"danger is in their accumulations of property. Some are continually increasing their cares and labors; they are overcharged. The result is, God and the wants of His cause are nearly forgotten by them; they are spiritually dead. They are required to make a sacrifice to God, an offering. A sacrifice does not increase, but decreases and consumes.” 1T 636.1"
"For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
Both passages connect one's heart/devotion to where one's treasure is. EGW expands on the dangers of earthly treasure, while Matthew states the principle.
"No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon."
Both passages deal with the conflict between serving God and material wealth. EGW focuses on the specific issue of accumulating property and its impact on spiritual life, while Matthew states the general principle.
My view of this matter of means was that there should be “a sacrifice to God, an offering;” and I never received any other idea. But if the principal is to be held good by stockholders, and they are to draw a certain per cent, where is the decrease, or the consuming sacrifice? And how are the dangers of those Sabbathkeepers who are accumulating property decreased by the present plan of holding stock in the Institute? Their dangers are only increased. And here is an additional excuse for their covetousness. In investing in stock in the Institute, held as a matter of sale and purchase like any other property, they do not sacrifice. As a large per cent is held out as an inducement, the spirit of gain, not sacrifice, leads them to invest so largely in the stock of the Institute that they have but little if anything to give to sustain other and still more important branches of the work. God requires of these close, covetous, worldly persons a sacrifice for suffering humanity. He calls on th…
"But his inwards and his legs shall he wash in water: and the priest shall burn all on the altar, to be a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord."
EGW's emphasis on 'sacrifice' directly relates to the Old Testament concept of sacrifice to God. While Leviticus 1:9 describes a specific type of sacrifice, it underscores the principle of offering something to God, which is central to EGW's argument.
"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 nor steal:"
Both passages contrast earthly and heavenly treasures. EGW applies this to investing in the Institute vs. giving to God's work, while Matthew states the general principle.
"No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon."
Both passages address the conflict between serving God and mammon. EGW applies this to the specific context of investing for profit versus sacrificing for God's work, while Matthew states the general principle.