Luke Chapter 16 – The Unjust Steward
Seedtime & Harvest – Pastor Mike
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
- Luke 16 A certain rich man had an unjust steward that wasted His goods. (Unjust Administrator; Unjust Household Manager)
- (1) God is looking for Good Managers. Good Managers will CONTINUE to experience favor and miracles to get the job done.
- The rich man called a check & balance meeting. The unjust steward said he can’t dig, and he is too proud to beg.
- He Resolved what to do (Firm Decision) 5 So he called every one of his lord's debtors unto him, and said unto the first, How much owest thou unto my lord?
- He took 50% off 100 measures of oil. 20% off 100 measures of wheat. 8 And it is true that the children of this world are shrewder in dealing with the world around them than are the children of the light.
- Shrewdly: skillful, clever awareness and resourcefulness.
- 8 So the master commended (complimented) the unjust steward because he had dealt shrewdly…
- So, because you are lukewarm and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of My mouth! Revelation 3:16. (Don’t straddle the fence! Make a definite decision).
- (2) Good Managers have a clever awareness and always make firm decisions.
- Ephesians 5:1 NKJV “Therefore, be (followers) imitators of God as dear children.” [copy Him and follow His example], as well-beloved children [imitate their father]. AMPC
- *Speak to your problem, don’t speak to Jesus about your problem.
- *Speak to that problem in the name of Jesus as Jesus spoke to the fig tree. He spoke w/authority.
- It’s not that God is not listening to us; the issue is that we’re not exercising our authority.
- BECAREFUL ABOUT SAYING WHAT YOU HAVE BECAUSE YOU WILL HAVE WHAT YOU SAY!
- Never say “I’m broke, sick, I have cancer, or the flu. Take no thought saying…
- PSALM 103:1 (Bless the Lord O my soul! KJV)
- Let all that I am praise the Lord; may I never forget the good things he does for me. 3He forgives all my sins and heals all my diseases. NLT
- PSALM 89:33 (The Lords Contract) Nevertheless My lovingkindness I will not utterly take from him, nor allow My faithfulness to fail. 34 My covenant I will not break, nor alter the word that has gone out of My lips.
- (3) If you can be faithful over a little. A little stress, a little discomfort and trouble. You will be made MANAGER over much.
- Jeremiah 12 Jeremiah Questions the Lord’s Justice. 5 [But the Lord rebukes Jeremiah’s impatience, saying] If you have raced with men on foot and they have tired you out…
- …Then how can you compete with horses? And if [you take to flight] in a land of peace where you feel secure, then what will you do [when you tread the tangled maze of jungle haunted by lions] in the swelling and flooding of the Jordan?
- 2 Be shepherds of God’s flock that is under your care, watching over them—not because you must, but because you are willing, as God wants you to be; not pursuing dishonest gain, but eager to serve; 3 not lording it over those entrusted to you but being examples to the flock. 1 Peter 5:2-3.
- (4) After deciding to be a BETTER MANAGER it follows a time to plant scripture seeds.
- Open Your Heart; Sow a Word; Make Proclamations; Produces by Itself.
