Continuing on in the amazing Parables of Matthew 13. Verses 45-46 here. Thank you for taking a look †
(Matthew 13:45-46) "Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls:
Christ is the man here. "Goodly pearls" Approved and of high value. Beginning with individual that believes.
What's it like in Heaven? How does the LORD operate as opposed to man, those on earth?
(Amazing here. This is the same merchant as in the merchants of the earth from Revelation 18:3, and others in Revelation there. This means going on a long journey like by ship and trading. Christ showing the long drawn out exhaustive work from the cross to reach people here. After this long journey in finding you, would He just throw you away then? No way, no how. That would defeat His own purpose).
Now the difference, as in Revelation 18:3, How God operates as opposed to man, and cheap merchant men here.
Self worth: This is as opposed to a morally bankrupt merchant trader on earth, that sells cheap imitations, Not genuine. Having been sold out. Likewise, doing the same to God's creation.
Goodly and pearls = Genuine and of great value. Like a hard-cut diamond, and all pure. When inspected all thing are looked, put a magnifying glass to it. Likewise, Christ approves, and approves of them pure motives.
Furthermore, belief/repentance that is what it brings. "Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God." What is pure? When your desire and will matches the Lord's desire and will.
(II Corinthians 7:9) "Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing."
(Worldly sorrow to Godly sorrow here. That brings repentance. We see what grieves God in us, what we do towards Him, then others that hurt them in what He says He is against. You protect them in faith just as He would. How He views and values them, and not malicious or careless destruction of property).
(Point is no damage done here, as in you would not throw that pure hard-cut diamond on the ground. So, how much more do we view God's creation and His people. No one certainly views or treats that rock, or something of great value like disposable trash).
To Matthew 13:46,
46Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it."
(Just one. God and you make a majority in this sense. As the merchant man has picked you up and no longer "sailing" your own ship).
(It begins with the individual, as HE created you as an individual. Here is that ransom again. This in itself Christ' exhaustive effort showing every which way the long-suffering exhaustive attempt to reach individual. Try going around the world in promise that you're going to have a treasure, or rocks of great value. But you get there, and you been duped. That is how Christ feels with disingenuous. Thing is here he sold everything He had to get there too. Another example, in the grieving of God here. Sell all you have, get there and nothing? Broken. Certainly emotions of sadness and anger, and ALL righteous of course).
Just as the Lord is long-suffering but He is coming back soon having had enough of His creation hating Him and destroying each other. He is not happy about it.
AMEN!!!!!!!
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