Matthew 6:24 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

1. The attempt to serve God and money inevitably leads to us _______________ God.

2. If money is your god then your faith is marked by ____________. If Jesus is your God, then your faith is marked by ______________.

3. Jesus does not call us to reject the needs of this life, rather, He shows us that they are ____________ to be _______________, not ____________ to be ________________.

Scripture Readings
Isaiah 49:8-16a
1 Corinthians 4:1-13
Matthew 6:24-34

Take It With You!

Here we will offer thoughts and meditations on the message to help us as we contemplate and discuss and wrestle with what we are hearing.

But who are they that love God, and cleave not to gold and worldly possessions? Take a good look at the whole world, also the Christians, and see if they despise gold and riches. It requires an effort to hear the Gospel and to live according to it. God be praised, we have the Gospel; that no one can deny, but what do we do with it? We are concerned only about learning and knowing it, and nothing more; we think it is enough to know it, and do not care whether we ever live according to it. However, on the other band, one is very anxious when he leaves lying in the window or in the room a dollar or two, yea, even a dime, then he worries and fears lest the money be stolen; but the same person can do without the Gospel through a whole year. And such characters still wish to be considered as Evangelical.... This Christians do not do, they gather no treasures; but they ask God for their daily bread. However, others are not satisfied with this, they gather a great store upon which they may depend, in case our God should die today or tomorrow, they might then know a way out.

Martin Luther, Sermon for the Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity on Matthew 6:24-34