The Parable of the Shrewd Manager

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The Parable of the Shrewd Manager Luke 161-15
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Shrewdness

• to act with foresight
• Wise (shrewd) man Matt 724
• Wise (shrewd) virgins Matt 25

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Luke 16 verse 9
I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends
for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you will
be welcomed into eternal dwellings.
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Money (worldly wealth)

• Use it wisely as a resource
• eternal purposes
• eternal goals

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Luke 16 verses 10-12
10"Whoever can be trusted with very little can
also be trusted with much, and whoever is
dishonest with very little will also be dishonest
with much. 11So if you have not been trustworthy
in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you
with true riches? 12And if you have not been
trustworthy with someone else's property, who
will give you property of your own?
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Parallelism
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Parallelism
v10 very little much v11 worldly wealth true
riches v12 someone elses property of
property your own
This Age
Age to come
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Parallelism
v10 very little much v11 worldly wealth true
riches v12 someone elses property of
property your own
This Age
Age to come
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Parallelism
v10 very little much v11 worldly wealth true
riches v12 someone elses property of
property your own
This Age
Age to come
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Money / worldly wealth
use wisely, as a resource
use faithfully, as a trustee
our servant, not our master
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Malachi 38-12
8 "Will a mere mortal rob God? Yet you rob me.
  "But you ask, 'How are we robbing you?'   "In
tithes and offerings. 9 You are under a
curseyour whole nationbecause you are robbing
me. 10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse,
that there may be food in my house. Test me in
this," says the LORD Almighty, "and see if I will
not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour
out so much blessing that there will not be room
enough to store it. 11 I will prevent pests from
devouring your crops, and the vines in your
fields will not drop their fruit before it is
ripe," says the LORD Almighty. 12 "Then all the
nations will call you blessed, for yours will be
a delightful land," says the LORD Almighty.
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Tithes
10 - Levites (Num 1821-32) 10 - Festivals
(Deut 1422-27 126-7) 3 - Needy (Deut
1428-29)
23 - Total
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Grace Giving?
v LAW
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