"Have
you understood all these things?" They said to Him, "Yes." And
Jesus said to them, "Therefore every scribe who has become a disciple of
the kingdom of heaven is like a head of a household, who brings out of his
treasure things new and old."
Insights:
These verses tell us the proclamation of the parable of the net. The verb “understood” literally means to put
it together. In other words, Jesus is
telling them to put it all together. Put
it together that this form of the kingdom has good and evil going together. That the good is going to continue to
permeate, continue to grow, continue to influence. That in order to be a part of the kingdom you
have to purchase it by giving all you have for all Christ is. It is as if Jesus is asking them, “Do you see
that it's going to go along like this with good and evil until the end and then
comes a final separation? Do you have it?”
And I believe Jesus accepted the correctness of their affirmative
answer, otherwise He wouldn't have said what He did in verse 52. Jesus discipled and trained them, now they
were prepared to go out and proclaim this good news. The imagery of verse 52 portrays a man who is
the head of his house. And this man has a storehouse and out of that storehouse
he dispensed to people their needs. They
needed a certain kind of food, they needed a certain kind of clothing, they
needed a certain kind of care, whatever it was they needed, he dispensed. He was wise enough to dispense the new and
the old. He did this so that the old
would not become useless. That's an interesting verb that's used here to
describe the dispensing of goods. It literally
means to fling out, or to scatter abroad. In other words, you've got all these
treasures now, fling it out. In other words,
this head of the household is so rich that he is able to give liberally to
those in need. Beloved, now that you've
been discipled and now that you are trained biblical scholars and teachers
fling it out, give them the Old Testament and the New Testament in perfect
balance. If you can't get your heart
motivated about the fact that people are dying and going to hell every second
you breathe, then there's something wrong.
That's the epitome of selfishness. Our Christianity today has lost this urgency
and lavishness somehow. Spread the good
news. Tell the world about the Lord and
Savior, Jesus Christ!
Questions:
- Are you telling others about the amazing love of Jesus?
- Do you need the Lord to soften your heart to make it more pliable to share the love of Jesus?
Prayer: Father, help me
to see the world with Your eyes. Give me
the courage and boldness to share Jesus with those lost and perishing. Amen.
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