DEEPER CHRISTIAN LIFE MINISTRY: MONDAY BIBLE STUDY: Date: 02/06/2014: TOPIC: UNDIVIDED LOYALTY IN SERVING GOD. Text: Matthew 6:24. No man can serve Two Masters. To serve God is to give our hearts to Him, to love Him supremely, to allow Him to reign over us and rule all our decisions and actions. We cannot serve God and at the same time give our heart, interest and devotion to an object that is incompatible with Him. Serving God as Master demands that we reject the lordship of satan and other gods; loving God implies that we hate every competitor that will take our hearts aways from Him; holding on to Him makes us despise the world and the flesh. Knowing the utter impossibility of serving God and mammon, we make an irreversible covenant with God to serve Him, only, always and ever. You cannot serve God and mammon In broad sense, mammon is whatever seeks to compete with God in our lives; riches, the world or whatsoever wants to displace God in our lives and be another master! The prince of this world is ever seeking to be lord and master of the souls of men. The world is also seeking control of our hearts and affection. The Two masters, God and Mammon, are diametrically opposed to each other. The one commands you to walk by faith, the other to walk by sight; the one to set your affection on things above, the other to set it on things that are on the earth; the one to look at things unseen and eternal, the other to look at the things seen and temporal; the one to be content with such as you have, the other to enlarge your desires as hell; the one to seek happiness in the Creator, the other to seek happiness in the creature. Truly, you cannot serve these Two contradictory Masters. If you love one, you must hate the other. If you hold to and cleave to one, you must despise and leave the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. (Matthew 6:24; Luke 16:13; Joshua 24:14-21; 1Timothy 6:6-11; James 1:8; Galatians 1:10; Isaiah 26:13; Jeremiah 50:5; Hosea 10:1,2; John 6:24-27; 1kings 18:21; 1samuel 7:3; matthew 4:8-11) CONGREGATIONAL SONG: I SURRENDER ALL.
Posted on: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 22:30:33 +0000
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