V.1-12 A most important lesson is to be learned here, by every believer in the Lord Jesus. A steward is a person who has been given responsibility by some rich person to look after his affairs. The boss calls him in and says that he hears that he is wasting his money and fires him.
V.3-7 He thinks things over, and makes a plan and carries it out.
V.8 The boss congratulates him when he hears what the man did. Why? Because the man thought of his future and had the right to do what he did.
V.9-12 The first meaning of this story, is that Israel was the “steward” and lost the job, but in applying it to the believer in Christ today, it teaches us that we first need to learn that we must live within our income. If we’re faithful in this area, then the Lord may give us some work to do for Him, so in this He commits to us the real valuable side of life, “the true riches” (vvs. 11-12).
V.13 “Mammon” means money.
V.19-31 A rich man who took those things which were entrusted to him, and used them all for his own pleasure. Every day this is taking place around us, but what if we could really see beyond and hear the awful anguish of a neighbor who has gone into a lost eternity. But see this poor man Lazarus he closes his eyes in death here and opens them up in eternal happiness. And there is a great gulf fixed forever between these two places.