_There was a certain rich man, which had a steward_ CHRIST’S SERVANTS ARE STEWARDS I. SHOW WHAT THINGS THEY ARE ENTRUSTED WITH, THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN. 1. All earthly good things, as riches, health, time, opportunities. 2. Also spiritual goods, viz., the gospel and its ministration, spiritual kn... [ Continue Reading ]
_And the Lord commended the unjust steward_ THE UNJUST STEWARD TEACHING A LESSON PRUDENCE I. HOW INTIMATELY MIXED UP WITH EACH OTHER ARE VIRTUES AND VICES, GOOD AND EVIL, IN THIS HUMAN WORLD. In fact, no bad man is without some redeeming quality; and no good man (who is merely man) is without some... [ Continue Reading ]
_Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness_ THE RIGHT USE OF UNRIGHTEOUS MAMMON By the “mammon of unrighteousness” we are very clearly to understand money; but why it has been so called by Christ is not so evident. Perhaps the simplest, as it is certainly the most obvious explana... [ Continue Reading ]
_Faithful in that which is least_ ON LIVING TO GOD IN SMALL THINGS 1. Notice how little we know concerning the relative importance of events and duties. We use the terms “great” and “small “ in speaking of actions, occasions, plans, and duties, only in reference to their mere outward look and fir... [ Continue Reading ]
_The Pharisees also, who were covetous_ LOVERS OF MONEY Those “lovers of money” heard what things? As rulers of the people they heard the parable of the “unjust steward,” and their own doom as men entrusted with the priceless riches of God’s teaching pronounced: “How is it that I hear this of the... [ Continue Reading ]
_Than one tittle of the law to fall_ POWER AND PERPETUITY OF LAW If you have read the Pentateuch, and especially the books of Exodus and Leviticus, with care, you have perhaps wondered why a system of laws, so complicated, so careful of little things, so rigidly exact in its directions about them,... [ Continue Reading ]
_There was a certain rich man_ DIVES AND LAZARUS I. THE ALLOTMENTS OF DIVINE PROVIDENCE ON EARTH ARE NOT ALWAYS EVENLY BASED UPON A REGISTER OF HUMAN DESERT. 1. The rich man is not offered as a luminous exhibition of personal worth (see Luke 16:19). 2. On the other hand, Lazarus was a beggar, an... [ Continue Reading ]