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Verse Matthew 6:21. _WHERE YOUR TREASURE IS_] If God be the treasure
of our souls, our hearts, i.e. our affections and desires will be
placed on things _above_. An earthly minded man proves that his
t...
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LAY UP FOR YOURSELVES TREASURES IN HEAVEN - That is, have provision
made for your eternal felicity. Do not exhaust your strength and spend
your days in providing for the life here, but let your chief...
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CHAPTER 6
_ 1. The Better Righteousness.(Matthew 6:1 .) 2. Kept in the World;
Single-eyed; Trusting God.(Matthew 6:19 .)_
Our Lord said: “For I say unto you, that unless your righteousness
surpass th...
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TRUE RIGHTEOUSNESS IN RELATION TO WEALTH. The Sermon here passes from
the shortcomings of the Scribes and Pharisees. There are scattered
parallels to this section in Lk.
MATTHEW 6:19. TREASURE (Luke...
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THE REWARD MOTIVE IN THE CHRISTIAN LIFE (Matthew 6:1-18)
When we study the opening verses of Matthew 6:1-34, we are
immediately confronted with one most important question-- What is the
place of the...
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Do not lay up for yourselves treasures upon earth. where moth and rust
destroy them, and where thieves dig through and steal. Lay up for
yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not dest...
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HEART BE ALSO. heart also be....
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_where your treasure is_ The words gain point if we think of the
hoards buried in the _earth_....
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ΣΟΥ is rightly restored for ὑμῶν. The sing. individualises
the action.
21. ὍΠΟΥ … Ὁ ΘΗΣΑΥΡΌΣ. The words gain point if we
think of the hoards buried in the _earth_....
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VER 19. "LAY NOT UP FOR YOURSELVES TREASURES UPON EARTH, WHERE MOTH
AND RUST DOTH CORRUPT, AND WHERE THIEVES BREAK THROUGH AND STEAL: 20.
BUT LAY UP FOR YOURSELVES TREASURES IN HEAVEN, WHERE NEITHER M...
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_THE ACTIONS OF FASTING AND GIVING MATTHEW 6:16-21_ : Fasting is to be
seen only by God. God said, "When you fast." It seems that fasting is
expected among Christians, but not commanded for Christians...
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DISCOURSE: 1321
LAYING UP TREASURES IN HEAVEN
Matthew 6:19. _Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where
moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
but lay up fo...
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LAY NOT UP, &C.— By taking a general review of what we have been
hitherto taught in this divine sermon, we shall be led more distinctly
to the meaning of the words now before us. After the beatitudes,...
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E. THE WEALTH AND WORRIES OF THE WISE AND GODLY MAN
(Matthew 6:19-34)
TEXT 6:19-34
1. HIS ATTITUDE TOWARD EARTHLY TREASURES. (6:19-21)
19. Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth. where m...
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For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
FOR WHERE YOUR TREASURE IS, [THAT WHICH YE VALUE MOST], THERE WILL
YOUR HEART BE ALSO. [`Thy treasure-thy heart' is probably the true
read...
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14-15 Compare Mar_11:25-26.
14 Forgiveness now is according to the riches of His grace (Eph_1:7),
not according to our forgiveness of others. The believers in Israel
failed at this point. Their forgi...
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THE EARTHLY TREASURE AND THE HEAVENLY TREASURE. When do we lay up
'treasure in heaven'? Whenever we give alms (Matthew 6:2), or pray
(Matthew 6:5), or fast (Matthew 6:16), to please God rather than ma...
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FOR WHERE YOUR TREASURE IS, etc.] see Luke 12:34. The heavenly
treasure is the approval of our heavenly Father, which is represented
as wealth stored up in heaven, ready to be enjoyed hereafter. The
e...
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THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT (CONTINUED)
1. God's approval, not man's, to be sought in all our actions. Jesus
does not say that we are to do good expecting no reward of any kind,
but that we are to look fo...
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MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS
MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL
_HILDA BRIGHT_
CHAPTER 6
THE RIGHT WAY TO GIVE GIFTS 6:1-4
V1 ‘Be careful not to show how good you are in front of other
people. Do not do your good works...
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WHERE YOUR TREASURE IS. — The words imply the truth, afterwards more
definitely asserted, that it is impossible to “serve God and
mammon” (Matthew 6:24). Men may try to persuade themselves that they
w...
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CHAPTER 7
The Gospel of the Kingdom
("Sermon on the Mount") - Matthew 5:1; Matthew 6:1; Matthew 7:1
IT may seem almost heresy to object to the time-honoured title "Sermon
on the Mount"; yet, so smal...
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ὅπου θησ.… ἐκεῖ καρδία. The reflection goes back
on the negative counsel in Matthew 6:19. Do not accumulate earthly
treasures, for then your heart will be there, whereas it ought to be
in heaven with...
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_Counsels against covetousness and care_ (reproduced in Luke 12:22-34,
with exception of Matthew 6:22-23, which reappear in Luke 11:34-36).
An interpolation, according to Weiss. Doubtless, if the Serm...
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_Against hoarding_. θησαυροὺς ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς,
treasures upon earth, and therefore earthly, material, perishable, of
whatever kind. σὴς, moth, destructive of costly garments, one
prominent sort of treasur...
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WHAT TO SEEK AND WHOM TO SERVE
Matthew 6:19-26
What is in our inner life which answers to the eye of the body? Some
have said that it is the intellect; others the heart. But it is truer
to say that...
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In the first verse the Revised Version has substituted the word
"righteousness" for "alms," "a reading approved of, almost
unanimously, by the great editors and critics" (Morrison). This is a
statemen...
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CHAPTER 16
SERMON ON THE MOUNT
Matthew 5-7, and Luke 6:20-49. A few days ago it was my privilege to
spend two beautiful bright days at the sea of Galilee, sailing over
it, and visiting the places of...
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No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and
love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the
other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
These directions of our LORD...
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God has been pleased, in the separate accounts He has given us of our
Lord Jesus, to display not only His own grace and wisdom, but the
infinite excellency of His Son. It is our wisdom to seek to prof...
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_CHOOSING THE BEST_
‘Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.’
Matthew 6:21
This is the _ reason_ which our Lord gives for the precepts which go
immediately before. And our hearts re-...
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21._Where your treasure shall be _By this statement Christ proves that
they are unhappy men who have their treasures laid up on the earth:
because their happiness is uncertain and of short duration. C...
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This discourse gives the principles of the kingdom, but supposes the
rejection of the King, and the position into which this would bring
those that were His; who consequently must look for a heavenly...
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FOR WHERE YOUR TREASURE IS, THERE WILL YOUR HEART BE ALSO. This seems
to be a proverbial expression, and contains in it another reason,
dissuading from worldly mindedness; because of the danger the he...
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For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Ver. 21. _For where your treasure is, &c._] _i.e._ Where your chief
happiness is, there your affections will be settled: where the carcase
i...
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_Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth_ Our Lord here makes a
transition from religious to common actions, and warns us of another
snare, the love of money and earthly things, as inconsistent...
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For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
The repetition of the same words serves for emphasis. Treasures you
may and shall have, of the right kind. Treasure the treasures of the
only...
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The only safe treasures:...
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Verse 1 warns against practicing righteousness (margin) before men to
attract their attention. This is self-righteousness, a mere show. How
can we expect the Father to reward what we do merely to impr...
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19-24 Worldly-mindedness is a common and fatal symptom of hypocrisy,
for by no sin can Satan have a surer and faster hold of the soul,
under the cloak of a profession of religion. Something the soul...
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Ver. 19-21. A TREASURE (according to the notation of the word)
signifieth something laid up for tomorrow, for future time; more
largely it signifieth any riches, or what we judge a valuable portion.
M...
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Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book VII
commandments, preferring these things from believing them to exist.
"For where any one's mind is, there also is his treasure."[118]
Tertullian Ad Martyras
Th...
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Matthew 6:21 For G1063 where G3699 your G5216 treasure G2344 is G2076
(G5748) there G1563 your G5216 heart...
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1). THE CHOICE AS TO WHICH TREASURE WILL BE SOUGHT AND LIVED FOR.
Analysis of Matthew 6:19.
a A “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on the earth,
b B Where moth and rust consume, and where thie...
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THEY MUST LAY UP THEIR TREASURE IN HEAVEN AS THEY CANNOT SERVE GOD AND
MAMMON (6:19-24).
Having dealt with the question of what His disciples' attitude is to
be towards ‘religious' activity, namely ch...
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Matthew 6:19
When Christ said these words, were there young people standing by? If
so, they must have sounded very strangely in their ears. For youth
does not realize that life on earth grows pale, no...
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Matthew 6:5. _And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the
hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and
in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men._
We oug...
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Matthew 6:1. _Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be
seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in
heaven._
The motive which leads a man to give, will form the tr...
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CONTENTS: Sermon on the Mount, continued. Formalism condemned. The new
revelation of prayer (disciples prayer). The law of riches. Cure of
anxiety.
CHARACTERS: God, Jesus.
CONCLUSION: True relationsh...
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Matthew 6:1. _Take heed that ye do not your alms before men._ It is a
dispute whether alms or righteousness be the true reading. The old
copies had righteousness. Chrysostom in one place has righteous...
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FOR YOUR HEART WILL ALWAYS BE. This is a universal truth. The thing
which you value the most will be the center of your attention. If your
wealth is in heaven, your mind will always be looking up to G...
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MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 6:21 Throughout Scripture, the HEART refers
to the center of one’s being. It includes one’s emotions, reason,
and will. See note on Prov. 4:20–23....
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CHAPTER 6
_Take heed_. &c. Instead of _alms_, some Greek Codices read
_δικαιοσύνην, righteousness_, or _justice._ This is the
reading of the Syriac and the Latin Vulgate. The Complutensian, Royal,
and...
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
Matthew 6:19. LAY NOT UP … LAY UP. An instance of “the idiom of
exaggerated contrast.” A literal compliance with the negative half
of this precept would discourage thrift, destroy com...
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EXPOSITION
MATTHEW 6:1
_The_ _relation of our Lord and his disciples to the religion of the
day _(_continued_);_ vide _Matthew 5:17, note. (_b_) Our Lord turns
from cases which could be directly dedu...
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Tonight let's take a look at Matthew, chapter six. We are in the
section of the book of Matthew that is commonly called the Sermon on
the Mount because it was delivered to the disciples of Jesus on th...
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2 Corinthians 4:18; Acts 8:21; Colossians 3:1; Hebrews 3:12; Isaiah
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Luke 11:34....