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Excerpt - "Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field" (Matt. 13:44).
Most persons have had their hearts set upon a treasure of some kind. "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also" (Luke 12:34).
In the Scripture before us, Matt. 13:44, the Person is the Son of man, and the treasure is the church, which is hid in a field. It could not be Israel, for they were not hidden. A Man, having found the treasure, hid it, as we read in Col. 3:3, "—your life is hid with Christ in God."
His eye had caught sight of something that filled His heart. It satisfied a desire and need in His soul that nothing else could, and for the joy thereof He sold all that He had and bought the field (the world) in which the treasure (the church) was found.
"Thine eyes did see my substance, being yet unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them" (Psa. 139:16).
Material things were not His object, but souls, who form the church, valuable to Him above all else. The Father is preparing each soul in the lower part of the earth to be the means of display of glory, and for eternal companionship with Jesus.
"My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth" (Psa. 139:15).
"Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.
"And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him" (Mal. 3:16,17).
Malachi speaks of the time when the Lord will make up His jewels. Preparation is made now in view of that day.
"And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and sheaved me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal; And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates,...
"And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass.
And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald; The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolyte; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst" (Rev. 21:10-12,18-20).
Stones exemplify beauty, rarity, durability, and fixed color and are named because of color, not from their source. Each of the twelve stones of Revelation bears a different color or hue, and all speak of the glory of God, for color typifies glory shining through a variety of prisms. Each precious stone will display through a prism, in varying shades as a spectrum of color, the glory of God, before hidden, to all created intelligence.
Ephesians 3:10 speaks of the "manifold wisdom of God." This could be translated, "the multi-colored wisdom of God."
"Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen" (Eph. 3:21).
This verse seems to take us farther into eternity than any other. What an effect this should have on us now, to cause us to walk carefully that we might adorn the doctrine of God our Savior.
We marvel as the counsels of God are opened to us, revealing coming things and the preparation being made now in each believer during the allotted span of life, a lasting work that only the Father of spirits can produce in our spirits.
"All the history of the saints is an exhibition of the hidden eternal counsels of the divine bosom to be revealed later." "The art of educating man's spirit to the finest temper lies only with the Father of spirits."
Who but God can read the motives of the heart? Who but God can prepare man, yea, the heart of man, for an environment that is wholly of God? We shall be at home there as natives in our own country.