Gain the World - Lose the Soul

 Thought for Today - July 7, 2023

Gain the world - Lose the Soul

By: Robert A  Searles

The bible tells us that when God created mankind, he created us in his image- that is , not only did he give us a physical body in which we could live and have our being in the physical realm of the natural world, but upon conception, he breathed his spirit into our physical bodies , and we became living souls, which would live and exist forever in fellowship with him in heaven.

However, because of the disobedience of our first parents Adam and Eve, sin entered the beautiful creation which God had provided, and from then on, all of us who have ever lived on planet earth, our souls have been infected with the disease of the sin nature which causes us to commit sins, and causes us to be separated from fellowship with God. 

 God who is Holy cannot fellowship with sin, but in his great love and mercy, he provided for all mankind, regardless of race, color or nationality, a remedy, for all of us to be forgiven and reconciled to himself through his only begotten son, the Lord Jesus Christ. "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life" John 3:16

But God has given to all people a free will and a free choice, either to believe and receive his offer of grace and forgiveness and be saved and have an eternal home with him in heaven or to reject his offer of love and salvation and lose his eternal soul forever in hell.

How much do you value your eternal soul? Will you choose eternal life with God in Heaven or spend eternity in the devil's hell?

Mark 8:34 KJV
"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."

Mark 8:35 KJV
"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."
"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?"  Mark 8: 36

Mark 8:37-38 

"Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?   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 his Father with the holy angels."

Proverbs 10:2
"Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death"

1 Samuel 12:21 " And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain. "

Ecclesiastes 1:3  " What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?"

Ecclesiastes 2:11
"Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun."

Matthew 16:26
"For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?"

1 Timothy 6:6
"But godliness with contentment is great gain."

Philippians 3:7
"But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ."

Luke 9:25
"For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?"