Luke chapter 12 verse 34 for where your treasure is there will your heart be also

this is about as simple as it gets and we need to hear it. Like we all need to, I need to, we need to hear this simple

truth. Our hearts follow our money.

Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

What we put our money in is where our hearts go.

So if we spend all of our money on ourselves, on the things of this world, on provision for ourselves,

on needs and wants in this world for us, then that's where our hearts will be focused.

On the contrary, if we spend our resources, put our treasure in the needs of others, in caring for others, in providing

for others, in giving to the church, in giving for the spread of the gospel among the nations and

giving for the relief of the poor then that is where our heart will be.

So if you want to know where your heart is, look at your bank account,

where you're spending your money at your checkbook if you use checks your credit card

statement your cash flow that is a crystal clear picture of where your heart is.

And so in this way, Jesus encourages us to put our treasure in what's going to matter most in eternity.

It's why he says right before this in verse 33, sell your possession and give to the needy.

Provide yourselves with money bags that don't grow old, with the treasure in the heavens that

does not fail where no grief approaches and no moth destroys. This is what we saw already

in Jesus' command to a rich young man. Go sell your possessions, give to the poor. So this is a theme we see so God help us to do it.

Not that God calls every single one of us to sell every single thing we have.

We don't see that in the Bible, we definitely see that in some cases like the rich young man.

But he does tell us to pour our treasure into helping those who are in need, in physical need, those who are poor, in spiritual need, those who don't have the gospel.

We've been praying continually for all kinds of different people groups in this podcast from Pakistan recently.

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