1. Matthew 16:26
For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?
Mark 8:36
For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?
Luke 9:25
For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and is himself destroyed or lost?

2. Focuses on Four Things Matthew 16:26
For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?
Focuses on Four Things
The value of the soul
The danger of losing soul
The exchange some make for their soul
The contrast between now and eternity

3. Losing
Your
Soul
Matt. 16:26

4. Losing Your Soul
The Value it Has

5. The Value it Has What is your soul? Man is a triune being
1 Thess. 5:23
And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

6. The Value it Has What is your soul? Man is a triune being Body Body
Spirit
Soul
Body
Body
(Material)
Soul
(Life)
Spirit
(Immortal)

7. The Value it Has What is your soul? Man is a triune being
Soul is immortal

8. Spirit Soul Soul “The spirit (heb. Ruach, Gr. Pneuma) is the principle
of man’s rational and immortal life, which involves
conscience and will, and which enables man to be
sensitive to the divine” (Smith’s 366).
Soul
“The soul is not an entity with a separate nature
from the flesh and possessing or capable of a life
of its own. Rather it is the life animating the flesh”
(Hastings 932).
Soul
“The soul (Heb. Nephesh, Gr. Phyche) is the
principle of animal life, which man possesses
in common with the brutes…This part
of a man ceases to exist at death.” (Smith’s 366)

9. Heb. 4:12 Spirit - (Immortal) Soul - (Life) 1 Cor. 5:5
Matt. 2:20; 6:25

10. The Value it Has What is your soul? Man is a triune being
Soul is immortal
Soul and spirit used interchangeably

11. Spirit Soul Life Life Immortal Immortal (Rev. 13:15) (1 Thess. 5:23)
(1 Cor. 5:5)
Immortal
(1 Pet. 1:9)

12. The Value it Has What is your soul? Man is a triune being
Soul is immortal
Soul and spirit used interchangeably
Soul makes us distinct from animals

13. Different
Made In
the
Image of
God
(Gen. 1:26)
Body
Body
Life
Life
Soul

14. The Value it Has
What is your soul?
Your soul is all you have

15. Family
Friends
Your
Health
Spirit
Soul
Body
Soul
(Spirit)

16. Family
Friends
Your
Health
Spirit
Soul
Body
Soul
(Spirit)

17. Soul
(Spirit)

18. The Value it Has What is your soul? Your soul is all you have
The value of your soul
Jesus died to save your soul
Matt. 26:28
Acts 20:28
1 Pet. 1:18-19
Heb. 2:9, 10, 14-16

19. The Value it Has Your Soul What is your soul?
Your soul is all you have
The value of your soul
Jesus died to save your soul
Worth more than whole world
Matt. 16:26
Your
Soul

20. The Value it Has What is your soul? Your soul is all you have
The value of your soul
Jesus died to save your soul
Worth more than whole world
What your soul worth to you?
Sell it?
Trade it?
Throw it away?

21. Losing Your Soul
The Value it Has
The Danger it Faces

22. The Danger it Faces Forfeit – suffer the loss
Translated “forfeit” (ASV, ESV, NASV)
Translated “suffer loss” (YLT, Darby)
BDAG: “to experience the loss of someth., with implication of undergoing hardship or suffering, suffer damage / loss, forfeit, sustain injury.”
Lose the only thing you really have!!!

23. The Danger it Faces Forfeit – suffer the loss Miss heaven
If die in sin – can’t go to heaven (John 8:21)
Not inherit kingdom (1 Cor. 6:9; Gal. 5:21)
Miss the bliss and glory (Rev. 21:4)

24. The Danger it Faces Forfeit – suffer the loss Miss heaven Eternal hell
Worse than being killed (Matt. 10:28)
Where fire is not quenched (Mk. 9:43)
Lake burns with fire & brimstone (Rev. 21:8)

25. Losing Your Soul The Value it Has The Danger it Faces
The Exchange We Make

26. The Exchange We Make Anything that causes us to lose soul = exchange
Exchange – to give something of value for something else you’d rather have
Any choice – of sin is choice of exchange

27. The Exchange We Make Anything that causes us to lose soul = exchange
What we are willing to exchange
Pleasure for a season (Heb. 11:25)
May be an attitude (Gal. 5:19-21)
May be a marriage (Matt. 5:32)
May be a lie (Rev. 21:8)
May be a garment (1 Tim. 2:9-10)
May be how I treat others (Matt. 7:12)
May be my refusal to change (Psa. 55:19)

28. Losing Your Soul The Value it Has The Danger it Faces
The Exchange We Make
The Contrast We Miss

29. The Contrast We Miss The contrast Now –vs- later (vv. 25-26)
Making life now better – or saving soul later

30. The Contrast We Miss The contrast The context
Vv – not going to be as you would like
V. 24 – If choose to follow Christ – must be wholehearted & prepared for hardships
V. 25 – a paradox: If save life – will lose it / if lose life – will save it
V. 26 – explanation of paradox – Only two choices:
Follow him now – face difficultly – save soul
Not follow him now – avoid difficulty – lose soul!

31. Losing Your Soul The Value it Has The Danger it Faces
The Exchange We Make
The Contrast We Miss