The Main Thing Two Masters

The Main Thing 

Two Masters

One heart cannot serve two masters

Are you bought with a price

God’s expression of love and serve the Master

Or

Are you earning a living and serving your self

Two Masters

Jesus said…

“No one can serve two masters.”

Following this, Jesus’ first comment is…

“You will hate the one and love the other.”

They say there is a thin line between love and hate.

They also say… “Love and hate are opposites

but you can’t have one without the other”.

The line is “choice”, we make up our mind

whether we love something or hate it.

Our degree of love or hate will determine how

easily we will cross the line between love and hate.

When it comes to the main thing in your

life you need a strong love-hate relationship.

You need a line that you despise what is on the other side.

I love women, I learned to love women by the

love I received from my grandmothers and mother.

I loved my grandfathers and dad but my

grandmothers and mom stole my heart.

Jesus says you cannot be “devoted” to two masters.

Being devoted to two masters will bring confusion.

Being devoted to two things will tear you apart.

When I was in high school

I was in love with two girls.

I truly loved both of them.

My life was miserable, I wanted to someday get married

and serve my wife as a faithful husband.

Both girls were perfect in my sight but I knew

I must let go of one and cleave to the other.

I learned a valuable lesson…

 It is possible to love more than one woman.

 So if I was to enjoy marriage, I must always

keep my wife the “main thing” and not allow

myself to get close enough to another woman

where my feeling of love could be divided.

I have made the choice to love Sandy

and a choice to never allow myself to be

in a situation of loving two women.

Please do not interpret me as saying I hate women,

I hate the thought of spending my life with anyone but Sandy.

The third thing Jesus says about two masters is…

“You cannot serve both God and money.”

Money in its self is nothing.

It can be a shell, a metal coin, or a piece of paper

with a historical image on it, or even a cyber-currency.

Money has become a form of

payment that is trusted by everyone.

Before money it was a system of bartering,

 exchanging an item or a service.

The world from the beginning

centers on money or bartering.

God’s Word tells us a laborer is worthy of his hire.

God’s Word teaches us that

goods and services have value.

And that we should be fair

with our balances and scales.

So it is not the use of money and bartering

that is evil, but the love of it.

I have had people work for me that were more

concerned with how much they would make

then what they would do to make that money.

They were serving money rather

than me and I had to let them go.

 Before currency, before

bartering, God gave us life.

He put us in the earth that belongs

to Him because He created it.

He told us to be fruitful.

He also gave us the ability to gain wealth.

What God is asking in return

is our love and trust in Him.

The scriptures speak a lot

about money and the use of it.

Why? Because we tend to forget God when

we love money and put our trust in it.

Money has a way of getting

us off the “main thing”.

Our desire for it and what to do with money

gets in the way of our love for God.

Show your love for God by letting Him show

you how to make money and what to do with it.

Desire Him to be your Master.

Realize you were bought with a price, an

expression of love you cannot ever afford.

  

A promise of life to the

fullest now and for all eternity.

True contentment is not based on whether

you are abased or abound, it is based

on trusting the Lord who loves you.

Whether God has you managing a fox hole

or a multibillion dollar corporation.

His love for you will fill that place with

peace, joy and the hope of riches in heaven.

  

Make God and His Kingdom work the main thing.

Scripture Reading

Mathew 6:22-34

²² “The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy,^[c] your whole body will be full of light. ²³ But if your eyes are unhealthy,^[d] your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

²⁴ “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

²⁵ “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? ²⁶ Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? ²⁷ Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life^[e]?

²⁸ “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. ²⁹ Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. ³⁰ If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? ³¹ So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ ³² For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. ³³ But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. ³⁴ Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.