09/06/2021
Heaven’s Treasure vs. Mammon
Once we have the kingdom inside, the Holy Spirit’s job is to
help us to get the world out of us. Only then can we be in the
world but not of the world. This requires a turning away from
our own way and going God’s way. We repented when we
received Jesus Christ and His salvation; but as the Holy Spirit
reveals to us that we have trusted the world’s system and not
God in certain areas, we will need to repent again.
We cannot serve two masters. We can’t serve the world and
Jesus. We’re going to love one and hate the other. People say they’re serving Jesus, but they’re holding on to the world’s
system. The world’s system tells us to build up earthly treasure,
but Jesus said:
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth
and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and
steal: but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where
neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not
break through nor steal: for where your treasure is, there will
your heart be also.
The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single,
thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil,
thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light
that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! 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 6:19-24
This is the message Jesus wanted to convey to the rich
young ruler who asked Him, “Good Master, what shall I do to
inherit eternal life?” (Luke 18:18).
Jesus said, “Thou knowest the commandments, Do not
commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false
witness, Honour thy father and thy mother” (v. 20)The rich young ruler replied confidently, “All these have I
kept from my youth” (v. 21). He was religious, and he had been
careful to do everything on the list.
But then Jesus said, “Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that
thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have
treasure in heaven: and come, follow me” (v. 22). Notice, He
didn’t say, “You’re going to go broke.” He said, in essence,
“You’ll have treasure on a higher plane, and that treasure is
available when you need it.”
When Jesus spoke to that rich young ruler, He was trying to
show him who his real god was. His real god was not the Lord
God Jehovah. His real god was his money. If our money is
telling us what to do, it’s our god.
When the rich young ruler heard Jesus say that the only
thing he lacked was to sell “what you have and give to the poor”
and follow Him, he bowed his head and walked away. He
couldn’t do that, because he thought he was going to lose something. He didn’t have the full revelation of the kingdom of God because his focus was divided between the world system and
God’s kingdom.
Jesus said, “If therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body
shall be full of light.” If our intent is to depend on God and our
eye is single, or our focus is entirely on God, then our body will
be full of the revelation that it takes to live in the kingdom of
God. However, if we try to look at God a little bit and try to
hold onto the world’s system because we’re not sure if “this God
thing” will work, then darkness will come in and we won’t have
the light. Like the rich young ruler, we’ll think God is trying to
take something from us. We’ll back up and walk away and say,
“No, He won’t take all this. I worked too hard for this.”
However, with the revelation of the kingdom, we will see
that we are living in two realms. We’re living in the kingdom of
God, and we’re living in the realm of the natural, five physical
senses. Without Jesus Christ, that sense realm is the boundary
of life.
However, once we become born again, we receive a new
life—eternal life—which takes us beyond natural boundaries
into the place where all things become possible.
Now all things are possible to us who believe.
No other religion can offer this reality. However, the church has not been
demonstrating this new reality, so people have been looking at
the church as if it represents any other religion. That will not be
the case for long. We are entering a new day: a day when the
church will receive revelation of the kingdom and reclaim the
earth for the King.
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