This stood for the people who hear Gods word and believe it fully. The problem with his emerald treasure was that there was a limited supply. Jesus is not pointing out what we must give up to enter His kingdom. These were men of the Word, and when our Lord spoke this parable, they would clearly remember the words of Exodus19. Click to enable/disable _ga - Google Analytics Cookie. This is a dream and a vision that men have long held. These parables afford us a glimpse behind the scenes of history into factors and forces which are at work today but which we would never find reported on the pages of the newspaper. . Click to enable/disable Google Analytics tracking. i. b. law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus makes him free from the law of sin and death, , ut pleno jure thesaurum possideret omnemque litium occasionem praecideret, , Three other parables: the Treasure, the Pearl, the Net. They speak skeptically and will refer to Him only as this Man.. Thus the extravagance of the parable dramatizes the supreme importance of the kingdom. (Carson), ii. It is having His peace, His joy, His love, and His power. The previous three parables (the wheat and the tares, the mustard seed, and the leaven) each spoke of corruption in the kingdom community. MATTHEW 13:45-46. Jesus compared the kingdom of God to the hidden treasure. The goal of this game is to be the team who collects the most pearls in their bucket. It is: Ua mau ke ea o ka aina ika pono, which I am sure you understand means, "The life of the land is preserved by righteousness." This one features a merchant in search of fine pearls. But in this parable, the man was actively looking for the treasure. When a man found it, he hid it again. And our Lord found the nation in bondage, the temple overrun with moneychangers, commercial charlatans making a fast buck by preying upon the worship of the people. He went home and sold everything he owned: his house, his furniture, his jewelry, his sheep and goats. 'Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls; on finding one pearl of great value, he went and sold all that he had and bought it . The Lord Jesus says that he came and uncovered for a brief time the secret of world peace and prosperity. Yet the point is clear, both in the world and in the kingdom community. c. The enemy who sowed them is the devil: Clearly, the enemy plants counterfeits in the world and in the kingdom community, and this is why merely being a member of the Christian community isnt enough. His conscience is uneasy. He is saying that NOTHING compares in value to the new life that the King wants to give you. These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our website is being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customize our website and application for you in order to enhance your experience. 13:44 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. And as we go through life we are the people who some day discover him. If our country forgets that, it will lose its ability to stand as a nation among the other nations of the world. This parable powerfully teaches that it is Gods job to divide in judgment. i. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.. 36-43 This parable represents the present and future state of the gospel church; Christ's care of it, the devil's enmity against it, the mixture there is in it of good and bad in this world, and the separation between them in the other world. All rights reserved worldwide. The kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field. Our website uses cookies to store user preferences. Yet He carefully said that the field is the world. These two parables speak of how highly the King values the people of His kingdom. It is the very ordinariness of Jesus home background that causes the astonishment (cf. Where then did this Man get all these things?. 2007 BibleLessons4Kidz.com All rights reserved worldwide. It represents the experience, not of a careless or a profane man, who stumbles suddenly upon the Gospel when he was in in search of other things, but of one who is awakened, and has begun to seek the true religion, endeavouring to add attainment to attainment sincerely, according to his light. And the queen's heart melted and she said, "I didn't believe the reports until I had seen all this with my own eyes, but the half has never been told me," (1Kings 10:7). And then he did an amazing thing. Our Lord came and he bought the whole field so that someday he might use the treasure hidden in it to make the world blossom with glory. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field. -- for if the miracles done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon [which were pagan communities], they would have repented long ago. Treasure seekers searched the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf, and the Indian Ocean to find oysters with pearls inside. Years ago I was struck by the closing words of a great address that Winston Churchill gave at Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1950: What prizes lie before all the people if they are worthy of them: peace, food, happiness, leisure, wealth for the masses never known nor dreamed of, the glorious advance into a period of rest and safety for all the hundreds of millions of homes where little children play by the fire, and girls grow up in all their beauty, and young men strive and win in the free enterprise of life. The total weight of the emeralds was about 3,300 carats. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field." Explanation and Commentary of Matthew 13:44 We speak of the Jews as "the chosen people," and unfortunately a very grave misconception of that phrase has arisen. So it will be at the end of the age. This parable may be understood of Christ's seeking, finding, and purchasing his elect: for, certain it is, that he has sought after them; which implies, that they were lost and going astray; expresses his great love to them, value for them, and desire after them; in doing which, he took much pains, and used much diligence: and certain it also is, b. So did Jesus himself, at the utmost cost, buy the world to gain his church, which was the treasure which he desired. (Spurgeon), Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking beautiful pearls, who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had and bought it.. Click to enable/disable _gid - Google Analytics Cookie. You cannot read the Gospel stories without seeing that there came a time in our Lord's ministry when he began to change his message and turn away from the proclamation that the kingdom of heaven was at hand, that he was there in their midst. Consider the words of Jim Elliot, He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose. The emphasis is not on what we give up, but on the unfathomable new life that is being offered to us. You remember that in the first parable our Lord informed us by means of the story that he would engage in a great sowing of the Word of God throughout the world and that it would fall on four kinds of hearts. Hard path, rocky places, thorny, and good soil. She was no inconsiderable monarch herself. He himself is deeply involved in it. Matthew 13:45-46. But even that partial realization was a magnificent model of what God could do with any nation. Finding the treasure appears to be by chance. What does Matthew 13:44 mean? You see, as our Lord indicates, it is something related to the field, to humanity. For 1900 years Israel was utterly lost among the nations, dispersed. Ed, Issue 46, Winter 2023. (Romans 11:15 RSV). Instead, Jesus is the man who gave all that He had to buy the field. d. The reapers are angels The Son of Man will send out His angels: We often dont consider that the angels of God have a special role in the judgment of the world. Say: Pearls come from oysters. But through their trespass salvation has come to the Gentiles, so as to make Israel jealous. It is recorded in the motto of that fiftieth state. The Word of God. The treasure is the secret of international peace, of harmony among the nations. But Jesus came to make the kingdom available to everyone (Mark 1:15). Augustine made the interpretation official struggling against the DonatistsMost Reformers followed the same line. (Carson). We are absolute paupers in God's sight. We want to be the kind of good soil that Jesus talked about. This week I was talking with Bill Gwinn, the director of Mt. Click to enable/disable Google reCaptcha. And sometimes a piece of sand or shell gets in. That shows how much he valued this pearl of great price, and how much Jesus values His people. The man was so excited to know that he could possibly own that treasure. Woe to you, Bethsaida! The kingdom of God is the treasure. Now notice, secondly, the concealment of the treasure. That is what keeps a nation strong. In the great series of parables in Matthew13 our Lord gave us, as he said, "The secrets of the kingdom of heaven." Listen for answers. RayStedman.org/permissions. I. If you do not want that we track your visit to our site you can disable tracking in your browser here: We also use different external services like Google Webfonts, Google Maps, and external Video providers. Jesus takes away the sin of everyone who trusts in Him (John 1:29). But it is very evident that neither has found this secret. Jesus came and offered the kingdom. The story of a God who wanted to rescue you and me so badly that he left the royal courts of heaven, and lived on this earth as a humble human being. Yet they had lost the secret of their own lives. b. The Parables of the Hidden Treasure and the Pearl. He entered into all of that. I am sure that these disciples understood this because they were Jews themselves, and they knew their people's history, and what the Old Testament revealed about them. He was full of joy over this discovery. Everyone who chooses to trust in Him has kingdom life - life to the fullest! But in our own time we are facing an amazing wonder, one of the most remarkable things that has ever taken place in the annals of men, and one of the most dramatic demonstrations of the truth of the Word of God! When a person sees it and hears it, it is his duty to sacrifice all that hinders his obtaining it, and to seek it with the earnestness with which other people seek for gold. For Israel, even in rejection, even in failure, is still an example to the people of the world. This powerfully shows how Jesus gave everything to redeem the whole world to preserve a treasure in it, and the treasure is His people. i. They bring to mind the words of Philippians2: "Though he was equal with God he did not count it a thing to be held on to But he emptied himself, disenfranchised himself, pauperized himself -- he gave all that he had -- and became obedient unto death, even death on a cross," (Philippians 2:8). And for joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field: The treasure so wonderful that Jesus would give all to purchase is the individual believer. Please be aware that this might heavily reduce the functionality and appearance of our site. Of what God could do with any nation jewelry, His sheep and goats the interpretation official struggling the. - life to the Gentiles, so as to make the kingdom available to (... 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