What is the meaning of the passage of the unfaithful steward? (Part 2).
The second passage is about the woman with her ten coins (Luke 15:8-10). Here:
• the woman are the leaders of Israel;
• the 9 coins are those of Israel which stayed faithful to the Judaism;
• the lost coin are those who were reject by the religious people: the prostitutes, tax collectors, physically handicapped and criminals.
Jesus was showing to the Pharisees that, instead of considering the treasures of this world as their wealth, they should see that the true silver and gold to the eyes of the Creator is His people:
• Zec 13:9 -> “And I will put this third into the fire, and refine them as one refines silver, and test them as gold is tested. They will call upon my name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are my people’; and they will say, ‘The LORD is my God.’” “.
So, instead of conforming in seeing many Israelites lost in the transitory delights of the sin and the remainder “rusting” within the “drawer” of a lethargic and hypocrite cult (without being “engaged in the business” of gaining more “mines” (people to worship the Creator – Luke 19:13), the Pharisees should summon the “9 coins” to help them to clean the house (the nation of Israel), starting with Jerusalem’s temple and its rituals and, then, with their testimony of life, to clean all Israel out of false idols and corrupt leaders, so that the presence of the Creator could come back and the lost coins would come to be found.
The third passage is about the father with his two sons (Luke 15:11-32). Here:
• the father is the Creator;
• the older son are those of Israel which stayed faithful to the legalism religious;
• the newer son are those who were reject by the religious people: the prostitutes, tax collectors, physically handicapped and criminals.
Jesus was teaching the Pharisees to see the house of Israel like Deborah:
• Jdg 5:6-7 -> “ “In the days of Shamgar, son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were abandoned, and travelers kept to the byways. The villagers ceased in Israel; they ceased to be until I arose; I, Deborah, arose as a mother in Israel.”.
That is to say, the Pharisees should adopt the Israelites as their children, to the point of teaching the “older sons” to love and welcome their “newer brothers”, even though they squander the blessings of the Creator in salacious and heinous deportment, bringing shame to His name, His Holy city and His people.
These three passages are the passages of the lost ones:
• 100 lost sheep: one lost far away from the Pastor; 99, although close to the Pastor, were lost in their religiosity, without perceiving the importance of staying close to the Pastor while going through the desert of this world;
• 10 lost coins: one lost in the house of Israel amid all the injustices committed there; 9 lost in the apostasies committed “in the drawer” of the religious system carried out in the temple of Jerusalem (as we can see in Ezekiel 8);
• 2 lost sons: one lost distant from the father wasting his blessings with bad delights of the flesh along with strangers; one lost close to the father, following his commandment without transgressing anyone, but in the hope that he could get a blessing to squander with strangers, apart from his father. Therefore, we have two prodigal sons: one who frittered the goods of the father and other that yearned for it.
Have a good day help the lost to find themselves in Christ.
Tomorrow we will keep on.
The second passage is about the woman with her ten coins (Luke 15:8-10). Here:
• the woman are the leaders of Israel;
• the 9 coins are those of Israel which stayed faithful to the Judaism;
• the lost coin are those who were reject by the religious people: the prostitutes, tax collectors, physically handicapped and criminals.
Jesus was showing to the Pharisees that, instead of considering the treasures of this world as their wealth, they should see that the true silver and gold to the eyes of the Creator is His people:
• Zec 13:9 -> “And I will put this third into the fire, and refine them as one refines silver, and test them as gold is tested. They will call upon my name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are my people’; and they will say, ‘The LORD is my God.’” “.
So, instead of conforming in seeing many Israelites lost in the transitory delights of the sin and the remainder “rusting” within the “drawer” of a lethargic and hypocrite cult (without being “engaged in the business” of gaining more “mines” (people to worship the Creator – Luke 19:13), the Pharisees should summon the “9 coins” to help them to clean the house (the nation of Israel), starting with Jerusalem’s temple and its rituals and, then, with their testimony of life, to clean all Israel out of false idols and corrupt leaders, so that the presence of the Creator could come back and the lost coins would come to be found.
The third passage is about the father with his two sons (Luke 15:11-32). Here:
• the father is the Creator;
• the older son are those of Israel which stayed faithful to the legalism religious;
• the newer son are those who were reject by the religious people: the prostitutes, tax collectors, physically handicapped and criminals.
Jesus was teaching the Pharisees to see the house of Israel like Deborah:
• Jdg 5:6-7 -> “ “In the days of Shamgar, son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were abandoned, and travelers kept to the byways. The villagers ceased in Israel; they ceased to be until I arose; I, Deborah, arose as a mother in Israel.”.
That is to say, the Pharisees should adopt the Israelites as their children, to the point of teaching the “older sons” to love and welcome their “newer brothers”, even though they squander the blessings of the Creator in salacious and heinous deportment, bringing shame to His name, His Holy city and His people.
These three passages are the passages of the lost ones:
• 100 lost sheep: one lost far away from the Pastor; 99, although close to the Pastor, were lost in their religiosity, without perceiving the importance of staying close to the Pastor while going through the desert of this world;
• 10 lost coins: one lost in the house of Israel amid all the injustices committed there; 9 lost in the apostasies committed “in the drawer” of the religious system carried out in the temple of Jerusalem (as we can see in Ezekiel 8);
• 2 lost sons: one lost distant from the father wasting his blessings with bad delights of the flesh along with strangers; one lost close to the father, following his commandment without transgressing anyone, but in the hope that he could get a blessing to squander with strangers, apart from his father. Therefore, we have two prodigal sons: one who frittered the goods of the father and other that yearned for it.
Have a good day help the lost to find themselves in Christ.
Tomorrow we will keep on.