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Defying Satisfactory Explanation - September 22, 2019
Gospel Reading: Luke 16:1-15
Jesus said to the disciples, “There was a rich man who had a manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was squandering his property. So he summoned him and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Give me an accounting of your management, because you cannot be my manager any longer.’
Then the manager said to himself, ‘What will I do, now that my master is taking the position away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg. I have decided what to do so that, when I am dismissed as manager, people may welcome me into their homes.’ So, summoning his master’s debtors one by one, he asked the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ He answered, ‘A hundred jugs of olive oil.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, sit down quickly, and make it fifty.’ Then he asked another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ He replied, ‘A hundred containers of wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill and make it eighty.’ And his master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted sensibly; for the children of this age are more sensible in dealing with their own generation than are the children of light. And I tell you, make friends for yourselves with dishonest wealth so that when it is gone, they may welcome you into the eternal homes.
“Whoever is faithful with very little is faithful also with much; and whoever is dishonest with very little is dishonest also with much. If you have not been faithful with dishonest wealth, who will entrust to you what is true? If you have not been faithful with what belongs to another, who will give you what is your own? No one can serve two masters; for you will either hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.”
The religious authorities, who were lovers of money, heard all this, and they ridiculed him. So he said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of others; but God knows your hearts; for what is prized by human beings is an abomination in the sight of God.”
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Gospel Reading: Luke 16:1-15
Jesus said to the disciples, “There was a rich man who had a manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was squandering his property. So he summoned him and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Give me an accounting of your management, because you cannot be my manager any longer.’
Then the manager said to himself, ‘What will I do, now that my master is taking the position away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg. I have decided what to do so that, when I am dismissed as manager, people may welcome me into their homes.’ So, summoning his master’s debtors one by one, he asked the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ He answered, ‘A hundred jugs of olive oil.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, sit down quickly, and make it fifty.’ Then he asked another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ He replied, ‘A hundred containers of wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill and make it eighty.’ And his master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted sensibly; for the children of this age are more sensible in dealing with their own generation than are the children of light. And I tell you, make friends for yourselves with dishonest wealth so that when it is gone, they may welcome you into the eternal homes.
“Whoever is faithful with very little is faithful also with much; and whoever is dishonest with very little is dishonest also with much. If you have not been faithful with dishonest wealth, who will entrust to you what is true? If you have not been faithful with what belongs to another, who will give you what is your own? No one can serve two masters; for you will either hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.”
The religious authorities, who were lovers of money, heard all this, and they ridiculed him. So he said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of others; but God knows your hearts; for what is prized by human beings is an abomination in the sight of God.”