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If you have your Bible, open the Luke chapter 16. Luke chapter 16, Robert normally has you running all over the Bible. You can rest today that this is the only scripture we're going to open to, but we want to examine all of Luke 6 there, really the first half of Luke 16, and look at it in a, maybe in a different light you've ever looked at this scripture before. This is the story of the unjust steward. I want to ask you a question as we start this morning. Do you have a plan for your life, or do you really have a life plan, or are you going somewhere? Well you know when you get there, do you have a plan? I'm 41 years old, I'm not sure if at this point I've had a real strategic plan. I've been studying these verses for the last two or three months, and I've barely been meditating. I know we get in these Bible reading programs where we read, and we zip the scripture, and we're just trying to get through the books, and I encourage you from time to time to stop and meditate. You see I've read this story several times, and I'm not sure I've ever picked anything about it, but I've been meditating on it for the last two months. There's more in this scripture than I ever knew. I want to ask you again, do you have a plan for your life, or are you aimlessly wandering whatever comes your way, comes your way? I want to tell you, Jesus had a life plan, he didn't come to earth without a plan. He came to earth with something in mind to accomplish it, and he had a step-by-step plan of how he was going to do it, and I want to show you that this morning. I was in the pharmaceutical business, I managed up to 10 or 12 representatives at a time, and I would always sit down, and we had this one motto that many companies use, it's not a new one, we didn't create it, we stole it, it was a good one. Plan your work, and work your plan. That was the motto, and many times I sit down with representatives and I say, "What's your plan? Here's our goal, this is what we're trying to accomplish, these are our sales quotas. What's your plan? How are you going to do it?" And then they would lay out. These are my key positions in my territory, and these are the guys I'm going after, and this is what I'm going to do. And when we saw the plan, anyway, unfolding, if it didn't work, we changed plans. It's sometimes in the Christian world, and the way, when we, the followers of the way, we don't have a plan. Where are we going? What are we trying to accomplish? I want to show you the plan that Jesus brought to earth, the plan, the only plan that I've seen that He said, "That's the plan." That's what I did, that's what I want you to do, and I'm going to commend that, and I'll bless that. And you like to know what that plan is, because it'll bless you for doing it. Loops, chapter 16, verse 1, let's read. First verse says, "And He said to the disciples," and I want you to catch this, it's important. It's what He said to the disciples, it's not the same thing that He said to the Pharisees. It's different. When He turned and said something to the disciples, He was speaking to the church from now to the end of history. He's saying to every believer, every disciple that's coming up, "Pay attention. I'm about to say something to you that's going to change. You watch." So He said it to the disciples, "There's a certain steward, an accusation was brought to Him concerning this steward, that He was wasting His goods." So He called and He said, "What is this I hear about you? Give an account of your stewardship, for you can no longer be a steward." In verse 3, then the steward said, "Within Himself, what shall I do? For my master is taking my stewardship away, I cannot dig, and I'm ashamed to beg." And as if He thought for a minute, verse 4 picks up and He said, "I resolve what to do. When I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive the end of their houses." So He called every one of the masters' debtors to Him, and He said to the first, "How much do you owe my master?" And He said to him, "A hundred measures of oil." So He said to Him, "Take your bill, sit down quickly and write it for 50." And He said to another, "How much do you owe?" He said, "A hundred measures of wheat." He said to Him, "Take your bill, write 80." So the master commended the unjust steward because he had dealt shrewdly for the sons of this world are more shrewd in their generation than the sons of life. And then He said to the disciples, "I say to you, make friends for yourself by unrighteous men, that when you fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations." I've got to be real honest when I read this story for the first time and that I can remember remembering the story. I said, "Lord, why would you commend Him for doing that?" Here's a guy that wasn't doing his job, and he got fired. Did you see that? He got fired because he wasn't doing his job. And then as he's leaving the company, he goes to account receivables, pulls all of the records, and goes to every one of the debtors and say, "We're going to get 20 to 50 percent off the day and today only." And Jesus said, "Hey, man, that was good." I had to say to the Lord, "You know, that kind of made me double-dog man." I mean, if you're the only of this company, we never made you a little bit mad. I mean, let's face it. This wasn't his money. And it had been a different story if it was his money, but it wasn't his money. It wasn't his account receivable. It was the master's account receivable. And the master comes back to him and says, "Good job!" "Good job, let's do this." So I swear, I said, "You don't have to shed some light on this story." I'm missing the boat here a little bit. He said, "Yes, there's two things, read and I say, 'Good job.'" One, one I want you to elaborate on is the plan, but he finally did something. I mean, this guy was doing nothing. He was wasting all of my goods. He said, "Do you remember the parable of the talent and the last guy that did nothing, he buried it?" He said, "I call him wicked and lazy." He said, "This guy, at least on his way out, did something, which really you can draw that into an application for us is that if you're still drawing breath, there's still time. There's still time for you to do something with you. You know, I tell my kids all the time, and I say, "Listen, I don't want you to serve God because I did." How's that going to go? I'm not going to mandate that you serve God, but I'm going to say this, while you have breath, you have a choice, the truth. I'm not forcing it down your throat, but I want to demonstrate before you that if you choose not to serve God, to be a mistake you'll ever make. I want to live before them a true, true life filled with God so that they're enticed to come here. And they see God doing miracles in our lives. When my son understands that God can take away hiccups just like that when he's tried for an hour, I want him to understand, "We're not serving the dead God." So I tell you, if you're here today, you feel like you're on the outside of what God is doing. You're still drawing breath, there's still opportunity for you. You still have an opportunity, but I don't believe that's all he was saying here. I believe there's more. I believe that this unjust steward came up with a plan that Jesus said, "I commend it. I want you to look back at verse 8 because you have to see this. Look back at verse 8. The Master commended the unjust steward because of wine, because he dealt shrewdly. Now that word shrewdly is not a real popular word in our culture today, is it? I mean, if you're shrewd, people kind of give you the evil eye. Jesus said, "Now watch this." He just makes an indictment on the sons of life. Watch in verse 8, "Lad of half, for the sons of this world are more shrewd in their generation than the sons of life." Now watch this. He just commended the unjust steward for being shrewd. And then he says, "The sons of this world are more shrewd than the sons of life." Does that sound like he just made an indictment on us? Yes, it does. So what did the unjust steward do that was so shrewd? That's what I want you to see, because I'm going to tell you this. If you will catch this while it's going to change the way you love the rest of your life. If you catch this plan, it will change the way you live the rest of your life. Let's look back at verse 3. We want to look at the shrewd plan, verse 3, 4, 5, all the way down back to 9. The shrewd said within himself. Now first off, you have to understand this moment in time. I don't want you to raise your hands, but you haven't been fired. It's kind of shocking. It's kind of one moment you go to work, and the next moment you don't have a job. Then you start to eat things like, "I'm going to feed my family. You know, I'm a little embarrassed to tell my friends." All of a sudden, he's lost his job. He's kind of in a predicament. Does he go home and tell his wife? How do I handle the situation? So if he comes to a shock, it's a little shocking to his system, and he starts talking within himself. Have you ever done that? Start trying to take a little inventory of what's going on. Looking at verse 3, he says, "What shall I do as he talks to himself? My master is taking the stewardship away from me, and then he begins to take inventory." He says, "I cannot dig. I looked at these hands. They're pencil pushers. There's no way I can dig." And then he says, "I'm ashamed to beg." Seeing like he's seen a beggar too in his time and said, "I'm not doing that." And if that's if he sat there for a minute and began to think, "What am I going to do?" And in verse 4, he said, "I got it. I got it. I have resolved what to do that when I put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses. Before you make a plan, you better have a goal." That's why I asked you today, "Do you have a plan? Do you have a goal? Where are you going? How will you know when you get there? How will you know if you achieved what you're after?" This steward said, "I've got it. When I put out of the stewardship, my goal is to get another job with the guys that I am already in this industry, already know the business, I'm going to get them to receive me into their house and they're going to give me a job. My family's going to move right across the street. I'm going to move in with them, and I'll be all right. I'll go home and tell them my wife, "Hey, I got a better opportunity today. I'm going to go work for a new company. I don't have to tell her I got fired. I mean, this is the plan." And he's excited about it. He's got to go, you know, I could stop for a moment and ask, "Do you want to know why the steward was wasting the master's good?" I wonder why he's already checked out of the job that he was already in. I'll tell you why, he had no goals, he had no plan, maybe he was better, I don't know. I could go through a lot of scenarios. I know there's times I've checked out, but I'll tell you this, at this moment in his life, he gets excited because he now has a goal and he now has a plan, and let's look at his plan. In verse 5, he starts into the plan. So he called every one, I want you to mark that one, every one, he didn't call just two, he called every one of the master's debtors. And then he began to give this fire sale, today and today only. I ask you a question, if you'll mortgage company called you today, and they said, "50% day off, if you bring us half of what you owe for your house, we'll give you the deed." I'm even going to leave the building right now, but that'd be a good deal for you, it'd be a great deal for me, I wouldn't be here, I'd be a great deal, what was this plan? I'm going to give these guys that owe my master money such a good deal that they're going to receive me, they're going to say, "You and my body, I need to ever receive a good deal." Why don't you think? How many of you have ever received a good deal? How many of you have ever received a great deal, all three of us? How many of you have ever received an unbelievable deal? How did it make you feel toward the person that gave it to you? You hated them, right? My wife was shopping, I mean this is the most incredible thing, I mean she comes home and she said to me, "I mean you're not going to leave the deal I got." And my first response, most of the time I care is, "Honey, I don't care how much you saved me, I care how much you spent me." How much did you spend me? No, no, no baby, it's unbelievable, but you know my wife actually goes and prays before she goes to shop and she comes home to some of the most unbelievable deals I've ever seen. I'm like, "Good, baby, you have done good." I don't even have to ask her really, how much did you spend me because I know she spent the least amount and she got the most and she's just so excited and now that I have four women in my household, I have to sit on the couch for a long time and watch the deals. Very nice, that's a good deal, good deal, very good deal. And the ball game's on behind me, very good deal, very, very great, very good. Ooh, how much did you pay, oh, great deal. My wife loves more, it's been, they give good deals. You see, you change your attitude towards somebody who gives you a good deal, don't you? His goal was to get them to receive them into their houses. His plan was, I'm going to give them a good deal in the process. Probably the best deal with my wife and I've ever received is a house that we bought in Mansfield, Texas, about four or five years ago. We went out to this neighborhood one particular Sunday afternoon, we were out, not a fact with Donnie and Lori Hunt, we drove out and we took a date night, we have a date night every week. We normally date on Friday nights, but this particular time we would date on Sunday afternoons and it's just healthy for our marriage and we get a kick out of it. And this particular date night we said, why don't we invite Donnie and Lori and we went out and looked at this neighborhood and when the war begins to speak to my wife, at this particular moment in my time, I was walking with God that she was way far ahead of me and I mean she was really hearing God and she said, honey, I really thought the Lord said we're going to move out here and I started looking around this neighborhood and I thought that would be a miracle. And she said, no, I really thought God was going to give us a house and I said, honey, come on baby, listen to me. It takes a lot of money that we don't have. Wake up and she's like, my dad said it, you need to shut up. And I said, okay, well, we thought we were moving that direction, the Lord turned to California. I said, what about it? And she said, well, I thought we were going, but I know it's in its California. So we moved to California and we stayed out in San Diego. We hated the weather. It was horrible. I mean, it was just bad. We didn't want to go, but we did. And we had to go to Hawaii a time or two while we were so close, but we went ahead. And while we were out there, we had worked for a season and we actually were trying to, our goal was to hire 250 representatives. My job was to fly all over the nation and get my manpower in place and hire at least 250 representatives. And we composted that goal and we got all the representatives and we trained them and we sent them out in the field and we went from the Salesforce over a couple of hundreds, almost 500. Seven or eight months down the road, I felt like Ward said, you can go home. I said, yeah, I like California, but it's a little expensive. I want to go home. So she said, hey, but Ward said, we're going to buy a house in Nashville. Why don't you call it? I'm really hoping she forgotten it. And she said, well, you call that builder that we like and see if he got a house left and I said, okay, I mean, you want to spend it? She said, call me, and he said, I said, okay, now, what do you want? She said, I had bedrooms in an office and I said, okay, so I called up the builder and he said on the phone, he said, hey, I'm not building that community and I said, well, that's, oh, I'm sorry. That's nice. And she said, but I have two houses last month, okay, and he said, what are you looking for? 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I have to ask that question to myself. You see, I know last March and April, we went to a giving program. Folks, I'm telling you, the most unbelievable we'll give is their offer. You've given to a program to help build a building that are going to reach hundreds and thousands of people. But this is my concern. Sometimes, when we do that, it takes us off the hook to be personal cylinders. Because we say we're already doing it. And you're doing a wonderful job. We want you to continue to do that. But I don't want you to just remove yourself from saying, I don't have to personally be involved with people. The story of the unjust steward follows three parables. I'm not going to take time to read them. I'll close with this. It follows the parable of the hundred sheet, 99 or left, one to be found. It follows another parable of ten coins, one loss, and one woman spends the entire day finding a one coin. And when she does find it, she throws a party. And the third parable is right before the unjust steward is the parable of the prodigal son. I don't think Jesus was just haphazardly saying, I think you ought to have a plan. Three parables on lost people, and then he gives you a goal and a plan. It's dear to his heart. But you want to I found? I found my heart at times to be a lot like the older brother of the prodigal son. It's all about me. I want you to take into the toilet this morning. Is it all about you? That older brother should have been looking in the field that his father on the porch. And as soon as he saw his father run off the porch and down the way, he should have been second in line, hugging his and his brother. And said he pouted. And I'm not going to get what I deserve. God says, you can't give a cup of water in my name. Do you understand who you are? The reason I titled this message guarantee results and your money back, not all your money back and your money back. Because I promise you, if you'll embrace this plan, you'll get results and you'll get your money back.