Why they are hid.

• 2Cor4:2-5  If the gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost
• Math11:25  God has hidden these things from the wise and prudent and revealed it unto babes.
• 1Cor2:12-15  The natural man cannot discern the things of the Spirit for they are spiritually discerned.

Where they are found.  In the Spirit and not in the body.

• Rom14:17   The kingdom of God is not meat and drink but righteousness, peace, and joy o f the Holy Ghost.
• 1Thes4:3   This is the will of God even your sanctification.  Abstain from fornication.

 
Obstacles to finding the treasure.  Sin, the flesh, the self.

• Rm6:6-14  Knowing that the old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed.
• Rm8:8-14  So they that are in the flesh cannot please God.  The body is dead because of sin but the spirit is life because of righteousness.
• 1Cor13:4  Charity suffereth long and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself; is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly

 
How to Receive.  Confess the scripture and believe.

• Luke11   Ask and ye shall receive.  Seek and ye shall find.  Knock and it shall be opened.