MGD: Eternal Investments - 1

Salom, a wonderful family, and welcome to today's morning glory devotion.

My name is Joshua from her best Chapo International Commercy,

and it is a privilege to be facilitating today's morning

glory devotion. Please, let's pray, Father Wei, thank you for

your goodness and kindness towards us. Lord, we pray and

commit our time and your word this morning into your hands.

Please prodole us, refresh us, and empower us. Please cause

your light to shine on our hearts and lives through

your word, and transform us in the name of Jesus,

with pravidence given.

Amen.

Please just take a conversion from Joshua, chapter one, verse eight. Joshua,

Chapter one, verse eight. This book of the Law shall

not depart out of my mouth, but I shall meditate

in it to day and night, that I may observe

to do according to all that is written in it. Well,

then I will make my way prosperous, and then I

will have good success.

Amen.

Today's discussion begins a three part series titled Eternal Investments.

Eternal Investments, The series will be focused on how we

can lay up treasures for ourselves in heaven, as admonished.

By our Lord Jesus Christ.

Our focurse today will be to learn about the qualifications

we need in order to lay up treasures for ourselves

in heaven. Our scripture reading today will be from Marthive

chapter six, from verse nineteen to verse twenty one. Marthew

chapter six, verse nineteen to verse twenty one, reading from

the New King James version. It says, do not lay

up for yourselves treasures on earth, where mouth 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.

Amen, Beloved.

Investments are good, There's no two ways about it. With

a little bit of financial literacy, you will realize that

the question isn't about whether to invest or not, but

about where to invest, Because just as there are profitable investments,

there are also profitless investments, and beyond that, there are

investments that can eat down your capital to zero.

In today's scripture.

Reading, our Lord disays tells us about the two ultimate

places where investments can be placed, on earth and in heaven.

He goes ahead to tell us that early investments, or

the treasures will lay up for ourselves on earth, will

eventually be destroyed and lost, but heaven investments, or the

treasures will lay up for ourselves in heaven, will be

preserved and are eternal. So we, Beloved, giving these two options,

where would you want to lay up your treasures? I'm

sure we would all want our treasures or investments to

be preserved in eternal So maybe the more relevant question

is how exactly do we lay up treasuous in heaven? Well, Beloved,

God has given capital to each one of us in

the forms of time, treasure, and talent, and it is

with this capital that you make investments or lay the

treasures that our Lord Jesus refers to whether these investments

are ethly investments or heavenly investments, Beloved, fortunately or unfortunately,

the option of laying up treasures for yourself in heaven

is a privilege you can only have if you are

first and foremost a citizen of Heaven or a citizen

of God's kingdom. Without being a child of God or

being born again, you would have no right to lay

up treasureus in heaven. Just like you cannot start investing

with a financial institution without first registring and opening an

account with them. You cannot have an eternal investment in

heaven if you are not first born again into God's family.

I was su Poor sheds light on this in his

first letter to the Corinthian Church in First Corinthians, chapter fifteen,

from verse forty five to fifty three, he says, the

scriptures tell us the first man, Adam, became a living person,

but the last Adam, that is Christ, is a life

giving spirit. What comes first is the natural body, then

the spiritual body comes later. Adam the first man, was

made from the dust of the earth, while Christ, the

second man, came from heaven. Earthly people are like the

earthly man, and heavenly people are like the heavenly man.

Just as we are now like the eathly man, we

will someday be like the heavenly man. What I am saying,

dear brothers and sisters, is that our fiscal bodies cannot

inherit the Kingdom of God. These dying bodies cannot inherit

what will last forever. But let me reveal to you

a wonderful secret. We will not all die, but we

will all be transformed. It will happen in a moment,

in the blank of an eye, when the last trumpet

is blown. For when the trumpet sounds, those who have

died will be raised to live forever, and we who

are living will also be transformed. For our dying bodies

must be transformed into bodies that will never die. Our

motal bodies must be transformed into immortal bodies.

Amen. So, beloved, do you.

Have the qualifications to lay upgradeous in heaven the fiscal

podic we have now are dying, I will pass away

and therefore cannot inherit that which is internal. But do

you have that guarantee that when the trumpet sounds, even

if you are dead, you will be raised to life.

Once again and live forever.

And if you are still living, your dying body will

be consummed into a body that will never die. Beloved,

Praise be to God. If you have this assurance, and

if you are not sure, if you have this qualification,

it's not too late. Today you can make that decision

to give your life to Christ, receive the pardon that

it makes available, invites Him into your heart, and become

a child of God. And as citizen of his kingdom.

All it takes is a sin. Sincere prayer, and you

will have the gift of eternal life and the qualifications

to lay up treasures to yourself in heaven.

Amen.

Please, let's the camemory verse from Mathew, verse twenty Matthew

Chapter six, verse twenty. But lit up for yourselves treasures

in heaven where neither mouth nor rust destroys, and where.

Thieves do not break in and steal. Amen. Please, let's pray. Father.

We thank you for your word that has come to

us today.

We thank you for the privilege to be called your children,

and for the assurance and peace that you make available

to us. Because we are yours, Lord, we pray for

those who are yet to come into your food, that

your grace and message will find them. Lord, touch their

hearts and shine the light of your understanding on them,

that they may come to know the saving knowledge of

your word. To this day, Lord, we pray that your

holy Spirit will lead and guide each one of us

as we learn to lay up treasures for ourselves in

heaven in the name of Jesus Grief, thanksgiving. Amen, Thank

you for listening, and stay tuned for more Spirit fueled

content on Radio HCI today. Please join us at the

same time as we continue on our discussion in this

series by looking at some practical ways we can lay

up treasures for ourselves in heaven.

Do stay blessed,