Come and study Holy Scriptures with us as Father Stephen DeYoung teaches verse by verse on the podcast, The Whole Council of God.

Father Stephen is a former Protestant pastor and Bible teacher in the Reformed Church,

but now an Orthodox priest serving at St. George Orthodox Cathedral in Charleston, West Virginia.

So beginning of chapter 16, he also said to his disciples,

so he tells those three parables to the Pharisees.

Those three are directed at the Pharisees.

Now he turns to his disciples. There was a certain rich man who had a steward,

and an accusation was brought to him that this man was wasting his goods. Okay? So a steward is

basically roughly in our modern equivalent like a bookkeeper or an account.

They're keeping track of things coming into the household and things going out of that.

Money coming in, money going out, food coming in, food going out, goods coming in, goods going out.

They're supposed to keep track of all out. Goods coming in, goods going out.

They're supposed to keep track of all that.

And, you know, generate wealth.

We want this to be going in a positive direction in terms of income and outgoing rather than a negative direction.

So a report comes to this rich man, says this steward of yours, he's cooking the books.

He's up to no good. So he called him and said to him, what is this I hear about you? Give an account of your stewardship for you can no longer be steward. So he calls him and he says, listen, I'm here and this and that and the other.

I want to see the books.

You're suspended.

You're no longer acting as steward.

I want copies of the books.

I'm going to look this all over.

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