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Question 5

The chapter paints an unsettling picture: people who “don’t carry around hearts in their bodies…they carry around land or precious metals.” What modern equivalents function like “carrying land in the soul” (retirement accounts, brand, lifestyle, experiences), and how would you diagnose where your mind actually lives (Matt. 6:21)?

Another way to ask: What are modern versions of “carrying land in your soul” (like retirement savings, status, lifestyle, experiences)? How can you tell where your heart really is, based on what you think about and chase (Matt. 6:21)?

Direct Answer The transcript doesn’t list modern examples, but it clearly defines the “modern equivalent” as anything we carry in the soul as our true treasure—whatever fills the heart and directs attention away from the kingdom. We diagnose it by where our mind stays, what we are “always acquiring” or watching for, because “where the mind of man is, there also is his treasure” (Matt. 6:21).

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The vivid picture: “They don’t carry around hearts…Instead, they carry around land or precious metals.”
Their hearts are not “filled with God’s Spirit” but “filled with their gold or their land.”
Their pattern is obsession: “always acquiring possessions” and “perpetually on the lookout for more.”
They are “bent down and fettered to the toils of the world.”
Diagnostic principle: “You’ll always find them in the midst of the objects they have chosen. For where the mind of man is, there also is his treasure” (Matt. 6:21).

Discussion Follow-ups If someone followed your attention all week, what “objects” would they find you in the midst of? What would change if you intentionally relocated your “mind” toward the kingdom?

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