Gospel Truth Old and New

Jesus told the parable of the householder who brought from his treasures new things and old, and stated that this was the way those who were instructed in the Kingdom of Heaven taught the people.

The treasure for us is God's Word which reveals Gospel truth about Jesus. In Scripture we find many new things during the ministry of the Savior, but they were also old things, recorded by Old Testament prophets, and only "dug out" of the Treasures by those who are instructed in the Kingdom of Heaven!

Christ's ministry was full of such new things - things which the people were astonished at. They were unexpected to them - for example, the way Jesus came meek and lowly, bearing not a sword like they thought Messiah ought.

But this was an old thing about Christ, for Zechariah had foretold that Jesus would come riding, not on a war horse, but on a colt, lowly, and bringing salvation.

The death and resurrection of Jesus were also new things to His disciples. How can Messiah save anybody when He is dead?

The two Emmaus disciples were downcast over this all, but Jesus told them they had failed to believe what the prophets had written about Him - and He then and there instructed them in the old things that they thought were new!

His resurrection, far from being a new thing, had been promised by David - that God would not suffer His Holy One to see corruption!

But surely in Christ's death we find the best examples of a new thing that was actually old. The disciples rejected Christ's teaching that He would suffer and die and rise again.

Yet, Christ's death had been promised by Isaiah, who described how He would die in the place of His people for their sins!