The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 6:19-21
Hoarding. The all-absorbing desire of humanity is happiness. A depraved heart naturally seeks this in the world. Money, which "answereth all things," is the exponent of the world's good. Hence the feverish desire to accumulate money. Wealth comes to be loved and laid up because it is loved. This hoarding is sin. I. MAKING PROPER PROVISION FOR THE FUTURE IS NOT HERE CONDEMNED . 1. God commends this prudence in his system of nature. 2 . He commends it in the... read more
The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 6:19-21
The treasure laid up on earth. It is most unimportant, in meditating on the succeeding portions of this wonderful discourse of our Lord, to insist on tracing some imagined connection between them. If on the surface it be plain, or if by careful examination it becomes plain, let us love to notice it, and to learn its continual contribution to the instructiveness and beauty of the teaching. Otherwise there is no incumbent necessity or advantage in stringing such pearls as these, at any rate.... read more