Today I want to dedicate this message to all those people who are in distress, with insecurity of their future, I come to remind you that God is in heaven and nobody can move your hand and tell him what you are doing?
"24 No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will esteem the one and despise the other. You can not serve God and riches.
"Matthew 6:24
In the original text, the word riches represents the name of the god of money. But more than riches, when God says that you can not serve 2 masters, it does not refer only to riches as such, but the system of the world to obtain riches. So, when Jesus says that they can not serve 2 masters, it does not refer to money as such, but to the system of the world through which riches are achieved. God wants you to understand that you have to get out of the system and the binding of the natural system to produce finances.
When you depend on the natural system, you try to create a security, trust system. The world system wants you to depend on it; the bank wants you to depend on it for the house, the government wants you to depend on it for certain benefits, for social insurance; but no government is really that good at successfully taking over people; neither the banks. Marketing is aimed at gaining your trust in the system, and unfortunately, many place their trust and confidence in it.
The system and the money are a terrible master or lord over your life, but money is a tremendous servant in your life. The world system is cruel, but when you are on the system, then money is a good servant for your life. So, you have to change your position in the kingdom of God, stop being a slave to the natural system of finance, and begin to rule over that system, serving God through spiritual principles.
I have lived in my own flesh as betrayed and lose true and true friendships for the love of money.
In Luke 18, Jesus meets the rich young man, to whom he tells how difficult it is for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven, that it would be easier for a camel to enter through the eye of a needle. In those times, in the fortified cities the great doors were closed at a certain time, and only a small door was left open inside the large door, which was known as the eye of the needle. If you were a merchant and you arrived with your camel after the big gate was closed, to enter the city, you had to unload and pass the camel kneeling by the door, and then mount the load once more on the other side. And that's not impossible, but it's difficult. Other versions say that it is a reference to a rope in the boats that, in those times, had to make the loop and pass through a small hole the big rope to anchor the ship; which was not easy either. So, what Jesus was saying is that it was complicated, but not impossible.
In Luke 18, what we see is Jesus' admonition to a man who was not willing to do what Jesus asked of him to receive what he wanted to receive from Jesus. The young man says he wants the kind of life that Jesus has, and Jesus says: The system that you know does not produce the kind of life that I have; If you want the kind of life that I have, you have to do what I did, leave everything and follow me; because the kind of life that I have does not come by the system to which you are accustomed. Jesus was talking about a rich religious, that was a leader in the synagogue. So, when Jesus talks about how difficult it is for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven, he talks about a religious who was rich, who had obtained his riches by complying with the law. According to Joshua 1: 8, when you comply with the law, the result is to prosper. And this young man had complied with the law. This young religious had prospered under the law, but now he wants something that the law does not provide, and that he sees in Jesus; It is another level of abundance. And Jesus tells him that he must stop depending on the system by which he was accustomed to live, and depend on the system by which Jesus lived; and that's difficult because, when you're used to producing in a way, and things change, everything gets complicated.
The rich young man wanted the life that Jesus had, but he wanted to continue living the way he had obtained the riches he had; but it does not work that way, the same results do not occur. Jesus never said it was impossible, but it was difficult. In Luke 19, the next chapter, there is a rich man who did enter the kingdom, Zacchaeus. A rich man who, when Jesus arrives at the house, says: I will give everything I have, I will pay with interest if I have stolen something. In other words, he said: I'm going to fix my economic life. And Jesus said: Salvation came to this house. So, a man who arranges his relationship with finances, Jesus says: This one was saved. Whereas, the one who was religious, but was not willing to enter into the system of God, did not enter the kingdom. At no time do we see Jesus telling Zacchaeus that this is what he had to do. Jesus did not tell Zacchaeus to give, because Zacchaeus never asked; Jesus was invited to the house of Zacchaeus, and something Zacchaeus saw with Jesus that led him to understand that what was wrong in his life were finances; and spontaneously changed. The rich young man did ask what he had to do, but when Jesus answered, the young man did not like that answer. It is better that he reacts spontaneously, seeing how good God has been in his life, the great mercy of God, and realizes that he has to change his whole life, including finances. We see a rich man does not enter the system of the kingdom of God, and another who does. So it's not impossible, but it's difficult. In the same way, breaking with the world's system is not easy, but neither is it impossible.