“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. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. “The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness! “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money. “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth - "The Jewish philosophy toward money was expressed in their statement, 'Whom the Lord loveth, He maketh rich.' In Deuteronomy 28 God promised that He would bless the people materially if they walked in obedience to the word of God, and He also promised to discipline them by reducing them to want and poverty if they disobeyed. The Jews thought riches were a sure sign of God's pleasure and blessing. In Christ's day their highest goal in life was to accumulate material wealth. But Christ taught that material goals may be lost to thieves, moths, or rust. Thus what is material temporary, not permanent. On the other hand, one may store up in heaven treasure that is eternal and permanent." (Pentecost)
lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven - "There is a peculiar quality in the Greek word which is not suggested by our word 'treasure.' Very literally the idea is to place something horizontally. There are other Greek words which mean to place something perpendicularly. Here we have an instance of the figurative element in language. What was meant by placing horizontally? To place in a passive condition, as the word which indicates to place something perpendicularly means putting it in an active relationship. This word means to lay something aside horizontally—that is, to store something up, to keep it; not to place something perpendicularly, ready for activity and word, but to hoard it. It is the laying of things up, one thing upon another, piece upon piece, horizontally, that we may possess them, take care of them, accumulate them." (Morgan)
The eye is the lamp of the body - "A true subject of the kingdom, Jesus said, would lay up his treasures in heaven ... The principle involved was that their heart would be where their treasure was. If their eyes were in an evil way coveting money and wealth, their whole body would be full of darkness, but if penetrated by the revealing light of eternal values, their whole body would be full of light. The contrast between the darkness of covetousness and the light of faith and treasure in heaven carries over to the concept of two masters. Necessarily a choice must be made, and they must either regard a master with love and obedience or with hate and disobedience." (Walvoord)
You cannot serve God and money - "In accumulating treasure there is the danger that one will love what is accumulated. It follows that what is loved will enslave the person. Christ taught that it is impossible to serve two masters. If one serves material things, he cannot serve God. And if he serves God, he cannot be enslaved to material things. Such a teaching was designed to correct the Pharisees' false attitude toward money. We see now that Jesus viewed the desire to accumulate wealth as a substitute for faith." (Pentecost)
do not be anxious about your life - "Towards superabundance, as we have seen, they are to be without covetousness. We will now consider their attitude towards necessary things, which is, that they are to be without care." (Morgan)
which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? - "Worry cannot add to one's life span; indeed, it can shorten it." (Ryrie)
lilies of the field - "Various flowers." (Ryrie)
"In the second half of the sixth chapter we are taken upon another ground. The heirs of the kingdom are seen in this section as in the world, subject to the cares and temptations of the wilderness. We must not lose sight here of its Jewish application. When our Lord sent forth His disciples in the tenth chapter to preach the Gospel of the Kingdom He gave them instructions how they should go about, depending in all things upon their Father in heaven. The disciples thus sent forth with the preaching of the Kingdom Gospel are the types of another Jewish remnant which is to preach once more in a future day the same Gospel, 'The Kingdom of the heavens has drawn night.' To this remnant going through the tribulation the exhortations have a special application." (Gaebelein)
Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth - "The Jewish philosophy toward money was expressed in their statement, 'Whom the Lord loveth, He maketh rich.' In Deuteronomy 28 God promised that He would bless the people materially if they walked in obedience to the word of God, and He also promised to discipline them by reducing them to want and poverty if they disobeyed. The Jews thought riches were a sure sign of God's pleasure and blessing. In Christ's day their highest goal in life was to accumulate material wealth. But Christ taught that material goals may be lost to thieves, moths, or rust. Thus what is material temporary, not permanent. On the other hand, one may store up in heaven treasure that is eternal and permanent." (Pentecost)
lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven - "There is a peculiar quality in the Greek word which is not suggested by our word 'treasure.' Very literally the idea is to place something horizontally. There are other Greek words which mean to place something perpendicularly. Here we have an instance of the figurative element in language. What was meant by placing horizontally? To place in a passive condition, as the word which indicates to place something perpendicularly means putting it in an active relationship. This word means to lay something aside horizontally—that is, to store something up, to keep it; not to place something perpendicularly, ready for activity and word, but to hoard it. It is the laying of things up, one thing upon another, piece upon piece, horizontally, that we may possess them, take care of them, accumulate them." (Morgan)
The eye is the lamp of the body - "A true subject of the kingdom, Jesus said, would lay up his treasures in heaven ... The principle involved was that their heart would be where their treasure was. If their eyes were in an evil way coveting money and wealth, their whole body would be full of darkness, but if penetrated by the revealing light of eternal values, their whole body would be full of light. The contrast between the darkness of covetousness and the light of faith and treasure in heaven carries over to the concept of two masters. Necessarily a choice must be made, and they must either regard a master with love and obedience or with hate and disobedience." (Walvoord)
You cannot serve God and money - "In accumulating treasure there is the danger that one will love what is accumulated. It follows that what is loved will enslave the person. Christ taught that it is impossible to serve two masters. If one serves material things, he cannot serve God. And if he serves God, he cannot be enslaved to material things. Such a teaching was designed to correct the Pharisees' false attitude toward money. We see now that Jesus viewed the desire to accumulate wealth as a substitute for faith." (Pentecost)
do not be anxious about your life - "Towards superabundance, as we have seen, they are to be without covetousness. We will now consider their attitude towards necessary things, which is, that they are to be without care." (Morgan)
which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? - "Worry cannot add to one's life span; indeed, it can shorten it." (Ryrie)
lilies of the field - "Various flowers." (Ryrie)
"In the second half of the sixth chapter we are taken upon another ground. The heirs of the kingdom are seen in this section as in the world, subject to the cares and temptations of the wilderness. We must not lose sight here of its Jewish application. When our Lord sent forth His disciples in the tenth chapter to preach the Gospel of the Kingdom He gave them instructions how they should go about, depending in all things upon their Father in heaven. The disciples thus sent forth with the preaching of the Kingdom Gospel are the types of another Jewish remnant which is to preach once more in a future day the same Gospel, 'The Kingdom of the heavens has drawn night.' To this remnant going through the tribulation the exhortations have a special application." (Gaebelein)
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