Matthew 6: ¹⁹Don't store up treasures on earth! Moths and rust can destroy them, and thieves can break in and steal them.²⁰Instead, store up your treasures in heaven, where moths and rust cannot destroy them, and thieves cannot break in and steal them. ²¹Your hearts will always be where your treasure is. ²²Your eyes are like a window for your body. When they are good, you have all the light you need. ²³But when your eyes are bad, everything is dark. If the light in you is dark, you surely are in the dark. ²⁴You cannot be the slave of two masters! You will like one more than the other or be more loyal to one than the other. You cannot serve God and money.....
    ³³But more than anything else, put God's work first and do what he wants. Then the other things will be ours as well. (CEV)

Matthew 21: ²⁸Jesus said: "I will tell you a story about a man who had two sons. Then you can tell me what you think. The father went to the older son and said, 'God work in the vineyard today!' ²⁹His son told him that he would not do it, but later he changed his mind and went. ³⁰The man then told his younger son to go work in the vineyard. The boy said he would, but he didn't go. ³¹Which one of the sons obeyed his father?" "The older one," the chief priests and leaders answered.
    Then Jesus told them: "You can be sure that tax collectors and prostitutes will get into the kingdom of God before you ever will. ³²When John the Baptist showed you how to do right, you would not believe him. But these evil people did believe. And even when you saw what they did, you still would not change your minds and believe. (CEV)

Philippians 2: ¹².... So work with fear and trembling to discover what it really means to be saved. ¹³God is working in you to make you willing and able to obey him. ¹⁴Do everything without grumbling or arguing. ¹⁵Then you will be the pure and innocent children of God. You live among people who are crooked and evil, but you must not do anything that they can say is wrong. Try to shine as light among the people of this world ¹⁶as you hold firmly to the message that gives life. Then on the day when Christ returns, I can take price in you. I can also know that my work and efforts were not useless. ¹⁷Your faith in the Lord and your service are like a sacrifice offered to him. (CEV)

1. What are the benefits and the disadvantages from putting God's kingdom first?
2. How to we become a light to this evil world, and how do we keep on shining?
3. Describe the mistake that the younger son (and the Jewish leaders) made.
4. How does our regular presence in a group help us make better decisions?
Please study the above references and questions and then addyour observations and applications:
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