Without exception, Jesus lived out loud the new normal his coming had inaugurated. He spoke, prayed, taught, loved and invited rethinking in the most bizarre, never-before-experienced way. He turned heads, thrilled the broken, the poor, the lonely. He destabilized the status quo, rankled the religious, and terrified the elite and powerful Jewish clerics with his bold demonstrations of the presiding presence of the Kingdom of God. To the receptive heart he was a hero needing to be crowned King. To the hard-hearted he was a demon to be eliminated. Let’s situate ourselves as the former as we peer once more into a slice of Jesus’ big-hearted, joy-filled, Heavenly-Father-obeying message we often refer to as his Sermon on the Mount.

Matthew 6:19-24

1. vv. 19-21 – Treasure __________________________________________
Job 1:21; Luke 12:13-21

2. vv. 22,23 – Treasure _________________________________________
eyes good = light/beauty/glory/God’s __________________________________
eyes bad = darkness/ugliness/shame/God’s _____________________________
Proverbs 4:23; Isaiah 29:13; Corinthians 6:19,20

3. v. 24 – Treasure located in God _________________________
1 Corinthians 6:12; Ephesians 4:5,6; Acts 8:9-23