Intro

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Discussion

Matthew 6:19-21 NKJV – “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.

I start today’s lesson with this verse for a reason. I will follow it up with these verses.

1 Timothy 6:6-8 NKJV – Now godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. And having food and clothing, with these we shall be content.

Now, gathering earthly treasures. Objects that can be destroyed by moths that when exposed to the elements can rust and be worn away. Look about you.

How many earthly cities that existed in the times that Jesus Christ walked this earth still stand as they did then? I will give you the answer. None. Sure, Rome still stands. Sure, the Colosseum still stands… sorta. But, in no way as it was two thousand years ago. It had been destroyed by fire due to Nero. It had been ransacked due to the Vandals and the Germanic tribes as they conquered that city. Look at the Maya, Inca and Aztec civilizations. Covered in jungles or paved over.

But enough history. You get the point. It doesn’t exist anymore.

Now let’s get back to the topic of downsizing. We all know. Houses can burn in fires. Be destroyed in hurricane and tornado. As well as multiple other things can occur.

Now, we have this imagery established. Let’s look into the lives that most now live. They have grown up and been told that to seek after and own their own home is the ideal. To have multiple cars is a sign of status. How they dress. How they decorate. How much money they earn and spend.

BUT you must give God your 10% and the other 90% is yours to do with as you please. Now it is true that the entirety of chapter seven of the book of Hebrews teaches to give those that minister to us ten percent of your income for this belongs to God. I will never challenge this. In fact, in actuality helps in what I am trying to teach.

Most that profess to being “Christian” don’t even give this mandatory 10%. What’s worse is what was said in 1 Timothy earlier. So, I will restate it once again.

1 Timothy 6:6-8 AMP – [And it is, indeed, a source of immense profit, for] godliness accompanied with contentment (that contentment which is a sense of inward sufficiency) is great and abundant gain. For we brought nothing into the world, and obviously we cannot take anything out of the world; But if we have food and clothing, with these we shall be content (satisfied).

We are to be sufficiently satisfied with being able to eat and to have clothes on our bodies. That means to seek after and expect nothing else from God. However, millions think God gave them something to store on earth. That their Savior put in their hands something that will be destroyed by moths. That will rust away. AKA be destroyed in time.

What does the Bible say about receiving earthly things.

1 John 2:15-16 NLT – Do not love this world nor the things it offers you, for when you love the world, you do not have the love of the Father in you. For the world offers only a craving for physical pleasure, a craving for everything we see, and pride in our achievements and possessions. These are not from the Father, but are from this world.

Let’s look at this from another angle.

The majority of people leave school, at whichever point they leave their education. They go into the world and start getting a job or jobs. They begin to seek after their personal wish list. It can take any form. However, the key element that constitutes all that do this is that they use the majority of their earthly wealth to accomplish fulfilling their wish list.

I look about me at those that call themselves “snowbirds.” They have two houses. Or a house and a fancy RV. Some have even more. Boats, multiple vehicles. Fancy clothes. They go to a building called a “church” every Sunday. Sing a few songs. Go home and then do as they please for the rest of the week. Caring for their possessions and adding to them.

As we have heard from the Word of God. This lifestyle. That most that have ever lived this way. Live in sin. A sin that does multiple things which makes it that they will never be welcomed into the service of God.

It makes them an enemy of God.

James 4:4 NKJV – Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

It turns them into the lukewarm.

Revelation 3:15-17 NKJV – “I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot. So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth. Because you say, ‘I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing’—and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked—

It makes it so their names are removed from the Book of Life.

Exodus 32:33 NKJV – And the LORD said to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot him out of My book.

Why? because they cherish that which is esteemed by the world.

Luke 16:13-15 NKJV – “No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.” Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they derided Him. And He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly esteemed among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

Mammon is defined as riches, money, possessions and property just so you can understand.

For they have turned themselves into a follower of the antichrist. For as I have taught and shown to be called an abomination equates to being equal to the antichrist.

Yes, you heard that correctly. Most that have lived and died seeking after their lifelong wish list using most their money is equal to the antichrist and have been vomited out of the Body of Christ and had their names removed from the Book of Life. Therefore, their fate is what?

Revelation 20:15 NKJV – And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.

Let me read again from the letter to the Laodiceans in the last letter to those that follow Christ in the book of Revelation.

Revelation 3:18-21 NKJV – I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; and white garments, that you may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see. As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent. Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me. To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.

“As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten.”

This lesson is the rebuke. How you that are listening or reading to this will respond shows if you wish to chasten.

Chastening is what you are hearing today. What you are to do. Like I said. Downsize. I live in a small RV. Don’t have a ton of clothes. I use a motorcycle to get around when parked. I live a needs-only lifestyle.

I don’t have multiple homes in different states. I don’t have multiple vehicles. I know what it takes to downsize. I know it can take time. Time we are quickly running out of.

You must act now. You must make choices that glorify God and not your personal well-being. It is made clear in the Word of God. We are not to seek anything except to be clothed and fed. Therefore, if you have multiple homes. One must go. If you have tons of possessions, they must go. Don’t whine or complain that these things are precious. Your eternal life is what is precious. Not an object. Not an extra house. Not the extra vehicle.

Three time the story of the young rich man is told. It is told three times in three gospels over and over for a reason. The reason for this is for we are to learn and not be that young man. The young man that professes to follow God then refuses to do the one thing required. Selling off all your possessions and not keeping any of it as profit and then spread the Word of God.

This is required by all who profess to being a follower of Jesus Christ. It is mandatory. It is demanded by God. It is demanded by Jesus Christ.

It is not a suggestion. Yet I know extremely few that even attempt to do it. This is because they have watched those about them. That those for generations have been seeking after keeping most their earthly wealth unto themselves was the norm.

The norm for the world, but not the norm for those that profess to following Jesus Christ. That is why the few find their way into the presence of God. Because most befriend the world by turning themselves into the lukewarm. Those that are vomited from the Body of Christ and have their names removed from the Book of Life.

Therefore, sell off your worldly possessions you have used most your earthly wealth to gather unto yourselves and don’t expect money in return. Give it away to those in need. Share and spread the Word of God. This is what the young rich man was told to do. Yet he refused and turns his back upon his own salvation. Are you really the young rich man? Because you are sure acting like it.

God Bless