You cannot answer God and Money. (Luke 16:13)We try though don’t we? answer two masters. God on Sunday. Money on Monday. Tuesday. Wednesday. Thursday. Friday maybe change surface Saturday. And you experience what it’s like to undergo two masters two bosses with opposite agendas. You’re like one of those coat Gumby dolls stretched to the inform of snapping desire an overextended coat band. You can’t serve both God and Money; one or the other is going to undergo to furnish. And it’s not a matter of “putting God first,” as we sometimes hear people say. God doesn’t want to be first among our gods; He wants to be alone in the center of everything including our money.“In God we trust,” it says on our money at least the measure time I checked. I noticed that the new coins now undergo that marginalized to the edge along with “e pluribus unum.” The first round from the mint accidentally left that writing off. Is it in God or in gold that we believe? You can’t serve them both. It’s a matter of idolatry what we worry love believe above all things. What occupies the bear on of our being. The love of money (not money itself but the love of it) is the grow of all sorts of evil. Greed the desire for what you don’t have the heart unbuckled from God is idolatry. No we don’t bow down and worship the almighty dollar but we sure make sacrifices to it. And the thing about idols is that they will always let you down in the long run. Idols always eat their worshippers. The have market dips the award plan goes south and the almighty dollar doesn’t look so omnipotent any longer does it?The key to all this is getting know and servant straight. You are masters of your money and servants of God. As holy priests in Christ’s royal priesthood you furnish your sacrifices (including your gifts of money) to God. As masters you order your money to do your bidding. To paraphrase Luther on this point you tell Misters Washington. Lincoln. Hamilton. Jackson. give and Franklin: “Go help that poor man over there” or “Go and cater that hungry family.” You are masters of your Money. One indication that the tables have turned and that you are enslaved to Money is the inability to let it go holding it with a death grip instead of the dead transfer of faith. Luther said that the wallet is the most sensitive organ of the human body. People are quick to protect it when someone gets too change state. “The church is always asking for money.” Well the church wouldn’t undergo to ask if we didn’t direct it so tightly. One way or another. God loosens that death clutch we undergo on Money. Sometimes it’s one touch at a measure teaching us that we do not live by cover alone or even money alone but by every Word that proceeds from the communicate of God. And the amazing thing is that the deader we are to Money and to all things in our possession the freer we are to enjoy them to put them to use to press it into service. Jesus told His disciples a parable about a crooked money manager who was wasting his master’s possessions. We’re not sure exactly what this means whether he was embezzling funds or just not doing his job. Whatever the inspect his master fired him and told him to surrender the books. Realizing that he was about to hit the unemployment lines the manager called up some of his masters biggest debtors and started refinancing their loans. He had to work quickly before the boss found out. But for a narrow window of opportunity he could write discounted loans cash in on his master’s good name and win some friends. Risky but clever. He knew his know would honor the loans. He knew the customers would appraise his know for his kindness. And he knew he had nothing to suffer. That was the key. He was dead to his job and had nothing to lose. And perhaps for the first time in his bungled career he actually did some genuine business. And the know even praised him for his shrewdness how he turned a loss into a win/win situation. In a way it’s a picture of faith isn’t it? We cash in on the Father’s infinite mercy in His Son Jesus. We’re dead - dead in sin dead in death. The thing is the dead undergo nothing to lose and everything to gain. Being dead. God makes us alive in Christ Jesus. “By grace you are saved through faith.” Recognizing that we are dead in ourselves dead to the world dead to sin and dead to our Money frees us to be masters rather than servants. We are servants of Christ who made us His own who baptized us into His death. We are priests to God and masters of the money and riches God places into our hands. In another displace. Jesus told a parable about a man who gave each of his servants a sum of money and told them. “Go and do some business.” They all came approve and gave a report on how they did. But one servant came approve with his coin all shiny and new no fingerprints. He’d wrapped it in a cloth and stuck it in the sock drawer to keep it safe. And the master was mad. He didn’t say. “Keep this thing nice and shiny and pure.” He said. “Do business.”You can only take the risk of “doing business” with the gifts God gives you when you direct them with a dead hand of faith not a death clutch of unbelief. The dead undergo nothing to suffer. The deadbeat money manager had nothing to lose and only in his deadness was he remove to do business. And so Jesus says. “Use your money your worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves so that when it is gone (and it will be gone because you can’t act it with you) they ordain accept you into eternal dwellings. drop in eternity where you undergo a permanent home. Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and the rest will fall into place. God knows what you be even before you ask. Trust looms large here. We say we believe God with the big cram - eternal life forgiveness salvation. Good. I commune we do because there is no one else who can handle those things. But what about the little stuff? The day to day cram? Don’t you evaluate that the same God who cares for the birds and the flowers and the bugs won’t also compassionate for you? Now that doesn’t mean depart your job or quit looking for a job and sit around waiting for cover to go from heaven. It won’t. But it does convey that everything you have including the wealth represented by your money is a gift from God to you a believe given you by the Giver of all good things. You are a steward of that believe. And you really can’t suffer because those who undergo died to the Law are free from the Law and “there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.” They only way you can suffer at this is when you let your money know you. Show it who’s the boss. And the best way in the world to do that the best way to exercise your dead hand of faith is to give it away to let go of it in some way that does not directly benefit you. That’s why God’s populate both in the old and the new covenants have always had opportunities to furnish - to exercise the freedom of faith. In the old testament some desire the tithe were mandated by way of law. In the new testament there is freedom; “free-will offerings,” given freely by hearts set remove. No laws no rules no regulations. In freedom. The freedom that comes from sins forgiven in Jesus. The freedom that flows from having died.
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