Sermon Tone Analysis

Broken Vessels

Matthew

When Judas threw the money back with which he had been paid to betray Jesus, he then went and hanged himself.

Yet because this was blood-money the priests could not accept the money back.

We are told in the scriptures that the money was used to purchase a potters field which was bought to become a burial place for foreigners.

A potters field was land of very low value, when a potter pulled his wares out of the kiln there would inevitably be some pots that would have fractured or split in the firing process and in these days long before waste collections all that the potter could do was remove the broken pieces and throw them into the field.

Over time these broken shards would mount up to such a degree that the land itself became next to useless.

After-all you can’t grow anything or graze animals on a piece of land that has thousands of broken pots discarded on it.

Therefore fields used by potters were regarded such low quality that there was little else they could be used for other than for burying the dead.

In we also read about this occasion;

It could be said therefore that Jesus’ blood money was spent to redeem a field of broken vessels and lifeless bodies.

In fact even the place where the traitor died was purchased with the blood of Jesus Christ.

So the next time you feel as though you have let Jesus down, or you feel broken, rejected or of little value.

Remember that the blood of Jesus redeems exactly that.