Series: Sermon on the Mount: The Greatest Sermon Ever Preached
Category: Sunday Evening Sermons
Speaker: Daniel Sweet
Background to the text
Three Main Commands about money
- Store Up Treasures in Heaven
- Do Not Be Anxious
- Seek First the Kingdom of God
Exposition of Matthew 6:19-24
Treasure Language in Sermon on the Mount
- —Matthew 5:11-12 , 6:1, 6:3-4, 6:6, 6:17-18
Treasure Language in the Gospel of Matthew
- —Matthew 13:44, Matthew 19:16-30
Do Not Store Up for Yourselves Treasures on Earth
- —Earthly Treasures Will Not Last: Natural deterioration, Sinful assaults
Instead Store Up for Yourselves Treasures in Heaven
- —Because Heavenly Treasures Last Forever
- —Because Treasures Indicates the Condition of Our Heart
Two Illustrations
- Light and Darkness
- — Either the eye is clear, the whole body is full of light
- — Or the eye is clouded, the whole body is full of darkness
- Master and Slave
- — Either we will love God and serve Him
- — Or we will love money and serve it
Hording treasures on earth clouds our thinking and enslaves us to money.
Hording heavenly treasures provides clear understanding and binds us to God.