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Benjamin Ng

Where is Your Treasure?

Father in heaven, thank you so much for this time that we have to study together.

Thank you Lord for preserving our life to this time.

And as we're about to open the Bible, we just ask for a blessing.

And that as we open our word, the word that you would open our hearts and minds to be receptive to it.

And Lord, there is a very important message for each and every 1 of us this evening.

May you convict our hearts, but more than that, may your Holy Spirit work conversion upon each and every 1 of us.

For those that are just coming in, happy Sabbath again.

Please share a praise for this past week.

Let's turn our Bibles to Matthew chapter 6.

And we've studied the first 18 verses already.

Matthew chapter 6, starting in verse 19, the Bible says, Verse 19, the Bible says, Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal.

But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal.

For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

We're actually going to study all the way to the end of the chapter this evening, but it starts here in verse 19 about not laying up treasure on earth, but rather lay it up in heaven.

Earth, it says, the moth, the rust, and the thief will get to it eventually.

The moth, all those clothing, all those things that it can eat away, it will eat it.

Whatever the Moth cannot eat, the rust will get to.

The metal will get to it, the rust rather.

And then whatever the moth and the rust cannot get to, guess what?

Everything on this earth that can be taken will be taken someday.

And that's why is Jesus saying, look, don't lay up for yourself treasure on the earth.

But then it says in verse 21, it makes this kind of like a conclusion.

So really what is the issue about where we lay up treasure?

The question is where is your heart this evening?

Where has your heart been this past week?

Let me show you what the Bible thinks about our heart or describes about our heart Jeremiah chapter 17 and verse 9.

Let's turn the Bibles there Jeremiah 17 and verse 9 The Bible says the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked.

You see the Bible says there that the heart is desperately wicked and the reason why we lay up treasure on earth is the condition of our heart.

And so friends, as I ask you, where is your heart this evening?

When the Bible says that the heart is desperately wicked, is deceitful above all things, the natural heart of man will focus on things of the earth.

And so really when I ask you where is your heart this evening, is your heart with God?

And so really it is a matter of conversion because where the heart chooses to focus on, that is where we will lay up treasure.

Whether it's on earth or whether it's in heaven, it is a condition of the heart.

Matthew chapter 6, verse 22, for those that are joining, happy Sabbath.

Don't forget to write a praise, but even in the midst of that, don't forget to listen to the message as well Matthew chapter 6 verse 22 I hope you're you're turning along with me in your Bibles Matthew chapter 6 verse 22 the Bible says the light of the body is the eye if Therefore thine eye be single thy whole body shall be full of light but if thine eye be evil thy whole body shall be full of light.

But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness.

If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness.

So when it says in the beginning, lay your treasure not on earth but in heaven, then it refers next what?

If your eye is beholding earthly things, you will lay up things on earth.

If your eye is looking at heavenly things, then your treasures will be in heaven.

It's obvious what this means when it says in verse 22, if your eye is single.

You know first I started by looking at the concordance.

Well, I didn't really get much answer there.

When I came back to the text here, and really, there is the comparison in verse 23.

So, you have evil eyes or righteous eyes.

If your eye be single, Meaning if your eye is focused on the right thing, if it is single to what?

If you are focused on the right thing in what you look at, then you will store up treasures in heaven.

But If your eye is evil, or your eyes be evil, your whole body will be full of darkness.

Friends, where you are putting your treasure is a matter of conversion, a matter of where your heart is, but really, the problem is really what we choose to look at, what we are looking at with our eyes.

Let's go to Matthew chapter 5 and verse 29.

Look at what Jesus gives as a solution, a recommendation to a solution if we want to put our treasure in heaven and not on earth.

Matthew 5, verse 29, the Bible says, and if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee, for it is profitable for thee that 1 of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

Friends, I want to give this little connection here this evening.

If we are putting our treasures upon earth, we are getting ready for the fires of hell.

If we are putting our treasure on earth, it means that our eyes are beholding things that are of earth and our whole body is full of darkness because the heart is wicked.

So, when it comes to the solution that we're seeing here, Jesus has said, what?

The eye that if it beholds darkness, the whole body will be full of darkness.

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