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The
Treasure In Type
We go back to get a type in
the 26th chapter of Genesis, the 18th verse, “And Isaac
digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in
the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had
stopped them…” with earth. What do you think that is a
type of? Abraham was God’s man, a type of God and
everywhere he went, except when he got away from God and
went down in Egypt, he dug a well to take care of Abraham
on the outside. He built an altar to take care of Abraham
on the inside. Everywhere he went he knew that man was
“two-fold”. He did two things as soon as he got there;
the Word of God said, after he had passed away the
Philistines came through and stopped up the wells with
earth. Boy, do we have a job. It’s not the Philistines
today. The Word of God said in the 18th chapter of
Revelation, that Babylon’s merchants were great men of
the earth and they have stopped up these wells that the
morning church drank from, and got their power. It is our
business in this evening time of light not only to dig new
wells, (get new sight on the truth) but to unstop some of
the old ones that have been hidden with the earth and have
been stopped up. We need to unstop these wells and lead
people to them and let people get a hold of them. There is
water in the well.
It is a sad thing, but
many educators and theologians let their critics stoop
down and scratch around a little in here and say, nothing
here, nothing but dirt. So, they throw the Scripture away
verse by verse---nothing there but dirt. Thank God, I told
you, it has not been very long ago that I dug up a lot of
them that the Revised Versions threw away. I have been
preaching on them, that there is water in them. The
trouble is they did not go deep enough, and the second
reason is, they did not have anything to draw with. In the
4th chapter of John, when Jesus met the woman at the well,
He told her, if you would have asked of me, I would have
given you a drink and you would never thirst again. She
did not know what He was talking about. She said, are you
greater than our fathers that gave us the well? That well
is deep, and you nave nothing to draw with. Jesus, in so
many words, turned to her and said, you do not see the
well I am talking about. It’s deeper than Jacobs well
and you have nothing to draw with.
You can have all the
education you can cram in your head, but short of the
Spirit of God, you cannot get a drop of water out of the
well. You cannot get water out of this well with man-made
pumps. It’s drawn by, the Spirit of God. I want us to
see, when He speaks of it being hid in a field, He is
saying it is hid within the pages of God’s eternal Word,
and you can read over and read over it, but you will never
draw out of there that treasure, unless you have the
Spirit of God. It is too deep. It takes the Spirit of God
to draw the water. We will go right through this age, my
friend, there was something hidden there---a treasure in a
field. If we ever find this treasure, we have to dig. I
want you to see it just like Jesus wanted us to see it,
because we read the Word too fast; it is as a treasure
hid. Someone may say, “I stumbled on to a born again
experience.” No, you didn’t. You were fooled. No one
stumbles on to it. This thing is as a treasure hid. It’s
not laying on the surface. It’s hid. You can walk over
the top if it, stand on it for a week, and never know you
are near it. You have to get below the earth. We have to
get down and dig if we ever lay hold of this experience
that God has in store for His people in this day and age.
The reason that many cannot enjoy the blissful experience
they once had, is because they won’t put forth the
effort it takes to get it. They become too lazy. They
seldom open their Bible, and when they do open it, they
try to read a chapter and a half. We would do well if we
would read two verses. I doubt if we could get all from
them what God has for us. People just relax and come down
to the church and let the preacher preach it and then they
are just like a bunch of birds in a nest. You go around a
bird’s nest where there are baby birds and just peck on
the nest and whether you have anything or not, shove it
down and we’ll take it. God’s people in the morning
time, searched the Scriptures when Paul preached, to see
if those things that he preached were the truth or not and
that is where they got their deep experience.
Sometimes when God
blesses my soul, and the saints get to rejoicing, and say,
“Bro. Wilson, that’s good,” I come back and tell
them, if you want something better, go get yourself a
drink! Why, after God gave it to me and it blesses my
soul, and I have feasted on it and drank on it, and then,
when I bring it down…you’re drinking out of my
reservoir. It you want a good drink, go and drink from the
fountain yourself. That’s exactly what God wants you to
do. I know through experience, some of the richness has
been taken off after the man of God has drunk from it.
What am I getting at? I want to get the saints back to old
time Bible reading and prayer. That individual connection
with God, where He walks with them and talks with them and
tells them that He is their own and they are His. Yes, we
will find the power, and it is no wonder that Christ
likened it unto a treasure. It is above all treasures of
this world.
In Acts 8:26 Philip was
told to go down to Gaza and teach the Ethiopian who was in
charge of all the queen’s treasure. How do you think she
heard about anything going on up at Jerusalem? Study
history and you’ll find that the Queen of Sheba heard of
Solomon’s wisdom and went up there to see. But she
couldn’t get it, just hear it. Christ was Solomon’s
wisdom. She went back and told of the greatness a few
years hence when Candace was Queen. The Word of God, along
with history, would have us believe that the Queen spread
abroad the greatness that was going on up in Jerusalem.
Here, many years hence came an Ethiopian up, “I have
heard of great things up here.” He was in charge of the
Queen’s treasury, but there was something within him
looking for something better. You can have your hands on
all the treasures of this world and you will never be
satisfied. They will not satisfy. It is a trick of the
devil; that keeps you going after it. It’s like a
picture I saw of a little boy sitting in a wagon with a
dog hitched to it and a hot dog sticking on a stick out in
front of the dog and he was riding about, the dog going
after the hot dog. That’s the way the devil works. He
will put things in front of you, and make you think you
are to get them, but you never catch them, and if you did
catch up with them, my friend, it wouldn’t bring an
ounce of peace.
When he was ready to
leave there to go back, God saw his heart was honest. God
saw that boy really wanted to worship God. It is too bad
when people come up to Jerusalem to spend a few days and
go back and never hear about Jesus. If we are not careful,
people will come into out midst right around that which
professes to the church, and go on their way back home and
never hear enough truth to get acquainted with God. God
help us!
He left with a saddened
heart, going right down the road. He had gotten clear out
of Jerusalem…out in the desert. God moved on Philip and
said, take off down there as hard as you can go. So he got
down there and joined himself to him. He was reading in
Isaiah where he read, “He was led as a sheep to the
slaughter.” What did Philip say? You’re in the right
field; you are going to soon find a treasure.
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