I tell you, use worldly wealth to make friends for yourselves so that when it is gone, they will welcome you into eternal dwellings.I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents.And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends by means of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when it shall fail, they may receive you into the eternal tabernacles.
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Jesus says this, use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves so that when it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings. What in the world does he mean by that? And I look at that again. He says, I want you to use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves so that when it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings. What does that mean? Well, here's what it means. He says, I want you to take some of your money and I want you to use it to help other people get into heaven so that when you die and you get to heaven, they will welcome you there and they'll say, thank you for investing in me. I'm in heaven because of you. And I'm not your friend for life, man. I'm your friend for eternity because I'm in heaven because you cared enough. You bought me a Bible. You bought me a ticket to a vent. You gave me a Christian book. …
… Verse nine is one of the most controversial verses in all the Bible. Watch what it says. I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourself so that when it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings. Verse 10, whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much. And whoever has been dishonest with very little will be dishonest with much. So if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth like Bitcoin, who will trust you with true riches? And if you have not been trustworthy with somebody else's property, who will give you property of your own? No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money. Then the Pharisees who love money heard all this and they were sneering at Jesus. And he said to them, you are the ones who justify yourselves in the eyes of others, but God knows your hearts and what people value is highly detestable in God's sight. …
… God will receive you into his house. Luke 16 verse 9. This is the most peculiar of the four passages. God will receive you into his house. Jesus tells this parable of the unrighteous manager who shrewdly uses his temporary access to wealth to secure favor for himself once the stewardship is taken away. And Jesus acknowledges that what this steward does is unrighteous. He's not telling his disciples to go do that, but he's teaching an important lesson in this parable, in this scenario. So he risks drawing on this joy-seeking lesson for his disciples. This is verse 9 of chapter 16. Make friends for yourself by means of unrighteous wealth, which you have in this age, so that when it fails, and it will, they may receive you into the eternal dwellings. All right, we've seen this logic before, even if it hasn't been quite as provocative as this parable. Our possessions on earth and our time on earth and our energy in this life are so fleeting, so soon they will fail us. …