03-01: Follow Me: The Way of the Kingdom :: fasting and Storing Up Treasure
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Thank you for joining us today for worship! Pastor Bobby continues in Matthew 6 in our Sermon on the Mount series called Follow Me. In this message he discusses fasting and storing up treasure in Heaven.
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Matthew 6:16-24
Proper Fasting
[16] When you fast, do not be somber like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces to show men they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward. [17] But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, [18] so that your fasting will not be obvious to men, but only to your Father, who is unseen. And your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
Treasures in Heaven
(Luke 12:32–34)
[19] Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. [20] But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. [21] For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
The Lamp of the Body
(Luke 11:33–36)
[22] The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light. [23] But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
[24] No one can serve two masters: Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
Sermon Notes
Slide 1
Matthew 6:16-18
Slide 2
Revelation and confession of sin, a sign of repentance, calling on God to move in a situation, an act of obedience to God, to loose the bonds of wickedness, as a sign of dependence on God, a need for his protection in difficult times, gaining clear guidance from the Lord, a way of worship and for spiritual closeness to God.
Slide 3
"...they disfigure their faces so that they might appear to men as fasting."
Slide 4
Matthew 6:19-24
Slide 5
Matthew 20:15
"Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or is the eye of you bad because I am generous?"
Slide 6
Proverbs 22:9
"He who has a good eye will be blessed for he gives of his bread to the poor."
Slide 7
Proverbs 23:6
"Do not eat the bread of a bad eye, nor desire his savory food."
Slide 8
Revelation 18:6
"Give back to her as she has done to others; pay her back double for what she has done; mix her a double portion in her own cup."
