The Lord's Gospel - Part 6

In Part 6 of this series on the Lord's Gospel, we review the lessons from the Parable of the Two Sons and the Parable of the Landowner and then explain in detail the meaning of the Parable of the Unrighteous Steward (Luke 16:1-13). In this parable, Jesus advises those disciples who may be currently benefitting from the system of the Jewish religious establishment to make friends with those to whom the kingdom was to be transferred so as to be welcome in the coming New Covenant kingdoms of God, operating as ekklesiai of God meeting in homes. Several Jewish believers likely benefitting from the establishment system heeded Jesus' counsel in this parable, such as Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea, who buried Jesus' body, and those Jews who sold property owned in Jerusalem to financially enable the extended stay of those new converts who had travelled to Jerusalem to celebrate Pentecost festival (Acts 4:32-35). This parable demonstrates the new kingdom Jesus brought was not a delayed kingdom but rather a kingdom brought within the same generation of Jesus, in fact, within a year from the telling of this parable.