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Matthew 13:52,
"Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old."
Both the new and old Testament must be taught. There were the truths of the Old Testament from the beginning of creation and written over the centuries, with God dealing directly with His people, and in the process revealing Christ through type and prophecy. Now with the New Testament Christ has come, and He magnified the Old Testament and explained it more perfectly, as well as living it perfectly. We do not throw out or ignore the Old Testament. I am not a "New Testament Christian" whatever that is supposed to mean.
We do not ignore Genesis because Jesus did not ignore Genesis, for Jesus taught about the creation, the marriage of Adam and Eve and they two becoming one flesh; He taught of Noah, and Abraham, and Lot, and Sodom and Gomorrah, saying "Remember Lot's wife." (Luke 17:32) The Apostle Paul did not ignore Genesis, for he taught about Cain and Abel, Noah, Jacob and Esau, Abraham and Sarah, Melchizedek, Isaac, and Jacob, and Joseph. For those who think Genesis is a bunch of myths, it's rather strange Jesus and the Apostles refer to it so much as if history, because it IS history!
Get a KJV Bible with reference verses below the scriptures and you'll find Jesus quotes Deuteronomy 8:3 in Matthew 4:4, He quotes Deuteronomy 6:16 in Matthew 4:7, and Deuteronomy 10:20 in Matthew 4:10. Luke 7:27 quotes Malachi 3:1, and in Mark 12:29-31 Jesus quotes Deuteronomy 6:4 and Leviticus 19:18 saying these are the greatest commandments: "And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.
And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these."
Matthew 13:13-14,
"Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:"
This quotes Isaiah 6:9-10 and references Ezekiel 12:2,
"And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.
Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed."
"Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not: for they are a rebellious house."
The New Testament continually refers back to Moses, and David, and the Prophets. It speaks of Elijah who is recorded in the two Books of the Kings. Jesus speaks of Elijah, as does Paul and James.
Romans 11:2-4,
"God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel saying,
Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal."
James 5:17-18,
"Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.
And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit."
Now do we just ignore the full record of what happened in the Scriptures? God forbid! The Old Testament is so very important to us, and was the only scriptures the early church had! It contains valuable prophecies about Jesus and the end times. You must have a Book of Daniel if you are to begin to understand the Book of Revelation. You must have a Psalm 22 and other Psalms, and the Prophets if you are to understand the many prophecies about Christs first and second coming. And when you read Hebrews chapter 11, the faith chapter, it's all about the saints of the Old Testament. Don't just take those few verses about each person and be satisfied - go and read the full account of them, and that will enrich your faith mightily.
Be as the Bereans were, " These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so." (Acts 17:11)
The scriptures they searched were the Devarim, the Navi'im, and the Ketuvim: the Words or the law, the Torah, the first 5 books of Moses, the Prophets, and the Writings, which make up the Tanakh. That is all they had. The Bereans believed the faith of Christ from the Old Testament.
Peter weaves Old Testament in with his Pentecostal sermon of Acts chapter 2. So don't divorce the Old from the New, for every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old. Scribe here is in the Greek "grammateus" - in this context defined as, "a religious teacher: so instructed that from his learning and ability to teach advantage may redound to the kingdom of heaven"
So let us then bring forth treasures, both new and old.
"As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.
The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold." - Job 28:5-6
"And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the LORD, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel." - Isaiah 45:3
Shall we neglect such beautiful passages of scripture? No! Let's not. And while Job is talking literal science there, there is a far greater meaning in that passage, and I think that may be the next message already being formulated in my spirit! HalleluYAH!
The Word of God, who is Jesus the Living Word, is the entire Bible, treasures both new and old. Amen.
"Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old."
Both the new and old Testament must be taught. There were the truths of the Old Testament from the beginning of creation and written over the centuries, with God dealing directly with His people, and in the process revealing Christ through type and prophecy. Now with the New Testament Christ has come, and He magnified the Old Testament and explained it more perfectly, as well as living it perfectly. We do not throw out or ignore the Old Testament. I am not a "New Testament Christian" whatever that is supposed to mean.
We do not ignore Genesis because Jesus did not ignore Genesis, for Jesus taught about the creation, the marriage of Adam and Eve and they two becoming one flesh; He taught of Noah, and Abraham, and Lot, and Sodom and Gomorrah, saying "Remember Lot's wife." (Luke 17:32) The Apostle Paul did not ignore Genesis, for he taught about Cain and Abel, Noah, Jacob and Esau, Abraham and Sarah, Melchizedek, Isaac, and Jacob, and Joseph. For those who think Genesis is a bunch of myths, it's rather strange Jesus and the Apostles refer to it so much as if history, because it IS history!
Get a KJV Bible with reference verses below the scriptures and you'll find Jesus quotes Deuteronomy 8:3 in Matthew 4:4, He quotes Deuteronomy 6:16 in Matthew 4:7, and Deuteronomy 10:20 in Matthew 4:10. Luke 7:27 quotes Malachi 3:1, and in Mark 12:29-31 Jesus quotes Deuteronomy 6:4 and Leviticus 19:18 saying these are the greatest commandments: "And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.
And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these."
Matthew 13:13-14,
"Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:"
This quotes Isaiah 6:9-10 and references Ezekiel 12:2,
"And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.
Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed."
"Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not: for they are a rebellious house."
The New Testament continually refers back to Moses, and David, and the Prophets. It speaks of Elijah who is recorded in the two Books of the Kings. Jesus speaks of Elijah, as does Paul and James.
Romans 11:2-4,
"God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel saying,
Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal."
James 5:17-18,
"Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.
And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit."
Now do we just ignore the full record of what happened in the Scriptures? God forbid! The Old Testament is so very important to us, and was the only scriptures the early church had! It contains valuable prophecies about Jesus and the end times. You must have a Book of Daniel if you are to begin to understand the Book of Revelation. You must have a Psalm 22 and other Psalms, and the Prophets if you are to understand the many prophecies about Christs first and second coming. And when you read Hebrews chapter 11, the faith chapter, it's all about the saints of the Old Testament. Don't just take those few verses about each person and be satisfied - go and read the full account of them, and that will enrich your faith mightily.
Be as the Bereans were, " These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so." (Acts 17:11)
The scriptures they searched were the Devarim, the Navi'im, and the Ketuvim: the Words or the law, the Torah, the first 5 books of Moses, the Prophets, and the Writings, which make up the Tanakh. That is all they had. The Bereans believed the faith of Christ from the Old Testament.
Peter weaves Old Testament in with his Pentecostal sermon of Acts chapter 2. So don't divorce the Old from the New, for every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old. Scribe here is in the Greek "grammateus" - in this context defined as, "a religious teacher: so instructed that from his learning and ability to teach advantage may redound to the kingdom of heaven"
So let us then bring forth treasures, both new and old.
"As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.
The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold." - Job 28:5-6
"And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the LORD, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel." - Isaiah 45:3
Shall we neglect such beautiful passages of scripture? No! Let's not. And while Job is talking literal science there, there is a far greater meaning in that passage, and I think that may be the next message already being formulated in my spirit! HalleluYAH!
The Word of God, who is Jesus the Living Word, is the entire Bible, treasures both new and old. Amen.
