THE KEY TO TREASURES IN HEAVEN

ISAIAH 33.5-6

Saturday, July 27, 2013

10:14 AM

THE LORD IS EXALTED, FOR HE DWELLS ON HIGH;

HE WILL FILL ZION WITH HIS JUSTICE AND RIGHTEOUSNESS.

HE WILL BE THE SURE FOUNDATION FOR YOUR TIMES,

A RICH STORE OF SALVATION AND WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE;

THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS THE KEY TO THIS TREASURE.

ISAIAH 33.5-6

 

God is the sure foundation for our times.

 

Whatever the truth of all our lamentations about the spiritual state of our nation, God remains the sure foundation for our times.

 

God has reserved the resolution of "our times" for His own judgments.

Our focus is never to be "how awful things are."

 

Our focus is always to be building a temple in our hearts as the dwelling place in which God lives in this generation of this nation.

 

The foundation for this temple is to be the messages of the apostles and prophets, that is given to us when Christ is the Chief Cornerstone of our hearts and lives.

 

This temple is to be filled with the treasures of Father's riches in Heaven, poured out into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, from the glory of Christ.

 

 

By wisdom a house is built,

and through understanding it is established;

through knowledge its rooms are filled with

rare and beautiful treasures.

Proverbs 24.3-4

 

How rare are these beautiful treasures!

 

Are the things that are beautiful to Jesus known, understood, and wisely used to create a temple for the glory of Christ--gold, silver, and precious stones?

 

And what are these treasures?

 

They are hidden from the eyes that are blinded by the glare of this generation's bright, glittering, lying, deceiving, false fantasies and drowned out of hearing by its noisy clamor for more and more indulgencies.

 

Even as the prophets, the apostles the Lord Jesus, the Holy Spirit, and the Father Himself, the heavens and the earth declare and show forth the glory of our   God, our people are not willing to look away from their ever-deteriorating shows to listen to conversations of truth.

 

But the saddest of all is that those who could know better do not seek these treasures, do not seek to let God provide wisdom, understanding, and knowledge for the building of their heart as the temple God wants to have in their hearts and lives.

 

We do not have hearts for God.

We do not have time for God.

We do not make--the apostle said, "redeem"--time for God.

 

Pastors and teachers average only a few minutes a week in any kind of personal meditations on the treasures of God.

 

We do not search for them as silver and gold, as a treasure hidden in the field, a pearl of great price, with all we have or could otherwise have.

 

We care nothing for even knowing what these treasures are.

They are as much a mystery to God's people today as they were in Isaiah's time.

 

And we don't even care!

We have no fear of God.

 

We will never know or have or make known the glories of God in this generation in which God has placed us to receive and proclaim, teach  and show as light to those we are responsible to.

 

God is

the sure foundation for our times.

He builds the foundation of the nation

Whose people build His treasures into their heart.