Lay Up Treasures In Heaven
Making Change | Week 2 | Nov 8, 2020 | Pastor Sandy Brown
LAY UP TREASURES IN HEAVEN
19 Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Matthew 6: 19-21
GOD’S PROVISION
10 I rejoiced in the Lord greatly that now at length you have revived your concern for me. You were indeed concerned for me, but you had no opportunity. 11 Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content. 12 I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need.
Philippians 4: 10-12
True wealth is celebrating the present moment!
The present moment is all we really have! This is the reason we ask for Daily Bread!
BOASTING ABOUT TOMORROW
13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit” – 14 yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. 15 Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”
James 4: 13-15
Do something today that your future self will thank you for!
Your future starts today, NOT tomorrow!
DOING FOR CHRIST AND OTHERS
The King will reply, “Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.”
Matthew 25:40
Greed is not a financial issue; it’s a heart issue! It distorts us to the very core!
MAKING GOOD CHOICES
20 But God said to him, “You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?” 21 This is how it will be with whoever stores up things for themselves but is not rich toward God.
Luke 12: 20-21