Thank you, men. Appreciate the music today. Those are two of my favorite songs. I told my wife a number of years ago that I want Doc to sing that song at my funeral. You'll pick up that in just a minute. I think he's still going to be around here, Doc. Thanks for that. What a blessing. I have a number of my family supposed to be watching today via live stream too, so I'd probably be in trouble with my mom and others if I didn't say hello. And then Pastor Dietrich must not have known who was preaching today. Otherwise, he just happened to show up here. But he's a dear friend. Good to see you there, Brother Nathan. Glad to have you here this morning. Take your Bibles and turn to Matthew chapter six. If you're from a manual, you're thinking, wow, that sounds familiar. And true, it does. We've been preaching through Matthew 5, 6, and 7 at Emanuel on Sunday mornings. So I'm gonna preach a message that some of my people at Emanuel have heard, preached it over Christmas break, so a lot of the college young people did not hear it, but I'm not gonna apologize for it because I know it's what God wanted me to preach, okay? So some of you can just hear it twice and put up with it a little bit. Let me give you, just quickly, I'm not going to give you all the background that goes into Matthew 5, 6, and 7. It is an incredible text of Scripture. Went back yesterday and tried to figure out, I am on either message 25 or 26, and I've just started Matthew chapter 7. And honestly, some of those messages I could have spent more time on. It is a rich text of Scripture. If it hasn't changed my people, it's incredibly changed me. It has been such a delightful study for me. This is really Jesus kind of opening message, if you will, of his ministry. It's right towards the beginning of his ministry. He's going to make a lot of people mad by the time he gets done with his message, particularly the Pharisees. He really targets them on a number of occasions. He does away with a lot of their tradition, if you will, by telling them, hey, the law is really not about what's done outwardly, but it's really about what's done inwardly. He deals a lot in this text as well with that. Matthew 5, the beginning part of the chapter really is his introduction. By the time you get to the end of chapter 5, end of chapter 6, and the majority of chapter 7 is really the body of his message. He lays out some real critical things that we should be doing. In the middle of Matthew chapter 6, he deals with the text that we will eventually get to, but Matthew 6 is primarily about giving. If you pull out giving out of that chapter, you miss up a lot of the whole chapter. It's a great deal of it. He deals with, in this chapter, three of the critical parts of the Christian life. He deals with almsgiving, which is giving to the poor primarily. Interesting study there. We could probably take four or five messages to talk about how important that is to God. It's very important. He talks about fasting and prayer, those three primary areas of disciplines, if you will, in the Christian life. Almsgiving is about giving. He then goes into the text where we're going to be this morning, verse 19, lay up treasure for yourself. Then he tells us, hey, what are you worried about? God's going to take care of all these things. You put God's kingdom first, you give of your life to him, make that a priority, and you don't have to worry about everything else. And then he deals with some other things in chapter 7 that we won't particularly deal with this morning. The title of my message this morning is Treasure Hunting. You ever been on a treasure hunt? Anybody in here ever been on a treasure hunt? Okay, a few of you. How many of you have ever been on a real treasure hunt, like you were really looking for some lost treasure or something? Anybody in here? Anybody have one of those little metal things where you beep, beep, beep, beep, beep? Brother Barry, I figured that. Anybody else? You find little nuggets sometimes, you know, and they may not be real valuable, you know, but you find them and it's kind of worth it. There are treasure hunters today. People still scouring the ocean. Some of them spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on sonar equipment and so forth to find just that little piece of buried treasure. Recently, they found one of the first submarines from the Civil War. They've actually pulled it up, and they're trying to get all the junk off of it. And I've seen some pictures of it. It's pretty fascinating, actually. Those poor guys actually did a lot of rowing in that thing, and it was tight. Anyway, we won't go into all that. Howard Carter was a treasure hunter, and he kind of, if you will, quote unquote, stumbled upon an interesting treasure. He's the man who discovered King Tut and the tomb that was there. King Tut taught that by surrounding himself with treasures, it would be his in the afterlife. He was wrong, of course. They didn't go with him. And when Howard Carter discovered the tomb in 1922, the treasures were still there. It took him 10 years to excavate the tomb. Today, those treasures sit in a Cairo museum, and it's estimated that the entire treasure is worth somewhere between 650 to 750 million dollars. The coffin alone is worth $13 million. I don't care what coffin you get buried in, it ain't going to be worth that, all right? In fact, I told my wife, put me in a bag and put me somewhere. No sense in wasting the money, right? I don't know the difference. I can't quite convince her of that yet, but I'm trying. Typically, people get nervous when you start talking about money, particularly a pastor. Pastor's talking about money again. Do you know 15% of Jesus' recorded words are on money? He said more about money than any other single thing in the Word of God. Money's pretty important. Randy Alcourt in his book, Money, Possessions, and Eternity says, something else that hasn't changed is the need among Christians for a biblical perspective on money and possessions in light of eternity. And so this morning, as we look at this text of scripture, I'd like for you to concentrate on this. You must choose where you will lay up treasure. Because all of us will lay them up somewhere. I say that again, you must choose where you will lay up treasure. because all of us will lay them up somewhere. Let's go to the Lord in prayer. Father, we're grateful for the privilege of opening your word. It is an incredible privilege and incredible responsibility. Lord, I don't take that lightly. I pray this morning that what's said from this pulpit will be pleasing to you, that it'll be faithful to the text, and that you will speak to hearts as only you can. I don't want to use enticing words of man's wisdom, but I want to let the Spirit of God do the convicting. We need you this morning. In Christ's name we pray. Amen. Matthew 6 and verse 19 says, 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 where 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 light of the body is the eye. If therefore that I be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if that I be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in they be darkness. How great is that darkness. We're not going to deal with verse 24, but he goes on to say, no man can serve two masters for either he will hate the one and love the other or he'll hold to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. He didn't say it's hard. He said you cannot. Case closed. So either you'll serve God or you'll serve mammon. So this morning as we look through this text, let's look at a couple of things. Number one, the prohibition. He starts out by saying, lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth. Of course, to lay up is a present active imperative. That's a command. You don't have a choice about this. To gather or to lay up, to heap up or to store up. to accumulate riches, to keep in store, to reserve for some future day. The Lord says, lay not up treasure for yourselves. The word for yourselves, you Greek guys here, date of case. All right? Now, that's going to come into play in just a minute. a personal interest. Treasure not treasure for yourselves, is what he's saying. Treasure not for yourselves treasures, you could say it that way. So he's saying here on earth, do not lay up treasures for yourselves. It's not that you cannot lay up treasure, because he's going to deal with that in just a minute. The location of the treasure is what he's referring to here. Again, Randy Alcorn says everything material we have, including money, is either a tool or an idol. Now get this. If we fail to use it as a tool for God's intended purposes, it mutates into an idol. Everything you have, God has given to you for a purpose. If you can sing, God's given to you that for a purpose. If you have some other talent, God's given to you that for a purpose. If you happen to have money, God's given to you that for a purpose. And either you will use it for His purpose or it's going to mutate into an idol. That's what's going to happen. And it's a very delicate moment when a man decides just when the material passes over the line from the purposes of the kingdom of God to the purposes of selfishness. E. Stanley Jone in his book, The Christ on the Mount says, to be able to live a spiritual life in the midst of a material environment has been and is the perpetual problem of religion. Again, Randy Alcorn says, he that serves God for money will serve the devil for better wages. Did you get that? He who serves God for money will serve the devil for better wages. If you can be bought, the devil will buy you. By the way, you've already been bought. Don't forget that. So how do you use your possessions? Are they yours to use as you see fit? Or do you see them as gods? The prohibition. Number two, the problem. Verse 19, the latter part. He says, Do not lay up treasures. Don't lay up for yourselves treasures upon earth. Why? Because moth and rust doth corrupt and where thieves break through and steal. Things on this earth don't last. Everything's changing. Doesn't matter what you have, it's changing all the time. Maybe someone gave you a gift at Christmas and you, man, it's you love it, whatever it may be, an iPad or a car. You know, if you've got a car for Christmas, I want to see the people who's on your list because some of us would like to put our name in right now. But it doesn't matter what it is. If you got an iPad for Christmas, it's already outdated. It's true. If you're driving a brand new car, I mean, it's a 2015 even. It won't be long and it'll be old. 2016 is right around the corner. And it's already rusting, breaking. You may not know it yet, but it's happening. Your tires are wearing out, your oil is breaking down. The truth is everything is changing. The Jews valued costly fabrics, that linen. But he says the moths, it's going to eat it up. They valued costly metal, but it's going to rust. They place their stuff in safe places, but somebody is going to rob it. One author said they'll rot, rust or be robbed. That's pretty good. Doesn't matter what you do with your possessions. Hold on to them as tight as you can. And even if you could keep your possessions. To the day that God judges this earth. Poof. That's what's going to happen to them. The house you're in, everything you're building here on this earth. Our flesh tend to make us think of the visible and the material as the best. We are fleshly. We live in a world we can look at each other. And so we tend to place great value on that which we can see. But that is not where our value should be. So what are you striving so hard to hold on to? What is it that you just can't release? You will release it one day. You're going to leave it all here when you die. It's the old guy looking down at a rich man in a casket said, how much did he leave? everything. Jim Irsay, who is the owner of the Indianapolis Colts, when they won their first Super Bowl, said lengthy statement. It's quite a powerful statement for a man who is an alcoholic. But he ended the statement by saying, I've never seen a hearse pulling a U-Haul. You ain't taking it with you. And that's true. the problem. Number three, let's look at the plan. Verse 20, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt and where thieves do not break through nor steal. In contrast to verse 19, saying construction without the negative, the not, it's not there. So now it's saying for yourselves, lay up treasures in heaven. perfectly appropriate when the location is chosen. It's not wrong for us to lay up. It's wrong for us to lay up treasure here. The only place you can store stuff and it not be impacted negatively is heaven. The wisest thing you can do is lay up treasures and you can lay those treasures for yourselves, but it must be in heaven where it will never fade away. Someone has said that when you give to God, whatever you give to Him, it's touched with immortality. Whenever you lay up treasure in heaven, it never goes away. Ten billion years from now, it will still be there. Even if you live a hundred years, That is really, really, really small. Vapor. Boom. And yet we spend so much of our time here. Concentrate on what we possess here. East Stanley Jones again says there's only one place where you can invest life and money and not lose it. In people. People are eternal. A basketball game is over at the final buzzer. Shots taken late don't count. When the trumpet heralds Christ's return, our eternal future begins and our present opportunity ends. If we fail by then to use our money, possessions, time and energy for eternity, then we have failed, period. No other opportunity. What kind of future plan for treasure do you have? Where's your investments this morning? Number four, let's look at what I've called the pilot. As verse 21 says, for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. We know from the word of God that as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. We know that the word heart means the soul, the mind as the fountain and seed of thoughts, passions, desires, appetites, affections, purposes, endeavors. From it comes everything. And God says wherever you're investing, that's where your heart is. That's what's going to control you. The treasure is a place in which good and precious things are collected and laid up. Alexander McLaren, in his exposition of the scripture, says this treasure is not merely money or material good, but whatever each man thinks best, that which he most eagerly strives to attain, that which he most dreads to lose, that which if he has, he thinks he will be blessed, that which if he has not, he knows he is discontented. What are you striving after? A.W. Tozer suggests we may discover the answer by responding to four basic questions. What do you value most? What do I value most? What would we most hate to lose? What do our thoughts turn to most frequently when we are free to think of what we will? And finally, what affords us the greatest pleasure? where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. John Wesley said, I value all things only by the price they shall gain in eternity. David Livingston said, I place no value on anything I possess except in relation to the kingdom of God. Consider the implications of this offer. We can trade temporal possessions we can't keep to gain eternal possessions we can't lose. Sounds like a missionary statement, doesn't it? What we do with our possessions is a short indicator of what's in our hearts. Jesus is saying, show me your checkbook, your credit card statement and your receipts for cash expenditures, and I'll show you where your heart is. What we do with our money doesn't lie. It's a bold statement to God what we truly value. So where's your treasure? I'm not asking you where it should be. I'm asking you where it is currently. I know some of you are thinking, wait a minute. You're preaching to the wrong crowd. We're Bible college students. We're preparing for the ministry. We, of course, are going to invest in eternity. Really? Do you think that you no longer have a choice about the matter? Do you think that just because you're going to pastor a church or you're going to go to the mission field that you're really laying up treasure in heaven? Because that's not an automatic. Because if we follow that logic, it would say that... Pick a television evangelist. Because he's in the ministry. Is he laying up treasure in heaven? I'm not going to judge what he isn't doing. I'm just telling you he's laying an awful lot of treasure up down here. Five houses and a boat and four or five cars and a private airplane. Could have done an awful lot of treasure building in heaven with that stuff. They say, well, I'm going to be an independent Baptist. We're not going to be that rich. That may be true, but can I tell you you're richer than you believe? I used this illustration in a manual a couple of weeks ago as we worked through this passage. If you made more than $1,500 last year through gifts or through wages. If you made more than that last year, raise your hand. $1,500 through gifts or wages, you made that. Even on your school bill, whatever, okay? Do you know you're richer than 80% of the people in the world? $1,500. If you have adequate clothing and a roof over your head. Just that, adequate clothing, roof over your head, you have plenty to eat. Not maybe everything you want, but you've got stuff to eat. You're richer than 15%. You're in the top 15% of the richest people in the world. If you own your house and you have two cars in any working condition and any kind of hobby, a tennis racket, a baseball glove, a golf club, any kind of hobby, you're in the top 5% of the richest people in the world. And I tell you, young people, I don't care how poor you think you are. You are incredibly wealthy compared to most of the people in this world. So what are you doing with your treasure? Where are you laying it up? Let's look at number five, the principle. The principle. Verse 22 and 23. The light of the body is the eye. If therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness." How great is that darkness? What does that have to do with this text? It just like stuck right in the middle here like... Well, let's look at some things here. The word single can mean just simple or single. Full of light means it's composed of light, it's a bright character. Without folds, if you will, it doesn't come in from multiple sources. The word evil, we know what that means, bad nature and condition. Is this passage referring to the singleness of a life? Well, the context of verse 24 seems to indicate that. No man can serve two masters, for either hate the one, love the other. You cannot serve God and man. You got to choose one person that you're going to serve. So it very well could be talking about the singleness of a life. You should have a single focus. Or is it referring to materialism as the lust of the eyes? Well, again, there's some context that would seem to indicate that. The previous context is talking about laying not up treasure for yourselves in heaven, in earth, but lay it up in heaven. Ecclesiastes chapter four and verse eight says there is one alone and there is not a second. Yea, he hath neither child nor brother, yet is there no end of all his labor, neither is his eye satisfied with riches. Neither saith he, for whom do I labor, bereaved of my soul of good. This is also vanity. Yea, it is a sore travail. Solomon gathered everything he could possibly gather. And it was empty. Worthless. I know some of you are New England Patriot fans. And if we believed in luck, that's what you had Sunday night to win the game. But you won, so that's fine. I remember a number of years ago after Tom Brady had won his third Super Bowl, and I think they won three in four years or something like that. In an interview, Tom Brady made this statement. He said, I can't help but think there's more to life than this. Three-time Super Bowl champion, now four-time. All the money he could amass. But what shall a man gain if he gained the whole world and loses his soul? Proverbs chapter 28 and verse 22, he that hastens to be rich hath an evil eye and considers not that poverty shall come upon him. So which one is it? Are they contradicting one to another? I believe both are applicable. In the context, I think he's saying, look, you shouldn't be materialistic. You should focus on serving one person. That's God. And if you're going to serve money, you can't serve God. You can't have it both ways. If you claim to know Christ as your Savior and serve money, you're not serving Christ. You either bow to your Savior or you'll bow to materialism. So, what's your focus? Are you full of darkness or are you full of light? Do you live like it? I know what you are positionally. As Brother Mason said yesterday, are you living that out practically? Take your Bibles, if you would, please, and turn to Psalms 49. Psalms 49 and verse six. Psalms 49 in verse six. The Bible says, they that trust in their wealth and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches, none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him. For the redemption of their soul is precious and it ceases forever. No amount of money. Goodbye, your way to have. Look at verse 16 of that same chapter, be not afraid when one is made rich. When the glory of his house is increased, for when he dies, he shall carry nothing away. It's not going with him. His glory shall not descend after him. Nobody's going to walk into heaven and go, hey, look, I was a millionaire. Not going to happen. that while we live, he blessed his soul. And the men will praise thee when thou doest well to thyself, he shall go to the generation of his fathers, they shall never see light. Men, man that is in honor and understandeth not is like the beast that perish. Men that are rich and the world applauds and they're haters of God, nobody will remember in eternity. Hey, I love football. I watched the Super Bowl the other night. But can I tell you what? Nobody is going to be talking about the Super Bowl in heaven. They're not going to take that, what is it, 13-pound silver trophy with them. And as much as we know that, So many of us, and me included sometimes, are working so hard to build monuments here. And it's worthless. It's worthless. If you live life for what you can get out of it, then it will be a short life, a vapor, poof, gone, and worthless in the big picture. We know this. Many times we don't act like it, do we? We would claim that we don't have any money to give. Well, again, I would argue with you, you have more money than you realize. We have a young man from our church who is currently in Ethiopia on a missions trip. He's there for two years. He wrote me last week. We stay in contact quite frequently and frequently for someone living in a third world country. Giving me the burdens of his heart, people he's trying to win to Christ and minister to in desperately poor area. They said to me, he said, Pastor, I'm currently living on two hundred dollars a month. Don't you just let that sink in for a minute. Currently living on $200 a month. I'm living on 50 of it. So that I can give the other 150 away. What's your excuse? We'll spend a few minutes, because I still got time, so just hold your horses, all right? On an illustration, because this is important to me. The people of Emmanuel know that last year for our missions conference, I told the story of a man who spent his years in the Congo. Phenomenal story. The man's name is Herbert Greens. At the end of the book that I highlighted for four weeks as we led up to our missions conference, he mentioned that there is another book that he had written, but it was out of print. Just to give you a little, our people already know this, but Herbert Greens is the great grandfather of the Champlin children, okay? He is a phenomenal man. So Pastor Caleb Champlin, who's our youth pastor, went to searching to find his second book. It's out of print. I have a copy here. This was printed in Mexico City in 1966. Many of your parents were not born in 1966 or were little kids at the time. By the way, I was born in 1966, too. This man gave his life to Christ. By the way, he has 90 current, I think it's probably larger than that now because the book then was a little bit older, but he's got 90 current descendants from this man, Greens. The Champlain's grandmother, Louise, is one of five of his children. She's the only one still living. She's mentioned in this book quite frequently a number of times. She's currently in Bible college at the writing of this. Have you girls read this book yet? You probably haven't even seen a copy, okay? It's hard to find. We're trying to get permission to reproduce this, by the way, Brother Norm. If you want it, we're working on that because I think the family actually owns it. Was kicked out of the Congo eventually. He buried his wife in the Congo. Eventually made it back to the Congo towards the end of his life and died there. He was buried there. When he died, He had a bicycle repair kit, a cloth bag, one set of clothes, and a well-worn Bible. At the time of the first book that's writing, there were 90 descendants, living descendants of him. Over half of them are currently on the mission field. A large other portion of them are in Bible college training for the mission field. And another large segment of them are no longer considered missionaries because they're third generation missionaries on the field. They're now natives working in local churches. This book is basically his prayer letters and a couple of other journal entries from his time and as a missionary in Mexico and South America. He went to an unbelievable amount of countries. The grave majority of them, he could not speak their language. But he'd been kicked out of the Congo and didn't know what else to do. So he met a guy who said, hey, you know, there's people in Mexico who need to hear this message. And the guy said, I'll let you stay in my house for a little while. And it's in such and such. He got on a bus and went to Mexico. For years, he never came back to America. Ended up in Puerto Rico and then Venezuela and what eventually became Suriname. And before the Champlains' grandparents ever got there and ministered to some of the tribes, he was already trying to reach some of the Indian unreached people groups there. Let me read for you a four-year summary May 1954. He says, I am, I may say that during the past four years, the Lord has graciously enabled me to visit the Indians from the Delta Macara and the Grand Sabana in Venezuela. By the way, there's a ton of those names. I'll probably slaughter them if you know how to pronounce them. Great. All right. Through British Guyana, Dutch Guyana, which eventually became Suriname, French Guyana, and now Brazil. In Venezuela, I worked mainly with the Wao Indians, 12 scripture portions and six hymns and courses translated. Now, remember, he doesn't know the language. He's learning it, writing it out, checking it with someone and then recording it on records. Buying handheld record players to leave in villages so they can continue to play the gospel messages that he's preaching. reading from a piece of paper, all right? So just keep that in mind. Three phonographs record records made. Ten phonographs and 200 gospel records in Spanish, English, Waro, and Iwaki placed among the Indians. This was accomplished here in a period of two years. Persecution from the Roman Catholic priest was so strong that it moved to British Guyana. 15 scripture portions and 6 hymns and choruses translated into Arawak, and 4 phonograph records made. 12 scripture portions and 8 hymns and choruses translated into Karab, and 4 phonograph records made. 25 phonographs and 250 gospel records placed among the Indians. 500 gospel records placed among the Hindu, Yurdi, and English-speaking Guyanese. Two records were made in Wasapa and two in Akawa. Meetings and visits at the Amadi Hostel in Georgetown enabled me to reach many Indians from four regions in the interior. This was accomplished over a period of 18 months. Again, because of persecution, I found it necessary to move to Dutch Guyana. During a period of four months, I was able to visit the Waianae Indians in the far interior twice, but succeeded in translating only one hymn and two courses for making a gospel record of a melody of Indian languages in one record. However, I placed two phonographs and 20 records in Creole, French, English, and Dutch. These recordings were made in Tak Tak, which was a native place there, and 60 copies processed. Also 200 records in five different languages distributed among the people of Dutch Guiana. My residence permit was not renewed, so I moved over into French Guiana and obtained a gentleman's agreement that I could work among the Indians for a period of eight months. I made no translations, but was able to visit two different Indian groups at the headwaters of the river and placed three phonos and 30 records with them. They told me of a kindred group of Indians over the Brazilian border. So January 18th, 1954, a long cherished desire of my heart was granted to go to that country where there are still many tribes who have not been reached with the gospel. Now, after three months travel by plane, riverboats and canoes, I have been wonderfully enabled of the Lord to send the great Amazon River as far as Manaus and other cities. From there, brother and sister Burns of Baptism in Missions took me in their Jeep to their station at Bethel and on the Surmont River near the Venezuela frontier where I contacted the Wasupi and Makashu civilized Indians. You want me to keep reading? You're talking about a man that laid up treasure in heaven. I could keep going. By the way, I can't read this book without weeping. Let me finish. By the way, it's amazing what else he does. There are days when he's 16 days on his feet, averaging three miles an hour, walking up mountains, getting to a village, sit down, turn the record player on, hand crank it, let him listen to the gospel message. He said, someone gave me a nice hammock at $8 for a phonograph, which cost me 20. I sent the hammock to my daughter, Bessie, in the Congo to use on her trips to the villages. Gifts of money to me averaged less than a thousand a year. Less than a thousand a year. I inherited 900 from a deceased uncle, but 350 of that amount was stolen from me in Venezuela. The rest I placed in a fund to pay passage for my son, Rory, to return to the Congo. By the way, he spent many, many years in the Congo. I believe was buried there. I have never borrowed or asked for money. Philippians 4.19. Over four years, he never owned a home. In one of the villages, he finally put up a pole barn of frond leaves and hung his hammock there. It was a 10 by 12 room, the first room he had owned in over four years. Another place he hung his hammock between two poles. where the rats and vampire bats and those kind of things couldn't get to him and climbed into his hammock. And he said, I was more content than if I were laying in a plush bed in the Aldolph Astoria in New York City. Laying up treasure in heaven. I told my wife last night as I read this, I'm not done, I'm still reading it. I said to her, people like this are going to be so far in front of us, we're not even going to be able to see them when we get to heaven. If sending material ahead of time helps build your mansion in heaven, I'm not saying it does, but there's some people who believe that. This guy is going to have a big one. He never had one here, but he'll have one there. You could see his heart. If you read the little stories, he would say one Indian squatted by the phonograph as they listened, his eyes brightened. I pray he knew Jesus Christ as his savior. These are people he can't speak to. He's tried to learn their language, but he's so desperate to get the gospel, he'll go drop off a phonograph in the area and leave records with them. And we complain because we have to walk down the road in cold weather. We're sacrificing for God. There's a different perspective, young people. Yes, here, it looks like you're a failure. Yes, here, you may not live in nice houses. just saw a picture of the Jennings and their garb in a sand location, but laying up treasure in heaven. So you will lay up treasure somewhere. Where are you going to lay it up? Leave it here? Will it will rot, rust and be robbed? or invested there where it will be for all of eternity, all of eternity. Men like this teach us what it really means, what it really means to lay up treasure in heaven. By the way, girls, there's a picture of your grandmother on the back of this book. If you haven't seen it, I can show it to you after chapel. So simple challenge. We're going to lay up a treasure. Now, listen, young people, I'm not telling you that you can't ever have a Coke. And every time you buy one in the snack shop, you know, boy, you're just you're just a heathen person. I think God allows for celebrations. He did that with the Jewish people. There's place for that. But we could sure do a lot more investing than we do. I can do a lot more investing than I do. Not just your physical life, though that is a wonderful investment, but your very treasures that God hands to you. The money that will flow through your hands that's far richer than majority of the population in the world. Oh, what if God calls me to a village where I have to live in a hammock? Well, what if he does? What if that's what he asked for you to do? Lay up treasure in heaven. Lay up treasure in heaven. Can't be touched there. Father, help us. Help me. Help me, Lord, to lay up treasure in heaven. Lord, the truth is I get so earthly minded sometimes, I forget that there's an eternity. I know it theologically, but I forget to live like it. Oh Lord, help us do that. May these students, faculty for that matter, may we lay up treasure in heaven. May that be our priority. Everywhere we go, every person we're looking into, may we think about where they'll spend eternity. May we be willing, no matter what, to sacrifice, if we could even call it a sacrifice, Lord, for you. Thank you for these reminders in Scripture. We need them. In Christ's precious name, we pray.