#128 - Luke 16 - Jesus on Money

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🗓️ 6 August 2009

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This is the episode is part 27 of a study on the gospel of Luke. Jesus talks in this passage about money and our relationship to it. We cannot serve both God and money.

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0:00.0	The Bible Study Podcast, Episode 128. Today, the Bible Study podcast continues the study of Luke
0:06.5	with Luke, Chapter 16. Welcome to the Bible study podcast. I'm your host, Chris Christensen.
0:20.2	Luke 16 starts with this parable, the parable of the
0:23.3	shrewd manager. Jesus told his disciples, there was a rich man whose manager was accused of wasting his
0:29.7	possessions, so he called him in and asked him, what is this I hear about you? Give an account of your
0:35.7	management because you cannot be manager any longer.
0:39.1	The manager said to himself, what shall I do now? My master is taking away my job. I'm not strong
0:45.0	enough to dig, and I'm ashamed to beg. I know what I'll do so that when I lose my job here,
0:50.7	people will welcome me into their houses. So he called in each one of his master's debtors.
0:56.1	He asked him first, how much do you owe my master?
0:59.3	800 gallons of olive oil, he replied. The manager told him, take your bill, sit down quickly,
1:04.4	and make it 400. Then he asked a second, how much do you owe? A thousand bushels of wheat,
1:09.3	he replied. He told him, take your bill and make it 800.' "'The master commended the dishonest manager "'because he had acted shrewdly, "'for the people of this world, "'are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind "'than are the people of the light. "'I tell you, use worldly wealth "'to gain friends for yourself yourself so that when it is gone, you may be
1:29.2	welcomed into eternal dwellings. This is one of the strangest parables in the Bible because here is
1:37.5	somebody who is not a good manager because they're being fired. He's accused of wasting the rich man's possessions.
1:46.7	So we start with somebody who is not good and then we make him worse because he starts to
1:52.6	appear to cheat his master in order to buy himself favor with other people, changing the bills so that they will like him more so that when
2:03.2	he loses this job, he can find a position elsewhere, although why you would hire somebody who
2:09.3	has done this to his master is beyond me. The odd thing here, though, is that Jesus uses this parable
2:16.5	of this cheating manager who is commended for being
2:22.4	shrewd as a way to teach us something about being the people of the, as a way to teach us something
2:29.4	about being Christians. It's a very strange thing. He is not saying, I believe, that we should go out
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