In the parable of the treasure hidden in a field, Jesus\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 purpose was not to explain the gospel in theological terms but rather to emphasize its dramatic effect on the believer. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153In his joy,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d we read, the man in the story gave up everything he had in exchange for his newfound treasure. He would never have done this for the sake of doubt or guilt, which are poor motivators. Though a man may feel ever so justified for his doubts, and though he may feel ever so virtuous about the load of guilt he carries \u00e2\u20ac\u201c for doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t this show how well he understands his sinfulness? \u00e2\u20ac\u201c still such feelings can never motivate him to live as God wants him to.<\/p>\n
To follow and obey God, we need joy. We need to catch a glimpse of the greatest treasure of all \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153inexpressible and glorious joy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (I Peter 1:8) of believing in Christ.<\/p>\n
— Mike Mason, Champagne for the Soul<\/em>, p. 13-14<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the parable of the treasure hidden in a field, Jesus\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 purpose was not to explain the gospel in theological terms but rather to emphasize its dramatic effect on the believer. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153In his joy,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d we read, the man in the story gave up everything he had in exchange for his newfound treasure. He would never […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}