Christ's Treasure Are His Children
Matthew 13: 44-46
God's elect children are the treasure of our Lord Jesus Christ (Malachi 3:17; Deuteronomy 32:9; Psalm 135:4). Throughout the scriptures, God’s elect are spoken of as a people scattered among, chosen from, redeemed out of, and called from the nations of the world. The field is the world in which his children are hidden (Matthew 13: 38).
Christ Jesus is the Man, God in human flesh who came. He came for joy (Hebrews 12:2). In order, to have his treasure, he sold all he had and bought the field (2 Corinthians 8:9; Matthew 13: 24). It cost HIM all that he had: he came to this sin-cursed earth from heavens glory, despised and rejected of men, made sin for his people, the wrath of God was poured out upon him, he poured out his blood as the price and purchased his people out of this earth. He did not make satisfaction for the field (earth, the world); he made satisfaction for his elect within it. But the deed to the field is his, to go and take out of the field his children, his treasure (Psalm 2:8; John 17:2). Our Lord shall gather out his chosen, redeemed, treasure and not one child for whom he shed his blood shall be lost (Isaiah 43: 4-7).