How to Measure Your Treasure
Rex Yancey
Matthew 6:19-34
A few years ago a man walked into a casino in Tunica, MS, and lost elven hundred dollars. He proceeded to the parking lot and killed himself. Now, I don't pretend to know what goes through someone's mind when they take their own life. However, I have lost family members to suicide; and I have ministered to other families in their loss. It's been my experience that not everyone who takes their own life is crazy. It is more often than not a sense of hopelessness that comes over them. I have known people or known of people who took their lives over rejection, divorce, financial loss, public embarrassment, bad health, abuse, and because someone else did.
Would this man's reaction been different if he had won eleven hundred dollars instead of losing it? Maybe. He had probably already lost a significant amount of money and thought to himself that he would win it back with this amount of money. When he lost it all, he couldn't bear it. He measured his treasure to be worth eleven hundred dollars, and when he lost it, he lost his reason for living.
How do you measure your treasure? If you will tell me that, you will provide me with the information I need to determine where you are in life. If you continue your course, I can write the last chapter of your life.
Where are your thoughts this morning? What do you think about? Is your thoughts on heaven or earth? Is your life on earthy things or on God? What are you thinking, the things of earth or the things of heaven? Where is your heart?
The concern of Christ in this passage is money, possessions, and material things. His concern is that we guard against centering our lives around houses, furnishings, cars, lands, buildings, stocks-all the things that make up security and wealth on this earth.
The reasoning is simply understood: nothing on this earth is secure and lasting. It is aging, decaying, and wasting away. It is all corruptible and temporal. ...
Rex Yancey
Matthew 6:19-34
A few years ago a man walked into a casino in Tunica, MS, and lost elven hundred dollars. He proceeded to the parking lot and killed himself. Now, I don't pretend to know what goes through someone's mind when they take their own life. However, I have lost family members to suicide; and I have ministered to other families in their loss. It's been my experience that not everyone who takes their own life is crazy. It is more often than not a sense of hopelessness that comes over them. I have known people or known of people who took their lives over rejection, divorce, financial loss, public embarrassment, bad health, abuse, and because someone else did.
Would this man's reaction been different if he had won eleven hundred dollars instead of losing it? Maybe. He had probably already lost a significant amount of money and thought to himself that he would win it back with this amount of money. When he lost it all, he couldn't bear it. He measured his treasure to be worth eleven hundred dollars, and when he lost it, he lost his reason for living.
How do you measure your treasure? If you will tell me that, you will provide me with the information I need to determine where you are in life. If you continue your course, I can write the last chapter of your life.
Where are your thoughts this morning? What do you think about? Is your thoughts on heaven or earth? Is your life on earthy things or on God? What are you thinking, the things of earth or the things of heaven? Where is your heart?
The concern of Christ in this passage is money, possessions, and material things. His concern is that we guard against centering our lives around houses, furnishings, cars, lands, buildings, stocks-all the things that make up security and wealth on this earth.
The reasoning is simply understood: nothing on this earth is secure and lasting. It is aging, decaying, and wasting away. It is all corruptible and temporal. ...
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