11/8/24

If I were to tell you next month the price of gasoline would be a certain price, we all know I would be wrong. The reason is I have no knowledge of how much it would be. However, God, being omniscient, knows all, and we see this in our text today as He prophecies over 500 years before, exactly what would happen.

Zechariah 11:13 NASB1995 Then the Lord said to me, “Throw it to the potter, that magnificent price at which I was valued by them.” So I took the thirty shekels of silver and threw them to the potter in the house of the Lord.

We know from Matthew 26, 27 that it was 30 pieces of silver that Jesus' betrayal was valued at and the money was used to buy the potters field. We know also that the money was thrown into the sanctuary or House of the Lord by Judas. So the prophecy was fulfilled over 500 years later. That would be like Christopher Columbus saying the Prime Minister of the Land he found in 1492 would make BSD $86,000 in 2024.

Yet, this is what the Lord did. However, that isn't the most amazing part of this verse.

The most amazing and exciting part is when the text says, " at which I was valued by them.” God did not only prophecy that this would happen, He spoke in the past tense as if it already had happened (valued). Because in His foreknowledge and existence outside of time, it already had. God knew before He created man that we would need a Savior. He also knew how man would respond to this Savior. Scripture teaches that God knew all this before creation. Yet He created us with the free will to choose Him or lose life. He could have created us without free will, but He desires a creation that desires Him!

He decided we were worth dying for, while already knowing that man valued the Son of God at a measly 30 pieces of silver.

30 pieces of silver for the life of the Son of God.

No one would sacrifice themselves for someone who only valued them at 30 pieces of silver. However, our God and our Savior did that for us.

Lord, I pray that we who have been saved will value you as more than we have in the past! Amen!

Jesus said you are worth my life! How will we respond to Him? Will it be Jesus, you are worth more than my life, or I will give 30 pieces of silver for you?

He already knows our true answer. Not the answer of our words but the answer of our actions in life.

Love Bro. Scott