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Direct Answer Bercot teaches that Jesus links stewardship of money to eternal outcome: using “unrighteous mammon” to help the poor is a way of laying up eternal welcome, challenging the assumption that salvation talk can ignore Jesus’ commands about works of mercy.

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• Jesus’ words are quoted: “make friends for yourselves by unrighteous mammon, that when you fail, they may receive you into an everlasting home.”
• Bercot explains Jesus’ logic through the parable: we are stewards of “your father’s goods,” and God wants us to “give them to the poor” and “accumulate…friends in eternity.”
• He states the implication plainly: “helping the poor…actually will affect our salvation,” because of “everlasting home.”
• He anticipates objections: it may sound “strange…even…heretical,” but insists it is “what Jesus Himself said.”
• He critiques a common evangelical script: the “gates of heaven” question answered by “trusted in you alone,” calling it “not what Jesus said at all.”
• Yet he rejects mechanical earning: we must be in an “obedient love-faith relationship,” and 1 Cor. 13:3 shows giving without love “profits me nothing.”