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Have you ever read a story in the Bible and then years later read it again and

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realized you'd been reading it backwards? I have. My name is Kathy Haker and I have

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a passion to help other people understand God's grace. The story I'm

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talking about is in Matthew chapter 13. Remember the story about the man that

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found a field and found a treasure in it and he went and sold all that he had and

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bought the field so he could have the treasure? And then it says a

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merchant discovered there was a pearl of great price and he sold everything he

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had so that he could have that pearl. Well all my life I thought that Jesus

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was the pearl and I needed to sell everything I had. I needed to give up

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everything I had so that I could have that pearl. Well what if, since I don't

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have anything to buy anything with, I'm the pearl and Jesus gave everything he

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had so that I could be his. That makes much more sense and it's so comforting

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to know that he laid down his life so that I could have his life. Thanks for

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listening.