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Store Up For Yourselves Treasures in Heaven
(Mt6:19-34)
Summary
God is the Owner (Ps100:3).
By His word He made all things and is their Owner (Ps24:1, 100:3; He11:3).
With His blood He purchased souls and is their Owner (1Pe1:19).
For He oversees His possession as the Owner,
When He calls out, the light, demons and even souls come out (Ge1:3; Mk9:25; Ac5:5),
While when He commands to hold still,
The sun, the moon and even souls are still (Jos3:13, 10:13; Is38:5).
Faith is knowing Him and trusting Him, and
The life of this faith is entrusting Him with one's most precious treasure.
After he sinned, Adam had to worry and toil to live and
Finally he returned to dust (Ge3:17-19).
As such, the management of his life was only futile.
God chose Israel (Dt4:20-22; Is41:8) and
Revealed that the toil of man is not in vain:
Though they had no possession for 430 years as slaves in Egypt,
When they left there they left with the treasures of Egypt. with which
They built the Tabernacle and gave offerings to God there (Ex25:1-2).
The Law given through Moses had
Regulations for worship “ sacrifices and offerings (Lev1; He9:1).
However, their repeated sacrifices became demoted to just a ceremony and
Because they did it out of fear, they became hypocrites (Mal1:8-10, 3:7-12).
Jesus said, "Destroy this temple and I will raise it again in three days (Jn2:19), because
Through the death and the resurrection of the temple of His body,
He would give the perfect sacrifice and offering to the Father,
With justice (confessing that God is the Owner), mercy (loving Him), and
Faithfulness (trusting His management), which
The hypocritical Pharisees and the Scribes had neglected even as they tithed (Mt23:23).
As He died, Jesus said, "It is finished (Jn19:30), declaring that He:
1) Laid up His life, the most precious treasure, in heaven and returned to the Father what belongs to Him (Lk23:46; Jn10:17-18);
2) Condemned the devil who tried to steal the throne in heaven (Is14:12-15; 1Jn3:8); and
3) With His precious blood purchased all souls of men and offered them up to the Father, storing up in heaven what was gained from the world (He8:3, 9:12; 1Pe1:18-19; Rev5:9)
His life and suffering was not a failure, but rather a successful management.
Thus, the Father raised Him up and He sat on the throne in heaven (He8:1), and
Jesus became the Ruler of heavens and the earth (Mt28:18).
The Holy Spirit came to the souls purchased by His blood and
Teaches them how to manage their possession for
Wherever they store up their treasures their souls will also be (Mt6:21), and
Yeshua commanded to store them up in heaven for
He guarantees an yield of 100 fold in the present age and
Eternal life in the age to come (Mk10:29-30).
The man of the Spirit sees
The gates of heaven open and Yeshua seated on the throne (Ac7:56; Rev4:1-2).
Therefore, for the Lord to receive the most precious thing ” his soul ”
He entrusts Him with the precious treasures gained on earth.
O Lord,
What is my most precious treasure?
Into Your hands
I commit the management of my most precious treasure.
Into Your hand,
I commit my soul!
Amen.