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Matthew 6:19-24

Lay Up Treasures in Heaven

¹⁹"Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rustdestroy and where thieves break in and steal, ²⁰ but lay up foryourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and wherethieves do not break in and steal. ²¹For where your treasure is,there your heart will be also.

²²"The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your wholebody will be full of light, ²³ but if your eye is bad, your wholebody will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how greatis the darkness!

²⁴"No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and lovethe other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannotserve God and money.

2 Corinthians 4:16-18

¹⁶So we do not lose heart. Though our outer selfis wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. ¹⁷For this light momentary affliction ispreparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, ¹⁸ as we look not to the things that are seenbut to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient,but the things that are unseen are eternal.



Idols, whether people or possessions, pass away.  God is eternal, God is always there.


2 Ways to Live

1. Store up for this life
2. Store up things for the next life.

2 Types of Treasure

1. Earthly
2. Heavenly

2 Types of People

1. Those who walk in the light.
2. Those who are mastered by their possessions

2 Types of Masters

1. God
2. Earthly possessions/treasures (mammon)

You can find yourself enslaved to your stuff, your money.  That's why Jesus talks more about money & possessions than about  heaven and hell combined.


John 3:16-19

¹⁶"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. ¹⁷For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. ¹⁸ Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. ¹⁹ And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil


Jesus wants us to enjoy things.  He doesn't want us to be enslaved by them.