Hidden Treasure & Fine Pearls

 What are your treasures?  What are the things you value most? What would you be willing to do to protect or ensure them?  We live in a world that often seems confused about what things are worth protection, investment, sacrifice, or ultimately of value - which often makes questions like these more challenging than they might otherwise be.

Jesus told stories, parables, about treasures and things of value, and how we relate to things like these.  If fact, Jesus often told stories and parables.  There are reasons for this.  Stories have a way of helping us to see, and understand, and slip past the defenses we erect in order to make sure we do not hear.  They help us to see what we might otherwise miss.  They help us to hear what we might otherwise turn a deaf ear to.  That in itself says a lot about Him, and a lot about us.  

With sermon, Pastor Jon begins a series on the parables of Jesus that we will be exploring together.  We hope they will have to opportunity to slip past our resistance so we can hear what it is that God wants to say.  This week we begin the parables of the Hidden Treasure and Fine Pearls.  You can read the text to the right.  We hope you will do so thoughtfully as you reflect on the words of Jesus.

A merchant in search of treasure and pearls.  He finds something amazing, and everything changes for him.  Everything.  The change is profound. Has what you have found in Jesus risen to that level of value for you? For those who find it, the "sacrifice" seems very small.   It's an amazing story, but what it points to is even more amazing.

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