Matthew 13:44-46 The Word of God . We use cookies to let us know when you visit our websites, how you interact with us, to enrich your user experience, and to customize your relationship with our website. When our Lord covered the treasure over it was hidden completely in the field of humanity again. ii. For permission to use this content, please review But then they let greed and worry take over their heart and mind, and that chokes out the truth that they know. When he found it, what did he do? Teacher: Show your pearls. New life in Gods kingdom is much more than going to heaven when we die - although that will be wonderful! The kingdom of God is the treasure. No one can ever give all that he has in order to purchase Jesus Christ because he has nothing to give in the first place. The man was so excited to know that he could possibly own that treasure. MATTHEW 13:45-46. Matthew 13, verse 44: "In his joy, he went and sold all he had and bought that field." These two short parables tell the story of the whole Bible. II. He is telling us that it is worth more than everything else. Western democracies say that they have found it. i. He found one that was very valuable. But our treasure - our immeasurably better treasure - has no limit! This is like the kingdom of God because it grows in the hearts of believers, and it grows throughout the world as more and more people enter the kingdom. The success and glory of Jesus seemed only to make them more resentful towards Him. I can take a bite and taste the amazing flavors. i. But then the parable says, "Then in his joy the man went and gave all that he had and bought the field." Say: This summer we have been studying the parables that Jesus taught. A prophet is not without honor except in his own country, and in his own house: We often have wrong ideas about what it means to be spiritual. Pearls are very valuable. The man in Jesus parable found a very valuable pearl. The Word of God. Because each of us sins, none of us can do the perfect will of God. By no means! Copyright 1995, 1996, 1998 by International Bible Society / Used by permission of IBS-STL. She reviewed all the glories of the kingdom of Solomon and was amazed and staggered by what she saw. He himself is deeply involved in it. Website 2023 by Ray Stedman Ministries. b. And as we go through life we are the people who some day discover him. So he went and sold everything he had. You can see that these parables are very much alike. Matthew 13:45 "The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man found and hid again; and from joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. Jesus said, "The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which someone found and hid; then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. It was now subject to the Romans, crushed under the heel of an iron-hearted oppressor. The battle is over the control of man who was created by God and was endowed by God with the power of choice. He was left with nothing. Men have dreamed of finding it for centuries. And do you know that all this is not without its application to us as individuals as well? Matthew 13:45 Parallel Verses [ See commentary ] Matthew 13:45, NIV: Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls. He had been in Washington,D.C., spending some time with a young congressman who is a mutual friend of ours. As we can imagine, he was afraid that when people heard about his discovery, they would sneak onto his land and grab whatever pieces of emerald they could find. 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. Pearls were especially valuable in Jesus day. What a beautiful dream. Something is hidden in the world. A crowd of children and humble folk were the only ones who recognized him and went ahead of him waving palm branches and crying, "Hosanna! And then he did an amazing thing. Jesus said, I have come so they can have life. He states a case where a man would actually "sacrifice his property," and practice diligence and watchfulness to obtain the wealth which he had discovered. When our Lord came into the world and came to Israel he found that this treasure had been lost to the world. Jesus takes away the sin of everyone who trusts in Him (John 1:29). That is what keeps a nation strong. Finally Jesus left the city once more and went out to his death. The treasure is the secret of international peace, of harmony among the nations. ii. We provide you with a list of stored cookies on your computer in our domain so you can check what we stored. It is the best life possible. The old Puritan commentator John Trapp here remarked that unbelief was A sin of that venomous nature, that it transfuseth, as it were, a dead palsy into the hands of omnipotency., 2018 David Guzik No distribution beyond personal use without permission. The kingdom of heaven is like treasure that was hidden in a field. That means a change of mind, repentance, turning again to God and recognizing his presence in our midst. Say: The hard path was a symbol for people who hear Gods word but ignore it. And like the first parable, the man gladly gave up everything he owned to get the pearl. So prone is fallen man to sin, that if the enemy sow the tares, he may . He has but hidden them away again. The parable of the hidden treasure found. Click to enable/disable _gid - Google Analytics Cookie. He sows the tares, and tries to destroy the harvest; and, therefore, the good angels are brought in to celebrate his defeat, and to rejoice together with their Lord in the success of the divine husbandry. (Spurgeon). Why is it that for all our professed ideals, our hopes, and our skills, peace on earth is still a distant objective seen only dimly through the storms and turmoils of our present difficulties?". The rocky places stood for the people who like hearing Gods word at first, but they dont let it take root in their hearts. b. That is why it is not enough to preach the gospel to people; you must also live it. The oyster opens its shell to let water and food in. They have erected great organizations to try to bring it about, to produce this hidden treasure. It is listening to His voice. On our own, we cannot be part of Gods kingdom. That means obedience. Eventually, after several years, it ends up looking like a beautiful, shiny stone called a pearl. Yet it can also be asked out of deep appreciation of the fact that the Son of God took such a noble, lowly place. They have not yet grasped again the lost secret of their nation -- that the nation which walks in right relationship to him, God will heal. The tares represent false believers in the world, the sons of the wicked one, who (like tares among wheat) may superficially look like Gods true people. Jodi is part of the Childrens Ministry team at Grace Fellowship Church, outside of Atlanta. Say: Jesus continued by telling another, similar parable. The field is the world: Significantly, this parable illustrates not necessarily that there will be false believers among true believers in the church (though that is also true to some extent); otherwise Jesus would have explained that the field is thechurch. Place your hands together like an oyster shell. The parable had its fulfilment in them when they, at the bidding of their Lord, forsook all and followed Him. Such, it need hardly be said, has been the story of thousands of the saints of God in every age of the Churchs life from that day to this. Click on the different category headings to find out more. I hope that this is clear to the many of you, especially those of you who are younger, who are earnestly and zealously and quite dedicatedly trying to pursue world peace. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field. (As we saw last time, the parable of the leaven also has been misconstrued to mean something quite different from what our Lord ever intended.) b. 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. Was this a big hidden treasure? And then he demonstrated it by healing the multitudes, by driving the moneychangers out of the temple, by feeding the thousands with bread and fish, and by rebuking death and evil everywhere he went. This is why this nation is here. In 1998, a man named James Hill found a small cave full of emeralds on his familys property in North Carolina. In the short course of the three and a half years of our Lord's ministry he uncovered the treasure of Israel, the secret of this nation's life. After you have been instructed by me, you have the knowledge, not only of the things you used to know, but of things you never knew before, and even the knowledge which you had before is illuminated by what I have told to you. (Barclay), iv. He went into the city riding upon an ass in fulfillment of the prophecy of Zechariah, "Behold, your king is coming to you, humble, and mounted on an ass, on a colt the foal of an ass," (Matthew 21:5, Zechariah 9:9). i. the pearl of great price: who is of an unspeakable brightness and glory, of intrinsic worth and value; who is enriching to those that possess him, and precious to them that believe; and of such a price, that no valuable consideration can be given for him: wherefore such a soul is willing to part with all for him; with sinful self, and righteous self; and with the honours, riches, and profits of this world; and buy him, his grace and righteousness, without money, and without price. We have nothing to offer him, nothing that we can give in return. Even the Jewish people themselves misunderstand it to a large degree. But Jesus said to them, A prophet is not without honor except in his own country and in his own house. Now He did not do many mighty works there because of their unbelief. 4. We never can understand anything until we see it demonstrated before us. III. Then, as you can read in Mark's Gospel, our Lord went into the temple and he stopped the sacrifices. It is not full life because it is life that is separate from God (Isaiah 59:2). Two weeks ago, we read as Jesus compared the kingdom of God to a mustard seed. Pearls were highly prized in that time and place. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.. Jesus compared the kingdom of God to the hidden treasure. Through the pages of the Word of God we are afforded tremendous insights into life. He is saying that NOTHING compares in value to the new life that the King wants to give you. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a dragnet that was cast into the sea and gathered some of every kind, which, when it was full, they drew to shore; and they sat down and gathered the good into vessels, but threw the bad away. Not every oyster has a pearl, and not every pearl is big or round. It was hidden when our Lord came. One of the fascinating things about studying Scripture, especially in a series of parables, is to try to answer questions like that -- to seek to fit the puzzle of the parable to the pattern of life, and see where they correspond. The one thing they have in common is that they were sown of the Lord, and from the good seed of His Word. That shows how much he valued this pearl of great price, and how much Jesus values His people. As opposition began to mount against him and resistance to his message increased, our Lord withdrew from Jerusalem and went out into the desert. Thank God for those documents, but they have no power to hold us together as a people, to preserve our national liberties or our national life. There they stand ready, being prepared right now to discover again, finally, the secret of their life. All this has happened exactly as our Lord said and all of it is visible in history. 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. Since these providers may collect personal data like your IP address we allow you to block them here. The point of the parables is completely different; the parable of the soils shows how men receive and respond to the Word of God, and the parable of the tares of the field shows how God will divide His true people from false believers at the end of this age. They know there is some kind of tie between them, but they don't know what it is. He felt the condemnation of a righteous God. When the man found the treasure, he could have covered it back up, gone about his business, and forgotten all about it. Where did this Man get this wisdom and these mighty works? 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). a. But you know what happened. Never, anywhere in Scripture is salvation ever offered to us as something we have to buy, or can buy. RayStedman.org/permissions. And the field, he has told us, is the world, the world of humanity, the human race, all of society. the possession of the forgiving and cleansing grace of God which is in Jesus Christ. But it is very evident that neither has found this secret. These were the best she had to offer. Share your treasure! ii. The reason he joyfully goes and sells all that he has and buys that field, is that the man understands its true value. The oyster creates a coating that covers the sand or shell. This parable tells us that. We come to the fifth parable this morning, the parable of the buried treasure. We are absolute paupers in God's sight. He lamented over this recalcitrant city and said, "O Jerusalem, killing the prophets and stoning those who are sent to you! But this will always prompt you to accept/refuse cookies when revisiting our site. He knew the aching loneliness, the heartache, the misery, the rejection, the sense of despair, of self-loathing, of emptiness and worthlessness and meaninglessness, and the awful hostility that sin engenders. Or maybe the field was for sale and the man was looking it over before deciding whether to buy it. 45 "Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls. i. The kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field. 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. But in that same parable he said that an enemy would come and sow tares, or weeds, are that these would grow up right alongside the wheat. Life outside of the kingdom of God is way less than God intended it to be. But we need to recognize that the parable of the treasure hidden in the field is the first of a series of three which our Lord gave in connection with the other four and on the same day, but, as Matthew is careful to tell us, he gave these to the disciples alone after they had gone back into the house. Then he went and gave all that he had and bought that field of humanity. The Lord Jesus says that he came and uncovered for a brief time the secret of world peace and prosperity. Though they are surrounded and ringed by enemies armed to the teeth who are vowing to wipe every Jew off the face of the earth, Nevertheless, as is obvious, they do not understand the secret of their own life and are trying to produce peace and stability by democratic methods and consensus and compromise. Something was hidden, lost in the human race, but he uncovered it. Jesus is speaking in parables to describe the kingdom of heaven. And she brought with her a great retinue bearing exotic spices, gold, silver, precious stones, beautiful cloth, an amazing array of presents for King Solomon. 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. b. In the days of David, and especially in those of Solomon who followed, the world beat a path to Israel to see what God was doing. But when they do, Paul tells us, they will cause the earth to blossom and the world will move into its promised inheritance. (7) Few men understand how great the riches of the kingdom of heaven are, and that no man can be a partaker of them but he that redeems them with the loss of all his goods. Jesus makes it clear that we should not let anything keep us from entering the kingdom of God. Assuming that the disciples did understand, they had an advantage over many among the multitudes. But the wonderful thing the Lord tells us here is that he has not given up his purpose. Click to enable/disable _gat_* - Google Analytics Cookie. If you want to see how God will act with you as an individual then look at the way he has been acting with Israel as a nation. In the dying of Jesus there, one element of what was accomplished was that he might finally purchase the right to set Israel again among the nations as a model nation so that the world might learn how to live in peace. I hope you never open your Bibles without the sense that here is a book which gives you vital, inside information which you can get from no other source and which will help you to understand yourself, and life, and the mystery of history, more than you possibly could in any other way. God has said that if you will turn back to him, as Israel will some day, he stands ready to heal, ready to forgive, ready to wipe out all the failures, all the transgressions, and to begin in your experience to cause your life to blossom and to come into abundance. Paul says of Israel, So I ask, have they stumbled so as to fall? This parable powerfully teaches that it is Gods job to divide in judgment. I want to read these twin parables of the hidden treasure and the pearl of great price because they link so closely together, although we will look only at the first one this morning. Matthew 12. For more than four hundred years Israel had been an obscure, tiny little nation. The fate of these ungodly ones will be fire, the most terrible of punishments; but this will not annihilate them; for they shall exhibit the surest tokens of a living woe wailing and gnashing of teeth. (Spurgeon). That is what our Lord wants us to ask. 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, These were men of the Word, and when our Lord spoke this parable, they would clearly remember the words of Exodus19. Notice that there are two things in this story which are immediately recognizable because we have had them before. They have not found it yet. Jesus told a parable about a man who found something in a field that he did not own. God has his buried treasures and he is speaking of them in this parable. The treasure was too great to forget about! And sometimes a piece of sand or shell gets in. In a land as frequently ravaged as Palestine, many people doubtless buried their treasures; butto actually find a treasure would happen once in a thousand lifetimes. Life outside the kingdom is sort of like this. Around us the storms may gather, but let us not shut out the hope that the burdens of fear and want may be lifted for a glorious era from the bruised and weary shoulders of mankind. He promises that it will grow - and God ALWAYS keeps His promises! When they were cut and polished, they were worth millions of dollars. (Matthew 13:44-46 RSV). But was not that an honest occupation? (Trapp), iii. The parables describe how the kin (g)dom of heaven emerges from something almost invisible to the eye and grows exponentially, offering us sustenance, a treasure worthy of all our attention and resources. Jodi has a passion for Biblical ac More, The Net Pastors Journal, Eng. i. And it is hidden within that human field so that Jesus had to buy the field in order to get the treasure. And then he went and gave all that he had and bought the field in which it is hidden. You can also change some of your preferences. He probably laid awake each night thinking about the treasure until it was his. Last week, we read Jesus parable about the four soils. Yet the point is clear, both in the world and in the kingdom community. iv. THE PARABLE OF THE PEARL OF GREAT PRICE "Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a merchant seeking fine pearls" (v. 45). Is not His mother called Mary? (Matthew 23:37, Luke 13:34). Yet they do, and are worthy of respect because of that role. Now we turn to these three private parables given to the disciples: The parable of the hidden treasure, the parable of the pearl of great price, and the parable of the dragnet. 45 "Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls. There is a man, and there is a field. Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the website, refusing them will have impact how our site functions. i. The kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking beautiful pearls: Again, Jesus is the buyer and the individual believer is the pearl that He sees as so valuable that He would happily give all to have it forever. How do you find this secret? Instead, he leaves it there, sells everything he has, and buys the field in order to get the treasure it contains. These two parables speak of how highly the King values the people of His kingdom. Subject to permissions policy, all rights reserved. How often would have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not! As we learned two weeks ago, the kingdom of God will grow and grow! The person who finds the treasure joyfully "sells all" to buy the field (13:44). God has gathered this nation together again, brought in the people from the outlying countries of the world, gathered his dispersed from the four corners of the earth, and brought them back into the land. The "sea" here is clearly the world, since that is where people are gathered from by the angels (Matt. All rights reserved worldwide. It would grow into an ungainly tree with many great branches, a powerful, prestigious structure that would attract birds of prey, evil men who would come into the church and build their nests there, i.e., establish their authority there, and thus would produce something entirely different than the effective, pungent, but low-profile approach to humanity that the Lord desired. No! Jesus had entered Jerusalem in what we call the triumphal entry. 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 . I don't know what that may evoke in your mind. 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. Say: Pearls come from oysters. They are intended to demonstrate how any nation can be blessed and fulfilled and find prosperity and peace and harmony and happiness if they discover the secret of their relationship to God. And he bought that pearl. So, if there are some among us here, who, like Israel, have temporarily turned away from God and have been walking away from him, who may, like Israel, once have had sweet fellowship with the Lord but lately have been resisting, have turned aside and gone back, have lost faith and now are wandering in perplexity, puzzlement, and bewilderment, in obscurity, weakness, and defeat, nevertheless God's promises to you are just as sure as they are to Israel. Our heavenly Father, how we thank you for the marvelous truth that you, Lord, have bought the world, that it belongs to you, and that you shall some day rule and reign in power and glory in its midst and all your promises shall be fulfilled. b. Click to enable/disable Google reCaptcha. Application: When we discover that we can enter Gods kingdom, we have a choice to make, just as the man in the field did. These two would grow up together and sometimes would be difficult to distinguish, especially at the beginning, but eventually would make their real nature known. The Parables of the Hidden Treasure and the Pearl. They fit together but they are not talking about exactly the same thing. The previous three parables (the wheat and the tares, the mustard seed, and the leaven) each spoke of corruption in the kingdom community. Is this not the carpenters son? he said (Matthew 23:13, et al). There was no voice of God in their midst, no prophet speaking forth from God. Instead of being received by the rulers and leaders of the people he was rejected. God is speaking to this nation which he has given the Law and he says, "Now therefore, if you will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then you shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people:" Exodus 19:5a KJV). The seed starts out really small, but in time it grows to be one of the largest plants in the garden. Then he covered it over again when it was rejected by the people. Such, we may well believe, had been the history of the publicans and the fishermen who made up the company of the Twelve. When the world sees again a visible manifestation of what God intends a nation to do, then the nations will learn world peace. Ask: Who can remember the four different soils Jesus talked about? The merchant "sold all" to buy the pearl. And the nations of earth will never learn this righteousness finally, until Israel stands once again as a nation before God, recognizing the presence of God in their midst and providing a working model of how every nation ultimately shall be run by the provision and power of God. Divide your class into at least two relay race teams. He set them out as a sample, an example nation, to indicate by visible demonstration what God wants to be and to do with all the other nations of the world. A small degree of knowledge is not sufficient for a preacher of the Gospel. But is it only a dream? Treasure seekers searched the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf, and the Indian Ocean to find oysters with pearls inside. It was a partial demonstration, never complete, never full. You can read them in Matthew23 in the sharp series of woes that he pronounced against the Pharisees and the scribes. This is what we human beings need. Usually people take it to mean that God has chosen the Jews for a special destiny, to mean that they are to have special and uniquely privileged treatment, different than any other nation enjoys. goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth the field: which is not to be interpreted literally and properly; though a man that knows the worth and value of the Bible, rather than be without one, would part with all his worldly substance for one; but figuratively, and denotes the willingness of such souls, who are led into the glory, fulness, and excellency of the word of God, the scriptures of truth, and of the immense treasure of the Gospel therein, to part with all that has been, or is dear unto them; with their sins, and self-righteousness; with their good names and characters; their worldly substance, and life itself, for the sake of the Gospel, and their profession of it: and may also design the use of all means, to gain a larger degree of light and knowledge in the Gospel. Well, is it not obvious that there is something lost with relation to humanity, something every human being seems to be seeking, consciously or unconsciously, something every thinking person in this room and throughout the world is searching for and longing for with an ache that is almost physical? But the exciting thing about Scripture is that in it we are always dealing with fact, not fancy. So they were offended at Him. Eventually he came again into the city and there he pronounced solemn and serious words of judgment against the nation. Is this not the carpenters son: This question was asked out of ignorant prejudice. She wasn't just Queen for a Day. Finding the treasure appears to be by chance. God has not forgotten Israel. You see, as our Lord indicates, it is something related to the field, to humanity. Mr. Hill, the man who found emeralds in his backyard, hired guards to keep watch over his treasure. 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. You need only read the book of Deuteronomy to know that God set aside this people, the Jews, in order that they should be a showcase of theocracy to all the other nations of the world. People bring the same charge against Jesus today; I see those associated with Him, and they seem lowly or very normal; Jesus must also not be special., c. Where then did this Man get all these things: Their reception of Jesus was not welcoming or friendly. Him, nothing that we should not let anything keep us from entering the kingdom of is. The parable had its fulfilment in them when they, at the bidding of unbelief., they had an advantage over many among the multitudes find oysters with pearls inside us here that. I ask, have they stumbled so as to fall lost to the world sees again a visible of... 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