No one can be a slave to two masters. In the world of the first century, slavery was common. All could understand this figure of speech. A slave caught between two masters could not serve either successfully. You cannot serve both God and money. Money is here spoken of as a person an idol. If you do not worship God, something else will take his place and you will worship it. For many people, it will be money.
Verse Matthew 6:24. _NO MAN CAN SERVE TWO MASTERS_] The master of our heart may be fitly termed the _love_ that reigns in it. We serve that only which we love supremely. A man cannot be in perfect ind...
NO MAN CAN SERVE TWO MASTERS ... - Christ proceeds to illustrate the necessity of laying up treasures in heaven from a well-known fact, that a servant cannot serve two masters at the same time. His af...
CHAPTER 6 _ 1. The Better Righteousness.(Matthew 6:1 .) 2. Kept in the World; Single-eyed; Trusting God.(Matthew 6:19 .)_ Our Lord said: “For I say unto you, that unless your righteousness surpass th...
TRUE RIGHTEOUSNESS IN RELATION TO WEALTH. The Sermon here passes from the shortcomings of the Scribes and Pharisees. There are scattered parallels to this section in Lk. MATTHEW 6:19. TREASURE (Luke...
TRUST IN OUR HEAVENLY FATHER. -- Matthew 6:24-34. GOLDEN TEXT. --Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.-- 1 Peter 5:7. TIME AND PLACE. --As in the preceding lessons. HELPFUL READINGS....
THE REWARD MOTIVE IN THE CHRISTIAN LIFE (Matthew 6:1-18) When we study the opening verses of Matthew 6:1-34, we are immediately confronted with one most important question-- What is the place of the...
NO MAN. No one. Greek. _oudeis._ See App-105. CAN. is able to. SERVE. As. bondservant. MASTERS. Greek. _kurios._ See App-98. HATE: or care not for. CANNOT. are not (App-105.) able to. MAMMON. ri...
Another illustration of the singleness of the Christian character, "the simplicity that is in Christ" (2 Corinthians 11:3), drawn from the relation of master and slave. _serve two masters_ Strictly,...
Another illustration of the singleness of the Christian character, ‘the simplicity that is in Christ’ (2 Corinthians 11:3), drawn from the relation of master and slave. ΔΥΣῚ ΚΥΡΊΟΙΣ ΔΟΥΛΕΎΕΙΝ. Strict...
VER 24. "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." Pseudo-Chrys.: The...
_THE ACTIONS OF SHINNING, SERVING AND LIVING MATTHEW 6:22-34:_ God's desire is for our "whole body to be full of light." A good eye leads to a shinning life. A bad eye will lead to a life of darkness....
ΜΙΣΉΣΕΙ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΜΙΣΈΩ (G3404) ненавидеть; в данном контексте — пренебрегать, уклоняться, нерадеть. Любовь и ненависть соотносятся с верностью в служении (DA). ΆΝΘΈΞΕΤΑΙ _fut. ind. med. (d...
DISCOURSE: 1323 THE SERVICES OF GOD AND MAMMON INCONSISTENT Matthew 6:24. _No man can serve two masters: for either he will hale the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and desp...
NO MAN CAN SERVE, &C.—_MAMMON_— _Mammon_ is a Syriac word for _riches,_ which our Lord beautifully represents as a person whom the folly of men had deified. It is well known that the Greeks had a fict...
E. THE WEALTH AND WORRIES OF THE WISE AND GODLY MAN (Matthew 6:19-34) TEXT 6:19-34 1. HIS ATTITUDE TOWARD EARTHLY TREASURES. (6:19-21) 19. Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth. where m...
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. NO MAN CAN SERVE, [ douleu...
14-15 Compare Mar_11:25-26. 14 Forgiveness now is according to the riches of His grace (Eph_1:7), not according to our forgiveness of others. The believers in Israel failed at this point. Their forgi...
6:24 serve (f-4) serve (f-32) _ Douleuo_ , serve as a slave....
THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT (CONTINUED) 1. God's approval, not man's, to be sought in all our actions. Jesus does not say that we are to do good expecting no reward of any kind, but that we are to look fo...
SINGLEMINDEDNESS IN GOD'S SERVICE, AND HOW IT IS TO BE ATTAINED (Luke 11:34; Luke 16:13). The connexion of thought is—How can we be sure that we are laying up treasure in heaven, and acting simply and...
TWO MASTERS] It is a common idea that virtue shades off into vice by imperceptible gradations, and that the majority of men are neither bad nor good. Our Lord pronounces absolutely that in the last re...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 6 THE RIGHT WAY TO GIVE GIFTS 6:1-4 V1 ‘Be careful not to show how good you are in front of other people. Do not do your good works...
NO MAN CAN SERVE TWO MASTERS. — Literally, _can be the slave of two masters._ The clauses that follow describe two distinct results of the attempt to combine the two forms of service which are really...
CHAPTER 7 The Gospel of the Kingdom ("Sermon on the Mount") - Matthew 5:1; Matthew 6:1; Matthew 7:1 IT may seem almost heresy to object to the time-honoured title "Sermon on the Mount"; yet, so smal...
_Counsels against covetousness and care_ (reproduced in Luke 12:22-34, with exception of Matthew 6:22-23, which reappear in Luke 11:34-36). An interpolation, according to Weiss. Doubtless, if the Serm...
_Parable of the eye_. A difficult passage; connection obscure, and the evangelic report apparently imperfect. The parallel passage in Luke (Luke 11:33-36) gives little help. The figure and its ethical...
_Parable of the two masters_. Οὐδεὶς : In the natural sphere it is impossible for a slave to serve two masters, for each claims him as his property, and the slave must respond to one or other of the c...
WHAT TO SEEK AND WHOM TO SERVE Matthew 6:19-26 What is in our inner life which answers to the eye of the body? Some have said that it is the intellect; others the heart. But it is truer to say that...
In the first verse the Revised Version has substituted the word "righteousness" for "alms," "a reading approved of, almost unanimously, by the great editors and critics" (Morrison). This is a statemen...
(8) No man can serve (h) 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 (i) mammon. (8) God will be...
Behold here a fresh motive to detach you from the love of riches, or mammon. We cannot both serve God and the world, the flesh and the spirit, justice and sin. The ultimate end of action must be one,...
CHAPTER 16 SERMON ON THE MOUNT Matthew 5-7, and Luke 6:20-49. A few days ago it was my privilege to spend two beautiful bright days at the sea of Galilee, sailing over it, and visiting the places of...
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. These directions of our LORD...
God has been pleased, in the separate accounts He has given us of our Lord Jesus, to display not only His own grace and wisdom, but the infinite excellency of His Son. It is our wisdom to seek to prof...
_THE TWO MASTERS_ ‘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.’ Matthew...
24._No man can serve two masters _Christ returns to the former doctrine, the object of which was to withdraw his disciples from covetousness. He had formerly said, that the heart of man is bound and f...
This discourse gives the principles of the kingdom, but supposes the rejection of the King, and the position into which this would bring those that were His; who consequently must look for a heavenly...
NO MAN CAN SERVE TWO MASTERS,.... Whose orders are directly contrary to one another: otherwise, if they were the same, or agreed, both might be served; but this is rarely the case, and seldom done. Th...
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. Ver. 24. _No man can serve t...
_No man can serve two masters_ Whose interests and commands are directly contrary to each other; _for either he will hate the one and love the other_ And therefore, while he employs himself in the ser...
SERVE; yield to or regard supremely two opposite objects, as are God and this world. MAMMON; wealth, all earthly possessions. What a man regards supremely is his treasure, or his God. If it be any cr...
Warning against Mammon: 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. It is a...
Verse 1 warns against practicing righteousness (margin) before men to attract their attention. This is self-righteousness, a mere show. How can we expect the Father to reward what we do merely to impr...
19-24 Worldly-mindedness is a common and fatal symptom of hypocrisy, for by no sin can Satan have a surer and faster hold of the soul, under the cloak of a profession of religion. Something the soul...
NO MAN CAN SERVE TWO MASTERS, that is, two masters that command contrary things each to other, for that is the present case of God and mammon. Or, No man with the like diligence, and alacrity, and fai...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III naming indeed Caesar as Caesar, but confessing God as God. In like manner also, that [text] which says, "Ye cannot serve two masters,"[58] Clement of Alexandria St...
Matthew 6:24 one G3762 can G1410 (G5736) serve G1398 (G5721) two G1417 masters G2962 for G1063 either...
THEY MUST LAY UP THEIR TREASURE IN HEAVEN AS THEY CANNOT SERVE GOD AND MAMMON (6:19-24). Having dealt with the question of what His disciples' attitude is to be towards ‘religious' activity, namely ch...
2). THE CHOICE AS TO WHERE THE EYE WILL BE FIXED. Jesus now takes a general illustration that He regularly uses (compare Luke 11:34) in order to apply it to this particular situation. Again there is n...
GENERAL CHARACTER. The magna charta of Christ's Kingdom: the unfolding of His righteousness; the sublimest code of morals ever proclaimed on earth; the counterpart of the legislation on Mount Sinai; C...
CONNECTION AND CONTENTS. The _external connection_ seems to be between ‘they have received their reward,' which closes each of the foregoing examples of false piety, and ‘lay not up for yourselves tre...
Matthew 6:24. A still plainer illustration, to prove that man cannot be thus divided, must be _one,_ light or dark, servant of God or of Mammon. Serve, _i.e.,_ be the slave of, yielding entire obedien...
NO MAN CAN SERVE TWO MASTERS (ουδεις δυνατα δυσ κυριοις δουλευειν). Many try it, but failure awaits them all. Men even try "to be slaves to God and mammon" (Θεω δουλευειν κα μαμωνα). Mammon is a Cha...
Matthew 6:24 I. It is very difficult to make men believe these words; so difficult, that our Lord Himself could not make the Jews believe them, especially the rich and comfortable religious people amo...
Matthew 6:22 The illustration of the text has a twofold reference. It bears on what went before, and also on what follows. If we lay up treasures on earth, that will produce an evil eye; if we try to...
Matthew 6:24 I. Anxious thought is contrary to the teaching of nature. (1) You are obliged to trust God for your body, for its structure, for its form, for its habitudes, and for the length of your be...
Matthew 6:5. _And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men._ We oug...
Matthew 6:1. _Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven._ The motive which leads a man to give, will form the tr...
CONTENTS: Sermon on the Mount, continued. Formalism condemned. The new revelation of prayer (disciples prayer). The law of riches. Cure of anxiety. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus. CONCLUSION: True relationsh...
Matthew 6:1. _Take heed that ye do not your alms before men._ It is a dispute whether alms or righteousness be the true reading. The old copies had righteousness. Chrysostom in one place has righteous...
_Serve two masters._ NEUTRALITY IN RELIGION EXPOSED I. No man can serve two masters. 1. There are many who contrive to elude the force of this maxim, or make awful experiments to try the certainty...
TWO MASTERS No man can serve two masters. Matthew 6:24. In the beginning of the thirteenth century, when King John was on the throne of England, there was a great stir in Italy. As you know, the Pop...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 6:24 SERVE indicates the work of a slave, not an employee. A slave belongs to one master, so he must give the master exclusive service....
CHAPTER 6 _Take heed_. &c. Instead of _alms_, some Greek Codices read _δικαιοσύνην, righteousness_, or _justice._ This is the reading of the Syriac and the Latin Vulgate. The Complutensian, Royal, and...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 6:19. LAY NOT UP … LAY UP. An instance of “the idiom of exaggerated contrast.” A literal compliance with the negative half of this precept would discourage thrift, destroy com...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 6:1 _The_ _relation of our Lord and his disciples to the religion of the day _(_continued_);_ vide _Matthew 5:17, note. (_b_) Our Lord turns from cases which could be directly dedu...
Tonight let's take a look at Matthew, chapter six. We are in the section of the book of Matthew that is commonly called the Sermon on the Mount because it was delivered to the disciples of Jesus on th...
1 John 2:15; 1 John 2:16; 1 Kings 18:21; 1 Samuel 7:3; 1 Timothy 6:10;
The other [ε τ ε ρ ο ν]. Implying distinction in quality rather than numerical distinction [α λ λ ο ς]. For example, " whoever smiteth thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other [τ η ν α λ λ η ν];...
FIRST THINGS FIRST Matthew 6:24 INTRODUCTORY WORDS What God puts first, we may not put second. There are some things that have our first thought, our first consideration. There are some other things...
Mammon — Riches, money; any thing loved or sought, without reference to God. Luke 16:13....
Observe here. two-fold master spoken of, GOD and the WORLD. God is our master by creation, preservation, and redemption; he has appointed us our works, and secured us our wages. This world is our mast...