en en en en ba bar en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en ne en en en en en en en en en en en en en uk en en en en en en en en en en fa en en
“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.
Jesus is telling His followers in Matthew 6:24, no person can have two masters, because by default one will be loved and the other hated. The word of God talks about master and slave many times. Slavery is a black eye in American history and nothing reveals the hate and harm done, then by the powers words of Frederick Douglass. He was one of the lucky slaves that was taught how to read and write, thanks to his owner’s wife. He embraced the power of words and learned that education can make mountains move. When he ran away from slavery and found freedom and got married, he joins the abolitionist movement to end slavery in America. He used knowledge of words and wrote several autobiographies. His books were bestsellers told of his first-hand horrible experience as a slaver. One of Douglass’s famous quotes that caught my eye is that he didn’t know he was a slave until he saw other white kids and adults do something he couldn’t.
Exodus 20:8-11 “Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a sabbath of the Lord your God; in it, you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female servant or your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you. 11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day and made it holy.
There are many ways to tell if wealth is someone’s master, but the Sabbath of rest is the best way to tell. The fourth commandment tells God’s children to take the Sabbath day off from labor and spend it with Me. Now a person who truly loves the Lord and wants to have a close relationship with Him should desire a weekly day off to spend from sunset to sunset a 24 hour day of worship with your Creator. Some Christian say, we can make any time of day to have  Sabbath rest with God. Some Christians even say God changed His day of rest from the Old Testament to the New Testament, but Scripture always answers the Christian’s questions. What does the New Testament say about the Sabbath rest changing or being moved?
Hebrews 4:9  So there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God. 10 For the one who has entered His rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from His. 11 Therefore let us be diligent to enter that rest, so that no one will fall, through following the same example of disobedience.
If you are following the command of the Lord, and He is your master, you will remember the time  Him the time He wants to spend with you. Otherwise, if wealth is your master, and you ask for labor, or if you want to get overtime, then we don’t need to get the answer for that question. I know from personal experience what it’s like to stand by my beliefs and refuse to do labor on the Sabbath. Especially when my employer tells me I will be written up or lose my job if I fail to obey. My Bible tells me to trust God, cause man didn’t make heaven and earth, and man can not do anything to me.
Psalm 118:6 The Lord is for me; I will not fear; What can man do to me?
Don’t be a servant to the almighty dollar as some call it, but rather be a servant to the Almighty God. Let the Lord Creator be your master and you will have a life full of beatitudes, which is what the sermon on the mount teaches, you will be blessed when you follow the words of Christ. God bless you all, the Lord loves you and so do I. Sam H.
Isaiah 56:2 “How blessed is the man who does this, And the son of man who takes hold of it; Who keeps from profaning the sabbath, And keeps his hand from doing any evil.”
Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)
Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)
Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)
Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)
Click to print (Opens in new window)
Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)
Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)
Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)
Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window)
Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)
Categories: 1 Samuel 1:120 BlogsTags: (https://www.adventistreview.org/2007-1531-34), (https://www.openbible.info/topics/obedience_to_god), (https://www.openbible.info/topics/servants_and_masters), (https://www.openbible.info/topics/the_sabbath_day), (https://youtu.be/9yOk6qBzqwo), (https://youtu.be/d3YVkesrhOM), (https://youtu.be/UebNH98wgNM)
2 Corinthians 12:10 Civil War/Civil Peace
By 1 Samuel 1:201 day ago
Leviticus 23:1-3 Remember to Church
By 1 Samuel 1:206 days ago
John 3:1-2 Just A Little Talk
By 1 Samuel 1:202 weeks ago
Subscribe to Blog via Email
Join 1,018 other subscribers
https://1samuel120.com/revelation-181-light-of-the-world-mark/ – Bloganuary on Revelation 18:1 Light Of the World Mark
https://1samuel120.com/john-138-42-teach-me-who-i-am/ – Bloganuary on John 1:38-42 Teach Me Who I Am
Wisdom or foolish indulgence… – To God be The glory, Amen on Proverbs 11:4 Wise Or Foolish Indulgences