基于技术问题，今天的聚会只有声音和PPT。深感抱谦！Due to technical issues, today’s Sunday service only has audio and PPT. Sorry for the inconvenience caused!
蒙福人生5---破除玛门的灵
The Blessed Life 5---Breaking the Spirit of Mammon
路加福音Luke16:13
一个仆人不能事奉两个主．不是恶这个爱那个，就是重这个轻那个．
你们不能又事奉神，又事奉玛门。
No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You aren’t able to serve God and mammon.
A. 什么是【玛门】What is Mammon?
【玛门】=【财富】=财神 （亚述人/亚兰语）
Mammon=Riches=The god of fortune （Assyrians/Aramaic）
创世记 Genesis 11：4
他们说：来吧，我们要建造一座城和一座塔，塔顶通天，为要传扬我们的名，免得我们分散在全地上。【巴别塔】
Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth." （The Tower of Babel）
=不需要神，只要有钱，什么都办得到！
We don’t need God, money is the answer for all things.
=骄傲、自满、试图取代神。Arrogant, self-satisfied, Mammon is God
耶稣：你们不能又事奉神，又事奉玛门（财神）
Jesus：You aren’t able to serve God and Mammon （God of fortune）
B. 玛门≠金钱Mammon≠Money
提摩太前书ITimothy 6:10 （现中）
贪财是万恶的根源。有些人因贪慕钱财而背离了信仰，饱尝痛苦，心灵破碎。
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.
金钱不是邪恶的，贪财才是万恶之根。因此，我们不可贪爱钱财，乃是善用它来建造神的国度。钱是一种工具，在人手中，可以成为祝福，也可变成咒诅。它永远不应该成为我们的主人，但它是大有能力的仆人。
Money is not evil but the love of money is a root of all kind of evil. So we do not love it but rather use it to build His Kingdom. Money is a tool, and in human hands it can be blessing or a curse. It should never be our master, but it’s a powerful servant—Dann Farrelly
C. 玛门的特征The Characteristic of Mammon
1. 对财务没有安全感+恐惧。Financial insecurity+fear
2. 承诺：安全感、成就感、身份、独立、能力和自由。
Promise: security, sense of achievement, identity, independence, power & freedom.
$=安全感security
$=开心/成就感 sense of achievement
如果你有更多的钱，人们就会听你说话…If you have $, you will be heard.
$=幸福快乐blessed life
$=身份（名牌…）identity (recognized brand…)
3. 玛门说要拐骗偷抢/夺取Mammon: swindle, steal, rob, usurp
4. 玛门=自私Mammon=selfish
5. 基督徒：只要你有更多的钱，你就可以帮助更多的人了/我大部分的问题都可以解决了。Christian: If I have more money, I can bless more people/I can fix most of my problem.
玛门最大的谎言： $=所有问题的答案is the answer to everything.
Robert Morris的爸爸：
只要是钱能解决的都不是问题。真正的问题是只有神能解决！
If money can fix it, it’s not a problem. Only God can fix the real problem.
D. 圣经例子
Eg.1 撒该Zacchaeus（路加福音Luke 19：1-10）
之前Before 之后 After
1.思想贫穷：
永远不够never enough
自私Selfish
1.丰盛的思想
一半给穷人，还他4倍
give half of my possessions to the poor, pay back 4X the amount.
2.关系破裂broken relationship 2.关系恢复reconciliation
3. 接待玛门/财神爷
Welcome Mammon 3. 接待耶稣
welcome Jesus
4. 穷得只剩下钱
Some people are so poor, all they have is money 4.生命来到你和你家
life has come to you and your household (TPT).
*路加福音Luke 19：10
人子来，为要寻找，拯救（赐生命）失丧的人。
The Son of Man has come to seek out and to give life to those who are lost (TPT)
Eg. 2 有钱的少年官a wealthy Jewish nobleman
路加福音18：22
你还缺少一件…But there’s still one thing you’re missing in your life…
路加福音18：22
他听见这话，就甚忧愁，因为他很富足。
When the rich leader heard these words, he was devastated, for he was extremely wealthy（TPT）.
Bill Johnson:
“神冒犯你的思想为了揭露你的心God offends your mind to reveal your heart!”
E. 丰盛的钥匙 The key to prosperity
1. 像天父那样慷慨Generous like my Father
Robert Morris 牧师见证：
Robert Morris 太太Wife 总额 Total per year
刚结婚 USD600 USD7200
几个月后 USD32000一年 USD18000一年 USD50000
婚后第二年 USD72000一年 - USD72000 （10X）
三年内 》USD100,000
慷慨是一种相信天父必供应的表现---宣告我们的财宝在天上。当我关心神所关心的，祂就照顾我的所需。Generosity is an expression of our trust in God’s provision—a declaration that our treasure is truly in heaven. As I take care of His priorities, He will look after mine.
F. 结论： 贫穷的解药---撒种 The antidote for poverty---sowing
诗篇126:5-6
流泪撒种的、必欢呼收割。那带种流泪出去的、必要欢欢乐乐的带禾捆回来。
Those who sow in tears will reap with songs of joy. He who goes out weeping, carrying seed to sow, will return with songs of joy, carrying sheaves with him.
当你在缺乏，不方便或不想给予的时候却给予，你的经济水平就能突破。
In order to change the economic level of your life, you have to give when you are in need, when it is inconvenient, and when you don’t feel like it.
箴言Proverbs 11:24 （新译本）
有人慷慨好施，财富却更增添；有人吝啬过度，反招致贫穷。
One man gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds unduly, but comes to poverty.
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