Question 26. Please consider the parable of the Unjust Steward. Luke 16:1-13; especially verse 9. W. F.
Ans. Man illustrated by Israel is a steward of what God has committed to him, he will be called to give an account. He is unfaithful. Christians, children of light, have owned this, and are set in a new place in grace. They are stewards still; temporal possessions are looked at here. (But see also 1 Cor. 4:2.) And these temporal possessions might, if love to them is allowed, be a hindrance, holding the heart from Christ.
The unjust steward used what was in his hands for the future, and this is wise or prudent, not just. Rahab was not just to Jericho, she betrayed it, so we are in spirit to be outside this world, because, like Jericho, it is under God’s judgment.
We are now to use what is entrusted to us Christ, so that we may find it again in our future home.
Read Luke 16:9-12 with 1 Timothy 6:17-19.
Money, because the heart naturally loves it, Christian’s enemy and is called the “mammon of unrighteousness.” We are to make friends with it, or make it the means of future blessing by using it now for Christ, so that when this life is past, you will have in store a good foundation.
If we let possessions here fill our hearts, we lose the enjoyment of the “true riches,” what is called “our own,” that is, heavenly and spiritual blessings, but if we give Christ His true place in our affections and use what He has committed to us for Him, we have now rich enjoyment of what is really life. (See 1 Tim. 6:19 JND.)
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