LUKE 16:10-13
“He who is faithful in what is least is faithful also in much; and he who is unjust in what is least is unjust also in much. Therefore if you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? And if you have not been faithful in what is another man’s, who will give you what is your own? “No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.”
”Luke 16:10-13 NKJV
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What is more important to you, wealth, status, and material things, or your relationship with God?
Heavenly riches are by far more valuable than worldly riches, yet we humans have an inclination to worship possessions and money and what it can buy, more than we worship God.
Money is necessary in this world, but it is not something we can trust. Whilst it can secure to a degree one’s financial future in this world, It cannot purchase one’s eternal future.
Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”
John 14:6 NKJV
Jesus Christ proved Himself as not purchasable (MATHEW 4:1-11).
One’s integrity can be put on line in money matters, for if it becomes their master, it will drag them into sin. “For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.”
I Timothy 6:10 NKJV
God calls His people to be honest, faithful, and true, in everything , in both the seemingly un-important and important things of daily life, to the tiniest detail, including being on time.
God’s timing is always perfect.
Their is nothing wrong with having money, a nice home or car if you can afford it, but these things must not be allowed to become your master; they must not become too important to you.
Unhealthy cravings and selfish desires will drag one into selfish ambitions and sin as it did the devil, and like it was for the devil, it shall become your downfall (ISAIAH 14:11-21).
Whatever God blesses you with, hold it with an open hand with a thankful heart, being ready to let it go in an instant if God instructs you to.
Don’t allow any material item, person, animal, or money or status become your god.
“”No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.””
Luke 16:13 NKJV
Jesus is a faithful God, He is always true, all loving and full of mercy.
He never lies, He has no selfish agendas or ambitions.
What you see is in the least what you get, but in reality, He is far more of which we cannot even begin to comprehend. His promises are yes and amen.
Remember those who rule over you, who have spoken the word of God to you, whose faith follow, considering the outcome of their conduct. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.”
Hebrews 13:7-8 NKJV
Jesus is the example to follow; to be true in the tiniest detail in things that are small, as well as those things that are big.
Keeping confidence, and being loyal to one another as to the Lord is paramount for smooth running within God’s kingdom.
However my beloved, “Do not be carried about with various and strange doctrines. For it is good that the heart be established by grace, not with foods which have not profited those who have been occupied with them. We have an altar from which those who serve the tabernacle have no right to eat. For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned outside the camp. Therefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people with His own blood, suffered outside the gate. Therefore let us go forth to Him, outside the camp, bearing His reproach.”
Hebrews 13:9-13 NKJV
It is important to put our trust in Jesus, whose blood was spilled for all who believe in Him.
There is no other that can save You, only the genuine un-compromised Jesus Christ.
There are others claiming saved by the name of Jesus. They are called religion, people pleasing, prosperity, and the likes of these, but their benefits are temporary and of this world, and shall have no lasting effect.
A watered down gospel shall profit no one.
Therefore, “Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning. Of His own will He brought us forth by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.”
James 1:16-18 NKJV
God does not promise riches in this life, but rather He promises to meet our needs.
Their is no such thing as a “prosperity Jesus”; that Jesus, like people pleasing, false hope, religion and the likes of these are all false gods.
The true Lord and Saviour will never bless you with more than you can handle, and whatever He blesses you with, it is apart His plans and purposes and will produce good fruits of somekind.
When you put your trust in Him, He will meet your every need.
Jesus said, ““Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? “So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? “Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.”
Matthew 6:25-34 NKJV
Jesus ministry is not controlled by pastors, vicors, or priests, for Christ alone is the High Priest (HEBREWS 4:14-16), and is the only head of His church. “And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ— from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.”
Ephesians 4:11-16 NKJV
Again I tell you, if it’s not Christ’ genuine five fold ministry, it shall profit you nothing.
All glory to God forever and ever! Amen.