1. To handle money, honor, privilege and power, in ways that will please the Father well, or in ways that no natural man or princes of this world can understand, a believer with a formation called Christ will have to be decked with the glorious thoughts of life everlasting – like our Lord Jesus was at Jordan. (Ps. 49:11-20, Jn. 3:35, Heb. 5:13-14).
2. When money isn’t regulated by a nature, wisdom or commandment that is in the Holy Ghost, in the Son or in the Father, it will become a filthy lucre that serves purposes that are either filthy or earthly, sensual or devilish. (Matt. 28:19-20, 1Tim. 6:10, Jas. 3:15).
3. Most men have died not only prematurely but unfulfilled while trying to secure their future, monetarily or with money power (Ecc. 2:22-23). Those who do otherwise are those who trust or secure their future with the words of Christ and of the living God. And such are those who truly end up being called to glory. (1Tim. 6:3-12/3:16).
4. Nothing makes or fashions hustlers out of a generation of men like money and the love of what it can do. Nothing keeps believers – long in carnality – like money and the love of what money can do (Lk. 18:18-25). Nothing competes with looking for the Lord; even with our whole hearts, like money does. (Matt. 6:24)
5. Mammon is a god that would easily receive service from the souls of those who don’t possess at least the first life in God called Christ, and it can only be fully overcome by those who earnestly seek to be gods (judges) under God by acquiring and walking in the light of life everlasting. (Ps. 82:1, Jn. 10:35, Jn. 1:4)
6. If our worldly goods still mean to us what it didn’t mean to the brethren in the Hebrews Church or those of whom this world wasn’t worthy of; then, the feat of inheriting everlasting life after consistently or naturally being able to love our enemies and those who despitefully use us, would remain a mirage. (1Cor. 7:31, Heb. 10:34/11:38, Matt.5:44-45,48).
7. Those who flee from the love of money or what money can do are those who separate themselves from that lust-prone, glamorous-looking but filthy or worldly life called sin and death (1Tim. 6:10-11, Rom. 8:2). They do so firstly by sayings from the Lord and then by those from the Almighty (Father); which will ultimately see them become separated from everything they can love outside God. (2Cor. 6:16-17).
8. A believer who attains or acquires the life and peace in Christ that enables him to selflessly relate with this world and her goods is spiritually wiser than a believer who hasn’t (Rom. 8:6, 1Jn. 3:7). A believer who attains the joy of the Father that enables him to consistently despise the god of this world (mammon) is divinely wiser than a believer who hasn’t. (Heb. 12:2, Matt. 6:24).
9. If the Lord can’t raise believers who would be able to handle money not just with the spiritual nature that raised Jesus to become the Christ, but with the divine nature that raised Him to become the Son of the living God; then, Satan can still entice and successfully tempt us with unknown lusts and glories. (Matt. 16:16, Jas. 1:13-14, 2Pet. 2:20).
10. A believer who hasn’t seen or laid hold of the incorruptible inheritance (the divine nature), can still be enticed by ephemeral things that mammon can offer, or tempted by the glories that can be found in Babylon. (2Pet. 1:4, Jas. 1:12-17, Matt. 4:8).

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