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Sermon - Trinity IX, 2026 - Luke 16:1-13

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The Parable of the Unjust Steward , Marinus van Reymerswaele, 1540 Christian Wisdom Seeks Eternal Dwellings Wisdom is forward thinking and focused on the goal Christian wisdom employs every treasure, heavenly and worldly, for the sake of reaching the goal If there is a hardest parable, it might be this one; throws people off every time. The parable presents a rich man with a steward who was found wasting the rich man’s possessions. The job of a steward is to be faithful with someone else’s possessions, and this guy wasn’t cutting it. So obviously, he got fired. What’s crazy is the rich man lets the steward hand in the books, and he doesn’t hunt them down and take them from him immediately. The steward does exactly what you don’t want the steward to do, which is why normally the books get taken from the steward: the steward cooks the books. He meets some of the rich man’s debtors, probably tenant farmers, and in order to ingratiate himself with the debtors he adjusts how much they owe, ...
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Sermon - Trinity XXV 2018 - Matthew 24:15-28

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Where is the Messiah? Where is the Savior? That’s the question posed to us in these latter days, these end times. And we are in the end times you know. When Jesus’ disciples asked Him “ When will these things be, and what will be the sign of Your coming and of the end of the age? ” He didn’t say it’s a long time away, He simply told them “ See that no one leads you astray. For many will come in my name saying, I am the Christ, and they will lead many astray. ” The end of the age is already here. The history of the world is already conveniently divided up into two periods: before the birth of Christ, and after the birth of Christ, the beginning and the end. We of course live in the period after the birth of Christ, we are living in the end times now. So Jesus’ words about the end times and His warnings about not being led astray applies to us. We will not escape tribulation and persecution and temptations, since we are currently living in the great tribulation. So what words of enc...
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