Give God Full Service

Intro: Early days of automobiles people went to the pharmacy to purchase gas. As in America the automobile became more affordable there became a rise of gas stations. However all those gas stations were staff with labor to pump the gas.

Then the invention to reset the gas pump from inside the convient mart open up the option for self serve.

DT: We are to give God absolute undivided service as his disciples.

Aim: Look to serve God when comfortable and uncomfortable.

Serving the Lord first.

Make God your priority.

Where is your heart?

Wherever your treasure is, there the desires of your heart will also be.

Make the Lord your treasure.

Matthew 6:21 NLT

21 Wherever your treasure is, there the desires of your heart will also be.

Matthew 6:19 NLT

19 “Don’t store up treasures here on earth, where moths eat them and rust destroys them, and where thieves break in and steal.

Luke 6:21 NLT

21 God blesses you who are hungry now, for you will be satisfied. God blesses you who weep now, for in due time you will laugh.

Matthew 6:

Matthew 6:19

Treasure is what is valuable and important to the one who possess it. Treasure also represents a place where something is kept safe.

Luke 6:

Treasures are hidden.

Think how even children playfully look for treasures. They have the idea that treasures are hidden.

Why are treasures hidden?

People may hide their valuables by burying them.

We should have the Lord hidden in our heart like a treasure.

We should hid God’s word in our heart.

Jesus is our treasure.

Having Jesus as our treasure will lead to keeping Jesus in the right place in our heart. This will lead to seeking him first in all we do.

Jesus as our treasure will lead to our love for him.

Disciples Give God all their service

Matthew 6:24 NLT

24 “No one can serve two masters. For you will hate one and love the other; you will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and be enslaved to money.

All your service and all your love goes to the Lord.

We are to be loyal to God and devoted to his work.

God is loyal to us and shows us what loyalty looks like.

God capital G vs gods little “g”

God has given the command to love him first.

Deuteronomy 6:5–6 NLT

5 And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your strength. 6 And you must commit yourselves wholeheartedly to these commands that I am giving you today.

Deut 6:

God has called us to be focus on him and not be distracted by this world. We can not serve two masters.

Why is it impossible to serve two masters?

What does Jesus mean about this love and hate?

Jesus teaches about this hate and Love lessons for devoted Disciple

Jesus lessons on being his disciple teaches the call of singular devotion toward Christ. Jesus wants undistracted disciples. Jesus teaches the grade of love toward him in his teachings of how we must love him more than our own life.

Luke 14:25–27 NLT

25 A large crowd was following Jesus. He turned around and said to them, 26 “If you want to be my disciple, you must, by comparison, hate everyone else—your father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even your own life. Otherwise, you cannot be my disciple. 27 And if you do not carry your own cross and follow me, you cannot be my disciple.

Luke 14:25-27

Luke 14:26 NLT

26 “If you want to be my disciple, you must, by comparison, hate everyone else—your father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even your own life. Otherwise, you cannot be my disciple.

Therefore, we are to love God more in comparison to anyone else, even out own life.

Loving Jesus involves sacrifice.

Jesus shows us the power of sacrifice as in .

Jesus calls us to do what he has done for our salvation.

Do not love mammon.

What is mammon?

Mammon. Mammon is a Syriac word, a name given to an idol worshipped as the god of riches. It has the same meaning as Plutus among the Greeks. It is not known that the Jews ever formally worshipped this idol, but they used the word to denote wealth. The meaning is, ye cannot serve the true God, and at the same time be supremely engaged in obtaining the riches of this world. One must interfere with the other. See .

Albert Barnes, Barnes’ Notes on the New Testament, Accordance electronic ed. (Altamonte Springs: OakTree Software, 2006), paragraph 794.

Who is Putus`

https://accordance.bible/link/read/Barnes’_Notes_(NT)#794

Plu′tus, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?.] (Class. Myth.) The son of Jason and Ceres, and the god of wealth. He was represented as bearing a cornucopia, and as blind, because his gifts were bestowed without discrimination of merit.

“Plutus,” Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, paragraph 184918.

https://accordance.bible/link/read/Webster#184918

Do not love this world!

1 John 2:15–17 NLT

15 Do not love this world nor the things it offers you, for when you love the world, you do not have the love of the Father in you. 16 For the world offers only a craving for physical pleasure, a craving for everything we see, and pride in our achievements and possessions. These are not from the Father, but are from this world. 17 And this world is fading away, along with everything that people crave. But anyone who does what pleases God will live forever.

1 John 2:

Jesus wants us to live forever with him in glory.

We must turn from this world and the wealth it offers.

Seek the kingdom of God as you trust his provision.

Doo not be slaved to money, wealth and or your possessions.

Be a slave for the kingdom!

Stay focus to serve God!