3. What contrary counsel did Jesus give? Matthew 6:20.
NOTE: ‘The instruction is to “lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven.” It is for your own interest to secure heavenly riches. These alone, of all that you possess, are really yours. The treasure laid up in heaven is imperishable. No fire or flood can destroy it, no thief despoil it, no moth or rust corrupt it; for it is in the keeping of God. This treasure, which Christ esteems as precious above all estimate, is “the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints.” Ephesians 1:18. The disciples of Christ are called His jewels, His precious and peculiar treasure. He says, “They shall be as the stones of a crown.” “I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.” Zechariah 9:16; Isaiah 13:12. Christ looks upon His people in their purity and perfection as the reward of all His sufferings, His humiliation, and His love, and the supplement of His glory, Christ, the great Centre, from whom radiates all glory.’ Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing, page 89.
4. What treasures does Jesus offer for sale to His end-time church? Revelation 3:18.
NOTE: ‘The great Redeemer represents Himself as a heavenly merchantman, laden with riches, calling from house to house, presenting His priceless goods, and saying, “I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eye-salve, that thou mayest see. . . . We thank God that there are souls who realise that they are in need of something which they do not possess, gold of faith and love, white raiment of Christ’s righteousness, eye-salve of spiritual discernment.’ Selected Messages, book 1, page 358.