Eternal Investment

“…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.” Matthew 6:20

Where a man’s heart is, that is where his treasure is too!
The wisest man who ever lived, Solomon, was also the richest man who has ever lived. Making money, making wealth, he called it vanity. He said it is like chasing the wind, like grasping for the wind. We need to invest in heavenly things.

In the story in Luke 12:20, where the rich man (he was a farmer) had a wonderful crop... He says, “I am going to make new barns, then I am going to store up all my crop in that barn and then I am going to eat, drink and be merry.” And the Lord says: “You fool, tonight your very life will be required of you.” - We need to invest in eternal things!

John Wesley, when he died, he left six pounds in his will - That was one pound for each pallbearer that was going to carry his coffin to the grave. He wrote many books. He sent all his money straight back into the ministry. George Müller, that German, made a children’s home in Bristol, England which took care of tens of thousands of children. When he died, all he had in his will was a table, a chair and a bed. They found in the accounting system that there was an anonymous donor who had been putting money into the children’s home for years and years and years... They only found out afterwards it was him, himself, who was putting his money straight into the orphanage.

I don’t know if you have watched that movie Schindler’s List. Schindler was a member of the Nazi party and he all of a sudden had a change in his life and he started to save the Jews from the gas chambers - He did it through his factory. Little children, he would bring them in and he would save them and would pay money to the Gestapo to keep these people safe. Do you know that he saved 1,100 Jews from the gas chambers and the fiery furnaces? Right at the end of that movie, they came and they brought him a gold ring - I think they had made it out of gold that they had taken from their very teeth and inside it was engraved, “Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire." - It is from the Talmud, and he broke down and he wept when these 1,100 Jews at the end of the war, came and said, thank you to him. He said, “I could have done so much more.”

I want to say to you today, “Let’s not waste our money and effort on things that will perish with rust and just disappear. Let's invest in heavenly things that will last forever.

God bless you and have a wonderful day.
Goodbye.