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Symbolism:

• Money and Goods are symbolic for any and all assets a man may own.
• The Certain Rich Man is God who is the benefactor of all things for all men.
• The Steward is anyone who has received the blessings of God with the choice to decide how to use them. We are all stewards of God’s blessings.
• The debtors are sinners who need to be redeemed.

The Parable of the Unjust Steward

Luke 16:¹ He also said to His disciples: “There was a certain rich man who had a steward, and an accusation was brought to him that this man was (squandering) wasting his goods.

Luke 16:² So he called him and said to him, ‘What is this I hear about you? Give an account of your stewardship, for you can no longer be steward.’

Luke 16:³ “Then the steward said within himself, ‘What shall I do? For my master is taking the stewardship away from me. I cannot dig; I am ashamed to beg.

Luke 16:⁴ I have resolved what to do, that when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.’

Luke 16:⁵ “So he called every one of his master’s debtors to him, and said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’

Luke 16:⁶ And he said, ‘A hundred measures (Gr. batos, same as Heb. bath; 8 or 9 gallons each) of oil.’ So he said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’

Luke 16:⁷ Then he said to another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ So he said, ‘A hundred (Gr. koros, same as Heb. kor; 10 or 12 bushels each) measures of wheat.’ And he said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’

Luke 16:⁸ So the master commended the unjust steward because he had dealt shrewdly. For the sons of this world are more shrewd in their generation than the sons of light.

Luke 16:⁹ “And I say to you, make friends for yourselves by unrighteous mammon (Lit., in Aram., wealth), that when (it fails) you fail, they may receive you into an everlasting home.

Use the worthless things of this world to gain favor in the eternal heavens.

The unjust steward was wiser than all the just stewards who store up for themselves many worldly items.

Luke 16:¹⁰ He who is faithful in what is least is faithful also in much; and he who is unjust in what is least is unjust also in much.

Luke 16:¹¹ Therefore if you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?

Luke 16:¹² And if you have not been faithful in what is another man’s, who will give you what is your own?

Luke 16:¹³ “No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon (Riches)”

The definition of Wisdom is the ability to choose the value of one thing over another.

Your eternal, spiritual life has more value than the physical “tent” which will be shed at death.