The Value of A Soul
If I were to ask you what your most precious possession is- I wonder what you would answer? Family? Finances? Physical health? Some trivial treasure?
Jesus says your soul is worth more than this whole wide world and everything in it. He asked a rhetorical question in Mark 8:36 “For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”
All the wealth in the world all put together- are not worth one single solitary soul!
But what is the soul?
Ancient Greeks sometimes referred to the soul as psyche (as in modern English psychology). Aristotle's works in Latin used the word anima (as in animated), which also means "breath".
Likewise, the Biblical Hebrew word for 'soul' is nefesh, meaning life, or vital breath.
The Bible says Genesis 2:6 "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the earth. And breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living SOUL."
The crowning work of Creation was not an accident of evolution-God wasn’t monkey around when he made man! What set us apart is our God given soul. It is who we are.
You can’t find it with a cat scan or measure it with an MRI, you cant reach it with a needle or a knife....but it is just as real as other invisible things such as thoughts and TV waves…and much more important .
Jesus says if you could have every thing you could get your hands on, unlimited riches and resources, at the expense of your self- you soul-it wouldn’t be worth it. Earthly things will rust and rot away….while the soul remains.
1 John 2:16-17 tells us “For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.”
Charlemagne the Great was the wealthy, mighty emperor of France. The story is told that when archaeologists entered his tomb they saw treasures that had been buried with him, but found Charlemagne placed sitting on a throne, a crown placed on his head.
When he was discovered, the crown had slipped down around his skull and in his lap was a Bible. It was opened and a bony finger was pointed to Mark 8:36.
Charlemagne knew what we need to know. Even if you gain the whole world, as he almost did, you can’t keep it.
Jesus also said in Mathew 10:39 "He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it."
Martyred Missionary Jim Elliott said "He is no fool who is willing to give up what he cannot keep, to gain what he cannot lose."
From the lips of our Lord this question is being asked of you! Don’t be a loser. Don’t sell out your soul for anything. It isn’t worth it, and if I were you- I wouldn’t miss heaven for the world!!!
Think on this, and keep the SON in your eyes!!!
KJV Pastor John M. Keeter
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2 Cor 5:17 “Therefore if any man be in Christ he is a NEW CREATURE: old things are past away; behold, all things are become new.” =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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