What to Do or Not to Do With Money

This parable fits into his larger proclamation of the arrival of God's kingdom that forces a crisis of decision upon you. Jesus is forming communities of new brothers and sisters of equals with him as their teacher. A lot of them are poor. Some of them are loaded, like the women named in Luke chapter eight, we were financing the whole Galilee mission. And they got, yeah, tax collectors, right? So you have a really diverse group of people that are coming around Jesus to live under God's reign and rule as Jesus defines it.