The Most Misunderstood Teaching In The Entire Bible
Money is a big deal, everybody. A very big deal. I am not preaching prosperity, wealth, and claim it doctrine. I’m against it. However, God blesses obedience. That’s a fact. Stop thinking that money is evil. You see, money is not evil. Money is amoral. It’s used for good or evil based upon the person who is governing it.
Give to God’s causes, whatever God’s concerned about, and he will return to you blessings. What does that mean? Hey you guys, uh we’re talking about money. Money. In my old mind, I can hear money, money, money, money. That song that makes a lot of us older, kind of sick to our stomach because it was played constantly until it made you sick.
But money is a big deal, everybody. A very big deal. Here’s the reason why. Um Jesus introduces us most recently and graphically to the fact that money is a altar of worship. Money is an altar of worship. Uh all that is something that is determined as all worship is by the one who chooses to worship what the object is.
It’s the worshipper that makes the object an object of worship. Jesus said, “You can either worship God or mammon.” Now, Mammon was the ancient Greek god of wealth and prosperity. A mammon goes back with various names, various titles through every culture. But in our biblical worldview uh sense for us all the way to ancient Babylon and the 360 gods that made up the Babylon Babylonian worship system thousands and thousands of years ago.
Mammon again manifesting itself uh in various ways. Um I think it’s good to say at this moment that when Jesus says you can either serve God or fill in the blank of course this case mamine being money remember behind the money behind the excuse me behind the uh pursuit of health or bodybuilding or looks or hobbies or sports or it doesn’t matter what it is.
Doesn’t matter even doesn’t matter how great it is. Our fallen nature being spiritual creatures, we can take a really good thing and idolize it and thus making it an altar of worship. Hope hopefully that makes sense. For example, you can take you can take uh shopping. You have to shop. Everybody has to shop. So, you might chuckle right now because you’re thinking, “Oh my goodness, Pastor Jack, I didn’t think you’d be into shopping.” I’m totally into shopping.
