A
father and two daughters in Australia were walking with their dog named
“Lucky” last Sunday when they made a “lucky” find.
“I actually walked right past it but my daughter
pretty much kicked it as she was walking,” the father told the Bendigo
Advertiser.
“She then goes, ‘Dad, is this gold?’ I said, ‘I think it might be.’”
It was indeed a gold nugget. They took the nugget
to a local supermarket to weigh it. It weighs 20 ounces, or 1.25
pounds. The family claims that its value could be close to $24,000 U.S.
dollars.
“We've come on some tough times,” the father
admitted, “so it's really good because we've been struggling
financially. It couldn't be better timing really.” *
There is an even more incredible find
that is actually available to anyone who is willing to “search” for it…
Jesus said, “The kingdom of heaven is
like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and hid; and for joy
over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. Again,
the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking beautiful pearls, who,
when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he
had and bought it” (Matthew 13:44-46).
The greatest “find” is to discover the
kingdom of heaven and enter into it, for it is an eternal kingdom with
spiritual blessings that are worth far more than all the gold in the
world – or anything else that this world has to offer.
Christ is reigning over His spiritual
kingdom even now. He is “at the right hand of God, angels and
authorities and powers having been made subject to Him” (1 Peter 3:22).
The subjects of Christ’s kingdom are those who have submitted their
lives to His reign through their trusting obedience. The spiritual
kingdom of Christ on earth is the church which will become the eternal,
heavenly kingdom when Jesus returns (1 Corinthians 15:24; 2 Peter 1:11).
Sin will keep us out of Christ’s
kingdom (see 1 Corinthians 6:9-10; Galatians 5:19-21; Ephesians 5:5).
We are ALL sinners, “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of
God” (Romans 3:23).
How does one have his sin remitted so
that he can become a subject of Christ’s kingdom?
Jesus told Peter,
“I will give you the keys of the kingdom” (Matthew 16:19). These “keys”
unlock the doors of the kingdom so that we may enter. We find Peter and
the apostles revealing the keys of the kingdom when they proclaim Christ
as Lord and Christ – “Anointed One,” the King – in Acts 2. As a result
of their preaching, many of the Jews in Jerusalem on the Day of
Pentecost realized they had crucified the sinless Son of God. They
cried out to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Men and brethren, what
shall we do?” (Acts 2:37).
Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized
in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall
receive the gift of the Holy Spirit” (Acts 2:38). These were the keys
of the kingdom! The Jews on Pentecost and others to whom the Gospel of
Christ would be preached were told that if they placed their
faith
and trust in Jesus (Acts 16:30-31), turned from
their sin in repentance (Acts 17:30-31),
confessed Jesus
before men (Romans 10:9-10), and were
baptized (immersed) into Christ (Acts 2:38;
22:16), then their sins would be
washed away
by the blood that Jesus shed for them on
the cross (Ephesians 1:7).
“Then those who gladly
received his word were baptized; and that day about three thousand souls
were added to them” (Acts 2:41). They were added to the kingdom of
Christ, the church.
Those same “keys” may be used to enter
in Christ’s kingdom today.
Won’t YOU use those keys to have
your sins washed away so that you can enter into Christ’s eternal
kingdom?
-- David A. Sargent
* Information gleaned from “Australian family
finds $24G gold nugget on family walk with dog named Lucky” by Nicole
Darrah of Fox News,
www.foxnews.com
David A. Sargent,
Minister
Church of Christ at Creekwood
1901 Schillinger Rd. S.
Mobile, Alabama 36695
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