What you treasure and what I treasure isn't necessarily worth treasuring.

So here's what we think that we're going to be able to figure out what we treasure by what is really valuable to us.

Oh, no, no, no.

We put value on something by how much we attend to it.

Anybody willing to be that courageous to go,

it could be true that I treasure something really, really trashy? You may be seated.

I'd love to read to you out of Luke chapter 6 starting at verse 27.

Now our text that you and I are really going to be focused on isn't going to come into play until about verse 40 and then through that last portion that we'll read together.

But here's what I want to do. For one thing, I want to keep it in context. And for the other thing, I want to try as much as I can. I ask them to have it up on the screen so I can look away from my Bible

some because I want to do my best to speak it to you instead of just reading it to you.

Because when Jesus was giving this sermon, he was speaking this to them. They were listening.

He wasn't looking down at something and reading. He was speaking it out to them and seeing their

faces as he said it. Now, I want you to see the context for it. Look at the very beginning of chapter

6 and verse 17, because that's where this sermon begins. This is going to be Luke's version of the

sermon on the Mount. It would have gone into, if this were our text this weekend,

it would go straight into what we know if you have some background in the church

and in the scriptures as the beatitudes, the blessed are the poor,

because the kingdom of God is theirs.

So I want you to look at 17 so you can see where he's moving.

It says in verse 17, after coming down with him,

he stood on a level place with a large crowd of his disciples

and a great number of people from all Judea and Jerusalem

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