From the book Thy Kingdom Comes
Chapter 13. The Kingdom of Heaven
What does the Kingdom look like?
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 6:24
Mammon is not money although money may represent a form of mammon. Mammon is entrusted wealth.1 We have seen that the corporate state and its enfranchised citizenry are part of the corpus of the state. Like the camp of the golden calf all wealth is bound under the authority of the civil state. Jesus compares God and mammon as two masters, both requiring service.
And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations. Luke 16:9
If you are bound to the mammon or corpus of the modern civil state you are given a similar alternative today. Jesus tells us to be friends with the unrighteous mammon for when it fails we will be received into everlasting tabernacles or tents. In other words if you are a selfish disobedient cheat under the system of the unrighteous mammon you will probably do the same with God.
There is another clue to mammon in this statement. He speaks of it ‘failing’ as a sure thing that will happen. For this reason as much as any other we should seek the kingdom and its righteousness. Rather than seeking the Truth of God’s kingdom on earth, men heed not his prophetic warnings and follow after their own pernicious ways. If they knew that these systems of Mammon have plagued the history of man since before the Corban and Quarban of Herod and Caesar or the flesh pots of Egypt they might have pursued another path.
Paul also tells us what to do if we find ourselves a servant to mammon or any thing or anyone else.
Art thou called [being] a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use [it] rather. 1 Corinthians 7:21
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1“Mammon, an Aramaic word mamon “wealth” … It is probably derived from Ma’amon, something entrusted to safe keeping. Encyclopedia Britanica.
