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That being said however, leads me to ask this very important question: how much is it worth to us to have the Spirit of the living God within our hearts?

If we could know today that we could possess within us his own kingdom, what would we be willing to give?
Some years ago I remember seeing a cartoon of a tramp standing at the side of a road watching a large chauffeur driven limousine passing by and the caption beneath the picture read: `I would give a thousand dollars to be one of them millionaires.'

My friends, many people today find themselves wanting the same as that tramp. They are willing to give a thousand dollars worth of effort in order to attain a million dollars worth of results.
They have never known what it is to go all out, to give everything.
That is why so people are so easily taken in by so many scams today.
"Just send me a hundred dollars today and untold riches can be yours,"
And oh so many people believe it and expectantly send in their hard earned money in the hopes of getting those promised riches in return.
Why are so many people willing and eager to believe, that despite all that this life has taught us, there is the opportunity to get something for nothing?

There seems to be this belief that for a small investment there will be a great return?

My friends, we can all picture the scene.
A man has been hired to plow a field, it's a hot day, and the work is hard, manual labor on a hot steamy day is extremely tiring, just being out and about on a hot day is tiring.
We are now into the hot summer weather here in Florida and working outside in the heat is not easy for those working on roads, or building new houses. Just this week I finally got around to doing a job outside the house on a hot humid afternoon. It only took me a couple of hours including many breaks and I was sweating and exhausted when the task was completed.
This man has been out there all day in the heat.
He is sweating, he is tired. How he wishes that there was an easier way to earn a living, to provide for his family.
Suddenly his plow strikes something hard, probably another one of those big rocks, hidden just beneath the surface.
But it is not a rock, it is a large wooden box! What could it be?
He digs furiously to remove the dirt from around the box, and finally he is able to lift the box far enough out of the ground to be able to remove the lid.

When he finally gains control of himself he quickly looks around to see if anyone is watching, all is clear, there is no one nearby, no one could possibly have seen his find, and so he quickly lowers the box back down into the hole, and covers it again with dirt. After all the land on which he has found this treasure is not his.
What should he do?
How can he make sure that no one can stake a claim to this treasure?

The picture is so vivid.
A dealer in precious pearls is visiting a small fishing village and he hears about a large and beautiful pearl. When he gets to see the pearl he can hardly believe his eyes, he must have that pearl and so he sells everything because he knows that once he owns that pearl everything else will be "added unto him."

    "In my childhood I had already come to know God,

    quite naively of course, nevertheless I thank God for

    those who led me to him. Yet it took me a revolutionary experience

    in order for this knowledge to go beyond the abstract nature of a few

    ideas about God, however right these ideas might have been. I had to meet

My friends, there truly is a man who has discovered a pearl of great price; there is a man who has found treasure buried in a field.

My friends, remember these words of Tournier,

        "Jesus Christ has become my constant unseen companion of every day."

There it is his peace, his power, his purpose.