"Bible Sparrows"

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SPARROWS! Whoever would have thought that they were worth naming in the Bible? But they are, and in many places too. Chirping on our housetops, picking crumbs from the road, they are object lessons of God’s care, for not one of them can “fall on the ground” (Matt. 10:2929Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. (Matthew 10:29)), without God knowing of it.
SPARROWS SOLD. (Matt. 10:2929Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. (Matthew 10:29).) “Two sparrows sold for a farthing"—cheap enough surely. But sinners who sell themselves to the service of sin and Satan go for less. For the Word says, “Ye have sold yourselves for nought.” Isaiah 52:33For thus saith the Lord, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money. (Isaiah 52:3).
THE ODD SPARROW. (Luke 12:66Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God? (Luke 12:6).) Two for a farthing: five for two farthings — so that odd one is thrown in. Of so little value are these birds reckoned among men. Yet the Lord Jesus tells us “not one of them,” not even the odd sparrow, “is forgotten before God.” And boys and girls whose souls are precious in God’s sight, are “of more value than many sparrows,” (verse 7). Need we wonder, then, that He has given a great “ransom” (1 Tim. 2:66Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time. (1 Timothy 2:6)) to buy them back to Himself?
A SPARROW SACRIFICED. (Lev. 14:44Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop: (Leviticus 14:4), margin.) “Take two sparrows, alive and clean.” One was killed, and its blood preserved in a vessel of water. Then the poor leper who had been shut out from his friends and from his God had this sprinkled on him, the priest saying that now he was “clean.” A wonderfully simple illustration surely, of how a sinner is made clean through believing what God’s Word (John 15:33Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. (John 15:3)) says about Christ dying for sinners (Rom. 5:88But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:8)) for you, for me.
A SPARROW LIBERATED. (Lev. 14:66As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water: (Leviticus 14:6).) Dipped in its fellow’s blood, the live sparrow was set free, and soared into the air with the blood-mark on its wing redeemed and set free. So it is now with all who “have redemption” (Eph. 1:77In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace; (Ephesians 1:7)) through Jesus’ blood, and who confess Him as “my Redeemer.”
J.R.
ML-02/25/1962