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3 episodes with infinite worth
2 episodes with infinite worth
2 episodes with infinite worth
2 episodes with infinite worth
2 episodes with infinite worth
2 episodes with infinite worth
2 episodes with infinite worth
2 episodes with infinite worth
Sermon Notes - Matthew 13:44-46 - The Treasure of Infinite WorthMain Point: The Kingdom of Heaven is the treasure of infinite worth that requires all you have. 1. The +Kingdom of Heaven+ is the treasure of infinite worth that requires all you have -Often Hidden -Joy Producing -For Everyone2. The Kingdom of Heaven is the +treasure of infinite worth+ that requires all you have3. The Kingdom of Heaven is the treasure of infinite worth that +requires all you have+ -Giving -Serving -Discipling -Loitering -Neighboring
This message summarizes Colossians' main point, which is that Christ's infinite worth motivates us not to drift from him, but instead to walk in him. It also unpacks the last 12 verses of Colossians to show some ways that Christ's infinite worth transforms us.
Message from Caleb Kreitz on July 7, 2024
Walking with the Savior - Testimonies of Jesus Christ in Christian Lives
We dive into the remarkable testimony of Portia Louder in "Addiction, Prison and Redemption: Portia Louder's Testimony of Jesus Christ. How Prison Brought Me Closer to God." In this heartfelt episode, Portia shares her transformative journey from addiction and incarceration to discovering the profound love of Jesus Christ. Born on the outskirts of a small town, Portia's life spiraled into chaos as she struggled with addiction and personal identity. Her story takes a powerful turn when she finds herself in federal prison. Amidst the cold cinder blocks and despair, Portia experiences an awakening, realizing her true worth and the transformative power of faith and redemption. Through detailed narratives and personal anecdotes, Portia reveals how prayer, honesty, and the unwavering love of Jesus Christ helped her rebuild her life from the ground up. Her testimony underscores the importance of integrity, the beauty of simplicity, and the eternal value of every soul. Tune in to hear how Portia's faith journey not only changed her life but continues to inspire and uplift those around her. Don't miss this moving episode that celebrates the grace, gospel, and spiritual journey of redemption. Enjoy your walk with the Savior and feel the power of His love in every step. Portia's books: LinkCHAPTERS: 0:00 - Intro 0:40 - Portia's Early Life1:05 - Portia's Struggle with Addiction 6:41 - Portia's Bishop 9:43 - The Power of the 12 Steps 3:08 - Finding God in the 12 Step Program 15:07 - Going to Prison for the First Time 19:55 - How Your Life Can Change in 8 Weeks 24:06 - Infinite Worth to God 26:08 - Step 4: Making an Inventory 30:19 - Step 5: Admitting Wrongs 36:36 - Jesus Showed Up for Me in Prison 39:59 - What if I Hadn't Gone to Prison 41:50 - God is a Friend of Silence 43:29 - Knowing Your Worth 46:53 - Teaching and Growth in Sobriety 49:18 - Like, Subscribe, Share, and Have a Great Week #PrisonPurpose #TransformingLives #JesusChrist #FaithBasedRecovery #InspirationalStories #faithjourney #faith #prayer #spiritualgrowth #spiritualjourney #christianencouragement #faithinjesus #christianliving #gratitude #FederalPrison #Testimony #PortiaLouder #LifeAfterPrison #FaithInPrison
Hear about the Infinite Worth 24/7 nurse chat tool from Rachel Owen. Transcript The transcript was automatically generated and may contain errors. 00:05 : So, so Rachel, I’m excited to have you on the pro-life Team Podcast. Would you introduce … Continued The post The ProLife Team Podcast 153 | Rachel Owen appeared first on Pro Life Ribbon.
Infinite Worth’s nurse chat empowers abortion-minded individuals with supportive guidance. Transcript The transcript was automatically generated and may contain errors. Welcome to the Pro-Life Team podcast. I’m here with Pam Stenzel, and in this episode, we’re going to be talking … Continued The post The ProLife Team Podcast 137 | Pam Stenzel appeared first on Pro Life Ribbon.
Truth that Transforms (Cornerstone Community Church, Atascadero)
Main point: Revelation 5:1-10 reveals four scenes in the heavenly throne room that display the infinite worth of Christ.
Here is the sermon outline: The Kingdom of Heaven has Small Beginnings (v 31-33) The Kingdom of Heaven has Infinite Worth (v 44-46) The Kingdom of Heaven has often been too Easily Rejected (v 53-58) You can watch this message here.
As we move into the Book of Glory, Jesus' public ministry of healing and preaching comes to an end and his march to the cross takes center stage. The rest […]
How do you snap out of a grumpy attitude when things are stressful or overwhelming? That's the question that inspired this episode. Sione and Alana discuss 3 practices that will increase your gratitude for your past, present, and future circumstances and the value those circumstances have for your life. Practicing the following will not only increase your gratitude, but they also have the potential to increase your confidence and self-image as well: Look at the past through a lens of gratitude Savor the good Ask, "Why would future me thank me for this moment?" The fact that gratitude can continue to increase the value of our experiences makes its worth infinite. Want to connect with Sione & Alana? Find them on Instagram or Facebook @sioneandalana Subscribe to their email list and become a Sione & Alana Insider and get updates on when new episodes drop, the behind-the-scenes scoops, and other life lessons that never make it on the podcast. Shop our Empowered Hero Apparel: https://www.etsy.com/shop/EmpoweredHeroApparel Have a life lesson to share with the world? Apply to be a guest at https://sioneandalana.com/sharealesson/
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Revelation 4-5 | Pr. Will Pareja Rich Toward God Series
In Matthew 13:44-46 Jesus tells two parables: One of a man who sells all he has to purchase a field containing treasure, and a second about a merchant of pearls who sells all to purchase a pearl of great price. Listen as Pastor Caleb shares how these two parables point to the all-surpassing worth of the Kingdom of God. This sermon was preached at Legacy Reformed Baptist Church in East Grand Forks, MN. For more information, visit https://www.LegacyRBC.org.
Why do we allow the voices around us to determine our worth? I know they can be loud and convincing but that doesn't not mean they are true. We want to know we matter, that we have value and we often find ourselves listening to the loudest one. If you have been struggling with your worth, I get it. I've been there and I have stay in God's Word to remind me who I am and whose I am. I need his Word to drown out the loud voices around me. It's through His Word that we can push past the limiting beliefs and hear the truth of His love for us, which in turn reminds us of our value, our worth. It's his love that heals and transforms our broken pieces.To read my blog, find out more about me, or to book a speaking engagement, head to https://betsymarvin.com/For access to past podcasts and transcripts, head tohttps://betsymarvin.com/podcasts/You can follow me on Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/betsyjmarvin/and Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/betsy.marvin.98
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"Before I formed you in the womb in knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations."
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Matthew 13:44-58 • Jared Richard
In this episode, we talk about two core belief systems:The I AM belief system.The I AM WHAT I DO belief system.We discuss the negative impacts of the latter and how it causes a lack of life alignment, the root cause of all illness.We discuss the why and the how behind that bold statement and explain why you have infinite value and worth SEPARATE from your performance and results, even as a man.To discover your level of life alignment, know how to get in life alignment, and awaken the unique leadership abilities that only you possess, enroll in the Alignment Blueprint course:Direct.me/valormen
In this episode I share an insight that came through during a solo experience with sacred medicine about tapping into infinite self-worth and getting into playful relationship with the universe in order to co-create everything you desire.Tune in!Visit my website here.InstagramEmail me: montoya@montoyamiller.comLots of love,Montoya Support the show (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/montoyamiller)
You are now a conscious expression of the All Attractive One, the Powerful One, the Opulent One. This is why you feel Go(o)d for no reason. This is why people are attracted to you. This is why why your life is changing. This is real Beauty. And you finally woke up to It. I Love you, Nik nikki@curlynikki.com Bonus episodes every week:▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmorningsGo(o)d Mornings merch:▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings_______________________Today's Quotes:"Behind the beauty of the moon is the moon Maker."-Rumi"The universe and the Light of the world shines through me."-Rumi "Remember you cannot hold Bliss in your fist. You can only hold Bliss in your open hand."-Osho"On this day, at this time, in this moment, claim your Infinite Worth."-Sarah Landan via IG "My child, you ask for service. Verily shall it be given. All about you shall you find it. You so little realize the Great Power flowing through you. You are like a mighty dynamo, and more and more shall you see miracles rise up as you pass on your way. Only Love much, bless, and give thanks, and know you serve Me day by day as I see fit. You cry out for light and understanding, and you cry not in vain. Great truths shall be revealed to you; listen for My Voice, that these things shall not pass you by. You often feel a need to find Me in ceremonies, monies, in rituals. I feel a crying-out in your soul for some way to contact Me. But listen carefully and ponder much on this-a truth which many lose, and which keeps them from the companionship with Me which otherwise they might have. It is this: In simple ways and by simple means is the best contact made between man and his Maker. You need not seek out places where altar fires burn, or go through deeply impressive ceremonies. Light the altar fires in the throne room of your heart and there shall you find Me, and know Me, through the simple everyday things in life, all about you. Yes, I AM even now in the gentle breeze you hear through the rustling leaves. I AM in the shaft of sunlight slanting across the grass. I AM in the fragrance of the flowers, in the starry sky and the soft moonlight. Learn to know Me through these simple, lovely things of My Creation, and never shall you have need to seek Me out in complex ways. So blest art thou to hear My Voice in the inner thoughts and recesses of your soul, My child, as I bring you these truths. You can serve Me well, for they are as a foundation stone for a life lived in My Service."-Eva Bell Werber. Quiet Talks the Master (Kindle Locations 376-387). Kindle Edition. "I woke up like this. Flawless."-Beyonce "Peace is the first glimpse of the Inner Kingdom of God."-Yogananda Support the show (https://cash.app/$NikWalton)
Matthew 26:31-56 - Jesus' life is of infinite worth
Matthew 26:31-56 - Jesus' life is of infinite worth
Matthew 26:31-56 - Jesus' life is of infinite worth
It is part of human nature to trust and boast in our own ability to do good. But our perception of our own good is because we tend to compare ourselves to the wrong thing. Paul reminds the Philippian church that a person's goodness and any earthly gain they've achieved are like rubbish compared to the infinite worth of knowing Jesus. The post Philippians 3:7-9: Pursuing the Infinite Worth of Christ first appeared on Grace Church International.
It is part of human nature to trust and boast in our own ability to do good. But our perception of our own good is because we tend to compare ourselves to the wrong thing. Paul reminds the Philippian church that a person's goodness and any earthly gain they've achieved are like rubbish compared to the infinite worth of knowing Jesus. The post Philippians 3:7-9: Pursuing the Infinite Worth of Christ first appeared on Grace Church International.
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TODAY'S PODCAST Happy New Year! 2022 is finally here! What did your new year's celebration look like? Any incredible, badass goals or inspirations you're taking with you? What are you leaving behind in 2021? This is a great time to embrace the concept of worth. YOUR worth. Imagine how you'd show up in life if you value your time and energy at $10/hr. How would you show up? Now imagine it was $100/hr. Or $500/hr. $1,000/hr. $10,000/hr. How would that be different? How would you expand into that space? You are worthy, my friend. SO worthy. And It's an honor to spend time with you. Related Links: Coaching with Dr. Angela Follow Dr. Angela Marick on Instagram Get the Book ‘Beauty in the Brokenness: One Woman's Voice' How can you support? Apple users, please subscribe and rate the BE(coming) You Podcast. If you use Android, this is found on Stitcher or Google Music. Tell a friend about this Podcast. Click on "share podcast" and they will love it and thank you forever! Book a discovery call here to see how you and Dr. Angela can work best together. XOXO! ~Dr. Angela Marick
A new MP3 sermon from Hopewell Associate Reformed Presbyterian is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Christ's Death's Infinite Worth for Us Subtitle: Family Worship Speaker: James Hakim Broadcaster: Hopewell Associate Reformed Presbyterian Event: Devotional Date: 11/26/2021 Bible: 2 Samuel 24:17-25 Length: 22 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Hopewell Associate Reformed Presbyterian is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Christ's Death's Infinite Worth for Us Subtitle: Family Worship Speaker: James Hakim Broadcaster: Hopewell Associate Reformed Presbyterian Event: Devotional Date: 11/26/2021 Bible: 2 Samuel 24:17-25 Length: 22 min.
Why the extended interaction and negotiation about the site and the sacrifice- Pastor leads his family in today's -Hopewell -Home- passage. 2Samuel 24-17-25 prepares us for the evening sermon on the coming Lord's Day. In these nine verses, the Holy Spirit teaches us that God's hand was against Christ on account of our sin, that God paid an infinite cost for this sacrifice, and that God has accepted this sacrifice to remove from us our guilt and punishment and to listen to our prayers.
Gd views us as spiritually wealthy wether we learn the Torah or not because the fact is that it still belongs to us and that is our Infinite worth.
Although Trish Braunersrither has been a wife and mother for many years, she says her full-time job for most of her life has been trying to shrink her body. In this interview, Trish shares how disordered eating affected every area of her life for over 30 years. She talks about how she always felt broken in her own body and how she turned to dieting to help her feel whole. Trish discusses how she was finally able to break the cycle of dieting and turn to God for help. She shares how focusing on the Word of Wisdom, turning to the Savior to understand her infinite worth and expressing gratitude helped her love herself and her body. Journal Questions Trish shared how understanding her infinite worth was the first step to helping her let go of dieting and learn to truly love her body. How do you view your worth in relation to the size of your body? How can you truly embrace that your worth is infinite and does not change with the size of your body? Your body is amazing. Trish talked about the power of gratitude. How can you show gratitude for your body? Think about what your body allows you to do in your journey. Write down the things you are grateful for. Trish discussed that when she feels pulled toward Satan’s path of loathing her body, she visualizes herself changing paths and pointing herself towards the Savior. How can you rely on Jesus to help you love your body? Episode Links Learn more about what Trish shares – wisdomwithtrish.com Follow Trish on Instagram – @wisdomwithtrish Join Trish’s free Facebook group – Wisdom with Trish Listen to Trish’s podcast – Wisdom with Trish Follow Spiritually Minded Women on Instagram – @spirituallymindedwomen Watch Spiritually Minded Women podcast episodes on YouTube
Sa Coronavirus at si Cristo, inaanyayahan ni John Piper ang mga babasa nito sa buong mundo na tumayo sa di-magigibang Batong Sandigan, walang iba kundi ang Panginoong Jesu-Cristo. Kay Cristo lang natin matatagpuan ang lakas na kailangan natin sa pamamagitan ng Diyos na sovereign sa lahat, at siyang nagtatakda, nangangasiwa, at naghahari sa lahat ng bagay para matupad ang kanyang mga layunin--his wise and good purposes. Sa librong ito, nag-alok si John Piper ng anim na sagot sa tanong na, "Ano ang ginagawa ng Diyos sa pamamagitan ng coronavirus?" Sa pamamagitan ng mga sagot na ito na hango sa Bibliya, pinapaalalahanan tayo na ang Diyos ay gumagawa sa bahaging ito ng kasaysayan. Free ebook and study guide available at idisciple.ph/coronavirus.
Pastor Jared Richard encourages us, from Matthew 12:53-58, to think about how Jesus challenges us to think about His Kingdom.
I had to share this with you!!I've been getting ready to re-open to doors to The Club (today! March 28!) and re-watching all the videos new members watch to welcome them into The Club.I haven't looked at this videos since I made them a few months ago- I've been pretty focused on creating all the new content in The Club (and of course here on the podcast, my blog, etc.) I was so struck by the video where I talk about The Club Manifesto that I wanted to share it with you. It's just too important to only share with Club members.These tenets are what create a space in which the brain can organize itself exactly the way it was designed to organize itself. These tenets create a space in which our true, wonderful, loveable, and imperfect selves can emerge. If you'd like to see The Club manifesto in written form, head over to https://robyngobbel.com/theclubIf you'd like to be in a space where every single person committs to this manifesto, so you can look around and remember "Everyone here believes these things!" I'd love to welcome you in to The Club. Doors are open until April 1st. I anticipate re-opening approximately every three months. This seems to give the group the time it needs to settle into one another and create a rich, warm space of connection and co-regulation. Then the group re-organizes (kinda like the brain!) with all the wonderful new members who arrive. https://robyngobbel.com/theclub**********There are so many benefits (and no drawbacks!) to teaching kids and teens about the brain. I'll give you simple, fun ways to Teach Kids about their Awesome Brain. This 1.5 hour webinar airs live on Wed Oct 20. Everyone who registers will receive the recording so you don't have to attend live! CLICK HERE.
You have infinite worth Getting over the past April is a Licensed Professional Intuitive Mental Health and Substance Abuse Counselor. An Advanced Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor. A Hypnotherapist, Past Life Regression Therapist. An Auricular Acupuncturist. A Reiki Master. An Ama Deus Energy Healer. A Psychic-Medium. April has one mission to help you heal at the soul level to become the best you and to assist you on your self-improvement journey. April has spent a lifetime working with clients healing them from deep core issues and bringing about lasting change in their life. Connect with her on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/soulesstentialshealing Disclaimer for Security Reasons: The information shared in these videos - audio lessons are not meant to diagnose, treat, cure or address any mental, emotional, or physical conditions, illnesses, or issues. They are meant to be a self-help guide and an informational source only. Soul Essential's Healing and April Gaines are not responsible for any outcomes that may arise due to listening or watching the sessions. These are meant to guide you towards healing but are not responsible for the outcomes. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/soulessentialshealing/support
It is of vital importance for us to remember that we have infinite worth, but it is equally important to see the worth of others and show them by our words and deeds that the worth of their souls is great both to us and to God.
A new MP3 sermon from Red Bridge Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Infinite Worth Deserves Incessant Worship! Subtitle: Revelation Speaker: Dr. Victor Borden Broadcaster: Red Bridge Baptist Church Event: Sunday - PM Date: 2/14/2021 Bible: Revelation 7:9-17 Length: 38 min.
You are a daughter of Heavenly Parents. You are known. You belong. You are loved, you have always been loved, and you always will be loved. No matter what. You are eternal. You are known. You are chosen. You are loved. And whenever doubts start to creep in your mind, as surely they will, you come back to your breath, and feel the truth of your soul deep in your heart space. Knowing, feeling, sensing, your infinite worth. https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCgR92hb2MwERsOIKK8Wr_kg/videos?disable_polymer=1 Instagram: @amytenneyyoga Love the podcast? Please share with your friends, tag me on your instagram stories and leave me a review on iTunes!
When the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art opened in 2011 in Arkansas, the vast sum of money spent on art caught some off-guard. One painting in particular, “Kindred Spirits,” was sold to Alice Walton for the museum for $35 million dollars! It’s a beautiful painting, for sure. Two men are standing on a bluff, overlooking a scene of mountains and a river. Some might have an issue with the price of the painting, but Walton felt the scene was priceless and wanted others to enjoy it. Ephesians 2:10 says, “For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.” We are of infinite worth to our Savior! He came to rescue us from a life of terror and bleakness. He takes us to a place of beauty and calm. We are no blank canvas to God. Let’s pray. Lord, your creative powers are beyond our reach, but you let us enjoy it all! Thank you for your gifts, that show us just how much we mean to you. Amen. Do you know someone who needs to be reminded they are God’s masterpiece? Our “Hello Beautiful” zippered canvas bag makes a thoughtful gift! Shop for Christian T-shirts and gifts at Kerusso.com. That’s K-E-R-U-S-S-O dot com.
(Full Notes) Saturday, August 29, 2020 I said that it is a delusion that you’re worthless. It’s correct that it’s… Read more 29: It All Begins With A Lie
(Full Notes) Saturday, August 29, 2020 I said that it is a delusion that you’re worthless. It’s correct that it’s… Read more 29: It All Begins With A Lie
Malachi 1:6-2:9 New International Version (NIV) Breaking Covenant Through Blemished Sacrifices 6 “A son honours his father, and a slave his master. If I am a father, where is the honour due me? If I am a master, where is the respect due me?” says the Lord Almighty. “It is you priests who show contempt for my name. “But you ask, ‘How have we shown contempt for your name?’ 7 “By offering defiled food on my altar. “But you ask, ‘How have we defiled you?’ “By saying that the Lord’s table is contemptible. 8 When you offer blind animals for sacrifice, is that not wrong? When you sacrifice lame or diseased animals, is that not wrong? Try offering them to your governor! Would he be pleased with you? Would he accept you?” says the Lord Almighty. 9 “Now plead with God to be gracious to us. With such offerings from your hands, will he accept you?”—says the Lord Almighty. 10 “Oh, that one of you would shut the temple doors, so that you would not light useless fires on my altar! I am not pleased with you,” says the Lord Almighty, “and I will accept no offering from your hands. 11 My name will be great among the nations, from where the sun rises to where it sets. In every place incense and pure offerings will be brought to me, because my name will be great among the nations,” says the Lord Almighty. 12 “But you profane it by saying, ‘The Lord’s table is defiled,’ and, ‘Its food is contemptible.’ 13 And you say, ‘What a burden!’ and you sniff at it contemptuously,” says the Lord Almighty. “When you bring injured, lame or diseased animals and offer them as sacrifices, should I accept them from your hands?” says the Lord. 14 “Cursed is the cheat who has an acceptable male in his flock and vows to give it, but then sacrifices a blemished animal to the Lord. For I am a great king,” says the Lord Almighty, “and my name is to be feared among the nations. Additional Warning to the Priests 2 “And now, you priests, this warning is for you. 2 If you do not listen, and if you do not resolve to honour my name,” says the Lord Almighty, “I will send a curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already cursed them, because you have not resolved to honour me. 3 “Because of you I will rebuke your descendants[a]; I will smear on your faces the dung from your festival sacrifices, and you will be carried off with it. 4 And you will know that I have sent you this warning so that my covenant with Levi may continue,” says the Lord Almighty. 5 “My covenant was with him, a covenant of life and peace, and I gave them to him; this called for reverence and he revered me and stood in awe of my name. 6 True instruction was in his mouth and nothing false was found on his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many from sin. 7 “For the lips of a priest ought to preserve knowledge, because he is the messenger of the Lord Almighty and people seek instruction from his mouth. 8 But you have turned from the way and by your teaching have caused many to stumble; you have violated the covenant with Levi,” says the Lord Almighty. 9 “So I have caused you to be despised and humiliated before all the people, because you have not followed my ways but have shown partiality in matters of the law.” Footnotes: Malachi 2:3 Or will blight your grain
Redemptive history revealed in Scripture emphasizes that God's people sojourn in foreign lands and are commanded to worship the One True God and not be swayed in that devotion through idolatry. Pastor David warns that idols are present and flourishing in today's culture of death and exhorts his flock to count the cost of our redemption through the blood of Jesus Christ.
Aaron Back exhorted on Revelation 5:1-14 at Pastor Zack Flipse's ordination. Find more at www.firstcrcoostburg.org/sermons.
Our personal worth is NOT related to worthiness. It comes with us. We are each precious and of infinite worth. Perspective, patience, and persistence help us to see ourselves and recognize our value.
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Some considered the gospel to be worth more than their entire lives. What is the gospel worth to you? This sermon is based on Paul’s letter to the Philippians, chapter 3, verses 4b-14.
David Ellingson, Missionary to Madagascar
The Cost and Infinite Worth of Following Jesus
From the beginning, God has shown His love for us in creation. He created people made in His image with value and worth. Our worth in God/Christ makes a significant difference in how we live.Facebook InstagramTwitterYouTube
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Date: 2014-11-22 Topics: Cosmic Abandonment, Interference Theory Of Human Origins, The Unwritten Story Of Our Future, Self-Loathing as a major factor which holds Humanity in a state of Slavery, The 3 R's, Self-Respect as the antidote of Self-Loathing, the Infinite Worth of the Self/Individual, Working with psychological Shadow Material, Remembering who we really are, the 3 Aspects of Consciousness and their Fulfillments and Failures, Understanding Individual Sovereignty, Personal Individual Responsibility for choosing Right Action over Wrong Action, the Inability to abdicate Personal Responsibility to someone else, Humanity's Critical Moment of Choice to enter Cosmic Adulthood, Understanding Natural Law as the Ultimate Solution and the Key to unlocking the Human Condition, the Soul Mission to End Slavery on Earth, the Higher Consciousness of seeing Humanity as one family, the Power of the Imagination in manifesting Freedom. Related Images: 1Cosmic Abandonment Slides, Part 1:1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 | 81 | 82 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 86 | 87 | 88 | 89 | 90 | 91 | 92Cosmic Abandonment Slides, Part 2:93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 100 | 101 | 102 | 103 | 104 | 105 | 106 | 107 | 108 | 109 | 110 | 111 | 112 | 113 | 114 | 115 | 116 | 117 | 118 | 119 | 120 | 121 | 122 | 123 | 124 | 125 | 126 | 127 | 128 | 129 | 130 | 131 | 132 | 133 | 134 | 135 | 136 | 137 | 138 | 139 | 140 | 141 | 142 | 143 | 144 | 145 | 146 | 147 | 148 | 149 | 150 | 151 | 152 | 153 | 154 | 155 | 156 | 157 | 158 | 159 | 160 | 161 | 162 | 163 | 164 | 165 | 166 | 167 | 168 | 169 | 170 | 171 | 172 | 173 | 174 | 175 | 176 | 177 | 178 | 179 | 180 | 181 | 182 | 183 | 184All Cosmic Abandonment Slides: Download here (Zip archive, 48 MB).
Rhesa Storms - John 15:12
Rhesa Storms - John 15:12
Jesus said the human soul is more valuable than the entire world. He taught this in Matthew 16:24-27 to help us prepare for Judgment Day. If we try to gain the world and neglect God, we will forfeit our souls, but if we give ourselves to God now...
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We have looked at the Soil.We have looked at the Sower.Lets today consider the Seed.Message by Dale Meredith
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Ben Patterson earned his bachelor’s degree from La Verne University in 1966 and his master’s of divinity from The American Baptist Seminary of the West in 1972. Ben served the New Providence Presbyterian Church of New Jersey from 1989 until his appointment as Dean of the Chapel at Hope College in 1993. From 1975 to 1989 he was with the Irvine Presbyterian Church of California, of which he was the founding pastor. Ben has written several books including: Serving God: The Grand Essentials of Work & Worship, Waiting: Finding Hope When God Seems Silent, amongst many others. For over ten years the Reverend Ben Patterson has been the Campus Pastor at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California.
“How Much Land Does a Man Need?” This morning we're looking at Matthew 16:26-28. I wanna begin by asking a question, a question asked by the novelist Leo Tolstoy and that is, “How Much Land Does A Man Need?” It's a short story that he wrote in 1886, James Joyce called it the greatest story ever written. It's a story about a Russian man named Pahom who had ambitions to improve his lot in life and back then in Russia, the most valuable commodity economically was land, real estate. The owner of a large tract of land was inevitably wealthier than one who owned less and one who owned no land at all was a peasant, a beggar living at the whim of a landlord. Now Pahom yearned for more land and therefore with it, more prosperity. At the beginning of the story, he boasts to his wife, “If I could have more land I wouldn't fear the devil himself.” The Devil sitting behind the oven hears this and snickers. He says “Alright fine, we'll have a battle. I'll give you plenty of land and by that means, I will get you into my power.” As the story unfolds, Pahom hears about a tribe of people in the rich fertile valleys of the east, a people named the Bashkirs. Though he can hardly believe it, he hears that these people are selling large tracts of land, for very little money. Incredible bargain. So he travels overland to the Bashkir region and he meets the chieftain. After drinking some tea and going through some social rituals, Pahom gets down to business. He declares his desire to buy some land. The Bashkirs readily agree and Pahom asks for the price, they say strangely 1000 rubles, per day. Pahom doesn't understand what this means, “Per day?” “Yes,” they answer, “for 1000 rubles, you can have as much land as you can walk around in a single day but you have to begin at sunrise and you have to return to the same spot by sunset or else your money is forfeited to us.” Well, Pahom that night is filled with greed. He's thinking that he's in good physical condition. He can walk around a pretty big tract of land, so he's excited. He thinks he can walk around at least 35 miles in a day. He'll have 150 acres for plow land, he thinks and all the rest will be for grazing all of his head of cattle that he is most certainly going to own. So he agrees to the price, he wants to start the next day and they agree to do that. At sunrise Pahom stands ready on the top of a little hillock. The Bashkir chief at sunrise drops his hat on the ground as both the starting and the finishing place for his race. Pahom has to return to that hat by sunset or forfeit his thousand rubles. So he starts off and his greed drives him on quickly throughout the morning as he goes along the first leg of his journey and as he goes the land just seems to get better and better, richer and richer, better looking rivers and copses of trees and he just wants it all but then he starts to realize, I've bit off a lot here and so he thinks it's about time, it's getting near noon to make his first turn, so he digs a little hole to mark the place as was agreed and he turns but he starts to realize that he's behind schedule, the sun's already at the top of the sky, it's the heat of the day, it's actually past noon now and he starts to pick up the pace. He's getting hot, he takes off his coat, he's moving along and he decides enough on the second leg, and he digs a hole to mark the second marker. By now, it's actually mid-to-late afternoon and he thinks he's in trouble, and he actually is. So he starts to travel faster and faster, marks the third spot as quickly as he can, and turns for home. By now, the sun is getting a little bit orange in the western sky and he is pushing as hard as he can. Actually he's running at top speed whatever energy he has left late in the day. He comes over a little bit of a hill and he sees that hillock where he began but it still seems distant and now it's a race for time. He goes as hard and as fast as he can but he's got that last little rise to go just as the sun is dipping over the horizon, he dives and grasps the chieftain's cap, just in time. Well, the Bashkir people are elated. They're just laughing and celebrating, “What a fine fellow. It's the largest tract of land we've ever seen in a single day.” And they're celebrating and they go to raise him up but there's blood coming from Pahom's mouth, you see, he's dead. The exertion killed him and so the Bashkirs take a shovel and they dig a six foot long stretch six feet down in the earth and that's the answer to the question: how much land Pahom needed, just enough to bury him. What an interesting story. What a parable on life, on ambition, on what really matters. What do you really need? I think Jesus asked two searching questions in our text. It gets to a deeper issue even. Pahom forfeited his physical life, Jesus goes even deeper than that. He asked this question, “What would it profit a man, if he gained the whole world and forfeited his soul?” And then he asked a second question: “What would a man give in exchange for his soul?” At the end of your life of achievement, you will stand before Jesus Christ and you'll give an account of every careless word you spoke and you'll give an account of your life and the issue hanging in the balance on Judgment Day will be this: Where will your soul spend eternity? Will your soul spend eternity with God in heaven or will your soul be tormented for eternity in hell? That is the question.There is no third option and Jesus is speaking this to make sure that we don't lose our souls in a fruitless pursuit of things that don't matter at all. Understanding the Context Now, let's understand the context. We're in the Gospel of Matthew, returning there after about a year and a half. The gospel of Matthew is the presentation of Jesus Christ as the king of the kingdom of heaven, that's the theme of the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus is the King of the Kingdom of Heaven. So the gospel begins with a genealogy, establishing his right to rule as the legitimate, the legal heir of David, the son of David. But then in chapters two and three, with his birth, a birth account and then with his baptism and the statement made by Almighty God from the sky, we see established also Jesus is the son of God. So he is the son of David, the son of man, and he is also the son of God and those are his personal credentials to rule over the Kingdom of heaven. And then we see his personality and his attributes established in his miracles at the end of Matthew chapter 4. He does signs and wonders, and so the power of his kingdom established by his miracles. We see also the wisdom of his kingdom established and his teachings, the Sermon on the Mount and the parables and all of the great utterances he spoke as no man ever did. And we see also the character of the King of the Kingdom of Heaven, the purity, the holiness, his compassion, his mercy. We see all of that put on display. But in this section of Matthew, he has turned his gaze and Matthew has through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit to us as the readers to people to see whether we will enter the Kingdom or not. We have to enter the Kingdom of Heaven and so there are many teachings concerning this. That we have to be able to in Matthew 16, make Peter's confession, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God” in order to enter the kingdom of heaven. And after Peter makes that confession, Jesus warns his disciples, in verse 21 of this chapter, “From that time on, Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the chief priest, elders and teachers of law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.” This is devastating for them. They did not expect a suffering Messiah, still less a dead Messiah. Could not understand this and it was very difficult for them, and Peter again acting as spokesman for what they were all thinking, just could not understand how that could work and took Jesus aside, if you can actually believe this and rebukes Jesus. Quite a moment in redemptive history. Peter, the chief among the apostles, rebuking the Son of God. Jesus turns and rebukes him back and says “Get behind me, Satan. You're a stumbling block to me. You do not have in mind the things of God but the things of man. You're thinking like a man, not thinking like God would have you think.” Now Peter's immediate motive was selfish. He figured that he was in line for a key position in this new kingdom. Did not understand the Kingdom of Heaven, didn't understand it at all. But he knew that Jesus dead leaves him in a bad way, having left his fishing business and all that and being one of Jesus' right-hand men. And so he can't imagine Jesus dead because he can't imagine himself dead either. And so he's really thinking like a human. His mind is focused on earthly things, earthly power, earthly achievement, earthly pleasures, that's what he's thinking about, that's what's on his mind and so Jesus gives this incredible call. Understanding the Call Verse 24 and 25, Jesus said to his disciples. “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me, for whoever wants to save his life will lose it but whoever loses his life for me will find it.” “Don't live for this world,” he's saying to Peter. “Don't cling to things in this world. Don't hold on to your life, let it go. There's another world that's coming and we're gonna live for that world. In this world, we're gonna have trouble; persecution and difficulties and suffering. In the next world, I will establish forever my perfect kingdom. Don't live for this world. Deny yourself. Be willing to die as I'm going to die.” That's what he's saying. Stop finding your life in earthly things. Jesus then turns up the intensity even further, the call on the disciples is that they realize that anything that hindered them from entering the Kingdom of Heaven must be dispensed with, just as Jesus earlier said, if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. So he wants to give the disciples a sense of the immense worth and value of their future life, more significantly of their souls. And so he says this, “What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or What will a man give in exchange for his soul?” Now, from this text, I'm gonna focus on two questions, two issues. And that is the world and what it means to gain it and secondly, the soul and what it means to lose it. And then I'm gonna ask Jesus' two questions and seek to answer them. “What would it profit a man then if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul?” and secondly, “What would a man give in exchange for his soul?” I wanna sharpen these questions to a fine point. I wanna urge you to be sure that your soul's final state will be in heaven and not in hell. I believe that's why God brought every one of you here today, including myself; that we would have a strong answer to that question by faith. That we would know where our soul is going to spend eternity. It's not an academic question. There could be no more important question that you face today than that. Where will your soul spend eternity? Will you be welcomed into heaven or will you be cast into Hell? One of those two will be your future. And to help you, I will focus on the final inducement that Christ makes. Verse 27, “The Son of Man is going to come in his Father's glory with his angels and then he will reward each person according to what he has done.” Judgment Day is coming and the glory of Christ and the eternal value of your soul will push out every other issue from your mind. I wanna heighten that so you can make the wisest possible choice. The World, and What It Means to Gain It So let's start with this issue and that is the world and what it means to gain it. Jesus said, “What would it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul?"” First: No One Has Ever Done This, Though Many Have Tried First of all, let me say no one has ever been able to do it. I mean, to gain the whole world. Many have tried but they've never been able to pull it off. Jesus is clearly using hyperbole here, an exaggerated statement to make a point. The fact of the matter is, many empire builders of all ages have sought to control the world and it has eluded all of them but they have run the race, haven't they? They've certainly tried. The largest contiguous empire in the world in terms of land mass that there ever was, was that of the Mongols, the Mongolians. It reached its peak in the year 1260. It was 12.8 million square miles, larger than the Soviet Union, five times larger than the empire of Alexander the Great. However, for all of that, it represented just shy of 25 percent of the world's available land mass. They got a quarter of it and they had it for a few years, then it started to shrink, as all empires do. And so that's it, that's the number one of all time. Others have tried to control certain aspects of the world. Certain commodities, or certain economic features. John D. Rockefeller for example, over 100 years ago, controlled through Standard Oil over 90 percent of the petroleum business of the world. Now, imagine what that would be worth today, if you controlled 90 percent of it. For that reason, some people estimate that Rockefeller's personal wealth when adjusted to 21st century standards, is the greatest in history, approximately $320 billion. Incredible amount of money. He had 90 percent not 100 percent 90 percent of the oil business and he had it for a little while. In recent years, some have tried to corner the market one way or another. In the 1970s, Nelson Bunker Hunt and his brother Herbert came very close to cornering the market on silver. That doesn't mean owning all the silver in the world, just means controlling it. They'd accumulated huge amounts of silver and by September of '79, the price had risen from $11 an ounce to over $50 an ounce. At that point, the Hunts controlled more than half of the world's deliverable silver but they didn't have quite enough money and the whole thing collapsed and in the end, they filed for bankruptcy so they tried just to control the silver and they couldn't even do that. See, these are just some of the ways that individual human beings have sought to control just small portions of the world and no one has ever been able to do it but Jesus is saying, even if you could gain the whole world, even if you could do it, and if you lost your soul, it wouldn't be worth it. It wouldn't be to your profit. The World IS Attractive—Admit It! Now, the world is attractive, admit it. We're not gonna stand up here and purely say, in a philosophical or theological way, “There's nothing in the world that attracts me. There's nothing here I like. I am so other-worldly that I have no earthly concerns.” Now, I know that Psalms 73 says beautifully. “Earth has nothing I desire besides you.” That God is our portion, he's our final reward, and I understand that thought but let's be honest, God has created a beautiful world and there are desirable things in this world. There's the beauty of the earth, the pleasures of food and travel and entertainment. Hobbies, a good novel, an absorbing board game or an athletic event. There's the value of the esteem of other people. The joy of earthly success in business, academics, athletics, these things are desirable and it's wrong for us to say that there's nothing in them for us. That there's nothing attractive in this world, it just isn't true and all of these things should be received as good gifts of God. We would lie if we said that these things meant nothing whatsoever to us. God created all of these things richly for our enjoyment, he says, but any of them can become idols, they can just take over so they become the focus of our hearts and of our lives. They become an idol. The Attractive Pulls of the World… All Empty And ultimately, if we're gonna use that language, ultimately, the attractive pulls of the world are all empty. They're not going to satisfy our souls deepest longings. There's the pull of power. After Alexander the Great conquers whatever he could conquer and his army was compelling him to turn back and enjoy what he'd conquered, never lost a battle, and he sat down and wept that there were no more battles to fight. Come alongside him and say “Alexander, look at all the battles you've fought and won.” It's not bringing him any happiness, he's miserable. He's got to have more and more and more and more and more. The pull of power. It's empty. How about the pull of wealth? There's Croesus, who lived in the 6th century BC. His land happened to have some of the richest gold mines in the world, therefore he was the richest king in the world. Had all of this gold, didn't make him happy and it was very attractive to Cyrus the Great of Persia. Heard about it, very interested in it. Came and conquered it, captured Croesus and was going to burn him to death. How happy is he now, concerning his wealth? As he's just about to be burned to death, doesn't bring any satisfaction. Actually, the richer you are the more worries and the more trouble you have in life. What about wisdom? If only you could have wisdom, if you could have all of the wisdom. Well, Solomon went down that road for us and what does it say in the book of Ecclesiastes, Ecclesiastes 118; For with much wisdom comes much sorrow. The more knowledge, the more grief. Students can testify to that. The more knowledge I get, the sadder I get, or at least the pursuit of knowledge anyway, brings grief. Solomon, the wisest man that ever lived until the time of Christ and it brought him nothing but misery and sadness. And then there's fame. I think no one can have the kind of fame that's available to us in this modern age. Think about it. Through the internet, through digital photography, through even YouTube, your privatest moments can immediately become world famous. Not that you would want that. More infamous, I would think. We can become quickly infamous but not very much quickly famous, I'm thinking. But I remember during the Barcelona Olympics, the first dream team, the basketball team, Michael Jordan was walking down the street of Barcelona and came to a building, a seven-story building that had a Nike poster of himself that covered the entire side of the building and so, the camera pulls back until it can get the whole poster and you can't even see Michael Jordan, the real one. He's tiny behind this dwarf photo of himself dunking. Worldwide fame, okay? But yet it's pretty pathetic to see athletes and movie stars and others try to hold on to that fame as age starts to take away the capabilities that gave it to them in the first place. They come back for one more Tour de France or they come out of retirement three times or they just can't let it go, because they're not satisfied, they can't live in the past, they can't hold on to it. What about beauty? Look at all the movie starlets and the surgeries they're willing to go through and they're willing to risk their health to maintain their beauty. And you can see an aging starlet as she no longer gets the phone calls she used to get and others have taken her place and she's in some abandoned hotel room and commits suicide like Marilyn Monroe. Didn't bring any ultimate satisfaction and happiness. These things are not meant to be ultimately satisfying to our souls or the reason for our lives. Satan’s Consistent Offer of a Trade And then there's Satan, who in the story of “How Much Land Does A Man Need?” is willing to stand and make a trade with you. Now, he's not offering to peons like you and me, the whole world. He offered that only once to one person, you remember who it was? He offered it to Jesus. “I'll give it all to you, the whole thing, if you'll just bow down and worship me.” And Jesus said, “Away from me, Satan. For it is written, ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve him only.’” So he offered it to Jesus but he's willing to make trades. Like Dr. Faustus, who traded his soul to the devil in that story to get supernatural power and pleasures. For 24 years he had it and then at the end of the story he tried to rescind the offer, make the trade back and couldn't do it and came to a bitter end. And so in common speech, we think about somebody with an extraordinary ability, like Paganini who could play an entire piece on one string. He would purposely break three of the strings on the violin and that would leave just one string and he could still play it on the one string and they said he sold his soul to the Devil to get that ability. We use that kind of expression. Well, it's a myth. You can't sell your soul to the Devil. He doesn't have that kind of power. What's he gonna do with it when he is screaming in pain in the lake of fire because that's what it was made for? He doesn't have any ultimate power in this matter but he does have the ability to tempt us to lose our souls as well. And so he's constantly pulling on us to trade our souls for something temporal, something temporary. Some pleasure, some power, some material possession. Something and so that's the world and what it means to gain it. What is the soul and what does it mean to lose it? The Soul, and What It Means to Lose It What Is Your Soul? Well, your soul, it's more than merely your true self. Some people say that what this means is that the power of sin is such that, eventually, you just lose your true self. You won't be true to yourself, you'll be corrupted, you'll be transformed, you'll become a different person. And what good would it be if you kind of lost who you really were in the quest for power and fame and all that? Well, that's true, that does happen but that's not what Jesus is talking about. And it's more than merely your physical life and here, you've got to kind of track through acts of Jesus, a changing of the use of the Greek word. In verse 26 he says in the ESV, it says, “What would it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life?” that's what the ESV gives us. Jesus said, “Whoever wants to save his life will lose it.” I think there he is talking about physical life, but here it's deeper than that. Here he's talking about, not merely that you're going to die, like Pahom after running around that huge tract of land. What good was it for him to gain that big tract of land and die? He can't do anything with it. And so that's true. We can't take it with us and so what good is it if in gaining it, you then die? There are a number of people that press and press and press in their work lives, then when they retire and seek to enjoy their wealth and they can't, they die soon after because of all the exertions. I think that's true as well but that again, is not what Jesus is talking about here. No, no. He's talking about your soul. That's that immaterial part of you that is able to relate to God, to love God, to serve God, to trust in God, to yearn for him. That's what the soul is and according to this, your soul is in jeopardy. You can lose your soul. That soul is eternal. That's not some trick of Greek philosophy as some have thought, the immortality of the soul as some Greek philosophical concept. That is false, it's a biblical concept. God will uphold your conscious existence for eternity. Once he creates you, you will be upheld by God for eternity, either in heaven or hell. You can't cease to exist. Keep that in mind if you're ever toying with the idea of suicide. As Hamlet said, “To sleep, perchance to dream. Ah, that's the rub.” I might not stop existing after I come out of the body. No, you don't. A Lost Soul: Eternal Damnation in Hell So the immortality of the soul is a biblical concept and according to this, your soul, our souls are in jeopardy. The soul itself is in peril and grave danger for Jesus speaks of the possibility this soul could be lost. What does this mean, to lose your soul? This is a terrifying prospect and how can I combine words and tone of voice and physical demeanor to give you a sense of the seriousness of what it means to lose your soul? What can I say? Later in this Gospel, we have a picture of Jesus as a Judge of all the earth and all the nations are gathered before him and he separates them, one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats and he puts the sheep on his right, the believers and he puts the goats, the unbelievers, on the left and he says to those on his left, “Depart from me, you who are cursed into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.” Friends, that's what it means to lose your soul. To hear those words spoken about you on that final day. And what is that like? The eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels, what is that like? How can we conceive it? It says in Revelation 14, “He too, will drink the wine of God's fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of his wrath. He will be tormented with burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb and the smoke of their torment rises forever and ever.” There is no rest, day or night, for those that are cast into hell. For those that are condemned, for those that lose their souls, there's no rest. Luke 16, the rich man is in agony in hell. He's in torment, yearning for Lazarus to come and cool his tongue with some water. That's what it's like, it's just a picture of somebody eternally lost. Now, how is the soul lost, how can we lose our souls, what happens? Well, Jesus seems to pit the pursuit of the world, a love for the world, against the welfare of the soul. The seeking or the gaining of the whole world here, is the enemy of the soul but deeper, the issue is, what does your heart yearn for? The real issue here is sin. It is by sin that we lose our souls. As Jesus will make it plain, souls are lost by Judgment Day's assessment of their life and their behavior. Look at verse 27, “The Son of Man is going to come in the glory of his Father with his angels and then he will repay every man according to his deeds.” Jesus’ Two Piercing Questions So the great issue of your life is simply this; will I lose my soul? And to make this clear, Jesus asks these two piercing questions and both focus on the horror of Judgment Day. A Question of Profit Verse 26, “What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeit his soul?” Gain and loss are like business terms. They are Greek business terms here. Has to do with weighing value. What is the value of this, the setting of the price on that? The economics of the matter? Has to do with relative value and worth and the clear implication, this is astonishing. Is that the value of a single human soul is greater than that of the material possessions of all the world. Meditate on that. You came in here today, the possessor of something, a possession of greater worth and value than all the gold, the silver, the diamonds, the real estate, the Fortune 500 companies, the pleasures and privileges of this world, more than all of that put together. Your soul, worth more than that. And it isn't just your soul. It may help your self-esteem to meditate much on that, fine. Let your self-esteem be helped by considering, “I am created in the image of God. My soul is worth more than the entire physical world.” But it's not just you, but 6.8 billion of us and the same is true of every last one of us. There is not a single human being on the face of the earth for whom it would be a good exchange if they could lose their soul and gain the world. No one. There might be an orphan waif on a pile of garbage in Rio de Janeiro, picking through trying to find enough calories to make it through the day, that person would not be wise to trade their soul to gain the whole world. Neither the president or CEO of a Fortune 500 company. Wouldn't be wise for that person either to trade their soul to gain the whole world. It doesn't matter if they're a professor in a German institution of higher learning or somebody with Alzheimer's. A human being's soul is worth more than the material possessions of the entire world. Therefore, to forfeit, to lose that soul is the most foolish thing a person can ever do. It is the most devastating mistake a person can make. A Question of Exchange It's a question of exchange too, the second question. Look at verse 26, “Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?” Again, the language of commerce, of making an equitable trade. Imagine it's Judgment Day and Jesus has done his separation and there you stand in the group you were put in and you come to find out that Jesus is speaking these words about you, “Depart from me, you who are cursed. Into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and drive out demons, perform many miracles?’ and he'll say, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evil-doers.’” So you find yourself in that group and, like it happens in Matthew 25, you may argue with the judge and think it's unfair but your status will remain unchanged and then the judge dispatches an angel, for it speaks of being cast into eternal darkness. It's a very personal thing. And so an angel comes and takes you to the precipice and you can look down into the lake of fire. Alright, freeze right at that moment. Let's say possibly, you still possessed all of your earthly possessions, what percentage of them would you give at that moment in exchange for your soul? If you still had them to give and you won't because they're not yours anyway, they’ll have all been taken from you but suppose you did. “I'll give up to half. I'll give up to half of all I possess that I not be thrown into eternal hell.” “Alright then, 90%. I'll hold back that 10% though.” You won't hold back anything. Imagine then the foolishness of exchanging your eternal soul for anything earthly. You say, well you've been thinking about becoming a Christian but you're afraid of what your friends will think, what effect it will have on your career, what effect it will have on your fun, what effect it will have on your moral life. You're afraid of these things. Alright well, let's collect those things and there's some value or worth you think in each of them. Are you willing to trade your soul for those things? That's the question Jesus is bringing to you here and of course, it will be too late then. There'll be nothing that you can do. The question, the matter, has been decided. You may not want to go to Hell, I tell you, no one wants to go to Hell but you will be cast there if you're not a believer in Jesus Christ. So therefore, the time to face these questions is now, today. Today is the day of salvation. “In the time of my favor I heard you, in the day of salvation I helped you. I tell you, now is the time of God's favor. Today is the day of salvation.” Face the question now. My job, as a preacher, is to make it vividly come alive to you. To clearly portray Judgment Day and in a moment, to clearly depict Christ crucified, the only salvation for your soul. That's my job, but yours is to come to this point. Reason it out. Jesus’ Two Compelling Reasons The Coming Judgment Jesus gives us two compelling reasons to make the wise choice. First, the coming judgment. Verse 27, “The Son of Man is going to come in his Father's glory with his angels and then he will reward each person according to what he has done.” This is the dreaded Day of the Lord. Christ is going to return in glory with the armies of Heaven. Jude 14 and 15, “Behold, the Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones to judge everyone and to convict all the ungodly of all the ungodly acts they have done in the ungodly way, and of all the harsh words ungodly sinners have spoken against him.” That is the coming of Christ in power. It's a heavenly invasion and can I tell you that the poll numbers leading up to that won't matter to Jesus? Do you know he's actually going to be King of the earth, whether we want him to be or not? Did you know that? He's not submitting to a popular election. Amen and Amen. He's just coming. He's coming in power to reign. The real election will be what happens with you and now is the time to decide that issue. But he will be King and he will reign forever and ever. So he's coming and he will reign and the judgment will be on all sinners who have not been forgiven and they will give an account, the court will be seated, the books will be open. “And I saw the dead,” Revelation 20, “great and small, standing before the throne and the books were open. Another book was opened which is the Book of Life.” Oh, that your name would be in the Book of life, that you would repent of sins and trust in Christ, that your name would be written indelibly in the Book of Life. Oh, that that would be the case today. And “the dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books." The Coming Glory That's the first reason to make a wise choice, the second is the coming glory. Look at verse 27, “For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father's glory with his angels,” verse 28, “I tell you the truth, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.” The kingdom is coming with glory. I believe that mysterious statement there has to do with the Mount of Transfiguration. We'll deal with that, God willing next week. When some who were standing there actually got to see Jesus made glorious. His face shone like the sun, his clothes became whiter than light and Jesus said in Matthew 13, the parable of the wheat and the tares. “Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father.” Oh there's a coming glory. You don't wanna miss it. You don't wanna miss being in that glory and seeing it. I'm coming in my glory and my kingdom is gonna be glorious. Oh, don't miss it. Application Repent and Come to Christ So what application can we take from this? Well first, just repent and come to Christ, if you're not a believer. Repent and come to Christ. Jesus Christ was nailed to a cross, we sang about it right before I came up to preach. The cross of Christ is the power of God for salvation. The message of the cross, the power of God for salvation. Look to the cross, look to Jesus whose blood was shed. Your sins can be forgiven, you can stand forgiven today at the cross and for the rest of your lives. And not by works but by simple faith. By the imputation, the gift of his righteousness, God will see you as perfectly righteous in Jesus for the rest of your life. That's your only hope, look to him and he will forgive you. Examine Yourself Now, I assume the majority of you consider yourselves Christians. You came here today believing yourself to be a Christian. That's a good thing. I'm not trying to undermine your assurance. I'm not trying to pad the statistics of those who will come forward at the end of the service. You know I don't seek to do that. But understand, who did Jesus speak these words to? To his apostles. Don't excuse yourself from the potency of these words, of dealing with the weight of them. Make your calling and election sure, be certain that your soul is saved and forgiven through faith in Christ, that you're living in a right way and then look at what's going on in your life, look at the health of your soul. You may not forfeit your soul but you can actually wage war against your soul. It says in 1 Peter, there are lusts that wage war against the soul. Are you waging a war against your soul, right now? Don't. Put it to death by the power of the Spirit. Meditate on the Infinite Worth of Human Souls… Yours and Others’ Thirdly, meditate on the infinite worth of every single human soul. It will help you to see people differently. You won't be so rude to them or irritable toward them. You're dealing with eternities. Each person you deal with is an eternity in Heaven or Hell. That's what you're dealing with. Feel the weight of that. Deal with it seriously. That's the key to the abortion question. That's the key of the abortion question, the value and worth of a human soul, of a human being. That's what it is. Meditate on the Correspondingly Small Value of the Whole World Meditate on the infinite worth of human souls and meditate on the correspondingly small value of the whole world. It's small, it's a small value so why do you want it so much? “Well, I don't want it.” Yes, you do. More than you should. Put it to death, deny yourself, take up your cross, follow Jesus, don't have earthly ambitions, don't seek great things for yourself in this world. Seek to serve a great King who's coming in a great Kingdom, seek that. Be Active in Seeking and Saving the Lost And then finally, be active in seeking and saving the lost. Part of the reason that I preach like this to believers, I hope and trust is that you will know how to preach to the unbelievers in your life. That you'll be able to take these things and press them home to the unbelievers you know and I don't, who aren't sitting here today and who might be years away from sitting in a church. Talk to them. Talk to them about their soul. Ask them Jesus' question: What good would it be if you gained the whole world and lost your soul? Ask that question to somebody and trust that God will use the Word of God to save them. Close with me in prayer.
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Andy Davis preaches an expository sermon on Matthew 16:26-28. The main subject of the sermon is the great value of the souls of men.
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