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423 | Going on a Treasure Hunt · The Woman at the Well Ministries Podcast

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  Music.
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  Hello, friends, and welcome back to another podcast of Woman at the Well Ministries,
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  where we believe that all of us have to come to Jesus like the woman at the well in John chapter 4.
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  Our highest priority is making God real in your life.
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  Whether you are listening in our app, in your favorite podcasting app,
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  or on our website at watwm.org, we invite you to sit down with us as we look
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  to the scriptures to learn more about God and to strengthen your daily walk with Jesus Christ.
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  Living a life for Christ. She's a happy girl.
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  Music.
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  She's a happy girl.
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  It is no mystery where true wisdom can be found. It is found in Christ Jesus.
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  It is no secret where the source of knowledge is located. It is the person of Jesus Christ.
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  There is much comfort in knowing these facts, because if wisdom and knowledge
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  are the treasures found in your Savior, then you know you can have them.
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  Join us in this program going on a treasure hunt as Kim Miller of Woman at the
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  Well Ministries takes us through Colossians 2 3 which says in whom are hid all
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  the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
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  Hello and welcome to this broadcast of Woman at the Well Ministries and we just
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  thank you for joining us and we ask that you would just join us now as we pray.
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  Our kind and most gracious to Heavenly Father Lord I just pray that you would
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  clear our hearts and our minds, that we would hear what you would have us to say.
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  I pray to Heavenly Father that your scriptures would just jump out at us and
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  that we would have full understanding of what they mean that they might be transforming in our lives.
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  I pray, Lord, that you would help us to be the Christians that you would have us to be.
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  I pray, Lord, that we would be the witness that you would have us to be, Lord.
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  And I just ask that you would help each of us to grow closer to you,
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  that our desires would be more of you, and that we would seek after your knowledge and your wisdom.
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  Lord, I thank you for the privilege of serving you.
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  I thank you, Lord, for being part of your kingdom. And I thank you,
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  Lord, for your love and your mercy and your grace. In Jesus' name we pray.
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  And all of God's people said,
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  amen. In today's scripture, we see that he says, in whom are hid all the treasures
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  of wisdom and knowledge.
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  And when we look at the word whom in that verse, we need to move up forward
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  into verse two to be able to see who he's talking about.
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  And he clearly says in verse two, that unto all riches of the full assurance
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  of understanding to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God and of the Father and of Christ.
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  So it's of God and of the Father and of Christ are hid all treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
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  And Paul's hope here and prayer here is that all of us would have our hearts
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  to be comforted and to be knit together in love, and that we would have the riches.
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  Of understanding the mystery of God the Father and of Christ,
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  and that we do that through the wisdom and knowledge that comes strictly and fully from God.
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  It's an interesting thing how much time and energy and money is spent in seeking knowledge.
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  And there is certainly great benefits to being knowledgeable.
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  But it's interesting what we choose to be knowledgeable about.
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  Some of the things that people are incredibly knowledgeable about are not very useful to them.
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  And maybe that's something they do for relaxation. Maybe that's something they
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  do for joy and entertainment.
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  But when it really comes down to that, it really doesn't benefit them.
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  And we all have those things in our lives that we spend a lot of time for.
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  Then there are those things that we learn and we know that we incorporate into
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  our everyday life or into our work performance or into our skill set that allows
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  us to use them so that we are better at what we're trying to do.
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  But the thing that brings the most benefit and the knowledge that is the most
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  useful for every single person is the knowledge of Christ.
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  And that's interesting in the fact that for many of us, the least amount of
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  time we spend seeking knowledge to him is how it is.
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  We will seek knowledge all about us and all around us and in many other things.
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  But we spend just a fraction of time seeking the knowledge of Christ.
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  And that's true for Christians.
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  Many Christians hope to get all the knowledge that they need and want from their
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  Sunday morning service.
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  A few will go back on Sunday night, and still fewer will go back on Wednesday.
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  And between those services, they rarely pick up the Word of God.
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  And knowledge is important to all of us.
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  And knowledge of who God is is incredibly important to the Christian.
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  It teaches us what he
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  has for us it teaches us what he
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  expects of us and it teaches us where
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  we can gain the strength that we need to do what he asks us to do and that is
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  through him it's interesting in that a lot of the other knowledge that we seek
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  is limited to us based on our a capacity to learn,
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  based on a privilege to pay.
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  Based on where we're located or how we have access to it.
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  But the knowledge of Christ, the most valuable knowledge of all, is free to all.
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  And it is available to each and every one of us. And it's found in the form of Christ.
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  It's found in the Word of God. And the Bible says that the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us.
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  And if for some reason you don't have access to the Holy Word of God and you
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  don't own your own Bible, then I encourage you to contact us at Woman at the
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  Well Ministries and we will see to it that you have a Bible in your hands.
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  Because the Word of God is the key to all success.
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  This side of heaven and on the other side of heaven. It's the key to peace.
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  In fact, knowledge of Christ and a working relationship with Christ and a daily
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  walk with him will give you a peace that passes understanding and a joy unspeakable and full of glory.
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  He made it clear that we don't have the things we need because we don't ask.
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  And I don't think that always means material things. I think oftentimes that
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  means we don't have the answers to things that trouble us.
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  We don't have the answers to things that confuse us because we have asked everywhere but him.
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  And true knowledge comes from Christ.
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  And so if you really want to possess a lot of wisdom and knowledge,
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  if you truly want to be wealthy in the things that matter,
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  you have to spend time with the lord and the bible says that he gives wisdom.
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  Liberally to those who ask and we as christians need to change our priorities perhaps.
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  Or at least stop and reflect and say, how much do I desire to know who Christ is?
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  For some of us, understanding that he's our Savior wasn't enough.
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  And we just sort of walked away from the scriptures and we go to church and
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  we let the preachers and pastors and teachers tell us what they're teaching us.
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  But we don't spend time ourselves.
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  And that's kind of like trying to build a relationship with somebody through a third person.
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  And we all have friends who are
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  actually friends of our friends and so we know
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  that person because they're a friend of so-and-so but we
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  don't really know them and that's what
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  you're trying to do when you let preachers and pastors and teachers and other
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  people tell you about the word of god and you never go in and really delve into
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  it yourselves preachers and pastors and teachers are teaching you the Word of
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  God as God has given it to them.
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  And hopefully it's inspiring you and motivating you to draw closer to the Lord
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  and allowing you to understand Him better. But hopefully it's giving you a greater
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  desire to know Him even more.
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  And so it drives you into the Scriptures. It drives
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  you to your knees that you can pray and talk to
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  the true and living God and know that He will
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  give you the knowledge and the wisdom you need not only to succeed but to enable
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  you to understand his full purpose in your life that you trust him and follow
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  him and do his calling in your life you see it's an invaluable treasure.
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  A personal relationship with Christ. It's more than salvation.
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  It's more than saving you from hell. He saves you from a lot of heartache and
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  a lot of disappointment.
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  If you come to him and follow him and let him be your God, he says,
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  I am the way, the truth, and the life.
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  And no man cometh under the father, but by me following after him will keep
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  us on the path that he intended us to have.
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  It will keep us in the place where we were there to receive the blessings that he has for us.
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  It will keep us in the place where we can have the most abundant life and that
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  we can have that peace that passes understanding that I referred to earlier.
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  Following after him and staying in his will is going to give us the best life possible.
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  And it comes from seeking after Christ and seeking his will in your life and
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  allowing him to impart to you his wisdom and his righteousness.
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  Wise people are not found seeking foolish things.
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  Wise people are seeking God. Around Christmas time,
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  we often see t-shirts or sweatshirts or
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  bumper stickers or something that says wise men
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  still seek him and it's talking about how
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  the wise men heard of the birth of
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  jesus and they followed after him and they're saying
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  wise men today people who have wisdom still seek after him and that's a true
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  statement not just during christmas season but every day of the year wise people
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  seek after the counsel and wisdom of god that they might live the life that
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  god God intends for them to live.
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  And he says, if you will ask, that you'll receive. If you seek,
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  you shall find. And if you knock, it'll be open unto you.
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  Wisdom and knowledge is freely given by God to those who seek it.
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  Those who seek it find a wealth beyond this world.
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  They find a richness in the treasures of Christ.
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  And so we need to be daily going on a treasure hunt,
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  looking at the word of God to see the nuggets that he reveals in your heart,
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  to tell you how you need to live,
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  to show you answers to things that you don't understand, to reveal mysteries
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  of things that happen around you,
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  to give you an understanding of what the events that he gives in the scriptures
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  are trying to tell you for this day and time that you might have the wisdom
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  and the knowledge that God imparts to have the abundant life that he promised in John.
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  He said, I have come that you might have life and that you might have it more
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  abundantly. And it's found in seeking the wisdom of God.
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  And all who seek him shall find him.
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  And every moment that you spend in prayer every moment that you spend in study,
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  every moment that you spend learning of God is a moment that you have invested
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  not just in this world, but in eternity.
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  It is the best spent time you can spend because it's an investment.
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  It's not just wasting it away.
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  And so we need to have a disciplined life that is disciplined in prayer and
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  disciplined in Bible study whose heart is desiring to study and know the word
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  of God that we may seek out the treasures that are found in Jesus Christ.
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  And that we might have a life that is filled with wisdom and knowledge.
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  To the point that others can see Jesus in you. Because you're seeking after God.
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  That's the treasure hunt you need to plan. And the treasure hunt you need to
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  go on. So buckle your seatbelt.
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  Put the Holy Spirit around you. And open up the word of God.
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  And get on your knees and see what God has to reveal to you today.
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  It's a treasure hunt, this life of Christianity, where we are seeking after the Lord.
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