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According to the two parables, the treasure which each man acquired cost all that they The man who found the hidden treasure sold everything he had to buy the field and its treasure. The merchant who discovered the pearl of great price did the same. He gave everything he had to buy that pearl.
But that costs dearly, doesn't it? We're going to live the life of the kingdom. We're going to have to part with many things. Careers that we might like to have are going to be closed to us because our Sabbath observance. The way things are going, it may come a time not in too distant future whe
Because the gospel is a message of free grace and free justification, free salvation, by grace alone, through faith alone in Christ alone. Christ paid the price. Christ paid it not with corruptible things, Peter says, like silver and gold, but with his own precious blood. He paid the price to pu
To this hard-sell pitch the pilgrims answer, We buy the truth! We buy the Pearl of great price. We buy the Treasure hidden in the field. We will buy the truth at any cost. No price is too dear for it. Buy the truth! That commodity you must buy and never sell, give all for it and never exchange it. I
Although the kingdom and its salvation are God's free gift in Jesus, they nevertheless have a great price. The man who discovered the treasure hid in the field sold all that he had to buy the field and acquire the treasure he had found. In like manner, the merchant who found the pearl he had been se
Compare Joshua 8:20, 21: Matt. 25:18. The second parable compares the kingdom to a pearl of great price. Pearls in Scripture denote something precious, e.g. in Matt. 7:6: compare also Rev. 21:21. Both these comparisons emphasize that the things of God’s kingdom are of inestimable value. How coul
and went and sold all that he had in order that he might buy that field where he had made his find. In the second parable, we see a traveling merchant carrying on his own business. He was a jeweler, a dealer in precious stones. But he was a specialist. whose specialty happened to be dealing in p