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“If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? If ye have not been faithful in that which is another man’s, who shall give you that which is your own?” (Luke 16:11-12).
In this particular passage of Scripture, the Lord Jesus is speaking of how we handle money. He calls it the “unrighteous mammon,” for the love of money can be a root of all evil (1 Timothy 6:10). The things in this world, such as money and other material things, are not really ours. They are given to us by the Lord to use for Him. We can either waste them on ourselves, or we can use them for the Lord, and thus lay up treasure in heaven. But how we use the things in this world is often an indication of how we would use spiritual riches.
The Lord wants to give us that which is really our own—spiritual riches. But if we do not use natural things for the Lord, is He going to give us spiritual riches? No, for we have clearly shown that we are not mature enough spiritually to handle them correctly. We will say more about this tomorrow. If we know the Lord Jesus as our Savior, then we should want to use whatever we have for Him.
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