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Messages by Desiring God

Don’t Be Anxious, Lay Up Treasure in Heaven

Messages by Desiring God

Desiring God

Desiring God, Preaching, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, 163859, Sermons, John Piper, Messages, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2003

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Our treasures on earth will fade — and fast. Our only permanent treasure lies in heaven.

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Matthew, Chapter 6, 19 through 34.

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Do not lay up for yourself treasures on earth where moths and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steel but lay up for

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yourselves treasures in heaven where neither moth nor rust destroys and where

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thieves do not break in and steal.

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For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

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The eye is the lamp of the body.

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So if your eye is healthy, your whole body is healthy.

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

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

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No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one

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and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one

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and despise the other.

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You cannot serve God and money.

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Therefore, I tell you, do not be anxious about your life,

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what you will eat or what you will drink,

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nor about your body and what you will put on.

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Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?

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Look at the birds of the air.

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They neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, yet your

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Heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not more valuable than birds? And which of you

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by being anxious can add one single hour to your lifespan?

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And why are you anxious about clothing?

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