Jesus didn't tell us not to store up treasures. On the contrary, he commanded us to. He simply said, "Stop storing them up in the wrong place, and start storing them up in the right place."

Materialism is a fruitless attempt to find meaning outside of God. When we try to find ultimate fulfillment in a person other than Christ or a place other than heaven, we become idolaters. According to Scripture, materialism is not only evil; it is tragic and pathetic.

Those who know their unworthiness seize grace as a hungry man seizes bread: the self-righteous resent grace.

Messin with me, is like wearing cheese underwear down rat alley. Ollie Chandler in Deception

Ironically, many people can't afford to give precisely because they're not giving. If we pay our debt to God first, then we will incur His blessing to help us pay our debts to men. But when we rob God to pay men, we rob ourselves of God's blessing.

To procrastinate obedience is to disobey God.

God doesn't look at just what we give. He also looks at what we keep.