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The Christian and Possessions

The Christian and Possessions. Matt 6:19-24. Treasure and Worry. Therefore…. Faith < 500 verses Prayer > 500 verses Money > 2000 1 in 10 verses in the NT deals with Money. 3 sections. 1. Laying Up Treasure – Matt 6:19-21 2. Eye health? - Matt 6:22-23 3. God or Money? – Matt 6:24.

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The Christian and Possessions

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  1. The Christian and Possessions Matt 6:19-24

  2. Treasure and Worry

  3. Therefore… • Faith < 500 verses • Prayer > 500 verses • Money > 2000 • 1 in 10 verses in the NT deals with Money

  4. 3 sections • 1. Laying Up Treasure – Matt 6:19-21 • 2. Eye health? - Matt 6:22-23 • 3. God or Money? – Matt 6:24

  5. Treasures

  6. Treasure • Clothing • Gen 45:22 – Joseph to Benjamin • Josh 7:20-21 - Achan’s sin • Judg 14:12 - Samson’s riddle • John 19:23-24 - Jesus’ clothes • Moths are dangerous to wealth

  7. Treasure • Grain • The foolish man who thought himself rich • Luke 12:16-21 • tear down his barns and build bigger ones • Why? Store crops - his wealth • Rust – anything which eats into • Insects • rats

  8. Treasure in Heaven • "Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also" • How? • “Bank of Heaven?” • V22-23 - Eye health and body irradiance? • Seeing clearly? • Is that right? • Some detective work…

  9. Detective Work • Look at the translation • Matt 6:22-23 • Bad vs. Evil

  10. Good Eye vs Evil Eye • Idiom? • Talmud • Evil Eye • Prov 23:6-8 Do not eat the food of a stingy man, do not crave his delicacies; for he is the kind of man who is always thinking about the cost. "Eat and drink," he says to you, but his heart is not with you. You will vomit up the little you have eaten and will have wasted your compliments.

  11. Hebrew…

  12. Prov 22:9 - A generous man will himself be blessed, for he shares his food with the poor.

  13. Good Eye = Generosity • Paul’s Paraphrase V22-23 "If you're generous you will know joy, if you're stingy then you will be locked into your self“ • Scrooge? • Three Paragraphs: • Don't think so much of storing wealth on earth as storing it in heaven. • How? Be generous with what you have • Be a servant of God not of Money

  14. Do We Serve God or Money? • It is said "money is a good servant but a terrible master“ • Money is also a subtle master • Do not pretend money is unimportant • Think otherwise – likely to be ensnared…

  15. Not Effort Free • Prov 13:4 • Prov 20:4 • Prov 24:30-34

  16. Ebenezer Scrooge

  17. Choose a True and Loving Master • Who is our master? • How do we serve our master? • Could anyone tell? • Interest • Solomon • Eccl 2:3-11 – Vast business empire, sex, drugs & rock-n-roll • Eccl 5:9-10 “The lover of money never has enough money; the lover of luxury never has enough income. This too is pointless. When the quantity of goods increases, so does the number of parasites consuming them; so the only advantage to the owner is that he gets to watch them do it.” CJB

  18. Jesus says • "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”

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