Pearls That Testify
Matthew 7:6 (ESV) – Do not give dogs what is holy, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you.
Psalm 59:14–15 (ESV) – Each evening they come back, howling like dogs and prowling about the city. 15 They wander about for food and growl if they do not get their fill.
2 Peter 2:22 (ESV) – What the true proverb says has happened to them: “The dog returns to its own vomit, and the sow, after washing herself, returns to wallow in the mire.”
What is the pearl?
There are pearls in your life.
There are people who will be violent to your pearls.
Matthew 7:1–5 (ESV) – “Judge not, that you be not judged. 2 For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. 3 Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? 4 Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.”
There will be people who don’t see the value of your pearls.
1 Corinthians 2:13–16 (ESV) – And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual. 14 The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. 15 The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. 16 “For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
Christians must be judicious, not judicial.
Be cautious sharing what has been sanctified by God and of great value.