Title: Searching the Bible as for Hidden Gold
Meta: "If you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures, then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God." (Proverbs 2:4-5)  Beloved, there is hidden treasure that's worth a lot more than gold and it's not a possibility of finding, it's a certainty.  If you want the knowledge of God, think of it, you can have the knowledge of God.
Tags: bible,Scripture,gold,digging,God,truth,Christians

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Proverbs 2:1.

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He says, "My son...

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if you will receive my sayings

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and treasure my commandments within you.

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Make your ear attentive to wisdom,

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incline your heart to understanding.

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For if you cry for discernment,

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lift your voice for understanding,

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if you seek her as silver

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and search for her as for hidden treasures,

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then you will discern the fear of the Lord

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and discover the knowledge of God."

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You see what is involved?

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Persistence,

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perseverance,

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and then certainty of answer.

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I shared this one time with a group of college students over in Romania.

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I had a different message

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and the meeting got longer and longer and longer

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before I could ever speak

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and I kept cutting down the message.

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Finally I thought I'm just going to get up and talk to them about these verses.

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And I told them what I'm telling you now,

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and that is if you...

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and some of you young people,

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if you would go out

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instead of messing around with your friends,

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if you would go out under the moonlight,

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and cry to God for discernment

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and lift your voice for understanding.

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You would find the knowledge of God.

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He does not reveal His secrets to those that are laid back

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it's seeking earnestly.

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"If seek her as silver,

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search for her as for hidden treasures.

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Then you will discern the fear of the Lord

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and discover the knowledge of God."

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I came back a year or two later

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and one young college student came up to me,

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his face was beaming,

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he said, "I did what you said."

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He said, "God met me."

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He was a changed person.

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If you seek her as silver.

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How do men seek for silver?

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And how do they search for hidden treasures?

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Well they persist!

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That's how they do it.

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When I was a boy we grew up on a farm

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and we had some woods out there

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and my friends would come out

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and we would go out walking in the woods.

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And we'd be walking along

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and we would come upon this pit

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that would be about half as wide as this room

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this pit dug down about 10 feet or so.

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And they would say, "What's that thing?"

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There be more than one,

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you'd find one every now and then.

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"What's that thing?"

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I said, "O that's where the gold diggers have been."

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"The gold digger?"

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Yeah well what happened was,

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years ago, I don't know how long,

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maybe 75 years before,

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or 50 years before.

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There had been a famous bank robbery near where we were

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and they shot the guys at the creek down below my house.

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And the story was they never found the gold,

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and the story was those guys had hidden that gold

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somewhere in the woods.

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Somewhere in the woods (laugh),

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and we're talking about digging the rest of your life,

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to try to find that gold.

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But there was an old guy

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that would park his vehicle up at the head of our lane

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and you could see him get out with the shovel

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and head down into the woods.

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And he'd dig for days.

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Just because the thought of the possibility of it being there.

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Beloved, there is hidden treasure that's worth a lot more than that gold

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and it's not a possibility,

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it's a certainty.

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If you want the knowledge of God,

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think of it,

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you can have the knowledge of God.