The Bible Study Podcast, Episode 171. Today, the Bible Study podcast continues the study of money.

Welcome to the Bible Study Podcast. I'm your host, Chris Christensen. This is part seven in a study on money. If you have not

heard the other six parts, they do build one upon the other. So I'd encourage you to go back

and listen to those. We're going to start in this particular episode with Luke chapter 12

versus 29 through 34. What we've looked at so far is we've looked at the Bible's perspective on money, the Bible's perspective on being rich, the problem with money, whether being blessed means making more money, all of those sort of things.

What we're going to look at today is we're going to look at where our treasure is.

And this is probably the most definitive

verse dealing with that, or set of verses. And this is how it goes. And do not set your heart

on what you will eat or drink. Do not worry about it. For the pagan world runs after all such

things. And your father knows that you need

them, but seek his kingdom, and all of these things will be given to you as well. Do not be

afraid, little flock, for your father has been pleased to give you the kingdom. Sell your possessions

and give to the poor. Provide purses for yourself that will not wear out,

a treasure in heaven that will not be exhausted, where no thief comes near, and no moth destroys.

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. There's a lot of depth in this set of

verses, these five, six verses here.

And so let's look at it a bit. First of all, it deals with worry. Do not sit your heart on what you will eat or drink. Do not worry about it. And we talked a little bit about contentment in an earlier episode, so I'm not going to get into that particular theme. but we do spend a lot of time.

I don't know about you, but I do spend a lot of time.

Maybe I should put that in the first person.

I do spend a lot of time. I don't know about you, but I do spend a lot of time. Maybe I should put that in the first person. I do spend some time worrying about money. Now I left my day job in January, as you know, and as I've talked about in this session on money. And probably my biggest worry right now is, can I make a go of what I'm doing right now as a business or is this a career

break? And so this is a verse that is hard to do because we need to spend some time thinking

about money. We need to spend some time planning and such, but it says, don't be running after such

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