This Treasure was then hid after it was found. This does not mean that the person who has found Christ in the gospel hides the truth of his conversion from other people. What it means is that he wants to think about the implications of his finding this treasure, to his whole future life. And so as he is believing the gospel concerning Christ, he hides all the promises of the forgiveness of sins, a righteousness better than his own, and especially the truth of a New Heart, in the sense that he thinks about them privately in relation to himself. He believes the truth of the word of God and its promises of salvation. And he privately thinks about the implications of these things to his own soul and life. He does this until he can discern that a work of grace has really begun in him, and that he really is a Christian. Until he has thought over what this treasure can mean for him personally, he is not entirely sure that he has a right to call it his own.
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Pastor Paul Rendall was born in November of 1951, and grew up in Davenport, Iowa. He went to college at Drake University and the University of Iowa where he received a B.A. degree in Social Work and History in 1974. Paul searched for truth in all the wrong places in college, but...