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Your Treasure is not Hidden

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• All right, well, let's open our Bibles today, if you would please, to the book of Matthew chapter 6 and verse 21. Matthew chapter 6 and verse 21. The title of the message is "Your Treasure is not Hidden." So if you look in Matthew chapter 6 and verse 21, a very short verse, very simple verse, the scripture says, "For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Suppose that I could tell you exactly where your treasure was located. What would you think? You'd probably think that I was a spy or a thief.

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• Or at least someone simply who happened to be overly inquisitive. You may also believe that I've been snooping around and watching you without your knowledge and without your permission. And of course, an obvious deduction from my knowledge of where your treasure is would be that I might have free access to it without your knowledge or without your permission. Now, it may trouble you if I could only tell you what your treasure was, but I could also tell you where it was located. Wow. You may think that's impossible, but it's not.

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• Scripture affirms that it is actually so. And it is really, really true. Years ago, my youngest granddaughter, who is old right now, but when she was five or six, she just absolutely delighted in counting money. And she just, every day, she'd have to count what little bit I had. And so when Alice and I wanted to buy something specifically, what we would do, we would just save up the money so we could pay cash. And usually I just put it in a book or something like that. One day I came home.

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• And Lacey was all smiles. And she said, "Papa," I said, "Yes, we are." She said, "I found your hiding spot. And I know exactly how much money you have in it." It just really thrilled her that she found where I was saving that little bit of money, and that she knew exactly what was in it. Well, it really was not hidden, but it was really in a private spot.

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• But in one sense, the word everyone has treasure. It may not be silver or gold. It may not be paper money. It may not be jewelry, but it's still considered a treasure. It could be family. It could be friends. It could be children. It could be spouses. It could be anything that's counted as treasure. Different objects constitute treasure. I want you to turn in your Bibles, if you would, holding that you were going to come back there. But I want you to turn to Proverbs chapter 15 and look, if you would please, at verse 6. Proverbs chapter 15 and verse 6. Look at what the Bible says. Proverbs chapter 15 and verse 6. The Bible says, "In the house of the righteous is much treasure, but in the revenues of the wicked is trouble." So in the house of the righteous is much treasure. Now if you would turn right over to Proverbs chapter 21 and look, if you would please, at verse 20. Proverbs 21 and verse 20. Again, the Bible says, "There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise, but a foolish man spendeth it up."

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• Now, in these two passages that I just read in the book of Proverbs, the Hebrew word for treasure is also—it means literally a treasure, a storehouse, supplies of food or storehouse weapons. So I want you to turn, if you would, in your Bibles, first of all now, to Jeremiah chapter 50 and look at verse 25. I just gave you a Hebrew word. I want you to see this. There's a special reason. Look at it, if you would please, in Jeremiah chapter 50 and verse 25. Look at what the Word of God says, Jeremiah 50 and verse 25. The Bible says, "The Lord has opened his armory and has brought forth the weapons of his indignation, for this is the work of the Lord God of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans." Note, if you would please, "the Lord has opened his armory." The word "armory" in Jeremiah 50 and verse 25 is the exact same Hebrew word that is translated as "treasure" in the two passages in Proverbs. So our Lord's armory was a storehouse of weapons.

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• So yes, ladies, your husband's weapons are a treasure. That's what the Word of God declares them to be. That is for sure. They are valuable for many reasons, but that certainly is true. I want you to turn back in your Bibles now to the book of Deuteronomy chapter 32, and you're going to see the exact same Hebrew word again. Notice Deuteronomy chapter 32, and let's begin reading there with verse 34. Deuteronomy 32, and look, if you would please, at verse 34.

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• God asks, "Is not this laid up in store with me and sealed up among my treasures? To me belongeth vengeance and recompense; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste." So God is talking about his judgments and he said, "Is not this sealed up among my treasures?" So it is true then that weaponry is indeed treasures, and God calls it his armory, and God calls his judgments his treasures as well.

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• Now, when we think of treasure, we think about earthly wealth. We think about silver and gold. We think about loss of money. But the truth of the matter is, you can have treasure without having those things. Let me show you. If you will turn in your Bibles to 1 Timothy, chapter 6. 1 Timothy, chapter 6. And look, if you would, please, at what the word of God says. 1 Timothy chapter 6. And let's begin reading there with verse 6. 1 Timothy chapter 6 and verse 6. The scripture says, "But godliness with contentment is great gain." So once again, there's a treasure right there of godliness and contentment.

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• And then he goes on to say, "For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. And having food and raiment, let us be therewith content. But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness. Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses." So he tells you to begin with that godliness with contentment is great gain. Then he talks about the love of money and how people have erred and snared themselves there. And then he tells you to flee these things, but follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, and meekness. And so these things, he says, are treasures. They're treasures in and of themselves. Now our treasure—listen to me carefully—is in our hearts and minds. I want you

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• to go back to Matthew chapter 6, if you would please, and I want you to look at the context. Matthew chapter 6 and look, if you would please, at verse 19. He says, "Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through and steal: for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."

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• So let me ask you this question. Have you figured up a way? Have you figured out a way to lay up treasures for yourself in heaven? Obviously, we do not have a vault in heaven. And if we did have a vault, we could not access it on a daily basis or weekly basis or even a monthly basis. So how in the world do we lay up for ourselves treasures in heaven?

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• Well, I'm sure there are many good answers. But one answer that is very plain in the Bible is we lay up treasure in heaven by our obedience to God and his word. That is certainly one of those ways we prepare treasure in heaven by keeping our hearts, ordering our steps, walking pleasing in his sight, and bringing our lives in conformity to his word. This produces what the word of God calls treasure in heaven.

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• Now, the opposite is also true. When a person does not walk obediently and does not walk as pleasing to the Lord, he produces an evil treasure, but he does not lay that treasure up in heaven for himself.

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• Now, I want you to look at this with me. Turn right over to Matthew chapter 12 to begin with. Matthew chapter 12. Look at verse 35. Matthew 12 verse 35. The scripture says, "A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things." Now note that a good man out of the good treasure—what?—of the heart bringeth forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things. Now, if you would turn right on over to the book of Luke chapter 6, and if you want to mark this passage, we will come back before I close, Lord willing. If you look in Luke chapter 6 and verse 45, you're going to see the same truth, except it might be enlarged just a little. So Luke chapter 6 and verse 45, our Lord says, "A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil."

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• "For of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh." So when we walk in the word, when we order our lives by the word of God, when we apply the word, we're actually not only laying up treasure in heaven for ourselves, but we're actually bringing forth truth to others as well. So if you go back to Matthew chapter 13 and look at this, Matthew 13 and verse 52, look at this, Matthew 13, verse 52.

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• "Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old." Now pay very close attention to that verse. He said, "Every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old." So now he's talking about the treasure of the mind once again. He's talking about the treasure of knowledge. And so a man then who has good treasure in his mind, a man who has good treasure in his heart, has no need to steal from anyone. He can bring forth treasure of that which is old, that is which he has known for a long time, understood for a long time. And he can also bring new treasures, that is treasures that he has recently learned, that he's meditated upon through studying the word of God. And so he says, this is what a scribe does.

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• He meditates and he brings forth out of the treasure of his heart. Now, the problem is this. Many people have no idea about the treasure of the heart and the treasure of the mind. All they think about is laying up treasure on this earth. So our Lord points out in Luke chapter 12, if you would go there very quickly, how foolish and how ridiculous this really is.

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• So look at how he explains this. Luke chapter 12, verse 15. Look at this. "And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness." Then he makes this tremendous statement: "For a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth."

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• Now, every one of us have seen bumper stickers. "He who dies with the most wins." Well, that's not true. We have a friend who was a seamstress. She had a bumper sticker on her car that says, "She who dies with the most materials wins." Well, that's still not true either. So our Lord says we need to beware of covetousness, that a man's life does not consist of the abundance of things which he possesses.

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• Now look at this in verse 16. "And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully: and he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits? And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years."

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• "Take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?" And here's the conclusion, look at it. "So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God." In other words, God calls a man a fool who's working for everything that he can get on this life and in this life, and he does not lay up treasure for himself in heaven.

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• And so our Lord says it's absolutely foolish. It's absolutely worthless. It's kind of like the article I read years ago about this multimillionaire who died and he was being carried in this real fancy casket to his burying place, and one of the pallbearers leaned over and whispered in the ears of the other, "How much did he leave?" The other answered, "He left it all." That's true. That is exactly true. So our Lord gives us another story in Mark chapter 10.

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• You don't have to turn there. You remember that the rich young man who came running to the Lord Jesus Christ and knelt and said, "Good Master, what must I do that I may inherit eternal life?" And our Lord said, "Thou knowest the commandments, Do not kill, Do not commit adultery, Honor thy father and thy mother." And the young man said, "All these have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet?" And our Lord said, "Well, if you want to really have treasure in heaven, you go and sell everything you have and give to the poor and follow me." And the Bible says the young man went away extremely sorrowful. Why?

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• Because he had great riches. So what our Lord is saying, did anyone who lays up for himself treasures on this earth but not in heaven is actually foolish.

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• Now, treasure in eternity is laid up by having treasure in time in our hearts. So, eternal treasure is laid up by obediently following the Word of God and applying the Word of God.

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• Now, it is true, did those who do not obey the word of God and do not believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, they heap up for themselves treasures as well. But it's not the kind of treasure that you and I would desire. So in the book of James, chapter 5—Hebrews, James—if you look in James, chapter 5 and verse 3, our Lord talks about these individuals.

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• And here's what he says. James 5 verse 3. He says, "Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days." Look at verse 4. "Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears

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• of the Lord of sabaoth. Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter." And so God says, yes, the wicked are laying up treasures for themselves, but it is treasures of judgment. It's treasures of condemnation. It is not treasures in heaven per se.

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• Now, I want you to look, please, at 2 Corinthians chapter 4, because this is another passage. It deals with treasure. And then I'm going to start making what I'm going to call the point of this entire message. So look at this in 2 Corinthians chapter 4, beginning there with verse 5. Note, if you would, what the Apostle Paul says about you and I having the ministry of the Holy Spirit in us. 2 Corinthians chapter 4 and verse 5. The Apostle Paul says, "For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake." Verse 6, "For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ." Now, hang on, "For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake." That was verse 5. Then verse 7, "But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us."

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• So he is saying all of the preaching, all of the godly living, all the godly witnessing is based upon a treasure we have in our earthly vessel. And that treasure is nothing else than the Holy Spirit of God. We have this treasure in earthly vessels.

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• Now, that leads me to this question. I don't want you to ponder this question. I want you to think about this question. Here it is. What kind of treasure are you? What kind of treasure are you? Everyone has treasure. Alice has lots of jewelry. Some of it is fake. Some of it is real. Some of it is valuable. Some of it is not. She prefers certain pieces of jewelry over other pieces of jewelry. Why?

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• Well, because some of it has been inherited. And it has great sentimental value. It may not be worth anything to a jeweler, and he would probably say it's worthless other than the fact that it has great sentimental value. So why is it then that she considers some of it valuable and some of it worthless? Why is it she cherishes some and really could care less about the other?

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• So I ask you this question to prove a point. What kind of treasure are you? Have you ever considered the fact that God's people are called in scripture his peculiar treasure? Wow. I want to show you this first in the Old Testament, and I'm going to show it to you in the New Testament. So I want you to look in your Bibles, if you would, to the book of Exodus chapter 19. The book of Exodus chapter 19. And look, if you would please, at verse 5. Look what God says. Exodus chapter 19, verse 5. "Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people."

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• "For all the earth is mine." So God said, if you will hear my voice, if you will obey me, you will be my peculiar treasure unto me above all people.

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• Now, if you will turn right on over to Psalm 135, there are other passages, but these two should be sufficient. So if you'll look in Psalm 135 and notice, if you would please, verse 4. Psalm 135 and verse 4. Here the word of God says, "For the Lord hath chosen Jacob unto himself, and Israel for his peculiar treasure." Now the word for treasure in these passages is the Hebrew word segullah, and it literally means a valued property, a peculiar possession which is considered a treasure. So, in the Old Testament, God's covenant people were his peculiar treasure.

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• Now, I want you to turn in your Bibles to 1 Corinthians chapter 3. I'm going to read a passage that everybody probably can pretty well quote. Usually, this is taken out of context, and I'm not going to be dealing with the context right now, but I just want to point out two verses in 1 Corinthians chapter 3. Look in verse 16. 1 Corinthians chapter 3, verse 16.

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• The Apostle Paul tells these Corinthian Christians, "Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?" Now, please consider what he just said. "Know ye not?" In other words, are you ignorant? Are you stupid? What's wrong with you? Don't you know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

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• Now look in verse 17. He said, "If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are." So now, two verses he's told believers that we are indeed the temple of God. If you would look in 1 Corinthians chapter 6 and verse 19, here's another passage that most of you can quote. The Apostle again says, "What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's." So again, in verse 19, he says, "What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost?"

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• Now, we quote these passages many times without even thinking, without even understanding what is really being said. Because when you and I think of the temple, we think of the large edifice that was built by Solomon or later on by Herod. And when you think of that large edifice, then you think about all the porticoes, all the courts in it. You think about the holy place. You think about the most holy place. The temple was very big.

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• There were places there for the common people. There are places just for the priests, and there was a place basically just for the high priest as well. You have to remember it was the high priest who went into the holiest of all only once a year, and that without the shedding of blood. It was in the holiest of all where God met with his people. He said in the Old Testament, "There will I meet with you."

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• I want you to hold 1 Corinthians, but I want you to turn back in your Bibles to the book of Exodus chapter 30. Then we're going to go to the book of Numbers. Look in Exodus chapter 30 and verse 36.

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• Now he's talking about the ointment has to be compounded and to be brought into the holiest of all. In Exodus chapter 30 and verse 36, look at it. God said, "And thou shalt beat some of it very small, and put of it before the testimony in the tabernacle of the congregation, where I will meet with thee: it shall be unto you most holy." So he's talking about the perfume that was to be made. He said it's to be put in the most holy place where I am going to meet with you. Now, if you look in the book of Numbers, chapter 17 and verse 4, Numbers 17 and verse 4. Look at this. Numbers 17, verse 4, "And thou shalt lay them up in the tabernacle of the congregation before the testimony, where I will meet with you." So it was in the Holy of Holies where God met with the people. Now, when the Apostle Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians chapter 3, and he says, "Know ye not that ye are the temple of God," which temple ye are.

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• And then 1 Corinthians 6, he said, "What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost?"

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• Now there are two words in the Greek New Testament for temple. The first one is the word hieron. And when you read the word hieron, it just simply refers to the temple. It refers to the whole entire edifice. If I were to say, you can look in this large church building downtown, when I say church building, it refers to the entire building. I'm not singling out the pastor's study. I'm not singling out the Sunday school room. I'm not singling out the auditorium. It's just a church building. That is what the word hieron means. It just means temple. It means the entire temple. But there is a second Greek word, and that word is naos. And that is the word that is translated in 1 Corinthians chapter 3 and 1 Corinthians chapter 6 as temple. Here's the distinction. Hieron refers to the entire structure. Naos refers to the holy of holies. It refers to the place where God dwells. What did he say?

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• "There will I meet with you." Now look back, if you would, at 1 Corinthians chapter 3. Look in verse 16 again. Look at this. "Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?" What did God do? God met with the people in the holiest of holies. In verse 17, "If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy," the naos, the holy of holies, "which temple ye are." And that's why I said in verse 19 of chapter 6, "What? know ye not that your body is the temple," is the naos, "of the Holy Ghost? Which ye have of God, ye are not your own, ye are bought with a price."

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• So what is he saying? He is saying that we are the temple of God. Now, 1 Corinthians is teaching us that we are the temple of God. We are the most holy place where God dwells and where God meets with us. Let me show you. Turn right on over to the book of Ephesians, if you would. Ephesians chapter 2. Ephesians, look at Ephesians chapter 2, beginning there with verse 19. Ephesians 2, verse 19, the Apostle writes, "Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; in whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: in whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit." Now wait a minute. We are built upon the foundation of Jesus Christ and the apostles and prophets, and he tells us in verse 22, "in whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit." In other words, we are the place where God dwells, we are the place where God meets with us.

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• Now, if you would turn right on over to the book of Hebrews and look in chapter 10, right before the book of James, Hebrews chapter 10. And look, if you would, beginning there with verse 19. Hebrews chapter 10, verse 19. Look at this. Hebrews 10, verse 19. "Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus." Now look at verse 20. "By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; and having an high priest over the house of God; let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies

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• washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;) and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching." Now notice, if you would, he tells us that now look in verse 19, "Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus." Do you realize every true Israelite would have been delighted—aha, do you have a left arm or a right arm?—just to be able to go in the Holy of Holies.

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• The high priest could only do it once a year. And now the scripture is telling us that we have full and free access to the sovereign God of heaven and earth. Through the blood of Jesus Christ, we may run to him because he indwells us. Even our deaths are counted precious in his sight. That's what the Bible says in Psalm 116 in verse 15, "Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints." I'm asking, what kind of treasure are you? Because I'm just trying to show you, just like in the Old Testament the covenant people were God's peculiar treasure, now in the New Testament we are also God's peculiar treasure. Now remember what I told you. And remember, if you were the scripture that we began with, Matthew chapter 6 in verse 21, "For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." Now that same truth is spoken again in Luke chapter 12 in verse 34, for our Lord said, "For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." Now when I was a child, I watched cartoons. I will tell you cartoons today are vastly different from when they were when I was a child.

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• Nobody had to tell us when Wile E. Coyote fell off a mountain and the rock hit him. No one had to tell us, "Don't try this at home." I mean, we knew better than that. But you know, it is so astounding today that the cartoons of old time usually taught some type of moral character or demonstrated some weakness. And today, it's just all, I don't know, Superman, super ventures and super kids and super animals and all kinds of crazy things that are just beyond the foggiest imagination. But one of the cartoons that I watched was Donald Duck, Donald and Daisy Duck.

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• You remember he had three nephews, Huey, Dewey and Louie. And then he had Uncle Scrooge. Uncle Scrooge was extremely wealthy. And many times in the cartoon, it showed Uncle Scrooge inside this huge vault filled with money. And Uncle Scrooge would dive off a diving board into his money, land it and just throw it up and roll in it and revel in it. Well, you know what that demonstrated? The money was his God. The money was his treasure.

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• That's what he delighted in. That's what he spoke about. That's what he wanted. So here is a simple reason why your treasure cannot be hidden. Because your treasure is where your heart is. And what is your heart in the Bible? In the Bible, the heart is the mind. What does the mind do? It thinks all of the time. Where your treasure is, there's your heart going to be also. In other words, where is why it cannot be hidden? Because you're constantly thinking about your treasure. You're constantly talking about your treasure. It's on your mind. You love it. You enjoy it. You adore it. You delight in it. It's on your lips all of the time. You wish to show it to others.

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• I never will forget preaching in North Georgia and I stayed with the family and they were not quite as old as Alice and I. But this man was an old man and retired and evidently had lots of money. And he had one of these little dippy-do sports cars. I mean, it was an expensive little sports car. He wanted to take me for a ride. And I said, "No, thank you."

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• I said, "It's pretty, and I'm sure it's fast. But I said, you don't have a crane to get me out of it. So I'm not getting in it. That's all there is to it." But I mean, the whole time I was with him, it's this car, this car, this car, I got this car. I've done this, this car, this car has been here. I thought to myself, "Well, I know where his love is. It's in that stinking car."

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• Where your treasure is, there is your heart going to be also. You love it, you adore it, you live for it, you cannot refrain from talking about it. So the question is, where is your treasure? And what is your treasure? Is your treasure the Lord Jesus Christ? Is your treasure the word of God? Is it money? Is it fame? Is it recognition? Is it beauty? Is it your children? Is it your spouse? Whatever controls your mind is your treasure. It cannot be hidden. All I have to do is walk with you, talk with you, and listen to you, and pretty shortly I can tell you what your treasure is.

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• You could do the same with me. Because where your treasure is, there is where your heart is going to be. Now, here's my question. You are God's treasure, according to the scripture. Is he your treasure? You have to remember something. The Levites in the Old Testament did not receive an inheritance in the land. You know why? Because God was their inheritance. That's what he said. "I am your inheritance." So if we are God's peculiar treasure and our bodies are the holiest of holy where God dwells, is he our treasure?

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• I want to show you. I want you to turn in your Bibles, if you would, to the book of Malachi, the last book in the Old Testament. Malachi chapter 3. You remember, I just told you, our Lord said that where your treasure is, that's where your heart's going to be. And I just told you, you can't hide your treasure because you're going to talk about it. You're going to spill the beans, so to speak, because that's on your heart, that's in your mind, that's what you love, that's what you adore.

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• So here's a passage you and I really need to consider. I want you to look in Malachi chapter 3. Look at verses 16 and 17. Look at this. "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." Did you hear that? "Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another." They're talking about the Lord. He is their treasure.

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• He is on their mind. He is in their heart. And the Lord hearkened and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord. Look at this, "and that thought upon his name." And what does he say? "They shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels." In other words, God has special jewels just like our ladies have special jewels. God said, "They'll be mine."

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• "And I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him." Now, for my second application, I want to just tie this together for you. I want you to turn back to two passages. I want you to turn back to Matthew 6 in verse 21. And then I also want you to look in Luke chapter 6 and verse 45. So if you'll go back in your Bibles to Matthew 6 and verse 21, and then get ready to go to the book of Luke chapter 6, I want you to watch this. Matthew 6 and verse 21, very simple statement. Our Lord said, "For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." Now if you look in Luke chapter 6 and verse 45, I read it earlier. I told you I was going to come back to it. Look at what he said. Luke 6 and verse 45. "A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil."

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• Are you looking? "For of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh." So whatever our treasure is in our hearts, it is coming out. We will talk about it. It cannot be hidden. We will spill the beans on ourselves. Anyone can know what your treasure is just by listening to you. Your treasure is not hidden. You reveal it on a daily basis. It's in your mouth. It's in your walk. It's in your heart. And since it's in your heart, it comes out of your mouth. Where your treasure is, there's where your heart is going to be. If you are God's peculiar treasure, I would hope that you would consider him your peculiar treasure since he indwells you and your body is considered the temple of God. Your treasure is not hidden.

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• Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, we bow before thee today. We thank you for your word. We thank you for your truth. And we pray, Father, that we would be your peculiar treasure. And Lord, that you would be our peculiar treasure. May we think about thee, may we speak about thee. May you be in our hearts, on our minds, on our lips. And may we walk before thee, recognizing that thou art God and God alone. Give us your grace, we pray in Christ's name. Amen.

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• You.

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