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Here we read a parable that relates to the nature of a Christian. The true Christian will not have a "know it all" attitude; rather they are teachable in the true ways of the LORD. An essential part of growing in Christ is to continually examine the teaching we believe and ask if they are true to the word of God. In 2 Corinthians 13 we read:
"Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates. Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates. For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth. For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection." (2 Corinthians 13:5-9).
Jesus, when speaking in parables told us that when it comes to spiritual knowledge, those who have shall be given more and those that do not have, even what they have shall be taken away. This is the nature of the true child of God, they will have a continual desire to both learn more from the word of God and to do the will of God as well. This is the nature of salvation and a saved individual. The sorce of instruction and learning for the soilder of Christ is found in God's word, the Bible:
"Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper." (Psalm 1:1-3) "For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath." (Matthew 25:29).
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