Breaking the spirit of Mammon

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Breaking the spirit of Mammon

• UNDERSTANDING WHAT THIS SPIRIT DOES AND ITS
  EFFECTS ON LEADERSHIP!

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Scriptural Foundation

• Luke 169-13
• 9. I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain
  friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone,
  you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings. 10.
  Whoever can be trusted with very little can also
  be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest
  with very little will also be dishonest with
  much. 11. So if you have not been trustworthy in
  handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with
  true riches?

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• 12. And if you have not been trustworthy with
  someone elses property who will give you
  property of your own?
• 13. No servant can serve two masters. Either he
  will hate the one and love the other, or he will
  be devoted to the one and despise the other. YOU
  CANNOT SERVE BOTH GOD AND MONEY (MAMMON). (NIV)
• The word mammon appears 4 times in scripture 3
  times in Luke 16 and in Matthew 624.

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1. What is mammon?

• Mammon is not money mammon is an Aramaic word
  which means riches
• Mammon was a Syrian god the god of riches it
  came from Babylon (babble on)
• Babylon comes from the word babble which means
  CONFUSION so the word Babylon means sown in
  confusion
• Its a reference to the Tower of Babel - it was
  an arrogant, prideful project that tried to get
  to God on their own. The Tower of Babel was a
  project engineered by the spirit of mammon
• It was an independent attempt by men to get to
  heaven on their own through their own strength
  and riches!

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• Mammon says You dont need God, you need money.
  Mammon tries to replace God with money.
• So Mammon is a spirit! It is a god!
• All money has a spirit on it it either has the
  spirit of God or the spirit of mammon.
• Thats why you need to redeem your money by
  giving your tithe or the first portion to God.
• Money that is not tithed has the spirit of mammon
  on it.
• MAMMON PROMISES YOU EVERYTHING BUT GIVES YOU
  NOTHING. ITS A LIAR
• MAMMON PROMISES YOU THINGS ONLY GOD CAN GIVE.

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• Mammon wants to be served. It wants you to serve
  him
• Mammon will promise you security, significance,
  importance, freedom, power, independence, love,
  peace but cannot give any of it to you.
• MANY BELIEVERS LITERALLY DESPISE GOD WITH THEIR
  FINANCES. MANY HAVE SERVED MAMMON AND LOYAL TO IT
  INSTEAD OF GOD BECAUSE ANY TIME YOU ARE TOLD TO
  SERVE GOD WITH YOUR MONEY AND YOU GET WILD, ITS
  BECAUSE YOU ARE MORE DEVOTED (LOYAL) TO MAMMON
  THAN GOD.
• Luke 1613 he will be devoted to the one and
  despise the other. You cannot serve both God and
  Mammon.

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Mammon is the spirit of Anti-Christ

• The Anti-Christ will not rule the world by the
  threat of nuclear annihilation
• The AC will rule through the threat of not being
  able to buy and sell (Revelation 1316-17). Verse
  17 ..so that no one could buy or sell unless he
  had the mark.
• Mammon will say to you You will not be able to
  buy and sell without me so you better serve me
  now because I am going to look after you in the
  future.
• Mammon wants to be your God
• Jesus never told anybody in the Bible that the
  answer to their problems is having more money.

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2.Is money evil?

• No it is not evil IT IS NEUTRAL!
• The LOVE of money is the ROOT of ALL EVIL!
• 1 Timothy 610 For the love of money is a root
  of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for
  money, have wandered from the faith and pierced
  themselves with many griefs. (NIV)
• The service of money is the root of all evil.
• Money is a good servant but a bad master!
• Luke 169 I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain
  friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone,
  you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings.

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• What it says is to use your money for good
  things for things that will honour God.
• Lay up your treasures in heaven (Matthew
  619-21) where you treasure is there your heart
  will be also. (verse 21)
• Use your money to bring people into the Kingdom
  of God and when you die they will welcome you
  into heaven.
• What verse 9 of Luke 16 is saying is this Use
  worldly wealth (what the devil meant for evil) to
  gain more friends in heaven in other words
  submit your money to God for eternal purposes.

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• Luke 1611 So if you have not been trustworthy
  in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you
  with true riches.
• What are true riches?
• True riches are people PEOPLE LAST FOREVER!
  ONLY SOULS WILL LIVE FOREVER NOTHING ELSE!
• Why would God commit true riches (people) to you
  if you cannot be a good steward of worldly riches
  (money)
• Do you want people to know God and be committed
  to you? Can God trust you with worldly riches?
• Why should God give you people (true riches) to
  disciple if he cannot trust you with money
  (worldly riches)?

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3. What should I do with money?

• Be a good steward of it
• God is looking for good stewards.
• God has all the resources He has no problem
  giving money to you but He has a big problem
  giving money through you.
• God--------- You--------Hurting People
• You and I are stewards that God wants to channel
  resources through.
• We are just RECEIVING AND FORWARDING AGENTS!
• Luke 1610 can you be trusted with the little?
  The little is the test
• Good stewards will get more from God! God will
  only channel resources through givers.
• Its not how much you have its whose it is!

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• The earth is the Lords by OWNERSHIP it is ours
  by STEWARDSHIP.
• It does not matter how much you have, what
  matters is what you do with it.
• If God can trust you with little, He can trust
  you with more.
• CAN GOD TRUST YOU WITH WORLDLY WEALTH? IF HE
  CAN, THEN HE WILL TRUST YOU WITH TRUE RICHES
  (PEOPLE)
• WHO DO YOU WORSHIP? GOD OR MAMMON?
• THE CHOICE IS YOURS!