The Mount // Week 8 // Misconceptions of Storing, Seeing & Serving

Pastor Ashley Wilkerson

Matthew 6:19-21 NIV 19 “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 20 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

YOUR STORING - Recognize what you value.

Matthew 6:21 NIV 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

YOUR STORING - Recognize what you value.

YOUR SEEING - Recognize your worldview.

Matthew 6:22-23 NIV 22 “The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light. 23 But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

Ayin Tovah - Hebrew Idiom of “Good Eye”: Refers to the practice of seeing the world through a perspective of generosity and compassion; focusing on the good.

Ayin Ra’ah - Hebrew Idiom of “Bad Eye”: Refers to the practice of seeing the world through scarcity, selfishness, greed, envy; focusing on the negative.

Matthew 6:24 NIV 24 “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

YOUR STORING - Recognize what you value.

YOUR SEEING - Recognize your worldview.

YOUR SERVING - Recognize your devotion.

Deuteronomy 8:18a NIV 18 But remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth…

1 Timothy 6: 2b-10 NIV

2b These are the things you are to teach and insist on. 3 If anyone teaches otherwise and does not agree to the sound instruction of our Lord Jesus Christ and to godly teaching, 4 they are conceited and understand nothing. They have an unhealthy interest in controversies and quarrels about words that result in envy, strife, malicious talk, evil suspicions 5 and constant friction between people of corrupt mind, who have been robbed of the truth and who think that godliness is a means to financial gain. 6 But godliness with contentment is great gain. 7 For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. 8 But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that. 9 Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.

Hebrews 13:5 NIV 5 Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.”

YOUR STORING - Recognize what you value.

YOUR SEEING - Recognize your worldview.

YOUR SERVING - Recognize your devotion.