Laying Up Treasure

God's People Use the Temporary and Loss-prone Things of This World to Lay Up Everlasting Treasure in Heaven.
I. Charity to be Seen by God – vv. 1-4
A. Do Not do Your Charitable Deeds to Be Seen by Men – vv. 1-2; Jn 5:44
B. Do Your Charity In Secret and Your Father in Heaven will Reward You Openly – vv. 3-4; Lk 14:12-14
II. Praying to be Heard by God – vv. 5-15
A. When We Pray, We Pray to the God who Hears in Secret – vv. 5-6; Lk 18:11; Mt 23:14; Da 6:10
B. Your Father Know the Things You Need Before You Ask – vv. 7-9; I Ki 18:26; Mt 6:32; Ro 8:26-27
C. If We Do Not Forgive Men Their Trespasses, God will Not Forgive Us – vv. 14-15; Eph 4:32; Lk 6:38; Jas 2:13
III. Fasting to be Seen by God – vv. 16-18
A. When You Fast, Don't Attempt to Appear Like You are Fasting to be Seen by the World – vv. 16-18a; Mt 17:21; Lk 18:12
B. Your Father who Sees in Secret Will Reward you Openly! – v. 18b
IV. Focus on Laying Up Eternal Treasures in Heaven, not Temporary Ones on this Earth – vv. 19-21
A. Do Not Lay Up Temporary Treasures on Earth – v. 19; I Ti 6:9-10, 17-19; Ecc 2:26; Lk 9:25
B. Lay Up Lasting Treasure in Heaven – v. 20; I Pe 1:4
C. Where Your Tresure Is, There Your Heart Will be Also – v. 21