Investing in Eternal Treasures Over Earthly Wealth
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### Quotes for Outreach
1. "Where is the concentration of your heart? Where is the preoccupation of your life? What do you spend most of your time thinking about? Most of your time planning? Most of your energy is dispensed toward what particular object? Chances are, if you think about it very long and you're like most people, the answer is something. Something. A house, a car, a wardrobe, a bank account, a savings account, a bond, a stock, an investment, furniture, a thing." [01:23] (37 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
2. "Well, Mr. Thing, I have some bad news for you. Oh, you say you can't hear me because the things are in the way? Well, I just want you to know that your things can't last. They're going to pass. There's going to be an end to them. Oh, maybe an error in judgment? Maybe a temporary loss of concentration? Or maybe you'll just pass them off to the secondhand thing dealer. Or maybe they'll wind up a mass of mangled metal being towed off to the thing yard." [04:34] (33 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
3. "And someday when you die, they only put one thing in the box, you. As somebody said, there are no pockets in shrouds. you see, in spite of the stupidity of that, and it really makes it sound pretty stupid, we are basically committed to acquiring things. Sadly, the leading religionists of the day of Jesus had the same problem. They were totally consumed with things." [05:20] (37 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
4. "You must also have the right view of the Word of God. And the Pharisees have developed their own system. But you must know that the Word of God is what you must be committed to and not one jot or tittle shall pass from that lot till it's all fulfilled. And then you must have the right view of moral issues. Chapter 5, verses 21 to 48. The Pharisees are only concerned with the externals. They're only concerned that they don't kill or they don't commit adultery or they don't do something else. But I'm telling you, the moral issues are not just what you do or don't do. They're what you think or don't think." [08:28] (33 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
5. "You see, we must handle our possessions and our money and our wealth and our luxury like we do anything else, 1 Corinthians 10 31, whatever you do, whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all to the glory of God. But we do so much of it to the indulgence of self. That's the problem." [22:07] (19 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
### Quotes for Members
1. "Now, the question that arises out of this text, it's a very simple one. Where is your heart? Verse 21. It's wherever your treasure is. Now, when I say, where is your heart, I don't expect you to start feeling around somewhere between your chin and your waist, because I'm not talking about physiology. And I'm not talking about the person sitting next to you that you're hopelessly in love with and have given your heart to. I'm talking about in terms of the investment of your life and your motives and your attitudes and your thought patterns." [01:23] (34 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
2. "Now, in chapter 6, verses 19 and following, He says, You must also have the right view toward wealth, luxury, verses 19 to 24. And watch this. Then from 25 to 34, you must have the right view of necessities. So, He's talking about things here. First, luxuries and then necessities. First, it's the wealth that we have and then it's just the necessity to eat and to sleep and to have a place to stay and some clothing to wear. And in both cases, the Pharisees had missed it. They had the wrong perspective of wealth and they had the wrong perspective of necessities." [09:21] (36 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
3. "And so it's against the backdrop of the greed of the Pharisees that our Lord speaks. And what He is saying here is that we must have the proper view of money and wealth and possessions. Now, listen, people. We're living in America in a great time of inflation, aren't we? And everybody keeps talking about recession and depression. And what's going to happen and the collapse. We hear this all on and on. Now, listen, I am not an economist and I am less than an economist, a politician. But I can tell you there's one simple reason for all inflation and it is greed. Period. Pure and simple. Greed. That's it." [20:21] (42 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
4. "Now, some people go to church and they say, boy, you know, preachers are always talking about money. Well, I'm sorry if you're a first-time guest here and that's what you got this morning. That's not normal. We just talk about money when the Lord talks about money. As we go through the Scripture, when He gets on it, we get on it too. But I don't mind that. Oh, by the way, I thought I'd mention this too. In the book of Matthew, the Lord talks about money 109 times. So get ready, folks. In the book of Mark, He talks about it 57 times. And in the book of Luke, He talks about it 94 times. And in the book of John, He talks about it 88 times. And by the way, the Lord talks about money five times more than He talks about any other subject in the Bible." [25:38] (48 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
5. "If I am doing this to use it to the glory of God in the life of those around me and in His kingdom, then I have a right to all of it. But if I am gaining it to stockpile it and to hoard it and to keep it and to amass it, to indulge myself in it, that is sin. And you're right back to dealing with that attitude again. John Wesley was an extremely... An extremely wealthy man. Now we think of John Wesley as a great man of God and a great man of prayer and a man devoted to the time and the Word of God, up every morning for hours in the Greek text studying. And we think of him as a man of some low means. John Wesley was an extremely wealthy man." [40:25] (44 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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1. "Where is the concentration of your heart? Where is the preoccupation of your life? What do you spend most of your time thinking about? Most of your time planning? Most of your energy is dispensed toward what particular object? Chances are, if you think about it very long and you're like most people, the answer is something. Something. A house, a car, a wardrobe, a bank account, a savings account, a bond, a stock, an investment, furniture, a thing." [01:23] (37 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
2. "Well, Mr. Thing, I have some bad news for you. Oh, you say you can't hear me because the things are in the way? Well, I just want you to know that your things can't last. They're going to pass. There's going to be an end to them. Oh, maybe an error in judgment? Maybe a temporary loss of concentration? Or maybe you'll just pass them off to the secondhand thing dealer. Or maybe they'll wind up a mass of mangled metal being towed off to the thing yard." [04:34] (33 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
3. "And someday when you die, they only put one thing in the box, you. As somebody said, there are no pockets in shrouds. you see, in spite of the stupidity of that, and it really makes it sound pretty stupid, we are basically committed to acquiring things. Sadly, the leading religionists of the day of Jesus had the same problem. They were totally consumed with things." [05:20] (37 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
4. "You must also have the right view of the Word of God. And the Pharisees have developed their own system. But you must know that the Word of God is what you must be committed to and not one jot or tittle shall pass from that lot till it's all fulfilled. And then you must have the right view of moral issues. Chapter 5, verses 21 to 48. The Pharisees are only concerned with the externals. They're only concerned that they don't kill or they don't commit adultery or they don't do something else. But I'm telling you, the moral issues are not just what you do or don't do. They're what you think or don't think." [08:28] (33 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
5. "You see, we must handle our possessions and our money and our wealth and our luxury like we do anything else, 1 Corinthians 10 31, whatever you do, whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all to the glory of God. But we do so much of it to the indulgence of self. That's the problem." [22:07] (19 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
### Quotes for Members
1. "Now, the question that arises out of this text, it's a very simple one. Where is your heart? Verse 21. It's wherever your treasure is. Now, when I say, where is your heart, I don't expect you to start feeling around somewhere between your chin and your waist, because I'm not talking about physiology. And I'm not talking about the person sitting next to you that you're hopelessly in love with and have given your heart to. I'm talking about in terms of the investment of your life and your motives and your attitudes and your thought patterns." [01:23] (34 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
2. "Now, in chapter 6, verses 19 and following, He says, You must also have the right view toward wealth, luxury, verses 19 to 24. And watch this. Then from 25 to 34, you must have the right view of necessities. So, He's talking about things here. First, luxuries and then necessities. First, it's the wealth that we have and then it's just the necessity to eat and to sleep and to have a place to stay and some clothing to wear. And in both cases, the Pharisees had missed it. They had the wrong perspective of wealth and they had the wrong perspective of necessities." [09:21] (36 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
3. "And so it's against the backdrop of the greed of the Pharisees that our Lord speaks. And what He is saying here is that we must have the proper view of money and wealth and possessions. Now, listen, people. We're living in America in a great time of inflation, aren't we? And everybody keeps talking about recession and depression. And what's going to happen and the collapse. We hear this all on and on. Now, listen, I am not an economist and I am less than an economist, a politician. But I can tell you there's one simple reason for all inflation and it is greed. Period. Pure and simple. Greed. That's it." [20:21] (42 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
4. "Now, some people go to church and they say, boy, you know, preachers are always talking about money. Well, I'm sorry if you're a first-time guest here and that's what you got this morning. That's not normal. We just talk about money when the Lord talks about money. As we go through the Scripture, when He gets on it, we get on it too. But I don't mind that. Oh, by the way, I thought I'd mention this too. In the book of Matthew, the Lord talks about money 109 times. So get ready, folks. In the book of Mark, He talks about it 57 times. And in the book of Luke, He talks about it 94 times. And in the book of John, He talks about it 88 times. And by the way, the Lord talks about money five times more than He talks about any other subject in the Bible." [25:38] (48 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
5. "If I am doing this to use it to the glory of God in the life of those around me and in His kingdom, then I have a right to all of it. But if I am gaining it to stockpile it and to hoard it and to keep it and to amass it, to indulge myself in it, that is sin. And you're right back to dealing with that attitude again. John Wesley was an extremely... An extremely wealthy man. Now we think of John Wesley as a great man of God and a great man of prayer and a man devoted to the time and the Word of God, up every morning for hours in the Greek text studying. And we think of him as a man of some low means. John Wesley was an extremely wealthy man." [40:25] (44 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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