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The Messiah’s Secret – Treasure

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The Messiah’s Secret – Treasure

Churches Together. Haslingden Friday May 4th 2012

Personal treasure
My Bible, my family (picture) and a small cross made out of material.
Nearly all of us have people and personal items that we treasure.

The Psalmist records that Israel were regarded by God as his peculiar treasure. Psalm 135: 4. (King James Authorised Bible)
God sent Jesus into the world first to his own people with the good news of God’s love for them and of his coming kingdom. But at the time the chief priests and Pharisees were afraid of the Romans. “So the Pharisees and the chief priests gathered the council, and said, “What are we to do? For this man (Jesus) performs many signs. If we let him go on thus, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and destroy both our holy place and our nation.” John 11: 47, 48.
Jesus he saw how sinful the leaders were in their collaboration with the Romans and in their indifference towards him. But in his great love and forgiveness he was prepared to complete his mission to save Israel and the Gentiles. (Romans included)

In one of Jesus’ parables he portraits Israel as being treasure hidden in a field.
”The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up; then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.” Matthew 13: 44.

Treasure representing Israel, the man – Jesus, the field – the world.
Jesus found the treasure and covered it; before and during Jesus’ ministry Israel was covered, atoned, by the keeping of the laws of Moses with its sacrifices and rituals.
The field, the world was purchased by Jesus who paid the price by laying down his life, the final atonement for the sins of the world (and the universe) against God. God in his love for Israel was willing to forgive the sin of collaborating with the Romans and all that stood against humanity.
”God shows his love for us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us.” Romans 5: 8.

Israel’s Messiah is the treasure we receive.
“Christ in you.”
We cannot buy the gift of salvation, it’s not for sale.
Salvation – the saving of man from the power and penalty of sin.

“For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.” John 3: 16.
It is through faith in Jesus we forsake the world to receive the kingdom. God our Father, accepts us with all our failings and quirkiness. We are all worthy to receive his treasure, the treasure of his Son Jesus.

Paul in his second letter to the Corinthian church tells us that we have this treasure within us and that we should not lose heart when we are derided for our faith in Jesus. 2 Corinthians 4: 7, 8.

How does the Lord see his church today, is our faith being compromised by humanistic and atheist laws?

Today Christ’s church across the world is like an orange, an orange has an exterior covering of peel, inside it has segments, each one making up the whole orange.
Christians express their faith in our Lord God and Saviour Jesus Christ in various ways. The Church of England is a broad church covering most aspects of worshipping traditions.
It is right to uphold the laws of our nation, but we can in our democracy challenge the way our new laws are changing our culture and spirituality. The MU(Mothers’ Union) campaign “Bye, Buy Childhood” is putting a brake on the declining family values in our nation. See Blog “The Messiah’s Secret – Get on Board”

The Holy Spirit is still restraining the revealing of the antichrist. 2 Thessalonians 4: 6-8
We see other Christians being moved by the Holy Spirit to make Christ known: like that of “Vision” a young people’s ministry going on in the Rossendale Valley, ministering to their own generation the good news about Jesus. See “Vision” website.

Mary the mother of Jesus, Reg Bailey, Report of Sexualisation of Childhood

The Messiah’s Secret – Mary the mother of Jesus supported her son

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Mother’s Love
Mary the mother of Jesus had heard the rumours that were going around that Jesus was ‘beside himself’ and out of love for her son, she went with her other sons to support him.

The Bible says, “Then Jesus went home; and the crowd came together again, so that they could not even eat. And when the family heard it, they went out to seize him, for the people were saying, “He is beside himself.”
Mary was not standing idly by, she went to find Jesus. When she found him he was surrounded by many people, so she asked to speak with him. I do not think that Mary went to apprehend Jesus, she went to protect him, out of concern for him.
Jesus’response maybe would indicate that he was looking for the support of those who were sat listening to him. “Here are my mother and my brothers! Who ever does the will of God are my brother, and sister, and mother.” Mark 3: 20, 21, 34, 35.

The Scribes were behind the rumours
The Scribes and the Pharisees were trying to discourage the people from going to Jesus for healing. As a result there was a division amongst the people over him. Refer to John 10: 19-21.
Jesus was healing people of all kinds of sicknesses and diseases and hundreds of people were going to him. The problem for the Scribes was that Jesus healed on the Sabbath Day and this caused them to seek his demise. Under Jewish Law the people earned their righteousness, so to please God, the Pharisees, Lawyers and Scribes had added extra laws to the Laws of Moses.
Jesus was ignoring those extra laws by healing on the Sabbath Day. “The Messiah’s Secret” page 27 “Kingdom Teaching.” “The Scribes and Pharisees were overburdening the people with added rules, under law they earned their righteousness through keeping the law, their traditions made void the word of God.” Mark 7: 13

We must call for Christian mothers and fathers today to protect their children by supporting the report by Mothers’ Union Chief Executive Reg Bailey on the “Sexualisation of Childhood,” “Sexualised and gender stereotyped clothing, products and services for children.”

Mothers’ Union ‘BYE BUY CHILDHOOD CAMPAIGN’
“We believe that children should be valued as children and not targeted as adult consumers. Children have become a marketing opportunity worth £99 billion in the UK and £350 million is spent in the UK each year persuading children to consume. Manipulative techniques exploit children’s natural credulity and use them as a conduit to the household purse. The materialism this encourages has negative effects on children’s physical health, mental and emotional wellbeing, on their values, educational development and relationships with families and peers. The use of sexualised content to sell to children and the imposition of sexuality on children to market goods is particularly abhorrent.

How can you make a difference?
This campaign guide which outlines three ways in which you can make a difference:
• Analyse your consumer habits.
• Challenge retailers and advertisers who sell or advertise inappropriately to children.
• If you are concerned about the inappropriateness of an advert aimed at children; contact the relevant regulator with your concern.
For print, press, posters, television, radio, cinema, internet (banners and pop-ups etc), emails text and sales promotions, you can log your complaint online: http://www.asa.org.uk/complaints-and-ASA-action/How-to-complain.aspx
Contact Mid City Place, 71 High Holborn, London. WC1V 6QT Phone 020 7492 2222

The Mothers Union supports families by serving the church and the community in practical ways:
‘Freshers’ Week – University Students especially overseas students are given support by receiving gift parcels containing : coffee, tea, pasta, rice, mugs, pans and other basic needs to help them settle in to their new homes.
The Mustard Tree is a Manchester based organisation which helps to support refugees in Manchester. They asked the Mothers’ Union in Manchester to supply ‘bras’ for refugee women and in response over 5,000 bras from MU members were sent by the Manchester office to help these women.