So I say to you, make friends for yourself using iniquitous mammon, so that, when you will have passed away, they may receive you into the eternal tabernacles.
Whoever is faithful in what is least, is also faithful in what is greater. And whoever is unjust in what is small, is also unjust in what is greater.
So then, if you have not been faithful with iniquitous mammon, who will trust you with what is true?
And if you have not been faithful with what belongs to another, who will give you what is yours?
No servant is able to serve two lords. For either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will cling to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.”
But the Pharisees, who were greedy, were listening to all these things. And they ridiculed him.
And he said to them: “You are the ones who justify yourselves in the sight of men. But God knows your hearts. For what is lifted up by men is an abomination in the sight of God.
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Prayer on Fire Gospel Lesson
He continues. Make friends by means of unrighteous wealth, so that when it fails they may receive you into eternal dwellings. The one faithful in little is faithful in much. You cannot serve God and money. The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, ridicule him. He says what is exalted among men is an abomination before God.
Where this sits
This is the application of the manager. The mockery tells you who heard it as an attack.
Two masters
Wealth is called unrighteous because it is the ordinary instrument of self. Faithfulness with it is the test of faithfulness with the true riches. The choice is not balanced. No one can serve both. The ridicule is the proof that the word landed.
What to take
Money is a servant or a master. What people admire can be what God rejects.
Original – Prayer on Fire
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