Now would you open your Bibles
to Matthew chapter 13 with me this morning. Matthew chapter
13. I just want to read one verse. And that's
verse 44. Matthew 13, 44. Christ is still continuing and
speaking to his disciples in parables. He introduces this
parable with the word again, which means it is in addition
to and included with all the other parables that he had been
speaking. He says, 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. which means he has to have that
treasure. Now, I've entitled this message, A Treasure Worth
All. A Treasure Worth All. And you know, as we've gone through
Matthew 13, and we've read the parables that the Lord has spoken,
we've learned some startling things about the Kingdom of God,
the Kingdom of Heaven, as it grows and as it develops here
on earth in the last days, leading up to the time of our Savior's
return, his second coming. We've talked about the parable
of the soils, which teaches that there are in the kingdom of heaven
here on earth, during this time, true believers and false believers. We've talked about the parables
of the tares and the wheat, that on this earth, up until the time
of his second coming, there will be true churches where the gospel
of God's grace is preached without compromise. simply and clearly. But then there'll be false churches.
There'll be counterfeit Christians and true Christians. We spoke
of the parable of the mustard seed that speaks of how the kingdom
of heaven grows throughout the world. But as it grows and the
branches of that tree have spread into the world, you know, Christ
said, Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every
creature. There's no place that we're forbidden to go. We're
commanded to go everywhere. But as As the gospel spreads,
as churches are planted, true churches, there will also be
Satan and his ministers and his followers, outside evil influences
that will seek to attack the church. And that was very prevalent
in the days of the early church when they didn't have laws and
constitutions to allow them to worship in freedom. And they
had to put their lives on the line. The Apostle Paul, as he
journeyed throughout the Mediterranean, he was constantly, constantly
threatened with death and with beatings and jail over preaching
the gospel. And, you know, all of the apostles
except one were brutally martyred. John was exiled on the Isle of
Patmos. So the evil influences refers
to those who attack the church from the outside. And then the
parable of the leaven, which speaks that as we get closer
and closer to the Lord's return, that coming into the world, that
these evil influences, they'll infiltrate the church. And they
will get inside the church, like that leaven that's hidden in
the lump of dough, and it gradually spreads. the leaven of immorality,
but it'll also be the leaven of false doctrine to the point
to where the church at large, what is known in the world as
the church, will fall away and rebel against Christ and the
gospel. No perfect churches here on this
earth, but there are true churches where the gospel is still preached.
But as we look at this, you know, you look at passage like that
and you say, well, you know, those are scary thoughts. Those
are upsetting thoughts. It doesn't paint a good picture.
It doesn't paint a picture of things getting better and better
and better and better. It paints a picture of things
getting worse and worse and worse and worse. And as the time of
our Lord's second coming is going to get worse. What are we to do? How are we
to act? How are we to react to these things? That's the situation
here. And this is what Christ is speaking
of in these next three parables. The parable of the treasure hid
in a field. It goes on in verse 45 and 46,
the parable of the pearl of great price. And then he speaks of the dragnet,
which is the gospel being preached. How are we to act? How are we
to react in these things? Well, think about it this way.
Now, here's what we want to know. Here's what these parables are
all about and what we need to consider. Can I know, I'm talking
about me personally, and you apply it to yourself, can I know
that I'm not a false professor? Remember the stony ground here.
the thorny ground here, the wayside. Can I know that I'm not a false
professor? Can I know that I'm not a tare?
They're wheat and tares. I want to know that I'm wheat.
That's the fruit of God's grace in the gospel. A true believer,
one of these righteous ones that it speaks of in the scripture
that we read in the proverb. A righteous person is a sinner
saved by the grace of God, made righteous in Christ. He is our
righteousness. Can I know that I'm in Christ?
Can I know that I'll not turn out to be a rebel apostate? Because
there are rebel apostates, people who will astound you because
you thought, well, this was a believer. But then who turns against Christ
and against the gospel? Is it possible? Well, here's
the issue of of this parable today, the treasure hid in the
field and the one of the pearl of great price, ask yourself
this question. What value do I place on Christ
and his truth and his kingdom? Of what value is it to me? Now, it's no good for me to get
up here before you and say, oh, it's everything to me. Oh, it's
all to me. and not live like it's everything.
And not live like it's all. When I had Brother Joe read this
passage over in Matthew 6, look it with me. Matthew 6. And he
says in verse 19, this is a sermon on the mount. He says, lay not
up for yourselves treasures upon earth where moth and rust doth
corrupt and where thieves break through and steal. Now, you know,
people read passages like this. You know, over here, he says,
therefore, take no thought what you're going to eat. I guarantee
every one of us has wondered where we're going to eat after
church or what's going to be on the table when you get home.
Now, you've had that thought, haven't you? You say, well, if
I had that thought, this here disqualifies me. Well, no. Just
hold on and keep your senses about you a little bit here now.
There's a message here. Back in the 90s, there was a
song that was popularized. The title of it was, Don't Worry,
Be Happy. You all remember that? And for
the most part, it had a pretty good message. But some people
take passages like this and say, well, you see, I'm not supposed
to plan, prepare, work hard, think about tomorrow. That is
not what Christ is teaching here. In fact, he's given us the responsibility
to plan, to work hard. and to think about things. But
what he's teaching here is a matter of priorities. He's teaching
here a matter of perspective. When he says, take no thought,
what he means is don't be so anxious and worried over the
things of this world, what you're going to eat, what you're going
to wear, to the point that it takes your eyes and your mind
and your heart off of Christ and his kingdom. Now that's the
message of this passage. And so when he says, lay not
up for yourselves treasures upon earth, that doesn't mean that
you're not supposed to have bank accounts and homes and things
like that. But here's what he does mean.
You need to realize as you're accumulating all of this, that
one day it's gone. That's not your, if your heart's
there, then you're going to be sorely disappointed. If you spend
all your time and your thought and your care for the things
of this world, where's that going to lead you? Perishing. You say, that's the issue. He
says somebody can come in and steal everything you have, where
thieves break in. That new car that you're so proud
of, it's going to rust one day. It's going to be in the junkyard
someday, isn't it? So if your heart's there, And
listen to me now, even your family, even the things of this world
that you have a responsibility towards, you love them, and you're
to take care of them. Listen, a man who won't take
care of his family is worse than an infidel, the Scripture says.
But here's the thing about it, that's your earthly family. What
about your spiritual family? What about your heavenly family?
This earthly family is going to be dissolved. These earthly
relationships. But that spiritual family is
going to be forever and forever and forever and forever. And
this is what he says in verse 21. There's two verses here that
sort of state the theme of the parable of the treasure hid in
a field. He says in verse 21 of Matthew 6, he says, For where
your treasure is, there will your heart be also. So therefore,
if your treasure is not Christ, and his truth, and his church,
and his kingdom, then your heart is somewhere else. And if your
heart is not fixed on Christ, what does that say about it?
He goes on, look at verse 22. He says, "...the light of the
body is the eye, if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole
body shall be full of light." What does he mean, if thine eye
be single? You remember in 2 Corinthians chapter 11, The Apostle Paul
spoke of false preachers who had crept into the church, and
he said what they did is they were attempting to corrupt the
minds of the Corinthian believers from the simplicity that's in
Christ. And that word simplicity means
the singleness of Christ. He is our single salvation. My whole salvation is wrapped
up. in the person and finished work
of Christ. He's my hope. He's my all. He's my everything. I love my
wife, but she's not my salvation. I love my children, but they
can't save me. They can't even save themselves.
They need Christ. When we were raising our boys,
we were concerned that they have good clothes and the proper food
and the good education and all of that, and that's what we meant
to give them as much as we could, as the Lord by his power would
grant us. in His goodness, all those things. But I want to tell
you what they need more than anything else. They need Christ. They need His blood to wash away
all their sins. They need His righteousness.
They need that more than anything else. Every one of you have children
you're raising. You want to have a good education.
You want to have the best, don't you? And I have more power to
you. I hope they get it. But I'm going
to tell you something they need even more, someone they need
even more than that. They need Christ. They need the
gospel. They need to hear the gospel.
I've had people call me and say, well, what do you all have for
the children? I said, well, we have the gospel for them. Well, don't you have a basketball
team? No, they don't really need that. They'll get that at school
or on the playground. They need the gospel at church.
Could you imagine Paul the Apostle and Peter having a basketball
team? Just craziness, you see. We say,
well, we want to give them something to do. Well, let's give them
something to do. Let's preach the gospel to them. You say, well, they
won't hear it. They will if God's pleased to
reveal it to them. I had a fellow tell me one time,
he said, well, he said, I don't make my children come to church
because if God's going to save them, he's going to save them.
And I said, friend, you're tempting God. You're tempting God just
as much as you go out there and stand in the middle of 13th Street
and dare a truck to hit you. I know this. God may or may not
save your children, but I know this. If he saves them, it's
going to be under the preaching of the gospel. And that's where
you ought to have them. As long as you have any control
over. Where the gospel is preached. And that's what he's talking
about, this single eye. I have a single eye to Christ. Yes, I've got to take care of
my family. Yes, I've got to do good on my job. Yes, I've got
to do all these things that God has given. The Bible says husbands
love your wives as Christ loved the church. You're not to neglect
your wife. Your single eye to Christ does
not give you any excuse to neglect your wife and wives. You're to
submit to your husbands as unto the Lord. Your single eye to
Christ does not negate that or deny that. Children, you're to
get a good education. But you're to obey your parents
in the Lord. You see what I'm saying? That's what he means.
Then look at verse 33. of Matthew 6, he says, but seek
ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these
things shall be added unto you. Don't be so anxious and worried
and concerned with the things of this world that it takes you
away from Christ and His truth, the gospel and His people and
the fellowship of His people. And here's the point, and I'll
go back to Matthew 13. The truth is this. We can know
for certain whether or not we are wheat or tares, false believers
or true believers. We don't have to grope in the
dark. We don't have to wait in fear to know. The Bible gives
us all kinds of testimony concerning the evidences of those who truly
believe the gospel, who truly love Christ. And we have to look
to God's testimony to do this. You can go ask somebody, what
do you think, and you'll get an answer, but they can be wrong.
And let me tell you something, even your own heart can deceive
you, the Scripture says. But I'll tell you someone who
will never deceive you, and that's God. And His Word is always true. And here it is from Genesis to
Revelation. You have to look into the mirror of God's Word,
and you have to judge by God's Word, and you have to act upon
God's Word. not walking away and forgetting
it, being unaffected. There's two things here. Number
one, you must go by the standard of our self-examination in this
area with God's testimony. Whatever God says is true. Not
feelings, not circumstances, not the opinions of others. Secondly,
we have to be doers of the word, not hearers only. James said
that in James chapter 1. Be ye doers of the word and not
hearers only. Now, listen to me. Now, doing
God's word is in no way salvation by works. It is in no way salvation
by doing. Doing God's Word is no legal
way as if to say we can be saved based on our doing or as if to
say if we don't do them perfectly, we're not saved. We don't do
anything perfectly. I mean, we don't do anything
perfectly. It has to do only with the evidence of how much
we truly value Christ and love Him. Is He your treasure? Is
He my treasure? The great salvation He's given
me. which we claim, I claim to be saved, the gospel. I mean, just ask yourself, can
you take or leave the gospel? If you can take it or leave it,
it's not your treasure. Isn't that right? It's my life. Peter said, you have the words
of life, Lord. Can you live without breathing?
Well, you can't live spiritually without hearing the gospel. Isn't
that right? If a person doesn't need it,
what's the problem? If he doesn't need breath, what's
his problem? He's dead. If he doesn't need the water
of life, the bread of life, what's the problem? He's spiritually
dead. Now, that's just what it is. The old boy said, it is what
it is. Well, there it is. And the thing about it is, we
don't need to fool ourselves. That's the subject of these parables.
As I said, in verse 44 here, it begins with again. That's
a statement to be added to the course of an explanation or an
argument. He's making an argument. Here's what the kingdom of heaven
is like. Now, am I in it? Am I a citizen of that kingdom?
And he says it's the treasure hid in a field. What is this
treasure? Well, theologians differ on this,
but I'll tell you what I believe it is. It's the kingdom of heaven.
That's what he says. Verse 44, the kingdom of heaven
is life unto treasure hid in the field. What is the kingdom
of heaven? Well, first of all, to have a kingdom, you've got
to have a king. Isn't that right? There's no kingdom without a
king. Well, who's king here? Christ is king. He earned that
right by his death on Calvary to put away the sins of his people
and establish the only righteousness by which he rules in his scepter.
That's who he is. He's the King of Kings. He's
the Lord of Lords. Scripture calls him the Potentate.
You know what that means? That means the all-powerful one. I don't see how any man could
take the term and the title upon himself as being a Potentate.
But some do. God is Potentate. The kingdom of heaven is Christ,
our King, on the throne, based upon his finished work at Calvary
to save us from our sins. And then to have a kingdom, you've
got to have subjects. Who are the subjects? All for
whom he lived and died and was buried and rose again the third
day. All for whom he's seated in heaven
at the right hand of the Father, ever living to make intercession
for us. All whom he's coming back to gather into his bosom.
his church to glorify us with him. All who will live forever
in glory with him. You've got to have subjects. That's his people. To have the
kingdom, you've got to have rules. It's got to have a foundation
based on rules. What are those rules? The gospel
of God's grace. Grace is our doctrine. Gratitude
is our ethic. The gospel of God's grace, salvation
is by free and sovereign grace, not by works of righteousness,
which we do, but based upon what Christ alone has accomplished.
The word of God is our treasure. That's the kingdom of heaven.
The kingdom, the king communicates to his subjects, how? By his
word. This word is precious to the
people of God. They can't live without it. They
have to live by it. This word is the word of grace.
It's the word of mercy. It's the word of truth. The gospel
is the word of life, salvation. Paul, when he described it in
2 Corinthians chapter 4 as the glory of God revealed in the
face of Jesus Christ, the next line he said, but we have this
treasure in earthen vessels. It's a treasure. Now, I've got
a treasure, and it's in a clay pot. The treasure is unbreakable,
but the clay pot's not. We've seen that in the death
of our dear sister Sue. And many of you have lost loved
ones. Janet, you lost your sister this past week, Mrs. Frazier.
And you feel the loss of that loved one, don't you? And we
pray for you and we think of you. And it's an amazing thing. Many of you have lost loved ones.
But you have this comfort to know that if their treasure was
Christ, and still is, Then they're fine, aren't they? They're in
good hands. They're in good hands. But you
see, this body's going to die. This body's weak. This mind will
make mistakes. Somebody said, well, you shouldn't
have said that, or you shouldn't have done it that way. And you're
right, shouldn't have. Hang on, there's more coming,
if the Lord lets me live. You know, anything we get a hold
of, we'll mess it up, won't we? But the thing about it is, we
have a treasure that's unbreakable. It's a perfect treasure. It's
the gospel of Christ. It's the power of His Holy Spirit
who indwells us and implants that word in our heart. We have the treasure of the righteousness
of God revealed. Think about this. Now, men by
nature seek for value, worth, treasure on earth. in their own
works and their own efforts. But ultimately, those things
are worthless. Paul, the apostle, saw that. He said, I count all
things but done that I may win Christ. All of his pedigree. You know why people, don't get
me wrong, I know some of y'all may be searching into your pedigree
there, but you know why a lot of people do that? Because that's
their treasure. Paul said, I was a Hebrew of Hebrews of the tribe
of Benjamin. He said, I used to think that
meant something and counted for something. I used to think that
that recommended me unto God. But when I saw Christ and His
righteousness and His precious blood, he said, I said, no, that's
nothing. What family I was born into,
who I'm connected with has nothing to do with my salvation, has
nothing to do with my righteousness before God, only Christ. Those
things are worthless. But I'll tell you what, in the
gospel, there's an eternal treasure because the gospel belief in
the gospel belief in Christ shows you're connected with Christ.
And I want to tell you something, that's the only pedigree I want. You know, back in the old days
in England, you know, the lords and the ladies and the counts
and the countesses, and they were so proud, you know, you're
a common-born. Listen, let me tell you something.
Nothing wrong with being common-born, as long as you're born again
in Christ. Isn't that right? And you nobles
out there, you're going to find that all your nobility is going
to melt into corruption if you ever see the glory of Christ
your treasure. Isn't that right? Think of God
who's revealed in the gospel. He's a just God and a Savior. I'll tell you, when the Lord
hit me over the head with that message and shot it into my ear
and then into my heart, you talk about a revelation. What a treasure
that is to know how God can be just and justify the ungodly. I never even knew that. You know,
I used to think when I was in religion, I had all the answers.
I figured I'd go to seminary and I'd come out and have all
the answers. And when I went to seminary and come out, I didn't
even know the questions. I heard a preacher up here, Pastor
Mahan, preaching from Isaiah 45 on a just God and a Savior.
And boy, that clicked, and I said, what does that mean? And the
moment I said, what does that mean, that's when I began seeking
the Lord. I wanted to know, what does it mean? Why does God have
to be a just God and a Savior? I'll tell you why. Because He's
God. He's holy. He must punish sin. He can by
no means clear the guilty. Without the shedding of blood,
there is no forgiveness or remission of sin. And I'm a sinner who
deserves nothing but wrath and condemnation, so how can God
be merciful to me? How could God save me? How could
He justify me? There's only one way, and that's
through the Lord Jesus Christ, my treasure. Somebody had to
die in my place, and that's what Christ did. He shed His precious
blood. His blood is my treasure, you
see. under you therefore which believe,"
what? He is precious. He's your treasure. I don't care
if I had a billion dollars in the bank. If I didn't have Christ,
where's it all going to lead to? Bankruptcy and hell. That's the truth. You remember the story, the parable
of the rich man and Lazarus? Lazarus the beggar. laying outside
the gate of the rich man's house. And you know what happened. Lazarus
died in the Lord. He died in the faith. Men glory
in their treasures, but what do I glory in? Paul said, God
forbid, in Galatians 6.14, God forbid that I should glory, boast,
save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world
is crucified unto me, and I unto the world. In light of the cross
of Christ, in light of the glorious person and the finished work
of Christ on that cross, this world means nothing compared
to Him, nothing. Think of the person who is revealed
in the kingdom of heaven, Christ, the God-man. Isn't that something,
to know that He is both God and man in one person? That is a
treasure. You know, there are people who
deny His deity, there are people who deny His humanity. There's
people who want to trifle with that truth. But if you're focused
just on the fact that Christ is very God of very God and very
man of very man, isn't that a treasure? You say, I don't understand all
that. All you're simply saying is you just don't know how much
treasure you have. You got it there and you see
something of it, but you don't know the depths of it. You may
never know. You'll spend eternity. Enjoying
that. He is God and man. Think of his
blood that was shed as payment for our sins. Oh, that's a that's
a treasure. There's not going to be anybody
in hell for whom he died. Think of the forgiveness of sins.
How precious is that? Are you a sinner? Then how are
you forgiven? You know, you've got people on
this earth who won't forgive you. Do you know that? They won't do it. I don't care
what you do, they won't do it. But God forgives sins by the
blood of His Son. And it's not just a one-time
thing, it's an eternal thing. What a treasure. All my sins
are covered by the blood of Christ, and God will never hold me accountable
for my sins, because He held Christ accountable for my sins
on Calvary. And He drank damnation dry. How
precious is that to you? I don't ever get tired of preaching
it. I hope you never get tired of hearing it. Think of the treasure
of divine election. Now, I know a lot of people don't
like the doctrine of election, but it's in the Bible. Now, you
deal with it. God chose a people. And I know this. Here's what
the Bible teaches. I'll give it to you plain and
simple. If I'm a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, I know
that God chose me. How do I know that He chose me? Because I believe the gospel,
that's the evidence of one whom God has chosen. Paul said in
2 Thessalonians 2, verse 13, he said, We're bound to give
thanks, brethren, beloved of the Lord, because God hath from
the beginning chosen you unto salvation through sanctification
of the spirit and belief of the truth, whereunto he called you
by our gospel to the praise of the glory of his grace in Christ
Jesus. That's what it says. Paul told him in 1 Thessalonians
1, he said, I know your election of God. How? Because the gospel
came to you not just in word, but in power. Changed your life. Changed your heart, your mind,
your affections, your will. Brought you from unbelief to
faith in Christ. Brought you from stubborn rebellion
to repentance of dead works and idolatry. Brought you from hatred
and indifference to the truth of the gospel of God's grace.
And brought you to love Christ and his truth. Brought you from
from being outside the fellowship of God's people into the warmth
of the fellowship of his people. But I see that. And how precious
is that? Think of the treasure of having
a perfect standing, a perfect righteousness before God that
will stand at judgment. Do you realize that? Bible says
God's going to judge the world in righteousness by that man
whom he hath ordained, and that he hath given assurance unto
all men, and that he hath raised him from the dead, Acts 17 31.
When you stand before God, how precious is it to know that you'll
be standing there in a perfect righteousness, one that is eternal and everlasting,
that was wrought out at Calvary by the Son of God incarnate.
How precious is that? Think of the treasure of final
glory, to be with Him, to be made like Him. Precious in the
sight of the Lord is the death of His saints. Think about that. Christ doesn't
give us an exact explanation of every part of this short parable,
but we could liken the field to the Word of God, the Scriptures.
People today have Bibles. But they are like the Pharisees
of old, they fail to see the glory of Christ. Christ told
the Pharisees, search the scriptures, for in them you think you have
eternal life, for there they which testify of me. Read this
Bible and run and look for Christ. These things are hidden from
the natural man because there is a veil upon his heart. What
is that veil? Self-righteousness, self-love,
religious pride. Why do I see this treasure? I'll
tell you why. It's because God in His free
and sovereign grace has revealed it to me. What a treasure. He says here, look at verse 44.
He says, "...the kingdom of heaven is likened to treasure hither
filled that which when a man hath found." When I began to
search the Scriptures, I'm going to tell you something. I was
not looking for what I found. Just like this man. He's in the field and he's looking. Were you looking for truth that
would cause you to call all your religious efforts and experiences
and activities wicked and evil? I wasn't. But I found it by God's
grace. What a treasure that is. What
a treasure it is that God exposed my false hope and revealed to
me the only true hope in Christ. What a treasure that is. This
shows us that the difference between a weed and a tear, a
false believer and a true believer, is the sovereign grace of God.
God chose me. Why? Not because I deserved it.
Not because I earned it. Not because He looked down through
time and foresaw that I would believe it. Because if left to
myself, I would not have believed it. Who makes me to differ? It's
God who does. Why did God choose me? Not because
of anything in me. Not because of any works that
I would do. I was no different than the rest
of this sinful mass of humanity that hated God and His Son. Yet
He chose me. Now, how precious is that? God also made us to differ in
redemption when he sent Christ to live and die and be buried
and raised again for our justification. You consider what Christ went
through to redeem his people from their sins. If you're redeemed,
consider what Christ did to redeem you. Now, how precious is that
to you? Is that my treasure? Do I love
the crucified, risen Christ? The Bible says, if any man love
not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be anathema, maranatha. That
means cursed. I know my love is not what it
ought to be, and I know my best efforts to love will not save
me or preserve me. But I know this, hearing his
love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent
his son to be the propitiation for our sins. Let me ask you
again, can you take or leave the gospel? Is there any evidence in my life
that I love him at all? He says here, when this man found
the treasure, he hideth it. He didn't hide it in a bad sense,
as if he wanted to keep it from himself and hide it from everybody
else. What that means is he cherished it and protected it and guarded
it in his heart. That's what that means. Oh, I've
got to have Christ. The psalmist said in Psalm 119,
Thy word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against
thee. Blessed art thou, O Lord, teach me thy statutes. With my
lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth. I've
rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies as much as in all riches. I will
meditate in thy precepts and have respect unto thy ways. I
will delight myself in thy statutes. I will not forget thy word. It
says here that for joy therefore goeth he and selleth all that
he hath and buyeth that field. He's not teaching that salvation
can be bought here. You don't derive your doctrine
from the parables. These parables illustrate doctrine.
But it's not that you can buy salvation. He's just simply teaching
how we who know Christ and believe His truth value salvation. Nothing we have is worth losing
our souls. That's what he's teaching there.
This is a treasure worth all. Everything else pales in comparison. So have you sold all that you
have for this treasure? What about your past religion
without Christ, without truth? What about the cares and pleasures
of this world? Well, those who see this treasure
for what it is and value it above all things with a single eye, Nothing can take the place of
a rival Christ. That's right. Because you see
the value of Christ and his finished work. And you want to express
your value of him in worship and thanksgiving, obedience and
love, though not perfectly. But you know your own heart in
this matter. And this is the truth, the treasure of the kingdom
of heaven.