Two Treasures…Two Visions…Two Masters

In our journey through Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, we come to the vital subject of the Christian’s relationship to material wealth and ambition.  There is no other area of the Christian life in which we are more dexterous in our attempts to straddle the fence, then in our efforts to satisfy both our spiritual and material longings and aspirations.  In fact, whole facets of Christian teaching have been developed, which not only condone, but even encourage, the supposed biblical basis for the pursuit of material wealth.  But you don’t have to be long into a study of the kingdom of God before you run head on into clear indications of a fundamental incompatibility between kingdom living and material ambition.  And even more significantly, clear assertions of the fundamental inability to live for both.  Nowhere are the exclusive claims of the kingdom of God more clearly articulated and strongly asserted than in the words of Jesus in Matthew 6:19-24, as we’ll see this morning, in a message entitled, “Two Treasures…Two Visions…Two Masters”.