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there are There are many people today who have an investment portfolio, or at least something set aside for future security.

Today on Truth for Life, we'll consider what Jesus advises us to invest in now, not just to prepare for retirement, but to have

true riches for eternity. Alistair Begg is teaching from the opening verses in Luke

chapter 16. Jesus makes this observation. The people of the world in their normal everyday routine

are often far more shrewd in dealing with things than are the children of the light.

In reading a commentary that goes back at least 150 years from Scotland, the commentator said

that there were four key areas in which he could

see indications of this fact. I want just to mention them to you again as we proceed to the

point of application. In what way are the people of the world more shrewd in dealing with their

own kind than our people of the

light. The observations of this Scottish minister were, number one, in their ingenuity of contrivance.

But what he's saying is that when sinful people set about to contrive a strategy, they tend to be far more ingenious in their methodology and in their application

than the average half a dozen Christians getting together to devise a plan for reaching the world for Jesus Christ.

Now, I may not strike as a very night observation,

but it is the observation that is made first by Jesus.

So those of you who understand, coming from a background of this,

you know that when you move amongst these people,

they will often spare no pains to understand what it is

they are supposed to be doing, and then they will labor to make sure

that they can teach them to those who are doing them. But the fact of the matter is that the

average Christian doesn't study his Bible as much as the average insurance salesman

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