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Q uite a few years ago now, I was studying the following verses:
Matthew 6:24
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.
Luke 16:11
If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
Luke 16:13
No servant 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.
In looking into the biblical language of Koiné Greek,
I discovered that the word for mammon is μαμμωνας, transliterated “mammonas,” which actually means “wealth personified.”We will get back to this in just a moment.
As I was studying these verses, I felt led to call one of my fathers in the faith and visit with him about what I was seeing. It turned out to be one of the greatest times I have ever had with Dr. Lester Sumrall. I sure miss him. He is now in Heaven with our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and all the other great leaders and generals of God’s army who have arrived before us.
I explained to Dr. Sumrall I was beginning to see the evil spirits that are totally behind the mammon system and that mammon is not just currency, treasury, precious metals, or possessions rather a demonic system trying to control and master people’s lives. Dr. Sumrall said I was right on course and that the master of the master system of mammon is the spirit of poverty.
I do not have time or space to exhaust this
subject here, but I certainly plan to refer to it in brief and
perhaps inspire you to look beyond your
finances and income and see the demonic
activity that’s trying to hold us back and make financial
slaves of us.
Mammon is wealth “personified.” Personified? Yes. The Lord has shown me that
mammon is a team of five demons mastered by poverty himself. I will guarantee you that every human being has been or is being influenced by one of these five demons—if not two, three, or all five of them. They
must be stopped!
Dr. Sumrall said we must not just do what is good, but we must deal with the bad. In other words, we can tithe (good), and we can give (good), and we can pray and confess (good); but we won’t see the full blessing of God or the Bible promises come to pass in our personal life until we also deal with the evil demons (bad) that are actively and aggressively interfering with our life.
I will now list the five demons that make up the team of demons that Jesus called a “master.” That’s right, as we just discovered, Jesus said that we cannot serve Him and mammon (two masters). So we are saying that Jesus is calling Himself a master, and He is also calling mammon a master. But, ladies and gentlemen, money is not alive, and it has no volition. It is not good or evil. In the hands of the good, money accomplishes good things. In the hands of the bad, money accomplishes bad things. By itself, money accomplishes nothing.
The spirit of poverty, the spirit of lack, the spirit of debt, the spirit of greed, and the spirit of lust make up this team of evil spirits. They want you to submit to them, and they want to control your life. The entire Babylonian system (and even the financial system here in America) is basically ruled by these demons. It is not money that is evil; it’s the love of money that gives entry to these evil spirits.
I know rich people who still have a poverty spirit. I know some poor people who have more of a lust for money than most rich people. Isn’t that interesting? As a matter