This is VLX number 88. Pearl of Great Price. We are in Matthew chapter 13, verses 44 to 52.

VLX stands for Video, Lexio, Divina. God give you his peace, and nomi pachi, Sifidi, Spiti, Siti, amen.

God, our Lord, we ask the grace that all of our intentions, actions, and operations be directed purely to the service and praise of your divine majesty.

And no many Pachi, Svi, Spiriti, amen.

The kingdom of heaven is like a 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.

Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls, who, on finding one

pearl of great value, went and sold all that he had and bought it.

Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was thrown into the sea and gathered fish of every kind.

When it was full, men drew it ashore and sat down and sorted the good into containers but threw away the bad.

So it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come out and separate the evil from the righteous and throw them into the fiery furnace.

In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Have you understood all these things?

They said to him, yes.

And he said to them, therefore every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a

house who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old. Thus are the words of the Holy

Gospel. Okay, so let's look at that first parable, just that first sentence. 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.

Now, you know, traditional Bible experts might ask obvious questions about this, and I think

we modernists kind of chalk this up to just mystery Bible land as if people in the past

were kind of duffices. But there was actually smarter people in the past. And they would basically

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