The Faithful (Luke 12:35-38) and Unfaithful Servant (Luke 16:1-8)

[GoldenEagle]

What can we learn from the Faithful servant? Luke 12:35-38

What can we learn from the UNfaithful servant?  Luke 16:1-8

 

God bless,

GE

[Willa]

The unjust steward was commended for cheating his master. He knew his master was firing him because his accounts would show his wastefulness. So he shorted his master what was due him and let the people who owed the money pocket the difference. So the people who had owed his master would then feel indebted to him or be grateful to him and give him a place to live after he is fired. His master commended him for being shrewd.

The worldly people who are heading for hell are shrewd in handling money and preparing for their future on earth.

The people who are going to heaven do not adequitly prepare for their future. They do not invest in spiritual riches as they should, using their money to help the poor, poor churches, those suffering and/or giving to Gods' work and missions at home and abroad. Nor do they hide God's Word in their hearts, share the Gospel, or concern themselves with the things of God. They fail to make their faimilies their mission field and train their children to apply God's word to their lives. They fail to set an example of making the things of God a priority in their lives.

The faithful servent is alert and prepared when his master returns. He has food prepared and opens the door immediately, no matter how late he arrives. This is how we should be when Jesus returns. We should be prepared and watching for Him. We should have a good relationship with both the Lord and with people, with no unfinished business--no unforgiveness or bitterness in our hearts. We should have no habitual sin or anything weighing us down. We should have our hearts free from the world and be ready to serve our God with singleness of purpose. We should know how to wait on God.

[Raven]

 

What can we learn from the Faithful servant? Luke 12:35-38

What can we learn from the UNfaithful servant?  Luke 16:1-8

 

God bless,

GE

This is what I have learnt:

 

12:35 “Stay dressed for action[a] and keep your lamps burning, 

Stay clothed in truth and keep truth in your heart.

36 and be like men who are waiting for their master to come home from the wedding feast, so that they may open the door to him at once when he comes and knocks. 

Keep waiting for the truth to come from the heart, so that when truth comes and knocks on the door, our conscience (spiritual-self) will open the door to allow truth to come into our awareness.

37 Blessed are those servants[b] whom the master finds awake when he comes. Truly, I say to you, he will dress himself for service and have them recline at table, and he will come and serve them. 

Blessed are those, who serve truth, whom truth finds welcomed. For the truth will serve those that welcome the truth.

38 If he comes in the second watch, or in the third, and finds them awake, blessed are those servants!

Blessed are those who continue to serve truth, for truth will continue to serve them.

 

 

16:1 He also said to the disciples, “There was a rich man who had a manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was wasting his possessions. 

satan had a manager, managing the world, and he was accused of wasting satan's fuel/energy.

2 And he called him and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Turn in the account of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’ 

If you can not manage the world, you are no longer in my service.

3 And the manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do, since my master is taking the management away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg. 

What can I do since I am no longer of service to satan? I am too proud to be humble and meek.

4 I have decided what to do, so that when I am removed from management, people may receive me into their houses.’ 

he decided to manage the world for himself in hope of gaining approval from the world.

5 So, summoning his master's debtors one by one, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ 

So he seeks those who are in debt to satan.

6 He said, ‘A hundred measures[a] of oil.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’  

So he provides false testimony of his own, so he can feed off their debt (fears) and leave the rest of the debt (fears) to satan.

7 Then he said to another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ He said, ‘A hundred measures[b] of wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’

(Since fear is conditional and not self-sustaining) Greed takes over and seeks forever an unquenchable hunger for fear. Fear feeding of the fear of others.

8 The master commended the dishonest manager for his shrewdness. For the sons of this world[c] are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than the sons of light.

satan commended the dishonest manager for his deceptive abilities. The followers (the untrue) of this world (fear) feed of this world (fear) , and are unable to feed of the truth (fearless faith of God/Truth is self-sustaining [creative] energy).