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Bible Baptist Church

Bradenton, Florida

John Barch

Pearl of Great Price Wk11

Pearl of Great Price                                    Matt 13: 45-46 
Ò The Setting
Ò In the House, Only the Disciples Present
Ò Following the Treasure Parable
Ò The Merchant Was in the Business of Pearls
Ò The Common Interpretation: The Pearl is Christ
Ò Difficulty: The Merchant bought the Pearl or Himself?
Ò The Pearl, It’s Cost & Buyer are A Picture of Christ & the Church  
Ò The Elements
Ò The Merchant Man
Ò merchant man (emporos)-a Dealer Who Made Voyages and Imported Goods
Ò Seeking-Trying to Find by Leaving One Place & Going to Another
Ò The Merchant Man is Christ
Ò Jesus Left Heaven for Earth That By His Blood He Might Purchase the Church
Ò found one… sold all… bought it-While We Were Yet Sinners, Christ Died for Us (Rom 5:8; 2 Cor 8:9; Heb 9:12)
Ò As the Merchant Was Seeking the Pearl, So Christ Seeks the Sinner (Lk 19:10)
Ò sold all that he had-All That He Held On To
Ò bought (agorazo)-Market Place 
Ò The Pearl
Ò Pearl-The Word Comes From a Sanscrit Word Meaning Pure
Ò Pearls Are Not Mentioned in the OT & Weren’t Valued by the Ancient Jews
Ò The Pearl Represents the Church
Ò The Bible Makes a Distinction Between Jews, Gentiles, and the Church ( 1 Cor 10:32) 
Ò How Does it Represent the Church?
Ò Real Pearls Are the Product of a Living Organism
Ò Out of Much Suffering an Object of Beauty is Produced
Ò The Offending Particle Becomes the Pearl of Great Price
Ò How Much More the Sinner Clothed in the Righteousness of Christ Through Faith in His Suffering on the Cross (Jn 1:12) 
Ò The Pearl is a Unity (Eph 4:4-6) 
Ò The Pearl is Formed Slowly and Gradually
Ò Layer By Layer Almost Unobserved
Ò The Church is Being Formed, Since Pentecost, One Sinner At a Time
Ò Largely Unobserved by the World Who Thinks the Gospel is Foolishness (Col 3:3)
Ò The Church is Among the Nations Today
Ò Waters in the Bible Represent Nations (Dan. 7:1–3; Rev. 13:1; 17:15)
Ò Christ Took Us From the Depths of Sin By His Finished Work on the Cross (Ps 40:2, Ps 18:4-6) 
Ò The Pearl is Embedded in Living, But Corruptible, Flesh
Ò Then It is Separated, So That it’s Beauty and Purity Might Be Seen
Ò The Church on Earth is Surrounded By Corruptible Flesh
Ò One Day, We Will Be Separated or Removed By the Rapture
Ò Then Presented As Pure (Eph 5:26-27) 
Ò One Day the Church Will Be on Display Like a Pearl to show the exceeding riches of His grace (Eph 2:7)

 

Published Jul 11 2010, 03:30 PM by jbarch

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