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The Upside Down World, Week 5, Day 5

by David Joynt on October 12, 2017


 

MATTHEW  6:19-21

 

 

The strength of the punishments and the scale of the rewards in this parable are meant to incentivize us and to emphasize the great value of the Kingdom. The Kingdom is worth our best efforts, our greatest concentration, our fullest creativity, our dearest expenditure. Unlike other investments, Kingdom ones last forever, rather than disappearing as the present becomes the past. Kingdom work, rather than deteriorating, will be made new and complete by God. Kingdom effort restores the harmony of creation, makes visible the purpose of God, and can stand against evil, corruption, and death.

 

 

How does Kingdom investment contrast with every other kind?

 

FAMILY TIME—

Show your children before and after pictures of something that was once beautiful and is now decrepit. (There are many connected to the recent floods.)

 

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About the Author
David Joynt

Dave Joynt began his service as a pastor at Valley Presbyterian Church in Paradise Valley, Arizona in September 2014. This meant a move away from the Northeast, where he has a long history, growing up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and then serving congregations in Delaware and New Jersey for a total of 23 years.

Dave was nurtured in a great church in Bethlehem where his parents, Anne and Carey, served as elders. He graduated in classics from Lehigh University where his Father taught, and then from Oxford, where he met his wife Julia. Ordained in 1988, he completed a Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1993.

He and Julia have a son, Tristan, and a daughter, Madeleine.

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