Sunday, January 22, 2006

Where is Your Treasure?

Date:  1/22/06
Text:  Matthew 6:19-24
Title:  Where is Your Treasure?

• The Book of Matthew


• The book of Matthew is one most rooted in the Old Testament and most concerned with issues that were important to the Jewish people.


• It has been said that Matthew was the author of this book, although the author is not identified in the text

• Our Treasure


• We all have some kind of treasure


• Can your treasure be taken away or lost?


• You shouldn’t lay up treasure


• Don’t hoard things for yourself

• Where should you lay up your treasure?


• You should lay up treasure in Heaven

• How do you lay up treasure in Heaven?


• By giving in the Benevolence offering


• Use what you have for the glory of God


• Use what you have to help others


• Give your tithes and offering

NOTES:  You can’t live for Christ and live for the world at the same time!  You can’t be a slave to but one person.  This will lead to comparative hate.  (Matthew 6:24)

• If you want to be blessed…


• Every chance you get, bless someone else

My Personal Notes:
This sermon reminded me that giving is my way to be blessed, not only with money, but with health, strength, and more.  I often get teased because I am a good tipper.  I tell people, “I am blessing someone else.  I am laying up my treasure in Heaven.”  Plus, I think that it is wrong for “CHRISTIANS” to sit at a table and talk about God the whole time and then don’t give the server a good tip.  CHRISTIANS have a habit of doing that.

My Personal Prayer:
Lord, help me to lay up my treasure in Heaven.  Thank You for blessing me with treasure down here.  My hope is in You and I know that You will supply my needs.

Scripture:  Matthew 6:19-24
9: Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
20: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
21: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
22: The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
23: But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
24: No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
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