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Matthew chapter 13 verse 44

Jesus says the kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field which a man found and covered up.

Then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.

What a great verse! what a great picture.

So imagine this man walking into a field, he discovers a treasure there that nobody else knows is there and so what does he do he buries it covers

it up and he goes away and he starts selling everything he has everything he has that's what the text says all that he has. That's where the text says all that he has and you can imagine people

coming up to him saying you're crazy why are you selling all that you have and

he says I'm gonna buy that field over there. Of course they don't

know what's in the field and so they say you're crazy you're going to sell all you have to buy

that field and he smiles as he looks at them and he says, I've got a hunch.

He smiles because inside he knows that he has found something

that's worth losing everything for.

And that's the point of this little story. In Christ, in the kingdom of

Christ, we have found someone, something that's worth losing everything for.

It just makes sense.

Now not to the world, it doesn't make sense to forsake pleasures and pursuits and

possessions in this world to follow Christ that makes no sense to the world that looks crazy to the world but we know we can smile because inside we know that in Christ we have found someone who is worth losing everything

for. So I encourage you based on this text. Don't hold tightly to the fleeting pleasures and

possessions and pursuits of this world. Hold tightly to the treasure of Christ,

even though it makes no sense to the world around us.

Cling to him because he is worth more than everything this world has put together. Jesus we praise you as the

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