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May 31
sunday


FOR SALE:
ONE SOUL

READ:
MATTHEW 16:24-28
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What will a man give in
exchange for his soul?
__Matthew 16:26
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One would think that selling one's soul, as Faust offered his to the devil in Goethe's Dr. Faustus, is only a figment of literary fiction. Medieval as it seems however, several cases of soul-selling have occurred.

Wired magazine reported that a 29-year-old university instructor succeeded in selling his immortal soul for $1,325. He said, "In America, you can metaphorically and literally sell your soul and be rewarded for it." One wonders how the purchaser intended to collect.

We can't literally sell our soul, but we can lose our soul to gain something else. We need to ponder Jesus' question, "What will a man give in exchange for his soul?" (Matt. 16:26). Our answers today would differ only in specifics form the responses of Jesus' day: the world, the flesh, and the devil. The lusts that captivate us and the thirst for unbridled pleasure, success, revenge, or material things have certainly taken on far more importance to many people than any considerations of eternity.

Nothing on earth compares to the gifts of God's love and forgiveness. If the pleasures of this world are preventing you from trusting in Jesus Christ, please think again. It's not worth the cost of your eternal soul. __Dave Egner
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```````````````````Rejoice, O soul, the debt is paid,```````````````
``````````````````For all our sins on Christ were laid;``````````````
`````````````````We've been redeemed, we're justified__```````````
`````````````And all because the Savior died. __D. De Haan`````````
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Jesus is the only fountain
who can satisfy the thirsty soul.

*************Today's Bible Reading __ Matthew 16:24-28***********

24 Then Jesus said to His
disciples, "If anyone desires
to come after Me, let him
deny himself, and take up
his cross, and follow Me.

25 For whoever desires to
save his life will lose it, but
whoever loses his life for
My sake will find it. 26 For
what profit is it to a man if
he gains the whole world,
and lsoes his own soul? Or
what will a man give in
exchange for his soul?

27 For the Son of Man will
come in the glory of His
Father with His angels, and
then He will reward each
according to his works.

28 Assuredly, I say to you,
there are some standing
here who shall not taste
death till they see the Son
of Man coming in His
kingdom."

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>INSIGHT<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Immediately following Peter's great confession that Jesus is the Son
of God (Matt. 16:16), Jesus began to tell His disciples about the
suffering and the kind of death He would go through (v.21). Peter,
while desireing to share in the Mesiah's glory, rejected the idea that
the pathway to Christ's glory would be through suffering, and he
was severely rebuked (vv.22-23). Jesus then reiterated that the way
of the cross (vv.24-26) is also the pathway to glory for anyone who
wants to be a Christ-follower (vv.27-28); see also Rom. 8:17; Phil.
1:29; 2 Tim. 2:10). __Sim Kay Tee