Many
people have never been born again, yet are trying to teach
the kingdom -- because of that, there is much confusion.
Others have been born again and then because of yoking up
with false religious organizations, have lost their vision
of the kingdom and are looking for a literal reign of
Christ here on the earth. I stand on God's Eternal Word
that it is a lie, from the pits of hell. Jesus will never
touch mother earth again.
Someone
says, Bro. Wilson, I couldn't believe that. Well, I don't
know what you are going to use to fight me. I have the
Word. Thank God for His wonderful goodness. We rejoice in
the truth that sets us free.
We look
into the Word of God to the 44th verse of the 13th chapter
of matthew. Let us read together. "Again, the Kingdom
of heaven is like unto a 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." We might notice this, that the 1st
through the 7th parables Christ spoke, are consecutively
outlined from 33 A. D. to the end of time, and bring the
kingdom up through from Christ to the Judgment. There is
no confusion of this ever lasting kingdom of Jesus Christ,
-- if we will let the truth alone. You can pick up a
Scripture and take it over somewhere else and hook it on
to something else and prove anything you want to. That is
why we have hundreds of conceptions and faiths and beliefs
and all claim to be preaching out of the same Bible. But I
declare unto you, if we will leave the Word of God be as
it is, it will teach one thing. God only had one thing in
mind for each Sripture in there. Somebody said, well, how
will we ever get to know it? Very simple. If this brother
writes a book here and he gives it to me, I get down and I
begin to study it and I cannot understand some of it, so I
call up Bro. Craig. He is a good friend of mine.
"Bro. Craig, what do you think Bro. Turnbow
meant?" He will tell me what he thinks he meant.
Well, that does not sound right. That is all right if you
want to feel that way, but that does not sound right to
me. So I ask Bro. Fisher, and the more I ask the more
different answers they give me, so finally I get wise and
get on the telephone and call up Bro. Turnbow. He wote it,
so he knows what he meant. I say, brother, what do you
mean here. "Well, I meant thus and so." Well,
thank you, Bro Turnbow, that makes sense. Amen!
Well,
this is God's Book. Somebody said, well, how are we going
to find it out? Get hold of the man that wrote it. Paul
said in 1 Corinthians the 2nd chapter, we have the mind of
Christ through the Spirit, if you please. God's eternal
Spirit whom He set as a teacher will let us know exactly
what He meant. Thank God, whenever we get a greater
revelation of truth it will never cross up that which was
truth before. That is how we can know that it is truth. It
might be strange to you, but the fact is that the 5th, 6th
and 7th parables all begin with the word
"again." I wonder why? I wonder why the Word of
God says, again, the kingdom is like a treasure. Again it
is like a merchantman: again it is like a net. Whenever
you say, again, it was like that once before. Amen! So
again, the kingdom is like a treasure up here. It was like
that in the morning time and it is like it again in the
evening time. That is why I like these parables. You get
to preach twice on everything.
Every one
of those three parables said "again the kingdom is
like this." It was like that in the morning time, but
it was lost sight of, it was covered up in the rubbish of
confusion and earthly works. But thank God, back in the
evening time it is again just like it was in the morning.
And again the kingdom is likened unto a 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. The kingdom has been likened to many
small things through the dark ages. It was likened unto a
grain of mustard seed, which we proved by the Word of God
to be the least of all seeds. Now, He puts its true value
on it again. He shows us the great advantages that is
offered to mankind, those who are willing to come to its
terms. He said, it is as a treasure hid in a field. There
is a reason that everybody that talks about the kingdom
does not see it. Because there are some conditions to
meet, if we ever lay hold of this precious experience. He
tells us here, it is as a treasure hid in a field. We know
that Christ, or His kingdom, is the true treasure.
In the
last parable that we delt with, we delt with the false
systems of religion, Christ teaching us through a parable
that it was as a woman, which took three measures of meal
and hid leaven in it until the whole was leavened. He
showed us coming through Protestantism that they would
actually take the Word of God, and hide in that Word --
earthly works and organizations, that they got from old
Rome, until they corrupted the very Word of God. But thank
God, while the woman was hiding leaven in the meal, God
was hiding something down through there too. While old
Babylon was hiding leaven and corruption, God was hiding a
treasure. While one was working a deception, the other was
bringing a people to a 'full light.' Right down through
these 350 years of Protestantism, there was a treasure hid
there and Christ likened it unto the kingdom. Christ, or
His kingdom, let me repeat, is this true treasure that He
is speaking of.
In 2
Corinthians 4:7, Paul said, "We have this treasure in
earthen vessels; " speaking of that experience of
Christ coming into our heart and life through a born again
experience, taking the reins of our life -- Paul called it
a treasure. We have this treasure in earthen vessels. In
Colossians 2:3, "In whom (in Christ) are hid all the
treasures of wisdom and knowledge." So, thank God,
when we lay hold of this treasure it opens up the
storehouse to all the treasures, all the richness that God
has for mankind. Christ and His kingdom are greater, I
want to repeat, because it opens all other treasures. Not
only spiritually, but physically. Matthew 6:33, "But
seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness;
and all these things shall be added unto you." All
these things, such as food, clothing and where you are
going to live -- all these things will be added unto you.
Many lives are being wasted today because they are trying
first, to add the other things without seeking first the
kingdom. Until we seek the kingdom first, we do not really
have anything.
The youth
wants a good companion. They like nice clothes, they want
a good home and you can just keep putting ciphers out
there, but without the kingdom first, all you have got is
a bunch of ciphers. But, if you seek the kingdom first,
you can put a one in front of it and you have something.
God bless your heart, you will not only have it here, but
something through the ceaseless ages of eternity. Now, he
said, this treasure was here in a field; now what is a
field? In the morning time, when we studied the parable,
the field was the world, Jesus said, but now speaking on a
little different line of the kingdom, here we are speaking
of the kingdom in an individual experience again. Here, He
said the Kingdom of heaven is like -- let us read it
again. "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."
Now we
have a different field this time, our parable has taken a
different 'coat.' It is an individual experience again, a
treasure hid in the field which when a man has found he
for joy went and sold all he had to buy that field. Now,
we know the field is not the world now, because when a man
buys this treasure he does not go buy the world, he gives
it up. So, what is the field? I will prove to you by the
Word of God, the field that this treasure is found in, is
the Word of God -- it is in the pages of God's eternal
Word, this kingdom can be found. And , it is the field,
that the treasure is found in and whenever any man or
woman truly finds the treasure of a born again experience,
it takes the Spirit of God to open up this Word. You will
never find it until you are born again of the Spirit of
God. You will be just like Nicodemus, you will never find
it. Jesus said, "You cannot see it naturally."
He, in all His wisdom, thought Christ was a teacher, and
men with high intellectual power yet today think He is a
teacher and a good example, but when Nicodemus said we
know you are a teacher, Jesus said, listen, that is 'too
dry.' I am not a teacher, I am a Saviour. I am a Redeemer,
if you please. You must be born again, or you will never
see the work that I can do.
Thank
God, this kingdom can be found within the pages of God's
eternal Word, as Christ would speak of it, as a field. If
we will seek and search for it. When he had found this
treasure, he hides it and goes and buys the whole field.
There is consecration -- spiritual maturity -- walking in
the light, in the evening light. May God help us to see
it. Here is the Word of God -- we have an individual
seeking the kingdom, let me repeat again, because I want
you to get it. The Word of God is the field in which the
treasure is hid. The parables clarify it very clearly when
He said he would buy up the field to find the kingdom.
Within that field, God hid a treasure, a truth, of the
kingdom of God that makes us all one people. I thank God I
found it. The word of God teaches us all the way through
that this treasure is hid. You know it is. This treasure,
that of the kingdom or the truth about the kingdom, is hid
all the way through the Gospel ordinance. It is hid as the
Word of God says -- it is hid as the milk in the breast,
the marrow in the bone, the manna in the dew, the water in
the well, the honey in the honey-comb. Those are all Bible
expressions that men of God used to try to show us how
this treasure was hid. May I just take one of them for a
couple of moments.
It
is hid as the water in the well. Let us deal with it
typically. Go back to the garden of Eden where God created
man. There was no well there. Take a quick jump to the
22nd chapter of Revelation where a paradise is restored,
there is no well there. There are rivers again, but
brethren, in between that paradise that man lost and that
paradise restored, God has given us a well through which
we can get the same water. The Bible is that well through
which we get our water, just as sure as we are here. This
Word of God is the well through which we receive the water
of life. There, everyone of us can get the water.
