Part 2 | How to Make Friends in Heaven
From Luke 16
SERIES THEME: To SET THE TABLE for the “ONES” the LORD will BRING to Himself this SEASON.
📖 Luke 15:30 (ESV) “But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your property with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him!”.
The #1 Thing Christians Get Wrong About MONEY:
has to do with the of Jesus.
📖 Luke 16:13 (ESV) “You cannot serve God and money.”
📖 Luke 12:`15 (NLT) “Beware! Guard against every kind of greed.”
Handling money with God’s mission in Mind:
1. It’s ours.
📖 Luke 16:1 (ESV) He also said to the disciples, “There was a rich man who had a manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was wasting his possessions.”
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📖 Deuteronomy 8:18 (ESV) You shall remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your fathers, as it is this day.
📖 Proverbs 10:22 (ESV) The blessing of the LORD makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.
Handling money with God’s mission in Mind:
2. I’m to God.
📖 Luke 16:2 (ESV) “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.’”
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📖 Proverbs 3:9-10 (ESV) Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the first fruits of all your produce; then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will be bursting with wine.
📖 Malachi 3:10 (ESV) Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the LORD of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need.
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📖 Mark 12:17 (ESV) Jesus said to them, “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” And they marveled at him.
📖 Matthew 23:23 (ESV) Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.
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📖 1 Timothy 5:8 (ESV) But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
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📖 1 Timothy 6:17 (ESV) As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy.
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Handling money with God’s mission in Mind:
3. I need to … .
📖 Luke 16:4 (ESV) “I have decided what to do, so that when I am removed from management, people may receive me into their houses.”
📖 Luke 16:8 (NLT) “The rich man had to admire the dishonest rascal for being so shrewd.”
📖 Luke 16:8b (NLT) “And it is true that the children of this world are more shrewd in dealing with the world around them than are the children of the light.”
Handling money with God’s mission in Mind:
4. It can someone’s (including ).
📖 Luke 16:9 (ESV) “And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous wealth, so that when it fails they may receive you into the eternal dwellings.”
📖 Luke 16:9 (NLT) “Here’s the lesson: Use your worldly resources to benefit others and make friends. Then, when your possessions are gone, they will welcome you to an eternal home.”
Question: What does God about?
📖 Luke 19:10 (ESV) “For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
📖 Matthew 28:19-20 (ESV) “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
📖 Acts 1:8 (ESV) “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
📖 John 3:16 (ESV) “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”
Answer: God about getting people out of and into .
📖 Luke 16:10-11 (ESV) “One who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much. 11 If then you have not been faithful in the unrighteous wealth, who will entrust to you the true riches?“
Handling money with God’s mission in Mind:
5. It’s a of .
📖 Luke 16:13 (ESV) “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.””
📖 Matthew 6:19-21 (ESV) ) “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”
Sermon in a Sentence:
is a that can to for . Am I in that?
