“No servant can
serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will
be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and
Money” (Luke
16:13).
A firm foundation defines the safe boundaries that
will contain the building.
The “firm foundation” on which to “build” our
understanding of this parable is found in v.13. “No servant can serve two masters…You cannot serve both God and Money”
(Luke 16:13).
The parable of the dishonest manager is another
example of Jesus observing the world around Him. The story gave Him the
opportunity to teach His disciples (and His future disciples) values of God’s
kingdom.
Lessons are drawn from positive examples/stories;
from negative examples/stories; and more lessons are drawn from personal
experiences (on our own skin).
Jesus uses this parable to observe that there are “people of the world”, who are unkind
with their own kind…they are shrewd in dealing with their own kind.
The shrewd manager “appeared” so generous…many
people may have had good impressions about him:
-He was generous to himself…(Luke 16:1);
-He was generous to his masters’ debtors…all this
with his master’s wealth.
He was using someone else’s wealth for his own good.
AND the master commended him for his actions! That
is how the people of this world are!
There is another kind of people in Jesus’s teaching:
the “people of light”. Who are these
people?
People who have been called out of darkness into His
wonderful light (1Peter 2:9) to serve a God of light (1John 1:5).
Who is your master? Pastor Alois