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Parables - The Pearl of Great Price

SPEAKER: Pastor Charlie Riley
July 16, 2022

The Pearl Of Great Price
July 16, 2022

Seed and Sower – Kingdom Growth
Wheat and Tares – Kingdom Believers, True and False Believers
Mustard Seed – Kingdom Potential

Matthew 13:44-46
44 “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and hid; and for joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.
45 “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking beautiful pearls, 46 who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had and bought it.”

1st Interpretation
We Find The Kingdom
We Sell Everything For The Kingdom
We Give All To Enter The Kingdom

2nd Interpretation
Treasure In A Field (The World)
Man Finds Treasure And Sells All To Purchase It (God)
Who is the Treasure In The Field & The Pearl of Great Price?

You Are The Treasure In The Field
You Are The Treasure In The Dirt

Genesis 2:7
7 “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.”

He Was After the Treasure, Not the Field

2 Corinthians 4:6-7
6 For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. 7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us.

You Are The Pearl of Great Price

Why Pearls?
Pearl In Jesus’ Day Were Very Costly

Most Expensive Dinner In History
According to author and noted pearl expert Fred Ward, in his book, Pearls, Cleopatra hoped to impress Antony and the Roman Empire he represented with the extent of Egypt’s wealth. In her clever attempt to do so, she crushed one large pearl from a pair of earrings and dissolved it in a goblet of wine (or vinegar), before gulping it down.
“Astonished, Antony declined his dinner—the matching pearl—and admitted she had won,” Ward writes.
The famous story of Cleopatra’s pearls is told by Pliny the Elder in his Natural History. Pliny, often called the world’s first gemologist, estimated the two pearls’ worth at 60 million sestertii, or roughly $28.5 million in today’s dollars.

A Pearl
Originates In Water
Starts with An Irritation
The Only Gem That Comes From The Earth Without The Fire of the Earth
When It’s Being Formed The Light Waves Help

The Greater the Light, The Greater The Luster

It’s A Growth Gem
It’s A Perfect Stone, If It’s Touched, It’s Marred
It’s Very Desirable

What Is Something Worth?
What someone is willing to pay for it!

Leviticus 16:14
He shall take some of the blood of the bull and sprinkle it with his finger on the mercy seat on the east side; and before the mercy seat he shall sprinkle some of the blood with his finger seven times.

Luke 22:44 – Garden of Gethsemane
Matthew 26:67, Micah 5:1 – The Romans Soldiers Beating Him
Matthew 27:26, IS 50:5-6 – The Scourging
Isaiah 50:6 – The Plucking of His Beard
Matthew 27:29 – The Crown of Thorns
Matthew 27:35 – The Crucifixion
John 19:34 – The Spear

His Price
Isaiah 52:13-15 NET
Look, my servant will succeed!
He will be elevated, lifted high, and greatly exalted—
14 (just as many were horrified by the sight of you)
he was so disfigured he no longer looked like a man;
his form was so marred he no longer looked human—

1. Jesus Gave His Very Own Life For You
Revelation 12:11
And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.

2. Satan Tried To Steal Us, Jesus Paid For Us

3. Jesus Would Have Died For One Pearl
“he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had and bought it.”

Jesus Did Not Die For Trash, He Died For Treasure