God or mammon - THE IMPOSSIBLE DOUBLE SERVICE
worldly wealth of Mammon AGAINST THE SOUND OF PROSPERITY GOD
No servant can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold to the one and despise the other. You can not serve God and Mammon (Luke 16-13)
Why do you call me Lord, Lord, do not you do what I say (Luke 6: 46)
The Holy Spirit sets quite explicitly - to facilitate use our critical thinking and a healthy discernment in all situations - irreducible character of the opposition source, content and purpose, between material goods invoice, temporary, partial on, degradable and those of spiritual nature, permanent, total, absolute, imperishable.
A spiritual understanding - not just intellectual - the distinction between secular values and eternal values is crucial to positioning, relevant in the kingdom, in line with expectations, aspirations and willingness of the contracting:
not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect (Romans 12:2)
But whoever is in the milk did not experience the word of righteousness: for he is a child. But solid food is for men, even those whose decision is exercised through use to discern what is right and what is evil (Hebrews 5:13-14)
Mammon is an expression of sin anthropological and its various declensions ideological, religious, secular, a manifestation of a natural tendency of man without God, to be a reserved area, land, wealth and material security, in its conspiracy of anxious uncertainty and guilt denied:
Do not store up treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break through nor steal (Matthew 6:19-20)
Mammon, the Bible does not refer to all forms of wealth globally but only worldly wealth, produced and acquired improperly, used so egocentric or ethnocentric, focused on meeting the needs of immediacy land - regardless of any Divine Imperative:
eat and drink, for tomorrow we die (1 Corinthians 15:32)
Mammon is an expression of sin anthropological and its various declensions ideological, religious, secular, a manifestation of a natural tendency of man without God, to be a reserved area, land, wealth and material security, in its conspiracy of anxious uncertainty and guilt denied:
Do not store up treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break through nor steal (Matthew 6:19-20)
Mammon, the Bible does not refer to all forms of wealth globally but only worldly wealth, produced and acquired improperly, used so egocentric or ethnocentric, focused on meeting the needs of immediacy land - regardless of any Divine Imperative:
eat and drink, for tomorrow we die (1 Corinthians 15:32)
biblical prosperity, indeed the economy of grace, and stands out from worldly wealth as being from God, against the backdrop of probity, integrity and respect for all stakeholders in a process of growth produced and consumed according to criteria divine in its motivations, means and purposes, with full awareness of the principle of personal responsibility before God, how it treats its neighbor
your affection on things above, not to those on earth (Colossians 3:2)
Beloved, I wish you prosperous in all respects and be in health, as a prosperous state of your soul (3 John 1-2)
Beloved, I wish you prosperous in all respects and be in health, as a prosperous state of your soul (3 John 1-2)
God can fill you with every grace, so that in all things, always having something to satisfy all your needs, you may have an abundance for every good work (2 Corinthians 9:8)
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Such a grid analysis applied to the phenomenon of having (Material wealth) can equally well be in the field of intangible assets - implications of sublimated material wealth - such as knowledge, power, recognition ....
Mammon Alien Vs GOD LIBERATOR
The palatability of worldly goods, an essential component of basic temperament and the identity of beings dependent "force field of the world system," characterizes the kind of secular people, "riveted to this world," including living in a situation of "alienation successful", that is to say, lazy and careless fatality spiritual
What doth it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul (Mark 8: 36)
Do not you know that you are engaged to someone as slaves for obey him, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience unto to justice? (Romans 6:16)
You were dead in trespasses and sins in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit now works in the son of the rebellion (Ephesians 2 :1-2)
This condition is to be in total compliance, consubstantial with "the world anti-God" of mammon, to the point of continuing obsessively fascinated by victims, willing to destructive purposes, in a chimerical illusion of freedom, achievement and accomplishment Self:
Do not you know that you are engaged to someone as slaves for obey him, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience unto to justice? (Romans 6:16)
You were dead in trespasses and sins in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit now works in the son of the rebellion (Ephesians 2 :1-2)
This condition is to be in total compliance, consubstantial with "the world anti-God" of mammon, to the point of continuing obsessively fascinated by victims, willing to destructive purposes, in a chimerical illusion of freedom, achievement and accomplishment Self:
know this, that no immoral, impure or greedy, that is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God (Ephesians 5.5)
Therefore put to death the members which are upon the earth: fornication, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed , which is idolatry (Colossians 3:5)
Suffice to say that man standardized comportementalisé by worldly stereotyped models, is emptied of its national destiny on a divine dimension, the harmful impression of a "world system" conjurer of divine hope.
Verily, verily I say unto you, Jesus answered them, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin (John 8:34)
You know the truth, and truth you free (John 8:32)
If the Son sets you free, ye shall be free indeed (John 8:36)
L observation of the facts shows that mammon is not only instigator of pipes ownership of idolatry and unjust use of rich secular, in violation of the fundamental law of love of God's kingdom, but still instrumentalization of his victims the benefit of the reproduction of its structure:
Neither yield ye your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but give yourselves to God as being alive from the dead that you and offer to God your members as instruments of righteousness (Romans 6: 13)
For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit ( Romans 14:17)
For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit ( Romans 14:17)
Mammon AGAINST GOD CREATOR DESTROYER
Mammon is inherently predatory nature, reducing man to his thank you, misdirection out of the performance of liberating the Will of its Creator. As such, this is mammon "foreign property" of promise, the real conjurer eternal blessings of salvation
he that received seed among the thorns is he who hears the speech, but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful (Matthew 13:22)
Let no one boast of men, because all things are yours, whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death, or things present, or things to come. Everything is for you, and you are Christ, and Christ is God (1 Corinthians 3:21-23)
The usurper of mammon character resides in what he is not, as his appearance would suggest, a potential neutral, with positive or negative would depend that the moral use that would be done, but rather a phenomenon basically flawed, behaving like a competing, independent power before God.
Mammon, alienating children of this century, masking agent of the infinite possibilities of God's saving for them in Jesus Christ, will finally debunked and destroyed, with its false insurance, guarantees and other alternatives at the collapse of Babylon the Great:
He cried in a loud voice, saying: She is fallen, is fallen, Babylon the great! It is become the habitation of demons, a haunt of every foul spirit, a cage of every unclean and hateful bird (Apocalypse 18:2)
Because all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth will come with her fornication, and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the abundance of her luxury (Apocalypse 18:3)
GOD OF REDEMPTION AGAINST MAMON Perdita
Such warnings control, under the powerful motion the Holy Spirit, the urgency of the conversion of the sinner or the believer's new vigilance asleep and in any case, the abandonment of any distraction or diversion compromising the attention, love and service due to God alone, all that YHWH called "Jealousy" - exclusive of any competition idol
Because all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth will come with her fornication, and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the abundance of her luxury (Apocalypse 18:3)
GOD OF REDEMPTION AGAINST MAMON Perdita
Such warnings control, under the powerful motion the Holy Spirit, the urgency of the conversion of the sinner or the believer's new vigilance asleep and in any case, the abandonment of any distraction or diversion compromising the attention, love and service due to God alone, all that YHWH called "Jealousy" - exclusive of any competition idol
You shall not bow down before another god for the LORD is the name is Jealous, is a jealous God (Exodus 34:14)
In this time of imminent Kingdom, the performance, without sharing, will benefit from God in the Spirit of Grace in Jesus Christ, is more than ever, a categorical imperative and the input condition in the Reign:
Those who say 'Lord, Lord! will not enter into the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father in heaven (Matthew 7:21)
Believe you that Scripture speaks in vain? It is with envy that God cherishes the spirit that he made to dwell in us (Jacques 4:5)
In view of such a challenge, man is called - by grace - a recognition of the Supreme Lord and the radical demands of the God-King, acceptance of its saving power unlimited recreation, conversion of sinners, on the model and the image of His Son Jesus :
For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard of justice. What fruit did you wear then? Fruit that you are now ashamed. For the end of these things is death (Romans 6:20-21)
In its acceptance by faith, exclusive of any appeal meritorious, the offer of the gift of salvation, the sinner is saved, regenerated, with a life and spiritual forces released new and painful "fake me parasites," "composite identities" of "multiple belonging" and "multi-reference" relativistic time now contrary to the freedom of life in Christ.
That is the resolution of the matter "crucial" sin separation from God, through repentance, conversion, new birth, on the basis of redemption fully and successfully accomplished by Jesus Christ, as a surrogate criminal on the cross of Calvary, that man sees himself graciously credited with an imperishable life of truth, justice, solidarity, peace, joy, love, according to the aspirations of Creator, Savior and Father
In its acceptance by faith, exclusive of any appeal meritorious, the offer of the gift of salvation, the sinner is saved, regenerated, with a life and spiritual forces released new and painful "fake me parasites," "composite identities" of "multiple belonging" and "multi-reference" relativistic time now contrary to the freedom of life in Christ.
That is the resolution of the matter "crucial" sin separation from God, through repentance, conversion, new birth, on the basis of redemption fully and successfully accomplished by Jesus Christ, as a surrogate criminal on the cross of Calvary, that man sees himself graciously credited with an imperishable life of truth, justice, solidarity, peace, joy, love, according to the aspirations of Creator, Savior and Father
Love the Lord your God with all thy heart and with all your soul and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind and thy neighbor as thyself (Luke 10.27)
For whoever does the will of God, he is my brother, my sister and my mother (Mark 3:35)
Having eyes on Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and sat at the right hand of the throne of God (Hebrews 12:2)
ISSUE - OUT OF ANY SELF-JUSTIFICATION - IS:
OF WHO AM I REALLY THE SERVANT?
DECISION WILL BE TAKEN IN MY LIFE, FOR GOD TRULY SERVE UNDER HIS WILL?
TO EACH AND EVERY ANSWER IN CONSCIOUSNESS - FOR HIMSELF!
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