Benefit Forfeit Gain Gets Lose Loss Profit Soul Suffer Yet
8:36 {11} For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
(11) They are the most foolish of all men who purchase the pleasures of this life with the loss of everlasting bliss.
8:31-38 He began to teach them, etc. For the first announcement of the suffering of our Lord, the rebuke of Peter, and the lesson concerning the cross, and saving the soul, see notes on Mt 16:21-28. Compare Lu 9:22-27.
8:34-38 Frequent notice is taken of the great flocking there was to Christ for help in various cases. All are concerned to know this, if they expect him to heal their souls. They must not indulge the ease of the body. As the happiness of heaven with Christ, is enough to make up for the loss of life itself for him, so the gain of all the world in sin, will not make up for the ruin of the soul by sin. And there is a day coming, when the cause of Christ will appear as glorious, as some now think it mean and contemptible. May we think of that season, and view every earthly object as we shall do at that great day.
Benefit Forfeit Gain Gets Good Life Profit Soul Suffer Whole World
Benefit Forfeit Gain Gets Good Life Profit Soul Suffer Whole World
