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What is mammon?


Many professing Christians think that mammon is money. However, nothing can be further from the truth. Mammon is the spirit behind money. 

It is owing to this confusion about what mammon is and is not that many Christians do not understand what Jesus meant when He said that no one can serve both God and mammon (Matthew 6:24). They think that it simply means that a Christian should not be live a life of crass materialism, where one buys things that one does not need, or buys things, be it cars, jewellery, holidays or mansions, just to show off.

Loving Jesus is far more than rejecting crass materialism. Loving Jesus is to obey His Commands (John 14:15). To obey His Commands, one must all obey all His teachings. That includes His teaching on denying oneself to follow Him (Matthew 16:24).

Many people today only want to obey the teachings of Jesus where it helps them feel spiritual, happy or joyful, or otherwise, helps them to live a 'good life'. But, where Jesus tells them to deny themselves fully, or that they must stop serving mammon to serve God, they become full of anger. 

These teachings of Jesus are the most despised teachings. They are so despised that people do not even realise that they despise such teachings. Their attempts to not only soften it or avoid it, but to resolutely interpret it to mean anything else but what Jesus really meant. 

The spirit of mammon seeks to steal, kill and destroy. He seeks to do so by all kinds of means. He is absolutely militant in wanting to destroy all souls by enticing them to pursue riches. Hence, why the Word of God says:

But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition. 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. (1 Timothy 6:9-10)


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