Matthew 6:24

No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.

When reading (Matthew 6:24) many people say,

“I believe that you can serve two masters. I work two jobs.”

The reason they say that is they don’t understand the Greek word translated “serve.”

It refers NOT to an employee in an 8-5 job but to a slave. A slave is one who is constantly and entirely devoted to his master.

(Romans 6:17-18) says that though you were once a slave of sin, God has freed you to become a slave of righteousness.

You can serve God only with entire and exclusive devotion, with single-mindedness.

In (Matthew 6:24)Jesus is saying that if you try to serve two masters, God and riches, you will love one but hate the other.

The orders of these two masters are diametrically opposed.

One commands to walk by faith, the other by sight; one commands to be humble, the other to be proud; one commands to set your affection on things above, the other on things of the earth; one commands to look at things unseen and eternal, the other at things seen and temporal; one commands to be anxious for nothing, the other to be anxious about everything. You can’t obey both orders, and you can’t serve two masters.