SESSION 5 Total Time: 60 minutes Video = 30 minutes Discussion = 30 minutes
5. Treasure (I)
“Marriage, this side of eternity, is always a war between the kingdom of God and the kingdom of self.”
OPENING DISCUSSION: Consider and discuss the following BEFORE watching Session 5:
1. What are some things that you treasure in your everyday life? 2. How do you respond if those treasures are stripped from you?
SCRIPTURE PASSAGE Matthew 6:19-33 19 Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. 22 The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, 23 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! 24 “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. 25 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? 26 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? 27 And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? 28 And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, 29 yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 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? 31 Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
KEY IDEAS:
1. Marriage, this side of eternity, is a war. 2. Everyone lives for some kind of treasure; we don’t live by instinct. 3. The thing that is your treasure will control your heart. 4. What controls your heart will control your words and behavior.
5. It’s very difficult to keep what God says is important important in our life. 6. Your marriage will always be victimized by, or enhanced by, what you treasure. 7. A desire for even a good thing becomes a bad thing when it becomes a ruling thing.
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OPENING DISCUSSION: Treasure can be a physical object, like a car or a television program or a gym membership, but there’s always a deeper treasure ruling that physical object. For example, a fancy sports car is a physical treasure that allows someone to express an inward treasure like social status. Television is a physical treasure that allows someone to enjoy an inward treasure like peace and quiet or entertainment. A gym membership, or fitness, is a physical treasure that allows someone to express an inward treasure like self-worth. If you have established an environment of self-disclosing honesty, don’t be afraid to push someone to dig deeper and find the inward treasure that drives that outward object.
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