No Two Masters

“No one can be a slave of two masters, since either he will hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot be slaves of God and of money.” Matthew 6:24 NKJV

Amazingly and remarkably, we humans have just two choices lie ahead of us all the time, although it seems many out there. What does it mean? We have to choose either Jesus Christ or the world. We have to choose either to accept the Lord Jesus Christ or to refuse and deny Him. Many people are deceived that they can stand in the middle ground, choosing both God and the world.

Why is it not possible to choose both? It’s because there is only One Master. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. On Day 6, God created man and woman in His image and His likeness (Genesis 1:26). Man is the creature of God, not as the slave but as the friend of Him. Apostle Paul said that we are God’s temple in Jesus Christ. “Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.” (1 Corinthians 6:19-20 NKJV)

Since we are purchased and possessed by the blood of Christ Jesus, we are not our own and thus no longer live ours but Christ’s life (Galatians 2:20). Those who are in Jesus Christ the Lord can have what He has and are what He is. “Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours: whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas, or the world or life or death, or things present or things to come—all are yours. And you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.” (1 Corinthians 3:21-23 NKJV)

Therefore, every person is either in Jesus Christ the Lord or not. Apostle John said, “He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.” (1 John 5:12 NKJV) Whether people are religious or moral, if they do not have the Son Jesus Christ, then they are not in the family of God but of the devil. Jesus Christ is the key to life. Those religious Pharisees in our Lord’s earthly days refused and rejected the Son of God from the deep inside. Jesus Christ the Lord called them the children of the devil (John 8:44) They revealed themselves as the children of the devil by trying to kill Him with the stones. Here is the account of argument between Jesus Christ and the Jews.

“I know that you are Abraham’s descendants, but you seek to kill Me, because My word has no place in you. I speak what I have seen with My Father, and you do what you have seen with your father.” They answered and said to Him, “Abraham is our father.” Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham. But now you seek to kill Me, a Man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham did not do this. You do the deeds of your father.” Then they said to Him, “We were not born of fornication; we have one Father—God.” Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and came from God; nor have I come of Myself, but He sent Me. Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word. You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it. But because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me. Which of you convicts Me of sin? And if I tell the truth, why do you not believe Me? He who is of God hears God’s words; therefore you do not hear, because you are not of God.” Then the Jews answered and said to Him, “Do we not say rightly that You are a Samaritan and have a demon?” Jesus answered, “I do not have a demon; but I honor My Father, and you dishonor Me. And I do not seek My own glory; there is One who seeks and judges. Most assuredly, I say to you, if anyone keeps My word he shall never see death.” Then the Jews said to Him, “Now we know that You have a demon! Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and You say, ‘If anyone keeps My word he shall never taste death.’ Are You greater than our father Abraham, who is dead? And the prophets are dead. Who do You make Yourself out to be?” Jesus answered, “If I honor Myself, My honor is nothing. It is My Father who honors Me, of whom you say that He is your God. Yet you have not known Him, but I know Him. And if I say, ‘I do not know Him,’ I shall be a liar like you; but I do know Him and keep His word. Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it and was glad.” Then the Jews said to Him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have You seen Abraham?” Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM.” Then they took up stones to throw at Him; but Jesus hid Himself and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by. (John 8:37-59 NKJV)

The choice is significant, life or death. What is your choice? Where are you standing now, in Him or out? “Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on them.” (John 3:36 NKJV)