How Big Is Your Barn?
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Introduction
Introduction
Greetings...
Why Heaven & Not Earth
Why Heaven & Not Earth
On earth...
On earth...
Moth and rust destroy the material things of this world.
Thieves break in and steal the material things of this world.
19 “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal,
In heaven...
In heaven...
Neither moth nor rust can destroy the spiritual realm.
Nor can thieves break in and steal from it.
20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.
Summery
Summery
Worldliness offers fleeting pleasures () but righteousness offers eternal bliss ().
Your Treasure Lay Where Your Heart Is
Your Treasure Lay Where Your Heart Is
If your treasure is on earth, your heart will be disappointed.
If your treasure is on earth, your heart will be disappointed.
If your heart is set on this material world and the things it offers your heart will find itself seeking that which decays and that which is taken from it. You will be heart broken.
If your treasure is secure in heaven, your heart will not be disappointed.
If your treasure is secure in heaven, your heart will not be disappointed.
This isn’t to say there won’t be disappointment in this life on earth but that our heart will not strive in such.
16 Rejoice always,
With our treasures in heaven nothing in this world can truly devastate us.
Heb 10:32-34
32 But recall the former days when, after you were enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings, 33 sometimes being publicly exposed to reproach and affliction, and sometimes being partners with those so treated. 34 For you had compassion on those in prison, and you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property, since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an abiding one.
Summery
Summery
With our treasures in heaven it is taken care of by God () being guarded by God’s power through faith ().
1 Pet
How Can We Lay Up Treasure In Heaven
How Can We Lay Up Treasure In Heaven
First, by being sure you are a child of God.
First, by being sure you are a child of God.
If you haven’t been immersed in the likeness of the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ you haven’t obeyed God’s plan of salvation and obeyed the gospel.
3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.
Second, by using the material blessings God has given us to bless those around us.
Second, by using the material blessings God has given us to bless those around us.
We are simply stewards of what we have and as such we must use it to glorify God through good works.
17 As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy. 18 They are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share, 19 thus storing up treasure for themselves as a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is truly life.
Summery
Summery
As Jesus clearly stated in when we look after God’s precious creation who are less fortunate we glorify their Creator.
Conclusion
Conclusion
They say it is never too soon to start planning for your retirement and the sooner you invest in your future the better.
There has never been a more true statement concerning spiritual matters than that!
How Big Is Your Barn in heaven?
Invitation
1 Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; 2 but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
1 Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; 2 but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
