TREASURE

What are you going to do with all that stuff
you have stored up when you die?

You sure are not going to take it with you.

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"Do not store up riches for yourselves

here on earth, where moths and rust

destroy, and robbers break in and steal.

Instead, store up riches for yourselves

in heaven, where moths and rust cannot

destroy and robbers cannot break in and

steal.  For your heart will always be where

yours riches are."

(Matthew 6:19-21 GNT)

The treasure that lasts for ever;

"Their greatest treasure is their reverence

for the LORD."

(Isaiah 33:6 GNT)

MONEY

"As a partridge that broods but does

not hatch,

So is he who gets riches,

but not by right;

It will leave him in the midst

of his days,

And at his end he will be a fool."

(Jeremiah 17:11 NKJV)

RUST

"Do not store up riches for yourselves

here on earth, where moths and rust

destroy, and robbers break in  and steal.

Instead, store up riches for yourselves

in heaven, where moths and rust cannot

destroy, and robbers cannot break in

and steal.  For your heart will always 

be where your riches are."

(Matthew 6:19-21TEV)

I STRUCK IT RICH

IF,

"One man's junk (trash) is another man's treasure."

as they say.

Then, I'm rich, rich, rich.

I know the man who owns this property in the neighboring county.

He not only gave me permission to explore around on it,

but also let me know that I could have anything out of his trash pile I wanted.

I'm rich, rich, rich.

Look. A noise maker. An antique radio.

A microwave oven and a bicycle.

We can eat and exercise.

And here is a metal hen's nest near the hood of an old pickup truck.

And below is an old chicken feeder.

We are in the chicken business.

WHAT'S THE POINT?

We are just like that in life. We try to see how much "stuff" or "things" we can accumulate in life. When in truth it is only something else to take care of, then eventually discard.

God said,

"Watch out and guard yourselves from every kind of greed;

because your true life is not made up of the things you own,

no matter how rich you may be"

-Luke 12:15 (TEV)

Do you know what God thinks of all your "stuff", possessions, treasures?

"For the things that are considered of great value by people

are worth nothing in God's sight."

-Luke 16:15 (TEV)

Just prior to this Jesus tell us of a rich man that had too much. He did not even have a place to store it all. And there was no self storage buildings around.

God called him a "fool".

And he died that night.

God's conclusion was,

"This is how it is with those who pile up riches for themselves

but are not rich in God's sight."

-Luke 12:21 (TEV)