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Matthew 6:19-21 · Providence Baptist Church - Sermons

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  Thank you, Alex and the band. If you notice, there might be a theme throughout our songs this morning.
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  ! And I'll let you do that homework. Please turn with me to Matthew chapter 6.
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  ! Matthew chapter 6, we will be looking at verses 19 to 21.
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  19 to 21.
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  There your heart will be also.
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  On my shelf at home, there is a book titled Jonathan Edwards Encyclopedia.
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  It's a one-volume encyclopedia. Don't worry, it's not multi-volume.
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  But it has many interesting entries in it.
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  And me having this book does not communicate anything about me or my personality.
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  But every once in a while, I'll crack it open when I'm studying for something and seeing if there's an entry.
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  And as you know, if you know anything about Jonathan Edwards, a big theme in his ministry, his life, was heaven.
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  He meditated on heaven a lot.
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  You may know him.
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  He was just before the American Revolution.
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  He died in the 1750s.
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  He's a pastor in New England.
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  But you may know him from his Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God sermon, maybe.
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  But also for Heaven is a World of Love sermon.
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  If you want to know more about Jonathan Edwards, I would...
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  That's the first two things I would get you to read if you want to know.
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  They're worth your time in reading.
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  But he meditated a lot on heaven.
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  And so if you crack this open, this encyclopedia, as I did, the first line in the entry on heaven is worthy of our consideration.
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  The author of the entry begins by saying,
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  Jonathan Edwards was so heavenly-minded that he accomplished much earthly good.
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  Jonathan Edwards was so heavenly-minded that he accomplished much earthly good.
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  Would that not be said of us also at the end of our life?
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  What an epitaph that would be.
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  He...
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  This person can say this about Jonathan Edwards because he lived a life according to our text today.
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  He meditated on this text, Jonathan Edwards, and he lived it.
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  And that's...
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  Let that be our prayer today also.
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  Based on his understanding and application of the text like our text today, Matthew 6, 19 to 21.
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  So, as we begin, pray with me.
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  Father, as we open your word to the words for where our treasure is, there our hearts will be also.
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  Help us who know you, who trust in you, to have your son as our treasure.
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  That we would have Christ as our treasure.
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  Help us, for those this morning who know you, who trust in you, to apply these words specifically to our lives.
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  From parenting, to work, to family, to every sphere of influence that you've given us.
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  Help us to apply these words.
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  As we look at your word and look inward to our hearts,
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  help us to look outward for those around us, that we would live out these words for your glory.
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  For those who may not know or trust you, or may know you but not trust you yet,
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  we pray that you would give them ears to hear, eyes to see, and hearts to understand the truth
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  as, in the words, Christ can be their treasure.
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  That there is only heavenly treasure that matters.
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  And help them to see that, to save their souls through your word.
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  And we pray for this, for your glory.
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  Amen.
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  In the Bible, there are lots of contrasts.
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  If you think about, this is a major device that the Bible uses.
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  And think about Proverbs, like Proverbs 9, where you have wisdom, you have folly, personified in a woman,
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  over and over again through the book.
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  You have Old Testament prophets.
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  That, if you didn't know, sounds like Jesus' parables.
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  But Jesus is just doing what the prophets have always done.
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  And here is the Sermon on the Mount.
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  And he's doing just that.
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  He's contrasting.
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  He's giving contrast to make a point.
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  So, in the Sermon on the Mount, think, there are a couple of words and themes that we can say that are contrasts.
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  So, we'll dive in deeper into these in a moment.
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  But, think hypocrites.
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  And then, disciples, on the other hand.
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  Earth, earthly.
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  Or heaven, heavenly.
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  And one of the major themes in the Sermon on the Mount is righteousness.
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  So, we could say, broadly, that there is a lesser righteousness contrasted to what we could call a greater righteousness
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  that Jesus is calling us to through the Sermon on the Mount.
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  And, going back to our first contrast, there's this hypocrisy on one side.
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  And what we will call wholeheartedness on this other side.
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  Hypocrisy being half-hearted.
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  But we are called to be full-hearted.
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  So, when we see themes, you see treasure in our text.
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  But, if you look in the first 18 verses of our chapter, you see reward.
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  So, I'm going to be using the terms treasure, reward, and value.
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  They're all going to be related terms.
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  And I think there's a reason that he switches from reward.
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  That he, Jesus, from the first 18 verses of this chapter, says reward, reward, reward.
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  And, in our text today, he changes to treasure.
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  More on that later.
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  But, this begs the question, forces the question upon us as we read this text.
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  What do you value?
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  What do you value?
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  So, that's the major question that this text is demanding of us.
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  So, before we dive in, why this text?
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  Why this text today?
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  Well, one, Nathan asked me to preach.
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  So, that's part of it.
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  But, this text, I think there's a broad reason.
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  And then there's a more specific reason.
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  So, if we think about the church more broadly, Big C Church here, there's a warning here for the church broadly.
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  And it's hypocrisy.
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  But, hypocrisy, we could say, has a specific form today in our context.
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  And that's called cultural Christianity.
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  Hypocrisy, cultural Christianity.
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  This is a warning against that, this text.
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  It's similarly to the term lukewarmness.
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  Being lukewarm.
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  So, this should, you should recall the church at Laodicea in Revelation 3.
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  The Spirit writes to the church at Laodicea.
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  I know your works.
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  You are neither cold nor hot.
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  Would that you were either cold or hot.
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  So, because you are lukewarm and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth.
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  Strong words for those who are lukewarm.
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  I would say half-hearted.
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  Hypocritical.
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  You see all these related terms.
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  This half-heartedness leads to lukewarmness.
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  So, there's a warning there.
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  There's a warning not to be hypocritical.
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  Half-hearted.
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  Lukewarm.
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  You cannot be one person at work, another at church, another at home.
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  That is half-hearted.
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  This text is calling us to a, something greater.
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  But, let's not be careful to look to others before ourselves.
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  It's easy to say they, isn't it?
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  Instead of us or me.
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  So, going a little more specific reason here.
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  Why this text for the local church, us.
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  It's easy for us to point out cultural Christianity.
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  But, for us, there's a warning for those who might be younger in years.
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  There's a warning for us who are younger.
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  But, there's an encouragement here for those who are older.
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  First, older.
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  Being heavenly minded is something that, when you are a believer, it becomes more and more apparent as you get older.
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  And, if you are older here with us, know that we younger members see that and we are encouraged that you are so heavenly minded.
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  And, you are naturally bending more and more towards heaven.
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  Your soul is bending towards there.
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  More and more.
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  And, that is so encouraging to us.
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  So, just hear that.
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  Thank you for your example.
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  For the youngers, there is a warning.
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  That, there's a warning for us who are in what we would call a busy season.
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  Some have the season short.
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  Some of us long.
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  Sometimes, maybe, depends on how many kids you have.
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  But, when focusing on so much earthly good.
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  Think what might be good.
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  It will be easy for us to skip on the heavenly perspective in life.
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  It is tempting to, we don't really do this actively.
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  But, I'm going to say passively.
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  That's our temptation here in our context.
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  It is tempting to passively allow what we believe are treasures in heaven.
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  To be replaced over time by treasures on earth.
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  Let us actively fight against the inner man.
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  Who, I would say, in our context, we have to be.
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  It's the passivity or the passively desires to what Romans 1.
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  To exchange the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man.
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  Let that be a warning to us.
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  This text helps us fight for the heavenly perspective in the day-to-day earthly good.
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  What we value, especially in busy seasons, like a lot of us have found ourselves in, for good.
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  What we value, especially in a busy season, reveals our hearts.
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  Reveals not only what we love most, but also reveals the very essence of our person.
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  So, the stakes are high on how you answer, what do you value?
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  So, especially in a busy season.
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  And what a biblical counseling book I read once said, in the heat of life.
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  And if you're married, you know exactly what he means by heat.
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  When you are in the heat of the moment of struggling with sin or spouse's sin or children.
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  What do you value most affects how you will respond to those moments.
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  So, here's the main point.
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  I'll give you the main point here.
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  We'll revisit it later at the end.
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  But I'll give you the main point, Jesus' exhortation here.
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  And then we'll dig deep, come back up, remind you of the main point.
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  And then we'll go and do likewise.
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  This is Jesus' exhortation to us.
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  The main point is not merely what you value, but it is much more than that.
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  This text reveals that it is much more.
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  What you value is who you really are as a person.
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  What you value is who you really are as a person.
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  This is based on the biblical understanding of heart in our text.
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  For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
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  The biblical understanding of a heart is not merely emotions.
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  But it consists of a combination of heart functions.
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  How the heart responds in the heat of life.
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  So, what I mean by that, briefly, we'll come back to this.
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  But there are three functions.
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  The heart responds to life in three functions.
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  Think to have the categories, three categories.
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  It's a triad.
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  Think of a Venn diagram.
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  Three circles intersecting.
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  Beliefs, desires, and choices.
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  The heart responds in beliefs, desires, and choices.
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  We'll come back to this later.
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  But it's a more dynamic understanding of the heart.
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  It's not just merely emotions or whatever comes first to mind when you think of heart.
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  Think heart.
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  Think beliefs, desires, and choices.
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  The choices you choose, the desires you want, the beliefs you interpret the world through.
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  So, what kind of person are you is the question that Jesus is asking.
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  He does this by pointing to the hypocrites.
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  So, what kind of person are you?
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  What do you treasure up in your heart?
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  By Jesus calling out the hypocrites in this chapter before our text, he's saying that they, the hypocrites, valued outward, or we could say earthly, righteousness.
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  And he gives three examples.
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  But the followers of Jesus, true disciples, are called to value a higher, wholehearted, whole person devotion to a heavenly or greater righteousness.
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  Followers of Jesus are called to value a higher, wholehearted, whole person devotion to a greater heavenly righteousness.
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  So, look with me, not in chapter 6, but the last verse of chapter 5.
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  This is connected to our verse today, this text today.
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  So, chapter 5, verse 48.
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  You, therefore, must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
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  So, this goes back.
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  When you see perfect, particularly in the New Testament, especially in Hebrews, for sure, this is a big word.
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  When you see the word perfect, in the ESV, at least, read perfect as complete.
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  There's a completeness aspect to that.
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  Not that this is wrong, but just don't think perfect in our cultural understanding.
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  The biblical idea behind perfect, it's the teleos, telos word group, which is so prevalent in the New Testament.
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  Think it is finished.
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  Comes from this word.
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  It is complete.
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  That makes a lot more sense.
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  Not, it is perfect.
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  But you, therefore, must be complete as your heavenly Father is complete.
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  And, how do you do this?
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  Well, this is our text today.
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  So, let's dive in into the structure.
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  And then we'll take a few specific words.
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  And then we'll dive into the text.
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  So, with that in mind, how do you be complete or perfect?
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  Well, he says, verse 1, which is the intro to our text, really.
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  Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them.
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  It's a warning.
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  For then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.
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  See this reward?
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  Thinking about treasure in our text.
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  So, this is another greater righteousness theme.
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  So, we are in the body of the Sermon on the Mount here.
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  The core.
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  And we have found ourselves here almost at the pinnacle of the Sermon on the Mount.
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  Think the climax of the great sermon.
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  So, in three parts.
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  The body is really in three parts.
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  And I'll give it to you.
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  Greater righteousness.
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  As one commentator has helpfully divided this.
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  Greater righteousness in relation to God's laws.
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  Which comes before.
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  Ends in 48.
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  Chapter 5, 48.
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  And then it's greater righteousness and piety toward God.
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  That's our section of the text here.
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  From 6.1 to 21.
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  And then after.
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  It's greater righteousness in relation to the world.
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  And so, what's so fascinating is our text.
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  19, 20, and 21.
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  Acts not only as the conclusion of chapter 6.1 to 21.
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  The conclusion is also the introduction to that last third part from 6.19 to 7.12.
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  That greater righteousness in relation to the world.
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  So, there really could be two sermons that could be preached on this one text.
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  One looking what comes before.
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  And then using it on the next week, maybe.
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  I'm not.
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  But using it as an introduction to what comes after.
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  So, I've chosen the former instead of the latter.
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  And so, here he is making a specific point about hypocrites.
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  And contrasting them to the true disciples of Christ.
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  And how to do that.
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  So, zooming in, we can see some symmetry here.
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  And this is actually the thing that brought my attention to this text.
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  19, 20, and 21.
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  There's a symmetry here.
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  That is really beautiful.
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  And we have seen it in John with the chiastic structures.
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  But Matthew does this to, and John and the biblical writers do this, to make specific points.
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  To make you draw your attention towards the point.
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  So, instead of giving you the pattern from 6.1 to 6.21, let's go backwards.
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  Let's take our text today.
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  Our main text.
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  19, 20, and 21.
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  There's a pattern here I want to show you.
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  And this pattern actually is throughout the entire chapter.
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  So, when you have, you have verse 19.
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  Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth.
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  Where moth and rust to destroy.
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  And where thieves break in and steal.
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  We could say that this is a negative instruction.
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  It's an instruction that is in the negative.
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  So, verse 20.
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  But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven.
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  Where neither moth nor rust destroys.
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  And where thieves do not break in and steal.
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  This we could categorize as a positive instruction.
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  It's an instruction that is in the positive.
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  His statement.
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  Verse 21.
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  For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
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  So, this is a statement of reward.
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  See what I'm doing there?
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  Equating treasure with reward.
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  But you have negative instruction.
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  Then a positive instruction.
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  And then a statement of reward.
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  Now, go to the beginning of chapter 6.
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  And this pattern is found in all three examples.
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  So, he says, as an intro.
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  He says, Jesus says,
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  Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people.
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  In order to be seen by them.
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  For then you will have no reward from your father who is in heaven.
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  It's a warning here.
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  But, verse 2.
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  This is, he does three.
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  Gives three examples of.
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  Do not be like the hypocrites.
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  But be those who practice.
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  Verse 20.
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  Be those who lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven.
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  The three examples are giving.
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  Then prayer.
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  Then fasting.
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  And then, the conclusion.
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  The concluding exhortation.
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  Is our text.
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  19, 20, and 21.
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  So, verse 2.
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  Is the negative.
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  Instruction.
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  Verse 3.
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  Is the positive instruction.
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  I'm not going to read them through.
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  But just look down in your text.
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  And you can follow along.
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  And then, verse 4.
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  Is the statement of reward.
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  That's giving.
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  That's the giving statement.
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  Or example.
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  And then, when it comes to prayer.
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  You have verse 5.
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  Is the negative.
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  Verse 6a.
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  The positive.
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  6b.
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  Is the statement of reward.
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  See this pattern?
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  Now.
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  Now.
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  You might be thinking.
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  There's a real big elephant in the room.
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  It's the Lord's Prayer.
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  And it is.
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  But.
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  It is almost an excursus.
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  Or an aside.
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  On prayer.
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  And forgiveness.
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  But.
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  This isn't about the Lord's Prayer.
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  But.
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  I want you to.
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  Think about.
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  Think about this context.
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  Where Matthew.
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  Has placed the Lord's.
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  The Lord's Prayer in.
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  This model prayer.
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  It has something to do with.
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  What we're talking about.
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  With the theme.
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  Of value.
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  So.
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  I'll just keep that there.
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  And you can think about it later.
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  Now.
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  And then.
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  Fasting.
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  Is the third.
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  And final.
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  Example.
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  Verse 16.
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  Is the negative.
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  17.
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  Is the positive.
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  Instruction.
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  And verse 18.
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  Is the.
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  Statement of reward.
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  You see.
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  The pattern.
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  That's found in our text.
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  Is the pattern.
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  That's leading up.
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  To that statement.
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  And.
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  The statement.
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  For where your treasure is.
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  There your heart.
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  Will be also.
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  So.
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  There's some specific words.
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  That I would like to draw your attention to.
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  As we.
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  Dig a little deeper.
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  Together.
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  And there's some words.
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  That come before our text.
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  And there's some words.
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  In our text.
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  That's one.
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  Draw your attention to.
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  So.
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  One.
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  In verse 48.
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  Of chapter 5.
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  We've already seen.
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  The perfect.
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  And the complete.
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  So when you read.
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  Perfect.
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  Think.
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  Completeness.
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  And then reward.
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  You can count.
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  How many times.
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  Reward.
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  Is repeated.
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  In the first 18 verses.
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  Of this chapter.
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  And it's connected.
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  To treasure.
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  As we've.
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  Said before.
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  And then.
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  Hypocrites.
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  Hypocrite.
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  As.
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  We know what a hypocrite.
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  Hypocrite is.
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  But if you.
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  Have any children.
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  Or young children around.
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  You just use words.
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  And they're like.
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  What's that mean?
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  And you're like.
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  You should know what that means.
• 26:19
  But.
• 26:19
  We just know it.
• 26:20
  Because of cultural connotations.
• 26:22
  But.
• 26:23
  It's a Greek word.
• 26:24
  It's a translation.
• 26:26
  Which means.
• 26:27
  Somehow.
• 26:28
  Now.
• 26:28
  The translators.
• 26:29
  Throughout.
• 26:30
  History.
• 26:30
  Have just.
• 26:32
  Transferred.
• 26:33
  Hypocrites.
• 26:34
  Into English.
• 26:35
  But it's really a Greek word.
• 26:36
  That they just transferred over.
• 26:38
  So.
• 26:40
  In classical Greek times.
• 26:41
  It's related.
• 26:43
  To.
• 26:44
  Acting.
• 26:45
  Or actors.
• 26:45
  On a stage.
• 26:47
  Which.
• 26:47
  Kind of makes sense.
• 26:48
  If you think about it.
• 26:49
  In New Testament usage.
• 26:51
  It's really.
• 26:52
  About those.
• 26:53
  Who are.
• 26:54
  As we're saying.
• 26:55
  Are half-hearted.
• 26:57
  Are.
• 26:58
  Say one thing.
• 26:59
  Don't do it.
• 27:00
  Say it.
• 27:00
  And do something else.
• 27:01
  As a major theme.
• 27:03
  Especially in the Sermon on the Mount.
• 27:05
  And it's.
• 27:06
  Jesus is using the hypocrites.
• 27:08
  In that specific word.
• 27:09
  To be contrary.
• 27:11
  To those.
• 27:12
  Who practice.
• 27:13
  Two verses.
• 27:15
  And it's.
• 27:15
  Beginning.
• 27:16
  And the end.
• 27:16
  Here.
• 27:17
  Like.
• 27:19
  Bookends.
• 27:20
  Here.
• 27:21
  So.
• 27:22
  It's first.
• 27:23
  Those who practice.
• 27:24
  As in contrary.
• 27:25
  To the hypocrites.
• 27:26
  Those who practice.
• 27:27
  You must be perfect.
• 27:29
  As your heavenly father.
• 27:30
  Is perfect.
• 27:31
  And then at the end.
• 27:32
  Those who practice.
• 27:34
  Laying up for yourselves.
• 27:36
  Treasures.
• 27:37
  In heaven.
• 27:38
  Those two things.
• 27:39
  And he's saying.
• 27:40
  Do these things.
• 27:41
  Don't be like the hypocrites.
• 27:43
  So in our text.
• 27:44
  If you look at.
• 27:45
  19, 20, and 21.
• 27:46
  There's specific words.
• 27:47
  They're.
• 27:49
  Very important.
• 27:50
  Like.
• 27:50
  Earth.
• 27:51
  And heaven.
• 27:52
  Think realms.
• 27:53
  And spheres.
• 27:55
  Heaven.
• 27:55
  Being the dwelling place.
• 27:57
  Of God.
• 27:59
  And then.
• 27:59
  Treasure.
• 28:00
  As we've said.
• 28:01
  Is the.
• 28:01
  Related term.
• 28:03
  Reward.
• 28:03
  Here.
• 28:04
  Throughout chapter six.
• 28:06
  And with heart.
• 28:07
  I want to go back to.
• 28:08
  The perfect.
• 28:08
  And the complete idea.
• 28:10
  Heart.
• 28:12
  Goes back to.
• 28:14
  You therefore.
• 28:14
  Must be perfect.
• 28:15
  As your heavenly.
• 28:16
  Father.
• 28:16
  Is perfect.
• 28:18
  And the.
• 28:19
  Perfectness.
• 28:19
  The completeness.
• 28:20
  The completeness.
• 28:21
  Goes alongside.
• 28:23
  Heart.
• 28:23
  Because heart.
• 28:24
  Like we said.
• 28:25
  Is a whole.
• 28:26
  Being.
• 28:27
  Whole person.
• 28:28
  Idea.
• 28:30
  Which.
• 28:31
  Really goes back to.
• 28:32
  The warning.
• 28:33
  Beware.
• 28:33
  Practicing your righteousness.
• 28:34
  Before other people.
• 28:35
  In order to be seen by them.
• 28:37
  For then.
• 28:38
  You will have no reward.
• 28:39
  From.
• 28:40
  Your father.
• 28:41
  Who is in heaven.
• 28:41
  That's the warning.
• 28:43
  And.
• 28:43
  The remedy.
• 28:45
  Are those two verses.
• 28:47
  So.
• 28:48
  Look at.
• 28:49
  With me.
• 28:50
  19 and 20.
• 28:51
  With me.
• 28:52
  19 and 20.
• 28:54
  Are.
• 28:55
  Extremely.
• 28:56
  Similar.
• 28:57
  Except.
• 28:59
  One's negative.
• 29:00
  Like we've.
• 29:01
  Pointed out.
• 29:01
  And one's positive.
• 29:04
  One's.
• 29:04
  Upon.
• 29:05
  Or.
• 29:05
  On.
• 29:06
  Earth.
• 29:07
  And then.
• 29:07
  Verse 20.
• 29:08
  In.
• 29:09
  Heaven.
• 29:11
  You have the negative instruction.
• 29:13
  Then positive.
• 29:16
  The beautiful symmetry here.
• 29:18
  And there's.
• 29:18
  Some words of note.
• 29:20
  The warning for rust.
• 29:21
  You may have a different translation.
• 29:23
  When you see rust.
• 29:24
  Think.
• 29:25
  The main idea is consuming.
• 29:27
  I don't want to get into the details of that.
• 29:28
  But it's an interesting word choice there.
• 29:30
  But.
• 29:30
  Think.
• 29:31
  Consuming.
• 29:31
  And what's rust do?
• 29:32
  It consumes.
• 29:33
  Something.
• 29:35
  The idea of eating.
• 29:37
  Corrosion.
• 29:39
  It's consuming.
• 29:39
  The process of.
• 29:41
  Causing.
• 29:41
  Deterioration.
• 29:42
  By consuming.
• 29:44
  And one thing.
• 29:45
  Destroy.
• 29:47
  Where.
• 29:49
  Where moth.
• 29:50
  And rust.
• 29:51
  Destroy.
• 29:52
  And where.
• 29:53
  Bees.
• 29:53
  Break in.
• 29:53
  And steal.
• 29:54
  This.
• 29:55
  Destroy.
• 29:56
  Word.
• 29:56
  Also comes back.
• 29:57
  From.
• 29:58
  Verse 16.
• 30:00
  And when you fast.
• 30:01
  Do not look gloomy.
• 30:02
  Like the hypocrites.
• 30:03
  For they disfigure.
• 30:04
  Their faces.
• 30:05
  It's the same word.
• 30:07
  Disfigure their faces.
• 30:08
  So.
• 30:08
  There's a connection there.
• 30:09
  He's making.
• 30:10
  He wants you to.
• 30:13
  Recall back.
• 30:13
  Even.
• 30:14
  More clearly.
• 30:15
  The hypocrites.
• 30:17
  So.
• 30:17
  In over translation.
• 30:19
  I'm all about over translating.
• 30:21
  I get some points across.
• 30:23
  Do not.
• 30:24
  Treasure.
• 30:24
  Up.
• 30:25
  Treasures.
• 30:25
  On earth.
• 30:26
  There's this double treasure.
• 30:27
  Language here.
• 30:29
  Do not treasure up.
• 30:30
  Treasures.
• 30:30
  On earth.
• 30:31
  But treasure up.
• 30:32
  Treasures.
• 30:33
  In heaven.
• 30:34
  The treasuring.
• 30:36
  Aspect.
• 30:37
  The main idea here.
• 30:39
  Look with me at.
• 30:41
  Verse 21.
• 30:43
  For where your treasure is.
• 30:45
  There your heart.
• 30:47
  Will be also.
• 30:48
  Notice the where.
• 30:52
  Leads into the there.
• 30:53
  Treasure.
• 30:55
  There.
• 30:56
  Your heart.
• 30:56
  Will be also.
• 30:58
  It's a because.
• 30:59
  Clause.
• 31:00
  For.
• 31:00
  Forever.
• 31:02
  And what that means is.
• 31:03
  Jesus followers.
• 31:04
  Followers.
• 31:04
  Must store up.
• 31:06
  Treasures.
• 31:06
  In heaven.
• 31:07
  And not on earth.
• 31:08
  Because people's treasures.
• 31:09
  Capture their allegiance.
• 31:11
  That's what's at stake.
• 31:12
  Capturing their allegiance.
• 31:15
  So.
• 31:16
  Let's look about.
• 31:17
  Look.
• 31:17
  Look closer.
• 31:18
  At the word.
• 31:18
  Heart.
• 31:19
  Let's come back to that.
• 31:20
  That dynamic.
• 31:21
  Understanding.
• 31:22
  Of the heart.
• 31:24
  So.
• 31:24
  He chooses hard.
• 31:26
  And.
• 31:27
  It's not merely.
• 31:28
  Emotions.
• 31:29
  Feelings.
• 31:30
  Etc.
• 31:31
  Whatever you think of.
• 31:32
  First.
• 31:33
  It's not just one thing.
• 31:34
  It's not one dimensional.
• 31:35
  It's three dimensional.
• 31:37
  It's much more dynamic.
• 31:39
  I like that word.
• 31:41
  There's three functions.
• 31:43
  Of the heart.
• 31:44
  In scripture.
• 31:46
  And I would.
• 31:47
  Encourage you to go to.
• 31:49
  As you read scripture.
• 31:51
  Particularly the psalms.
• 31:52
  Throughout the new testament.
• 31:53
  Even the prophets.
• 31:54
  Think when there's heart.
• 31:55
  Language here.
• 31:58
  Think.
• 31:59
  Beliefs.
• 32:01
  Desires.
• 32:02
  And choices.
• 32:04
  There are fancy terms to this.
• 32:06
  I'll give you.
• 32:06
  For all the nerds out there.
• 32:07
  That don't like fancy terms.
• 32:08
  There's cognitive.
• 32:09
  Which is the beliefs.
• 32:11
  Aspect.
• 32:12
  The affective.
• 32:14
  Which is the desiring.
• 32:17
  Aspect.
• 32:17
  And the volitional.
• 32:19
  Which.
• 32:20
  Is more on the choices.
• 32:22
  Spectrum.
• 32:23
  Choosing.
• 32:23
  But.
• 32:24
  I'm going to just say.
• 32:26
  Beliefs.
• 32:27
  Desires.
• 32:28
  Choices.
• 32:29
  That.
• 32:29
  Is the human heart.
• 32:32
  And.
• 32:32
  That is a whole.
• 32:34
  Person.
• 32:35
  Mentality.
• 32:36
  So.
• 32:36
  All these.
• 32:37
  Are.
• 32:38
  Interwoven.
• 32:39
  And overlapping.
• 32:40
  Particularly.
• 32:41
  In.
• 32:42
  Relationships.
• 32:43
  And that's why.
• 32:43
  Human.
• 32:44
  Relationships.
• 32:45
  In marriage.
• 32:46
  With friendships.
• 32:46
  With children.
• 32:47
  Are.
• 32:49
  So.
• 32:50
  Complicated.
• 32:51
  Your wife.
• 32:53
  Is more.
• 32:54
  It may.
• 32:55
  She may be.
• 32:57
  Feeling.
• 32:57
  Something.
• 32:58
  But that's not all.
• 32:59
  She's feeling.
• 33:01
  There's.
• 33:01
  There's.
• 33:02
  Beliefs.
• 33:02
  Behind it.
• 33:03
  There's a desire.
• 33:05
  There.
• 33:06
  To.
• 33:07
  And that's the key.
• 33:08
  To asking.
• 33:09
  Good questions.
• 33:10
  And think about your children.
• 33:11
  If your children.
• 33:12
  Does something dumb.
• 33:14
  They're choosing.
• 33:15
  Something dumb.
• 33:15
  And instead of saying.
• 33:19
  Don't do that.
• 33:20
  Or why'd you do that.
• 33:21
  Which is a temptation.
• 33:23
  Just know.
• 33:24
  That there are.
• 33:25
  There are.
• 33:25
  A whole person.
• 33:27
  There are.
• 33:28
  There were desires.
• 33:29
  There.
• 33:30
  In this situation.
• 33:31
  There were.
• 33:32
  Beliefs.
• 33:33
  Maybe.
• 33:34
  They.
• 33:35
  The belief.
• 33:35
  That they could.
• 33:36
  Make that jump.
• 33:38
  And.
• 33:39
  They really believed it.
• 33:40
  And.
• 33:41
  They.
• 33:42
  Wanted to.
• 33:43
  Show off to their friends.
• 33:45
  So they chose.
• 33:45
  To jump.
• 33:47
  Which.
• 33:48
  Ended up in.
• 33:49
  The hospital.
• 33:50
  And so now you're.
• 33:52
  Mad.
• 33:53
  And why'd you choose that?
• 33:54
  Well.
• 33:55
  You know.
• 33:55
  That's a.
• 33:56
  Clear example of.
• 33:57
  There's a lot more than just choosing.
• 33:59
  And.
• 34:00
  Choosing the wrong thing.
• 34:01
  Your children.
• 34:02
  Your wife.
• 34:03
  Your spouse.
• 34:04
  Your friends.
• 34:04
  Your family.
• 34:05
  They're whole.
• 34:06
  Dynamic persons.
• 34:07
  There's more than that.
• 34:08
  Don't.
• 34:09
  I encourage you not to.
• 34:10
  Relate to.
• 34:14
  These people.
• 34:15
  As one dimensional.
• 34:17
  But they are whole.
• 34:20
  Dynamic persons.
• 34:22
  This.
• 34:22
  Has a lot.
• 34:23
  Of applications.
• 34:24
  I'll let you.
• 34:25
  Work those applications out.
• 34:26
  On your own.
• 34:27
  But this dynamic heart.
• 34:29
  Gives the idea.
• 34:29
  In our text here.
• 34:31
  Where.
• 34:32
  Jesus says.
• 34:33
  For where your treasure is.
• 34:34
  Connecting the treasure.
• 34:35
  Here.
• 34:36
  There.
• 34:36
  Your heart.
• 34:37
  Will be also.
• 34:38
  This dynamic idea.
• 34:39
  Gives us the whole hearted.
• 34:41
  Or whole person perspective.
• 34:43
  On connecting the where.
• 34:45
  For treasure.
• 34:47
  And the there.
• 34:48
  For heart.
• 34:49
  I hope you.
• 34:50
  Get that.
• 34:51
  There's a lot packed into.
• 34:53
  Heart.
• 34:54
  What you value.
• 34:56
  Is who you really.
• 34:57
  Are.
• 34:58
  As a person.
• 35:01
  Not just a part of you.
• 35:03
  That's separated from another sphere.
• 35:04
  Of your life.
• 35:06
  This strikes.
• 35:08
  At the root.
• 35:09
  Of cultural Christianity.
• 35:11
  Doesn't it?
• 35:13
  You cannot become.
• 35:14
  A cultural Christian.
• 35:16
  You would be.
• 35:17
  The hypocrites.
• 35:19
  You would be.
• 35:19
  In.
• 35:20
  The hypocritical.
• 35:22
  Title.
• 35:23
  That Jesus is using here.
• 35:25
  But he is calling us.
• 35:26
  Who know.
• 35:27
  And trust the Lord.
• 35:30
  To be wholehearted.
• 35:32
  To be wholehearted.
• 35:33
  And.
• 35:34
  Knowing that our treasure.
• 35:36
  Is a heavenly.
• 35:37
  Treasure.
• 35:38
  And.
• 35:41
  We cannot be half-hearted.
• 35:43
  That is impossible.
• 35:46
  So.
• 35:46
  Let me.
• 35:47
  Remind you.
• 35:47
  Of the main point here.
• 35:49
  Jesus is.
• 35:50
  Exhortation.
• 35:51
  To us.
• 35:52
  And in this sermon here.
• 35:53
  Concluding.
• 35:54
  In.
• 35:55
  Verse 21.
• 35:56
  Is this.
• 35:56
  The main point.
• 35:57
  Is not merely.
• 35:58
  What you value.
• 35:59
  Is what you love.
• 36:00
  But is much.
• 36:01
  More.
• 36:02
  What you value.
• 36:03
  Is who you really are.
• 36:05
  As a person.
• 36:06
  This is based on the biblical.
• 36:08
  Understanding of heart.
• 36:09
  Like we said.
• 36:10
  Not merely emotions.
• 36:12
  But.
• 36:12
  Consisting.
• 36:12
  Consisting.
• 36:13
  Of beliefs.
• 36:15
  Desires.
• 36:15
  And choices.
• 36:16
  And a combination of those.
• 36:17
  What kind of person.
• 36:19
  Are you.
• 36:20
  Is the question.
• 36:21
  And what do you.
• 36:22
  Treasure up.
• 36:23
  In your heart.
• 36:24
  Remember.
• 36:27
  Jesus pointing out.
• 36:28
  The hypocrites.
• 36:29
  They.
• 36:30
  Valued.
• 36:30
  Outward.
• 36:31
  Or earthly.
• 36:32
  Righteousness.
• 36:33
  Followers.
• 36:34
  Of Jesus.
• 36:35
  Are called.
• 36:36
  To a higher.
• 36:38
  Wholeheartedness.
• 36:39
  Whole person.
• 36:40
  Devotion.
• 36:41
  To it.
• 36:42
  Verse 20.
• 36:42
  Be our prayer.
• 36:46
  To lay up.
• 36:47
  For yourselves.
• 36:48
  Treasures.
• 36:49
  In heaven.
• 36:51
  I'm going to end.
• 36:52
  By.
• 36:52
  Something.
• 36:55
  Might be risky.
• 36:57
  But.
• 36:58
  In.
• 36:58
  Your bulletin.
• 36:59
  You will find.
• 37:00
  On the next page.
• 37:02
  Is.
• 37:04
  Under the.
• 37:05
  Silent.
• 37:05
  Reflective.
• 37:06
  Moment.
• 37:06
  Is a.
• 37:08
  Printing.
• 37:08
  Of a.
• 37:09
  Poem.
• 37:10
  By.
• 37:11
  George.
• 37:11
  Herbert.
• 37:12
  Who died.
• 37:13
  In 1633.
• 37:15
  He was living.
• 37:15
  In the times.
• 37:16
  Of Shakespeare.
• 37:17
  John Donne.
• 37:18
  Of the like.
• 37:20
  And he.
• 37:21
  Died.
• 37:22
  A.
• 37:22
  Small church.
• 37:24
  Country pastor.
• 37:25
  But he.
• 37:26
  Was a poet.
• 37:28
  But people.
• 37:28
  Didn't know it.
• 37:31
  And.
• 37:32
  He.
• 37:32
  Gave.
• 37:33
  A copy.
• 37:33
  Of his poems.
• 37:34
  To a friend.
• 37:35
  And he said.
• 37:36
  To his friend.
• 37:36
  On his dying.
• 37:37
  Death.
• 37:38
  Bed.
• 37:39
  Burn it.
• 37:40
  Keep it.
• 37:41
  I don't care.
• 37:42
  Well.
• 37:44
  That book.
• 37:45
  Has become.
• 37:46
  One of the.
• 37:47
  Best.
• 37:48
  English.
• 37:49
  Devotional.
• 37:50
  Poems.
• 37:50
  Ever.
• 37:51
  Written.
• 37:53
  So.
• 37:53
  I love.
• 37:54
  George Herbert.
• 37:55
  He.
• 37:56
  Has.
• 37:58
  Shepherded.
• 37:58
  My soul.
• 37:59
  Through college.
• 38:00
  And I have.
• 38:01
  Revisited him.
• 38:02
  Now.
• 38:02
  On this side.
• 38:02
  Of marriage.
• 38:03
  And he is.
• 38:04
  So much.
• 38:04
  Sweeter.
• 38:04
  But.
• 38:07
  Like.
• 38:08
  Jonathan.
• 38:09
  Edwards.
• 38:10
  Who lived.
• 38:10
  After him.
• 38:12
  George Herbert.
• 38:13
  Understood.
• 38:13
  The heaven.
• 38:14
  And earth.
• 38:14
  Dynamic.
• 38:15
  Leading.
• 38:15
  To true.
• 38:16
  Treasure.
• 38:17
  And we can see this.
• 38:18
  In the poem.
• 38:19
  I provided for you.
• 38:20
  On.
• 38:20
  In the bulletin.
• 38:21
  He's.
• 38:21
  Specifically.
• 38:22
  Meditating.
• 38:22
  On Colossians.
• 38:23
  Three.
• 38:23
  Three.
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  He's.
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  Thinking about.
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  Paul's words.
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  That read.
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  Our life.
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  Is hid.
• 38:28
  With Christ.
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  And God.
• 38:29
  God.
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  But.
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  You can see.
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  That.
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  He also has.
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  Our text.
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  In mind.
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  As well.
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  There.
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  I know.
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  It's not bolded.
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  Or italicized.
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  But in the word.
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  In the.
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  If you see.
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  There is a hidden message.
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  That reads.
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  Diagonally.
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  And I wonder.
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  If you could.
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  Maybe you can circle.
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  The words.
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  On each line.
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  There's one word.
• 38:54
  Each line.
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  That reads.
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  A message.
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  And I'll give you.
• 38:58
  The message.
• 38:59
  And I'll read the.
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  Poem.
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  And.
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  Two things.
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  Of words.
• 39:04
  Words.
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  To help you.
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  Deneural.
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  Means.
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  Daytime.
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  Deneural.
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  Daytime.
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  And obliquely.
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  Means.
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  Having a slanted.
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  Or sloping direction.
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  Like the hidden message.
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  In the poem.
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  So.
• 39:17
  I'll give you the hidden message.
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  So you can.
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  See it.
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  As we read it.
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  It's.
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  My.
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  That's the first line.
• 39:23
  Second line.
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  Is life.
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  And it goes on.
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  My.
• 39:28
  Life.
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  Is.
• 39:30
  Is.
• 39:30
  Hid.
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  In him.
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  That is.
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  My treasure.
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  My.
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  Life.
• 39:36
  Is.
• 39:36
  Hid.
• 39:37
  In him.
• 39:37
  That is.
• 39:38
  My pleasure.
• 39:38
  Treasure.
• 39:40
  I'll read the poem.
• 39:41
  In closing.
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  My words.
• 39:44
  And thoughts.
• 39:45
  Do.
• 39:45
  Both.
• 39:46
  Express.
• 39:46
  This notion.
• 39:47
  That life.
• 39:48
  Hath.
• 39:48
  With the sun.
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  A double.
• 39:50
  Motion.
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  The first.
• 39:52
  Is.
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  Straight.
• 39:53
  And our.
• 39:53
  De neural.
• 39:54
  Friend.
• 39:55
  The other.
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  Hid.
• 39:56
  And doth.
• 39:56
  Obliquely.
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  Bend.
• 39:58
  One.
• 39:59
  Life.
• 39:59
  Is.
• 39:59
  Wrapped.
• 39:59
  In flesh.
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  And tends.
• 40:01
  To earth.
• 40:02
  The other.
• 40:03
  Winds.
• 40:04
  Towards him.
• 40:04
  Whose happy.
• 40:05
  Birth.
• 40:06
  Taught me.
• 40:07
  To live here.
• 40:08
  So.
• 40:08
  That still.
• 40:09
  One.
• 40:09
  I.
• 40:10
  Should.
• 40:11
  Aim.
• 40:11
  And shoot.
• 40:12
  At that.
• 40:12
  Which is.
• 40:13
  On high.
• 40:14
  Quitting.
• 40:15
  With daily.
• 40:16
  Labor.
• 40:17
  All my.
• 40:18
  Pleasure.
• 40:19
  To.
• 40:19
  Gain.
• 40:20
  At harvest.
• 40:21
  An.
• 40:22
  Eternal.
• 40:23
  Treasure.
• 40:25
  The treasure.
• 40:26
  We.
• 40:26
  Treasure.
• 40:26
  Up in heaven.
• 40:27
  Is only.
• 40:28
  In Christ.
• 40:29
  Which leads.
• 40:29
  To true.
• 40:30
  Pleasure.
• 40:31
  Here.
• 40:31
  On earth.
• 40:33
  My life.
• 40:34
  Is.
• 40:34
  Hidden.
• 40:34
  In him.
• 40:35
  That is.
• 40:37
  My.
• 40:37
  Treasure.
• 40:39
  Pray.
• 40:39
  With me.