Oakwood Church

“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”
Matthew 6:19-21

1. What does your heart love?

2. What do you worry about?

3. What do you live for?

1. What does your heart Love?

“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy… but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven…”
Matthew 6:19

1. What does your heart Love?

“For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”
Matthew 6:21

1. What does your heart Love?

• Follow the Money

“For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”
Matthew 6:21

“But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.”
1 Timothy 6:9-10

1. What does your heart Love?

• Follow your Thoughts

“The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light.”
Matthew 6:22

1. What does your heart Love?

• Follow your Thoughts

“But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness.”
Matthew 6:22

2. What do you Worry about?

“No one can serve two masters… you cannot serve God and money. Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious…”
Matthew 6:24-25

2. What do you Worry about?

“Do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on.” Matthew 6:25

2. What do you Worry about?

“Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?”
Matthew 6:25

2. What do you Worry about?

“Look at the birds of the air… your heavenly Father feeds them… Consider the lilies of the field… if God so clothes the grass…”
Matthew 6:26-28

2. What do you Worry about?

• Trust the Father’s loving Provision

“Will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?”
Matthew 6:30

2. What do you Worry about?

• Trust the Father’s loving Provision

“Therefore do not be anxious, saying ‘What shall we eat?’”
Matthew 6:31

2. What do you Worry about?

• Trust the Father’s loving Provision

“For the Gentiles seek after all these things and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.”
Matthew 6:32

3. What do you Live for?

“But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.”
Matthew 6:33

3. What do you Live for?

• Focus on God and His Priorities

“But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.”
Matthew 6:33

“But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.”
Matthew 6:33