At length he came across the most beautiful pearl he had ever seen—it was of great price.
This man did not hesitate either. He saw the value of that pearl, and he sold everything he had and bought it!
In the twenty-fifth of Matthew, Jesus gives us another Parable, and it is about His coming back; and I am sure you will like to hear that one, for you have perhaps seen pictures of those Ten Virgins who went out to meet the Bridegroom, with little lamps in their hands?
Five of these Virgins were wise, and five were foolish. Why was it that some were wise and some not?
Perhaps you have a brother who has cycled into the country, and comes home later than you expected, and tired-out?
"Yes," he says, "I have had to walk my machine for half-a-dozen miles—my lamp went out, and there was not a shop to be seen!"
Yes, that was it; he had not taken oil to fill his lamp.
So the foolish Virgins took their lamps, but took no oil with them; but the wise took oil in their vessels, with their lamps.
The Bridegroom seemed long in coming, and they all fell asleep while they waited.
And at midnight there was a cry made: "Behold the Bridegroom cometh! Go ye out to meet Him!"