Divine Sense of Value

You cannot serve God and mammon. Luke 16:13b

Mammon stands in opposition to God as much as Satan does; for Satan is behind and within mammon. As being born a sinner into this world of sin, none is immune from the sting of mammon. The only nutralising effect is afforded by the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. Thus only in salvation, a man is beginning to be healed from the poisonous mammon. However, it takes a while; a constant growth, dealing and maturity to be released from the love of mammon. The way to be thus released is to love the Lord more than anything, by seeing the supremacy of the excellency of Christ, giving our hearts and our entire being to Him. Thereby issuing in change of concept of value, having the divine sense of value, valuing Christ and only Christ alone. Paul testified, "..I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as refuse that I may gain Christ" (Phil. 3:8b). 

Moreover, Christ has a Body, if one values Christ, he must also value the church, as Christ is the Head of the church, and the church and Christ are one. Treasuring the value of Christ, one must also treasure the worth of the church as the church is bought by Christ's own blood, "..the church of God, which He obtained through His own blood" (Acts 20:28b). Having loved both, Christ and the church and giving our all for both, will usher in the deliverance from the love of mammon. As Paul further testified that he spent and was utterly spent for the church. 

Having a divine sense of value, seeing the supreme preciousness of Christ and the exceeding worth of the church will change our concept of value making us treasure Christ and the church more than anything else which further issues in spending all that we have and spending all that we are, for Christ and the church, will deliver us from the love of mammon and be absolutely for God's interest on this earth.

Today, in the prophesying meeting, the speaking of the Lord was very strong concerning this matter, after which, the church had a strong prayer for the absolute love for the Lord and His Body and a complete consecration to spend and be spent for Christ and the church, having a divine sense of value and be delivered from the love of mammon, for the fulfillment of God's purpose on the earth.