God blessed them; and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth" (Genesis 1:28).

God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them (Genesis 1:27)

Then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life . . .

. . . and man became a living being (Genesis 2:7).

But, man didn't trust God and forsook God's Word.

And lost everything.

Covenant of Bow

God said, “This is the sign of the covenant which I am making between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all successive generations; I set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth. It shall come about, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow will be seen in the cloud, and I will remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and never again shall the water become a flood to destroy all flesh" (Genesis 9:12-15).

The Sinaitic Covenant

For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession (Deuteronomy 7:6).

Davidic Covenant

". . . I will raise up your offspring to succeed you, one of your own sons, and I will establish his kingdom. He is the one who will build a house for me, and I will establish his throne forever.

I will be his father, and he will be my son. I will never take my love away from him, as I took it away from your predecessor. I will set him over my house and my kingdom forever; his throne will be established forever” (1 Chronicles 17:10-14).

And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth (John 1:14).

However, people refused to believe in Him. So, Jesus bore all sins of mankind and poured out His blood to take away our sins.

For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that makes an atonement for the soul (Leviticus 17:11).

Life is in the blood. The Spirit gives life. The Word is spirit and life. Thus, Jesus poured out for us His blood enfolding life, the WORD.

“It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life" (John 6:63).

Thus, when Jesus shed His blood and died, He gave us everything -- the WORD. Everything in this world--both visible and invisible--has been created by this WORD (John 1:3).

"The law of Your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver pieces" (Psalm 119:72).

God created all things in this universe with His WORD.

If a diamond, a tiny stone among His marvelous creation, is worth millions of dollars,

how much more the WORD we've received would be worth?

Imagine us being completely covered with diamonds from head to toe! And that would not be sufficient to match our worth.

Fully engraved with the WORD, we are indescribably precious "treasures of God."

From Rev. Abraham Park's Sermon, Following the Path of Jesus Christ's Suffering, 2011.