Treasures in Heaven

Sermon Transcript

Our Father, as we raise up our hearts to Thee, we do look to Thee for mercy and for grace in this hour, and that Thy Word will be written upon our hearts. Father, give us minds to receive Thy Word with, hearts will understand, and we do pray that Thou wilt give us that grace, it is needful that we may follow Thee. Give us grace to understand the things that You have for us tonight, and may we weigh them in the balance, may we think upon them, may we meditate upon them.

Our Father, as we sang that song, Prawn to wonder, Lord I feel it, Prawn to leave the God I love, that we need Thy continuing grace day by day, that we may walk with Thee and commune with Thee. Our Father, we are held by Thy power, we have none of our own. We are kept by Thy grace, we have nothing to offer.

If Thou does not keep us, we're gone. If Thou does not hold us, we'll fall. If Thou does not put within our hearts that which is so needful, we cannot work it up.

We're utterly and completely dependent upon Thee tonight. Thou knowest our sins and our failures. Thou knowest, O Lord, how we would desire to live the life that we preach about, preach of.

You have given us a taste of it, a foretaste of heaven. You have kept us to this hour, but all we can say is that we're nothing but an unprofitable servant. We've not walked with as much light as we have.

We ask for cleansing tonight. We ask for the putting away of our sins. We ask tonight for that cleansing blood to be applied to our hearts by faith again.

And we pray for that grace. We may walk with Thee. Thou knowest how much we need that fruit of the Spirit called temperance.

We do pray that You will work it in our hearts. And the sin that does so easily beset us, we pray for grace to lay it aside and to walk with Thee and to run with patience the race that is set before us. So open our hearts, we pray, to the things that are needful and lead us and guide us in this ministry that You've put all of our hands to.

Lord, it is Thine. Thou didst give it to us and entrusted it to us. As You entrusted the one talent, the two talents and the five talents, You've entrusted it to us.

And, oh, we must give it back to Thee in that day, having used the time and all the energy that You've given us, all of the money, all of the knowledge, all that You've taught us, having used it for Thy glory, that Your truth may go forth. So be with us to lead us and guide us as a people, to hold us and our Father to bless us. May our hearts be turned toward Thee, for it is in Christ's name that we ask.

Amen. I want you to turn with us in Luke's Gospel, chapter 12, tonight. In Luke's Gospel, chapter 12, we read these two verses, 33 and 34.

Sell that you have and give alms. Provide yourselves bags which wax not old. A treasure in the heavens it faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.

For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. This was a favorite topic, the favorite subject of our Lord's. He gave us the same thing in Matthew's Gospel, chapter 6, where He said in verse 19, Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal.

But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, whether 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. The Apostles picks it up, and He speaks along this wise in Colossians, chapter 2, where He says in verse 3, That in Christ were hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

It goes on down in chapter 3 of Colossians, and He says, Since ye then be risen with Christ, verse 1, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For you are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory. Then writing in His first epistle to His son Timothy, He tells us in 1 Timothy, chapter 6, He says in verse 6, But godliness with contentment is great gain, for we brought nothing into the world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. And having food and raiment, let us be there with content.

But they that would be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and to many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil, which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. But thou, O man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, and meekness.

And then in that beautiful chapter of faith, found in Hebrews chapter 11, He talks about Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and Sarah, and all who had gone before. And He says in verse 13 of Hebrews 11, These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country, and truly if they had been mindful of that country from which they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.

But now they desire a better, a better country, that is in heavenly, wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He hath prepared for them a city. And then Peter, writing in this first epistle, he gives us these words in chapter 2. He says in verse 9, But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, and holy nation, a peculiar people, that you should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light, which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God, which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. And here is his admonition.

Dearly beloved, I beseech you, as strangers and pilgrims, abstain or keep yourself from fresh fleshly lust, which war against the soul, having your conversation or your manner of life honest among the Gentiles, and whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation. Now, our text in Luke chapter 12 is found in a context of our Lord having dealt with the man who had come to Him in verse 13 and said, Master, Luke 12, verse 13, Master, speak to my brother that he divide the inheritance with me. And he said to him, Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you? And then he gives us that warning, Take heed and beware of covetousness, for man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.

And then he gives us a parable of the rich fool, that notorious individual who thought that life consisted only of the abundance of the things which he possessed. He said in verse 16 of Luke 12, and this is the context in which our text is found, that he spake a parable and said to them the ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully. He thought within himself, saying, What shall I do? Because I have no room where to bestow my fruits.

And he said, This will I do. I will pull down my barns and will build a grater, and there will I bestow all my fruits into my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years.

Take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul that shall be required of thee, then whose shall those things be which thou hast provided? So is he that layeth up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God. And then from verse 22 on through verse 30, he tells us not to be concerned, overly concerned with the things of this life, what we shall eat, or what we shall drink, or what we shall put on.

He tells us to consider the ravens. He tells us to consider the lilies of the valley. He tells us to consider how God took care of them and how He is able to take care of us.

And he goes on down and he tells us in verse 31 to seek first the kingdom of God, and then all of these things will be added unto you. He said, Put first things first. Then he comes through with that blessed portion in verse 32, Fear not, little flock, for it is your father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

Then he comes with those words which provide our text for tonight. Sell that ye have, and give arms, and give charity. Provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.

For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Now let us see what our Lord is telling us here in these words, will you? For I would like to speak upon that middle portion of verse 33, treasure in heaven, or heavenly treasures, those treasures that faileth not away. And when I get to that, I have ten things.

I will not elaborate upon them because each one could take a long time. But when we look at them, I want you to get pen and pencil if you have it, or something to write on. I want you to take the Scriptures down.

And I want you to look at them when you have time to meditate upon them because every time I look at these Scriptures, my heart is made to cry unto God. Let's first see what He means in verse 33 by sell your possessions and give to charity. Now, He does not intend for a man to give his entire possessions to the poor.

For God has given us treasures. It is God who giveth power to make wealth. He tells us that in His Word.

God doesn't despise the rich except that they trust in those riches for eternal life. And that is their security. And that's what God is telling us here.

He says, Remember the rich fool. And the text must be explained in the light of it. For you see, all that the rich fool thought about was himself.

And that's what God wants us to get over. Get over to our hearts tonight. The man kept everything for himself.

It was the selfish spirit that was manifested. And this is what He's telling us here. I believe that I can give you an example and a good illustration in Luke chapter 10 of the thought that our Lord would have us to understand here.

You know the story found in Luke 10? It is a story which we call the story of the good Samaritan. How a man was going from Jerusalem down to Jericho and he fell among thieves and they stripped him of his raiment and wounded him, verse 30, and departed, leaving him half dead. And by chance there came down a certain priest that way and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.

And likewise, Levi, when he was at the place, came and looked on him and passed by on the other side. But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was and when he saw him, he had compassion on him and he went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast and brought him to an inn and took care of him. There are three thoughts there.

And we all come under one of the three. And I think that would help explain our text found here in Luke chapter 12, verse 33. The robbers by their actions said, What is yours is mine if I can get it.

In other words, I'm out to get everything that I can. Yours is mine if I can get it. The priest and the Levite said, What is mine is mine own and I'm going to keep it.

The good Samaritan said, What is mine is yours as you may need it. And that's exactly what he's telling us here in Luke chapter 12. He said, sell all that we have.

Let's have the attitude of the Samaritan. What is mine is yours as you may need it. Let us not be like the thieves and the robbers who said, What is yours is mine if I can get it.

Let us not have the heart of the priest and the Levite who said, What is mine is mine own and I'm going to keep it. But let our attitude be like the Samaritan. What is mine is yours as you may need it.

And I'm ready and I stand ready to help and to give and to do for you as you need it. Isn't that a precious attitude? I think it is. May God give it to us.

Now, this is spoken of throughout the whole Word of God. What could be any more precious than those words found in 2 Corinthians chapter 8? Let's go there and read. The Apostle Paul had been trying to take an offering for the poor persecuted church at Rome.

I mean, at Jerusalem. The famine had came and they were being persecuted and they had hardly nothing. He was writing to the church at Corinth about this giving.

Then to spur the Corinthian believers on, he opens the 8th chapter by saying, Moreover, brethren, we do it to you with the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia. That is, up around Philippi and in that area. How then in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded under the riches of their liberality.

For to their power of their record, yea, and beyond their power they were willing of themselves praying us with much intrigue that we should receive the gift and take upon us the fellowship of the ministry unto the saints. And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord and unto us by the will of God. In other words, they were a willing people who were willing to give.

In other words, they provided themselves with purses that would never wear out. For they gave. They did not keep.

They gave it in the great poverty of their hearts and lives. And then he went on down to say in verse 9, For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ that though He were rich, yet for your sakes He became poor that ye through His poverty might be rich. And this attitude of our Lord Jesus should constantly be before us.

Again, in that same book of II Corinthians, look at chapter 9. He says in verse 5, Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren that they would go before you and make up beforehand your bounty or your offering, and whereof ye had noticed before that the same might be ready as a manner of bounty and not as of covetousness. I want you to give from the heart. But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap sparingly, and he which soweth bountifully shall reap bountifully.

That is, provide yourselves purses that will never wear out, a treasure in heaven that will never give out, where no thief can reach and no moth can ravage. Watch verse 7 of II Corinthians 9. Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so that in give, not grudgingly or of necessity, for God loveth the cheerful giver. And when you can fathom the depth of verse 8, come tell me about it, will you? Look what he says, And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that ye always, having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work.

In other words, what he is saying is that you cannot beat God giving. In other words, God is able to make all grace abound toward us, that we always, having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work. And I have certainly found that out.

I have found that out over and over in the work of the Lord. The more we give away, the more God sends. He has never stopped giving.

He has never stopped sending. I heard a man telling me, bragging one time, that he had two deep freezes, full of all sorts of things, and they were always filled to the top. He could not use it, but they were full.

Never thought about giving it to anybody else. Never thought about anybody else. Just hoarding.

And God says, He does not want us to do that. He wants us to give. He wants us to provide.

Go to Galatians chapter 6 and verse 10. Look what He says there. Now, you are listening.

You watch how all this will dovetail into what we are going to tell you in just a moment about these treasures, these heavenly treasures. As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith. And then have you ever read 1 John chapter 3? In the light of this matter of giving to the furtherance of the work of the Lord, to those who are in need, helping, having the attitude as a Samaritan, what is mine is yours, as you may need it.

Look at verse 16 of 1 John chapter 3. Hereby perceive we the love of God because He laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. For whoso hath this world's good and seeth his brother have need and sheddeth up his vows of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue, but in deed and in truth. In other words, God desires that we should give.

Let us go back to our text in Duluth chapter 12, and let us see what else he says. Sell that you have and give arms. Provide yourselves bags which wax not old.

All of this we have explained because all of this has a spiritual meaning. A treasure in heaven that faileth not whether no moth approacheth, neither moth corrupteth. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Let's look briefly just at that verse 34. What does it say? If a person's real treasure, his ultimate aim, and all of his striving is something pertaining to this earth. I said if a person's real treasure, his ultimate aim, and all of his striving is something pertaining to this earth, the acquisition of money, or fame, or popularity, or prestige, or power, then his heart, the very center of his life, according to Proverbs 4.23, will be completely absorbed in that worldly or mundane object.

He can't help it. It's what he talks about. That's what the individual thinks about.

That's what the individual talks about. And that's where the heart is. All of the individual's activities, even if it be religious, if the aim is to take care of self, everything will be subservient to this one goal, and that is to take care of number one, instead of having upon our hearts the things of the Lord.

On the other hand, if out of sincere and humble gratitude to God we have made God's kingdom, that is, the joyful recognition of God's sovereignty in our own life, in every sphere, in other words, God has control. He's sovereign. My life belongs to Him.

All that I have belongs to Him. And it is in this sphere that I live, this sphere of giving myself daily to the Sovereign Lord, then my heart will be where my treasure is, and that is with my Sovereign Lord. Then money in that case will be a help, and not a hindrance.

What we have of this world's goods will not be a hindrance, but will be a help in the purposes of God for what He has given them to us for. And then if you go to Luke chapter 16, and look at verse 13, you find that it is an either-or proposition. In other words, there is not but two sides, and there is no middle ground.

That's what He says in Luke 16, 13, No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and men and you cannot serve God and the world. It's either-or.

And that's what our text speaks of tonight. Now, having explained those things, let's go back and look at true treasure. Because He said, sell that you have, verse 33, and give alms, provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in heaven that faileth not, whether no thief approaches, neither doth moth corrupt him.

Now, does this mean then that salvation is by merit? No. We spoke about that this morning. That's wholly and completely of God's grace.

But you see, our attitude toward the things of this world, what God has given us, and what we do with it, is not the root, but the fruit. The root is the grace of God. The fruit is how we use the grace of God and what He has given us for His glory.

All right? How are we going to treasure up treasure in heaven? What are these treasures? Well, this is what I want you to take down. There are heavenly treasures that are far greater than the things of this world. What are they? I would like to list ten of them.

First of all, I would say that there is a faithfulness that will never be removed. Now, you thought I was going to give you something great, didn't you? But it's the spiritual things of the Word of God. And that's the treasure.

That's where our life is. It is in the spiritual, not in the physical. For a man may go through this life as a pauper.

A man may go through this life suffering in body until he knows not what to do from morning to night and night to morning. And yet have a treasure so great in heaven that he will be the envy of the whole world when it comes to the day of judgment. For he had treasures that no man could take away from him.

And the first treasure is that there is a faithfulness that will never be removed. And let's look at the Scriptures. Psalm 89.

You know, the story begins at verse 19. It goes on to verse 37, how God explains to David of his faithfulness toward his lineage. And he speaks of the greater David, the Lord Jesus Christ who was to come.

But he gets on down to verse 33, and he's talking about David's children after the flesh. And he said, Nevertheless, my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail. My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing which is gone out of my lips.

Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie to David. His seed shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun before me. It shall be established forever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven.

Now, there is a faithful God who has given us this great treasure of his faithfulness. It cannot be removed. Under no circumstances will God's faithfulness change toward his people.

He is the faithful God who cannot change. Go to Psalms 138 and 8, and look at the confident spirit of this great treasure that the Lord gives. The psalmist says in Psalms 138, 8, The Lord will perfect that which concerneth me.

Now, beloved, that's a treasure. That's a treasure to hold. That's a treasure to meditate upon.

That's a treasure to think upon in spite of all of my imperfections, in spite of all of my waywardness, in spite of all that I see in myself. And all I can say in regard to myself, I am nothing but an unprofitable servant. And that's what our Lord said concerning his servant.

He said, having done all that you can do, the only thing that you can possibly say is, I'm still nothing but an unfaithful servant. I have not done yet what I should do. And I cry over this.

You know, God's given us much light upon His Word. I got thousands of sermons back in there on tape. I got 60 notebooks filled with notes that I've made over the decades.

And if I could walk one day up to all the light that God has given me, I'd be the most happiest man in the whole world. I'm not home yet. I'm still nothing but an unprofitable servant.

That's all I can say. But, He will perfect that which concerneth me. And if I dwell upon my nothingness and my failures and my mistakes and my unprofitableness, if I continue to look at what goes undone, I'm going to go under.

But let's look out yonder at that treasure where He says, the Lord will perfect that which concerneth me. He is faithful to bring to pass that which He has promised. Let me give you... I could give you many scriptures along this line, but there is one of them that always strikes me, and it's Hebrews 11.11. The Lord had promised both to Abraham and to Sarah, a son in their old age.

And it is said in Hebrews 11.11, through faith also Sarah herself received strength to conceive seed and was delivered of a child when she was past age. Why? Because she judged Him faithful who had promised. You see, His faithfulness will never be removed.

And this is what she counted on. The faithfulness of God. I must hurry on.

I'll be preaching on every one of them. We won't get halfway through. The second one is, a heavenly treasure is a life that will never end.

In that familiar verse of Scripture in John 3.16, all of you could quote it. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. There is a life, and it's a heavenly treasure that will never end.

And the Lord Jesus said in His high priestly prayer to the Father in John 17, in these words, As Thou hast given Me power over all flesh, that I should give eternal life to as many as Thou hast given Me. And this is life eternal. They might know Thee the only true God in Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent.

There is a life that will never end. If that's not a heavenly treasure, I don't know what is. That which God has put within us, that which God gives to us, will never end.

The road is rocky, and the climb is steep, and the valleys are deep, and there are many precipice, and there are many dark hours, and many dark moments. But He has given us a life that will never end. And then in John chapter 4, not only a life that will never end, but I want you to see something else.

He's talking to the woman at Jacob's well. He had asked her for water. She said, You being a Jew, ask the Samaritan, especially a woman, for water? And he said, Woman, if you knew who it was that had asked you for water, he said, I'll give you water, living water.

So she asked him, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again, he said in verse 13 of John 4. But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst. But the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. And this to me is amazing.

For he says in John 7, In the last day, verse 37, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirsts, let him come unto me and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture has said, out of his belly, out of his inward parts, shall flow rivers of living water. In other words, the well will never run dry.

That's a heavenly treasure. We might think it will. We might think it has.

But it never shall. That is a treasure that God has given us. And did you know that water always seeks its highest level? That which God has poured into us seeks its highest level.

And that's the throne of grace from which it all flows day by day. Let me hurry on. John 6, verses 37 and 39.

There is a gift that will never be lost. He said in John 6, 37, All that the Father giveth me shall come to me. And him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.

In other words, those for whom Christ died, those whom the Father hath given to the Son in electing love, as we find in John 17, they shall never perish. They shall not be cast out. In other words, there is a gift that will never be lost.

Look at verse 39 of John 6, And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. Now, that's a treasure. That's a treasure.

I should never worry that God is going to forget the gift that He gave to His Son. And He gave me to His Son. I should remember that.

And then if you go to chapter 10 of John, you will find that there is a hand out of which the good shepherd's sheep will never be snatched, how any man could ever believe in falling from grace with all of these scriptures in the Bible. I cannot understand for the life of me. There it is.

These are heavenly treasures. That life that will never end. That spring of water that will never cease.

That gift that will never be lost. That hand out of which the good shepherd's sheep will never be snatched is always there. It never moves.

It never slumbers. It never sleeps. My sheep hear my voice, John 10, 27, and I know them, and they follow me, and I give unto them eternal life, and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.

That's an eternal treasure. I'm in His hand. I am one of the sheep.

I shall never be snatched out of His hand. And doesn't that lead right into Romans chapter 8? Go there with me. That leads right into Romans chapter 8. There is a chain that shall never be broken, a faithfulness that will never be removed, a life that will never end, a spring of water that will never cease to bubble up within the one who drinks it, a gift that will never be lost, a hand out of which the good shepherd's sheep will never be snatched.

All of these are heavenly treasures. And then sixth, there's a chain that will never be broken, and we have it in verses 28, 29, and 30 of Romans chapter 8. For we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to His purpose. There's God's purpose.

What is God's purpose? Whom He did foreknow? That's one of the links. He did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover, whom He did predestinate, then He also called.

That's a link that cannot be broken. And whom He called, then He also justified. That's a link that cannot be broken.

And whom He justified, then He also glorified. That cannot be broken. And everything He gives us here is in the present tense, even that word glorified.

So in the mind of God, the one who has these heavenly treasures have been foreknown by God in His eternal purpose. They've been predestinated to be conformed to the image of God's Son. Day and time are called by God's Spirit.

They are justified before God based upon the sacrifice and the blood and righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ. And whom He justifies, He will also glorify. That's a heavenly treasure.

Glorification follows justification. Just as sure as day follows night and night follows day. There is a chain that will never be broken.

And then in that same chapter, there is a love from which we can never be separated. That's what He tells us in verses 38 through 39. If we had the time, it starts at verse 31 in a series of questions.

But He gets on down to verse 38 and He says, For I am persuaded, that is, I know, unconvinced, Paul said, that neither death nor life nor angels nor principalities nor powers nor present nor things to come nor height nor depth nor any other creation shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. And if there was ever a time when there was going to be a separation, there was a time when Peter said once, I do not know Him. He said twice, I told you I do not know Him.

He said the third time and he cursed with bitter oath, I do not know Him. But what happened? Do you know what happened? When Christ looked at him and their eyes met, he went out and wept. Bitterly, he said.

He repented. The first words the angel said go and tell his disciples and Peter, he met Peter someplace, forgave him. If there ever was going to be a separation, that would have been the separation.

Now I do not want to take that for granted. And I do not want to presume upon the grace of God. But if I did not believe that heavenly treasure, I would be in fix.

But there is nothing that can separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. And still in the book of Romans, chapter 11, verse 29, for the gifts and callings of God are without repentance. In other words, he uses that word repentance there to let us know that God will never change His mind.

Because repentance is a change of mind. A change of heart. For the gifts and callings of God are without repentance.

God will never change His mind in regard to His people. And that is a heavenly treasure. Did you notice those words when we sang that song Rock of Ages Cleft for Me? Fits so very well.

The third verse, you know how it read when you sang it? This is the way it read. When I draw my final breath, when mine eyes shall close in death, when I rise to worlds unknown and behold Thee on Thy throne, Rock of Ages cleft for me, let me hide myself in Thee. I tell you what, as we are told in 1 Timothy, chapter 6, I brought nothing into the world and I can take nothing out.

And only what's done for Christ will last. And I have no regrets. The other two, and I cannot speak to them because our time is gone, there's a foundation that will never be destroyed, 2 Timothy 2.19, a foundation that will never be destroyed, 2 Timothy 2.19, and the last one there is an inheritance that will never fade out, 1 Peter 1, verses 4 and 5. Now, we've laid the two before you tonight, the contrast between the two.

And what is it? Well, there are treasures that are down here and moth can get to them and they can cut them all to pieces. Corruption can set in and thieves can steal. But these heavenly treasures no man can take from us.

A faithfulness that will never be removed, a life that will never end, a spring of water that will never cease to bubble up within the one who drinks of it, a gift that will never be lost, a hand out of which the good shepherd's sheep will never be snatched, a chain that will never be broken, a love from which we shall never be separated, a calling that will never be revoked, a foundation that will never be destroyed, an inheritance that will never fade out. And if I was a shouting man, I could shout. But I think upon these everlasting heavenly treasures that God has given to us, which is so precious and so real to the believing people of God.

These are the treasures that are real. And He said, Sell that you have and give alms. Provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth, for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Have you heard anything that was said tonight? Has God spoken to your heart in any way? I trust that He has. He will write these things upon our hearts and cause us to feast upon and feed upon these things and meditate upon what we have and what God has given us. These heavenly treasures are far greater than the things of this world and of sight and of sense.

What else could we say but that all of this is the grace of God. Brother John Seitz, may you lead us in closing prayer.