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Where is your treasure?
Posted : 17 Dec, 2011 12:07 PM
Hello everyone:
I hope everyone has a Blessed and safe weekend.
In the following Scripture we find warnings against taking your ease in this life.
A man is his / her own worst enemy.
The first warning is to be aware of being Coveteous,and having an affinity for the things of this life.
Am i using people in this life to be getting rich,and acquiring 'THINGS / STUFF'.
Or,am i using the things in this life to be proclaiming the GOSPEL to people.
Luk 12:15 And He said to them, Beware, and keep back from covetousness; for one's life is not in the abundance of the things which are his.
Luk 12:16 And He spoke a parable to them, saying, A certain rich man produced well from the land.
Luk 12:17 And he reasoned within himself, saying, What may I do, for I have nowhere I may gather my fruits?
Luk 12:18 And he said, I will do this; I will tear down my barns and I will build larger; and I will gather there all my produce and my goods.
Luk 12:19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years; take rest, eat, drink, and be glad.
Luk 12:20 But God said to him, Fool! This night they demand your soul from you; and that which you prepared, to whom will it be?
Luk 12:21 So is he treasuring up for himself, and not being rich toward God.
A warning about fearing not having ones needs fulfilled.
Luk 12:22 And He said to His disciples, Because of this I say to you, Do not be anxious as to your life, what you should eat; nor as to the body, what you should put on.
Luk 12:23 The life is more than the food and the body than the clothing.
Luk 12:24 Consider the ravens, for they do not sow, nor do they reap; to which there is no storehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much rather you differ from the birds!
Luk 12:25 And who of you by being anxious is able to add one cubit to his stature?
Luk 12:26 Then if you are not able to do even the least, why are you anxious about the rest?
Luk 12:27 Consider the lilies, how they grow: they do not labor, nor do they spin, but I say to you, Not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed as one of these.
Luk 12:28 But if God so dresses the grass, which today is in the field and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much rather you, little-faiths?
Luk 12:29 And you, do not seek what you shall eat, or what you shall drink, and stop being in anxiety.
Luk 12:30 For all the nations of the world seek after these things, and your Father knows that you need these things.
Luk 12:31 But seek the kingdom of God and all these things will be added to you.
Luk 12:32 Stop being afraid, little flock, because your Father was pleased to give you the kingdom.
A warning against being selfish and self-centered.
Luk 12:33 Sell your possessions and give alms. Make for yourselves purses that do not grow old, an unfailing treasure in Heaven, where a thief cannot come near, nor moth can corrupt.
Luk 12:34 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
A warning against wanting an easy life,wanting to be making this life your abode.
Possibly a warning against waiting for a Pretribulation Rapture.
Luke 12:35 Let your loins be girded about, and the lamps burning,
Luk 12:36 and you be like men awaiting their lord when he returns from the feasts, so that he coming and knocking, they will at once open to him.
Luk 12:37 Blessed are those slaves whom the lord will find watching when he comes. Truly I say to you that he will gird himself and will make them recline, and coming up he will serve them.
Luk 12:38 And if he comes in the second watch, or he comes in the third watch, and finds it so, blessed are those slaves.
A warning against wanting OTHERS to be telling you what you should be 'BELIEVING' about the end times!
Luk 12:39 But know this, that if the house-master had known the hour the thief is coming, he would have watched and would not have allowed his house to be dug through.
Luk 12:40 And you, then, be ready; for in the hour you think not, the Son of Man comes.
Shalom and Chesed
The Farmer
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