The Parables of the Hidden Treasure and Valuable Pearl
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 22 November 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
As we continue this week allowing the parables of Jesus to speak directly to our situations, mindsets, and core beliefs about who God is, today we’ll dive into the parables of the hidden treasure and valuable pearl. Upon learning about God forsaking everything to find us, we’ll assess our own hearts and see what they value most in this life. Open your heart today and choose to take an honest look. You might be surprised at what you find.
Our Scripture for today comes from Matthew 13:44, and today's worship is Treasure by Hillsong UNITED.
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| 0:00.0 | As we continue this week, allowing the parables of Jesus to speak directly to our situations, |
| 0:10.7 | mindsets, and core beliefs about who God is. Today, we'll dive into the parables of the hidden |
| 0:18.7 | treasure and valuable pearl. Upon learning about God, forsaking |
| 0:23.7 | everything to find us, we'll assess our own hearts and see what they value most in this life. |
| 0:31.6 | Open your heart today and choose to take an honest look. You might be surprised at what you find. |
| 0:39.2 | Welcome to the first of teen podcast. |
| 0:53.4 | Our verse for today comes from Matthew 13, verse 44, where Scripture says, |
| 1:01.0 | The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up. |
| 1:09.5 | Then in his joy, he goes and sells all that he has and buys that |
| 1:14.7 | field. If you could only have one thing in life, what would it be? Take an honest look at your |
| 1:24.9 | heart for a minute today. What do you love most? |
| 1:29.4 | What would you give up everything else for? |
| 1:33.8 | Would you believe that your Heavenly Father's answer to those questions is you? |
| 1:40.1 | That the creator of the universe loves you most. |
| 1:50.0 | Would you believe that he would give up everything to have relationship with you? I heard a life-changing sermon from Pastor Robert Morris of Gateway Church, |
| 1:56.0 | in which he proved by looking at Genesis 2 that God's greatest desire is relationship with us. |
| 2:04.5 | After God creates Adam in his own image, God says, it is not good that the man should be alone. |
| 2:12.1 | I will make him a helper fit for him. |
| 2:16.0 | And then God brings every created animal before Adam to see if he deems any of them |
| 2:21.3 | suitable as a helper. |
| 2:24.1 | And Genesis 220 says, but for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him. |
| 2:30.9 | So then, without consulting Adam, God puts him to sleep and forms a woman out of his rib. |
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