My Soul Holds Treasure

(2Co4:1-15)



God is worthy (Ps76:4).

His thoughts (Ps137:7), His promise (2Pe1:4), His blood (1Pe1:19) and

His name (Php2:9) are all precious, and

He considers as His treasure the vessel that holds His precious things.



Faith is knowing Him and receiving Him, and

The life of this faith is emptying oneself in order to be filled with His treasure.



The duty of a vessel is to hold, and

Its value depends on the content it holds, and for that:

1)     It must be emptied;

2)     It must not change; and

3)     It must carry.



For God breathed into him the breath of life,

Adam became a living being (Ge2:7),

A vessel to hold the word of God (Ge1:27).

However, sin entered him and

He became a vessel of God's wrath, prepared for destruction (Rm9:22).



The people of Israel were called God's treasured possession (Dt26:17-19) for

The Almighty chose them among all the peoples to become His holy people (Job22:25).



Inside the sanctuary was

The ark of covenant overlaid with pure gold, inside of which were

The stone tables of His covenant, as well as the name of the Lord God (Ex25:10-16; He9:4).

It reminded them that, to fear the Lord was the key to His treasure (Is33:6).



The gentile king who drank wine out of the gold goblets of the Temple and

Praised the gods of the gentiles was struck dead on the same day (Da5:3-4, 30),

While the precious children of Zion, once worth their weight in gold, ignored such, for which

They were broken in pieces like pottery (Is30:14; La4:2).



Jesus said, "Destroy this temple and I will raise it again in three days (Jn2:19), because

Through the death and the resurrection of the temple of His body,

He would be broken to scoop out His treasure and place it into

The precious vessels which He would form.



As He died, Jesus said, "It is finished (Jn19:30), declaring that He:

1)     Emptied Himself and held the Father's will in Him, giving glory to the Father and receiving the name above all names (Jn10:18; Php2:6-11);

2)     Judged the devil whose heart was full of pride (Is14:13; Eze28:17); and

3)     Redeemed the sins of all men and sprinkled His precious blood on them (1Pe1:18-19).



He rose and was crowned with glory and honor, and

Sat on the heavenly throne (He2:9).



The Holy Spirit comes to the souls who are

Overlaid with the precious blood of Jesus, and

Lets them be filled with His treasures: the name of Yeshua and the Truth.



The man whose soul holds treasure is he who:

1)     Keeps the Truth ” considers as rubbish his own argument, knowledge, thoughts, plans, will, dreams, treasures, and lays them down (2Co10:4-6; Php3:7-9);

2)     Defends the Truth ” in order to not distort the word of God, risks his own life to defend it (2Co4:2); and

3)     Teaches the Truth ” delivers it to all nations and to the next generation,



All to be raptured when the Lord returns.



O Lord,

My soul is overlaid with the blood of Jesus, more precious than finest gold, and

Holds the treasure of Yeshua and the Truth.

How precious is my soul!

Like the space shuttle orbiter that shoots up to the sky and flies into orbit

Let me rid myself of all the things that I once considered gain and

Scoop out the gospel, and

On the day the Lord returns

Let me be lifted up to heaven!

Amen.