Intentional Stewardship, Luke 16:1-9
January 17, 2022

Priorities That Can Never Change #4:
Intentional Stewardship
Luke 16:1-9
Pastor Dave Currie
1/16/22

Scripture Reading
Luke 16:1-9

1 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. 2 And he called him and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Turn in the account of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’ 3 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. 4 I have decided what to do, so that when I am removed from management, people may receive me into their houses.’ 5 So, summoning his master’s debtors one by one, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ 6 He said, ‘A hundred measures of oil.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’ 7 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 eighty.’ 8 The master commended the dishonest manager for his shrewdness. For the sons of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than the sons of light. 9 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 dwellings.

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Introduction/Context:

This parable instructs the disciples about

money, in contrast to the Pharisees who were with money.

What is the

between the man being fired from his job and then being commended by his former boss?

What did Jesus

when He said, “The sons of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than the sons of light?”

How do we

Jesus’s when He tells us to “make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous wealth?”

Big Idea:

money can be used, to gain friends.

” in the parable, does mean “ .” (v. 9)

Jesus helps us to see how we can use

things, to bring about everlasting . (v. 9)

It’s

so much that we give money “ the church”, rather, it’s that we give money “ .”

Our giving doesn’t just pay for

, it ministry!

Being

or is the thinking and planning of something in relation to the . (vv. 5-8)

money now, is that prepares for the . (vv. 8-9)

Jesus presents to us a

of , not to for ourselves, but to for ourselves. (v. 9)

friends that you make part of your in . (v. 9)

Living It Out:
1. Be

with money by to the Lord.
2. Have a perspective on what can do.
3. Remind yourself to by faith “ ” that you will have in Heaven.