Matthew 6 - Laying Up Treasures


Matthew 6:1-18: Jesus Taught on the Pure Motives of Alms, Prayer, and Fasting
Matthew 6:19-34: Jesus Taught to Lay Up Treasures in Heaven

Introduction - Lay Up

Matthew 6:20 — But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:

LAY UP: to amass or reserve; heap; treasure; lay in store
LUke 12:16-21

I. Matthew 6:1-18: The Motive of Our Righteousness, Prayer and Fasting
Without a God honoring motive, these are missed opportunities.

Alms, Righteousness vs. 1-4
Prayer vs. 5-15
Fasting vs. 16-18

II. Matthew 6:19-24: The Location of of Our Treasure

Where your TREASURE is = your HEART is

Mt 6:21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Who are we serving? will fill us with "light" or "darkness" (vs. 23)

III. Matthew 6:25-34: The Security of Our Treasure

Hebrews 11:1 — Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

COLLATERAL: something pledged as security for repayment of a loan,

Trust the "PROCESS"

Keeping Faith is Knowing the Score

"Take No Thought" - Be not therefore anxiously careful.

dividing or distracting the mind.

Faith filled

v. 25 Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?

v. 26 Fowls Sow Not, Reap Not, Gather Not into Barns: Are ye not much better than they? --- God feeds them.

Mt 6:27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

Mt 6:28 And why take ye thought for raiment?

shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?

Mt 6:33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Mt 6:34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.