No sinner in this room and that's all we are deserves or could ever inherit the wealth God designs for his children to have.

We cannot have it. We don't deserve it. We're sinners.

Therefore Christ comes into the world, he stretches himself out on a cross and bears all of our

sin so that he might buy and become our treasure.

How does God become our treasure when we don't deserve him?

That's the question John Piper answers from Romans 1133 to 36 in this episode of Light and Truth.

The sermon was originally preached at Bethlehem Baptist Church on March 21st, 2004.

God is infinitely rich because he is his own infinitely valuable treasure.

If he made nothing he would be infinitely rich.

If nothing but God existed, he would be infinitely rich.

And he exists in a triune nature as the Godhead, father, son, and spirit that he might enjoy what he is communally,

so that he did not need to create us in order to enjoy what he is. He was free to include us in that

enjoyment and he did. If we would have it.

When the Bible, when the apostle Paul in particular uses phrases like this,

the riches of God's grace, Ephesians 1 7, the riches of his kindness,

Romans 24, the riches of his glory, Romans 923, The essence of what he means is this. God himself gracious, God himself kind, God himself glorious,

offered to us for our everlasting enjoyment and satisfaction.

God himself is our treasure because he is his own infinite wealth. You know the most personal way to say this?

Ephesians 3.8, the, The Unsearchable Riches of Christ. And I think that little phrase, the

unsearchable riches of Christ means not only what Christ gives, but what Christ is.

He is the unsearchable wealth of the universe.

How does Paul say it in Colosians 127?

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