1 00:00:00,049 --> 00:00:00,450 Speaker: All right. 2 00:00:00,450 --> 00:00:04,430 We are continuing our study of all the different questions… 3 00:00:04,430 --> 00:00:05,170 Well, not all of them. 4 00:00:05,170 --> 00:00:07,380 Some of the different questions that Jesus asked, okay? 5 00:00:07,380 --> 00:00:08,250 We're gonna be looking at… 6 00:00:08,640 --> 00:00:09,349 What is that? 7 00:00:09,869 --> 00:00:10,269 Okay. 8 00:00:10,909 --> 00:00:13,670 We are gonna be talking about all the different things that Jesus asked, okay? 9 00:00:13,759 --> 00:00:14,930 Jordan was looking really confused. 10 00:00:14,930 --> 00:00:16,120 I was like, "Oh, that's why Jordan's so confused." 11 00:00:16,120 --> 00:00:16,780 We'll get to that later. 12 00:00:17,140 --> 00:00:18,929 That was a spoiler, sneak peek. 13 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:21,469 But, uh, we're gonna be talking about all the questions that Jesus asked. 14 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:25,479 So, um, again, we talked about this last week, but my, one of my goals, 15 00:00:25,490 --> 00:00:27,980 one of my things I'm praying for for you guys, is that you get to know Jesus 16 00:00:27,980 --> 00:00:31,960 the person, as we see him interact with people and ask them questions, that you 17 00:00:31,960 --> 00:00:36,549 get to know Jesus as a real person, a real man who really lived and ate food 18 00:00:36,550 --> 00:00:41,579 and then went to sleep and got tired, but at the same time, God in the flesh, 19 00:00:41,639 --> 00:00:45,140 and that you get to know him through his words and what we're looking at. 20 00:00:45,170 --> 00:00:47,859 So we are gonna be in Matthew 16 again. 21 00:00:47,910 --> 00:00:51,409 Jesus asked another question in Matthew 16, and we are gonna be talking 22 00:00:51,420 --> 00:00:55,019 about, um, something called your, your soul, and we're gonna be talking 23 00:00:55,020 --> 00:00:57,549 about, um, why that's so important. 24 00:00:57,550 --> 00:01:02,209 But first, um, and you probably know this question that Jesus asked. 25 00:01:02,209 --> 00:01:03,309 It's if you, you know… 26 00:01:04,060 --> 00:01:07,849 What does it profit you if you gain the whole world but, but lose your soul? 27 00:01:07,870 --> 00:01:08,869 You probably heard that question. 28 00:01:09,310 --> 00:01:11,520 And I tried to come up with… 29 00:01:11,569 --> 00:01:12,659 Or actually, I didn't try. 30 00:01:12,670 --> 00:01:17,289 I asked AI to come up with a list of people who you could 31 00:01:17,289 --> 00:01:18,839 argue that they gained the world. 32 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:19,689 They actually did it. 33 00:01:19,789 --> 00:01:24,780 Who are the most wealthy or economically powerful people 34 00:01:24,780 --> 00:01:26,140 in the history of the world? 35 00:01:26,679 --> 00:01:30,289 Who are the people who you could really say they gained the whole world? 36 00:01:30,289 --> 00:01:33,709 And so, uh, our sponsor for today's sermon, ChatGPT… 37 00:01:33,729 --> 00:01:34,119 No, I'm just kidding. 38 00:01:34,140 --> 00:01:38,560 Um, are- Put together a list of people for me. 39 00:01:38,569 --> 00:01:42,450 And so the, I did top 25, and so they started with, you know, the people 40 00:01:42,450 --> 00:01:43,689 that we know, Bill Gates, right? 41 00:01:43,689 --> 00:01:44,459 Microsoft. 42 00:01:44,459 --> 00:01:46,189 Or Jeff Bezos, right? 43 00:01:46,189 --> 00:01:46,779 Amazon. 44 00:01:46,780 --> 00:01:49,569 And our friend Elon, Pastor Marc's favorite person. 45 00:01:50,049 --> 00:01:54,045 Um- And then there's some people that you may have heard of, right? 46 00:01:54,045 --> 00:01:56,346 Maybe you've heard of Henry Ford before. 47 00:01:56,506 --> 00:01:57,735 Um, this is my relative. 48 00:01:58,156 --> 00:02:02,306 Um- Maybe you've heard of Vanderbilt, this school, right? 49 00:02:02,366 --> 00:02:02,916 Uh, that's… 50 00:02:03,186 --> 00:02:04,526 I think that's that same dude. 51 00:02:04,916 --> 00:02:08,576 Um, JP Morgan, if you, if you know anything about banks, um, that's the 52 00:02:08,576 --> 00:02:11,296 guy who Chase Bank is named after. 53 00:02:11,346 --> 00:02:13,136 Um, you probably never heard of this dude. 54 00:02:13,146 --> 00:02:13,746 I haven't either. 55 00:02:14,046 --> 00:02:14,816 Don't know who he is. 56 00:02:15,326 --> 00:02:21,496 Uh, might be- But these are, these are some really wealthy people, right? 57 00:02:21,496 --> 00:02:21,686 These… 58 00:02:21,686 --> 00:02:25,405 If you think about how many billions of people have ever lived, right? 59 00:02:25,416 --> 00:02:32,196 These are the 25 most powerful, richest people that, at least according to, to 60 00:02:32,216 --> 00:02:34,566 ChatGPT, have ever, have ever lived. 61 00:02:34,566 --> 00:02:38,276 And, you know, getting close to the top 10 here, we've got some, 62 00:02:38,335 --> 00:02:41,006 some more famous people that you might have heard about, right? 63 00:02:41,236 --> 00:02:44,275 Um, this dude, right, Genghis Khan's grandson. 64 00:02:44,506 --> 00:02:46,606 We've got Charlemagne, Suleiman, right? 65 00:02:46,616 --> 00:02:48,525 We've got kings, we've got dictators. 66 00:02:48,526 --> 00:02:51,305 We've got, uh, very rich people. 67 00:02:51,476 --> 00:02:53,954 This guy, richest American of all time, by the way. 68 00:02:54,346 --> 00:02:55,356 Um- Rockefeller. 69 00:02:55,805 --> 00:02:57,916 Rockefeller, yeah, richest American of all time. 70 00:02:58,085 --> 00:03:03,476 And then the heavy hitters, um, the top 10 or top 9 right here. 71 00:03:03,795 --> 00:03:07,665 These are the people that you could say they really gained the world, right? 72 00:03:07,666 --> 00:03:10,346 Maybe it's King Solomon who really gained the world. 73 00:03:10,346 --> 00:03:13,695 I had to convince ChatGPT that what the Bible says about Cha- 74 00:03:13,725 --> 00:03:15,366 about Solomon is actually true. 75 00:03:15,806 --> 00:03:17,546 Um, so that took some work. 76 00:03:17,556 --> 00:03:21,296 Also, they didn't put Alexander the Great on the list at all. 77 00:03:21,626 --> 00:03:23,045 And then I was like: What about Alexander the Great? 78 00:03:23,045 --> 00:03:24,856 And they're like: You're right, he should be in the top 10. 79 00:03:24,996 --> 00:03:26,426 I was like, how do you forget that? 80 00:03:26,685 --> 00:03:28,606 Um, so don't trust AI. 81 00:03:28,626 --> 00:03:28,986 Anyway. 82 00:03:29,255 --> 00:03:34,975 But these are people, right, so Augustus Caesar, uh, the month of… 83 00:03:34,975 --> 00:03:36,745 He has a month named after him, right? 84 00:03:36,935 --> 00:03:38,595 Um- August … not, not many people can say that. 85 00:03:38,965 --> 00:03:44,935 But Augustus Caesar, AI said, was the richest, most powerful economic 86 00:03:44,935 --> 00:03:47,175 person in the history of people, right? 87 00:03:47,196 --> 00:03:47,386 The… 88 00:03:47,535 --> 00:03:52,106 This guy, you could say he gained the world because he owned everything, right? 89 00:03:52,106 --> 00:03:53,315 He owned the Roman Empire. 90 00:03:53,365 --> 00:03:55,435 He, he had everything. 91 00:03:57,444 --> 00:04:00,184 But I want you to even just think about this list, these 25 people. 92 00:04:01,474 --> 00:04:06,834 How many of these people would say today that it was worth it? 93 00:04:08,194 --> 00:04:12,334 'Cause if you think about a lot of these people, I think all of them 94 00:04:12,334 --> 00:04:17,004 would tell you that it wasn't worth it, because where are they right now? 95 00:04:18,694 --> 00:04:18,884 Right? 96 00:04:18,923 --> 00:04:21,254 A- Augustus, I, I don't think he trusted Jesus. 97 00:04:21,824 --> 00:04:23,184 Genghis Khan, I don't think he did. 98 00:04:23,184 --> 00:04:24,634 Mansa Musa, I don't think he did. 99 00:04:24,664 --> 00:04:26,114 Alexander the Great definitely didn't. 100 00:04:26,834 --> 00:04:28,464 Maybe King Solomon did, we think. 101 00:04:29,104 --> 00:04:33,264 But all these people, if you asked them right now, if you could 102 00:04:33,264 --> 00:04:35,903 talk to them, right, what would they s- what would they tell you? 103 00:04:35,954 --> 00:04:36,994 Would they tell you, "You know what? 104 00:04:36,994 --> 00:04:37,404 Worth it. 105 00:04:38,034 --> 00:04:38,854 I had everything. 106 00:04:39,013 --> 00:04:40,664 I own- I literally owned everything." 107 00:04:41,034 --> 00:04:41,323 Right? 108 00:04:42,144 --> 00:04:46,304 Genghis Khan literally owned, like, the known world at the time, right? 109 00:04:46,314 --> 00:04:47,604 So did Augustus, right? 110 00:04:47,604 --> 00:04:51,073 The Romans called the Mediterranean Sea, like, "Our lake," 'cause 111 00:04:51,074 --> 00:04:52,114 they, they owned everything. 112 00:04:53,173 --> 00:04:56,573 These people, they, they all owned the world, basically. 113 00:04:57,314 --> 00:04:58,354 They could do whatever they wanted. 114 00:04:58,604 --> 00:05:00,114 Everything the world had to offer them, right? 115 00:05:00,114 --> 00:05:02,094 Whether maybe you're like, "Oh, well, I don't wanna gain the world, 116 00:05:02,094 --> 00:05:05,073 I just wanna gain all the things that make me happy of the world." 117 00:05:05,114 --> 00:05:06,383 Well, these guys had it, right? 118 00:05:07,773 --> 00:05:09,344 But what would they tell you today? 119 00:05:09,344 --> 00:05:13,323 They would tell you it's not worth it. 120 00:05:13,323 --> 00:05:16,683 It wasn't worth it because a lot of them, most of them in fact, 121 00:05:16,694 --> 00:05:19,344 lost their soul in the process. 122 00:05:19,344 --> 00:05:22,374 And that's what Jesus says in Matthew 16:26. 123 00:05:22,394 --> 00:05:26,193 That's his question that he is asking us tonight. 124 00:05:26,224 --> 00:05:29,614 He asked the same question to his disciples 2,000 years ago. 125 00:05:29,743 --> 00:05:35,183 "What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul?" 126 00:05:36,053 --> 00:05:36,123 Right? 127 00:05:36,183 --> 00:05:36,774 What do you get? 128 00:05:37,133 --> 00:05:39,383 You, you, you profit, right? 129 00:05:39,383 --> 00:05:42,693 What, what do you get out of it if you gain the whole world but you 130 00:05:42,703 --> 00:05:45,394 lost, you gave up y- your soul? 131 00:05:45,433 --> 00:05:48,043 Or what can a man give in return for his soul? 132 00:05:48,483 --> 00:05:52,903 If you do gain the whole world and you want your soul back, how 133 00:05:52,904 --> 00:05:54,103 do you, how do you get it back? 134 00:05:55,604 --> 00:05:57,363 And the answer here, right, is that you can't. 135 00:05:57,373 --> 00:06:00,494 N- no matter what else you do in life, you could do anything in life. 136 00:06:00,513 --> 00:06:04,013 You could, you could be really rich and famous, you could be really poor 137 00:06:04,013 --> 00:06:06,164 and, and not have much to live off of. 138 00:06:06,243 --> 00:06:08,813 You could have a lot of people know who you are and a lot of people like you. 139 00:06:08,824 --> 00:06:10,624 Or you could have no one like you and everyone hate you. 140 00:06:11,463 --> 00:06:14,613 But no matter what you do in life, if you don't take care of 141 00:06:14,613 --> 00:06:19,563 your soul, it won't be worth it. 142 00:06:19,563 --> 00:06:23,003 And if you think about this question, what shall a man give in return for his soul? 143 00:06:23,243 --> 00:06:26,844 Jesus is asking this question from the perspective of hell. 144 00:06:27,374 --> 00:06:28,303 I don't know if you've thought about that. 145 00:06:28,934 --> 00:06:30,483 I hadn't thought about that till I studied it this week. 146 00:06:30,704 --> 00:06:34,613 Jesus is, is asking, you've lived your life, you've given away your soul. 147 00:06:34,624 --> 00:06:35,273 You've lost it. 148 00:06:36,393 --> 00:06:38,243 You've said, "I don't wanna trust Jesus. 149 00:06:38,253 --> 00:06:39,214 I don't wanna live for God. 150 00:06:39,514 --> 00:06:40,393 I wanna live for the world." 151 00:06:41,154 --> 00:06:42,223 And you've tried to gain the world. 152 00:06:44,550 --> 00:06:46,000 And how can you get it back? 153 00:06:46,909 --> 00:06:47,510 You can't. 154 00:06:48,690 --> 00:06:50,940 That's, he's asking this question from the perspective of someone who's 155 00:06:50,940 --> 00:06:55,420 already lived their life, who's lived for everything they wanted, right? 156 00:06:55,420 --> 00:06:58,270 All, all the, maybe all the, the friendships they wanted, all the fun 157 00:06:58,270 --> 00:06:59,930 they wanted, all the success they wanted. 158 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:03,440 And they've come to the end of their life, and they said, "I, 159 00:07:03,580 --> 00:07:04,650 I, I don't want it anymore. 160 00:07:04,650 --> 00:07:05,510 I want my soul. 161 00:07:06,440 --> 00:07:07,210 But I've lost it." 162 00:07:08,390 --> 00:07:13,620 And so you need to take good care of your soul. 163 00:07:14,820 --> 00:07:16,720 But maybe you're thinking, what, what is a soul, right? 164 00:07:16,730 --> 00:07:18,900 I, I thought I had two soles. 165 00:07:18,900 --> 00:07:21,010 I thought they were on the bottom of my feet. 166 00:07:21,110 --> 00:07:22,890 But no, not that type of sole, right? 167 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:27,939 We're talking about your soul is, it's what makes you you, okay? 168 00:07:27,939 --> 00:07:31,530 Your soul, um, this is gonna be a bit of what they call, big word 169 00:07:31,530 --> 00:07:32,929 for it is anthropology, right? 170 00:07:32,939 --> 00:07:34,570 What makes people work? 171 00:07:34,570 --> 00:07:35,060 How are, who… 172 00:07:35,349 --> 00:07:36,399 What are people like? 173 00:07:36,399 --> 00:07:37,659 What are people made of, right? 174 00:07:38,110 --> 00:07:43,400 Um, your soul is what the Bible sometimes calls your spirit, sometimes calls it 175 00:07:43,400 --> 00:07:45,400 your, your inner person, your inner man. 176 00:07:45,870 --> 00:07:49,419 Your soul is the immaterial part of who you are. 177 00:07:49,460 --> 00:07:54,409 So people aren't, you're not just flesh and blood, right? 178 00:07:54,500 --> 00:08:00,870 You, tonight, you are not just cells and, um, blood and 179 00:08:00,879 --> 00:08:04,050 organs and all of that, right? 180 00:08:04,050 --> 00:08:05,919 And hormones and chemicals and everything. 181 00:08:05,919 --> 00:08:07,099 You're, you're not just that. 182 00:08:07,839 --> 00:08:10,909 There's part of you that you can't put under a microscope. 183 00:08:11,379 --> 00:08:16,330 There's part of you that you can't study in the lab, and that's your soul. 184 00:08:16,369 --> 00:08:18,479 There's an immaterial part of who you are. 185 00:08:18,489 --> 00:08:19,790 James 2 says it this way. 186 00:08:19,960 --> 00:08:24,099 So the, as the body apart from the spirit or your soul is dead, so 187 00:08:24,099 --> 00:08:25,609 also faith apart from works is dead. 188 00:08:25,610 --> 00:08:27,180 We can talk more about that some other time. 189 00:08:27,460 --> 00:08:32,818 But what he's saying here is your spirit, your soul, is what animates your body. 190 00:08:33,539 --> 00:08:37,020 If you take the soul out of the body, that's called death. 191 00:08:37,820 --> 00:08:40,249 Death is when your body and your soul are separated, 'cause then 192 00:08:40,250 --> 00:08:41,240 your body doesn't work anymore. 193 00:08:41,849 --> 00:08:43,338 Your soul is what makes your body work. 194 00:08:43,338 --> 00:08:47,939 It's kinda like, um, you know, when you download, you update your phone 195 00:08:47,939 --> 00:08:49,820 and you get iOS whatever, right? 196 00:08:50,739 --> 00:08:53,850 The soul is like iOS for your body, okay? 197 00:08:54,249 --> 00:08:57,689 Your soul is like the operating system, the software for your body. 198 00:08:59,764 --> 00:09:01,744 Your soul is what makes your body work. 199 00:09:01,864 --> 00:09:05,404 You, you don't have a soul, your body's not gonna work anymore, right? 200 00:09:05,404 --> 00:09:08,704 'Cause if you think about this, when people die, a lot of times scientists 201 00:09:08,724 --> 00:09:10,514 can't even explain what exactly… 202 00:09:11,364 --> 00:09:13,554 Or they can say, "Oh yeah, their body stopped working," and they can 203 00:09:13,554 --> 00:09:16,334 p- sometimes you can pinpoint, oh yeah, their, their heart failed or 204 00:09:16,334 --> 00:09:19,564 their brain failed or something like that, but sometimes they just die. 205 00:09:21,334 --> 00:09:22,954 And now why is that, right? 206 00:09:22,954 --> 00:09:25,554 Well, some- it's usually because the soul isn't there anymore. 207 00:09:25,554 --> 00:09:26,444 Soul's gone, right? 208 00:09:26,454 --> 00:09:29,694 Separation of soul and body, that's death, right? 209 00:09:29,694 --> 00:09:33,924 Your soul, your inner person, that's where you have desires. 210 00:09:33,974 --> 00:09:36,134 That's where you have values, right? 211 00:09:36,144 --> 00:09:40,574 You can't take your values and say, "Oh well, these brain waves, those 212 00:09:40,574 --> 00:09:42,254 are, those are your values," right? 213 00:09:43,034 --> 00:09:47,034 There's an immaterial part of you, and that's how God made you. 214 00:09:47,044 --> 00:09:47,714 God made you. 215 00:09:48,154 --> 00:09:51,003 There's a physical part of you and there's a spiritual part of you, right? 216 00:09:51,003 --> 00:09:53,773 There's your body and your soul, okay? 217 00:09:54,503 --> 00:09:57,514 Um, they're related, they're connected, right? 218 00:09:57,514 --> 00:10:00,133 God made you to be both of those things, right? 219 00:10:00,634 --> 00:10:03,814 Um, it's not that your body's bad and your soul is good. 220 00:10:03,963 --> 00:10:04,644 That's not true. 221 00:10:05,664 --> 00:10:09,584 But both of those is what makes you human, right? 222 00:10:09,594 --> 00:10:12,093 You have a body and a soul, and they're related and they 223 00:10:12,103 --> 00:10:13,554 impact each other, too, right? 224 00:10:13,554 --> 00:10:16,194 What you do with your body impacts your soul, right? 225 00:10:16,194 --> 00:10:20,914 You sin with your body, and that is bad for your soul, right? 226 00:10:21,164 --> 00:10:25,973 Or maybe you're really stressed spiritually, right? 227 00:10:25,984 --> 00:10:31,284 Stress isn't just physical or anger isn't just hormones in your brain, right? 228 00:10:31,294 --> 00:10:34,983 There's a immaterial part of you that is angry, right? 229 00:10:34,984 --> 00:10:38,174 It's not just, oh, these chemicals and, and these things in my brain 230 00:10:38,184 --> 00:10:39,593 happen and that produced anger. 231 00:10:40,893 --> 00:10:43,753 That's how your body produces anger, but your soul is still angry. 232 00:10:44,573 --> 00:10:46,874 And so they're related, they're connected. 233 00:10:46,874 --> 00:10:47,394 It's complicated. 234 00:10:47,394 --> 00:10:49,123 We don't have time to talk about all of it, but essentially what 235 00:10:49,124 --> 00:10:51,593 I need you to know is that your soul is what makes you you. 236 00:10:52,003 --> 00:10:53,174 It's your inner person, right? 237 00:10:53,174 --> 00:10:57,664 Your outer person, your flesh, it's like your phone and the, the wires and 238 00:10:57,694 --> 00:11:01,884 the cords and all that, and then the operating system is your soul, okay? 239 00:11:04,878 --> 00:11:07,568 Now maybe you think, "Whatever, it doesn't matter," right? 240 00:11:07,578 --> 00:11:08,818 "That was, that was super boring. 241 00:11:08,838 --> 00:11:09,518 Why are you talking about that?" 242 00:11:09,528 --> 00:11:13,908 Well, what Jesus has to say to you is, tonight, what he's, he's gonna talk 243 00:11:13,918 --> 00:11:15,868 about is how valuable your soul is. 244 00:11:16,118 --> 00:11:18,578 'Cause our culture, we care way more about your body than your soul. 245 00:11:18,778 --> 00:11:22,938 In our culture, we care more about how you look, how you feel, than 246 00:11:23,228 --> 00:11:25,488 who you really are in your soul. 247 00:11:25,488 --> 00:11:28,728 And so in Matthew 16, we're gonna, gonna look at this whole passage, 248 00:11:28,768 --> 00:11:30,488 what Jesus says in Matthew 16. 249 00:11:30,798 --> 00:11:32,318 This is the whole conversation, okay? 250 00:11:32,318 --> 00:11:35,768 He tells his disciples, "If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself, 251 00:11:35,768 --> 00:11:37,267 take up his cross and follow me." 252 00:11:37,268 --> 00:11:39,868 So Jesus is saying, "If you're gonna follow me, it's gonna be really hard. 253 00:11:40,168 --> 00:11:42,448 It's gonna be the opposite of being selfish. 254 00:11:42,478 --> 00:11:46,398 It's gonna be antithetical to you making it about you. 255 00:11:46,398 --> 00:11:48,528 It's actually gonna be about Jesus," right? 256 00:11:48,788 --> 00:11:52,978 And then verse 25, "If you're gonna save your life," if you wanna hold onto to you, 257 00:11:53,018 --> 00:11:56,768 if you wanna keep you on the throne of your life, if you want you to be the focus 258 00:11:56,768 --> 00:11:59,098 of your life, don't follow Jesus, right? 259 00:11:59,228 --> 00:12:01,307 "Whoever would save his life would lose it." 260 00:12:03,268 --> 00:12:05,588 Living for yourself is suicide. 261 00:12:05,658 --> 00:12:06,598 That's what Jesus is saying here. 262 00:12:07,408 --> 00:12:08,698 Living for yourself is suicide. 263 00:12:08,698 --> 00:12:13,028 If you, if you hold onto to everything that you wanna live for, you're gonna 264 00:12:13,028 --> 00:12:15,698 die, not just physically, but spiritually. 265 00:12:16,458 --> 00:12:18,418 For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world? 266 00:12:18,418 --> 00:12:19,218 You live for yourself. 267 00:12:19,228 --> 00:12:22,048 You, you got everything you wanted out of your life, all 268 00:12:22,048 --> 00:12:23,218 the success that you wanted. 269 00:12:24,287 --> 00:12:28,937 You gain the whole world, but you forfeited your soul, right? 270 00:12:28,948 --> 00:12:30,177 You didn't follow Jesus. 271 00:12:31,628 --> 00:12:33,168 Or what can you give in return for your soul? 272 00:12:33,208 --> 00:12:35,697 And then he says, "For the Son of Man," Jesus, "is going to come 273 00:12:35,698 --> 00:12:39,387 with his angels in the glory of his Father, and he will repay each person 274 00:12:39,397 --> 00:12:41,247 according to what he has done." 275 00:12:41,607 --> 00:12:41,837 Right? 276 00:12:41,838 --> 00:12:43,837 One day, you are gonna stand before God. 277 00:12:44,348 --> 00:12:46,387 We talked about this over the summer, right, at Revival. 278 00:12:46,787 --> 00:12:50,887 You're gonna stand before God, and you're gonna answer for what you've done. 279 00:12:51,957 --> 00:12:53,728 Did you follow Jesus or, or did you not? 280 00:12:54,177 --> 00:12:55,448 Did you trust Jesus or did you not? 281 00:12:55,448 --> 00:12:57,598 Did you live for yourself or did you live for God? 282 00:12:59,257 --> 00:13:03,848 And at that moment, it doesn't matter if you got what you wanted out of life. 283 00:13:05,088 --> 00:13:07,757 What matters is did you trust Jesus or not? 284 00:13:10,094 --> 00:13:13,294 So how important is your soul? 285 00:13:15,054 --> 00:13:18,574 That Jesus says is it's more important than anything, anything else. 286 00:13:18,834 --> 00:13:20,654 So your points tonight, they're all questions. 287 00:13:20,654 --> 00:13:21,964 There are three questions about your soul. 288 00:13:22,014 --> 00:13:25,314 So your first point, how important is my soul? 289 00:13:27,896 --> 00:13:30,316 How important is my soul? 290 00:13:33,974 --> 00:13:36,634 What Jesus is saying is your soul is the most important thing about you. 291 00:13:37,714 --> 00:13:44,164 Not who- where you're from, not what you like, not what you do, not how much money 292 00:13:44,164 --> 00:13:46,094 you have, not how many people like you. 293 00:13:47,464 --> 00:13:48,074 It's your soul. 294 00:13:48,604 --> 00:13:50,524 It's the most important thing about you 295 00:13:54,882 --> 00:13:57,502 A lot of these words here are financial words. 296 00:13:57,782 --> 00:14:01,012 If you really look at this question, profit, that's a financial word. 297 00:14:01,252 --> 00:14:02,722 Gain, financial word. 298 00:14:02,902 --> 00:14:07,512 Forfeit, I know you think that's a sports word, but it's a financial word 299 00:14:07,672 --> 00:14:09,202 in what the language Jesus is talking. 300 00:14:09,302 --> 00:14:10,732 He's saying profit, right? 301 00:14:10,732 --> 00:14:12,762 It's, it's did you get something out of it, right? 302 00:14:12,762 --> 00:14:13,572 It's a finance word. 303 00:14:13,582 --> 00:14:13,792 Did… 304 00:14:13,822 --> 00:14:14,532 Gain, right? 305 00:14:14,532 --> 00:14:15,482 It's a finance word. 306 00:14:15,482 --> 00:14:18,432 Forfeit is almost like you, you gave it up, you lost, right? 307 00:14:18,442 --> 00:14:20,862 If you think about the stock market, there's gains and losses, right? 308 00:14:21,182 --> 00:14:23,982 So these are all finance words here, and what he's trying to 309 00:14:23,982 --> 00:14:25,922 stress is the value of your soul. 310 00:14:27,462 --> 00:14:31,812 The value of not just your body, but your soul. 311 00:14:31,822 --> 00:14:35,042 Not just you as a totality, but who you are really 312 00:14:37,165 --> 00:14:39,286 And what he's saying is your soul is costly. 313 00:14:39,296 --> 00:14:44,366 The first thing he's saying is that your soul is worth more than all the world. 314 00:14:45,566 --> 00:14:48,076 Maybe you've never thought about that before, but your soul, 315 00:14:50,156 --> 00:14:55,356 y- who you are, is more valuable than the whole world. 316 00:14:56,826 --> 00:14:57,596 That's what Jesus is saying. 317 00:14:57,826 --> 00:15:01,366 Your soul and how you take care of it is more important than what you do 318 00:15:01,366 --> 00:15:02,736 with everything else the world has. 319 00:15:04,576 --> 00:15:09,466 You have a soul, and what you do, the c- the condition of your soul, 320 00:15:09,585 --> 00:15:14,165 the health of your soul, is more important than the whole world. 321 00:15:14,766 --> 00:15:19,366 All the money you could have, all the friends you could have, all 322 00:15:19,366 --> 00:15:25,116 the opportunities, experiences, pleasures, all of that, your soul 323 00:15:25,175 --> 00:15:27,335 is more important than all of that 324 00:15:31,566 --> 00:15:35,006 That list of people that, that we looked at, at the beginning, right? 325 00:15:35,006 --> 00:15:39,636 Those are the richest people in the history of, of people, which 326 00:15:39,636 --> 00:15:41,266 is kinda crazy to think about. 327 00:15:41,336 --> 00:15:43,596 And most of you don't even know who half of them are. 328 00:15:45,146 --> 00:15:48,576 They gained the entire world, right? 329 00:15:48,606 --> 00:15:54,926 Some of them, literally everything people knew about the world, they had it. 330 00:15:56,036 --> 00:15:57,726 They had access to all the smart people. 331 00:15:58,165 --> 00:15:59,676 They had access to all the money. 332 00:16:00,036 --> 00:16:02,836 They had access to all the experiences that they could ever want. 333 00:16:04,726 --> 00:16:06,226 And one, you don't even know who they are. 334 00:16:07,626 --> 00:16:13,305 And two, when they stood before God, in a sense, God didn't 335 00:16:13,305 --> 00:16:14,536 know who they were, right? 336 00:16:14,546 --> 00:16:15,695 They heard, "I never knew you 337 00:16:17,782 --> 00:16:20,202 And right now they would tell you, "I wish I could trade all 338 00:16:20,202 --> 00:16:23,142 my money to be with Jesus." 339 00:16:25,806 --> 00:16:26,436 But they're not. 340 00:16:27,286 --> 00:16:30,936 And there's no do-overs, and it d- they can't say, "God, well, 341 00:16:31,936 --> 00:16:33,336 what if I give it back to you? 342 00:16:33,726 --> 00:16:35,896 Right, I li- I lived this whole life for myself. 343 00:16:36,006 --> 00:16:38,186 Can I do it over again and give it back to you?" 344 00:16:38,186 --> 00:16:39,026 And God says, "No." 345 00:16:41,934 --> 00:16:44,314 You can't buy back your soul. 346 00:16:45,924 --> 00:16:46,784 You can't get it back. 347 00:16:46,824 --> 00:16:48,524 You can't do it over 348 00:16:52,302 --> 00:16:55,932 But it's not just super rich people that try to gain the world, right? 349 00:16:55,942 --> 00:16:58,632 Regular people try to gain the world, too, right? 350 00:16:58,632 --> 00:17:03,222 People like me and you, we try to gain the world, and maybe you're 351 00:17:03,222 --> 00:17:07,112 thinking, "Well, yeah, I'm, I'm not gonna be a billionaire," but you 352 00:17:07,112 --> 00:17:09,752 still want to live for the world. 353 00:17:11,061 --> 00:17:16,791 Your purpose in life might be trying to get everything you want out of your life. 354 00:17:18,412 --> 00:17:19,612 That's trying to gain the world. 355 00:17:21,472 --> 00:17:26,592 You are trying to, to gain maybe not the whole world, but as much 356 00:17:26,592 --> 00:17:27,962 of it for yourself as you can 357 00:17:30,734 --> 00:17:32,534 Because your whole life, all your friendships are about 358 00:17:32,534 --> 00:17:33,324 what you get out of them. 359 00:17:34,214 --> 00:17:37,104 Your whole school career is all about what you get out of it. 360 00:17:37,554 --> 00:17:39,224 All your sports is what you get out of it. 361 00:17:39,524 --> 00:17:41,794 All of your relationships with your family is what you get out of it. 362 00:17:43,214 --> 00:17:45,504 All of the money you spend, what's in it for me? 363 00:17:46,174 --> 00:17:48,044 All the activities you do, what's in it for me? 364 00:17:48,184 --> 00:17:53,654 You might be trying to gain the world, and Jesus says it's not worth it. 365 00:17:55,404 --> 00:17:59,544 'Cause all those things, a lot of them are good things from God that He's given to 366 00:17:59,544 --> 00:18:03,674 you to point you to Him, and what you're saying is, "Nope, God, I don't want you. 367 00:18:03,674 --> 00:18:04,554 I just want your stuff." 368 00:18:05,424 --> 00:18:08,904 And you're trying to gain the stuff, and you're losing your soul 369 00:18:12,558 --> 00:18:15,898 Your soul is also worth not just more than everything the world has 370 00:18:15,898 --> 00:18:21,098 to offer, uh, but it's worth more than safety and comfort, which maybe 371 00:18:21,318 --> 00:18:22,448 is kind of a weird way to put it. 372 00:18:22,678 --> 00:18:26,338 But if you look before that question, verse 24, Jesus says, "If anyone would 373 00:18:26,338 --> 00:18:29,878 come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross and follow me." 374 00:18:30,508 --> 00:18:31,378 Now think about these words. 375 00:18:31,648 --> 00:18:34,408 Deny yourself, take up your cross. 376 00:18:34,588 --> 00:18:38,658 Right, the cross, we've glamorized it, right? 377 00:18:38,658 --> 00:18:42,928 We've turned it into jewelry or tattoo art, or we put it on top of our churches. 378 00:18:42,938 --> 00:18:48,128 But this is like Jesus saying, "Take up your electric chair and follow me." 379 00:18:48,128 --> 00:18:50,687 Right, "Take up your lethal injection and follow me. 380 00:18:51,508 --> 00:18:53,528 Take up your firing squad and follow me." 381 00:18:53,848 --> 00:18:55,658 Right, the cross was the worst way to die. 382 00:18:55,738 --> 00:18:55,888 I… 383 00:18:56,138 --> 00:18:59,478 Think about this for a second, what a cross entails. 384 00:19:00,437 --> 00:19:03,568 Right, it's shameful to be on a cross, right? 385 00:19:03,588 --> 00:19:05,327 You don't have any clothes on when you're on a cross. 386 00:19:06,187 --> 00:19:08,198 You're displayed publicly. 387 00:19:08,527 --> 00:19:11,668 Everyone knows, yeah, you're a horrible human being, 'cause whatever 388 00:19:11,668 --> 00:19:12,897 you did to deserve to be on there. 389 00:19:14,378 --> 00:19:18,177 That's what a cross represents, shame, torture, pain, horror 390 00:19:20,366 --> 00:19:24,356 And Jesus says, "That's the type of life that I'm asking you to live. 391 00:19:25,266 --> 00:19:27,456 Take up your cross and follow me." 392 00:19:27,776 --> 00:19:35,706 And what he's saying is it's better for you to follow Jesus and endure 393 00:19:35,706 --> 00:19:40,586 suffering, endure pain, endure torture, endure shame, rejection 394 00:19:43,694 --> 00:19:46,424 than it is to gain the whole world and not follow Jesus 395 00:19:49,376 --> 00:19:51,716 All right, following Jesus is gonna take you out of your comfort zone. 396 00:19:52,556 --> 00:19:55,406 Following Jesus might make you very unsafe 397 00:19:58,092 --> 00:20:02,962 And Jesus says it's worth it because your soul is more important than your safety. 398 00:20:04,012 --> 00:20:06,252 Your soul is more important than your comfort. 399 00:20:07,472 --> 00:20:10,762 Your soul is more important than 400 00:20:13,518 --> 00:20:15,228 You might miss out on things, right? 401 00:20:15,228 --> 00:20:18,718 You might miss out on, "Oh, well, I can't do this when I get older if I become 402 00:20:18,718 --> 00:20:23,748 a Christian," or, "I, I can't do this right now be- if I became a Christian." 403 00:20:24,968 --> 00:20:26,138 And Jesus is saying it's worth it. 404 00:20:26,348 --> 00:20:30,078 It's so worth it because of what you get. 405 00:20:30,528 --> 00:20:32,748 You keep your soul, right? 406 00:20:32,748 --> 00:20:38,268 You keep who you, what you were really made for because you're, you're really 407 00:20:38,268 --> 00:20:40,238 made to, to be with God, to enjoy Him. 408 00:20:41,208 --> 00:20:45,288 You keep that, it's worth it to lose everything else 409 00:20:49,526 --> 00:20:53,196 What he's also saying in verse 25 is, right, if you save your 410 00:20:53,196 --> 00:20:57,476 life, you live for yourself, you, you save what your priorities 411 00:20:57,476 --> 00:20:58,866 are, what your values are, right? 412 00:20:58,876 --> 00:21:03,516 Maybe you don't wanna follow Jesus because it's too inconvenient for you, right? 413 00:21:03,516 --> 00:21:05,016 It's too hard for you. 414 00:21:05,476 --> 00:21:07,116 It's too boring for you. 415 00:21:08,416 --> 00:21:09,196 It's not cool. 416 00:21:09,876 --> 00:21:10,496 It's not fun. 417 00:21:11,016 --> 00:21:12,376 Maybe that's why you're not following Jesus. 418 00:21:12,816 --> 00:21:18,996 Jesus is saying that that easy life, that fun life, will kill you. 419 00:21:20,076 --> 00:21:20,656 You'll lose it. 420 00:21:20,676 --> 00:21:21,636 You'll lose your life 421 00:21:24,110 --> 00:21:28,310 If you, if you live your whole life self-indulgently, right? 422 00:21:28,310 --> 00:21:31,530 Making it all about you and not about Jesus, Jesus is 423 00:21:31,530 --> 00:21:33,180 saying that that is suicidal. 424 00:21:34,650 --> 00:21:39,320 You will die because you're gonna take in all of these things for 425 00:21:39,320 --> 00:21:40,530 yourself and live for yourself. 426 00:21:40,530 --> 00:21:41,350 It's gonna leave you empty. 427 00:21:41,350 --> 00:21:43,850 It's gonna leave you unsatisfied. 428 00:21:43,850 --> 00:21:46,610 It's gonna leave you regretting everything because you're gonna miss out 429 00:21:46,620 --> 00:21:50,050 on Jesus, and so you'll lose your soul 430 00:21:52,462 --> 00:21:55,332 And so if you're living for yourself, you are heading to your death. 431 00:21:55,592 --> 00:21:56,232 That's what Jesus is saying. 432 00:21:56,242 --> 00:21:59,292 If you wanna save your life, your priorities, your ambitions, your 433 00:21:59,292 --> 00:22:03,242 desires, what you want from your life, if you're holding onto that, Jesus is 434 00:22:03,242 --> 00:22:05,422 saying you're, you're killing yourself 435 00:22:07,694 --> 00:22:10,764 But if you give your life away, you lose your life. 436 00:22:10,784 --> 00:22:13,444 You say, "God, I don't wanna live for me, I wanna live for you." 437 00:22:14,724 --> 00:22:14,914 Right? 438 00:22:14,914 --> 00:22:18,104 "I don't want what I want from my friendships, I want what 439 00:22:18,104 --> 00:22:19,274 you want from my friendships. 440 00:22:20,664 --> 00:22:24,974 I don't want what I want from my money, I want what you want with my money. 441 00:22:25,804 --> 00:22:28,314 I don't wanna do my schedule how you want me to do my schedule. 442 00:22:28,334 --> 00:22:29,914 I don't wanna spend my time how you want me to… 443 00:22:30,054 --> 00:22:30,894 How I wanna spend my time. 444 00:22:30,894 --> 00:22:32,944 I wanna spend it how you want me to spend it." 445 00:22:33,274 --> 00:22:34,104 You lose your life. 446 00:22:34,104 --> 00:22:35,274 You say, "It's not about me anymore. 447 00:22:35,444 --> 00:22:38,224 I'm not looking to get everything that I want out of this life. 448 00:22:38,874 --> 00:22:41,614 I'm giving it away and saying, 'God, you take it. 449 00:22:41,654 --> 00:22:42,154 Use it.'" 450 00:22:45,038 --> 00:22:46,278 Jesus, that's how you gain it. 451 00:22:46,518 --> 00:22:48,318 You find real life that way. 452 00:22:48,548 --> 00:22:49,768 'Cause that's how you're really meant to live. 453 00:22:50,748 --> 00:22:50,778 Right? 454 00:22:50,788 --> 00:22:52,868 You're not really meant to live for yourself. 455 00:22:53,688 --> 00:22:55,478 No one actually likes living for themself. 456 00:22:56,488 --> 00:22:58,598 It's fun for a little bit, and it gets real old real fast 457 00:23:02,250 --> 00:23:09,440 So what Jesus is saying is your soul is worth more than your plans, your safety, 458 00:23:09,450 --> 00:23:13,020 your comfort, your short-term happiness. 459 00:23:15,530 --> 00:23:19,750 If you live for yourself, you'll, you'll lose everything. 460 00:23:20,380 --> 00:23:22,840 You won't be able to keep any of the stuff you, you got for yourself. 461 00:23:23,450 --> 00:23:26,430 But you give your life away, you say, "Jesus, I wanna live for you," you gain 462 00:23:26,430 --> 00:23:30,910 everything, 'cause God is so much better than what you would have had for yourself. 463 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:34,330 It's why he says it's more blessed to give than to receive. 464 00:23:35,190 --> 00:23:35,680 It's better. 465 00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:36,280 It's happier. 466 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:37,820 It's more satisfying 467 00:23:41,614 --> 00:23:45,944 Something else that you might notice here is that your soul, what Jesus 468 00:23:45,944 --> 00:23:48,444 says, is more important than your body, and he makes that really 469 00:23:48,444 --> 00:23:49,904 clear somewhere else in, in Matthew. 470 00:23:50,864 --> 00:23:54,294 He says that, uh, you shouldn't be worried about people who can only kill your 471 00:23:54,294 --> 00:23:56,874 body and if they can't harm your soul. 472 00:23:57,394 --> 00:24:01,084 Instead, you should be afraid of people who can kill your body and your soul. 473 00:24:02,324 --> 00:24:05,324 You should be more scared of things that are bad for your soul than 474 00:24:05,334 --> 00:24:06,504 things that are bad for your body. 475 00:24:07,254 --> 00:24:07,794 Does that make sense? 476 00:24:08,724 --> 00:24:13,044 You should be more worried about threats to your soul than threats to your body 477 00:24:15,150 --> 00:24:17,470 Because if someone hurts your body, guess what? 478 00:24:18,820 --> 00:24:19,470 You'll get a new one 479 00:24:21,966 --> 00:24:23,096 You, one day, right? 480 00:24:23,106 --> 00:24:24,656 You're all, you're not gonna be in his mati anymore 481 00:24:27,982 --> 00:24:31,792 You're gonna be in a new body, and you're either gonna be in a real body 482 00:24:31,802 --> 00:24:33,332 in heaven or a real body in hell. 483 00:24:34,572 --> 00:24:35,552 But you're gonna get a new body 484 00:24:37,966 --> 00:24:40,256 So if someone can hurt your body, that's bad. 485 00:24:40,266 --> 00:24:46,176 But if they can hurt your soul, you only get one of those, and you're stuck with it 486 00:24:46,186 --> 00:24:49,596 forever, and the consequences last forever 487 00:24:54,294 --> 00:24:58,124 Our culture, we, we love to trick people to care about their 488 00:24:58,124 --> 00:24:59,154 bodies more than their souls. 489 00:25:00,934 --> 00:25:06,704 That our culture wants you to care more about your body, how you look, how you 490 00:25:06,704 --> 00:25:12,934 dress, how much you can lift, how hard you can throw, how fast you can run, whether 491 00:25:12,934 --> 00:25:14,894 people like you and like your body. 492 00:25:16,224 --> 00:25:20,824 Our culture wants you to care about all of that more than your soul. 493 00:25:22,224 --> 00:25:24,624 Is your soul healthy? 494 00:25:25,134 --> 00:25:26,274 Maybe you've never even thought about it before. 495 00:25:26,964 --> 00:25:27,794 Is your soul healthy? 496 00:25:27,804 --> 00:25:29,624 Is your soul strong? 497 00:25:29,874 --> 00:25:30,994 Is your soul resilient? 498 00:25:31,074 --> 00:25:33,344 Is your soul happy? 499 00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:46,030 I saw this stat the other day that, uh, the global wellness economy is $6.8 500 00:25:46,060 --> 00:25:46,740 trillion. 501 00:25:47,700 --> 00:25:52,160 So this is all the money that gets spent on these types of things, right? 502 00:25:52,170 --> 00:25:52,730 That's, uh… 503 00:25:53,670 --> 00:25:56,530 For some reason, these numbers feel bigger than this number to me. 504 00:25:57,750 --> 00:26:03,430 Like $1,300 billion feels bigger than 6.8 505 00:26:03,430 --> 00:26:03,630 trillion. 506 00:26:03,630 --> 00:26:04,210 I don't know why. 507 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:07,360 But these are the things that we spend our money on. 508 00:26:07,540 --> 00:26:10,250 This was more than IT, like tech. 509 00:26:10,650 --> 00:26:14,860 This was more than, um, I forget what else, but it was more than 510 00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:17,270 things that you'd think, "Oh, yeah, that's way more important," right? 511 00:26:17,270 --> 00:26:19,020 But our culture, this is what we spend our money on. 512 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:24,640 We spend our money on healthy eating, twice as much as public health. 513 00:26:25,229 --> 00:26:27,580 We spend our money on physical activity, right? 514 00:26:27,580 --> 00:26:29,910 That's like gym memberships and, and all that fun stuff. 515 00:26:30,770 --> 00:26:33,690 Um, this is what we value, right? 516 00:26:33,690 --> 00:26:36,040 Jesus says, "Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." 517 00:26:37,909 --> 00:26:39,180 This is what our culture values. 518 00:26:39,180 --> 00:26:39,970 Our culture values 519 00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:43,880 The outer person. 520 00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:46,180 And God cares about your soul 521 00:26:51,054 --> 00:26:53,064 Now your soul and your body, they're related, right? 522 00:26:53,064 --> 00:26:54,134 They're, they're connected. 523 00:26:55,084 --> 00:26:56,634 They impact each other, right? 524 00:26:56,634 --> 00:26:59,324 So really when you think about your body, you should think about, 525 00:26:59,334 --> 00:27:01,524 how does my body serve my soul? 526 00:27:02,714 --> 00:27:05,314 And maybe that's a new concept for you, but for example, when 527 00:27:05,314 --> 00:27:06,934 you think about exercise, right? 528 00:27:06,964 --> 00:27:07,644 Exercise is good. 529 00:27:07,644 --> 00:27:08,344 We'd say y- you… 530 00:27:08,444 --> 00:27:08,834 if you're… 531 00:27:09,564 --> 00:27:13,564 it helps you build self-control, it helps you, um, be healthy and be able 532 00:27:13,564 --> 00:27:14,974 to enjoy God's good gifts, right? 533 00:27:14,974 --> 00:27:16,264 We say that's a good thing, right? 534 00:27:17,014 --> 00:27:20,824 But the primary reason you should exercise is 'cause it's good for your soul, right? 535 00:27:20,824 --> 00:27:24,634 It helps you tell your body what to do, right? 536 00:27:24,634 --> 00:27:28,044 That's a good thing for you to be in control of your body and not your 537 00:27:28,054 --> 00:27:30,354 body to be in control of you, right? 538 00:27:31,084 --> 00:27:32,824 So we would say, "Oh yeah, you should exercise 'cause it's 539 00:27:32,824 --> 00:27:34,224 good for your soul," right? 540 00:27:34,254 --> 00:27:38,004 Or maybe exercising helps you trust the Lord more because it 541 00:27:38,004 --> 00:27:39,594 helps you think more clearly. 542 00:27:40,554 --> 00:27:43,754 Or maybe exercising helps you serve others well because you're 543 00:27:43,754 --> 00:27:45,174 in better condition to help people. 544 00:27:45,804 --> 00:27:48,434 You're in better condition to help people move their things or, or carry 545 00:27:48,434 --> 00:27:50,784 their stuff or protect people, right? 546 00:27:51,604 --> 00:27:53,034 So when you think about your body, you should think about, 547 00:27:53,044 --> 00:27:55,174 how is my body serving my soul? 548 00:27:56,164 --> 00:28:00,334 Am I using my body for things that last a long- longer or am I, 549 00:28:00,334 --> 00:28:01,704 am I just using my body for me? 550 00:28:02,323 --> 00:28:05,494 Am I just using my body for surface level things? 551 00:28:06,454 --> 00:28:09,383 Right, so it's not that your body's bad, and it's not that your body's unimportant. 552 00:28:09,414 --> 00:28:10,344 Your body's really important. 553 00:28:11,933 --> 00:28:13,194 Your body really matters. 554 00:28:13,923 --> 00:28:17,963 But your, your soul just matters even more, right? 555 00:28:17,963 --> 00:28:19,013 And they, they impact each other. 556 00:28:19,073 --> 00:28:21,663 Your soul impacts your body, your body impacts your soul. 557 00:28:23,204 --> 00:28:26,274 But Jesus says that you should care more about your soul than your body. 558 00:28:26,274 --> 00:28:29,543 You should care about your body a lot, but you should care even more about your soul. 559 00:28:29,544 --> 00:28:32,643 So maybe this week you should care, you maybe, you should even, maybe 560 00:28:32,643 --> 00:28:33,584 this, this is what you should do. 561 00:28:33,584 --> 00:28:36,154 Maybe you should think about, how much time do I spend taking care of my body? 562 00:28:36,774 --> 00:28:40,004 And maybe you think about all the time you spend getting ready, all 563 00:28:40,004 --> 00:28:43,664 the time you spend cleaning yourself, all the time you spend working out. 564 00:28:44,484 --> 00:28:46,184 And then think about, how much time do I spend on my soul? 565 00:28:48,438 --> 00:28:50,318 What do I, how do I care about my soul? 566 00:28:50,318 --> 00:28:51,178 What does that even look like? 567 00:28:51,178 --> 00:28:52,518 Well, it's your spiritual health, right? 568 00:28:53,008 --> 00:28:54,818 How much time do you spend talking to God? 569 00:28:55,348 --> 00:28:58,388 How much time do you spend having conversations that are good for your soul? 570 00:28:59,138 --> 00:29:00,958 How much time do you spend taking in God's word? 571 00:29:02,378 --> 00:29:07,398 And maybe compare those two numbers and think about, okay, what does my life say I 572 00:29:07,398 --> 00:29:09,618 care more about, my s- my body or my soul? 573 00:29:10,188 --> 00:29:11,718 That might be a good starting place for you. 574 00:29:12,008 --> 00:29:12,618 But think about that. 575 00:29:12,628 --> 00:29:12,798 Do you… 576 00:29:12,798 --> 00:29:18,108 Am I investing more money, time, effort, anxiety into my soul or my body, right? 577 00:29:18,868 --> 00:29:20,388 Because you'll get a new body. 578 00:29:21,188 --> 00:29:22,798 You won't get another soul 579 00:29:28,856 --> 00:29:31,226 And maybe this is all just big stuff, right? 580 00:29:31,226 --> 00:29:33,166 You're like, "Well, that's in the future," right? 581 00:29:33,166 --> 00:29:35,116 My soul doesn't matter right now, it matters in the future. 582 00:29:35,746 --> 00:29:40,026 But how you get to the future is now, right? 583 00:29:40,026 --> 00:29:43,216 Day by day, you are becoming the person you will be, right? 584 00:29:43,376 --> 00:29:46,796 You're becoming today who you're gonna be tomorrow, right? 585 00:29:46,796 --> 00:29:49,906 And so eventually you will get down the road, you live enough todays, 586 00:29:49,926 --> 00:29:54,346 you, you get there, and you will be that's either a person who's given 587 00:29:54,346 --> 00:29:58,436 away their soul and tried to gain the world, or someone who has given away 588 00:29:58,436 --> 00:30:00,106 their life to follow Jesus, right? 589 00:30:00,556 --> 00:30:01,256 And so there's… 590 00:30:01,436 --> 00:30:03,666 I want you to see that there's urgency about it, okay? 591 00:30:03,666 --> 00:30:08,506 So our second point, second question is why the urgency about my soul? 592 00:30:13,048 --> 00:30:18,648 One reason you should care a lot about your soul immediately, and not just 593 00:30:18,648 --> 00:30:22,788 wait till you're older or wait till it matters more to you, um, is, I, 594 00:30:22,858 --> 00:30:29,398 I read this this week, that God and Satan both care a ton about your soul. 595 00:30:29,828 --> 00:30:31,498 Maybe you never thought about it before, but think about how 596 00:30:31,498 --> 00:30:32,788 much God cares about your soul. 597 00:30:34,308 --> 00:30:35,928 What did God do to save souls? 598 00:30:37,168 --> 00:30:38,248 Well, he killed His son. 599 00:30:39,468 --> 00:30:40,918 That's how much God cares about your soul. 600 00:30:42,018 --> 00:30:43,708 That's how important your soul is to God. 601 00:30:44,228 --> 00:30:50,328 God said, "The only way for me to get your soul, to purify your soul from your 602 00:30:50,328 --> 00:30:53,278 sin, is I have to send my son to die." 603 00:30:54,128 --> 00:30:57,258 That's how precious your soul is to God 604 00:30:59,542 --> 00:31:01,932 And Satan actually cares a lot about your soul too. 605 00:31:03,792 --> 00:31:05,572 Satan wants to destroy your soul 606 00:31:07,694 --> 00:31:10,244 And even thinking about what we just talked about, Satan would love to 607 00:31:10,254 --> 00:31:16,614 give you a healthy body, a happy life, and everything the world has to offer 608 00:31:17,844 --> 00:31:19,564 if it means he can take your soul 609 00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:27,510 He would love to make your life super easy so you don't feel like you need God, so 610 00:31:27,510 --> 00:31:29,430 that you, you think, "Well, I'm, I'm good. 611 00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:31,430 I don't, I don't need to follow Jesus." 612 00:31:32,020 --> 00:31:33,200 Satan would love to do that. 613 00:31:33,620 --> 00:31:37,830 So maybe that's why your life is so easy, is because he wants 614 00:31:37,830 --> 00:31:39,380 you to think you don't need God. 615 00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:41,400 So I just want you to see there's urgency here, right? 616 00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:42,310 There's, there's a… 617 00:31:43,010 --> 00:31:46,830 In a sense, there's a battle for your soul, for your loyalty, for your… 618 00:31:47,090 --> 00:31:48,070 what you think is important 619 00:31:52,064 --> 00:31:55,664 Now, I don't want you to be urgent and, and freaked out about it, right? 620 00:31:55,664 --> 00:31:59,144 I want you to be urgent and because of that, think clear-headed, right? 621 00:31:59,144 --> 00:32:03,214 I don't know if you've ever seen, um, like, when people like 622 00:32:03,214 --> 00:32:04,514 Navy SEALs or they try to do… 623 00:32:04,524 --> 00:32:08,344 They're doing, like, an operation, and it almost looks like they're not in a hurry. 624 00:32:08,474 --> 00:32:10,884 You ever seen something like that before where they're, they're, like, clearing 625 00:32:10,884 --> 00:32:14,464 a building and it, it almost looks like they're, they're not in a hurry 626 00:32:14,464 --> 00:32:15,984 because they're not stressed, right? 627 00:32:15,984 --> 00:32:20,164 They're, they're very smooth and coordinated and all that stuff, and the 628 00:32:20,174 --> 00:32:28,234 phrase that they use is they say, um, "Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast." 629 00:32:29,324 --> 00:32:31,244 So if you're in a hurry, you're frantic, you're trying to, you 630 00:32:31,244 --> 00:32:33,033 know, load your gun and do all things and clear the corner, right? 631 00:32:33,034 --> 00:32:34,754 You never seen someone try to play laser tag, right? 632 00:32:34,834 --> 00:32:35,284 And they're like… 633 00:32:35,294 --> 00:32:37,354 You know, the really good people at laser tag, they're, like, jumping up 634 00:32:37,354 --> 00:32:40,384 and down and they're changing the height of the, the sensors and everything. 635 00:32:40,774 --> 00:32:41,654 Have you guys never done this before? 636 00:32:42,654 --> 00:32:43,884 So, okay, when I was at… 637 00:32:43,884 --> 00:32:46,184 One time, I was at, uh, what's it called? 638 00:32:46,544 --> 00:32:51,394 Laser Quest, I think, and, um, the high score dude, like, who 639 00:32:51,394 --> 00:32:54,673 had the all-time highest score played in the same round as me. 640 00:32:54,684 --> 00:32:54,694 Ooh. 641 00:32:55,534 --> 00:32:59,113 Like, he used to work for Laser Quest, and he, like, had the all-time 642 00:32:59,114 --> 00:33:00,524 highest score at this location. 643 00:33:00,853 --> 00:33:05,879 It was like, you know, millions of points, and I played with him, and he, he was… 644 00:33:05,879 --> 00:33:06,444 He was like a… 645 00:33:06,554 --> 00:33:09,694 I was, I think, in middle school, and he, he was at least in college. 646 00:33:09,694 --> 00:33:10,794 I'm like, "What are you doing?" 647 00:33:10,934 --> 00:33:15,283 Like, he, he's like the, the king of Laser Quest. 648 00:33:15,283 --> 00:33:18,293 He's, you know, he's probably, like, 20 years old just shooting a bunch of 649 00:33:18,294 --> 00:33:20,304 12-year-olds with his l- laser thing. 650 00:33:21,444 --> 00:33:26,673 Dude was, like, jumping and, and doing all this stuff and changing 651 00:33:26,684 --> 00:33:28,284 his, his angle and everything. 652 00:33:28,414 --> 00:33:29,403 It was, it was crazy. 653 00:33:29,934 --> 00:33:33,783 Um, you don't see, like, real soldiers doing that, right? 654 00:33:33,953 --> 00:33:37,923 Real soldiers are very calm, and they're not stressed, and the whole 655 00:33:37,923 --> 00:33:41,804 point, right, is if you do things slowly, you don't make mistakes, 656 00:33:42,084 --> 00:33:43,773 and it's actually quicker, right? 657 00:33:44,203 --> 00:33:45,224 Um, that's the whole point. 658 00:33:45,224 --> 00:33:48,193 So when you're thinking about urgency about your soul, right? 659 00:33:48,194 --> 00:33:50,793 I don't want you to freak out and just be like, "Oh, my God, 660 00:33:50,794 --> 00:33:51,793 all this stuff right now." 661 00:33:51,793 --> 00:33:52,324 Right? 662 00:33:52,324 --> 00:33:56,234 I want you to, to think clear-headedly about your soul, okay? 663 00:33:57,633 --> 00:34:00,863 Um, the first thing I want you to, to think about your soul 664 00:34:00,863 --> 00:34:02,483 is that your soul is immortal. 665 00:34:02,594 --> 00:34:03,763 Maybe you've never thought about this before. 666 00:34:04,133 --> 00:34:06,303 We talked about this at winter camp, right? 667 00:34:06,333 --> 00:34:06,903 Um, we talked… 668 00:34:06,904 --> 00:34:10,263 Remember we talked about lines and rays and line segments? 669 00:34:10,523 --> 00:34:11,083 Do you remember this? 670 00:34:11,454 --> 00:34:12,704 Everyone loves geometry, right? 671 00:34:13,333 --> 00:34:19,054 Um, so a line has the arrows on both ends, right? 672 00:34:19,344 --> 00:34:21,183 'Cause it goes on forever in both directions. 673 00:34:21,933 --> 00:34:26,382 And then a line segment has the points on both ends 'cause it, it stops, right? 674 00:34:26,893 --> 00:34:30,043 And then there's the one with a point on one end and an arrow on one 675 00:34:30,043 --> 00:34:32,513 end, and that's called a ray, right? 676 00:34:33,954 --> 00:34:35,074 Jordan just remembered this. 677 00:34:35,094 --> 00:34:36,204 This is what happens when you're homeschooled. 678 00:34:36,344 --> 00:34:37,864 No, uh, I'm just kidding. 679 00:34:38,254 --> 00:34:45,434 Um, no, so Jor- yeah, so array, right, array goes on forever in one direction, 680 00:34:45,944 --> 00:34:49,284 but it starts, it has a starting point and not an ending point, right? 681 00:34:49,914 --> 00:34:52,434 So God is a, he's a line. 682 00:34:52,784 --> 00:34:55,134 He doesn't have a starting point, and he doesn't have an ending point. 683 00:34:56,014 --> 00:35:00,764 You and I, we have a starting point, but we don't have an ending point. 684 00:35:02,474 --> 00:35:04,284 Maybe you never thought of this before, but … 'Cause even if 685 00:35:04,284 --> 00:35:08,094 you die, your soul keeps existing. 686 00:35:08,704 --> 00:35:16,774 And then one day, uh, Daniel says we'll all be resurrected, and some of us are 687 00:35:16,774 --> 00:35:20,884 gonna live forever with the Lord in heaven, and some of us are gonna be 688 00:35:20,894 --> 00:35:22,684 forever away from the Lord in hell. 689 00:35:23,834 --> 00:35:29,204 But regardless, as a, a Christian rapper once said, uh, we're all gonna live 690 00:35:29,204 --> 00:35:31,034 forever, whether you want to or not. 691 00:35:32,054 --> 00:35:35,204 Some of us will end up holy, and some of us will end up hot. 692 00:35:36,284 --> 00:35:39,534 Um, I can't tell you who said that. 693 00:35:39,614 --> 00:35:45,394 But, um, I use the term Christian very loosely, but that's the point, right? 694 00:35:45,464 --> 00:35:47,203 You are gonna live forever. 695 00:35:48,394 --> 00:35:49,453 You are gonna live forever 696 00:35:52,300 --> 00:35:56,290 And this life is gonna be a very short percentage, very small 697 00:35:56,290 --> 00:35:58,370 percentage of that, of your forever. 698 00:35:59,970 --> 00:36:04,630 And that's why your soul matters so much, is you are going to live forever 699 00:36:07,790 --> 00:36:10,940 But the second thing is that your, your soul is in danger. 700 00:36:12,310 --> 00:36:13,990 And I want you to even think about this as a Christian. 701 00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:16,830 Jesus, when he says these words, right, when he asked this question, 702 00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:18,350 he's talking to his disciples. 703 00:36:19,510 --> 00:36:22,100 He's telling his disciples, "Don't lose your soul." 704 00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:27,650 And yes, if you're a Christian, you can't lose your soul. 705 00:36:28,380 --> 00:36:30,380 But how do you keep your soul as a Christian? 706 00:36:31,150 --> 00:36:33,050 You keep trusting Jesus, right? 707 00:36:33,050 --> 00:36:36,229 You don't just trust Jesus once and then, "All right, I'm good to go. 708 00:36:36,250 --> 00:36:38,520 Put a bow on it, I can do whatever I want now." 709 00:36:39,939 --> 00:36:42,630 As a Christian, what keeps you saved is you keep trusting Jesus. 710 00:36:43,430 --> 00:36:45,920 That's how God keeps you saved, is you keep holding onto him, 711 00:36:47,169 --> 00:36:48,069 and you keep trusting him. 712 00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:52,320 So even though you say, "Yeah, I am a Christian," there is still, right… 713 00:36:52,500 --> 00:36:56,740 Uh, as we talked about in 1 Peter, 1 Peter 5, Satan is still after you. 714 00:36:56,970 --> 00:37:00,100 He still wants you to do damage to your soul, right? 715 00:37:00,100 --> 00:37:02,770 Maybe you don't completely lose your soul, but you could do a lot 716 00:37:02,770 --> 00:37:04,050 of damage to your spiritual health. 717 00:37:06,070 --> 00:37:08,299 So your soul is immortal. 718 00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:09,500 Your soul is in danger. 719 00:37:09,860 --> 00:37:12,619 And then also, your soul, uh, actually determines how happy you are. 720 00:37:13,300 --> 00:37:15,819 Jesus says he offers rest for your soul, right? 721 00:37:15,820 --> 00:37:18,109 You've probably heard this verse: "Take my yoke upon you." 722 00:37:18,110 --> 00:37:18,790 A yoke, right? 723 00:37:18,790 --> 00:37:21,100 Not the thing in the egg, but the thing that goes on the oxen. 724 00:37:21,570 --> 00:37:23,260 Um, that's the other yolk. 725 00:37:23,269 --> 00:37:25,639 That's like yolk, you know, like folk music. 726 00:37:26,019 --> 00:37:27,529 Um, this is yoke like woke. 727 00:37:27,930 --> 00:37:31,720 Uh, "Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, 728 00:37:31,930 --> 00:37:33,620 and you will find rest for your souls." 729 00:37:33,979 --> 00:37:34,870 This is what everyone's after. 730 00:37:35,229 --> 00:37:39,939 Every single person wants to, to feel rest, to feel peace, feel 731 00:37:39,940 --> 00:37:42,580 like you've, you've made it, right? 732 00:37:42,589 --> 00:37:44,649 You're, you don't have to worry about anything anymore. 733 00:37:44,659 --> 00:37:45,609 Everyone is chasing that. 734 00:37:45,959 --> 00:37:48,450 And we all look to different things to help us feel that rest. 735 00:37:48,739 --> 00:37:50,009 Some of us think it comes from money. 736 00:37:50,199 --> 00:37:51,869 Some of us think it comes from relationships. 737 00:37:52,070 --> 00:37:55,100 Some of us think it comes from getting all the things we want. 738 00:37:56,459 --> 00:37:59,269 We all look to different things to find this rest, and Jesus says, 739 00:37:59,409 --> 00:38:05,390 "What's really gonna make you happy is if you trust me with your soul." 740 00:38:06,500 --> 00:38:06,640 Right? 741 00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:09,409 Jesus is ultimately who fills your soul. 742 00:38:10,919 --> 00:38:13,759 And so if you really wanna be happy, you need to trust Jesus. 743 00:38:13,790 --> 00:38:17,999 You won't be happy apart from God because you are made to trust Jesus 744 00:38:21,774 --> 00:38:24,954 And so our third question is then, well, what do I do? 745 00:38:25,044 --> 00:38:27,504 What should I do with my soul? 746 00:38:30,968 --> 00:38:32,818 What should I do with my soul? 747 00:38:34,088 --> 00:38:37,078 Well, kinda like what we talked about with urgency is it happens little by little. 748 00:38:37,308 --> 00:38:41,718 What you do with your soul is happening with the thousands of 749 00:38:41,718 --> 00:38:44,018 little decisions you make every day. 750 00:38:45,028 --> 00:38:48,138 What you do with your soul is not just a couple big 751 00:38:48,138 --> 00:38:49,728 decisions that you make along… 752 00:38:49,898 --> 00:38:52,888 It's not just, oh, well, the, the most important things are where I 753 00:38:52,888 --> 00:38:56,288 go to college and who I get married to and where I, what I do for work. 754 00:38:57,328 --> 00:38:57,488 Right? 755 00:38:57,498 --> 00:38:59,778 There's, maybe you think, "Oh, yeah, that, that, that's gonna 756 00:38:59,778 --> 00:39:01,118 decide what happens with my soul." 757 00:39:01,128 --> 00:39:01,638 That's not true. 758 00:39:02,088 --> 00:39:05,978 What happens with your soul is day by day you make a bunch of decisions 759 00:39:06,488 --> 00:39:08,378 to either live for God or not to. 760 00:39:09,337 --> 00:39:11,828 And even if you're a Christian, that determines the health of your soul. 761 00:39:12,127 --> 00:39:13,128 Is your soul happy? 762 00:39:13,318 --> 00:39:14,778 Is your soul struggling? 763 00:39:14,978 --> 00:39:15,857 Is your soul strong? 764 00:39:15,868 --> 00:39:16,808 Is your soul resilient? 765 00:39:17,138 --> 00:39:20,417 Or is your soul weak and flimsy and anxious and 766 00:39:20,418 --> 00:39:21,707 stressed and worried and angry? 767 00:39:24,154 --> 00:39:25,294 So what do I do with my soul? 768 00:39:25,294 --> 00:39:28,644 Well, Jesus gives us two, uh, contradictory instructions, 769 00:39:28,644 --> 00:39:29,584 right, in this question. 770 00:39:30,814 --> 00:39:31,554 Uh, well, I'll go… 771 00:39:31,594 --> 00:39:32,234 Let's go back here. 772 00:39:32,414 --> 00:39:32,994 Verse 25. 773 00:39:33,154 --> 00:39:36,764 He says, "You should save your soul." 774 00:39:38,424 --> 00:39:38,754 Where? 775 00:39:38,804 --> 00:39:39,184 These up. 776 00:39:39,264 --> 00:39:42,344 He says, "Find your soul," sorry, and he says you should 777 00:39:42,354 --> 00:39:45,104 lose it at the same time, right? 778 00:39:45,104 --> 00:39:46,264 It's, it's contradictory instructions. 779 00:39:46,264 --> 00:39:47,864 What he's saying is you, you should… 780 00:39:47,964 --> 00:39:49,084 Don't lose your soul, right? 781 00:39:49,084 --> 00:39:51,124 He's saying, "Don't give it away to gain the world." 782 00:39:51,924 --> 00:39:52,464 Don't lose it. 783 00:39:52,464 --> 00:39:53,434 We talk about that a lot, right? 784 00:39:53,434 --> 00:39:57,203 Don't, don't attach your soul to the world and say, "I wish, want… 785 00:39:57,233 --> 00:39:59,314 I need all this stuff to, to fill me up," right? 786 00:39:59,634 --> 00:40:03,664 But what he's also saying is you need to give it away, right? 787 00:40:03,664 --> 00:40:03,824 The… 788 00:40:04,034 --> 00:40:05,994 It's, it's backward, and that's the point. 789 00:40:06,004 --> 00:40:08,933 Jesus is saying to save your life, you give it away. 790 00:40:10,483 --> 00:40:15,494 To, to really fill yourself up, you empty yourself. 791 00:40:17,274 --> 00:40:19,414 You say, "God, I'm gonna live for you, not for me." 792 00:40:20,233 --> 00:40:25,884 And really what happens is you get way more out of that than you ever 793 00:40:25,884 --> 00:40:27,054 would trying to live for yourself. 794 00:40:28,554 --> 00:40:33,364 So you keep your soul by giving your soul away, but you just 795 00:40:33,364 --> 00:40:34,324 give it away to the right person. 796 00:40:35,304 --> 00:40:39,543 You give it away to Jesus instead of the world, right? 797 00:40:39,544 --> 00:40:41,864 Jesus asks everything from you, right? 798 00:40:41,864 --> 00:40:44,984 Following Jesus, in a sense, is losing yourself, right? 799 00:40:44,984 --> 00:40:46,384 That's why he says, "Deny yourself. 800 00:40:46,574 --> 00:40:47,774 Take up your cross and follow me." 801 00:40:48,324 --> 00:40:52,364 You're, you're losing yourself, but you're gaining the real you. 802 00:40:53,283 --> 00:40:57,053 You're gaining what you're made for, because you're made for God. 803 00:40:58,143 --> 00:41:02,783 And so what I, I really, what I want you to think about is 804 00:41:03,734 --> 00:41:06,373 what's the condition of my soul? 805 00:41:08,234 --> 00:41:11,063 Is my soul trusting Jesus? 806 00:41:11,563 --> 00:41:12,924 Is my soul living for Jesus? 807 00:41:13,663 --> 00:41:18,603 Is my soul healthy or is my soul selfish? 808 00:41:18,614 --> 00:41:19,854 Is my soul living for the world? 809 00:41:21,413 --> 00:41:23,074 And we'll talk about that more in small groups, okay? 810 00:41:23,433 --> 00:41:26,893 Let's pray, and we'll get you to, to groups. 811 00:41:30,070 --> 00:41:30,940 God, we are 812 00:41:33,304 --> 00:41:35,934 Grateful that you tell us what we need to know about ourselves. 813 00:41:36,444 --> 00:41:42,404 Um, you are the expert on who we are, and so I pray that you help us to 814 00:41:42,974 --> 00:41:46,894 trust you, to remember that you know us better than we know ourselves, 815 00:41:47,474 --> 00:41:50,344 and that we will remember that your instructions for us are for our good. 816 00:41:50,354 --> 00:41:55,274 They come from a God who loves us, a God who made us to, to 817 00:41:55,274 --> 00:41:57,974 live for you because you care. 818 00:41:58,484 --> 00:41:59,404 You want what's best for us. 819 00:41:59,404 --> 00:42:02,464 And so help us to, to trust you with that, to trust you with our souls. 820 00:42:02,464 --> 00:42:05,414 I pray for students here who are living for the world, that you would 821 00:42:05,414 --> 00:42:08,094 help them to see that it's empty, that they, they won't get anything out of 822 00:42:08,094 --> 00:42:09,944 it, and they'll regret it forever. 823 00:42:10,513 --> 00:42:14,253 Um, and I pray that you give them the, the clarity, the, the, 824 00:42:14,454 --> 00:42:15,974 to be able to, to realize that. 825 00:42:16,044 --> 00:42:19,963 I pray that you shake them awake and help them to see, um, the 826 00:42:20,423 --> 00:42:25,014 self-destructive desires they have and, and turn to, to follow you. 827 00:42:25,774 --> 00:42:27,204 So we pray this all in Jesus' name. 828 00:42:27,803 --> 00:42:28,223 Amen.