Deciphering the Shrewd Manager

0:00:00 – (Steve Gray): Hey, do you know there’s a parable where Jesus says a person who was dishonest was commended for dishonesty? Is that confusing to you? Well, it’s not to me. And I’m going to reveal the truth to you in the next More Faith, More Life podcast.

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0:01:27 – (Steve Gray): Hello everyone, and welcome to another More Faith, More Life podcast. I’m Steve Gray along with my wife Kathy. Excited to talk to you, especially in the day, Kathy, we live in today. People need the Word of God now. There’s a lot of podcasts out there talking this and talking that, talking politics, talking emotions, talking feelings. But getting just straight Word of God is hard to find. It’s like the scripture that said there’s a famine in the land for the Word of God.

0:01:56 – (Steve Gray): It’s hard to even go to churches today and get the Word of God. You get some word, you sing some songs that are about the Word maybe or about Jesus, or they’ll do a sermon that’s kind of about the Kingdom of God. But just understanding the Word of God, it’s hard today because first of all, we don’t have very many people that know how to deliver it. We don’t have very many people that understand it and are interested enough in it to deliver it in the right way that it’s life changing.

0:02:24 – (Steve Gray): It is life changing. But if you just use it as a tool to apply it to your emotions or Your feelings. And that’s what’s happening. The preachers today, both men and women, and I don’t mind women preachers, but they do it too. They take the word of God and they read a scripture and then they apply it to our culture and our feelings and our emotions and what we’re going through. And all of a sudden, it’s not the word of God anymore, it’s the word of man applying it to us.

0:02:58 – (Steve Gray): Because now we’re the center of attention. And that’s where Christianity is wrong. Christianity has made us people the center of attention and using the word of God to feed the center of attention. So people are left empty and with. And powerless and not knowing what to do, what to think, how to act. Well, today we’re going to take another parable, a very difficult one that most pastors and leaders and teachers avoid.

0:03:26 – (Steve Gray): Or if they don’t avoid it, Kathy, they teach it terribly, terribly wrong. In fact, I’m thinking in my head, I can’t even remember how badly what, what they even say about it because they just get confused. And I’ll. I’ll get there in a minute. So we’re going to talk about what my Niv Bible subtitles the Shrewd as a shrewd manager. Yeah, the shrewd manager. And we’re going to talk about that one because it’s so, so important to understand what this parable is about in the depth of it. There’s surface things that are important, and then there’s the depth of it that you people listening today need to get and understand and remember it the rest of your life.

0:04:07 – (Steve Gray): And it’s not that hard to understand. But this is the parable where the guy goes out and changes the bill and charges less, and he actually. People think that he’s lying or cheating, and then his boss commends him for it. So we’re going to figure out, why did he get commended? And what is this shrewdness about? And why did Jesus teach to his own disciples and the Jewish people at that time, what did it mean to them so that we can apply it to us? Okay, let’s start it. This is Luke 16.

0:04:37 – (Kathy Gray): Okay? Jesus told his disciples there was a rich man whose manager was accused of wasting his possessions. So he called him in and asked him, what is this I hear about you give an account of your management because you cannot be manager anymore? The manager said to himself, what shall I do now? My master’s taking away my job. I’m not strong enough to dig, and I’m ashamed to beg. I know what I’ll do so that when I lose my job here, people will welcome me into their houses.

0:05:07 – (Steve Gray): Okay, so here’s the setup. We have Jesus. Now, remember, this is Jesus setting this. This is him talking to his culture and talking to his people and setting them up to get a lesson, okay? And usually it’s one lesson. There’s a lot of surface lessons here. So here we have the story of somebody that actually is a manager. He’s put in charge of something and he cheats or he just doesn’t manage. Well, what does it say about him? He what?

0:05:36 – (Kathy Gray): He. He squandered it? He wasted his possession?

0:05:41 – (Steve Gray): Yeah, I was just trying to find what the way. And I phrase it because we could say squandered, which is kind of like the prodigal son we talked about before. But he’s just wasteful. And it cost the head guy, the boss, money. Okay? So the boss has lost money, okay? So you have tothink through that first. So the boss is wanting to get his money worth, right? So there’s a setup. So. But he was wasteful.

0:06:07 – (Steve Gray): So he gets fired, right? So to speak. And says, you can’t work here anymore. You can’t manage my affairs anymore. Well, then he doesn’t know what to do. What do I do now? And he doesn’t want to beg and he doesn’t want to dig ditches.

0:06:20 – (Kathy Gray): Doesn’t want to get a job.

0:06:21 – (Steve Gray): No, he doesn’t want to get another job or any job. So he. I know what I will do. Okay, so we know what he did. He went. You could read it, but it talks about the bushels and how much he changed everybody’s bill. So he went to people who owed the boss money, right? And he lowered the amount that they owed. He made friends, they liked him. Right. In fact, they might think this guy’s a pretty good guy.

0:06:51 – (Steve Gray): Right? And so he lowered. He lowered the bill and they. Now they could pay less. Okay? But what people don’t realize is they could pay less because he was shrewd, it says. Right. You know how he was shrewd? He lowered their bills, but he lowered it and took his part out. He took his pay. His pay out. He didn’t take the boss’s payout. So the boss is going to get. Okay, I see. Oh, the boss is upset because he’s not getting his portion.

0:07:22 – (Steve Gray): He doesn’t care about the other guy, about this other manager that he hired. So he’s going to go make sure that his boss gets what he is owed.

0:07:33 – (Kathy Gray): Okay?

0:07:34 – (Steve Gray): But he’s going to say. What I’ll do is I will discount my portion, whatever the. Whatever. I don’t know how much you know, but I’m going to. I’ll take a discount. I’ll let you pay less. My boss will get what he wants. I will get hit with it, but that’s okay. Cause I just lost my job anyway. So when I go collect, he goes to collect. See, now technically he probably shouldn’t even have gone to collect, but they didn’t have cell phones then and they don’t have texting.

0:08:02 – (Steve Gray): So he can go out and he goes out and collects, but he only collects what he owes the boss and he takes a cut himself. Now, the boss is going to like him better, and so are these people, because he’s going to take his price out of it. He’s not going to get paid.

0:08:18 – (Kathy Gray): He’s going to give them a deal.

0:08:19 – (Steve Gray): Yeah, he’s going to give them a deal. But it doesn’t matter at this point because he’s lost his job anyway. What’ll I do? I could go ahead and take my cut, but then I’m out of a job anyway. So instead of saying I’ll take my cut and go save it, he acts shrewdly and cleverly and says, I’m going to set myself up for the future. So I’m willing to give my portion up now, which will set me up for a job because I don’t want to dig a ditch and I don’t want to beg.

0:08:48 – (Steve Gray): Okay?

0:08:49 – (Kathy Gray): Yeah.

0:08:49 – (Steve Gray): So now it’s not as quite as hard to understand, is it?

0:08:52 – (Kathy Gray): No.

0:08:52 – (Steve Gray): And so he goes out and he says, well, how much do you owe? And they say, this much. And he says, well, knock it down. How much do you owe? This much? Knock it down. He knocks it down. And they all like him just really well. Well, then the hard part that preachers and teachers have is when we get to the next portion of what the big boss manager says to him when he finds out that he did this. If you want to skip down through all the bushels and all that stuff.

0:09:19 – (Kathy Gray): Then the master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly for the people.

0:09:24 – (Steve Gray): Let’s stop. Let’s just stop right there. Some translations say that he was dishonest. And so it could say the manager commended. Does it say that?

0:09:37 – (Kathy Gray): The dishonest manager.

0:09:39 – (Steve Gray): Yeah, he commended the dishonest manager. That’s a bad translation because was he dishonest? No, not. Not if he just took his portion out. He took. If he just. Yeah, if he just took. I’ll just take mine out and I’ll still pay the boss and these people will be happier and I’ll set myself up for the future. Okay, so the translations are hard because it makes him a dishonest. And now if you take the dishonest, now we have a big boss that is going to commend somebody for their dishonesty.

0:10:18 – (Steve Gray): That’s how it’s laid out in most people’s sermons. And they don’t know what to do. How can you commend dishonesty? How can Jesus actually. I mean, it’s his parable. Right? How can you commend dishonesty? Right. This is where studying the word of God is so fantastic and so fascinating. When you study the culture, you study all the pieces, the past, and you apply it to those people first. And then we apply it to them.

0:10:44 – (Steve Gray): Well, he, as we learn their culture, he. He had the power to lower those bills because his, his paycheck was in there too. If he said a thousand bushels, his paycheck is in there. So, so if he just takes his paycheck out, everybody’s happy, Boss gets paid, they get lower, everybody’s happy. So he’s going to make friends with everybody. And the boss is not. And the boss not so upset because he wasn’t wasteful. With the boss’s money, we could say he was wasteful, I guess with his own, he just.

0:11:18 – (Steve Gray): Okay, so now he’s not being commended for being dishonest because he was not dishonest. That’s a bad translation. And not understanding culture. He was being commended for being smart, shrewd. And the biggest portion of it all, Kathy, is setting himself up for a good future, which doesn’t include begging and it doesn’t include ditch digging. Okay? He sets him up with a future paying job. He’s got lots of friends.

0:11:47 – (Steve Gray): You got lots of friends, then you’re going to have a future. Somebody’s going to hire him. That’s what he’s thinking. Somebody will like me. So he made friends and he used the worldly wealth to go make friends, which we talked about before we started this broadcast. It kind of ends that way. Okay, so where were we? He gets commended.

0:12:07 – (Kathy Gray): Yeah. And then for the people of this.

0:12:10 – (Steve Gray): World, here we get. Okay, now we want to get. What is this parable about? Is it about selling? Is it about wasteful? Is it about dishonesty? What is it about? Because the whole story makes. Why, why even talking about this?

0:12:23 – (Kathy Gray): Yeah.

0:12:24 – (Steve Gray): And especially if you make him dishonest.

0:12:26 – (Kathy Gray): Right.

0:12:26 – (Steve Gray): Okay, so now we’re at the end, almost. It’s got two endings, but the main ending is what. This is what Jesus says.

0:12:33 – (Kathy Gray): Okay. For the people of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the people of the light.

0:12:40 – (Steve Gray): Okay, so that’s not part of the parable, is it? The parable ends when he gets commended for being smart, shrewd. That’s the end of it.

0:12:49 – (Kathy Gray): Yeah. So now, well, okay, this is beginning to explain this.

0:12:53 – (Steve Gray): Yes. Because the people listening to it are probably just as confused as our people are. Why is he. Why is he telling this story of someone that was wasteful and loses his job basically, and then comes back and acts in a smart way and makes friends?

0:13:08 – (Kathy Gray): Yeah. I mean, I always wanted to come in this one.

0:13:11 – (Steve Gray): Yeah. And he gets commended. And that’s the part. Well, if we had to, just said he was smart about. But the part that the preachers and teachers don’t get is now he’s being commended for what he did, and it says he’s dishonest. And we don’t know where to put that in our theology. How do you commend dishonesty?

0:13:26 – (Kathy Gray): Yeah.

0:13:27 – (Steve Gray): Okay, now if we read. Slowly, slow down and read the next part about the people of the light.

0:13:34 – (Kathy Gray): Okay. Well, the people of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the people of the light.

0:13:43 – (Steve Gray): Okay? So first of all, even if he was dishonest, he’s not being commended by Jesus terms because he’s saying he is dealing with his own kind. Right. The story is about him dealing with his own kind. Then he separates the own kind. Right? His kind. And there’s another kind. What’s the other kind?

0:14:03 – (Kathy Gray): People of the light.

0:14:04 – (Steve Gray): So he’s not saying this guy is the people of the light.

0:14:06 – (Kathy Gray): Right.

0:14:07 – (Steve Gray): So when you. When the preachers get confused, say, well, we can’t. How could Jesus command a dishonor? He didn’t. He says he dealt with his own kind in his own way, and he was smart about it in his own kind. And then Jesus says, and do you know the people of this world are smarter, shrewder and sharper than the people of God, the people of the light. Okay, now who’s his audience are? So far, there’s no Christians sitting there. Right. He hadn’t been crucified. There’s no.

0:14:39 – (Steve Gray): There’s believers in Jesus, but we could call him Christians, but technically he hasn’t been to the cross yet and all that. So his audience is going to be Jewish people. And at the time, the Jewish people would Be who he’s talking to. So he’s talking to them and he’s calling them the people of the light because they do have a covenant. Right?

0:15:00 – (Kathy Gray): Right.

0:15:01 – (Steve Gray): So they’re the people of the light. We could say then after the Crucifixion, Christians are people of the light. We have to always remember the. That, by the way, Kathy, Christians was an insulting term back when it was first started. It was not a nice word. They called them Christians to insult them. Now we’ve picked it up as a positive thing. But nevertheless, that’s how it started. And so we have to remember that Christians will say that now believers. Then the Bible says, Paul says they were grafted in to the original olive tree.

0:15:36 – (Steve Gray): They didn’t start a new religion. Now it ended up being like a break between it. But if it was done right, Christians, we’ll use that word now, were grafted in to the original olive tree. The original olive tree was Jewish. Jewish covenant. Jesus, as I was explaining I was talking to you earlier about this before. This gave us a better covenant. Right? It’s a better covenant. It did not, did not nullify the original covenant. It just improved it and made it better.

0:16:09 – (Steve Gray): So the people of light in his day that he’s talking about would be Jewish people. There’s no Christians yet like we think of Christianity. Okay, so say it one more time. So the people of this world are.

0:16:19 – (Kathy Gray): More shrewd and dealing with their own kind than other people of the light.

0:16:24 – (Steve Gray): Yes. Now after that, he does refer to, to finances again. And you were asking me before we started broadcasting, is it. What does that mean when he says, so use worldly wealth to make friends so you can go into your turtle bliss or whatever.

0:16:40 – (Kathy Gray): I always kind of wondered about that.

0:16:42 – (Steve Gray): I hate to admit, because I want to back up to what this is, you know, what this is really about, but I can comment on that real quick if you want me to. So use worldly wealth to make friends.

0:16:51 – (Kathy Gray): And enter so that when it’s gone, you’ll be welcomed into eternal dwellings.

0:16:56 – (Steve Gray): That, that is, that is a financial statement, right?

0:16:59 – (Kathy Gray): Yes.

0:17:00 – (Steve Gray): And so it’s basically saying what I told you about the rich guy in the Bible who got rich and he just built more barns and he stored it up and I’ll eat, drink, be merry, I’ll take it easy. Well, this guy’s not taking it easy. When he needed to do something, he didn’t just take the money and go live off whatever he could do. And so using worldly wealth for kingdom purposes is basically the easy way to Sum that up, use it. And then when it’s gone, it’s gone. Because you’re going to go where into eternal life.

0:17:34 – (Steve Gray): You’re going to go to heaven. If you die, your eternal dwellings, it’s going to be gone. You can’t take it with you. And that’s what happened to that rich guy. Remember? He built these barns and he died. So you have to remember Jesus knows all these parables. He’s have to memorize.

0:17:46 – (Kathy Gray): Does he?

0:17:47 – (Steve Gray): Yeah. And so the worldly wealth, then he made a mistake. He built barns and he stored it up and he said, now who’s going to get what? What? You owe own nothing. You’re going to get nothing because you’re going into, you know, you died, the rich guy. And so this is it. This guy, though, made himself. The key to it, is using worldly wealth to help your future. Use it to help your future, eternal future. Because we do get rewards.

0:18:16 – (Steve Gray): So use it towards your future and not just to yourself. Okay? So that’s what that guy did. He was smart enough. And basically Jesus is saying, because we’re not even to the parable yet. I’m not even to the lesson of the parable yet. Okay, we’re going to get there, though. But this guy used worldly wealth to make friends and set himself up for the future. He says, now be as shrewd as them. Use your worldly wealth because it’s going to be gone eventually. You’re going to lose it all. You’re going to go and set yourself up for a better future and lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven. Right? Do that and you can lay yourself up, by the way, treasures in heaven and earth at the same time. Because there are earthly rewards by being generous. There’s earthly rewards, but then there’s heavenly rewards. Okay, so that’s a sideline, but it’s still not what the parable’s about.

0:19:08 – (Steve Gray): Because really, is Jesus wanting the Jewish audience to do better with their money? Is that what you. Would you say that’s what this is about? Because it ends on talking about worldly wealth.

0:19:18 – (Kathy Gray): I mean, it’s all. It seems like it’s all about money.

0:19:21 – (Steve Gray): It’s not, though, okay? It’s not about money. It’s about being shrewd, clever and smart. Okay, now he’s got his Jewish eyes. Now we’re going to know what is Jesus up to and what is he thinking as he’s teaching it. Okay, so now we can get to the. I’m getting chills. It’s so good. I don’t know if people get chills from the word of God like I do. But I’ll get chills from Kingdom of God. It just gives me chills to think of the truth of this.

0:19:48 – (Steve Gray): Okay, so what Jesus is up to is. Let’s back up. A man is wasteful, gets caught. He should have lost his job, which he did, kind of. Then he goes and he corrects it so that everybody likes him. And he turns up being commended for not being dishonest but being smart, Right? He sets himself up for the future. Now we have a Jewish audience sitting in front of us, and we’re giving this parable out, right?

0:20:17 – (Steve Gray): And Jesus says, the people of light are not as smart as the people of their own kind. The people of the world of their own kind. They figure out how to do stuff. And my people are not. My people are not setting themselves up for the future. Isn’t that what that’s about? Yes, that’s what it’s about. It’s setting yourself up for the future. Okay? So watch the shrewd. The manager who was wasteful gets caught.

0:20:46 – (Steve Gray): And when he gets caught, he instantly, even without his boss realizing it at first, he gets commended. He instantly goes out and makes changes, right? Makes changes and sets himself up for a future, right? All right, so now one more time. He wasteful. He gets caught. He knows he’s in trouble because he doesn’t want to beg and he doesn’t want to dig a ditch. And he says, well, what will I do? So he knew he was in trouble, and then he goes and does something to try to fix it because he knows he’s in trouble.

0:21:22 – (Steve Gray): Okay? Now here’s the. Here’s the parable. The people of God that are sitting, the Jews that are sitting before him. Maybe there’s Pharisees there. Maybe those covenant people in God. He’s trying to say, do you realize something? You’ve been wasteful and you’re in trouble, but you’re doing nothing about it. He’s being commended because he did something when he knew he was in trouble. And the people of God are in trouble in that day, and they don’t do anything.

0:21:53 – (Steve Gray): They’re. He’s smarter than the people of light because when he knew he was in trouble, he went and did something about it. And he set himself up for a future even though he’s of the world. Okay? The people of God are sitting before Jesus listening to the word. Judaism is in trouble, but it’s fixable, and it’s going to be fixed with a better covenant. It’s compromised and it doesn’t mean all those people are compromised. It just means they’re involved in a system that’s compromised. It’s dishonest and compromised.

0:22:25 – (Steve Gray): And so this guy, when he knew he was in trouble, he did something about it. But the people of God are not that smart. The people of God are in trouble and they do nothing but just keep going, keep going, keep going. And remember we talked about that other parable where people, Christians do it too, but Jewish people, they surrounded themselves with people, said, we’re good, we’re the people of God. We just need to keep going, right? We don’t need to make any changes. We’re it now.

0:22:55 – (Steve Gray): Now we apply it to our audience. Imagine being in a service with me now and me preaching this and applying us to the audience sitting out there is, here’s the problem, folks. You’re wasteful with God and you’re in trouble because of wasteful. Doesn’t mean God doesn’t love you. Doesn’t mean he doesn’t love you, but you’re wasteful. We have a new covenant. We have the blood of Jesus. We have the Holy Spirit, we have the word of God.

0:23:23 – (Steve Gray): And people are squandering and they’re wasteful with it, and we’re in trouble because of that. Now, the good news is you can do something about it. He says the people of this world, when they get caught, they scramble. Maybe they lie, maybe they scramble, maybe they steal. Or maybe they go out and change somebody’s bill. Or maybe they say, don’t pay me, just pay my boss. And make, you know, whatever they do, they do something when they’re in trouble. That’s what he’s saying.

0:23:48 – (Steve Gray): The people of this world, when they get into trouble, take action. But my people do nothing. They do nothing. They’re stuck. And his people were stuck. And he’s trying to unstick them, right? He’s trying to give them, he’s trying to teach them. And he did. He did get followers. He had a lot of followers. But compared, if there was 5,000 people there, compared to the whole nation of Israel, that’s not a big crowd. It’s a big crowd to be a teacher.

0:24:17 – (Steve Gray): But the Jews of Jesus day were not doing anything. The leaders, the people who could change this. Remember, this book, if you only knew is a guide for the clueless generation. I’ll hold it up in front of my face is about Jesus saying, if you only knew what led to peace, you’d do it. But it’s hidden. You don’t know it. So in other words, There could be peace, but Rome is going to come and destroy Jerusalem 40 years later and kill a million people.

0:24:47 – (Steve Gray): Now, that didn’t have to happen, but they were blinded. See, they were in trouble. They did nothing about it, but left, kept going for 40 years until they got destroyed. I mean, Judaism, in my opinion, has not survived that terrible day. Yet. We see the power in Israel now becoming a world power, I think with the United States help. But spiritually, they still have a long way to go. They’re still spiritually, but I’m not saying that about Jewish people.

0:25:17 – (Steve Gray): Christianity is in trouble, too. We have nominal, wasteful, lazy, lukewarm, dull, preaching Christianity and people. It’s not all the people’s fault. Paul said about the Jews. How can they hear if nobody preaches it to them? Well, I’m preaching it to you now. Imagine, Kathy, I’m in a service now. Especially if people didn’t know me. When we used to travel, we went to a lot of places that people were getting to know us, heard of us, but they didn’t know us.

0:25:47 – (Steve Gray): And I would preach things like this a lot. Of course, preaching is stronger than chatting, like we’re doing here. But imagine being hit with that and saying, that’s your problem. You’ve been wasteful with the things of God and you’re not smart. As the people of this world who go make deals, go make a deal with God. We think you don’t make deals with God. But, yeah, do something about your condition.

0:26:13 – (Steve Gray): Because people of this world would. When they realize they’re in trouble, they do something about it. But the people of God, if you remember, Jesus said. He said, you say four more months and then the harvest, he said, but I say, it’s right now. See, the problem is the people of God always give themselves more time. They gave themselves four months. He said, you don’t have. That’s not an act. That’s just a.

0:26:42 – (Steve Gray): A story of, you know, metaphorically speaking, four months. But the people of God always give themselves more time. Even though they know the people. God. Yes, people. The people of God today, in churches or in Judaism, wherever. They know they’re not living up to it. They know they’re not living up to it, but they do nothing about it. They still give themselves more time. Finding someone who takes action is rare.

0:27:07 – (Steve Gray): And by the way, I’ve been. I might have to teach on this another time. But there’s a difference between reaction and action. Our president takes action. That’s why he’s stirring up so much trouble in some camps. Right? Notice me I am a person of action. I am not a reactor. I’m an actor. I act. Take action. That’s what this is about. Take action. Stop reacting and start acting on what you really know. Your heart is saying, that’s what this is about.

0:27:38 – (Steve Gray): So he wasn’t commended for being dishonest. He was commended because he acted smart and knew he was in trouble and set himself up for a good future and a job. People of God, listen, you know, you’re wasteful in the things of God. Set yourself up not just in this life, which can get more faith, produces more life, right in this life, but you’re also setting yourself up for great rewards in the life to come.

0:28:05 – (Steve Gray): Now do you understand it?

0:28:07 – (Kathy Gray): Yes, I do.

0:28:08 – (Steve Gray): And isn’t it one of the most exciting parables that Jesus ever taught that most people miss because it’s so applicable to us, to them and to us, to the audience before him and the audience we have today?

0:28:20 – (Kathy Gray): Thank you.

0:28:20 – (Steve Gray): So good. Yeah. Ooh. So exciting. Well, anyway, Mighty Like Gideon is full of jewels. Like this. This parable that I just taught the shrewd manager. It’s in one of my books. It might be in When The Kingdom Comes. I don’t. I don’t know which book it’s in, but get the books. Go to stevegrayministries.com and be sure and tell friends about it. Subscribe and all that kind of stuff. And tell your friends who are not getting any word to make sure they check out. More Faith, More Life. It doesn’t take long. Half hour. And you learn and grow. And then you can go and set yourself up for a future. Till next time. Bye. Bye.