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Verse Matthew 6:24. _NO MAN CAN SERVE TWO MASTERS_] The master of our
heart may be fitly termed the _love_ that reigns in it. We serve that
only which we love supremely. A man cannot be in perfect ind...
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NO MAN CAN SERVE TWO MASTERS ... - Christ proceeds to illustrate the
necessity of laying up treasures in heaven from a well-known fact,
that a servant cannot serve two masters at the same time. His
af...
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CHAPTER 6
_ 1. The Better Righteousness.(Matthew 6:1 .) 2. Kept in the World;
Single-eyed; Trusting God.(Matthew 6:19 .)_
Our Lord said: “For I say unto you, that unless your righteousness
surpass th...
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TRUE RIGHTEOUSNESS IN RELATION TO WEALTH. The Sermon here passes from
the shortcomings of the Scribes and Pharisees. There are scattered
parallels to this section in Lk.
MATTHEW 6:19. TREASURE (Luke...
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TRUST IN OUR HEAVENLY FATHER. -- Matthew 6:24-34.
GOLDEN TEXT. --Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for
you.-- 1 Peter 5:7. TIME AND PLACE. --As in the preceding lessons.
HELPFUL READINGS....
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THE REWARD MOTIVE IN THE CHRISTIAN LIFE (Matthew 6:1-18)
When we study the opening verses of Matthew 6:1-34, we are
immediately confronted with one most important question-- What is the
place of the...
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NO MAN. No one. Greek. _oudeis._ See App-105.
CAN. is able to.
SERVE. As. bondservant.
MASTERS. Greek. _kurios._ See App-98.
HATE: or care not for.
CANNOT. are not (App-105.) able to.
MAMMON. ri...
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Another illustration of the singleness of the Christian character,
"the simplicity that is in Christ" (2 Corinthians 11:3), drawn from
the relation of master and slave.
_serve two masters_ Strictly,...
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Another illustration of the singleness of the Christian character,
‘the simplicity that is in Christ’ (2 Corinthians 11:3), drawn
from the relation of master and slave.
ΔΥΣῚ ΚΥΡΊΟΙΣ ΔΟΥΛΕΎΕΙΝ. Strict...
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VER 24. "NO MAN CAN SERVE TWO MASTERS: FOR EITHER HE WILL HATE THE
ONE, AND LOVE THE OTHER; OR ELSE HE WILL HOLD TO THE ONE, AND DESPISE
THE OTHER. YE CANNOT SERVE GOD AND MAMMON."
Pseudo-Chrys.: The...
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_THE ACTIONS OF SHINNING, SERVING AND LIVING MATTHEW 6:22-34:_ God's
desire is for our "whole body to be full of light." A good eye leads
to a shinning life. A bad eye will lead to a life of darkness....
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ΜΙΣΉΣΕΙ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΜΙΣΈΩ (G3404)
ненавидеть; в данном контексте —
пренебрегать, уклоняться, нерадеть.
Любовь и ненависть соотносятся с
верностью в служении (DA).
ΆΝΘΈΞΕΤΑΙ _fut. ind. med. (d...
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DISCOURSE: 1323
THE SERVICES OF GOD AND MAMMON INCONSISTENT
Matthew 6:24. _No man can serve two masters: for either he will hale
the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and
desp...
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NO MAN CAN SERVE, &C.—_MAMMON_— _Mammon_ is a Syriac word for
_riches,_ which our Lord beautifully represents as a person whom the
folly of men had deified. It is well known that the Greeks had a
fict...
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E. THE WEALTH AND WORRIES OF THE WISE AND GODLY MAN
(Matthew 6:19-34)
TEXT 6:19-34
1. HIS ATTITUDE TOWARD EARTHLY TREASURES. (6:19-21)
19. Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth. where m...
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No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and
love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the
other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
NO MAN CAN SERVE, [ douleu...
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14-15 Compare Mar_11:25-26.
14 Forgiveness now is according to the riches of His grace (Eph_1:7),
not according to our forgiveness of others. The believers in Israel
failed at this point. Their forgi...
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6:24 serve (f-4) serve (f-32) _ Douleuo_ , serve as a slave....
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THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT (CONTINUED)
1. God's approval, not man's, to be sought in all our actions. Jesus
does not say that we are to do good expecting no reward of any kind,
but that we are to look fo...
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SINGLEMINDEDNESS IN GOD'S SERVICE, AND HOW IT IS TO BE ATTAINED (Luke
11:34; Luke 16:13). The connexion of thought is—How can we be sure
that we are laying up treasure in heaven, and acting simply and...
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TWO MASTERS] It is a common idea that virtue shades off into vice by
imperceptible gradations, and that the majority of men are neither bad
nor good. Our Lord pronounces absolutely that in the last re...
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MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS
MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL
_HILDA BRIGHT_
CHAPTER 6
THE RIGHT WAY TO GIVE GIFTS 6:1-4
V1 ‘Be careful not to show how good you are in front of other
people. Do not do your good works...
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NO MAN CAN SERVE TWO MASTERS. — Literally, _can be the slave of two
masters._ The clauses that follow describe two distinct results of the
attempt to combine the two forms of service which are really...
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CHAPTER 7
The Gospel of the Kingdom
("Sermon on the Mount") - Matthew 5:1; Matthew 6:1; Matthew 7:1
IT may seem almost heresy to object to the time-honoured title "Sermon
on the Mount"; yet, so smal...
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_Counsels against covetousness and care_ (reproduced in Luke 12:22-34,
with exception of Matthew 6:22-23, which reappear in Luke 11:34-36).
An interpolation, according to Weiss. Doubtless, if the Serm...
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_Parable of the eye_. A difficult passage; connection obscure, and the
evangelic report apparently imperfect. The parallel passage in Luke
(Luke 11:33-36) gives little help. The figure and its ethical...
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_Parable of the two masters_. Οὐδεὶς : In the natural sphere
it is impossible for a slave to serve two masters, for each claims him
as his property, and the slave must respond to one or other of the
c...
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WHAT TO SEEK AND WHOM TO SERVE
Matthew 6:19-26
What is in our inner life which answers to the eye of the body? Some
have said that it is the intellect; others the heart. But it is truer
to say that...
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In the first verse the Revised Version has substituted the word
"righteousness" for "alms," "a reading approved of, almost
unanimously, by the great editors and critics" (Morrison). This is a
statemen...
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(8) No man can serve (h) two masters: for either he will hate the one,
and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the
other. Ye cannot serve God and (i) mammon.
(8) God will be...
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Behold here a fresh motive to detach you from the love of riches, or
mammon. We cannot both serve God and the world, the flesh and the
spirit, justice and sin. The ultimate end of action must be one,...
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CHAPTER 16
SERMON ON THE MOUNT
Matthew 5-7, and Luke 6:20-49. A few days ago it was my privilege to
spend two beautiful bright days at the sea of Galilee, sailing over
it, and visiting the places of...
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No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and
love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the
other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
These directions of our LORD...
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God has been pleased, in the separate accounts He has given us of our
Lord Jesus, to display not only His own grace and wisdom, but the
infinite excellency of His Son. It is our wisdom to seek to prof...
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_THE TWO MASTERS_
‘No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and
love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the
other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.’
Matthew...
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24._No man can serve two masters _Christ returns to the former
doctrine, the object of which was to withdraw his disciples from
covetousness. He had formerly said, that the heart of man is bound and
f...
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This discourse gives the principles of the kingdom, but supposes the
rejection of the King, and the position into which this would bring
those that were His; who consequently must look for a heavenly...
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NO MAN CAN SERVE TWO MASTERS,.... Whose orders are directly contrary
to one another: otherwise, if they were the same, or agreed, both
might be served; but this is rarely the case, and seldom done. Th...
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No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and
love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the
other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Ver. 24. _No man can serve t...
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_No man can serve two masters_ Whose interests and commands are
directly contrary to each other; _for either he will hate the one and
love the other_ And therefore, while he employs himself in the ser...
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SERVE; yield to or regard supremely two opposite objects, as are God
and this world.
MAMMON; wealth, all earthly possessions. What a man regards supremely
is his treasure, or his God. If it be any cr...
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Warning against Mammon: NO MAN CAN SERVE TWO MASTERS; FOR EITHER HE
WILL HATE THE ONE AND LOVE THE OTHER, OR ELSE HE WILL HOLD TO THE ONE
AND DESPISE THE OTHER. YE CANNOT SERVE GOD AND MAMMON.
It is a...
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Verse 1 warns against practicing righteousness (margin) before men to
attract their attention. This is self-righteousness, a mere show. How
can we expect the Father to reward what we do merely to impr...
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19-24 Worldly-mindedness is a common and fatal symptom of hypocrisy,
for by no sin can Satan have a surer and faster hold of the soul,
under the cloak of a profession of religion. Something the soul...
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NO MAN CAN SERVE TWO MASTERS, that is, two masters that command
contrary things each to other, for that is the present case of God and
mammon. Or, No man with the like diligence, and alacrity, and
fai...
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Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III
naming indeed Caesar as Caesar, but confessing God as God. In like
manner also, that [text] which says, "Ye cannot serve two
masters,"[58]
Clement of Alexandria St...
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Matthew 6:24 one G3762 can G1410 (G5736) serve G1398 (G5721) two G1417
masters G2962 for G1063 either...
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THEY MUST LAY UP THEIR TREASURE IN HEAVEN AS THEY CANNOT SERVE GOD AND
MAMMON (6:19-24).
Having dealt with the question of what His disciples' attitude is to
be towards ‘religious' activity, namely ch...
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2). THE CHOICE AS TO WHERE THE EYE WILL BE FIXED.
Jesus now takes a general illustration that He regularly uses (compare
Luke 11:34) in order to apply it to this particular situation. Again
there is n...
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GENERAL CHARACTER. The magna charta of Christ's Kingdom: the unfolding
of His righteousness; the sublimest code of morals ever proclaimed on
earth; the counterpart of the legislation on Mount Sinai; C...
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CONNECTION AND CONTENTS. The _external connection_ seems to be between
‘they have received their reward,' which closes each of the
foregoing examples of false piety, and ‘lay not up for yourselves
tre...
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Matthew 6:24. A still plainer illustration, to prove that man cannot
be thus divided, must be _one,_ light or dark, servant of God or of
Mammon. Serve, _i.e.,_ be the slave of, yielding entire obedien...
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Matthew 6:24
I. Anxious thought is contrary to the teaching of nature. (1) You are
obliged to trust God for your body, for its structure, for its form,
for its habitudes, and for the length of your be...
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Matthew 6:24
I. It is very difficult to make men believe these words; so difficult,
that our Lord Himself could not make the Jews believe them, especially
the rich and comfortable religious people amo...
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Matthew 6:22
The illustration of the text has a twofold reference. It bears on what
went before, and also on what follows. If we lay up treasures on
earth, that will produce an evil eye; if we try to...
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Matthew 6:5. _And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the
hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and
in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men._
We oug...
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Matthew 6:1. _Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be
seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in
heaven._
The motive which leads a man to give, will form the tr...
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CONTENTS: Sermon on the Mount, continued. Formalism condemned. The new
revelation of prayer (disciples prayer). The law of riches. Cure of
anxiety.
CHARACTERS: God, Jesus.
CONCLUSION: True relationsh...
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Matthew 6:1. _Take heed that ye do not your alms before men._ It is a
dispute whether alms or righteousness be the true reading. The old
copies had righteousness. Chrysostom in one place has righteous...
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NO ONE CAN BE A SLAVE TO TWO MASTERS. In the world of the first
century, slavery was common. All could understand this figure of
speech. A slave caught between two masters could not serve either
succe...
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_Serve two masters._
NEUTRALITY IN RELIGION EXPOSED
I. No man can serve two masters.
1. There are many who contrive to elude the force of this maxim, or
make awful experiments to try the certainty...
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TWO MASTERS
No man can serve two masters. Matthew 6:24.
In the beginning of the thirteenth century, when King John was on the
throne of England, there was a great stir in Italy. As you know, the
Pop...
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MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 6:24 SERVE indicates the work of a slave,
not an employee. A slave belongs to one master, so he must give the
master exclusive service....
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CHAPTER 6
_Take heed_. &c. Instead of _alms_, some Greek Codices read
_δικαιοσύνην, righteousness_, or _justice._ This is the
reading of the Syriac and the Latin Vulgate. The Complutensian, Royal,
and...
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
Matthew 6:19. LAY NOT UP … LAY UP. An instance of “the idiom of
exaggerated contrast.” A literal compliance with the negative half
of this precept would discourage thrift, destroy com...
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EXPOSITION
MATTHEW 6:1
_The_ _relation of our Lord and his disciples to the religion of the
day _(_continued_);_ vide _Matthew 5:17, note. (_b_) Our Lord turns
from cases which could be directly dedu...
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Tonight let's take a look at Matthew, chapter six. We are in the
section of the book of Matthew that is commonly called the Sermon on
the Mount because it was delivered to the disciples of Jesus on th...
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1 John 2:15; 1 John 2:16; 1 Kings 18:21; 1 Samuel 7:3; 1 Timothy 6:10;
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The other [ε τ ε ρ ο ν]. Implying distinction in quality rather
than numerical distinction [α λ λ ο ς]. For example, " whoever
smiteth thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other [τ η ν α λ
λ η ν];...
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FIRST THINGS FIRST
Matthew 6:24
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
What God puts first, we may not put second. There are some things that
have our first thought, our first consideration. There are some other
things...
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Mammon — Riches, money; any thing loved or sought, without reference
to God. Luke 16:13....
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Observe here. two-fold master spoken of, GOD and the WORLD. God is our
master by creation, preservation, and redemption; he has appointed us
our works, and secured us our wages. This world is our mast...