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A WORD IN YOUR EAR
Luke 16: Money
Luke 16:1-12 Using unholy money wisely
He also said to His disciples,
“There was once a rich man who had a steward who was accused of wasting his money. 2He told him to come and see him, when he asked, ‘How come I have heard this about you? Show me what you have been up to, as you may not be in charge much longer’.
3The steward thought, ‘What shall I do? I am about to lose my job. I am not a labourer and I would be ashamed to beg. 4I know what I can do to find work after I lose this job’. 5So, he called in the farmers who owed his boss part of the harvest and asked them, ‘Tell me how much you owe’?
6The first said, ‘Two thousand two hundred litres of oil’.
So the steward said, ‘Quickly, sit down and change it to one thousand one hundred’.
7To the next one said, ‘And how much do you owe?’
And he replied, ‘Twenty-two thousand litres of wheat’.
So, the steward said, ‘Take this old bill and change it to twenty-one and a half.’
8The boss told his bad servant how clever he was.
The worldly wise show a worldly wisdom that is not shown by those who are children of the light. 9But listen, make friends of those who love unholy money, so that when you die, they will be there in heaven to welcome you. 10Whoever can be trusted in the small things can be trusted in the big things. Whoever is not just in small things will not be just in big things. 11If you have not been faithful with unholy money, who will trust you with true riches? 12If you cannot be trusted with other people’s property, how do you expect to be given your own property?
Luke 16:13-15 Choose God or money
13No servant can work for two masters. He will love one and hate the other. He will be loyal to one and not the other. You cannot serve God and money”. 14Also the religious leaders, who loved money, heard Him say this, and so they tried to make Him lose His face before the people. 15Then He said, “You are the ones who try to make yourselves look good to everyone, but God knows your hearts. What you love, God hates.
16-18 Religious laws were COMPLETED, not abandoned, but laws about how we treat each other continues on…
16“The law and the prophets were valid up until John, but after that the Kingdom of God is preached, and everyone wants to enter into it. 17It is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for the smallest grammar mark of ‘The Law’ to be done away with. 18Whoever divorces his wife and marries another is an adulterer. Whoever marries the divorced woman also commits adultery.
19-31 Jesus’ parable of a millionaire and the pauper, Lazarus…
19There once was a rich man who dressed very expensively in the best purple clothes, and ate a lot of very rich food. 20There was a beggar named Lazarus who was carried to his gate, with sores all over his body. 21All he wanted was the food left over from the meal table. Even the dogs came to lick his sores.
22 When he died, angels took him to Abraham, but when the rich man died, he was buried. 23From his pain in hell he looked up and saw Abraham a long way away with Lazarus by his side, 24so he cried out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus with wet fingers to cool my tongue, as I am in torment here’.
25Abraham said, ‘Son, you remember that you had all the good things in life and Lazarus had the rotten things? Now he is comforted and you are in torment. 26Anyway, an impossible gap to cross has been fixed between us, so that no one can go from here to you or to come from where you are to us’.
27So he replied, ‘Then I beg you father, send Lazarus to my father’s house, 28as I have five brothers. He can tell them, so they don’t come to this place of torment.’
29Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the prophets. All they have to do is to hear what they had to say’.
30He replied, ‘No father Abraham, if someone returns from the dead, they will repent’.
31He answered him, ‘If they don’t pay attention to Moses and the prophets, they will not even listen if someone returns from the dead’.”
—-Summary;- 16-18 Religious laws have been completed
16“The law and the prophets were valid up until John, but after that the Kingdom of God is preached, and everyone wants to enter into it. 17It is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for the smallest grammar mark of ‘The Law’ to be done away with. 18Whoever divorces his wife and marries another is an adulterer. Whoever marries the divorced woman also commits adultery.
- Today’s Verse… Who is Jesus?
31He answered him, ‘If they don’t pay attention to Moses and the prophets, they will not even listen if someone returns from the dead’.”
- Today’s Challenge
The worldly wise show a worldly wisdom that is not shown by those who are children of the light. 9But listen, make friends of those who love unholy money, so that when you die, they will be there in heaven to welcome you. 10Whoever can be trusted in the small things can be trusted in the big things. Whoever is not just in small things will not be just in big things. 11If you have not been faithful with unholy money, who will trust you with true riches? 12If you cannot be trusted with other people’s property, how do you expect to be given your own property?
Prayer, Praise and Worship
“… He went up on a mountainside by himself to pray.” Matthew 14:23.
Jesus taught His disciples what we call ‘The Lord’s Prayer’; (Luke 11).
Listen here to Albert Malotte’s ‘The Lord’s Prayer’.
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name,
thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever;- Amen.
Prayer suggestions;-
- The world. (ie ‘For those in authority.’)
- The ‘suffering church.’ https://barnabasfund.org/nz/pray/daily-prayer/#previous-dates
- Your own situation. (Suggest ‘needs’ rather than ‘wants’.)
Pray along with this hymn…
| In Christ alone |
