Where Is Your Treasure FOR WHERE YOUR TREASURE

Where Is Your Treasure? “FOR WHERE YOUR TREASURE IS, THERE YOUR HEART WILL BE ALSO. ” MATT. 6: 21

Where Is Your Treasure? There is nothing wrong with having material things. Just remember who is your source. Put God first-Seek Him first and all other things will be added to YOU!

Where Is Your Treasure? “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon” (Matthew 6: 24). Jesus tells us here that we cannot serve two masters. We cannot serve money and God; we cannot serve popularity and God; we cannot serve ourselves and God; We can have only one master.

Where Is Your Treasure? Are our hearts were set upon the things of this earth, and are we willing to disobey God for the sake of temporal riches that do not last. Are we more concerned with the things we gather here on earth that are temporal; and not considering things that last for eternity? Where is your treasure?

Where Is Your Treasure? Are you earthly-minded or heavenly-minded? Are you investing in the future eternity to come, or are you investing in the here and now? Are you enthralled with the temporary versus the permanent?

Where Is Your Treasure? What are something you value as important in your life? Where should we focus our time and efforts? Why is it important to have more than money and material items?

Where Is Your Treasure? What you deem as valuable shows you where your heart is? Maybe it is money and wealth; maybe it is power and the desire to be recognized as a leader;

Where Is Your Treasure? What You May Feel is Important: Maybe it is looking spiritual on the outside so that people think you have it together. Maybe it is popularity and acceptance through nice clothes, Maybe a home, or an X-box gaming console. Maybe it is your family and how you have raised great kids.

Where Is Your Treasure? None of these desires may be wrong, but how do we prioritize them in our lives? To get to the heart of the matter, how important are they to us. We know the earthly treasures we store up cannot be taken with us. They are only temporary. Set your affections on things above not beneath.

Where Is Your Treasure? I want you to realize that God is not condemning us for being wealthy or rich. Money is not bad; it is the love of money that is the root of evil. “For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows” (1 Timothy 6: 10).

Where Is Your Treasure? We don’t want to seek to find security and satisfaction in temporary things instead of what we already have in our relationship with God the Father through Jesus Christ. Things come up to tempt us and to distract us from what truly matters – our relationship with God the Father.

Where Is Your Treasure? For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. ” There a lot of things competing for our heart, as this is the control center for life. “The Scripture teaches that a person’s life is a reflection of his heart. Proverbs 4: 23 states it like this: ‘Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the well spring of life. ’

Where Is Your Treasure? The word picture here is graphic. The heart is a well from which all the issues of life gush forth. ” Therefore, we must guard our hearts and watch over them so that our heart follows hard after the things of God and is not distracted by the things of this world.

Where Is Your Treasure? but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth (riches can be eaten) nor rust (grow old/wear away) destroys and where thieves ( take away from others) do not break in and steal. ” Matt. 6: 20 Nothing wrong with having the material things, God wants us to know all our needs will be supplied. Here Jesus is talking about also laying up eternal treasures that do not fade away.

Where Is Your Treasure? Command those that are rich in this present age not to be haughty, nor to trust in uncertain riches but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy. Let them do good, that they may be rich in good works, ready to give, willing to share, storing up for themselves a good foundation for the time to come, that they may lay hold on to eternal life (1 Timothy 6: 17 -19).

Where Is Your Treasure? Ways We Can Be Rich-discuss how we can be rich in the things listed below-Please have scripture references. Group 1: GRACE Group 2: MERCY Group 3: FAVOR Children Group 4: LOVE

Where Is Your Treasure? Have you ever tried on someone else’s glasses and noticed how it affects your vision? “How is your vision? ” James Boice states: Do you see spiritual things clearly? Or is your vision of God and his will for your life clouded by spiritual cataracts or near-sightedness brought on by an unhealthy preoccupation with things?

Where Is Your Treasure? The Parable of the Rich Fool (Luke 12: 13 -21). In this parable, Jesus states in verse 15 that “one’s life does not consist in the abundance of things he possesses. ” The parable of the rich fool suggests this very thing. This parable tells of a rich man who has yielded a great crop. He decides to tear down his old barns and build newer, bigger barns. Then after he is done, thinking that he has enough stored up and he can sit back, relax, and take it easy. What happens? God calls him a fool and says that his life is required of him that day. Jesus completes this parable by saying, “So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God. ”

Where Is Your Treasure? Don’t put material things before your relationship with God. Don’t commit idolatry by making things your god. How do we lay up treasures in heaven? ” The answer is by living the way God has asked us to live and following after Him in all that we do.

Where Is Your Treasure? For example: Being a cheerful giver honoring God in your marriage & friendships guarding your mind against wrong thoughts, sharing the good news of the gospel with those around you. Loving the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, and loving your neighbor as yourself.

Where Is Your Treasure? Don’t worry about what you don’t have. Thank God for what you do have. Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands. 2 Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing. 3 Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. 4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name. 5 For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations. Ps. 100: 1 -5

Where Is Your Treasure? Reference Where Is Your Treasure ( Matt. 6: 19 -24)? ” Copyright 2003 by Community Bible Chapel, 418 E. Main Street, Richardson, TX 75081. This is the edited manuscript of Lesson 29 in the Studies in the Gospel of Matthew series prepared by Lenny Correll on September 7, 2003. “