Jesus: The Treasure Hunter
Robert Dawson
Luke 5:27-32
Several years ago Karl Kissner had been tasked with sorting through and dividing up his grandfather's estate with his 19 cousins. The house had passed from his grandparents to his aunts and was now filled with three generations of stuff. As he sorted through the mountain of family heirlooms and memorabilia he found himself in the attic where he picked up a cardboard box covered in dust and soot and looked inside. What he saw did not interest him at first. It was just a bunch of old baseball cards, roughly 700, so he just set it aside.
Later as Karl looked at the cards again he noticed they were old, a little smaller than the ones he was used to seeing and in near mint condition so he decided to do a little research. As he examined the cards familiar names like Ty Cobb, Cy Young and Honus Wagner began to appear multiple times. They were from a very rare series known as the E98 series and had been issued around 1910. 15 of the 30 players in the series are now enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Up to this point fewer than 700 cards from this series had ever been authenticated. The collection was predicted to bring close to $3 million at auction over the next several years.
What a great hidden treasure. Treasures can be found in the least likely of places and the most unlikely of containers. To find the treasure you have to be willing to see beyond the surface, look inside and see what others miss and often dismiss.
Jesus, our greatest treasure, was a skillful treasure hunter.
- Jesus sees worth and value where others do not.
- He is an expert at looking beyond people's dirty, sinful, broken and discarded lives and seeing a something of immeasurable worth, a treasure.
- Often in Scripture, and today, we find Jesus searching for treasure among the mountains of people the rest of the world sees as nothing more than junk.
Today we are going to read where Jesus saw something of value wh ...
Robert Dawson
Luke 5:27-32
Several years ago Karl Kissner had been tasked with sorting through and dividing up his grandfather's estate with his 19 cousins. The house had passed from his grandparents to his aunts and was now filled with three generations of stuff. As he sorted through the mountain of family heirlooms and memorabilia he found himself in the attic where he picked up a cardboard box covered in dust and soot and looked inside. What he saw did not interest him at first. It was just a bunch of old baseball cards, roughly 700, so he just set it aside.
Later as Karl looked at the cards again he noticed they were old, a little smaller than the ones he was used to seeing and in near mint condition so he decided to do a little research. As he examined the cards familiar names like Ty Cobb, Cy Young and Honus Wagner began to appear multiple times. They were from a very rare series known as the E98 series and had been issued around 1910. 15 of the 30 players in the series are now enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Up to this point fewer than 700 cards from this series had ever been authenticated. The collection was predicted to bring close to $3 million at auction over the next several years.
What a great hidden treasure. Treasures can be found in the least likely of places and the most unlikely of containers. To find the treasure you have to be willing to see beyond the surface, look inside and see what others miss and often dismiss.
Jesus, our greatest treasure, was a skillful treasure hunter.
- Jesus sees worth and value where others do not.
- He is an expert at looking beyond people's dirty, sinful, broken and discarded lives and seeing a something of immeasurable worth, a treasure.
- Often in Scripture, and today, we find Jesus searching for treasure among the mountains of people the rest of the world sees as nothing more than junk.
Today we are going to read where Jesus saw something of value wh ...
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