Yes, I am sure that I sang a "gold" song at Oakland Park young adults meeting with the band although at the moment I am not sure which songbook I found it in. I have quite a few songbooks actually that I purchased along the way and the "gold" song was available in a songbook and was one that worked for my voice, not that I would ever sound anything like Reba Rambo. Oh, did the vain and arrogant ones of South America think that "gold" applied to them only and that the rest of us are scrap metal chatarra? No, we are not chatarra any more than anyone else and anyway my choice of song had nothing to do with Peru. It is sort of confusing to have this snarky Carol Garlit monster spewing misinformation. Those Johnsons are not related to anyone of interest. Peru can easily be replaced. Neither the Walkers nor the Latter Rain people started that. The treasure analogies come straight out of the Bible, obviously.
1 Corinthians 3:11-15: For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, their work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each person’s work. If what has been built survives, the builder will receive a reward. If it is burned up, the builder will suffer loss but yet will be saved—even though only as one escaping through the flames.
1 Peter 1:3-5: In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.
1 Peter 1:17-19: Since you call on a Father who judges each person’s work impartially, live out your time as foreigners here in reverent fear. For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your ancestors, but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect.
1 Peter 2:9: But ye are a chosen
generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that
ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of
darkness into his marvelous light;
Revelation 3:18: I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so you can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve to put on your eyes, so you can see.
