Treasures in a Jar of Clay

1. What is something that belongs to you?
2. When do you say that something belongs to you?
3. Can what belongs to you, be taken away from you?
4. Can you defend what belongs to you, against anyone who will try to take it away from you?
5. Does it belong to you, forever?
6. If what belongs to you, does not belong to you forever, and a person who was stronger than you could take it away from you, does it truly belong to you?
7. What are some things that belong to you that can be taken away from you, and do not belong to you forever?
8. What are some things that belong to you forever, and cannot be taken away from you, even if the person was more powerful than you?
9. What is the story of Jesus, Mary, and Martha? Luke 10:38-42

   38 As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. 39 She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said. 40 But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!” 41 “Martha, Martha,” the Lord answered, “you are worried and upset about many things, 42 but few things are needed—or indeed only one. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.”

10. What was the reason for Christ's answer to Martha? Luke 10:42

    ...but few things are needed—or indeed only one. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.

11. When do you say that something truly belongs to you?
12. Can your knowledge of God be taken away from you?
13. Can your valuable memories be taken away from you?
14. Can the content of your Character, which is Godlike, be taken away from you?
15. Can your Godlike personality be taken away from you?
16. Which is more important, the things that belong to you that can be taken away from you, or the things that belong to you that cannot be taken away from you?
17. Do you keep the things that cannot be taken away from you, in you, or outside you?
18. Are the things that cannot be taken away from you, visible or invisible?
19. Which is more important, the things that belong to you that cannot be seen, or the things that belong to you that can be seen?
20. Which is more important, the things that belong to you that are in you, or the things that belong to you that are outside you?
21. Who protects the treasures in you from the people who will try to take them away from you?
22. What is a treasure?
23. What are some things that people treasure in this world?
24. Can these treasures be taken away from them or not?
25. Which kind of treasures should you spend every day of your life finding and collecting?
26. If your treasures are the contents of your mind that have eternal value, the Godly content of your heart, then what is the jar of clay?
27. Which treasures do you wish to collect into your jar of clay?
28. How do you collect treasures into your jar of clay?
29. If your life is not measured by how much you own, then what is your life measured by? Luke 12:15

    Beware! Guard against every kind of greed. Life is not measured by how much you own.

30. Can you be rich yet poor? Revelation 3:17

    You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.

31. How can you be rich yet poor?
32. Can you be clothed, yet naked?
33. How can you be clothed, yet naked?
34. Can you be healthy, yet sick?
35. How can you be healthy, yet sick?
36. Why did Christ call the rich man a fool? Luke 12:13-21

    13 A man in the crowd said to Jesus, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide with me the property our father left us.”

    14 Jesus answered him, “Friend, who gave me the right to judge or to divide the property between you two?” 15 And he went on to say to them all, “Watch out and guard yourselves from every kind of greed; because your true life is not made up of the things you own, no matter how rich you may be.”

    16 Then Jesus told them this parable: “There was once a rich man who had land which bore good crops. 17 He began to think to himself, ‘I don't have a place to keep all my crops. What can I do? 18 This is what I will do,’ he told himself; ‘I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, where I will store the grain and all my other goods. 19 Then I will say to myself, Lucky man! You have all the good things you need for many years. Take life easy, eat, drink, and enjoy yourself!’ 20 But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night you will have to give up your life; then who will get all these things you have kept for yourself?’”

    21 And Jesus concluded, “This is how it is with those who pile up riches for themselves but are not rich in God's sight.”

37. What will God do when your jar of clay is full of good treasures?