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It's about Luke 16:1-13 .

Can you guys explain to me what is, in your opinion, what Jesus/Yeshua is trying to say?

Please if it's ok, only those who believe in Jesus/Yeshua of the bible will answer and explain to me their opinion... I'm just puzzled a little bit for now.

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Jesus is teaching on the wrong and right attitudes to money.

Firstly, the master is not representative of God or Jesus. The servant is self centred and dishonest. The master actually appreciates the scam the servant pulled to secure his future. You have to wonder if it is not the sort of thing the master may have done himself.

The key verses are 8 and 9. In vs 8, Jesus indicates that the "children of the world" are more motivated and shrewder in their self centred dealings than the "children of light" are in the dealings of the kingdom.

In verse 9 you have Jesus encouraging his disciples to buy friends. This is not the same self centred buying of friends that we saw in the parable, but an encouragement to use money to invest in peoples lives, with the reward being in the next life - "eternal dwellings". This is not a teaching against having money, but an exaltion to use it with the right attitude and motivation i.e. with a God kind of shrewdness.

Once you have an understanding of Vs 8 & 9, the rest is self explanatory.

Also key to understanding this parable is to see who Jesus was addressing. We see the disciples are there in verse 1, but also note the pharisees were there in verse 14. Their attitude to money would have been akin to the self centred servant and the master who appreciated the shrewdness of the world.
 
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Jesus is teaching on the wrong and right attitudes to money.

Firstly, the master is not representative of God or Jesus. The servant is self centred and dishonest. The master actually appreciates the scam the servant pulled to secure his future. You have to wonder if it is not the sort of thing the master may have done himself.

The key verses are 8 and 9. In vs 8, Jesus indicates that the "children of the world" are more motivated and shrewder in their self centred dealings than the "children of light" are in the dealings of the kingdom.

In verse 9 you have Jesus encouraging his disciples to buy friends. This is not the same self centred buying of friends that we saw in the parable, but an encouragement to use money to invest in peoples lives, with the reward being in the next life - "eternal dwellings". This is not a teaching against having money, but an exaltion to use it with the right attitude and motivation i.e. with a God kind of shrewdness.

Once you have an understanding of Vs 8 & 9, the rest is self explanatory.

Also key to understanding this parable is to see who Jesus was addressing. We see the disciples are there in verse 1, but also note the pharisees were there in verse 14. Their attitude to money would have been akin to the self centred servant and the master who appreciated the shrewdness of the world.

Thanks bro!
 
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The guy had been unfaithful in handling money, and knew he was going to get cast out, so he did some favorable deals for the unrighteous (let them pay less than they owed as a favor) so he could call in those favors later after his lord casts him out for being unfaithful with his lords money.

It's like working in accounting for a large company and you have screwed up in your job and you know you are about to get found out and fired....so you do some favors for some vendors that you can call in later during your time of being in need.

And, this is an actual account of a real situation that Jesus had knowledge of because He said, "a certain rich man".

The moral of the story is...if you cannot be faithful in small things such as handling money, then how can you be trusted to handle true riches...which are spiritual things!
 
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