How God Values You
G (GOD)-mail: From the Heart of the Bridegroom to His Bride
Beloved, I have a special message to share with you today from the heart of the Bridegroom. This revelation has the potential to bring you great astonishment, joy, and delight! I can't wait to pass this precious gift on to you. They are two hidden gems within the book of Matthew. Two parables, that when viewed through a specific lens will help you unlock the truth of what you mean to God.
Here’s the bottom-line of what you need to know: You are priceless.
Now, let me help you to unwrap these two beautiful gift-wrapped packages from the treasures of the Bridegroom's heart.
“The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up. Then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. Mathew 13: 44
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“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls, who, on finding one pearl of great value, went and sold all that he had and bought it. Matthew 13:45-46
These parables are very similar but they have some important distinctions. Let’s unwrap the hidden treasure gift together first.
How God Values His People: The Parable of the Hidden Treasure
In it, you have a man who finds hidden treasure in a field.
Jesus defined very clearly what the field represents in previous parables. You see, just a few verses before Jesus told these two parables, his disciples asked him to explain another parable - the one of the sower and the seed.
He began to break down what each element in that parable represented and said, “The field is the world, and the good seed is the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one,”.
Beloved, the field is the world.
Whatever the treasure is, it is hidden IN the world.
Though the gospel is only revealed to whom God chooses based on his foreknowledge (see John 6:44 and 1 Corinthians 12:3), it is NOT hidden IN the world. The gospel is spiritual and not of this world at all.
Secondly, the man in the parable finds this treasure.
Loved of God, I want you now to take a look at the pictures portrayed of God searching and seeking in the following verses:
Ezekiel 34:11; 16 “For thus says the Lord God: Behold, I, I myself will search for my sheep and will seek them out. I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and the fat and the strong I will destroy.
Isaiah 62:12 And they shall be called The Holy People, The Redeemed of the Lord; and you shall be called Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken.
Matthew 18:12 What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray?
Luke 19:10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.
John 4:23 But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him.
Precious One, God is consistently portrayed in Scripture as the one searching and seeking.
The Bridegroom intends for you to understand that He himself is the man who found the treasure!
Now, Beloved take a look at just one verse where the Bible talks about treasure.
Deuteronomy 26:18 The Lord has today declared you to be His people, a treasured possession, as He promised you, and that you should keep all His commandments;
The Hebrew word for treasured here is c@gullah (Strong’s 05459) and it means possession, valued property, or treasure.
Keeping that in your mind, now take a look at this next set of verses:
Malachi 3:17 “They shall be mine, says the Lord of hosts, in the day when I make up my treasured possession, and I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him.
Psalm 135:4 For the Lord has chosen Jacob for himself, Israel as his own possession.
Exodus 19:5 Now then, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be My own possession among all the peoples, for all the earth is Mine;
Deuteronomy 14:2 For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for His own possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.
Deuteronomy 7:6 For you are a holy people to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for His own possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.
Isaiah 62:3 You shall be a crown of beauty in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.
Of whom are these scriptures speaking?
God’s people!!
Beloved, if you belong to God, then YOU are the treasure He has found!
You can also see this clearly in the parables of lost things in Luke 15. Can you discern a picture of each part of the Godhead playing a role in the searching and restoration process?
A Shepherd who leaves the ninety-nine sheep to find the one, and then rejoices and celebrates over its restoration (Jesus).
A woman who loses one of ten coins and searches diligently until it is found, and then rejoices and celebrates its restoration to her. (The Holy Spirit).
A father, actively looking for his son to come home, who then rejoices greatly and plans a huge celebration over having that prodigal son returned to him (The Father).
Now, I have a question for you, Loved of God?
What emotion did the man experience in the parable of the hidden treasure as a result of finding it?
Joy! The Bridegroom's heart is bursting with delight at his discovery!
Now, let’s look at the final part of this first parable.
It says that as a result of discovering this treasure, this man does two things: he hides it, and then he sells everything he has to purchase it.
The key to understanding the hidden portion of this parable was also given in one of the parables told just before these two: the parable about the weeds explained in Matthew 13:36-43.
In that parable, Jesus spoke of the wheat and tares growing together, and not being separated until the end of the age.
What does the Bridegroom want you to understand from this?
Simply that wheat and tares look similar on the outside, but they are not the same. Wheat is of God, whereas the tares are of the enemy. It is God’s angels who will do the separating at the end of the age.
Lastly, there is a transaction that takes place.
A purchase.
This man sells ALL that he has to make the purchase.
EVERYTHING.
Now, Cherished One, it is not you that has given everything for the Kingdom, but rather God who gave everything for you.
God gave everything he could possibly give.
For you.
He gave HIMSELF.
Can you see now how God values you, Beloved?
He came as a man for the purpose of offering a perfect sacrifice to redeem you from the hand of the enemy. He bankrupted Heaven to buy you back…to redeem you!
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16
Treasured of God, the value of an object is determined by how much one is willing to pay for it. Do you realize that YOU are so valuable to God that LIFE himself was willing to DIE, just for you??? Is that not the most beautiful, gorgeous GOOD NEWS you’ve ever heard or even conceived of?
But it wasn’t the world that Jesus really wanted or for whom He was willing to lay down his life.
It was the Chosen Ones, the one who would choose him!
I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours. All mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them. And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one. While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves. I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth. “I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, 21 that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. John 17:9-19
AMAZING!!!
Now, here’s where the realization of the immeasurable value that God places on your life will leave you breathless.
The second parable!
How God Values You: The Parable of the Pearl of Great Value
In this parable, the merchant is searching for treasure. Again, in it you can see a picture of God searching and seeking out His people, his treasured possession.
But this time, the story mentions not a collective treasure, but a pearl.
A single pearl!
ONE pearl of great value.
Do you understand what this means, Blessed One?
It means that God, the creator, the giver and origin of life was willing to give everything He had for ONE SINGLE SOUL!!!!!!
Have you passed out yet, Beloved?!?!?
Do you see God’s heart, his faithfulness, his commitment, his absolute passion and unfailing love for YOU?
What a mystery the Bridegroom is!
If you don’t know Him yet, please know that pursuing his heart with everything you have is worth every remaining second that you have left on this earth.
The Bridegroom is a love like no other. His is a love that FULLY heals, restores, delivers, cleanses, and makes whole.
He desperately wants to share His love with you, Precious Child. The Bridegroom wants to restore you to the beautiful work of art that He envisioned when He first thought of you in eternity past.
Won’t you let Him?
Please come to His feet while His invitation is till open. There is nothing this world can offer you greater than being restored in an intimate relationship with the true and living God.
The Bridegroom loves you beyond what you can conceive or imagine, Dear One.
He REALLY, REALLY loves you.
Beloved, do get to know Him while He can be found. He's waiting patiently for your consent.
Will you accept His invitation into intimacy with Him right now?
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