Breaking the Spirit of Mammon
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Gateway Church
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2015
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Pastor Robert continues The Blessed Life series with the message, “Breaking the Spirit of Mammon,” where he answers common questions about the spirit behind the love of money, whether money is evil, and what to do with money.
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| 0:00.0 | I want you to turn to Luke chapter 16. |
| 0:04.3 | That's the only passage I'm going to ask you to turn or click to, |
| 0:09.9 | but just however you do it, just go to Luke chapter 16. |
| 0:14.3 | And we're going to talk this weekend |
| 0:17.4 | about breaking the spirit of mammon. |
| 0:21.6 | Breaking the spirit of Mamen. |
| 0:25.0 | M-A-M-O-N. |
| 0:28.0 | It's a word that's in the Bible only four times. |
| 0:31.3 | Jesus, as we know, only used it three times. One of the times it's in the Bible, it's a repeat. |
| 0:36.0 | It's in Matthew and Luke, but it's the same sermon. |
| 0:40.0 | So we're going to look at it in Luke so that we'll see all the times that we know of that Jesus use this word, all right? |
| 0:45.8 | Luke chapter 16, look at verse 9. |
| 0:48.6 | Luke 16, verse 9. |
| 0:50.3 | This is Jesus speaking. |
| 0:51.5 | And I say to you you make friends for yourselves by unrighteous |
| 0:56.5 | mammon that's the first time we see the word that when you fail they I just want you remember the word they, not it, they, so it's talking |
| 1:07.6 | about the friends, may receive you into an everlasting home. He who is faithful in what is least is faithful also in much. |
| 1:19.2 | And he who is unjust in what is least is unjust also in much. |
| 1:24.6 | Therefore, if you've not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, |
| 1:29.4 | it's the second time we've seen it, |
| 1:31.1 | who will commit to your trust the true riches? And if you've not been faithful |
| 1:36.4 | in what is another man's, who will give you what is your own? And then verse 13 is a repeat of the verse in Matthew 6. |
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