What are You WORTH?

We need to KNOW:Genesis 1: 26 Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.“ 27 So God created man in His Own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

  • Psalm 139:14 I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well.
  • Our children need to KNOW, too! Ephesians 6:4 And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord.

Our self worth:Are we worth MORE?orAre we worth LESS?

Sin entered the world to make people chase false goals:

•Looks

•Money

•Popularity

•Power…

Why do bad things happen(to good people)?

•Because God doesn’t care?

•God cared enough to give us Free Will.

•People choose to use it for Evil.

I Corinthians 7:31 … For the form of this world is passing away.

Hebrews 11:25 choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin,

I John 2:17 Andthe world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the Will of God abides forever.

Sometimes good people suffer evil at the hands of others and it changes their view of self-worth.But GOD clearly shows that our worth is not measured so.

Isaiah 49:14 But Zion said, "The Lord has forsaken me, and my Lord has forgotten me.“ 15 "Can a woman forget her nursing child, and not have compassion on the son of her womb? Surely they may forget, yet I will not forget you.”

Romans 5:6 For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates His Own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Everything has a proper value

Why do so many young people in our society go to a church building, movie house or school to destroy all the lives they can?

Why has our great nation Aborted over 60,000,000babies since 1973?

Why is Islam known since its beginning for aggressive hatred, beheadings, violence toward women and mass murder?

Why were Hirohito and the Japanese Empire known for extreme brutality and mass murder?

Adolph Hitler and the Nazis?

Joseph Stalin and the Soviets?

Mao Tse Tung and the ChiComs?

No Jesus Mass murder

  • I Thessalonians 5:23 Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ

Ecclesiastes 12:7 Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God Who gave it.

  • James 2:26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

Ecclesiastes 3:21 Who knows the spirit of the sons of men, which goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, which goes down to the earth?

  • Matthew 10:29 Are not two sparrows sold for a copper coin? And not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father's Will. 30 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. 31 Do not fear therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.

Matthew 12:11 Then He said to them, "What man is there among you who has one sheep, and if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not lay hold of it and lift it out? 12 Of how much more valuethen is a man than a sheep?...

  • Matthew 16:26 For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?

John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gaveHis only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

  • The “Gospel” = TheGood News. It shows us what we’re worth according to the Creator and Sustainer of the Universe…and Heaven!

I Corinthians 15:1 Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the Gospel which I preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand, 2 by which also you are saved, if you hold fast that Word which I preached to you--unless you believed in vain. 3 For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures, 5 and that He was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve …last of all He was seen by me also, as by one born out of due time. 9 For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the Church of God. 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. 11 Therefore, whether it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.

  • I John 4:9 In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

Acts 13:46…"It was necessary that the Word of God should be spoken to you first; but since you reject it, and judge yourselvesunworthy of Everlasting Life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.

Do you understand your VALUE?

Take your rightful place!

WHAT MUST I DO TO BE SAVED?

Hear The Gospel (John 5:24; Romans 10:17)Believe the Word of God (John 3:16-18; John 8:24)

Repent Of Your Sins (Luke 13:1-5; Acts 2:38)Confess Jesus as Christ (Matthew 10:32; Romans 10:10)

Be Baptized (Acts 22:16; Galatians 3:27)Remain Faithful for Life (John 8:31; Rev. 2:10)

FOR THE ERRING CHILD OF GOD:

Repent (Acts 8:22), Confess (I John 1:9), Pray (Acts 8:22)

Greg Madden PO Box 1914 Soldotna, AK 99669-1914 Funny River Rd church of Christ