Matthew 6:24

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Matthew 6:24Teaching on laying up treasure, Jesus said

‘You cannot serve God and mammon.’

(NKJV)

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Jesus said…..‘For where your treasure is, there your heart will be

also.’

Matthew 6:21 (NKJV)

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Who are you serving?

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Is it God…..

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…….or is it Mammon?

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Who is God?‘…the Lord God Almighty, who

was and is and is to come!’

Revelation 4:8 (ESV)

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Who, or what, is Mammon….A world system describing the

accumulation of wealth

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...a world system often

characterised as a false god…….

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Which taken from the original

Syriac/Aramaic language (which

Jesus spoke) means…..

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‘that in which one trusts’

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So what Jesus was saying was……

We cannot serve God as well as

‘that in which we trust’ (unless the two are one and the same)

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So…...….the question

remains – who do we serve; what are

we trusting in?

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It’s an important question…..

…because we can only serve one

master. Only one way can be

correct!

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(Unless you have worked out how to

travel in two differing directions at the same time!)

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Jesus also said…..(…just in case we didn’t get

the message the first time…..)

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Matthew 12:30‘Whoever is not

with me is against me, and whoever does not gather

with me scatters’

(ESV)

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So…..….in which direction is

your life going?

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…..are you looking to

God?

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….or are you looking

elsewhere to place your

trust?

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Hence our scripture of the

year Philippians 3:13-

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‘Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my

own. But one thing I do:’

Note - just One thing

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…forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies

ahead, I press on towards the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.’

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One goal One prize One God One way

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John 14:6Remember, Jesus said…..

‘I am the way, and the truth and the life. No

one comes to the Father except through Me.’

(ESV)

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Which is your way?