Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and bestselling author Dr. Paul David Tripp

connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life. There's no topic that Jesus

discussed more in his ministry than the topic of money and possessions.

It's because he knows the default struggle of all of our hearts.

In today's episode, as we continue through this sermon series on life in the kingdom of God,

Paul reveals three treasure principles that all humans live by.

Here's Paul with some investment strategies.

Perhaps there's no topic that Jesus discussed more in his ministry than the topic of money and possessions.

Perhaps that's because Jesus knows something about the struggle of all of our hearts.

I want to read for you again, beginning with verse 19 of Matthew 6.

Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.

But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven where neither moth nor rust destroy and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

The eye is the lamp of the body.

So if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light.

But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness.

If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness?

No one can serve two masters.

For either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

In this passage, Christ lays before us three kingdom commands.

The first is, lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven.

The second is, don't be anxious. And the third is, seek my kingdom. Now, what I'd like to do with you

this evening is just look at the first of those commands. Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, or the negative, do not lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven or the negative do not lay up for yourselves treasures

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