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NASB | Matthew 6:24 ¶ "No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Matthew 6:24 ¶ "No one can serve two masters; for 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 God and mammon [money, possessions, fame, status, or whatever is valued more than the Lord]. |
Subject: Does not All hang on Love? mt 22:36-40 |
Bible Note: Hi Tim! Great, we have some agreement! smile And i know u disagree with me without being disagreeable as to the Love and Resepct we are to have for both those we agree with and with those with whom we disagre! Right? smile So Steve, can't u both Love and in Love serve Satan resistance, James 4:7 while at the same time serving Love and obedience to God by in Love obeying God who commands us to love Satan as your enemy, and so serve resistance in Love for Satan? Doesn't Satan flee from Love since he is not in Love like God is? James 4:7. When we hate him, are we not locking him in when we think we are locking him out because he is into hate? 2 Timothy 2:25-26. Since Satan is God's enemy/opposite, won't Satan be trying to get us to disobey God by hating Satan rather than loving Satan as God commands, so that we wd be resisting him with hate and so be sinning anyway due to the Satan-obeying-God-disobeying hateful rather than the God-obeying Satan-disobeying loving attitude? In other words, is it not by Loving who God says to love that we can serve God as our only Master no matter how many other masters we have or not? So for example, am I not serving God and the other master who compels me to go one mile, when I obey God as my Master by loving that other master, and also when I obey that other master by not only going one mile in Love but two in Love? Matthew 5 41 And whosoever IN HATE shall compel thee to go a mile, go IN LOVE with him twain. and so obey God by loving the other Compelling master and so in Love obey that Compelling-Master by going the one and the two miles? Is not Hate in any obedience for whom I obey make my obedience be evil spoken of? Is not doing right in a DESPISING ATTITUDE mean that i am right in the wrong attitide of sin of hate for whom I do right? Luke 18 9 And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and DESPISED others: Is not hate in obedience to anyone master or more not mean that I am obeying Satan rather than God who commands me to lvoe all masters? Is not Love that we are to serve first, as per God, to all masters and servants no matter what else we serve, resistance to Satan or obedience to the Compeller? Does not Love for all masters and for all servants make us all Master-servants and Serving-masters like Christ was? Matthew 20:26-27 What do u think? Looking fwd to more agreement! smile l and r, giam |