What is the meaning of the passage of the unfaithful steward? (Part 6).

[Leonardo Von]

What is the meaning of the passage of the unfaithful steward? (Part 6).

But, what is friend?

Jesus answered:

•    Joh 15:14-15 -> “You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.”.

So, instead of focusing on getting money, they should use their money in the direction of the Creator so that people could know Jesus, repent and convert to Him and, thus, become one with them in Christ (Luke 19:11-18).

•    1Jn 1:3 -> “that which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.”.

 While the Pharisees were having access to the tithes and offers, they should use this to seek the Truth and manifest It to the greatest number of people. 

When Jesus shall die, their ministry in the temple would finish because the Old Alliance would be of no value. Nonetheless, if they insisted in the Truth, they would be ousted of the temple and their maintenance would finish. 

Nonetheless, they would be welcomed in the heart of Jesus’ Church, wherein each member is a eternal tabernacle.

So, although the generation of the sons of this world praise “buying friends” with goods, favors or cajoles, the Pharisees should learn how to use money so that people around them could see the importance of obey Jesus’ word, become friends with Him and, thereby, with them.

After all, the goods of this world don’t belong to us.

•    Col 3:3 -> “For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.”.
•    Isa 49:4 -> “But I said, “I have labored in vain; I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely my right is with the LORD, and my recompense with my God.” 

So, if the Pharisees wished what Jesus conquered to them, they should be faithful in the stewardship of the richness of this world which belong to the Creator (Ps 24:1; Luke 16:12).

After all, if we are unrighteous and unfaithful in this world whose wealth are petty and delusive (compared with what Jesus prepared for us – Rom 8:16), how can we be worthy of administering the true and great wealth (Luke 16:10,11)?

We need to be:

•    Faithful: making the best with what Jesus give us so that people can know Him, even when this seems picayune before our eyes (Exodus 4:2; Ezekiel 4:10; Haggai 2:3);
•    Righteous: using His blessings for His glory and purport, and not for your benefit.

In short, in the three last passages we have:

•    Luke 15:11-32:
o    A rich father of family who use well his goods, but had two prodigal sons: one who had courage to live his prodigality; the other who repressed himself, but who, after, considered himself worth of blaming his father for not rewarding him for his self-denial.
•    Luke 16:1-13:
o    A prodigal steward who were lavishing the goods of his rich lord, who was stingy.
•    Luke 16:19-31:
o    A prodigal rich man who didn’t spare efforts to enjoy himself splendidly every day and, for this, never grew in character, kindness and richness before the Creator (as the crazy rich man in Luke 12:21).

In the end, we have: 

•    A steward lavishing wealth which didn’t belonged to him;
•    Sons misspending wealth which would belong to him;
•    A rich man squandering his own wealth.

So, have a good day serving only to Jesus.