Review: Matthew 6:20 â Jesus said, âStore your treasures in (the new ...
Review: Matthew 6:20 – Jesus said, “Store your treasures in (the new) heaven, where moths and rust cannot destroy, and thieves do not break in and steal.” In light of Matthew 6:20, there are two ways to live. We can live focused on the accumulation and amassing of valuable things on earth or we can live focused on the accumulation and distribution of valuable things in heaven. So how do we "provide ourselves with treasure in the heavens that does not fail"? Specifically, by making frequent and consistent withdrawals on our earthly treasures and possessions so we can give them to the needs of people and situations around us. The greatest deterrent to making withdrawals on our earthly treasures so we can meet the needs of people and situations around us is this: the illusion that earth is our home". It’s not. The new heavens and earth are our home. And we get to furnish them daily by giving generously to the matters that matter to God.
Colossians 1:4 – We have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and your love for all of God’s people (Greatest Commandment), 5 which come from your confident hope of what God has reserved for you in heaven. You have had this expectation (that the new heaven is your appointed destiny and the new earth is your final home) since you first heard the truth of the Good News. * We have a “confident hope” that inheritance and eternal destiny and a new heaven and a new earth and rewards and crowns are the substance of our future! * Hope: Not chance or wish, but the promise that God can and will fulfill His purpose.
2 Timothy 4:6 – The time of my death is near. 7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, and I have remained faithful. 8 And now the prize awaits me—the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give me on the day of his return. And the prize is not just for me but for all who eagerly look forward to his appearing.
1 Peter 1:3 – God raised Jesus Christ from the dead. Now we live with great expectation, 4 and we have a priceless inheritance—an inheritance that is kept in heaven for you, pure and undefiled, beyond the reach of corruption and decay.
Matthew 25:31 – “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. 32 All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33 He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left. 34
“Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. 35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’ 37
“Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink?38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’ 40
“The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’
Without “confident hope” that we are storing up eternal rewards in heaven, we will not grasp the value of our life or the value of our daily deeds.
Ephesians 1:18 – I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you and the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people. * Enlightened: Brought into the light, illumined, rendered evident * Inheritance: In the New Testament times inheritance meant a “possession viewed in one sense as present, while in another sense future – at the same time”.
Colossians 1:4 – We have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and your love for all of God’s people (Greatest Commandment), 5 which come from your confident hope of what God has reserved for you in heaven. You have had this expectation (that the new heaven is your appointed destiny and the new earth is your final home) since you first heard the truth of the Good News. * We have a “confident hope” that inheritance and eternal destiny and a new heaven and a new earth and rewards and crowns are the substance of our future! * Hope: Not chance or wish, but the promise that God can and will fulfill His purpose.
2 Timothy 4:6 – The time of my death is near. 7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, and I have remained faithful. 8 And now the prize awaits me—the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give me on the day of his return. And the prize is not just for me but for all who eagerly look forward to his appearing.
1 Peter 1:3 – God raised Jesus Christ from the dead. Now we live with great expectation, 4 and we have a priceless inheritance—an inheritance that is kept in heaven for you, pure and undefiled, beyond the reach of corruption and decay.
Matthew 25:31 – “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. 32 All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33 He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left. 34
“Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. 35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’ 37
“Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink?38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’ 40
“The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’
Without “confident hope” that we are storing up eternal rewards in heaven, we will not grasp the value of our life or the value of our daily deeds.
Ephesians 1:18 – I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you and the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people. * Enlightened: Brought into the light, illumined, rendered evident * Inheritance: In the New Testament times inheritance meant a “possession viewed in one sense as present, while in another sense future – at the same time”.
