Jesus the Merchant
Matthew 13:45-46 “Again,
the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls. 46 When he
found one of great value, he went away and sold everything he had and bought
it.”
JESUS compares the Kingdom to a man who buys and sells for
profit. The Kingdom of God is a merchant who found a pearl of great value and
sold everything he had to buy it.
How can a kingdom
be a man? It can be so as the man is the God who became man, Jesus, the King of
the Kingdom of God. Jesus is the embodiment of the Kingdom of God on earth. His
ministry inaugurated the Kingdom purpose on earth that God’s will of salvation for
his elect would be accomplished. God’s people are of great, great value to the
King. They are so valuable that, “God
took the sinless Christ and poured into him our sins. Then, in exchange, he
poured God's goodness into us!” (2 Corinthians 5:21 Today’s Living Bible)
In God’s will, “not
my will, but yours be done” (Luke 2:42) Jesus submitted to the cross to pay the
unfair exchange rate to purchase mankind’s worthless sin with his rich holiness.
And now the King
reigns in majesty in joy and splendor, welcomed to the Father’s throne. His joy
becomes complete as he welcomes his great purchase into his eternal possession.
He calls us “friend” as we are his own, in our King’s possession forever.
LIFE Link: And when, before the throne, I stand in Him
complete, Jesus died my soul to save, My lips shall still repeat. Jesus paid it
all. All to him I owe. Sin had left a crimson stain. He washed it white as
snow. (The hymn I Hear the Savior Say)
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