{"id":36972,"date":"2022-09-13T13:18:35","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/jesus-said-do-not-give-your-pearls-to-pigs-to-be-trampled-on-what-does-this-mean\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T13:18:35","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:18:35","slug":"jesus-said-do-not-give-your-pearls-to-pigs-to-be-trampled-on-what-does-this-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/jesus-said-do-not-give-your-pearls-to-pigs-to-be-trampled-on-what-does-this-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus said,  &quot;do not give your pearls to pigs to be trampled on.&quot; What does this mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Give not that which is holy to the dogs, nor throw your pearls to the swine; otherwise the swine will trample them under their feet and the dogs turn and maul you.&quot;&nbsp; Matthew 7:6&nbsp; (Weymouth translation).&nbsp;No one would give real pearls to swine, so what pearls is Jesus talking about? He explains the meaning of pearls in Matthew 13:45 (NIV), &quot;Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls.&nbsp; When he found one of great value, he went away and sold everything he had and bought it.&quot;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jesus, speaking in parables, compared his <strong>message of the kingdom of God to fine pearls<\/strong>.&nbsp; He did not expect the selfish, sensual, earthly-minded people (dogs, swine) to be able to understand or appreciate the truths He was preaching. Jesus was thus instructing us to use the spirit of a sound mind to discriminate between those who might receive the truth into tender hearts and those who might mock us and become enraged by the truth. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But does not our <strong>Heavenly Father<\/strong> <strong>desire all to be saved and come to a knowledge of the Truth<\/strong>? (1 Timothy 2:4)<\/p>\n<p>Indeed God does. But there is a season for everything and from this direct instruction from Jesus we can see that some are better off left in ignorance for the present until the experiences of a life without God shall have touched their hearts and prepared them to receive the Gospel.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &quot;Give not that which is holy to the dogs, nor throw your pearls to the swine; otherwise the swine will trample them under their feet and the dogs turn and maul you.&quot;&nbsp; Matthew 7:6&nbsp; (Weymouth translation).&nbsp;No one would give real pearls to swine, so what pearls is Jesus talking about? He explains the meaning &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/jesus-said-do-not-give-your-pearls-to-pigs-to-be-trampled-on-what-does-this-mean\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jesus said,  &quot;do not give your pearls to pigs to be trampled on.&quot; What does this mean?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}