The Game:
Mammon & Restitution

You’re learning to play the game, and you’re learning to level up in the game. And Jesus — Jesus often referred to the game when He spoke of mammon and God: you can’t serve both.

We see this game inside our own lives every day. We’re in a position of asking: are we going to give all deity unto money, or are we going to give all deity unto God?

Because money can give what God can give — in a materialistic way. Provision. Security. Options. And that is exactly why it can be a fraud.

Think about it: money is the only other god Jesus ever proclaimed outside of His Father. The only one. Because it’s the only counterfeit that can imitate Him.

Money can mimic God materially — that’s what makes it a fraud.

But hear me: money doesn’t necessarily have to be an enemy. The level-up is not getting more money. The level-up is settling, once, who holds deity in your house.

Money makes a terrible god and an excellent servant. The moment it stops being served and starts being assigned, it stops being your master and becomes your tool.

And here is where Jesus lands it: in Him there is restitution. Restitution means what was taken gets restored — restored by the One it was taken from, with the record settled.

In Jesus, there is restitution.

Every year you served the fraud, every season money sat on a throne that was never its size — that account is not just forgiven in Jesus, it’s restored. You don’t climb out by playing harder. You receive restitution from the God who never needed your money to be God.