{"id":128905,"date":"2021-09-25T04:19:45","date_gmt":"2021-09-25T09:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/?p=128905"},"modified":"2021-09-24T09:30:37","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T14:30:37","slug":"28-j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/25\/28-j\/","title":{"rendered":"28.j. “For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul?”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Philippians 3:7\u00a0 <\/span>But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Proverbs 13:8<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0The ransom of a man’s life is his wealth, but a poor man hears no threat.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span> <\/b>Matthew 16:26<\/b><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Luke 14:33<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Romans 8:18<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

We are continuously tempted to put our trust in ourselves, money, health, possessions, savings, etc\u2026 It is as if we are trusting in these things to give us peace of mind, hope for the future, and worry-free lives.\u00a0 <\/span>There are always going to be temptations to want to rely on, trust in, and cling to what we have, what we want, what we acquire, and other things of this world more than Jesus Christ.\u00a0 <\/span>It is in Him we find a peace that passes all understanding.\u00a0 <\/span>Peace the world has to offer is temporal, foundationally weak, and robs us of true peace.\u00a0 <\/span>Chasing after these false promises of peace keeps the busyness of life very active in our lives.\u00a0 <\/span>Every day a new current of false promises blows in promising just one more rung on the ladder to climb.\u00a0 <\/span>To what end? Are we any closer to Christ? Do our possessions and bank accounts bring us to a deeper relationship with Christ? Are we happier? Are we deeply satisfied? Are we content? At the end of the day are have we found purpose, satisfaction, contentment, and meaning for our lives?\u00a0 <\/span>Prosperity and ease of life offer peace but over and over again it leads people away from Christ and they neglect God\u2019s Word and become complacent in their desire to know more and more of God\u2019s grace, mercy, and love.\u00a0 <\/span>Their spiritual growth does not exist.\u00a0 <\/span>It is a very slippery slope away from God when we give in to the temptations of this world to put our trust in ourselves, money, health, possessions, savings, etc\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Philippians 3:7\u00a0 But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain … Continue reading “28.j. “For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul?””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3345,185,2,15381,281,3184,530,76,165,796,282,2963,5654,321,3740,121,3347,226,3019,1305,280],"class_list":["post-128905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-christ","tag-disciple","tag-faith","tag-forfeits","tag-gain","tag-give","tag-glory","tag-god","tag-jesus","tag-lord","tag-loss","tag-poor-man","tag-present-time","tag-profit","tag-revealed","tag-righteousness","tag-rubbish","tag-soul","tag-suffered","tag-wealth","tag-worth"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128905"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128987,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128905\/revisions\/128987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}