Put Your Money Where Your Heart Is

1. Put Your Money Where Your Heart Is Matthew 6:1-4, 19-24

2. Matthew 6:1-4, 19-24 • 1"Be careful not to practice your righteousness ◙in front of people, to be seen by them. Otherwise, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven. 2So whenever you give to the poor, don’t sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be applauded by people. I assure you: They’ve got their reward!3But when you give to the poor, don’t let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

3. 19"Don’t collect for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.20But collect for yourselves treasures in heaven,where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves don’t break in and steal. 21For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.22"The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. 23But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. So if the light within you is darkness—how deep is that darkness! 24"No one can be a slave of two masters, since either he will hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot be slaves of God and of money.

4. 1. There is only temporary enjoyment for a greedy heart. • Earthly possessions will be destroyed. • Prideful giving provides temporary reward.

5. 2. There is a heavenly command for a generous heart. • Lev. 27:30-32 • 30"Every tenth of the land’s produce, grain from the soil or fruit from the trees, belongs to the LORD; it is holy to the LORD. 31If a man decides to redeem any part of this tenth, he must add one-fifth to its value. 32Every tenth animal from the herd or flock, which passes under the ‹shepherd’s› rod, will be holy to the LORD.

6. Numbers 18:21 • 21"Look, I have given the Levites every tenth in Israel as an inheritance in return for the work they do, the work of the tent of meeting.

7. Malachai 3:8-10 8 “Will a man rob God?       Yet you have robbed Me!       But you say,       ‘In what way have we robbed You?’       In tithes and offerings. 9 You are cursed with a curse,   For you have robbed Me,       Even this whole nation. 10Bring all the tithes into the storehouse,       That there may be food in My house,

8. 1 Cor. 16:2 2On the first day of the week, each of you is to set something aside and save to the extent that he prospers, so that no collections will need to be made when I come. 2 Cor. 9:7 7Each person should do as he has decided in his heart—not out of regret or out of necessity, for God loves a cheerful giver.

9. 2 Cor. 9:6 Remember this: the person who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the person who sows generously will also reap generously.

10. 3. There is a promised reward for a generous heart. • Earthly reward Malachi 3:9-10 9You are suffering under a curse, yet you—the whole nation—are ‹still› robbing Me. 10Bring the full 10 percent into the storehouse so that there may be food in My house. Test Me in this way,” says the LORD of Hosts. "See if I will not open the floodgates of heavenand pour out a blessing for you without measure.

11. Heavenly reward Your attitude toward your money has eternal consequences.