{"id":36607,"date":"2022-09-13T13:03:02","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/how-precious-are-we-to-our-god-and-to-jesus\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T13:03:02","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:03:02","slug":"how-precious-are-we-to-our-god-and-to-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/how-precious-are-we-to-our-god-and-to-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"How precious are we to our GOD and to Jesus?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>We are <strong>very precious<\/strong>! God sacrificed his only begotten Son to die for all mankind:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&quot;For you are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God&#039;s,&quot; 1 Corinthians 6:20<\/li>\n<li>&quot;<strong>You are bought with a price<\/strong>; be not ye the servants of men,&quot; 1 Corinthians 7:23.<\/li>\n<li>&quot;For <strong>God so loved the world<\/strong>, that <strong>he gave his only begotten Son<\/strong>, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life,&quot; John 3:16<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Additionally, we are <strong>very precious to Jesus<\/strong>. He willingly left his heavenly home, came to this world as a human being, and voluntarily gave His life for us.&nbsp; &quot;Who (<em>the Logos<\/em>), though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being <strong>born in the likeness of men<\/strong>,&quot; Philippians 2:6-7 (ESV)<\/p>\n<p>Of <strong>special value<\/strong> to God and to Jesus Christ are<strong> faithful, Christian believers<\/strong> &#8211; those who today decide to walk in the footsteps of the Savior. The <strong>parables of the treasure and pearl<\/strong> are about these dear ones. In those parables, the merchant (Lord Jesus) sold everything he had (His perfect life) to buy the pearl (true Christians).<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The kingdom of heaven is like a <strong>treasure<\/strong> hidden in the field, which a man found and hid <em>again;<\/em> and from joy over it <strong>he goes and sells all <\/strong>that he has and buys that field. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking fine pearls, and upon <strong>finding one pearl of great value<\/strong>, he went and <strong>sold all that he had and bought it<\/strong>,&quot; Matthew 13:44-46.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are very precious! God sacrificed his only begotten Son to die for all mankind: &quot;For you are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God&#039;s,&quot; 1 Corinthians 6:20 &quot;You are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men,&quot; 1 Corinthians 7:23. &quot;For &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/how-precious-are-we-to-our-god-and-to-jesus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How precious are we to our GOD and to Jesus?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}