Hey, it's Matt, this is the 10 minute Bible Hour podcast, and yesterday, we had a conversation

about this ancient word, Maman, that a lot of times gets translated as money in the modern

translations of the New Testament, but definitely, Maman is the word behind the text in the

original languages in Matthew, chapter 6, where Jesus says, you cannot serve both God and

money.

And this concept of people becoming overburdened with their love of stuff to the point

of paralysis, and people coming to a place where they worship this notion or even ancient

Near Eastern deity that is Maman, this becomes people's God.

This concept is something that Jesus gradually has been pushing back on with more and more

specificity as we work through the book of Matthew, and he makes this little note back

here in Matthew chapter 6 that comes and goes pretty quickly about, you can't serve both

God and money, but lately, we've been in Matthew chapter 19 looking at the story of the

rich young ruler who had so much stuff, and he wanted to turn a life, but he wasn't willing

to give away his stuff and unburden himself of those things, and as a result, he walks

away sad.

So we started that conversation yesterday.

If you haven't listened to that, you might want to go grab it.

Otherwise, we're picking it up right now where we left off yesterday.

So then we flip back forward to Matthew chapter 19, and I don't think the word Maman gets

used anywhere here.

I'm not seeing the word money being translated, but wealth at the end of verse 22, when the

young man heard this, he went away sad because he had great wealth.

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