“Again the Kingdom of God is like unto treasure hid in a field, the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.”-Matthew 13:44.

Man had sinned, had been sentenced to death, and had gone into death. There could be, therefore, no hope for man except as love and mercy might provide a substitute for father Adam. A substitute, as we have seen, must be of the same nature as Adam, human nature; the substitute must be equally free from sin, free from the curse, free from wrath; similarly holy, similarly harmless, similarly separate from sin and sinners, similarly approved of God, as was Adam before his transgression.

We have seen that our Lord Jesus was made flesh-(not sinful flesh) but holy, harmless, separate from sinners. We have seen that the man Christ Jesus was thus a perfect man, the counterpart of the first man, Adam, and thus we see that he was all ready to be our Redeemer, our ransom, to give his life and all human rights for the purchase, the redemption, of Adam and the race of Adam, which lost life and all human rights in him. We have seen that our Lord, “the man Christ Jesus,” did consecrate, did sacrifice, did give up on man’s behalf all that he had. This he clearly set forth in his teaching on this subject. He represented himself as the man who found a treasure hidden in a field, and who went and sold all that he had, and bought that field.-Matthew 13:44. The field represents the world of mankind, as well as the earth itself.­ Ephesians 1:14. In this world of mankind our Lord saw a treasure-prophetically he saw the result of the redemptive work, the deliverance of many from the bondage of corruption into the full liberty of sons of God (the church in this age, and the worthy of the world in the age to come). It was in view of this treasure that the field was bought. Speaking of the result of the ransom, and of the work of redemption, as it shall finally be accomplished by the close of the Millennial Age, the Prophet speaking of our Lord says, “He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied.”- Isaiah 53:11. Our Lord was fully satisfied to give his life, and all he then had, to purchase the world. E 440, 441