Parable Treasure In Field & Great Pearl
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Matthew 13:44–46 (KJV 1900)
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls: Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.
The central truth of these two parables is that the kingdom of heaven must be personally appropriated.
Each person has to do it for themselves. It is not obtained by natural inheritance, as one automatically becomes a member of his parents’ race or a citizen of their country. Both parables center around a single individual who sacrifices all that he has in order to personally obtain that which has become immeasurably valuable to him.
Scripture makes abundantly clear that salvation is totally the free gift of God. Yet interpreted in the right way, salvation is bought in the sense that the person who accepts Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior surrenders everything he has to Him.
The kingdom is priceless. The parables express the value of salvation
No possession is better.
No beauty is greater. Nothing will show this like the end.
The apostle Paul said, “I count all things loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ”
Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
Moses chose reproach of Christ over riches.
value it above other things
The Kingdoms value is not naturally visible.
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
“A natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God,”
“for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised” (1 Cor. 2:14).
Joy is a by-product of being in the Kingdom. It comes from our born again spirit, and is manifested through obedience to God (Gal. 5:22-23 and John 15:10-11)
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.
These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.
If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.
These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.