Your Soul Self

I am going to send my Son to this earth."

And every step of the way the devil tried to kill God's Son, even when Jesus was a baby down in Bethlehem.

And Joseph and Mary had to take baby Jesus and escape to Egypt because Herod was searching to kill him.

Finally, when God's Son was on the cross,

it looked as if the devil had won a great victory, but instead, the devil lost his greatest battle.

When Jesus died, the devil suffered the ultimate defeat

because on the third day Jesus Christ rose from the dead.

The Bible says Jesus has "the keys of Hades and of Death" (Revelation 1:18).

Christ is alive, and He is coming back to this earth again!

Christ is coming again and this time he wants to take "Your Soul Self" with Him.

God has built His Kingdom,

but the devil is also trying to build his.

Even though Satan is a defeated enemy,

The devil is still working to deceive and lead astray as many souls as he can.

In the Gospel according to Matthew, Jesus said, "When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, then the wicked one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart" Matthew 13:19.

Another value of your soul is measured by God's concern for saving your soul.

God is "not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance" 2 Peter 3:9

"God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us" Romans 5:8

God sees your soul as the most valuable thing in the world,

so valuable that He sent His only Son to the cross to suffer and die so that your soul may be saved.

And if you were the only person in the whole universe, Christ still would have died for you. He loves you that much.

It is a terrible thing when a person loses their health, or their money, or your friends.

But what does it cost when a person loses their soul?

Not long ago one summer there was a child reported missing.

The word went out child missing.

Many people came to help

police and local authorities called on the State Police with specially trained dogs to search.

The local t.v. station was called to get the word out.

Flyers and posters of the missing child were made and put up all around the area.

Search parties came from all over and were organized into search and rescue teams.

Everything that was humanly possible was done to find that child.

But if a person's soul is lost?

That doesn't get reported by the news.

That doesn't cause much stir or excitement.

Yet the soul is worth far more than all the world.

There is no substitute for your soul.

There is no replacement for your soul.

Suppose all the gold in the world and wealth and riches you could ever dream of owning were yours.

but you lost your soul.

Jesus said it would be a poor bargain.

That is so foolish.

Nobody ever gains the whole world anyway.

But it is even more amazing to me at the people who sell out Jesus so cheaply.

Judas sold Jesus for thirty pieces of silver.

We can put that into today's monetary value. It would be around $325.00

But I am convinced that there are people who will sell Jesus out for less than that today.