The Parables of the Hidden Treasure and Valuable Pearl
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 21 November 2023
⏱️ 12 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 Madison Street Worship.
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| 0:00.0 | As we continue this week, allowing the parables of Jesus to speak directly to our situations, |
| 0:09.8 | mindsets, and core beliefs about who God is, today we'll dive into the parable of the hidden treasure |
| 0:15.4 | 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. |
| 0:24.8 | Open your heart today and choose to take an honest look. |
| 0:27.9 | You might be surprised at what you find. |
| 0:30.1 | Welcome to the First 15 Podcast. |
| 0:41.2 | If you could only have one thing in life, what would it be? |
| 0:44.1 | Take an honest look at your heart for a minute today. |
| 0:45.8 | What do you most love? |
| 0:48.3 | What would you give up everything for? |
| 0:52.9 | Would you believe that your Heavenly Father's answer to those questions is you? |
| 0:55.5 | That the creator of the universe loves you most? Would you believe he would give up everything to have a relationship with you? |
| 1:00.0 | I heard a life-changing sermon from Pastor Robert Morris of Gateway Church, in which he |
| 1:05.5 | proved by looking at Genesis 2 that God's greatest desire is relationship with us. |
| 1:12.1 | After God creates Adam in his own image, God says, it is not good that man should be alone. |
| 1:17.9 | I will make him a helper for him. |
| 1:20.5 | God brings every creature before Adam to see if he deems any of them suitable as a helper. |
| 1:26.5 | In Genesis 2.20 says, but for Adam, there was not |
| 1:29.4 | found a helper fit for him. Then, without consulting Adam, God puts him to sleep and forms a woman |
| 1:35.5 | out of his rib. Seeing the woman upon waking, Adam says, this at last is bone of my bone |
| 1:41.2 | and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called woman because she was taken out of man. |
| 1:47.1 | How did God know Adam would want a woman as his helper? |
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