Matt. 6: 16 -18 Don’t fast to impress others But do give, pray and fast!

Heavenly Investment Banking

1. Where are you banking your treasure? Matthew 6: 19 -21 19 “Don’t store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 20 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin don’t destroy, and where thieves don’t break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Ancient stores of wealth • Clothes Grain Silver and Gold

Modern stores of wealth

Heavenly treasures last forever!

Heavenly investment yield

1. 1 Good deeds

1. 2 Good character

1. 3 Money guides our hearts, so give to God’s work

Our whole lives drift relentlessly toward the object on which we fix our gaze.

2. Do you have the right perspective on money? 2. 1 Money blinds us to our greed “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! Matthew 6: 22, 23

Eye = what you really want It can be selfish/generous

Materialism “has the peculiar effect of blinding you spiritually, of distorting the way you see things. It has power over the way you see everything. ” Tim Keller Greed is one of the subtlest sins. 1 Tim. 6: 10: "The love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs. "

2. 2 You can also have good eyes (be generous)

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3. Who’s the owner of your possessions?

3. Who’s the owner of your possessions? We can choose whom we’ll serve, But we can’t serve God and….

3. Who’s the owner of your possessions?

3. Who’s the owner of your possessions? Psalm 49: 16 -20 : Don’t be overawed when others grow rich, when the splendor of their houses increases; 17 for they’ll take nothing with them when they die, their splendor won’t descend with them. 18 Though while they live they count themselves blessed— and people praise you when you prosper— 19 they’ll join those who have gone before them, who will never again see the light of life. 20 People who have wealth but lack understanding are like the beasts that perish.

4. How do we break the power of money and greed in our life?