Sermon @ Executive chapter of FGBMFI, Enugu...

1. Executive Chapter, Enugu

2. TREASURES
IN HEAVEN
~Favour

3. Where
REWARDS
TREASURES
IN HEAVEN

4. WHAT ARE TREASURES?
 Wealth or riches stored or accumulated,
especially in the form of precious
metals, money, jewels, or plate.
 Wealth, rich materials, or valuable
things.
 Anything or person greatly valued or
highly prized.
 To retain carefully or keep in store, as
in the mind.
 To regard or treat as precious; cherish.
 To put away for security or future use,
as money.

5. WHAT IS HEAVEN?
 The abode of God, the Angels, and the
Spirits of the righteous after death;
the place or state of existence of the
blessed after the mortal life.
 The celestial powers.
 A metonym for God
 The sky, firmament, or expanse of
space surrounding the earth.
 A place or state of supreme happiness.
Blissful experience.
 A spiritual state of everlasting
communion with God

6. Spiritual meaning of Heaven:
 The place of the everlasting
blessedness of the righteous:
~Matt. 8:11; Luke 23:43; John 14:2; Heb. 11:16;
Heb. 12:22; James 2:5; 2 Pet. 1:11; Rev 21:18-27.

7. WHY TREASURES?
 Steep your life in God-reality, God-
initiative, God-provisions. Don't worry
about missing out.You'll find all your
everyday human concerns will be met.
~ Matt 6:33
 We work to feed our appetites;
Meanwhile our souls go hungry.
~ Eccl 6:7

8. WHY TREASURES?
 Don't waste your energy striving for
perishable food like that.Work for the
food that sticks with you, food that
nourishes your lasting life, food the Son
of Man provides. He and what he does
are guaranteed by God the Father to
last.
~ John 6:27

9. WHERE ARE OUR TREASURES?
 "Don't let this throw you.You trust God,
don't you?Trust me.There is plenty of
room for you in my Father's home. If that
weren't so, would I have told you that I'm
on my way to get a room ready for you?
And if I'm on my way to get your room
ready, I'll come back and get you so you
can live where I live. And you already know
the road I'm taking."
~John 14:1-4

10. WHERE ARE OUR TREASURES?
 Don't hoard treasure down here where it
gets eaten by moths and corroded by rust
or — worse! — stolen by burglars.
Stockpile treasure in heaven, where it's
safe from moth and rust and burglars. It's
obvious, isn't it?The place where your
treasure is, is the place you will most want
to be, and end up being.
~Matt 6:19-21

11. WHEN DO WE STOCK TREASURES?
 We need to be energetically at
work for the One who sent me
here, working while the sun
shines.When night falls, the
workday is over.
~ John 9:4

12. WHEN DO WE STOCK TREASURES?
 "Just then God showed up and
said, 'Fool!Tonight you die. And
your barnful of goods — who
gets it?'That's what happens
when you fill your barn with Self
and not with God."
~ Luke 12:20-21

13. HOW DO WE STOCK TREASURES IN HEAVEN?
 So here's what I want you to do,
God helping you:Take your
everyday, ordinary life — your
sleeping, eating, going-to-work,
and walking-around life — and
place it before God as an offering.
Embracing what God does for you is
the best thing you can do for him.
~ Rom 12:1-2

14. HOW DO WE STOCK TREASURES IN HEAVEN?
 You're familiar with some of the
parts that God has formed in his
church, which is his "body":
Apostles, Prophets,Teachers,
Miracle workers, Healers,
Helpers, Organizers and those
who pray in tongues.
~1 Cor 12:28

15. HOW DO WE STOCK TREASURES IN HEAVEN?
 FGBMFI :
Counseling and Follow up;
Membership; Outreach;
Praise andWorship; Prayer;
Public Relations;Ticketing;
Ushering;Voice and Literature…
~1 Cor 12:28

16. HOW DO WE STOCK TREASURES IN HEAVEN?
 "If you want to be perfect, go,
sell your possessions and give to
the poor, and you will have
treasure in heaven.Then come,
follow me."
~Math 19:21

17. REWARD FOR TREASURES IN HEAVEN
 Take particular care in picking out your
building materials. Eventually there is going
to be an inspection. If you use cheap or
inferior materials, you'll be found out.The
inspection will be thorough and rigorous.
You won't get by with a thing. If your work
passes inspection, fine; if it doesn't, your
part of the building will be torn out and
started over. But you won't be torn out;
you'll survive — but just barely.
~1 Cor 3:12-15

18. REWARD FOR TREASURES IN HEAVEN
 Don't quit, even if it costs you your life. Stay
there believing. I have a Life-Crown sized
and ready for you.
~ Rev 2:10
 Yes, I'm on my way! I'll be there soon! I'm
bringing my payroll with me. I'll pay all
people in full for their life's work. I'm A to Z,
the First and the Final, Beginning and
Conclusion.
~ Rev 22:12-13