Luke 16 Being a Good Steward

 

Luke 16 – Being a Good Steward                                                Jan. 1, 2024

 

Stewards should use wealth for their masters’ good and not for their own pleasure,

(I Cor. 4:2). God wants us to enjoy His gifts (I Tim. 6:17), but He also wants us to enjoy them wisely. The wise and generous use of money yields much greater things in the future.

 

The man had a rude awakening: he had an account of his stewardship (Rom. 14:10-12; 2 Cor. 5:10). Then he learned to be wise and to invest wealth in people and the future. We do not “buy” friends, be we can make friends for the Lord by the wise use of money.

 

The world measures people by how much they get, but God measures them by how much they give. You cannot serve both righteousness and unrighteousness, what is greatest and what is least, what God honors and what He abominates. The Pharisees tried it, but it cannot be done. They tried to amass as much money and power as they could without concern for others, while camouflaging their greed with religious words and practices (Matt. 6:19)

 

The rich man did not go to Hades because he was rich; he went there because riches were his god. Abraham was a wealthy man, and yet he was in paradise. Money can help send people to heaven or it can help send people to hell. The Bible clearly states that all people, created in the image of the eternal God, will be alive somewhere forever, either in the presence of Almighty God, enjoying endless fellowship with Him, or in the torment of hell. Those are the only two possibilities.

 

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