No more false god's

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. The Lord Jesus came to the blind in order to see.

The love of money makes you blind, my child. I came to give recovery of sight to the blind. I came to set you free from being a slave to the dollar sign.

Don't ever make money your God. When does money become God or when does anything become your God? When you love that thing more than God. You see, love was supposed to be given to God first and then through God to everyone else.

But what you put first in your life becomes your God. So if you love money, then money is your God. If you love a person, then that person becomes your God.

Whoever and whatever you put before God, that thing and that person becomes your God. Tax collectors, their God was money because they worshiped money, they loved money. Don't ever be greedy.

The Lord says, not me. You know why? Because you'll take with you absolutely zero, nothing. Why are you greedy? Give with a big heart, with an open hand.

Give in a very charitable way and let the Lord bless you more and more. The more you hold on to, you'll live with nothing. What kind of a wisdom is that? Not very big at all.

Now listen to this. The Lord came to give recovery of sight to the blind. Levy is blind now, he loves money.

He made money, he's God. The Lord Jesus comes and stands before Levy, the tax collector, the lover of money. And he looks at Levy and he says, follow me.

The Lord is incredible how He deals with every single one of us, depending on what are our weaknesses or what is the greatest weakness in us. He'll come and hit the sensitive cord in you, in me, in all of us, to get us out of that weakness, to deliver us. So he stands before the tax collector and he says, follow me.

Now this tax collector, he will not take one step forward until he says what's in it for me. What do you mean follow me? All right, what am I gonna get? I make a thousand dollars. Am I gonna make four? I make ten grand, am I gonna make a million? If I'm not making any more money than what I am now, I'm following nobody baby, even if you're God.

But look at Levy. The moment he hears the Lord Jesus says to him, follow me, on the spot he gets up and follows the Lord. The only disciple out of the twelve who followed Jesus with no heartaches, with no headaches, is Levy.

Please put your hands together for Levy. It took the Lord two words to convert Levy, follow me. Levy gets up.

Now will come, I want to ask Levy a couple of questions. If you allow me, my beloved Levy. What made you get up and follow the Lord on the spot Levy, tax collector? Levy will answer in this way.

He says, all of my life I have gained a great deal of big things and little things. I gained so much in my life, yet throughout my entire life I have never, ever experienced happiness until I heard the voice of this man saying to me, follow me. When his voice hit my ease and went deep down into the crevices of my being, my soul, I experienced happiness for the first time in my entire life.

Yet I've gained a lot of richness, a lot of wealth and I made an empire for myself. But all of this empire gave me no happiness whatsoever. The voice of this man.

I experienced happiness for the first time in my life. That's why when I heard the voice saying, follow me, it opened my eyes because the Lord came to give recovery of sight to the blind. When I heard his voice, the voice opened my eyes and made me realize one thing.

That whatever I used to say with my own eyes, this is the most expensive thing. I've realized when this voice opened my eyes, I realized that the only most expensive thing in existence is Jesus Christ. That's why when I've realized he is the most expensive, he opened my eyes with his voice.

That moment I hated money, I hated the very table I sat at, I hated all the books of my accounting and I dropped everything and I walked because I thought when I gained this and I gained that and I build this and I build that, that this is the glory. I've realized the glory of this world is fake. There is only one true glory, the voice of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

This is the only true glory, not what you have, it's who you have. My eyes are open. That's why I got up and walked because I've realized the glory, the true glory lies within this man.

I followed him and I never looked back. And blessed are you. Blessed is the soul that denies itself for you shall find it in the end.

Your name was Levi by following me. You are now Matthew the Gospel writer and the first one in the New Testament. That name will never be wiped, but Levi is dead long ago.

Matthew lives forever. This is the glory Christ came to give you. When he opens the eyes of the blind, you'll realize the world and everything in it is nothing but filth.

It's filth. Step on it to gain Christ. Amen.

All right. That same night, look at Levi, he did not even wait till the following day. That same night he invited the Lord Jesus to his house.

When the Lord came in he saw the house filled with tax collectors. What Levi is saying to the Lord, he says, oh Lord, the world is full of blind people. Open their eyes the way you did with me.

Instead of criticizing people, instead of retaliating at people who are against us, who hurt us, who speak badly about us, instead of going and fighting with them, beg the Lord to open their eyes because I was one of them. I was like them before when I was blind, blinded by the temptations of this world and the Satan, the ruler of this world. I was blinded as well.

I used to do the same, even worse. But when Christ opened my eyes, I've realized it is all fake. It is all a lie.

It is all a piece of filth. I need to chase the true glory. I followed you Lord and I will follow you by your grace and mercy till the end of this life on earth and forevermore in heaven, in the kingdom to come.

Lord, the way you opened my eyes, I'm begging you, open the eyes of my enemies because they're blind. Father, forgive them for they do not know what they're doing. Forgive them.

Yet they shredded the body of Jesus Christ on the cross. They shredded him. He never said nothing but, Father, I beg you, forgive them.

He continued talking to his heavenly Father. He did not talk to nobody, even those who hurt him immensely. He loved them till the end.

The death of the cross, he loved them. Now that is a man I want to follow. That is the man I want to follow.

His love never fails. His faithfulness never fail. His loyalty never fail.

His friendship, companionship never fails. And his word is awesome and powerful. Changes darkness into light, the blind man into someone who can see the truth, not the reality of this world which is fake, fake.