Luke Series Chapter 16 (EP 70)

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What is the focus of Luke Chapter 16?

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What's going on guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Bryce Crawford podcast. I'm Bryce and today we're on Luke chapter 15, day 16 of the 24 day Luke challenge where every day we're reading a chapter of Luke. So by the time you get to Christmas Eve, you would have read the whole gospel of Luke. Guys, we're getting so close to the end. It's been such a fun podcast. Before we get into it, guys, January 19th, 6 p.m., first ever live podcast show. Go get your tickets at JesusInTheStreet.org. It's in Los Angeles. I want every one of you guys there. So come out. It's going to be a fun time. It's going to be awesome. But we're going to dive right in to Luke chapter 16 here. We're going to read a parable and we're going to listen to a couple different parables here. And it's going to be powerful. So let's read this first parable together. He also said to the disciples, there was a rich man who had a manager and charges were brought to him that this man was wasting his possessions. And he called him and said to him, what is this that I hear about you?

What is the significance of the parable of the dishonest manager?

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Turn in the account of your management for you can no longer be the manager. And the manager said to himself, what shall I do since my master is taking the management away from me? I am not strong enough to dig and I am ashamed to beg. I have decided what to do so that when I am removed from management, people may receive me into their houses. So summoning his master's debtors one by one, he said to the first, how much do you owe my master? He said, a hundred measures of oil. He said to him, take your bill, sit down and write 50. Then he said to another, and how much do you owe? He said, a hundred measures of wheat. He said to him, take your bill and write 80. The master commended the dishonest manager for his shrewdness.

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For the sons of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than the sons of light. And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous wealth so that when it fails, they may receive you into the eternal dwelling. So right now, Jesus is giving a parable about money. OK, now, when we look at money from a biblical standpoint, money isn't inherently evil. The love for money is Jesus is very clear. The Bible is very clear that greed, the love for money is evil. Not money itself. Money inherently isn't evil. It's a very neutral tool. And so there are a lot of things in this world that are quote-unquote neutral that can be sinful, but also aren't necessarily sinful in itself. And so we're watching Jesus talk about it here.

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And he says, "...one who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much." I've found that when we can be faithful with little in our finances in times where, you know, things may be tough, like when the Bible says to give back 10% of our money, like that, that's a no brainer. Like we automatically do that. Like we must do that. That's just a commandment from the Lord. And then everything else we hold open handedly and we give generously. We're radical givers. Right. And I think when we look at this story and I've known from personal experience, when, like when, whenever, uh, we are able to handle our finances and very little whenever we are able to trust God trusts us with little and he sees that we're good stewards of that little then he can take us from a place of little and as we start growing he watches us steward much more and so if you can be trusted with little you can be trusted with much because money can corrupt people

How does Jesus view the love of money?

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Money is a neutral thing, but the love for money can corrupt people. And it is corruption. The love for money is. I mean, Jesus below here is going to say, we're going to see in verse 13, one of the most popular verses about money. But man, the love for money is such an interesting thing because money is a tool that God uses to calibrate our heart. And so if God can trust us with little, then he can trust us with much. And if we can be faithful and steward the little, then when he can trust us with much, we can be faithful and steward much. Verse 11, if then you have not been faithful in the unrighteous wealth, who will entrust you to the true riches?