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Suffering Loss, Part 2 – YouTube
Show Notes:
Continuing Spiritual Loss, we discuss the belief that one cannot lose their soul. This belief has permeated our society and the religious cultures today.
In Matthew 10:5-7 we see God sent Jesus onto the scene specifically to talk to His covenant people who were lost.
“Lost,” means to destroy fully, to perish, to die, and to render useless. There are people very religious who are lost. This is something the modern thinker cannot wrap their brain around because of the false prophets and the false doctrines we will call once-saved-always-saved and eternal security. Many people believe you just have to say a sinner’s prayer and then there’s nothing you could ever do that would endanger your soul of hellfire. This is a terrible theology and doctrine. It’s not consistent with Scripture.
All life originates from God. In the day we begin to go our own way, we separate ourselves from God. This separation leaves the man in a two-dimension situation. He has a soul and a body, but he has departed from God. That soul is always trying to affix itself to something that looks alive. When you are in that condition, you are lost, utterly perishing, and fit for destruction. There are so many right now who are perishing. Your minds are literally being destroyed. Your emotions are a wreck. This is lost.
How’s your soul? Are you alive? Or are you trying to affix yourself to something that seems to have life in it?
What does it profit a man if he were to gain the whole world but lose his soul? Is this possible? Do you realize how much time, effort, energy, airways, and pulpit time is spent on your gaining the world?
What will you give in exchange for your soul? Think this through. How cheap are we? Over a drink of whisky, over a glance at pornography, over a sexual tryst? Money? Lies? What are you exchanging? When you step into the eternals, you’re going to want them all back because you’re going to say there’s nothing more valuable than my soul.
Begin to search it out. Has my quest to gain the world cost me my soul? Is this the reason I am miserable within? Is this the reason for the problems in my head and my feelings. Is this the reason I can never find peace?
Our society is permeated with the idea that God loves everybody so much that nobody is going to go to hell. There is only one remedy for the lost condition inside a man. That is literally faith in the blood of Jesus appropriated into one’s life that sets you at right way with God. It justifies you and sets you a peace with God.
Spiritual loss is the greatest loss there is because you lose you. And some of you don’t even know to mourn your own death until you find life. Seek Jesus with everything you’ve got.