Do Not Cast Your Pearls Before Swine
We are given a tremendous blessing and a great honor, all by God’s grace, to be the stewards of the oracles of God. The oracles of God are the Lord’s treasures, His joy, which are also the pearls of great price that are the Father’s Holy Commandments. We share and speak the oracles with one another, edifying, strengthening, and washing one another’s feet.
1Pe 4:10 As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
We are given this blessing and gift to become the witnesses of the Lord and thereby spread the message and love of the Gospel. Our mission is to go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel and bring them into the sheep pen.
Mat 10:5 These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not:
Mat 10:6 But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Mat 10:7 And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand.
The blessing comes upon few in this age, as many are called and only a few are chosen. Our anointing of God carries a great responsibility that is fulfilled by obeying all the Lord’s Commandments. The Commandment is to be selective and discriminating in who we share the holy things. It is disobedience to share the holy things and give the treasures of God out to those not prepared to receive them.
Mat 7:6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
If we disobey the Commandment, the Commandments are trampled by the carnal reasonings of those the Lord has blinded and made deaf. In time, they turn and rend us, which means to argue and engage in debate over the holy things. We can lose our peace and descend into the spiritual violence that is carnal reasoning. We redeem the time wisely and do not waste it with those whom the Lord has not shown mercy.
2Ti 2:23 But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.
Tit 3:9 But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
Tit 3:10 A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;
Only those whom the Father gives to the Lord are prepared to hear our words and receive the Gospel. Those not given the gift of faith and its accompanying ears to hear do not hear our words as they are not of God.
Joh 10:26 But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you.
Joh 10:27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
Mar 4:23 If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.
We obey the divisions the Lord makes in separating us as a holy people and do not serve the holy things to those the Lord has not made ready.
Heb 13:10 We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.
We discern with whom we are gathered and obey the Commandments on when and when not to speak. Preaching the Gospel and doctrines of Jesus Christ is laying hands on people, which imparts God’s wisdom and understanding to those prepared to hear. The key is that they have been prepared beforehand. As the Lord’s ministers, we have a duty and the Commandment to validate this before we lay hands on them. Those claiming Christ’s name is no assurance that one has been prepared, as only a few are chosen and prepared in this age.
1Ti 5:22 Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men’s sins: keep thyself pure.
Eze 12:2 Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not: for they are a rebellious house.
Being wise as serpents requires discernment of the situation and determining whether the person before us has been prepared by the Lord to hear and receive the Gospel. Christ does not engage with those to whom the Father has not ordained to be given mercy.
Mat 13:13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
Mat 13:14 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:
The practical way to obey this Commandment is to always answer those who ask about the hope of Jesus Christ that lives in us. We answer them, giving a little and wait to see if it is received before giving more. We are always ready to share and to give the Gospel to all who ask in sincerity.
1Pe 3:15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
The Lord opens the door that allows those so ordained to come to Him, meaning the Commandments. We wait on the Lord to open the door and show us those He has prepared to hear. It is the Lord’s work; He causes it.
2Co 2:12 Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ’s gospel, and a door was opened unto me of the Lord
Joh 6:44 No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
Psa 10:17 LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:
Our instructions being sent to preach the Gospel command us to first enquire and determine who is worthy, meaning prepared of the Lord to hear. If the house is not worthy, we depart and do not cast our pearls and holy things. The litmus test is to test and see who has ears to hear and eyes to see. If anyone argues with us or wants to debate the Gospel, they are not worthy, and we are commanded to shake off their carnal reasonings, the dust off our feet, and depart that house. If the house is worthy, we share the peace of Jesus Christ, the Living Commandments with that house.
Mat 10:11 And into whatsoever city or town ye shall enter, enquire who in it is worthy; and there abide till ye go thence.
Mat 10:12 And when ye come into an house, salute it.
Mat 10:13 And if the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it: but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you.
Mat 10:14 And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet.
The laws about food from the Old Testament symbolize the Commandments regarding whom we eat spiritually and to whom we do not. Those who gobble down their spiritual food without considering it are likened unto swine. Swine eat both the clean and the unclean, and the Lord’s people only eat the unleavened and undefiled bread of sincerity and truth. A little bit of leaven spoils the whole lump. Eating the clean and unclean is fornication. The same is having relations apart from Christ, and we are commanded that we not eat with those who the Lord has not prepared to eat His Gospel.
Lev 11:7 And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you.
Lev 11:8 Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye not touch; they are unclean to you.
1Co 5:11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
Likewise, those who do violence to the meat, tearing and ripping it, symbolize those who add their carnal reasonings to the Commandments, and thus show they are spiritual dogs, likened unto ravenous birds. To such we do not cast our precious meat of the Gospel.
Deu 14:11 Of all clean birds ye shall eat.
Deu 14:12 But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,
Dogs and swine alike eat virtually anything with little regard for care and inspection. It is true in the natural and the spiritual. Ultimately, those who eat like dogs or swine return to their carnality, and the waters in which they abide are muddied by their carnal reasonings, and the Commandments are corrupted. Many who began well fall away back into their carnality and the reasonings of their flesh.
2Pe 2:21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
2Pe 2:22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
The kingdom of God is not about eating and drinking but of peace and joy abiding in the Commandments, that is, the Holy Spirit. Thus, we are given many instructions and admonitions to be careful about how and with whom we eat so as not to corrupt ourselves by poor eating habits. Abide in the Living Christ and do not be entangled again in the bondage of flesh.
Act 15:29 That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
Php 3:2 Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.
