The Parable of the Unjust Steward
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 19 February 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
When we manage our earthly goods poorly, we're not merely wasting our possessions. Ultimately, we are robbing God Himself. Today, R.C. Sproul continues his sermon series in the gospel of Luke, calling us to be responsible and generous with the resources that the Lord has given us.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on Renewing Your Mind. |
| 0:02.5 | Be careful about how you use your worldly goods, |
| 0:08.2 | because every one of us is a steward of that worldly goods. |
| 0:14.8 | Everything that you have, everything that I have comes from God. |
| 0:18.9 | We don't own it. He does. |
| 0:26.9 | And that can make us a little uncomfortable, |
| 0:29.1 | because the principle of biblical stewardship is closely tied to something we cherish. |
| 0:34.2 | Our possessions, our money. |
| 0:36.7 | Hello and welcome to the Lord's Day edition of Renewing Your Mind, |
| 0:40.1 | I'm Lee Webb. |
| 0:41.3 | Today as we come to the parable of the unjust steward in Luke 16, |
| 0:46.3 | Dr. Sproul makes clear that we are stewards, not owners. |
| 0:51.0 | Let's join him now. |
| 0:52.5 | This morning we're going to begin a brand new chapter in our study of the gospel of Luke. |
| 1:01.7 | I would love to be able to tell you that we were going to start with the first verse of chapter 17. |
| 1:10.2 | However, that would mean that I've skipped over the entire sixth-teenth chapter, |
| 1:16.7 | which would indeed be my preference. |
| 1:20.9 | One of the downsides of preaching through books, serietim, |
| 1:25.8 | is that there come times where there are texts that appear |
| 1:29.6 | that you would rather flee for your life from having to speak on them |
| 1:34.6 | than actually to address them sermonically. |
| 1:38.3 | And that's where we are at the beginning of chapter 16. |
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