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Sermon on the Mount, The Jesus Manifesto, Matthew 5-7

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Your Treasure's Where Your Heart Is Found
Matthew 6:19-24 and Luke 12:16-21

by Dr. Ralph F. Wilson
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Part of a study on the Sermon on the Mount


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READER 1

Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.

READER 2

Don't store them up

READER 3

Hoard them

READER 4

Stash them away

READER 2

Seeking to become richer and richer.

READER 3

Jesus told this parable:

READER 1

The ground of a certain rich man produced a good crop.

READER 4

Plentiful harvest.

READER 1

He thought to himself, 'What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.'

READER 2

No place to store it all.

READER 1

This is what I'll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.

READER 2

I'll tear down my barns

READER 3

And build bigger ones.

READER 2

Tear down my barns

READER 4

And build bigger ones.

READER 3

Bigger ones.

READER 2

Bigger.

READER 3

More.

READER 4

Much.

READER 1

And I'll say to myself, "You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry." '

READER 2

But God said to him, 'You fool!

READER 3

You blind man.

READER 4

You idiot!

READER 1

This very night your life will be demanded from you.

READER 2

Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?'

READER 3

This is how it will be with anyone who stores up things for himself

READER 4

But is not rich toward God.

READER 3

Rich toward God.

READER 1

Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth,

READER 2

Where moth and rust destroy,

READER 3

And where thieves break in and steal.

READER 1

But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven,

READER 2

Treasures in heaven.

READER 3

Where moth and rust do not destroy,

READER 4

And where thieves do not break in and steal.

READER 1

For where your treasure is,

READER 2

There your heart will be also.

READERS 1 and 2

For where your treasure is,

READERS 3 and 4

There your heart will be also.

READER 1

The eye is the lamp of the body.

READER 2

The eye is like a window through which the light shines in.

READER 1

If your eyes are good,

READER 3

If your spiritual vision is sound,

READER 4

Your whole body will be full of light.

READER 1

But if your eyes are bad,

READER 2

Your spiritual vision is faulty

READER 3

Off track.

READER 4

Influenced by greed.

READER 1

Your whole body will be full of darkness.

READER 2

If then the light within you is darkness,

READER 3

How great is that darkness!

READER 1

No one can serve two masters.

READER 2

Two masters.

READER 3

Either he will hate the one and love the other,

READER 4

Or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other.

READER 1

No one can serve two masters.

READER 2

Two masters.

READER 3

You cannot serve both God and Money.

READER 1

God

READER 2

And Mammon.

READER 1

God

READER 3

And materialism.

READER 1

No one can serve two masters.

READER 2

You cannot serve two masters.

READER 3

You cannot serve both God and Money.

ALL

Serve God!


All lessons now compiled as a 220-page book available as an e-book or printed book.


Part of a study on the Sermon on the Mount found at http://www.jesuswalk.com/manifesto/



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