value of your soul

Mark 8:34-36

The Value of Your Soul

Mark 8:34-36

34 Then Jesus called the people to him. His followers were also there. Then Jesus said, “If any person wants to follow me, he must say ‘No’ to the things he wants. That person must accept the cross (suffering) that is given to him, and he must follow me.

35 The person that wants to save his life will lose it. And every person that gives his life for me and for the Good News* will save his life forever.

Mark 8:34-36

36 It is worth nothing for a person to have the whole world, if he loses his soul {in hell}.

2 Corinthians 5:1 KJV

• For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

FOREVER in either . . .

HEAVEN or HELL


• The Tremendous Worth of Your

Soul

• The Tragic Waste of Your Soul

• The Timeless Welfare of Your

Soul


• The Tremendous Worth of Your Soul

- Because Of Who Created It




Genesis 2:77 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Ephesians 2:10

• 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

“workmanship” = poiema, a work of art, etc.

workmanship,




Raphael’s “Madonna”




- Because Of Its Possibility







- Because Of Its Durability









Eternity . . . Somewhere . . .






- Because Of Its Rarity







You are unique!







The crowning proof of the worth of anything!

- What Is Someone Willing To Pay For It?

1 Peter 1:18-19

18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; 19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:







The crowning proof of the worth of anything!

- What Is Someone Willing To Pay For It?

Who desires it?. . . And why? . . .



The Question now is . . . The Question now is . . . Do you value your soul? !Do you value your soul? !

Mark 8:36-3736. What should it profit a man if

he should gain the whole world and lose his own soul,

37. Or what should a man give in exchange for his soul?



The Question now is . . . The Question now is . . . Do you value your soul? !Do you value your soul? !




Mark 8:36-3736. What should it profit a man if

he should gain the whole world and lose his own soul,




- No one gains the whole world!





- What part you gain you can’t keep!







- What you gain won’t satisfy you!

Ecclesiastes 5:10

10. He that loveth silver shall not be

satisfied with silver; nor he that

loveth abundance with increase:






- What you gain won’t satisfy you!



Why is it such a Tragic Loss?






1. An Immeasurable Loss




2. An Irreplaceable Loss









3. An Irreversible Loss








“Whosoever therefore is not found written in the book of Life shall be cast into the lake of fire.”






4. An Inexcusable Loss



The Value of Your Soul• The Tremendous Worth of Your Soul




“Whosoever will may come”





“I’m too busy making a living!”



Suppose someone made you this offer?




Many of you are giving up far more . . .

And getting far less in return . . .



36. What should it profit a man if he should gain the whole world and lose his own soul,





• The Timeless Welfare of Your Soul

Mark 8:34 And when he had called the people

unto him with his disciples also he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.





Conviction . . .

Mark 8:38 Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him also shall the Son of Man be ashamed when he cometh in the glory of the Father with the Holy Angels,”





Conviction . .

Mark 8:38 Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him also shall the Son of Man be ashamed when he cometh in the glory of the Father with the Holy Angels,”

Confession . .





Mark 8:35 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it, but whosoever will lose his life for my sake and the gospel’s the same shall save it.

Confession . .

Conviction . . Conversion . .





Conviction . . Confession . .

Conversion . .

Mark 8:35 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it, but whosoever will lose his life for my sake and the gospel’s the same shall save it.

“… keepers weepers … losers finders …”


Conviction . . Conversion . .

Confession . .

Mark 8:37

38. Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him also shall the Son of Man be ashamed when he cometh in the glory of the Father with the Holy Angels.

Mark 8:34-3634 And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. 35 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel’s, the same shall save it. 36 For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

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