34 ARRESTED FOR NOT STANDING UP FOR “LUPANG HINIRANG”

REPUBLIC ACT 8491

PUNISHMENT

LOW/LITTLE

“MY PRECIOUS”

“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”

CONTEXT: SERMON ON THE MOUNT

• Salt and Light
• Anger
• Lust
• Divorce
• Oaths
• Retaliation

CONTEXT: SERMON ON THE MOUNT

• Giving to the needy
• Prayer
• Fasting
• Laying up treasures
• Worry

I. IMPERATIVE

“"Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal,”

II. ALTERNATIVE

“but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.”

III. INTROSPECTIVE

“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”

“And he answered, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself."