This week, Pastor Shaq Hager explores two parables that Jesus tells one right after the other. In the first parable, Jesus describes the Kingdom as a treasure that a person finds in a field. The person buries the treasure and then purchases the field. Then, Jesus describes the Kingdom as the perfect pearl that when it is discovered by a merchant, they sells everything to obtain it. But Jesus doesn't resolve these parables. He doesn't even explain them. But, what we've done is turned them into easy to understand and digest lessons about how we should do anything it takes to obtain the Kingdom. But is that what Jesus wanted people to hear? The man who finds the treasure in a field appears to be breaking an Old Testament law. And merchants weren't exactly well-respected people in first-century Jewish culture. So, what is Jesus trying to teach us in these parables?