The Treasure Christ Offers

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Our Daily Bread Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 4 July 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Michael Sparks walked into a thrift store and bought a souvenir copy of the US Declaration of Independence for $2.48. Later, as he looked closely at his parchment copy, he felt there was something unusual about it. So he had it assessed by experts, who told him it was one of now thirty-six remaining copies of two hundred commissioned by John Quincy Adams in 1820. Sparks then sold his rare copy of the Declaration for $477,650!

While the acquisition of this treasure for such a small price is astounding, there’s a treasure that’s infinitely better. As a child, I found out about a priceless, matchless, and eternal treasure that didn’t cost me a cent. But I didn’t find it at a thrift store.

My parents revealed to me that a man named Jesus had purchased this gift by giving His life on the cross as a sacrifice for my sins. They then told me this gift was called salvation. It promised the treasure of an abundant “life to the full” on earth (John 10:10) and an “eternal life . . . life in [God’s] Son” with Jesus (1 John 5:11-12). I accepted that gift by faith.

It's amazing to find an earthly treasure at low cost, but that can’t compare with the eternal treasure Christ offers at no cost. This treasure offered to each person is received as we “believe in name of the Son of God”—Jesus (v. 13).

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0:00.0	God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his son.
0:05.0	1 John 5, verse 11.
0:08.0	Welcome to this daily encouragement from our daily bread.
0:13.0	The treasure Christ offers was written by Dave Brannon and read by Stephen Tabor.
0:20.0	1 John chapter 5 verses 6 through 13. Written by Dave Brannon and read by Stephen Tabor.
0:25.4	1 John chapter 5 verses 6 through 13.
0:31.1	This is the one who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ.
0:35.8	He did not come by water only, but by water and blood.
0:40.9	And it is the spirit who testifies, because the spirit is the truth.
0:48.1	For there are three that testify, the spirit, the water, and the blood, and the three are in agreement.
0:57.0	We accept human testimony, but God's testimony is greater because it is the testimony of God, which he has given about his son. Whoever believes in the son of God accepts this testimony. Whoever does not
1:04.2	believe God has made him out to be a liar because they have not believed the testimony God has
1:10.0	given about his son. And this is the testimony.
1:14.1	God has given us eternal life. And this life is in his son. Whoever has the son has life.
1:22.4	Whoever does not have the son of God does not have life. I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know
1:32.7	that you have eternal life.
1:37.7	The Treasure Christ Offers, written by Dave Brannon.
1:42.5	Michael Sparks walked into a thrift store and bought a souvenir copy of the U.S. Declaration
1:47.5	of Independence for $2.48.
1:51.1	Later, as he looked closely at his parchment copy, he felt there was something unusual about it.
1:57.0	So he had it assessed by experts, who told him it was one of now 36 remaining copies of 200
2:04.2	commissioned by John Quincy Adams in 1820. Sparks then sold his rare copy of the Declaration for
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