Alright, let's turn back there
to Luke 16. Now, in this parable, we have
a certain rich man. And that certain rich man represents
God our Savior, our Lord Jesus Christ. And we have in this parable
someone that's in the office of a steward. He is entrusted
with the goods of his master. This is our Lord Jesus Christ
speaking. He's given us parable. This steward
turns out to be an unjust steward. The Lord teaches us a message
here, a lesson through this unjust steward. And he says to us, he's
teaching us, to walk in the light that he's given to us. He's teaching
us here to trust Him who has provided the believers complete
righteousness with Him and who provides for us everything in
this world to use for the furtherance of His name. He's teaching us
to walk in the light He's given us, trusting Him who is our righteousness
and use everything He's given us for His glory. we received from our Lord, brethren. You know the Lord Jesus. What
have we received from him? Everything. What's included in
everything? Everything. Absolutely everything. All spiritual blessings are in
Christ Jesus, freely given to us. Cost God his own son, cost
him giving his own son his son, laying down his own life, but
he's provided all for us. All righteousness, all Christ's
inheritance is our inheritance. This is what Peter said. We have
an inheritance, incorruptible, undefiled, that fadeth not away,
reserved in heaven for you. It doesn't get better than that.
And we don't look for better than that. That's as good as
it gets. That's everything we have. And everything we have
been given in this earth is given to us to be used to set forth
that glorious good news that everything is provided in His
Son. He's accomplished the salvation of His people. He has done that.
Now, believers and unbelievers alike are stewards in some sense
of the word. This message here is given to,
spoken particularly of and in the presence of the Pharisee.
Israel was a steward. They were given the oracles of
God. They were given the truth of
God. They were given the law of God.
They were given prophets of God. But they didn't walk in the light
God gave them. They didn't walk in that light
God gave them. This whole world has been, the gospel is sent
forth now into this whole world. And we have the gospel here in
this place. It's been brought here. It's been given here by
God. And so, It's everything we have,
all spiritual blessings we have in Christ, and it's our responsibility
as stewards of God to give everything for this purpose, to sound forth
His gospel. What is this everything that
we're responsible to give? These goods, they're all His
goods, all His goods. What are they we're responsible
to give? walk in all light, walk in every spiritual blessing,
every temporal blessing, give ourselves, our time, our talents,
our possessions, our family, everything that we have been
given here is for this purpose. Everything. Now let's look at
just two divisions here. We're going to look at the parable
itself first, and then we're going to look at the exhortation
the Lord gives. Now, the parable. Now this is
an earthly example, an earthly illustration. Let's just take
it verse by verse. First of all, verse 1, we see
that this steward wasted his Lord's goods. He said also unto
his disciples, there was a certain rich man, that is representative
of our God, of the Lord Jesus Christ. He's the rich man, the
unsearchable riches of Christ. picture of him. He had a steward.
This master had a steward, somebody he entrusted with his goods.
And the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods.
Now that's the first thing we see. He wasted his master's goods. He wasted them. How did he waste
them? Maybe he embezzled them. Maybe
he stole from his master. Maybe he misapplied that which
his master had given to him. Maybe he just carelessly used
it. and gave no thought to it. Now,
I said to you the Lord speaking here in the midst of the Pharisees,
that's exactly what Israel had done. That's exactly what Israel
did. They took everything God gave
them, that nation, and they attempted to come to God by the works of
their own hands. They embezzled, they attempted
to rob God of the glory that belongs to His Son. They laid
heavy burdens, doing so, in the process of doing that, being
righteous, so called. They also laid heavy burdens
upon the poor and needy sinners who needed the unsearchable riches
God had given. That's what they needed. And
they laid heavy burdens on them and oppressed them down. Like
that unjust steward that we'll see here in a minute. He lowered
all of everything his creditors owed. Well, that's what the Pharisees
did for themselves. They lowered everything. They
lowered the whole law of God down and said, ah, we can achieve
this. But when it came to others, they
raised that bar way back up and said, now let me lay that burden
on you. That's oppression. They refused
to set forth the unsearchable riches of Christ. They sought
personal, temporary gain for themselves in the world. In all
this, that is what it all amounted to, was temporal, personal gain. Watch down at verse 14. Look
at verse 14. What did they do when they heard?
The Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things,
and they derided Him. That's what they heard the Savior
speak, and they derided Him. You know what derision means?
Whenever they said, if He be the Christ, let Him save Himself.
He saved others, let Him save Himself. Let it come down if
He's the Christ, the elect of God. That's derision. That's
deriding, scoffing at what He said. That's what Pharisees always
do. Pharisees scoff and scorn and
ridicule and turn the whole Word of God away from themselves onto
somebody else and lay heavy burdens on somebody else. Oppression,
weight, heavy weight, which we can't lift. When neither our
fathers were able to bear it, Peter said, and we can't bear
it either, Peter said. We can't bear it. But you behold
in that, in all of that, what we are. brethren, and what every
sinner is in our flesh. We're Pharisees by nature. We're
Pharisees in our flesh. That's exactly what we are. We
try to lessen the law of God and try to achieve some kind
of righteousness for ourselves. The law, we can't come to God
in anything we've done. We can't please God by our own
words. And we can't turn around and
put that weight on somebody else because there's no man that can
do that. We have one pearl of great price to set forth before
men and it is the Lord Jesus Christ, the certain rich man.
He's the one who gives all and blesses all his people. Now,
I want you to see this next thing. Look at verse 2. This is very
important, and we need to get this. This goes right along with
the fact of that pharisaical nature that's in the flesh. Look
at this, verse 2. In this parable, there's a certain
rich man, this one who's the master. He called him. He called
that steward. He called him to himself and
he said, how is it that I hear this of thee? Give an account
of thy stewardship for thou mayest be no longer steward. He didn't
give, he didn't call him to give, he didn't call others to give
account of this steward. He called that steward to himself
for that steward to give an account for himself. Now brethren, that's
glorious good news to a believer. Because our master, who calls
us to himself to give account of our stewardship, is the master
who's given us everything in our hands. And who's entrusted
all unto us, and who says, I have reserved for you an inheritance,
undefiled, that fadeth not away. That's Gloria's canoe. I'm not
here to take account of your stewardship. You're not here
to take account of mine. And I'm glad that's the case,
because you know what I do? what we do in our pharisaical
nature. Say, you haven't done right.
But he called him to himself. This master called him to himself.
We need to remember that. He called him to himself. This
is what Paul said about that. Therefore judge nothing before
the time until the Lord come who both will bring to light
the hidden things of darkness and will make manifest the counsels
of the hearts. Then shall every man have praise
of God. Those who are his, you see, If
you looked at my flesh and the things that I saw, I look at
my own self and say, oh, what an unjust steward. You know what
you'd say? Man, that's an unjust steward.
And you know why I'm glad that the heart that Christ gave me
is the heart wherein the hidden things are going to be revealed. He knows it. I'm glad he knows
it. I'm glad he's the one who knows the heart he's given. That's glorious good news to
me. Lord, you've given me the heart to serve you. You know
my heart. You know my heart. You've given
it. That's good news for a believer.
For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord
commendeth. You see, that's who is commended. But for the unbeliever, This
is a horrible, this is horrible news because everybody is going
to give an account to this very Lord Jesus Christ. I'm talking
about how, how you wasted the privilege God gave and the light
that God gave. Even if it's just this external
call that God has given us. Right here. Be held accountable. It's worse
for, I tell you, it's worse for somebody sitting here who's heard
this gospel preached than for somebody who's never heard the
gospel preached ever. It'd be worse. Because we've heard it. We've
heard it. At least with the natural ear.
Look at verse 3. Now, this is what when he was
called and he said, now you're being cast out of your stewardship
because you've not worked this as you should have. This is what
he realized, verse 3. Then the steward said within
himself, what shall I do? Now, do you hear this news today? What shall I do? What shall I
do? This is what he said. For my
Lord takes away from me the stewardship. I can't dig, and to beg I'm ashamed. We're not gonna stay in this
stewardship forever. We have a stewardship right now. We're here in this body. We're
not staying in this body forever. We're going to die, and we're
gonna stand before God. We're gonna die, we're gonna
stand before God. Now, when this steward realized
that, that he was being cast out of his stewardship, He said,
what am I going to do? To dig? I can't do that. And to beg? I'm ashamed. You know what he was? He was
proud. And he couldn't bow. He was proud. We can't work by
the works of our hands and save our souls. We can't do that. And we, the scripture, by the
works of the law shall no man be justified. Man is not justified
by the works of the law. Salvation's by grace. It can't
be earned, it can't be won by works. We cannot do as the Pharisee
and lower the standard of the law and come unto God. We can't
do the labor, the dig down and do the labor that's required
to come unto God. This man wouldn't lower himself
to do labor. He said that's beneath him to
do the labor. What is the work of God? That
you believe on him whom he hath sent. That's beneath Every sinner
in this world too proud to come down and serve the master. And the other problem was he's
too ashamed to beg. Too ashamed to beg. That's our
two problem. We can't work the works of God
and we're too ashamed to ask God for mercy. We're too ashamed
to come to God and entirely, you know what it is to ask mercy?
Is to entirely put all your trust into the hand of another to have
completely done the work and provided the bread for you. What
a beggar on a corner that's asking for handout. He's asking somebody
else to do all the work for him. He's asking for somebody else
to give him. To give to him because he can't
do the work. You know what somebody said that
the gospel is? preaching of the gospel is, good
news of the gospel is, it's one beggar telling another beggar
where he got bread. That's what the gospel is. One
beggar telling another beggar where you got bread. Christ is
that bread. But this unjust steward, look
what he did now. When he found this out, he said,
oh, I can't do that, I'm a beggar, I'm ashamed. Do you see what
we are by nature? Too proud to do the work. or
to come down, to submit to God, to submit to the Lord. We can't do the work ourselves.
And we're too proud to beg His mercy to save us. But look at
this. Look at what He did now. Verse
4, I'm resolved what to do, that when I'm put out of the stewardship,
they may receive me into their houses. Here's what he just came
up with. He called every one of his Lord's
debtors unto him and said unto the first, How much owest thou
unto my Lord? And he said, A hundred measures
of all. And he said unto him, Take the bill, and sit down quickly
and write fifty. Then he said to another, How
much owest thou? And he said, A hundred measures of wheat.
And he said unto him, Take thy bill and write fourscore. And
the Lord commended the unjust steward. He commended the unjust
steward because he had done wisely. He had done wisely. Now make
sure we understand this. What's the commended here in
this? Not lessening the bills of his
master's debtors. That's not what was commended
here. That was unjust, just as wasting his goods was unjust.
That wasn't the just thing. That was unjust. He's commended
because he didn't sit idle. He didn't sit on his hands. He's
commended because he provided, he spared no expense. He was industrious and pressed
and went out to try to figure out some way he's going to be
provided for when he gets put out of this stewardship, when
he gets put out of that office he was in. That's what he was
trying to provide for. And therefore we read, the children
of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.
What's the Lord mean by that? Let me read this to you. I'll word it to you. I want you
to get this. Knowing that we will not always
be the stewards of God in this earth, knowing that we will pass
from this life into God's presence, that we must soon die, and that
we must give account to our Lord, let us give earnest diligence
to prepare for that day. To prepare for that day. The
unjust steward All he did was lay up treasure for himself on
this earth. That's all he was doing before
and that's all he did after. The Lord's not teaching us to
do that. That's what the Pharisee did. That's what the self-righteous
man did. He tried to come to God by his
own works and his own righteousness. That's not what the Lord's telling
us to do. But with the same diligence and the same intensity with which
this unjust doer prepares merely for his earthly well-being, The
Lord says, so every sinner ought to give all our diligence to
be found in the Lord only, to seek Him only and be found in
Him only. Look at verse 16 there. He said, the law and the prophets
were until John. Since that time, the kingdom
of God is preached and every man presseth into it. Are you pressing to draw near
to the Lord? This unjust steward, he knew,
I'm fixed to be out of this office. And me and you in just about
that fast are fixed to be out of this life into God's presence. We're just going to sit here
and hear the Word of God and just go home and if we did even
bother to open His Word today and look into it, we're going
to go home then and just take it and throw it on the shelf
or throw it in the trunk of the car or throw it in the floorboard
of the car and wait until we come here next week and open
it up and look into it? The Lord is saying press to enter
into this, into this light God's given.
Press to enter in. Strive to enter in. Straight
is the gate and narrow is the way. Few be there that find it.
Strive to enter in, to know these things, to hear God. Are we going
to pray just when we bow our heads and we're here
together, we're going to pray constantly, earnestly, and treat
God for His mercy and His grace, continually, earnestly. When
we first wake up in the morning and we go in our closet and we
pray to Him, when we're getting dressed, when we're driving on
our way to work, when we get to work, when we're walking around
to get a drink of water when we're driving home from work,
when we're out mowing the yard, when we're constantly, earnestly
begging God, Lord, help me. Help me. Deliver me. Show me
your mercy. Strive to enter in. In other
words, what I'm saying is, what the Lord is teaching us here,
look past the end of our noses. Look past the end of today. A
pig will eat the slop that's put in front of him and lay in
the mud that's right there in front of him and be content to
lay and wallow in that slop and just lay there. What are we striving for? What are we striving after? We
have an eternity to face. What are we striving after? The
things of this life are fleeting, they're temporary, they're not
the true riches. Christ is the pearl of great
price. Don't live for this life, live for the next one. Live for
the next one. Look at 2 Corinthians 4.18. Listen
to this word. If you turn in your Bibles to
this, 2 Corinthians 4.18. This is God's Word. The God we have to face. The
God we're going to face. Listen to this Word. 2 Corinthians
4.18. While we look not at the things
which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things
which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not
seen are eternal. For we know that if our earthly
house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building
of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
Can you say that? Can you say that here today?
That if this house right now, this tabernacle right now is
dissolved, if it returns to the dust, I got a tabernacle in heaven,
not made with hands, made by Christ Jesus, my righteousness,
that will never be defiled. all pressed to enter into that
righteousness. All right, let's look now. Go
back with me. Let's look and see what the Lord says here.
We come to the end of this. Look at verse 9. He showed us now that the world,
they're pressing and pressing and pressing. You think about
the I was watching these, looking at this movement that's going
on all over the world, you know. And I was reading all these different
things about it yesterday. You know, what's it called? What
do they call it? March on Wall Street. Occupy
Wall Street. Occupy Wall Street. You know,
it's all over the world. It's going on all over the world. But I was looking, and it's just
like this started up, but they don't really have an exact thing
they're going after. Nobody's really got an exact,
OK, what is it we're standing for? We're all standing, but
what are we all standing for? We all of a sudden found ourselves
all standing. Now what in the world are we
all standing for? And all these different folks were saying different
things. And somebody said this. And they
were making some point about it was just all about Congress
and the rich and all this stuff. But they said, it doesn't do
any good. It's not going to do any good
just to clean up the arteries and the veins. We need a heart
transplant. And I thought, man, that right
there is the best thing I've read about this thing. That's
exactly what we need. We need a heart transplant. That's
the only way we're going to find out that riches and glory is
not going to be had in this life. It don't matter. Not by power
and might, it don't matter how many all over this world get
together, it's not gonna happen. Not gonna happen. Well, here's
what he said, verse 9. I say unto you, now listen to
this word, make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness,
that when you fail, when you die, when you pass from this
life, they may receive you into everlasting habitations. What
does that mean? It means simply this. Use everything
God has put into our hands, all the temporal blessings we have,
so that when we pass from this life, those riches will be a
witness for us. that we lived in this life for
the glory of God, trusting Christ, and not trusting in those riches,
not trusting in those temporal things. They're either going
to bear witness for us, or they're going to bear witness against
us. A steward has one hand open, he has both hands open. One he's
receiving from God, and the other he's giving it out. for the glory
of God and the good of his people. Give everything that God's given
us. Now let me say this. We can give,
Paul said this clearly, we can give all our goods. We can give
everything we have. We can give our bodies to be
burned. We can give everything we have. That won't put a man
in glory. That's not what the Lord is teaching
us here. That won't put a man in glory. Listen to this word,
1 Peter 1.18. For as much as ye know, look
there with me. I want you to read this again. No, there's a... Don't misunderstand
this. Scripture like this is easily
twisted by the self-righteous. But listen to
this, 1 Peter 1.18. As much as you know, you were
not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold from
your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers.
but with the precious blood of Christ as of a lamb without blemish
and without spot, who verily was foreordained before the foundation
of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
who by him, by his grace, by his precious blood have been
bought, purchased, and by Him every believer that believes,
believes in God by Him, that raised Him up from the dead and
gave Him glory, that your faith and hope might be in God. That's
where our faith and hope is. It's not in what we give or don't
give. That's not the message here.
But, look at Matthew 13. Our riches, our giving, using
these things for the glory of God, They can't get us into glory. They can't buy our way into glory.
They can't get us any good thing in glory. But they can keep us out. They can keep us out. I'm talking
about the riches. I'm talking about the temporal
things. Look at Matthew 13, 22. He also that receives seed among
the thorns is he that heareth the word. and the care of this
world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word and he
becometh unfruitful. He falls away because the riches
of this world, carnal security, carnal riches choke the word. Our Lord, you know, if there's
one thing our Lord teaches throughout this book, this is where in the heart of
a man is made known. The love of money is the root
of all evil. Our security is either going
to be in Christ, and we use the things God's given us to glorify
His name and for the fervence of His name, or when you hear
this word, we'll be like the Pharisees who were covetous and
say, ah, he's just trying to get something out of me. Because
it's where it's where we the trust in Christ are we trust
in some other carnal? Security some other salvation.
That's just tidy. That's just where the rubber
meets the road And money manifested more than anything there is I
Have a friend in Tennessee. I want the young people listening
this I have a friend in Tennessee and He's going to college and doing real
well in college. I was talking with his father
the other day, and his father told me this. He said, this is
what I told him. He said, son, everything that God gives you, you use it to seek the Lord first. And to promote the gospel of
Christ first. And the good of his people first. That's good counsel from a father
to a child. We're privileged to serve God
for just a little while. Just a little while. Go to college where you can hear
the gospel. Go to college that puts you in
a place where you're outside of hearing the gospel. You can't
hear the gospel everywhere. It just ain't everywhere. It's
very sparse in this world. Very sparse in this world. That's
just so. Get a job to support the gospel. and use everything that God gives
you to give so that others can hear this glorious good news
of this gospel. I want you to see something here.
The Lord says, what's least and what's greatest? Look at verse
10. We're going to go back over these
verses, but just look at this first. What's least and what's
greatest? Verse 10. He that is faithful
in that which is least is faithful also in much. And he that is
unjust in the least is unjust also in much. You know what God
calls the riches of this world? The least. All the temporal things
in this world God calls the least. You know what men call that?
The greatest. You know why? Backwards. Backwards. Our ways are not God's ways.
Our thoughts are not God's thoughts. We're backwards. This world has
got us deluded. This world's got us thinking
we got to conform to this world. That's dumb. We don't. If this world is not What's the
greatest? And nothing in it is. It's the
least. God calls much the unsearchable
riches of Christ. God's riches in glory by Christ
Jesus. That's much. Look at verse 11.
If therefore you've not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon,
who will commit to your trust the true riches? You see the
offsetting of it? The unrighteous mammon and the
true riches. God calls the riches of this
earth unrighteous mammon. The true riches of Christ are
the true riches. Look at verse 12. And if you've
not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give
you that which is your own? This is the good news that the
believer has in this world. These things that we have in
this world, they're not our own. They're another man's. They belong
to the Lord Jesus Christ. The whole inheritance is His.
It all belongs to Him. It's all His. In heaven and in
earth, the whole thing's His. All His goods. He is the rich
man. And here's the glorious good
news. Everything that belongs to my Redeemer is mine! In heaven and in earth! everything,
and they're mine. The inheritance belongs to Christ.
We're stewards of his goods for a very little while, and then
we're going to leave all these things to somebody else. But
the true riches that are our own, they'll never be left anywhere
else. They're ours. Righteousness is
ours forever. Inheritance incorruptible that
fadeth not away is mine forever. My beloved's mine, and I'm my
beloved's. That won't ever be changed. This world and everything
in it will fade. This world and everything in
it will leave. This world and all the so-called riches of it
are gonna be gone. We don't... The sad fact is unless God just
reach out right now and grab us in the heart, we won't believe
Him. Won't believe Him. If a physician was sent to you
and saying, hey man, wake up. You got cancer. If you don't
take this treatment, you're going to die tomorrow. Will we hear
him? Or we just stick our head under
the pillow and say, I'm not going to listen to that. Can you go
out of the room? I'm trying to watch TV. Can you
leave the room? I'm trying to listen to this
new rap artist. Can you leave the room? I'm wanting
a brand new pair of the latest fashions or kicks or whatever
shoes. That's foolish. Y'all laughing.
You say that's foolish. It's foolish. Absolutely foolish. Those aren't the true riches.
What's faithfulness and what is it to be unjust? Let's look
again, verse 10. He that is faithful in that which
is least. What was least? These lowly things,
these things that don't matter. What are we using them for? For His glory, for the firmness
of His gospel. He that is faithful in least
is faithful also in much. You know what he's telling us?
The man who is faithful to use these things, not to amass just
a state for himself and a name for himself and all that to his
heart, but his true heart is for the glory of God, that man's
faithful in glory. He's faithful with the Lord.
He's faithful in Christ Jesus the Lord. You know the evidence
he's faithful in Christ? Because he's faithful in those
things. And he that's unjust in the least, unjust in these
things like that steward was, wasted his goods, didn't turn
around and tried to just cover his own hide, he's unjust also
in much. This is true. If we rob God of
the worship due to Him, the time due to Him, the service due to
Him, for these things which are at least, we rob God in that
which is greatest, His glory, His honor, His dominion. Now
you remember this too now, faithfulness here is measured by God, it's
not measured by men. Faithfulness is measured by lives.
It's not measured by isolated acts. We make some dumb, boneheaded
mistakes in life. Dumb mistakes. It's measured
by the life. By the life. What's the life?
All right, verse 11. If therefore you've not been
faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust
the true righteous? True riches. And if you've not
been unfaithful in that which is another man's, who shall give
you that which is your own? I want you to hear the Lord in
another place. Mark 8. Turn over there. Listen
to this place right here. Well, I believe we ought to do
that for Christ, but I'm not sure we ought to do that for
His gospel. Mark 8, 35. Whosoever will save his life
shall lose it. But whosoever shall lose his
life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it. For what
shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose
his own soul? What shall a man give in exchange
for his soul? Well, here's the final word.
Verse 13, back in our text. Verse 13. Now, this is just fact,
brethren. This is just fact. Verse 13, no servant can serve
two masters, for he will either hate the one and love the other,
or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. You cannot
serve God and mammon. Just that simple. What do we
take from all this? Well, if we love God, We're going
to make all our worldly interests subservient to the worship of
God. That's so. A believer grows more
and more in that, but that is so. If we love God, if we have
the love of God in our heart, we will more and more make all
our worldly interests subservient to the worship of God. And if
we love the world, This is the opposite of that. If we love
the world, we'll fit God in where we can. That's just so. That's just so. Again, I remind
you now, faithfulness is measured by God, and faithfulness is measured
not by isolated acts, it's measured by the life. What's our life? Why is that so? Listen to this
simple statement. Think about this simple statement.
For where your treasure is, where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Don't we see that in everything?
If our minds, our hearts, we're so consumed with something that
it's just a treasure to us and we have got to have it, that's
where our heart will be. That's where our minds will be.
We get a hankering for something in this world. We see it and
we look at it. They used to say about a raccoon,
you know, a raccoon will just reach out for anything that's
shiny, or different, or curious, or whatever. That's kind of what
we're like. We see something shiny, or something
new, and it just gets to be a treasure to us. And whatever it is, that's
where our heart is. Our heart's set on that. If Christ
is the pearl of great price, and he is our treasure, you know
where our heart's gonna be? It's going to be with Him in
glory. It's going to be with Him in all things in this earth
that we do. It's going to be first and foremost
for Him and to Him to whom we desire to have all the glory
and honor because that's where our treasure is. He's our treasure. He's our heart. Do you find that
to be so? That's not meant to be a burden
to anybody. That's meant to be a joy. We
have a great privilege. An inheritance undefiled, reserved
in heaven that will not fade away. Christ our treasure. And
where our treasure is, that's where our hearts are. By his
grace. Amen.