Blessed Life  |  Week 2

Turn to: Matthew 6:24 and Luke 16:13

 Last Sunday, we saw Zacchaeus go from a broken life to a blessed life when he encountered Jesus.  He immediately begin to reflect Jesus.  He obeyed out of the tenderness of his heart!

We keep on Talking about the BLESSED LIFE this week with:

“Breaking the Spirit of Mammon”

Matthew 6:24 NO ONE… (not 1 person) can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Luke 16:13 No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Mammon is the only thing that God says you can not serve alongside of Him.

What is mammon?

(not English or Greek)  – Mammon is an Aramaic word meaning riches.

It might be “money” in your translation of the Bible. Which is not a far off word.

But, Jesus frames the word to mean something much deeper than simply money.  He makes it sound like something more of a god or a spirit of riches.

Many believe mammon came from the Syrian God of Riches which can be traced to Babylon and the tower of Babel. Mammon represents a prideful, self-made, arrogant spirit of man that says we don’t need God.  We can do it on our own.

The spirit of Mammon came from here. Mammon is a spirit.  Jesus was referencing this Syrian False God of riches.

Mammon is a spirit that rests on money.  All money has a spirit on it.  It either has the spirit of Mammon on it. Or the Spirit of God.  Jesus said that you can not serve God and mammon.

Let me say it another way:

All your possessions are identifying with the God of all sufficiency or the god of self sufficiency.

The BROKEN LIFE is one where you are constantly in charge and stressed about whether you are going to make it or not

The BLESSED LIFE is one where you are confident that God is in control.

Trying to serve God and Mammon is like putting one foot a boat and keeping one foot on the dock and trying to go somewhere on the boat.  The dock (self sufficiency) won’t take you any where, and the only way the boat can is for your to get all the way in!

The BLESSED LIFE requires you to get in the boat all the way and completely rely on God, meaning that you will not rely on your own self-sufficiency!

So…How Do you Break the Spirit of Mammon?

How do make sure that you are not self sufficient but instead relying on the sovereignty of God?

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