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[542.32 --> 543.40] or love
[543.40 --> 544.74] two masters.
[545.62 --> 546.74] And this is exactly
[546.74 --> 547.64] what Jesus says
[547.64 --> 548.60] in Matthew 6.
[548.60 --> 551.06] Jesus says,
[551.46 --> 552.80] no one can serve
[552.80 --> 553.68] two masters.
[554.26 --> 555.14] Either you will
[555.14 --> 556.10] hate the one
[556.10 --> 557.60] and love.
[558.00 --> 558.58] And it's the same
[558.58 --> 559.36] Greek word here,
[559.48 --> 559.82] agape.
[560.22 --> 560.82] You will either
[560.82 --> 561.72] hate the one
[561.72 --> 563.14] or agape the other.
[564.28 --> 565.64] Or you will be
[565.64 --> 566.88] devoted to the one
[566.88 --> 568.46] and despise the other.
[568.94 --> 570.24] You cannot serve
[570.24 --> 571.28] both God
[571.28 --> 572.12] and money,
[572.44 --> 573.06] Jesus says.
[574.22 --> 575.10] And obviously here,
[575.16 --> 575.96] Jesus is speaking
[575.96 --> 576.74] specifically
[576.74 --> 578.00] about money,
[578.30 --> 579.00] which is another
[579.00 --> 580.12] aspect of the world
[580.12 --> 580.80] that we are called
[580.80 --> 581.92] to fight and to resist.
[582.46 --> 583.60] But what is interesting
[583.60 --> 584.34] here is that
[584.34 --> 585.26] Jesus uses
[585.26 --> 586.28] that same word
[586.28 --> 587.40] agape for love,
[587.56 --> 589.42] but also equates
[589.42 --> 590.24] that word,
[590.38 --> 591.02] that love,
[591.16 --> 592.30] with two verbs.
[593.00 --> 593.44] Serving,
[593.98 --> 595.02] you cannot serve
[595.02 --> 595.64] two masters,
[595.98 --> 597.10] and devoting.
[597.74 --> 598.56] You will be either
[598.56 --> 599.76] devoted to the one
[599.76 --> 601.18] and despise the other.
[601.88 --> 602.88] You cannot serve
[602.88 --> 604.40] both money
[604.40 --> 605.08] and God.
[606.42 --> 607.52] And to continue
[607.52 --> 608.46] our tradition here,
[608.82 --> 609.58] I'm not going to steal
[609.58 --> 610.78] too much from Dave's sermon,
[611.40 --> 612.96] but from Ephesians 2,
[613.00 --> 613.22] I mean,
[613.28 --> 614.00] the other pastors
[614.00 --> 614.84] steal a lot.
[615.20 --> 616.06] I'm trying my best
[616.06 --> 617.46] to break that pattern
[617.46 --> 617.96] of sin,
[618.42 --> 619.44] is what we're talking
[619.44 --> 619.92] about here.
[622.00 --> 623.04] I'm just quoting
[623.04 --> 623.96] our theme passage,
[624.18 --> 625.36] because the theme passage
[625.36 --> 626.88] for our sermon series
[626.88 --> 628.22] comes from Ephesians 2.
[628.50 --> 629.26] And at the beginning
[629.26 --> 630.44] of Ephesians 2,
[630.88 --> 631.80] Paul writes this,
[631.80 --> 633.18] that all of us
[633.18 --> 633.98] were dead in our
[633.98 --> 634.72] transgressions
[634.72 --> 635.42] and our sins.
[636.82 --> 638.42] And we used to live
[638.42 --> 639.48] in the ways
[639.48 --> 640.18] of this world.
[640.58 --> 641.68] We used to live
[641.68 --> 642.38] in this world
[642.38 --> 643.44] and followed
[643.44 --> 644.32] its patterns,
[644.44 --> 645.20] is what Paul
[645.20 --> 645.98] is telling us.
[646.22 --> 647.28] In other words,
[647.72 --> 648.90] that total
[648.90 --> 650.20] holistic commitment
[650.20 --> 650.86] and loyalty
[650.86 --> 651.68] to something,
[652.64 --> 653.60] that was us,
[653.70 --> 654.44] all of us,
[654.68 --> 655.82] when we used to live
[655.82 --> 657.32] according to the ways
[657.32 --> 657.92] of this world.
[657.92 --> 660.30] we used to love
[660.30 --> 661.88] agape the world.
[663.64 --> 664.50] That's what our
[664.50 --> 665.14] biblical writers
[665.14 --> 665.88] are telling us.