Would you look in Luke the 16th chapter with me this evening?

We've been on a subject all week that we're calling faithfulness the greatest key to increase.

In Luke 16 is the account Jesus gave of the unjust steward, the unfaithful manager.

And we won't go through that again except for the part where Jesus in verse 10 gives three areas where faithfulness is proven, demonstrated, proven.

And he said, he that's faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much.

He that's unjust in the least is unjust in much.

Verse 11, if you've not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, numerous other translations say worldly wealth.

Who will commit to your trust the true riches?

Verse 12, and if you cannot be trusted, or excuse me, I'm reading another translation,

if you've not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own. So three areas, faithfulness is proven in. What's the first one? Little things, small things. We don't just want to hear this and register

that we heard it in our mind. We want to understand it and live by it.

Is it important that you're faithful with little things? A little charge, a little bit of money,

a little bit of revelation, a little bit of anointing, a little opportunity.

It is so important. It's the key to whether you get a bigger thing.

How much more you get and if and when you get it is based on how you're handling what you got right now, how we're handling.

Then secondly, what's the second thing?

Faithfulness is proved?

Worldly wealth or, you know, this world's money and material things, natural things, that are not true riches.

True riches are eternal riches.

And the money and material things down here are temporary and transitional, transitory.

So many have said, well, you know, it's only the true riches, you know, the spiritual things we should be concerned about.

God doesn't care about, you know, money and those things.

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