But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.
Verse 20. Lay up treasures...in heaven. That is, have provision made for your eternal felicity. Do not exhaust your strength, and spend your days, in providing for the life here, but let your chief anxiety be to be prepared for eternity. There nothing corrupts, nothing terminates, no enemies plunder or destroy. To have treasure in heaven is to possess evidence that its purity and joys will be ours.
Worldly-mindedness is as common and as fatal a symptom of hypocrisy as any other, for by no sin can Satan have a surer and faster hold of the soul, under the cloak of a visible and passable profession of religion, than by this; and therefore Christ, having warned us against coveting the praise of men, proceeds next to warn us against coveting the wealth of...
Commenting on Matthew 6:19-24
Eastern wealth lay in costly garments, easy prey for moths. Rust eats away. Thieves break in. Our Lord teaches plainly: earthly treasures are perishable, precarious, consumed by forces beyond our control.
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Commenting on Matthew 6:19-34