The LORD is our Master

No Man Can Serve Two Masters

Jesus let us know that when the church is where she needs to be, she's as a city set on a hill that can't be hid. Some say they can't see the church; however, if the church will be the church, she can't be hid. If we will lift up our eyes, God has more for us than we're getting hold of. He's not satisfied with us working as we are. There are greater things to be accomplished.

When God poured out His Holy Spirit on the morning church, they were in one accord, and that's still necessary. If we want precious outpourings of God in our midst, we must reach that one accord. I'm not talking about agreeing on every point of doctrine. There was a lot of doctrine which the morning church didn't understand, yet they were in one accord. They were sold out to God and they had one thing in mind: being a useful instrument for God. They wanted the Gospel to go forth to a lost and dying world. They knew it was the only hope of the world being detoured from hell.

In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus gave some definite teachings to His disciples. I realize that what I'm dealing with is something that many, if not most look at as unnecessary. On the contrary, one could not say anything is unnecessary when it's in red letters in the Bible, because those are the words that Christ Himself spoke.

In Matthew 5:1-2 we read: "And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him: And he opened his mouth, and taught them..." This was a message to teach His disciples. I'm dealing with the thought of who His disciples are; He started out by telling them who is blessed and who is not blessed.

Jesus showed that the New Testament standard was bringing morality back to God's original law. God had granted some things because of the hardness of hearts, but now Jesus was once again bringing it back to the standard of God's moral law which had been established from the very beginning. Then in the sixth chapter, he warned about doing righteousness before men just so that men will see. Certainly, we want to be seen of men, but we can't do it for the purpose of men seeing us. He let us know that He was looking on the motive of the heart.

Jesus said in Matthew 6:24-30: "No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Therefore I say unto you [in other words, "Because you cannot serve God and mammon, I say unto you...", Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?

"Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

"Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?" Jesus didn't think His disciples had much faith. He had His disciples apart on a mountain. He wasn't talking to some mass multitude when He said, "O ye of little faith."