Mastering Your Money

Sermon on the Mount (13-16)

Mastering Your Money

Matthew 6:19-24

Your heart follows your treasure, so put your treasure where you want your heart to go.

Introduction: "Show me your bank statement" (1 Tim. 6:10; Mt. 6:24)

Introduction: "Pics or it didn't happen"

I. Only Two Views of Money and Possessions (Mt. 6:19-21)

A. The Wrong View (Mt. 6:19)

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

B. The Right View (Mt. 6:20-21)The Command(Mt. 6:20a; Lk. 16:15; 12:21, 33; Phil. 4:17; 1 Tim. 6:17-19; Lk. 16:9) "But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven."

1. We give: Purposefully(2 Cor. 9:7) Regularly (1 Cor. 16:2) Joyfully (2 Cor. 9:7)Proportionately(1 Cor. 16:2) Generously (2 Cor. 8:1-5; 9:6)

2. Two Reasons to Store Up Treasure in Heaven

a. Heavenly treasure is permanent (Mt. 6:20b; 1 Pet. 1:4; Mk. 8:36) "...where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal."

b. Our hearts follow our treasure (Mt. 6:21) "For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."

II. An Illustration of the Two Viewpoints (Mt. 6:22-23; Prov. 22:9; 28:22; Mt. 20:15; Jas. 1:5; Rom. 12:8; 2 Cor. 8:2; 9:11, 13; Acts 20:35)

"The eye is the lamp of the body; so then if your eye is clear, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!"

III. The Impossibility of Holding Both Views (Mt. 6:24; 13:22; Mk. 4:19; Ex. 20:3; Mt. 22:37-38; 2 Cor. 5:7; 4:18; Phil. 3:20; Col. 3:1-3; Phil. 4:6-7, 11; 1 Tim. 6:8; Heb. 13:5; Lk. 12:15)

"No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth."

Kingdom people don’t live for applause; they live for the approval of the Father.