The Eleventh Commandment. – Dwight Lyman Moody

There are a great many people who forget that there are eleven commandments. They think there are only ten. The eleventh commandment is: “Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven.” How many of us remember—ah! how many people in Chicago forget the words of the Lord now in his wonderful sermon on the mount: “Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through and steal.” How few of our people pay any heed to these words. That’s why there are so many broken hearts among us; that’s why so many men and women are disappointed and going through the streets with shattered hopes; it’s because they have not been laying up treasures in heaven.