June 22, 2014 · Luke 16:13

God vs. Mammon

"No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money."

“One is that the answer is more like — what has happened is, Jesus is kind of just dealing with something that happened recently in the news. So he's heard about this story, and he's kind of saying, okay — look at it. This world type of people — look what they do. They act shrewdly with each other. In the physical realm, they do whatever they can to get the money. They work as hard as they can. … Whatever they can do to get what they want. Maybe he's saying, don't do that physically, but spiritually. Maybe we should be working harder, and kind of doing whatever it takes to get the spiritual truth. Act shrewdly, spiritually, O sons of light. So in this case, it's not really defending what the manager has done with all the cutting off. … How's that sit with you? To me, that's kind of — it doesn't quite sit well with my spirit. And I started to think about it. One of the problems is that Jesus explicitly calls the manager dishonest. … And we're also going to see that, in a moment, Jesus applies this story to actual money. He talks about what to do with your money. So it's not just talking about spiritual truth and things. He's talking about cold, hard cash.”