Matthew 13:51 “Have you understood all these things?” They said to him, “Yes.” 52 And he said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house, who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old.”
The lessons Jesus taught with these parables, one after another, are what He wants His trusted friends to learn and what they need to understand. They’re short stories that seem casual in their simplicity but they contain the “secrets of the kingdom of heaven”…you must want to see and hear them. “Have you understood all these things?”
Have you understood what it means to be a scribe? A scribe records all decisions, actions and issues noted by the group during meetings, as well as recording significant discussion. Have you understood what it means to be trained in a particular skill or type of behavior through practice and instruction over a period of time? Have you understood it’s the nature of that practice that makes you like the master of a house? In God’s kingdom you are a house and He’s built it for you to live in. Have you understood you’re the place He’s storing treasures? Some are new. They never existed before this training and now for the first time they’ve been discovered. Some are old. They are carefully kept remnants from the past that are evidence of what has already been received. Have you understood that while you are writing your record of decisions, actions and issues in the present, Jesus is saving them all as part of His inheritance for you in the kingdom of heaven?
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