No One Can Serve Two Masters – Matthew 6:24

No One Can Serve Two Masters – Matthew 6:24 Originally written in 2009

I am sure if you have watched the prosperity preachers on TV it seems that you can wear Gold Rolexes, drive luxury cars and have own 20 million dollar houses and still be serving God, but the Son of God didn’t say it that way. Listen up.

OUR TEXT

Matthew 6:24 (New King James Version)

24 “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.

Bible.com says of mammon

Noun

1. New Testament. riches or material wealth.

I have to say I have never been rich, nor had many material possessions in my life and so I have never struggled with loving money and possessions more than God or Jesus. But plenty of people have material possessions and material wealth and so this is written for them.

In the prosperity churches they will say that it is okay to be a millionaire as long as you love the Lord. I am not really sure these days what they say as I don’t attend churches that preach the message and I don’t watch that breed of preachers on the Internet.

It says in the Word that in the last days that the Lord will send them great delusion. I know all about delusions as I was in one for 16 years. The one thing I know about a delusion is that it is very hard to be talked out of it.

People have been taught, “No Jesus is wrong you can be mega rich and you can also love God.”

Jesus, if He came today would sort out the real followers. By instinct the poor have always responded the Gospel more than the rich. It must just be something for the poor that riches cannot buy I guess.

Am I saying that you can’t be rich! No.

But I am saying that if you are wealthy in this worlds material wealth you should be very focused on supporting the Kingdom. Paul instructed Timothy on the matter.

1 Timothy 6:17-19 (New King James Version)

17 Command those who are rich in this present age not to be haughty, nor to trust in uncertain riches but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy. 18 Let them do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to give, willing to share, 19 storing up for themselves a good foundation for the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.

Taking Paul’s advice is the best I can suggest also. The rich should invest in worthy Kingdom pursuits.

One big personality on Christian TV gives up to 80% of the money that she is given to other ministries. Now that is a commendable way to go. On a recent trip to India she blessed them with tens of thousands of dollars worth of equipment.

When you don’t tithe you are saying to the Lord that you don’t trust him with only your 90% of your money. You can even be quite poor like myself and still withhold from the Lord his due. For many years I was guilty of this.

These are risky days that we live in. A person rich in possessions could lose their life quite fast, and yet people still regard this statement of Jesus with disdain.

I hope you might change your ways if you don’t serve the Lord as you should.

Be Blessed

Matthew Robert Payne