You Can't Serve Two Masters

In Luke chapters 16-18, Jesus teaches and tells a series of parables about the ways in which people rationalize their sinful behavior and compromise their convictions. He points out the hypocrisy that lives in the human heart and the ways we pretend to be holy before God while we also try to please man. To this double-mindedness Jesus declares, “No servant can serve two masters.” (Luke 16:13). In pointing this out, Jesus shows us our sin. And through His life, death, and resurrection, He shows us that He is our Savior, who serves His Father and does His will. And the will of the Father is that we would be forgiven our sins, and welcomed into His Kingdom, forever through the cross of Christ. Only in this one true faith, can we be saved. We should neither trust in nor serve any other masters, but instead we should say, with Martin Luther, “Here I stand. I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.”