Title: Your Life, Your Calling, and Your Work: Part 6 Prudence, Your Work and Your Calling Luke 16:112
1Your Life, Your Calling, and Your Work Part 6
Prudence, Your Work and Your Calling Luke
161-12
2Andrew Carnegie, 1835-1919
3Prudence Your Work and Your CallingLuke 16
- For the people of this world are more shrewd
(prudent) in dealing with their own kind than are
the children of light. - v.8
- I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends
for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you will
be welcomed into eternal dwellings. - v.9
4Prudence, Your Work and Your Calling Luke
161-12
- Simple -- Refusal to think, doesnt want to do
hard work of thinking things through and asking
hard questions. - Shrewd/Prudent Foresight, thinking ahead,
taking everything into account, level-headed
5Your Life, Your Calling, and Your Work Part
8Prudence Your Work and Your CallingLuke
161-12
- The wisdom of the prudent is to give thought to
their ways - Prov. 148
- A simple man believes anything
- but a prudent man gives thought to his
steps. - Prov. 1415
- The plans of the diligent lead to profit
- as surely as haste leads to poverty.
Prov. 215
6Prudence, Your Work and Your Calling Luke
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- Whoever can be trusted with very little can also
be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest
with very little will also be dishonest with
much. - So if you have not been trustworthy in handling
worldly wealth, who will trust you with true
riches? - vv.10-11
7Prudence, Your Work and Your Calling Luke
1610-12
- For the people of this world are more shrewd
(prudent) in dealing with their own kind than are
the children of light. - v.8
- I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends
for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you will
be welcomed into eternal dwellings. - v.9