Thursday, July 28, 2016

Matthew 13: 47-53

Jesus said to the disciples:
“The Kingdom of heaven is like a net thrown into the sea,
which collects fish of every kind.
When it is full they haul it ashore
and sit down to put what is good into buckets.
What is bad they throw away.
Thus it will be at the end of the age.
The angels will go out and separate the wicked from the righteous
and throw them into the fiery furnace,
where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth.”

“Do you understand all these things?”
They answered, “Yes.”
And he replied,
“Then every scribe who has been instructed in the Kingdom of heaven
is like the head of a household who brings from his storeroom
both the new and the old.”
When Jesus finished these parables, he went away from there.

God’s judgment will be on all mankind, believer and non-believer alike. We will all be gathered together and then separated according to the way we lived our lives. The good will inherit God’s royal nature. The bad will be cast into the abyss. This story is told many different ways throughout scripture so that all can hear it in the way they best can understand it. The second part is the more important part to those who have been called by God to be a minister.

Then every scribe who has been instructed in the Kingdom of heaven is like the head of a household who brings from his storeroom both the new and the old.

Everyone who has heard the voice of the Lord has the responsibility to spread that good news to all who will hear it. As a husband and father I am the head of the domestic church. If the head of any church does not have a life centered in Christ that head will lead the church astray. Ordained clergy are set aside by God to lead the greater church closer to him. On these leaders is placed a greater responsibility to hear the voice of the Lord and to pass it on to the people with the fullness of truth and love.