Scripture: Luke 4:5-7
Luke 4:5-7 outlines this priesthood test that Jesus had to face in the wilderness. In effect, He
had to face the very same test that Eli failed, and Samuel passed. This passage says, “Then
the devil, taking Him up on a high mountain, showed Him all the kingdoms of the world in a
moment of time. And the devil said to Him ‘All this authority I will give You, and their
glory; for this has been delivered to me, and I give it to whomever I wish. Therefore, if You
will worship before me, all will be Yours.’” “…all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of
time” means all the cattle, all the wealth, the silver, the gold, every realm of power offered to
Jesus in a moment of time. Certainly a major part of what was offered was a mammon test.
With money comes authority in the natural, natural glory, Satan uses wealth to gain worship
or pros-koo-neh-o from man. This Greek word means “to bow the knee and kiss the master’s
hand like a puppy will run to his owner and kiss the owner’s hand for the food it carries.” In
the mammon test, when it is failed, we literally in the realm of the spirit, bow our knee and
kiss the hand of the enemy and Satan receives it as worship. It stops the hand of God in our
behalf. The hand of God becomes against us all of our days that mammon rules. Will we pass
the mammon test or fail it?
PRAYER
I hear the voice of the Good Shepherd. I hear my Father’s voice, and the voice of a
stranger I will not follow. I roll my works upon the Lord. I commit and trust them wholly to
Him. He will cause my thoughts to become agreeable to His will, and so shall my plans be
established and succeed. ( John 10:1-5,11,14,27; Prov. 16:3 AMP.)