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We're just going to hand over to
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finish the service. 
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for his help tonight, and a 
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burdened haft. 
And we do thank him for that. 

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The Bible says two are better 
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reward for their labour. 
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his labour of love and the warm 
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It's good to be with you if. 
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October time of last year. 
I was here with you giving a 

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word of testimony. 
How quickly those months have 

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come and gone and it's a joy to 
be with you here tonight. 

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Your own minister I think was 
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preacher for the night. 
He was having difficulty finding

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a preacher and the phone rang 1 
morning and I answered it and he

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said Brother Tammy, I think he 
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Are are you free? 
What's today's date? 

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This is the July the 9th and I 
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happy to preach for you if the 
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I think he was getting a little 
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was able to help him out to some
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meeting tonight. 
Is concerned. 

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Well, if you have your Bibles 
there, I'm sure you do, I'd like

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you to turn with me to Matthew's
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Matthew chapter 16, June the 
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So it was very close to four 
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I suffered that stroke. 
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three years, the Lord helping me
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could preach again, where I 
could live again, where I could 

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laugh again and God has 
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And I'm glad for those 
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It's a privilege from time to 
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in the night certainly is no 
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So we're going to turn to 
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it could be now reading at the 
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Matthew chapter 16. 
From that time forth began 

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Jesus. 
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that time. 
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would seem there was a change in
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He was nearing the time of His 
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renewed emphasis upon that great
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From that time forth began Jesus
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that he must go onto Jerusalem 
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elders and chief priests and 
scribes, and be killed, and be 

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raised again the third day. 
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rebuke him, saying, Be it far 
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In other words, pity thyself. 
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there. 
Pity thyself. 

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Lord, don't be hard on yourself.
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So this is Peter's thought. 
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shall not be unto thee. 
You're above this. 

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But he turned and said unto 
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And in the case of the best of 
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get into our mouth. 
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mouthpiece. 
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Peter, Get thee behind me, 
Satan. 

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Thou art an offence unto me, for
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that be of God, but those things
that be of men. 

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Then said Jesus unto his 
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after me, let him deny himself, 
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follow me. 
For whosoever will save his life

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shall lose it, and whosoever 
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shall find it. 
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he should gain the whole world 
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Or what shall a man give in 
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For the Son of man shall come in
the glory of his Father with his

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angels, and then he shall reward
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works. 
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There be some standing here 
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till they see the Son of Man 
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We'll end the reading there, 
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own word to our hearts and add 
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blessing that he alone can bring
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But let's just pause briefly now
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Our gracious God, our loving 
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privilege. 
Of being in thy house this 

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evening, and we thank you for 
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Where two or three have gathered
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thou in the midst of them. 
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that we can lean upon this 
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promise of God. 
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and whereas people gather in His
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And we therefore thank thee for 
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With us, and thine arms around 
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cleansing. 
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that devine anointing of the 
spirit of the living God, we 

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pray for the defeat of Satan, 
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The purposes of God shall 
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pleased to encourage and 
strengthen thy people, save 

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precious souls, and gracious 
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Remember those who are here. 
Remember those who are 

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listening. 
Online we pray the Lord in every

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case God will speak in his own. 
Way. 

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And by his mighty irresistible 
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Lord, hear us now and abide with
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We pray for we ask it in the 
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sake. 
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I want to take as my text 
tonight the verse #26 of Matthew

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For what is a man profited, if 

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he should gain the whole world 
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Or what shall the man give in 
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The value? 
Of a soul. 

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That's what we want to meditate 
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The value of a soul. 
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on our text to consider the the 
context or the passage in which 

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this text is given. 
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every occasion. 
Always keep things and 

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understand them fully in the 
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Christ in this chapter has been 
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sufferings and agonies and death
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And so we see a change of 
emphasis as he gives to us there

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in the verse #21 read there. 
From that time forth Jesus began

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to show unto his disciples how 
that he must go on to Jerusalem,

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and there he would eventually 
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redeemed people, for those who 
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God. 
So he's been Speaking of his 

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approaching death on the cross, 
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purpose was, by means of that 
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their sin, and from the eternal 
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At the same time he reveals to 
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suffer, that there can be no 
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And there must be this strict 
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Verse #24 Then said Jesus unto 
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come after me, let him deny 
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and follow me. 
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He didn't want to hear about the
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He didn't want to hear this 
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has a cross. 
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but it is our own Christ, cross,
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bear. 
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So there must be this ongoing, 
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God. 
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These are the conditions that 
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So far as his disciples are 
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He makes it clear. 
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no doubt about it, it costs. 
It costs to be a Christian. 

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There is a cross to be born, not
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The Christian is to crucify. 
That's a very strong word. 

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It's a violent word. 
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violence and the violent taken 
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He is to crucify self daily with
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with his desires. 
He is to put that old man to 

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death. 
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So he must crucify self daily. 
He must overcome the world 

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daily. 
There's a tremendous power and 

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pull in the world. 
He must overcome Satan and 

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resist Satan daily. 
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victory the next day, and so it 
must be a day by day experience 

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of denying Self. 
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is saying, when we read For 
whosoever will save his life 

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shall lose it, and whosoever 
will lose his life for my sake 

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shall find it. 
He is saying that he who lives 

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for Me and denies himself will 
live eternally, but he who lives

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for self and denies Me. 
Shall die eternally. 

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You see, lest they would be 
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consider the cost of the cyber 
ship too great, he would have 

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them consider the cost of not 
following him. 

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Verse 26. 
For what is a man profited if he

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should gain the whole world and 
lose his own soul? 

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Or what shall a man give in 
exchange? 

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For his soul, maybe that thought
has gone across your mind in 

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times past, perhaps even 
recently, you've considered this

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thought, and you've perhaps said
to yourself that the cost, 

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surely, of becoming a Christian 
is too great. 

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It's not worth it, my friend. 
Have you ever counted the cost 

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of not becoming a Christian? 
Of not being saved? 

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Have you ever counted the cost? 
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want tonight to leave with you 
three things concerning the 

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human soul. 
First of all, it's reality. 

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This isn't a make, believe, 
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woman having a soul. 
This is the truth of the word of

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God. 
We want to consider it reality. 

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And then secondly, it's riches, 
The value of a soul. 

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And then finally, bless God is 
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It can be saved. 
It can be lost. 

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But it can be saved, and may the
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incomparable loss of a lost 
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Next time we stand around the 
open grave and consider which 

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individuals gone into eternity. 
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should always be reminded of the
incomparable loss of a lost 

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soul. 
May the Lord impress upon all 

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her heart, saved and unsaved 
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The great value of a soul. 
Now first of all, then it's 

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reality. 
In this verse #26 we read these 

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expressions. 
For what does the man profited 

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If you'll gain the whole world 
and lose his own soul? 

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Or what shall a man give in 
exchange for his soul? 

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I was thinking this afternoon 
about the wonderful beginning of

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the soul. 
I'll read the verse for you. 

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Genesis 2, verse 7. 
And the Lord God formed man of 

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the dust of the ground and 
breathed into his nostrils the 

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breath of life. 
And man became a living soul. 

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The life of the body is the 
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It actuates the body. 
The soul can live without the 

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body, but the body cannot live 
without the soul. 

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And Adam's lifeless body, his 
body of dust was. 

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Just that, a body lifeless, 
until he received from God a 

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living soul, his own soul, and 
it was entrusted with the soul. 

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And God has entrusted you with 
your soul. 

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It is entrusted to each and 
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At the very moment of 
conception, you and I were 

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constituted body and soul, and 
we're stamped, as it were, with 

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accountability and 
responsibility to our Creator. 

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This is God speaking. 
Here God the great Creator, the 

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one who has made the soul, can 
speak with absolute certainty 

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and assurance, and so we can be 
absolutely sure of the existence

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of the human soul. 
In this, of course, we differ 

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greatly from the animal realm, 
which has neither soul nor 

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conscience, but that's not true 
of man. 

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It's not true of you. 
It's not true of me. 

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Every one of us has this soul 
made by God and entrusted to us.

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You have a soul, and how you 
treat that soul, what you do 

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with that soul in this life will
determine where you're going to 

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be in the life to come. 
The reality is, you and I have 

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been given a living soul, A soul
that can be lost, but a soul 

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also that can be saved. 
And should it be lost, our blood

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will be upon our own heads. 
God warrant in the book of 

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Ezekiel, The soul that sineth, 
it shall die, die eternally. 

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So it is the sinner's own sin 
that brings about the loss of 

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his own soul. 
The soul that sineth Isn't that 

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you? 
Isn't that me? 

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The soul that sineth, naturally 
it shall die. 

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And die eternally. 
You see how honest God is here, 

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how true He's being to your soul
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When Satan seeks to draw away 
disciples or followers after 

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him, what does he do? 
He tells them of the pleasures. 

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He tells them to all the 
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peril, not the pain, he said to 
the sineres. 

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He said to Eve, on that 
occasion, the Garden of Eden, he

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shall not surely die. 
Adam and Eve were commanded not 

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to eat of that fruit, not to 
touch it, not even to touch that

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fruit in the midst of the 
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They can eat all the other 
trees. 

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But that one tree in the middle,
they were not to touch it. 

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They were not to partake of it, 
because God very clearly said, 

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the moment you do that, you're 
going to die. 

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And long come, say, oh, come on 
now, you'll not surely die. 

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Go in God's favor is life. 
He's not going to kill you. 

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He's giving you life. 
A loving God wouldn't do that. 

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Just just think about it. 
And he said very clearly, ye 

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shall not. 
Come on now, Eve, get serious. 

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God has better things in store. 
You eat of that fruit you're 

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going to be entering in a whole 
new. 

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There are opportunities. 
You're going to become like one 

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of the gods, even an object of 
worship. 

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Don't deny yourself that. 
Eat it, ye shall not surely die.

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But he's a liar. 
And when they disobeyed God and 

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took of the forbidden fruit, 
they did die. 

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They died immediately. 
Spiritually. 

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Fellowship with the God was cut 
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What a terrible death that was. 
They died spiritually. 

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Eventually they would die 
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death were planted in their 
mortal bodies, and were it not 

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for God's mercy, they would have
died eternally. 

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The soul that's in it, it shall 
die, dear friend, is not your 

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neighbor's soul, or the soul is 
limited next to you there in the

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Pew. 
It is your soul. 

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That you stand to lose. 
And unthinkable as it is, should

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it be lost, literally damned, 
you will give before God a full 

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account of your sin and the 
inexcusable neglect of your 

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soul. 
God has given you a soul, and 

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you're going to be held 
responsible in terms of how you 

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deal with that soul. 
When you were conceived, When I 

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was conceived, oh, there was a 
tremendous, A tremendous weight 

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of responsibility forced upon 
us, placed upon us that we use 

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the time God has given to us for
the salvation of our own soul. 

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Men live and die without many 
cases. 

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The thought of the soul. 
What, fools, how strong is the 

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temptations, as Satan says 
before that precious. 

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Precious soul. 
So if I were to say to you 

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tonight that out there in the 
car park your your car is being 

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broken into or that your bank is
being emptied, if you stand to 

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lose your car and your money, 
wouldn't you do something about 

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it if I was there, there in the 
car? 

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But look, that man out there, 
he's, he's trying to get into 

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your car. 
Would you just sit here? 

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I don't think so if you knew 
someone was out there emptying 

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your bank account. 
I'm quite sure that you would do

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what you can and could to 
prevent that particular loss. 

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Well, how much more careful 
should we be when it comes to 

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the eternal soul, that costliest
commodity in the whole world? 

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Now that brings us, secondly, to
the thought of its riches or its

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value. 
So have you seen something of 

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the reality of the soul? 
That is something, man? 

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Has a difficulty naturally 
grappling with. 

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He doesn't like to think of this
fact that he is a soul that 

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lives on and survives, that the 
death of the mortal body, that 

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we're not just creatures of 
time, we're creatures of 

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eternity. 
And this is the fearful thought.

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And men ought of course, to live
with this fear upon their hearts

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and upon. 
They are souls. 

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But many deny the very existence
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The Bible is explicitly clear. 
Every man born of Adam's rate 

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has a soul. 
Well, what does it value? 

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What do you think of his birth? 
You think of his beginning. 

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The human soul begins with the 
breath of God. 

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We read there and Genesis 
chapter 2 and verse 7. 

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How noble a beginning, the very 
breath of God was breathed into 

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the nostrils of our first. 
Of Adam. 

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And that of course tells us that
he became a a living soul. 

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That's that's the beginning, 
that's the birth. 

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But about his breath, that's 
range of capabilities. 

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The soul of course is made in 
the image of God, but just think

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about that. 
If it is made in the image of 

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God and the Bible says it is, 
then it must possess abilities, 

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qualities, capacities. 
That set men apart from all 

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other created beings and 
underlines the fact that the 

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soul is infinitely precious. 
It is that part of the 

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individual that thinks that 
reasons. 

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It's a seed of thought. 
You remember Lazarus and the 

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rich man, and the rich man in 
hell lifting up his eyes, being 

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in torments he he had. 
This recollection of Lazarus and

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Lazarus to to give me some 
water, like, and just dip my 

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tongue in that water. 
So he remembered Lazarus, no 

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doubt how he treated them 
woefully. 

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He remembered that he had five 
brethren and he wanted them to 

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be worn. 
Let's take him into that fearful

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place. 
So he had memory. 

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He didn't lose it when he went 
to hell. 

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That soul has the ability to 
think, to reason, to have. 

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Will and to conscience. 
It possesses morality. 

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It can show love. 
It can show pity. 

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It can show justice. 
It can show mercy. 

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And don't miss this now. 
That soul is immortal, just like

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God, made in the image of God. 
And it can never be annihilated.

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It can never go to sleep. 
It exists forever. 

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There is some proportion or 
comparison between a single drop

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of water. 
In the ocean, but there is no 

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comparison. 
There is no proportion between 

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time and eternity. 
And after the death of the body,

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the soul continues to exist 
eternally, either in heaven or 

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in hell. 
Now are we beginning to see 

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something of its infinite worth?
What are 70 years compared to 

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eternity? 
It just goes on living and 

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existing. 
For all of God's eternity. 

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What about his battle? 
We have something that's birth, 

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something of its breath and 
range of capabilities. 

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What about his battle battling 
for its possession? 

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Well, Satan wants the soul to 
damn it. 

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He's seeking for your soul. 
Tonight, he promises the world 

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sun, moon, and stars. 
He can't deliver on that. 

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But this is the promise he sets 
before it. 

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You do this. 
You serve me, you serve yourself

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and it'll be well with you. 
You get everything. 

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Well. 
He wants the soul to to to damn 

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the soul. 
Christ, on the other hand, he 

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wants a soul that he may save 
the soul. 

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And he promises, Yes, promises 
are good for this life, but 

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especially for the life that is 
to come, Christ is saying. 

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This is a man where they gain 
the entire world. 

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Now, there's no pain with that 
gain that's going to cause 

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something. 
If he were to gain the entire 

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world, it's never happened yet, 
never will happen. 

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But this is the hypothetical 
case. 

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All its wealth, honor, pleasure,
possessions, lands, houses, and 

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then there's it all. 
Of course we're going to lose it

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all anyway. 
When death comes, we brought 

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nothing into this world, and 
it's certain we can carry 

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nothing out. 
But that soul, having 

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accumulated all that this world 
could offer and then suddenly 

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lost it, his loss would be far 
less than that of a Sinner 

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losing his soul. 
One soul is worth far, far more 

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than the whole world put 
together. 

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And that's how Christ sees it. 
And he would have you see it in 

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the same way, begin to think the
same thoughts as Christ. 

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This is how he sees it. 
This is the way it is. 

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And, dear friend, you had better
just begin to see it in the same

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way before you lose your soul. 
How often, too, have men and 

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women found that the things of 
this world are empty and 

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unsatisfying? 
They promised far more than they

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ever deliver. 
The daughter of one of our 

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ministers, who shall remain 
nameless, was a brilliant 

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lawyer. 
And for her, the sky was the 

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limit. 
She had the prospect of being 

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wined and dined open doors far 
and near. 

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She had the world at her feet. 
But she parked it all in and her

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coworkers, solicitors, lawyers, 
said, you're mad, you're mad, 

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you could have it all. 
And she said to her mother, I've

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seen what money does to people. 
And I don't want end of like 

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that. 
I want to give my life to the 

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Lord Jesus Christ who loved me 
and gave himself for me. 

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The world is highly overrated. 
After some 64 years. 

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I just turned 64. 
There are things in this world 

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that I enjoy, but I can tell you
it's highly, highly overrated. 

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And yet many, many have bought 
into the devil's lie. 

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Get what you can go over the 
gusto. 

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Live this life. 
That's all you have. 70 years. 

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If you haven't, do that. 
But that's just the beginning. 

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And so this world brings far 
less than it ever promises. 

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It's highly overrelated. 
It's not worth losing your soul 

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over. 
Certainly not worth it. 

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Yet how many multitudes even now
are casting, throwing away their

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soul for a few of the life they 
the bubbles? 

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Of this particular life there 
can be no greater loss than the 

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loss of the soul, for it brings 
the loss of holiness, the loss 

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of happiness, the loss of hope, 
and the loss of heaven. 

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And should your soul be lost, it
has lost forever. 

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It cannot be retrieved from the 
eternal regions of pain and woe 

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and excruciating pain. 
That can never be listened, 

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lessened, or mitigated. 
Remember the rich man? 

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He pleaded for just a single 
drop of water, replaced on the 

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tip of his tongue, but didn't 
get it. 

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Just more of the same, more 
fire. 

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And the lost soul cannot make an
exchange or a payment that will 

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bring his soul back from the 
regions of the dime. 

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And even if it were possible to 
come up with something as 

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waiting as valuable as a soul. 
The Lord will not permit it. 

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The soul has had its 
opportunities. 

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How many years? 
How many opportunities for 

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salvation? 
But they threw it all away, and 

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justice, and is now final and 
irreversible. 

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You had better then begin to 
make your sums now. 

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Do your arithmetic now. 
Consider that nothing can be 

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greater. 
And the loss of a soul can't up 

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the cost of your soul if it 
should be lost. 

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But it doesn't have to be lost. 
It can be saved. 

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It can be redeemed by the 
Savior's precious blood. 

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That's the most wonderful thing.
That's the greatest message of 

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the gospel. 
God alone can redeem that 

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precious soul of yours and of 
mine. 

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So we come thirdly, to the 
redemption. 

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Of the soul. 
And here we see the full worth 

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of the soul. 
In Psalm 49 and verse #8 we read

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there of the redemption of the 
soul being precious and how 

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precious it is. 
There is only one payment that 

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will save the soul. 
There is only one payment that 

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will keep a Sinner out of hell. 
And that is the precious 

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attaining sin covering blood of 
Jesus Christ, which He shed on 

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Calvary's cross for repentant 
sinners. 

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There you get the full idea of 
the cost of the soul. 

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It cost our Savior, His precious
blood to redeem it. 

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And that that alone is what can 
redeem your precious soul. 

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The price has been paid. 
It has been. 

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Already counted in so far as 
God's people are concerned, it 

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is for you to receive this great
gift that the Lord Jesus offers.

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Jesus paid it all. 
See how much He cares and loves 

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your soul. 
Perhaps a soul that you have no 

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love for yourself. 
He was prepared to give up his 

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own life's blood that you might 
have a soul that was redeemed by

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that precious blood of his. 
You care for your body this very

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day. 
You've washed it. 

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You've fed it. 
You've clothed it. 

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What about your soul, That poor 
soul of yours, Unwashed, starved

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and unclothed, not ready to meet
the regions of God's great 

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eternally. 
But I want to ask you tonight, 

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will you not insure your soul? 
You have car insurance. 

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You have insurance for this. 
Insurance for that. 

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What about your soul? 
Is your soul insured? 

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Is your soul prepared to meet 
God? 

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I took out. 
And you'll understand what I 

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mean by this, an insurance 
policy on my soul. 

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At the age of 12 and over 50 
years, over half a century now, 

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the policy of God has held good 
and three difficult 

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circumstances. 
I nearly lost my body. 

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But I did not lose my soul and 
never will. 

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Christ has never lost a soul 
that he is insured that he is 

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saved. 
It is 100% safe and 100% sure. 

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And I would ask you tonight, 
won't you simply entrust Christ 

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with your soul? 
He gave his own life's blood to 

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redeem it. 
Could you not trust him with 

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your soul? 
With the hand of faces of where,

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put your soul into the nail, 
pierced the hands of Christ, and

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be washed in this precious 
blood, and be saved. 

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Heaven will more than compensate
for any loss that we may hear 

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down here. 
For Jesus Christ, I would ask 

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your friend and I to consider 
the value of your soul, and make

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preparation for that day when 
you will be ushered into God's 

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eternity. 
Where will you be? 

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In heaven or in hell, make sure 
that your soul is insured. 

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Make sure the saved make sure it
is washed. 

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In the Saviors atoning blood. 
Let's pray our gracious God, our

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loving Father, we thank you 
tonight for Thy precious word. 

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We thank you for the clear 
warning here of the Lord Jesus. 

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We thank that He is so true to 
our hearts and to our souls and 

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while Satan seeks to damn the 
soul by telling all kinds of 

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lies. 
We think that the Christ is so 

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clear. 
Christ gives a clear warning, 

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and we pray the Lord we will 
take Thy words seriously. 

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And tonight, oh God, should 
there be a soul here or 

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listening online out of Christ, 
soul that does not prepare to 

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meet God at this very night, 
they might take stock that they 

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might do their sons now and 
realize there's no more 

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consulate in all this world than
their own soul. 

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May they prepare to meet their 
God and be redeemed by Precious 

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Blood, for we ask it in the dear
Savior's name and for his sake. 

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Amen.