Another Look @ The Influence of Mammon — Part 1

  1. The only way to arrest the influence that mammon exerts upon our soul through the love of money is by being introduced to a contrary influence or knowledge called the Faith of the Son, that promises to bring our souls to God or make us serve Him acceptably (Matt. 6:24, 1Tim.6:6-12, Heb. 12:28)
  2. To actually serve God acceptably or without fear, service to mammon must stop! We would have to be empowered against the love of money, through the preaching of the Faith of the Son of God (Heb. 12:28, Lk. 4:18, Gal. 2:20)
  3. The day our natural needs became the focus of ministrations in the Church, rather than obtaining the faith that should prepare us to relate with everlasting life, was the day evil spirits won one of the most strategic battles to limit the soul from living! Building souls to a place where they can receive their carnal needs as additions was thereby mortgaged, and so service to mammon has continued till date. (Phil. 3:17-19, 1 Tim. 6:12, Matt. 6:33)
  4. A believer whose long and short-term plans or visions of the future is inspired or patterned after things that mammon has arranged and projects as life, is one who is yet to be free from the love of money or of what money can do. (Matt. 6:24-26, Lk. 12:15-22). His freedom lies in a definition of life that is firstly found in Christ and then in the Father, and his reward for finding and keeping these twin expressions of life is a reward called God. (Eph. 4:18-20, Col. 2:2)
  5. No believer can address his indebtedness to his generation or prove that this world is a well-fed fat lie, except he can faithfully handle unrighteous mammon in a way that no believer or carnal believer can. (Lk. 16:1-12). Only the light of Christ and of everlasting life guarantees this. (Jn. 3:16) It not only offers us freedom from the grip that money has upon all men, but also promises to help us lay hold of eternal life. (1 Tim. 6:17-19)
  6. Nothing competes with serving or loving God, like mammon does; like what enticed a King like Adam to adventure sin, despite having access to the wealth of resources that is incomparable with what men call prosperity today. (Matt. 6:24, Gen. 2:11)

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