"FIELD OF BLOOD"

“FIELD OF BLOOD”

Pastor Carolyn Sissom

Sunday Evening, March 25, 2012, The Year of Our Lord

Mt. 27: 6-10:  “And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said it is not lawful to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood.  They took counsel, and bought with them the potter’s field, to bury strangers in.  Wherefore that field was called, The Field of Blood, unto this day.

Judas Iscariot betrayed out Lord for 30 pieces of silver (Zech. 11:12; Mt. 26: 21-25).  The chief priests took that silver (a symbol for redemption) and “bought the potter’s field, to bury strangers in.  Throughout scripture, “field” is metaphorical of the world.  Jesus Christ died for the sins of the whole world, buying the field with His “own blood” (Acts 20:28).

Cracked and discarded pottery vessels are a picture of broken humanity redeemed by grace and faith.  His finished work provided the means whereby men might be made “again” through the new birth (Jn. 3: 3, 7). 

Jesus joyfully gave His all to buy the whole field that He might obtain the hidden treasure he had found in it---His Church.

Jesus taught, “The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one.”  Jesus was the Lamb of God who took away the sins of the world.  God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself.  John declared, “The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ.

The “field of blood” is where the “stranger” the old Adamic man, fractured by sin is buried!  It was the place where Judas died.  Judas’ “reward of iniquity” for betraying innocent blood was death (Acts 1:18).  Matthew’s gospel adds that he “hanged himself there” (Mt. 27:5).  The old man has been crucified.  Judas was also called “the son of perdition” (destruction).  This “son of perdition” (the carnal mind) opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God (the Word), so that he “as god” (the spirit of anti-christ) sits in the “temple”, ever trying to usurp the place of God with his own ideas, customs, and traditions (2 Thess. 2: 3-4).

The “son of perdition” is buried in the field purchased by Jesus’ blood!  The cost was 30 pieces of silver.

Zech 11: 12-13:  “I said unto them, If you think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear.  So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.  The Lord said unto me, “cast it unto the potter; a goodly price that I was valued at by them.  I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the Lord.”

Preached by:  Pastor Carolyn Sissom

Scripture from K.J.V.

Text paraphrased from Understanding Types, Shadows, and Names by: Kelley Varner published by Destiny Image.