Dear Friends,
The Word of God richly resident in the believer, coupled with the
filling and controlling of the Holy Spirit, produces an eternal value system
of his life. This means, by faith, we begin to "look not at the things which
are seen, but at the things which are not seen, for the things which are
seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal" (II
Corinthians 4:18). We begin to "walk by faith, and not by sight" (II
Corinthians 5:7), and set our minds on things above where Christ is seated
in His Finished Work glory at the right hand of the Father.
Jesus expanded His eternal value system by saying, "Lay not up for
yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust corrupt, and where
thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in
heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not
break through nor steal: For where your treasure is there will your heart be
also" (Matthew 6:19-21). In the first part of Matthew 6, Jesus is installing
an eternal value system into His disciples. In the second part, He is
showing them the importance of having kingdom priorities. "But seek ye first
the kingdom of God and His righteousness; and all these things shall be
added unto you" (Matthew 6:33).
Once we develop eternal values, kingdom priorities will govern our life
and fill our souls. Eternal blessings will be the result of this type of
life.
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(1) Matthew 6:19-21 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where
moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: (20)
But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust
doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: (21) For
where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
(2) Colossians 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all
wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and
spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
(3) Ephesians 5:18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be
filled with the Spirit.
(4) Colossians 3:1-2 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things
which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 2 Set your
affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
(5) Matthew 6:25-34 : (25) Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for
your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body,
what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than
raiment? (26) Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they
reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye
not much better than they? (27) Which of you by taking thought can add one
cubit unto his stature? (28) And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider
the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
(29) And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not
arrayed like one of these. (30) Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the
field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not
much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? (31) Therefore take no thought,
saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we
be clothed? (32) (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your
heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. (33) But seek
ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things
shall be added unto you. (34) Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for
the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the
day is the evil thereof.
Bensilal Chacko/DE/USA
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