Matthew Poole and continuators on Luke 12:34

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

The immutable purpose of the Divine Being to Glorify the Disciples of Christ, The freedom of the Divine Will, in the Gift of Heaven and Glory, are neither of them exclusive of, but include, and suppose their Duty to use such due Means, as he hath directed them, in the use of which they shall obtain, what he hath purposed for them, and promised to them. Some of which are here directed and prescribed. Sell that you have, and give Alms, &c. It is a precept of the same import with that, Matth. 19.21. Mar. 10.21. Tho possibly, The Precept here given to the Disciples of Christ, generally is not to be interpreted, so strictly as seemeth to be our Saviour's meaning in those Texts, as to the young Man. For it seems to have been a special Precept to him, laying an Obligation upon him to make a present Actual Sale of all he had, and it is plain that he so understood it. To this Christians are not obliged generally by this precept. 1. But to be ready at the call and command of God to part with all, for such uses as God should shew them: not to set their Heart on Riches, Psal. 62.10. to be ready to distribute, and willing to Communicate, 1 Tim. 6.18. remembring that God loveth Mercy rather then Sacrifice, Hos. 6.6. Matth. 9.13. To give of our Superfluities, Luke 3.11. To make Friends of our Mammon of unrighteousness, Luke 16.9. Nay if the necessities of the People of God be such as requires it, for the subsistence of Christians, to sell what we have, rather than others of Gods People should starve, calling nothing our own in such a case, which Christians did in the Primitive State of the Church, Acts 4.34, 35.37. For the other part of v. 33. and v 34. see the Notes on Matth. 6.20, 21.