Treasures in Heaven (Part I)
God's economy of spiritual profit, which He's interested in, is not based on anything that has a worldly value associated with it.
Transcript
News alert! The treasures that we lay aside in heaven are not laid aside in order to make us richer in heaven. They belong to God and not to us. I want to talk about that today, but first I want to tell you a story.
When I was in the sixth grade, I somehow got a small paperback on buried treasures, and I read and I reread that little book. One of the stories was about a little boy, perhaps in about the sixth grade, who was walking on a rocky beach in Northern California. He noticed that in the side of a rock wall, he saw a small cave, just large enough to put your hand inside, really, and not giving much thought to what bad might be inside that little hole, like a dead fish or something worse. He thrust his hand inside.
More Kingdom Offerings
Our acts of kindness, done in the name of Jesus, with the purpose of serving and blessing others also serve to lay aside treasures in heaven that glorify and exalt our King. This constitutes the kingdom coming on earth as it is in heaven - we become the answer to the Lord’s prayer.
God desires a fast that breaks the chains of wickedness and oppression, not one that is merely a ritualistic display of piety.
