Matthew 6:24, Your Uncles And The Family Business

Per Alexander, the Aramaic word for ‘mammon’ in Matthew 6:24 is 'mamounah', i.e., "uncle." Uncles typically run the family business. They have you working in the shop, cleaning, making deliveries, etc. They have free labor, and they are going to use it for the family. You have your responsibilities. What are you going to do for God? When? You cannot work for God and work for your uncle. When Jesus called his disciples, they left their family businesses. THAT is what Jesus was talking about in Matthew 6:24. The idea of wealth as material security is in Luke 16:9, 11, and 13, where mammon is the wealth of this world, "abominable security," or the wealth of abomination. We cannot work for God and work for that, either. That world really upsets this world, though they really are the same. We have just got to really see that: this IS that world.