The Pearl of Great Price

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One glimpse of Jesus is going to make you fall

in love with him again and again and again and again,

and you can't have enough of him. It's like if

you are oil and you're walking through a gate of water,

you can't get through.

You've got to become water to get through. You you

with me.

Or if you were water and the gate was oil. Actually,

it doesn't mean that the gate is oil. It means

that you will take oil to go in. And you

have many Christians who avoid sweat.

Means we don't want to sweat for Jesus.

And that too many Christians who are not breaking through

because they are unwilling to go one step higher. Okay, well,

of great price in small letters at the bottom is

the purpose of the irritant. He purposely made it small

because that's the not so good news that pearls need

irritance to produce.

Anyway, let's not get ahead of ourselves.

Let's look at some scripture that show us what the

Bible says about pearls. Okay, here we go Matthew thirteen

forty five to forty six. Okay again, the Kingdom of Heaven,

let's ready would have gone Matthew thirteen forty five to

forty six. The Kingdom of Heaven is like a merchant

seeking beautiful pearls, who when he had found.

One pearl of great price, when and saw all that

he had and bought.

It, meaning he actually sought off exchanged his life. Because

you know why, on the money and possessions and assets

that he has came from his life because he swept

for the money, he worked for the money. He gave

his life for all that he had, so now he's

giving it back in exchange for the pearl.

That was the value the pearl. So this pearl is

very valuable. It is one pearl.

Not see he read looking for beautiful pearls, but he

settled for one, okay, and he gave his life in

exchange for that one. So that pearl that we are

all looking for needs to be worth your life. That

is the kind of value God himself is looking for.

I want you all to understand this scripture is worth

you giving up everything for this one. I'm not sure

whether anyone of you have found it yet, Okay, I

pray you have, like Jesus, should be that pearl of

great price that we give our lives in exchange for

you know.

We got Jesus.

I want you, I want all of you, and you

want my heart. Here's my heart, here's my life. I

give you everything because God, Jesus you are worth more

than any treasure.

Amen. All right, so cool?

But what God is after is that he's after pearl

in our lives.

Let's look at another scripture.

Revelations twenty one twenty one is easy to remember as

far as references concerned, because it's Revelations twenty one twenty one. Okay,

the Bible says the twelve gates in Heaven were twelve pearls.

Each individual gate was off one pearl. Can you imagine

a whole gate. A whole gate is one pearl? Can

you imagine that? And the street of the city was

pure gold, like transparent glass. Heaven is gonna be such

a beautiful place. We're just gonna be so amazed.

Haven't even gone in now to Heaven.

The pearl really is gonna just really cause you to

go wow.

And this is not a normal wow. No, this wow

spelt backwards and you just gonna you just gonna look

at the gate and go like I.

Met, I can't imagine what's awaiting me behind that, because

even the gate amazes me. And as soon as you

enter the gate, the flaw will amaze you, because it's

going to be gold. And the best kind of goal

is like transparent, pure gold, and it's going to be

good enough only for the floor, right the floor, the

lowest of the lowest in heaven.

Pure gold makes it.

And so I'm telling you, if heaven is going to beautiful,

so ours have lost loved ones there there already, and

they're enjoying it so much. And we will join it

one day and we'll all celebrate together.

Amen.

And if there's still any unsaved loved ones that is

not Christian, you know yet, I pray, let's pray that

they all come to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.

I'm telling you it's going to be such a beautiful place.

And the one that makes it beautiful is not even

the Pulley Gate and the pure goal of the streets

of pure gold, but Jesus. One glimpse of Jesus is

going to make you fall in love with him again

and again and again and again and you can't.

Have enough of him.

You think some Bible teachers here on earth really good,

Wait until you hear Jesus teach the Bible and be like,

I can't get enough of this man, right. Okay, So

it's gonna be good, and I pray that all of

you look forward to it. Okay, all of you look

forward to it. Christians should never be afraid of death.

It should never be afraid of going home to be

with the Lord. It's going to be really, really a

special blessing from God. And that's why the Bible says,

a beautiful in the sight of God are the death of.

His saints, you know. But I just want to share

a conviction. I have.

That the gate right because because it's one pearls, it

must be a very big pearl, one huge pup.

Then when you enter it just opens, it just brings

into helf. Right. Okay. So I can't imagine a pearl

as a gate. I can't. I can't.

Maybe it is so, and I can stand corrected because

our mind's asposed to heaven and God is so.

Great, so he can't do anything he wants to love.

It can be.

A big pearl that you can walk through I don't know,

of course, you know, like Jesus walked through walls when

he was resurrected, you know.

But what I think it could be is that we

become pearls. We become pearls.

What God is after in transforming us is that we

become post and when we walk through those gates, it

actually takes a pearl to walk through that gate. I'm

just giving you a suggestion. It's not even backed up

by any scripture. It's like it's like if you are

oil and you're walking through a gate of water, you

can't get through. You've got to become water to get through,

you with me. Or if you were water and the

gate was oil. Actually, it doesn't mean that the gate

is oil. It means that you will take oil to

go in, and it doesn't It might not mean that the.

Gate itself is peerl, but it means that the entry,

the way to enter, is to become a pearl.

Okay, So just just keep it at the back of

your head because I sort of believe that that's what

God is after. And so when you are walking through

a gate is meant to be peer but you are

not peerl or you have not allowed God to make

you into a pearl you might.

Not get through.

Okay, So so I want to encourage you.

Just to think about it for a moment.

Is there a reason why God put a pearly gate

one peerl as a gate or did he trying to

Is he trying to say that everyone that walks through

this gate is a pearl? So it's like a pearlyague

gate is a is a A is a one person

walking in Okay, So I think you get what I'm saying.

I don't want to go deeper than this, because again

it's not backed up blah, okay by scripture.

Okay.

I just want to let you understand that God really

is after.

Our transformation, and he might not just be pearls within us.

It might be that we become a pearl, and therefore

He will continue to add irritance into our lives to

make us become something that we never knew we could. Okay, Okay,

I shouldn't be labeled a point because it's not the

most important thing, all right, all right, So.

Next slight, next line.

Pearls are precious prices and powerful now precious Why because

it's found in the Bible and God has chosen to

use pearl. He didn't say diamond, no, although most of

you would rather a diamond for your anniversary or a

diamond for your proposal, or you know, he used goal

a lot, and he used some other precious stones.

But Jesus and God and the Bible is using pearl.

And even pearly gay, Okay, So it's precious because yeah,

the Bible has included as a rare gem, and.

We need to pay attention.

We need to pay attention because the Bible is telling

us pearl number two is priceless because the value of

this pearl that God is after warrants the man who

finds it to exchange it for his life. That's how

priceless it is. Now, he had to sell everything he had,

and he thought it was worth it.

That's the thing.

He sold everything he had and bought that pearl of

great price. So God's word is telling us that that's

the kind of value of a pearl that he wants

us to go after. Not many pearls, because the merchant

was after many beautiful pearls, but he said the fock

come out one, and he gave his life for that one.

So his priceless and certainly powerful because in the Bible,

every time a gate is mentioned, he speaks about authority.

So when they were building the walls and the gates

of nihi Maya, well Jerusalem, Nie Maya's time you read

Knie Maya, knee Maya says, we are rebuilding the walls.

Walls in the Bible speak about identity, and so when

the enemy comes in and tears down the walls, they

are tearing down your identity. And that's why when Satan

came against Jesus in Message of the Four he says,

if you are the son of God, throw yourself down.

He's always after your identity. Satan is always after.

He's going to say, if you are that great, if

you are a Christian, if you are a child of God,

you know, he's always after because if you can break down.

Your identity, he's got you.

That's why people got identity crisis and all the kind

of stuff.

They are not certain, they are not confident.

And when he shakes the identity of a pastor, of

a preacher, he goes after your identity.

Who said you are you know? Who said you are

a child of God? Who said you are worthy? Who's

you know? Suffer it right. Okay, So understand this.

The walls speak of identity and the gay speak of authority.

So the enemies of God, the enemies of the of Jerusalem,

burned down the gates. By what happened was Lee Maya

was very careful not only to rebuild the walls, but

to hang the gates back. And so God is after

our identity and our authority.

God wants to restore.

Listen our identity, every person here in this room, listen

to me. Identity must be restored and the authority must

come back.

Otherwise we find it hard to cast out.

Demons because we don't know who we are and we

don't know what we have.

But I'm going to tell you about three types of pearls.

Are you ready?

The natural pearl, the cultured pearl, and the imitation pearl. Okay,

these three are found in the market found in the

world today, the day and the world we live in.

Three kinds of pearls, or three types of pearls produce,

and there's a market for all three. There's a market

for all three. So people will settle for imitation because

that's all they can afford, or that's all they want,

or they only wonder look and not the value that

the main difference is found in the value.

That's the main difference.

The many difference between the tree is one imitation is

probably about ten US dollars.

You can get it for forty four in it. Okay.

Sometimes some toy shoppers sell person, have you seen the

toy shop and sell purse. Ah, yeah, we buy it

for kids, you know, And then they write they just

wear mumy pearls okay, And lem me say, yeah, as

long as you're happy place. You know, money can buy

you purlse you want the real one as your husband

in the future. But you know the value, the value

the price. Now let's look at the next light that

says the difference or the differences that makes the difference.

So the value is the main difference. But what makes

the difference to the difference. What are the differences that

cause the value to be different?

All right? Three things?

Time, environment and rarity under time. Under time, I want

to tell you it takes a long time for a

pearl to receive what you call a coating, the thickness

you see. I'll tell you in about two minutes how

a pearl is made. And some of you already know it,

but let's just put you at the.

Back of your minder.

If we're talking about the coating, there is a coating

around the pearl that goes on and on.

It quotes again, it coutes again and again.

And the more coating, the more thick the coating around

a pearl, the greater the value. But it takes time.

It takes an except for imitation pearlse immitation. Pearls don't

have the kind of coating. Okay, they have a paint.

They paint, uh you know, a transparent glass ball, the

glass ball glass guy, a gully marble glass, the transparent

glass marble, and they just paint on it like maybe

a paint that was manipulated from what you call a

mother of pearl.

Have you ever heard a mother mother pearl?

So mother pearl they were scraping or they will bash

it up and they make a substance where it becomes

paint and.

They take the paint and they just paint over that one.

Not even you scratch so you can see the you

can see the glass. So that that's cheap. So that

doesn't take time, that doesn't need time at all. But

time is the one that makes the difference because of

the coating. Understand that number two environment. They tell me

that when the pearl is in the right environment, it

gets rounder, and it's in the shape of the pearl

that the price is in. So if it's like your

crispy path or crispy whatever again rice crispy is okay

or whatever it is, you look, it doesn't look round right,

the cost comes down. I did some research. It's in

salt water more than fresh water. The pearls can also

develop in fresh water, but the best kind is in

a god forsaken undisturbed place.

It cannot be disturbed. It's pristine water.

See right where there's no boats or whatever it is,

or fishermen try to, you know, disturb the waters. It

has to be on its own and it has to

be in salt water more than fresh water for the

shape to be perfectly round.

Think about it. You know what salt is right?

Sorry, sweat, and there are many Christians who avoid sweat.

Means we don't want a sweat for Jesus.

We don't hardship, we don't pressure, we don't go for missions.

We want air conditioning, we want television. We want to

watch the service from the comfort of our homes.

Even though pandemic is gone for a few years. Now,

you still you know, I call.

It Sarah Christians, you still want to be in your

Sarah watching because the comfort. Now, I'm telling you, right now,

I told the first services. Nothing great comes out of comfort.

You can't build muscles, you know, am I right?

Albert? You need resistance.

And if you are building your muscle on a certain weight,

let's say an kilograms, and you if you keep doing

a hundred kilograms for the next three years, it's just

all you will get is maintenance. You need to break

into the one hundred and ten hundred and twenty hundred

and thirty because your muscle also needs to break.

And however, you know in this room that's why we

call it breakthrough.

And that too many Christians who are not breaking through

because they are unwilling to go one step higher, unwilling

to serve one hour more, unwilling to read the Bible

one page more.

I't willing you understand this, So.

I don't want to say I love you too much

to have you all appear before Jesus regretting. I want

you to at least try that, even with a broken

fooder do something. Try not to live by excuses, by

live by exploits. Exploits means, sir, God can use you

more than you think you can be used.

That's what exploits really mean.

Like if you working at the office and you and

your boss is causing you to do more work than

you're paid, there's exploitation, right. But God wants to use

us more than we think we are capable of.

That's another kind.

Of exploitation, but it's a good explotation Daniel, eleven thirty two.

They that know that God shall be strong and do

great exploits, but instead we are making great excuse Okay,

we don't want excuse us, We want great exploits.

Can I hear good? Amen? So God is shaping.

Us in salt water, in sweat water, in times are

hot water, in times are.

Not so easy water? Are you all seeing me? In? Like?

There is trouble? Also in a Christian life water, there

is also headache and stress water. There is also struggle

and pain and sorrow water. But we get shaped by

God everybody, Okay. And finally, rarity. Rarity just means a

who is asking. If a person is asking, he only

wants a ten us dollar purse. Then so be it.

I can make a thousand. I just bring whatever you know,

Just give me whatever marble, right, I just painted here

you go ten years dollars. Who's asking? But the one

who's asking is God. And God is asking for pearls

of great price. He's not even asking for culture. He's

asking for natural pearls of great prince. I'll show you

in a slighter what's the difference. The difference is in

a couple of zeros behind. That's a real difference, because

even in cultured persa, you cannot fetch so much. And

God is saying the pearl that he wants out of

our lives. It has to be worth you giving up

your life for. So he ain't asking for imitation. And

I'm sad to say that there are imitation Christians around

who was settled for just give me a paint. That's

why there's a scripture that says in the last days

they will have a form of godliness.

Deny it is power. A form means painted over her.

As long as you think I'm a pearl from ten

meters away, I'm fine. But when you come before the Lord,

he will be able to detect whether you're an imitation

or whether you are naturally form per From a mile away,

he can smell you, but our friends can't. Our colleagues can't,

our classmates they You know you look like a Christian,

you play Christian song, but in your in reality, in

your house where you are alone, the things that you

watch on internet.

Don't be an imitation Christian. Please don't be a fake.

You want to be be real because God is after

the pearl of great price.

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