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In Luke the Lord’s teaching would show that if we have temporal things, we are to use them in view of the future. The world uses money in view of the present, to add to self here; whereas, the “unjust steward” used what came to his hand in view of the future; the Lord using what he did to teach us to use temporal things in relation to what is eternal. Luke speaks much of money, especially after chapter 15.

J. Taylor (N.S. Vol. 47 p.73)

Let each challenge his own heart—Did I ever influence a person on the principle of holy love? As soon as you begin to influence on this principle, you begin to rule on the principle of the twelve thrones and you are ruling twelve tribes. They are intact, they refer to the saints, I understand, as available to heaven, amenable to the influence of heaven, but that influence exerted through persons. Each christian has it within his range to influence another and another and another; the wider his range the more distinguished his throne … Would that I could set the brethren in movement! The very youngest can begin with influencing another, his sister or brother, or even his parents—I have known of this influencing another in love. How fitting is the throne of Christ’s glory in the midst of those twelve thrones!

J. Taylor (N.S. Vol. 86 p.252)

Why did the Lord not leave the children of Israel in Egypt? Why did He not enlighten them by Moses, and let them stay there, in order that they might enlighten the Egyptians? ... God never intended to make a slave an evangelist ... If you are to convey glad tidings from God, you must be a free man. The message is too great to entrust to a slave. God thinks too much of the glad tidings to entrust them to a slave. They are too magnificent. The gospel is the grandest thing God has ever presented. You cannot overestimate the gospel, and the more you understand it, the more you will see that the Son only could be the Bearer of it to man.

J. Taylor (N.S. Vol. 1 p.159)