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Well, good morning.

The ground here today.

Good to hear good news.

Preachers.

Like to hear good news.

I get up and preach, I can pay that now.

Just get you fired up.

So, glad that you were here, we're getting close to Christmas song.

And I was Richard, monthemer singing to talk about that name.

Jesus, there's something about that name, it me.

I think I'm going to, I'm going to do something unprecedented.

I'm going to say his name is the name above all names.

I think that's been said before though happened.

But his name

Let me just kind of rehash some that sounds a little different.

So it does sound better slow today is the last day that we're going to take up the offering for the beautifying you Grace.

Now, if you was going to give today and you just forgot and and you come next week, so I was just going to I was going to give some money, but now I can't get it yet.

You can't, we will accept it.

We will expect it a week from now, to weeks until 3 weeks from now.

It doesn't matter will accept it, but this is the last service that we were actually going to take it up.

So so I appreciate everyone that's given if you haven't given yet and you are and you have decided that you're going to then we appreciate that as well.

Remember our Christmas service at 11 a.m. on Christmas Day.

You know, between now and then would be a great time for you to go out and do a random act of kindness for someone, make someone some cookies or bake me, some, you can just make them, low carb, you know, or just any type of go visit someone invite someone to come to church with this would be a perfect time to do that, because there's a lot of people that's not celebrating this Christmas.

A lot of people are grieving, there's a lot of people that's discouraged and depressed, and if you know, someone like that, then you just go give them an encouraging word and you bring them to church with you.

Like I said, last week, if you'll come to church Christmas morning, Your Christmas will be better.

I can guarantee you that you will have a great Christmas if you'll come.

So I know a lot of people like to get up, you know, early and open gifts.

And I understand that want to be with your family, but the Lord's birthday doesn't follow on Sunday every year.

And so, when it does, I think God's people ought to be in the house worshipping him and praising him.

So, if I can say one thing this morning, I would say, December 25th on that Sunday morning guests are welcomed members are expected house that.

Okay.

So, so and also don't forget next Sunday.

I'm going to mention this next Sunday.

Three people here.

One of three is going to have a chance to win.

A $25 gift.

Card to Olive Garden.

Miss Miss Becky, Miss Peggy or Brother David?

They're going to gas next week.

How much weight I have lost in 6 months because my 6 month.

Is up this Tuesday, December 13th.

And I haven't been on the scales since I started there.

So I'm going to I'm going to get on the scales Tuesday morning, before I go get my 6-month cleaning.

And so, next Sunday, those three is going to have a chance to get a $25 gift card to Olive Garden.

Okay, I tell you, the more I talk about that gift card.

Olive Garden more.

I want to keep it.

There is this the more I want to keep it.

But anyway, I'll give that away then.

Yeah, you can give it back.

That's right.

We'll have a little fun with that next week.

Well, if you have your Bibles this morning, I want you to go ahead and turn to Matthew chapter 6.

Now we're in our series, remember a life.

Well, spent, and we've been talking about sowing stewardship, sacrificed giving generosity tithing.

We've been talkin about all of that for the last couple of months and today's message Ivan title.

God's plan for our security.

So we're going to talk about investing in eternity right now, right?

Now, we can invest in eternity.

You say, what, how do we do that?

Well, we're going to read about that and 2nd.

And so, Matthew chapter 6 and I remember back in, December 2009 Time Magazine.

Remember looking at this cover.

The title on the cover, set it all in the title was the decade from hell.

And it was talking about of course 9/11 when that happened and then the financial crisis of 2008 and they said that 10-year period was one of the most insecure.

In American history.

Well, if you look at our world and the things that we're going through today, I don't think you can look at our world in the things of this world in find any security whatsoever.

And this is what Jesus is going to talk about today is he's going to talk about those folks who find try to find meaning and significance in Earthly things.

Instead of Eternal things.

And so let's look at what he says in Matthew chapter 6.

And we're just going to read 3 vs.

This is going to be our main task will.

Look at several other versus as we go throughout.

This is our main text.

I Look what Jesus says starting verse 19.

Do not lay up for yourselves, Treasures on Earth.

Where moth and rust, destroy and where thieves break in and steal.

But lay up for yourselves, Treasures, in Heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.

And then he says something very important verse 21.

He says, for where your treasure is There, your heart will be also.

So, a lot of people have their treasure in this world, things in this world, things on this Earth are insecure things in heaven, are secure.

Now, we live on this Earth so we have to be involved in the world's economic process.

In other words, most of us have jobs and you expect to get paid, don't you?

So you get paid for the job that you do and then you want to save a little money and you have bills.

So, while we're living on this Earth, we just can't say, what?

Okay, well I'm just going to everything I want to do is just for having.

I'm going to give all my money away.

I'm not going to, I'm just going to live dirt, poor, where you don't, that's not what God is talking about.

Hear what he's talkin about here.

Is where is your heart's desire?

What is it?

When you accumulate this stuff, are you accumulating it with eternity in mind or you are accumulating all this stuff, money and homes and memberships?

And how are you doing it?

So that your life on this Earth is going to be so comfortable as if you're always going to live on this Earth.

If you live to be 100 years old, that's going to be a short time compared to Eternity, and this is what Jesus is trying to tell us.

And so in this lesson, what I want to do Is I want to compare Earthly Investments with Heavenly Investments for only have two points today, I have seven sub-points under each once but what I want to do first of all, I want to give you seven reasons, why Earthly Investments.

Are insecure at best.

So, the first point is making insecure investment when we invest in the things of this Earth.

So let me tell you some quiet some qualities, qualities about Earthly investing, a Earthly Treasures.

They deteriorate or you could say depreciate in.