Sermon Tone Analysis

MAIN IDEA INTRODUCTION: Stewardship- a woman

There was a man who worked all his life and saved as much as he could.

He loved money more than anything.

Just before he died, he said to his wife, "When I die, I want you to take all my money and put it in the casket with me.

I want to take my money to the afterlife with me."

His wife promised she would.

At his funeral, just before the undertakers closed the casket, his wife put a box in the casket.

The undertakers shut the casket and rolled it away.

The wife's friend said, " I know you weren't foolish enough to put all that money in there with that man."

She said, "I can't lie.

I promised him I would put that money in the casket with him."

"You mean to tell me you put that money in the casket with him?"

her friend asked.

"I sure did," said the wife.

"I wrote him a check."

Ugandan man

The question is what do we do with what we’ve been given.

PARABLE EXPLANATION- Summarize-

PARABLE EXPLANATION- Summarize 1st 7 verses.

READ VERSES 8-13

Pray

3 Questions we are wise to ask ourselves:

Am I planning for eternity?

(v.

8)

Important to plan ahead illustration.

me packing for minneapolis,

Read v. 8 a

v. 8a READ IT and ask “The master praised the manager… Why?”

lk 16

v.

8a Ask “The master praised the manager… Why?”

The unjust manager is not praised for his crooked ways, but he is praised for the way he assessed his situation and planned ahead.

The unjust manager is not praised for his crooked ways, but he is praised for the way he assessed his situation and planned ahead.

Important to plan ahead illustration.

I’m not always great at planning ahead.

My wife is a planner and me packing for minneapolis, Also insert a meme here.

or children getting dressed for outdoors.

Like the manager, we should recognize...

Like the manager, we should recognize...

our unfaithful stewardship

the coming day of accounting

a lamentable future unless he acted.

Like the manager, we should plan now.

The unjust manager is praised not for his crooked ways, but because of the way he planned ahead.

For salvation

For heavenly blessings (even for those already saved).

Worldly planning is prevalent, Eternity planning is rare

Read v. 8b

v. 8b - sons of this age vs sons of light.

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Planning ahead is

This is why Jesus uses the example of an unrighteous steward…because he wants to us to see how wrong it is that worldly people often spend more energies preparing for their worldly futures than heavenly people spend in preparing for their heavenly future.

Illustration on earthly retirement which is very temporal, while neglect for eternity.

use the argument for retirement mutual funds.

have this now, or invest and have this later.

There is a greater ROI on your tithe than on anything that Bank of America can sell you.

v. 8b DEALING WITH OWN PEOPLE .......So the “sons of light” were more astute in the way they planned for the future, but Jesus points out specifically that this is the in the way they deal with people.

This lead us to verse 9, where we

Am I making heavenly friends?

(v.

9)

What do you think of when you think of heaven?

Funny Do you think of the heavenly city, food, worship,

This is the EXPLANATION of the parable.

Jesus is teaching here.

This is the EXPLANATION of the parable.

Jesus is teaching here.

The unjust steward made friends for himself so that he would be welcomed into their homes later.

Transition to verse v. 8b DEALING WITH OWN PEOPLE .......So the “sons of light” were more astute in the way they planned for the future, but Jesus points out specifically that this is the in the way they deal with people.

This lead us to verse 9...

v. 9 READ IT

v. 9 READ IT

unrighteous money- money is not unrighteous in and of itself.

Jesus is keeping with the parable he just taught.

In the parable, the money was “unrighteous” in the sense that the manager used unjust means to gather the money in.

Jesus does not desire that we make money unrighteously, but rather refers to it as unrighteous in the sense that it won’t last, it is temporal and worldly, it will fail.

What do you think of when you think of heaven

Wise management of one’s "worldly resources” results in...

We should make friends through our use of “unrighteous money.”

friends

the love of money is. .

Jesus calls it unrighteous here, simply to point out that money is temporal and worldly.

being welcomed into eternal dwellings (this is the EXPLANATION of the parable)

No amount of friends will gain you access to heaven.

Jesus has already made it clear that “He is the door of the sheep.”

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this is not being welcomed into heaven but into “dwellings” (plural).

So Jesus here doesn’t seem to be speaking of entrance into heaven, but rather, by speaking of having friends and being welcomed into “dwellings,” Jesus is reminding of the reality of the relationships believers will have in heaven.

k 3 Then I heard a loud voice from the throne: x

the word dwelling, σκηνή, is used in to refer to tent, used twice in this verse.

(for “dwelling” and “live with them.

“God’s tent is with humanity, and He will pitch a tent with them.”

Look! God’s dwelling is with humanity,

and He will live with them.