14 And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him. 11 If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? 12 And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own? 13 No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. 10 He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. 9 And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations. 8 And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and write fourscore. 7 Then said he to another, And how much owest thou? And he said, A hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and sit down quickly, and write fifty. 5 So he called every one of his lord's debtors unto him, and said unto the first, How much owest thou unto my lord? 6 And he said, A hundred measures of oil. 4 I am resolved what to do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses. 3 Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord taketh away from me the stewardship: I cannot dig to beg I am ashamed. 2 And he called him, and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of thy stewardship for thou mayest be no longer steward. The Unjust Steward.ฤก And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods. This he shows in the other parable of the rich man and Lazarus, which has likewise a further intention, and that is, to awaken us all to take the warning given us by the written word, and not to expect immediate messages from the other world, ver 19-31. It, instead of doing good with our worldly enjoyments, we make them the food and fuel of our lusts, of our luxury and sensuality, and deny relief to the poor, we shall certainly perish eternally, and the things of this world, which were thus abused, will but add to our misery and torment. The parable itself we have ( ver 1-8) the explanation and application of it ( ver 9-13) and the contempt which the Pharisees put upon the doctrine Christ preached to them, for which he sharply reproved them, adding some other weighty sayings, ver 14-18. If we do good with them, and lay out what we have in works of piety and charity, we shall reap the benefit of it in the world to come and this he shows in the parable of the unjust steward, who made so good a hand of his lord's goods that, when he was turned out of his stewardship, he had a comfortable subsistence to betake himself to. The scope of Christ's discourse in this chapter is to awaken and quicken us all so to use this world as not to abuse it, so to manage all our possessions and enjoyments here as that they may make for us, and may not make against us in the other world for they will do either the one or the other, according as we use them now.
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