Luke 16

Value and Eternity

Luke 16

Luke 16:2

And he called him and said to him, 'What is this that I hear about you? Turn in the account of your management, for you can no longer be manager.' (use)

Worldly men, in the choice of their object, are foolish; but in their activity, and perseverance, they are often wiser than believers. [Luke 16].

Henry, M., 1896. Matthew Henry’s Commentary on the Whole Bible. (use)

Matthew 10:16

Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves. (use)

They are no longer merely God's subjects, for what they owed to God as sinners has all been discharged by Jesus Christ, their Substitute and Savior. They have, therefore, been placed on a different footing from other men. But having been saved by Grace and adopted into God's family, they have had entrusted to them talents which they are to use to His honor and Glory.

Spurgeon, C.H., 1869. The Last Sermon for the Year. (use)

Luke 16:13

No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money." (use)

Matthew 6:21

For your heart will always be where your riches are. (use)

The gospel claims that eternity is at stake in how you and I respond to Jesus.

Platt, D., 2017. Counter Culture: Following Christ in an Anti-christian Age. (use)

Luke 16:15

And he said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God." (use)

Sin thwarts our ability to see, understand, and interpret the world around us clearly.

Coffield, J., 2007. From Grief to Glory. (use)

Jeremiah 17:9-10

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? "I the Lord search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds." (use)

Till men have faith in Christ, their best services are but glorious sins.

Brooks, T., 1824. The select works of Thomas Brooks. (use)

Hebrews 9:27

And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment (use)

Luke 16:22

The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried, (use)

We must not lose sight of the fact that God’s wrath is very real and very justified... we have rebelled wilfully against his commands, defied his moral law, and acted in total defiance of known will for us.

Bridges, J., 2017. Trusting God. (use)

Luke 16:26

And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, in order that those who would pass from here to you may not be able, and none may cross from there to us. (use)

Ye who think of sin but lightly nor suppose the evil great here may view its nature rightly, here its guilt may estimate. Mark the sacrifice appointed, see who bears the awful load; 'tis the Word, the Lord's Anointed, Son of Man and Son of God.

Kelly, T., 1804. Stricken, Smitten and Afflicted. (use)

Luke 16:31

He said to him, ‘If they do not hear Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be convinced if someone should rise from the dead.’" (use)

Evangelism must start with the holiness of God, the sinfulness of man, the demands of the law, the punishment meted out by the law and the eternal consequences of evil and wrongdoing. It is only the man who is brought to see his guilt in the way who flies to Christ for deliverance and redemption.

Lloyd-Jones, M., (use)

1 Samuel 28:16

And Samuel said, "Why then do you ask me, since the LORD has turned from you and become your enemy? (use)

Leviticus 19:31

Do not turn to mediums or necromancers; do not seek them out, and so make yourselves unclean by them: I am the LORD your God. (use)

2 Kings 21:6

And he burned his son as an offering and used fortune-telling and omens and dealt with mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger. (use)

Purmort, Aaron Joseph age 35, died peacefully at home on November 25 after complications from a radioactive spider bite that led to years of crime-fighting and a years long battle with a nefarious criminal named Cancer, who has plagued our society for far too long. Civilians will recognize him best as Spider-Man, and thank him for his many years of service protecting our city.

Purmort, Aaron Joseph. 2014. Obit. Minnesota USA. (use)

The mind cannot absorb what the backside cannot endure.

HRH Prince Philip (use)

Though Baxter's lips have long in silence hung, And death long hush'd that sinner-wakening tongue, Yet still, though dead, he speaks aloud to all, And from the grave still issues forth his "Call:"

Bonar, A.A., McCheyne, M. 1960. The Life of Robert Murray McCheyne. (use)

2 Peter 1:19

And we have the prophetic word more fully confirmed, to which you will do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts, (use)

You cannot make someone understand you, but you can make yourself very hard to understand.

Laughlin, B., 2018. Should We Contextualize the Gospel? (use)

Hebrews 1:1-2

In the past, God spoke to our ancestors many times and in many ways through the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us through his Son. He is the one through whom God created the universe, the one whom God has chosen to possess all things at the end. (use)

Our job, then, is to go to our fellow men and tell them the gospel of Christ, and try by every means to make it clear to them, to remove as best we can any difficulties that they may find in it, to impress them with its seriousness, and to urge them to respond to it.

Packer, J.I. and Dever, M., 2008. Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God. InterVarsity Press. (use)

Romans 10:17

So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ. (use)