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YOU CANNOT

This passage from Matthew 6:19-24 highlights the importance of choosing where we place our priorities and loyalty. It contrasts the mindset of serving God and serving worldly desires, emphasizing that we cannot serve both masters simultaneously. This text serves as a reminder to focus on storing up treasures in heaven rather than earthly possessions.

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YOU CANNOT

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  1. YOU CANNOT MATTHEW 6:19-24

  2. THE KINGDOM CITIZEN CHARACTERMATT 5:1-12 RESPONSIBILITYMATT 5:13-16 NATUREMATT 5:17-19 2

  3. THE KINGDOM CITIZEN RULEMATT 5:20 ILLUSTRATIONMATT 5:21-48 DISTRACTIONSMATT 6 3

  4. 1 Therefore if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God....5 Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry. Colossians 3:1,5 (NASB95) YOU CANNOT SERVE BOTH AN UNBENDING PRINCIPLE 4

  5. YOU CANNOT SERVE BOTH AN UNBENDING PRINCIPLE 9 But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful desires which plunge men into ruin and destruction. 10 For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.1 Timothy 6:9–10 (NASB95) 5

  6. 18 “Then he said, ‘This is what I will do: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods...21So is the man who stores up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.” Luke 12:18-21 (NASB95) YOU CANNOT SERVE BOTH AN UNBENDING PRINCIPLE STORING UP TREASURE 6

  7. TWO TREASURIES ON EARTH This treasury is temporal, sensual and destructible describes a mentality opposed to righteousness 7

  8. TWO TREASURIES IN HEAVEN focus on the eternal goal and an interest in doing what is required to enjoy it 8

  9. TWO VISIONS THE SINGLE EYE single - simple or single, of a cloth folded once thus without complication. the noun form of the word means generous (James 1:5; Rom 12:8) 9

  10. TWO VISIONS THE EVIL EYE A Jewish colloquialism, to mean grudgingly This describes the man who does not and cannot grow spiritually 10

  11. TWO MASTERS GOD OF HEAVEN OR THE GOD OF THIS WORLD The contrast follows the obvious theme of the passage 11

  12. TWO MASTERS SERVE WE MUST NOT MISS THE FIGURE IN THE PASSAGE YOU CANNOT SERVE TWO MASTERS 12

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