Where is your heart? Where are you putting your treasure?

1. Lay Up Treasure in Heaven
Reasons to lay up treasure in heaven
How to lay up treasure in heaven

2. Matthew 6:19-21
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.

3. Background
Solomon described the problem with material
wealth – All is vanity
Riches perish – can be lost – don't satisfy
Treasure in heaven – can not be lost

4. Reasons to lay up
treasure in heaven
1 Treasure on earth is insecure
Moth and rust destory
Thieves can steal
Loss – inflation, stocks down, bankruptcy

5. Reasons to lay up
treasure in heaven
1 Treasure on earth is insecure
Moth and rust destory
Thieves can steal
Loss – inflation, stocks down, bankruptcy
2 Treasure in heaven is secure
Treasure is not destroyed
Thieves cannot steal

6. Reasons to lay up
treasure in heaven
3 Our treasure is where our heart will be
Heart = Affections, Hopes, Dreams
Heart on earth = material things
Heart in heaven = focus on the spiritual
Colossians 3:1-21 If then you were raised with
Christ, seek those things which are above,
where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God.
2 Set your mind on things above, not on things
on the earth.

7. Reasons to lay up
treasure in heaven
4 To keep our eye good
Matthew 6:22-23 22 "The lamp of the body is
the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your
whole body will be full of light. 23 But if your
eye is bad, your whole body will be full of
darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is
darkness, how great is that darkness!

8. Reasons to lay up
treasure in heaven
4 To keep our eye good
Matthew 6:22-23
Body = the soul, spirit or inner man
Eye = the gaze of the soul or heart of man
Good = simple, single
Bad = wicked, evil

9. Reasons to lay up
treasure in heaven
4 To keep our eye good Matthew 6:22-23
If the heart or gaze of the soul is good (single in
it love for the things of God), then one is filled
with light.
If the heart or gaze of the soul is evil ( full of
envy, covetousness), then one's soul is filled
with darkness (selfishness, wickedness,
falsehood).

10. Reasons to lay up
treasure in heaven
5 To make God our Master
Matthew 6:24 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.
A master demands TOTAL loyalty
Mammon = Aramaic for riches

11. How to lay up
treasure in heaven
1 By giving to the poor
1 Timothy 6:17-19 17 Command those who 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. 18 Let
them do good, that they be rich in good works,
ready to give, willing to share, 19 storing up for
themselves a good foundation for the time to
come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.

12. How to lay up
treasure in heaven
2 Not that eternal life can be purchased
Ephesians 2:8-9 8 For by grace you have been
saved through faith, and that not of yourselves;
it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone
should boast.
Salvation is by grace, not works
We do good BECAUSE, not TO GET

13. Conclusion
We are not called to asceticism
God wants us to enjoy what we have
He exepcts a heart of sharing, giving
We are to work with our hands
To care for our family – 1 Timothy 5:8
To help others in need – Ephesians 4:28

14. Conclusion
Are you laying up treasure in heaven?
Jesus told us WHY
Jesus (and Paul) told us how