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*Treasures *
*Main Point: Keep your focus on Jesus (heaven bound)   Aug.
3, 2003 *
*                                                                                                            **Southbridge Church *
*A) Don’t peruse for your self treasures on earth.
Earthly treasures*.
Why not?
Because they are only temporary.
They don’t last.
*            a) Cars- *When I first got my car, the one I am driving now.
I was over the moon.
It was my first new used car, a car I had to pay for each month.
You may think that‘s funny I was happy to pay each month for my car.
You see I never had that before I always bought my cars used but out right.
I always had to fix them up every so often.
So when I bought this car a new used car I was very happy.
I though that I wouldn’t need to put any work into it for at least a few years.
And for the first three months things were great but something happened after that time things on this car needed to be fixed.
Ok at first it was the oil needed to be changed that’s with every car but then it needed brakes and brake pads then it needed rotors and a ball joint then it needed rotors again, then it needed a transmission flush and on and on it continues today my passenger side rear door handle is broken.
I think I need new rotors again witch is very unusual and so I think I have a bigger problem then just the rotors.
But then I pass by the car dealership and think I could just pull in trade this car in for a new one then all my problems would be gone.
We think that way don’t we.
If I only get a new car I’ll be happy.
Life will get better once I buy a new car.
I won’t have to worry about my car needing something.
*New car turns Old*
Or would I. Eventually the new car would be old to me.
The joy it once brought would no longer be in me.
It would need to be fixed and maintained and I would still have to pay monthly for this car in fact I would have to pay more money because the car I have now still has quite a bit left on it to be paid off.
The car I have now needs some work but any car I buy is going to need something whether its just the normal maintenances or something major the point is my car runs fine and its only my mind, my craving for more wealth or status or what ever that makes me think that a new car will bring me happiness.
My wanting to keep up with my neighbors or those I see in the world.
It doesn’t help that this world tells me that if my car is more that a year or two at the most then I need a new one.
/Mat 6:19// do not lay up treasures on earth for yourselves, where moth and rust corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal.
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/Mat 6:20// But lay up treasures in Heaven for yourselves, where neither moth nor rust corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal.
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/Mat 6:21// For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
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*            b) Houses- *On my way to work I travel a road that when you drive it you can‘t help but look around at all the wonderful houses.
Big houses with beautiful yards that are wonderfully kept and maintained.
They almost all have gorgeous views and scenery.
Some over look hills and vallys that when the sun hits it just right would take your breath away.
And I start to think what would it take to get one of those houses?
Well first I would need to go back to school and gat a better education and then I would need to find a good job that was secure and I would need to work hard and long for a few years to make it up the ladder of success.
Then when I had the money I would need to look around at either houses or land and decied to build or to just buy a house already built.
Of course then I could relax and enjoy it right.
No, Then I would need to continue to work long hours to make enough money to pay for the house and I would need to pay a gardener to tend my yard and make the yard look good cause I know if it was up to me the yard would be over grown with weeds and there would be flowers that I killed and bushes that were yellow and brown from the lack of proper nutrient and pruning.
It would take a lot of Money, time, and focus that I think could be better spent serving God.
Not to mention the fact that that home will not always be there and I wouldn’t always be there.
In fact even while living on this earth I would not be around to enjoy this big beautiful house.
The point is nothing this world offers is permanent.
Not a new car or a new house or the joy that you get from these things.
And that’s what Jesus is saying.
The good feelings you get when you buy a new car soon fade.
The new car itself soon breaks down and turns to rust.
The new house soon needs a new roof or plumbing or it needs an addition, your neighbor has a two-car garage so you need to build a second one.
Don’t focus on things that will fade away.
Cars whether new or not are blessings from God they help us move around and if you need a new car and can afford it then go for it but be careful you don’t let it become a trap.
Don’t work for that.
If God has blessed you with a house then praise God for that blessing but don’t allow that to become your focus and your god.
Don’t find your joy in these things.
Don’t find your reason to live or your goal in life in the things of this world.
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*c) **Money- *What would you do with 16.2 million dollars?
Would your life be great?
Would all you worries be gone?
Would you have many long lost relatives?
*  The Chicago Tribune (9~/1~/96) ran the story of Buddy Post, "living proof that money can't buy happiness."
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            */In 1988, Buddy Post won $16.2 million in the Pennsylvania Lottery.
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You might think, he made it, no more worries, and no more frustrations.
Life for this man is good.
Right?
 
*/Since then, he was convicted of assault, his sixth wife left him, his brother was convicted of trying to kill him, and his landlady successfully sued him for one-third of the jackpot.
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*/   "Money didn't change me," insists Post, a 58-year-old former carnival worker and cook.
"It changed people around me that I knew, that I thought cared a little bit about me.
But they only cared about the money."
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*/   Post is trying to auction off seventeen future payments, valued at nearly $5 million, in order to pay off taxes, legal fees, and a number of failed business ventures.
He plans to spend his life as an ex-winner pursuing lawsuits he has filed against police, judges, and lawyers who he says conspired to take his money.
"I'm just going to stay at home and mind my p's and q's," he said.
"Money draws flies."
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*   -- Fresh Illustrations for Preaching & Teaching (Baker), from the editors of Leadership*
That’s just one unlucky guy though, right?
There are many stories of people who have won the lottery or made millions in business who are anything but happy.
Often money ruins lives.
Listen to this:
Pro 23:4 Do not labor to be rich; cease from your own understanding.
Pro 23:5 Will your eyes fly on it?
And /it/ is gone!
For surely it makes wings for itself; it flies /into/ the heavens like an eagle.
If you’re working for riches you’re going to be disappointed.
They’re here today and gone tomorrow.
Listen to this:
 
*/In 1923 at the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago, Illinois, eight of the most powerful money-magnates in the world gathered for a meeting.
These eight, if they combined their resources and their assets, controlled more money than the U.S. Treasury.
In that group were such men as Charles Schwab.
He was the president of a steel company.
Richard Whitney was the president of the New York Stock Exchange, and Arthur Cutton was a wheat speculator.
Albert Fall was a presidential cabinet member, personally a very wealthy man.
Jesse Livermore was the greatest bear on Wall Street in his generation.
Leon Fraser was the president of the International Bank of Settlements.
Ivan Krueger headed the largest monopoly.
Quite an impressive group of people!
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Did they live long happy lives?
Did they die happy at least?
 
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