Investing for Eternity (Part 3 of 4)

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Alistair Begg

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🗓️ 24 September 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Jesus’ parable of the shrewd but dishonest manager is perplexing to many. Was Jesus commending dishonesty? On Truth For Life, Alistair Begg examines this passage of Scripture to help us understand the key to applying such radical teaching to our lives.

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0:00.0	Thank you. The parable Jesus tells about a shrewd but dishonest manager is perplexing to many.
0:33.7	Certainly Jesus is not commending dishonesty, but today on Truth for Life,
0:38.3	Alastair Begg walks us through this passage of Scripture to help us understand the key
0:43.0	to applying such radical teaching in our own lives.
0:52.2	Luke chapter 16, we're going to read from the 10th verse to the 15th verse.
1:00.4	Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is
1:06.1	dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much.
1:09.9	So if you have not been trustworthy in handling
1:12.5	worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches? And if you've not been trustworthy with someone
1:18.8	else's property, who will give you property of your own? No servant can serve two masters.
1:27.0	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. The Pharisees who loved money heard all this and were sneering at Jesus. He said to them, you're the ones who justify yourselves in the eyes of
1:47.0	men, but God knows your hearts. What is highly valued among men is detestable in God's sight.
1:59.0	Amen. Now, for those of you who are tracking with us in our studies in Luke's
2:04.4	gospel, you will know that Jesus has just told his disciples this story of the shrewd manager.
2:12.9	He is elsewhere referred to as the unjust steward. The central figure in the story, finding out that he was
2:20.5	to be fired on account of his mismanagement, seized the opportunity of his final hours of employment
2:27.8	to ingratiate himself with those who owed money to his master. And by means of a fairly slick plan, he came up with a
2:38.5	strategy whereby, although he was about to lose his job, he would provide for himself in the future
2:44.1	as a result of the relationships that he was building with these individuals. Jesus then points out that there is a great contrast between
2:54.9	the shrewdness, this is verse 8B, the shrewd dealings of the people of the world in comparison
3:02.5	to the virtual gormlessness of the people of light. And having said that, in verse 9, he then urges his followers
3:10.9	to use worldly goods or worldly wealth, given to them by the Father, to use all of this in such a way
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