Our key verse this morning is found in Mattew 16:26
Matthew 16:26
26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or
what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
***I want to spend some time this morning talking with you about your Soul. You see we
live in a world that focus so much on our body. Jesus spent time talking about the real
you. I believe that the devil has successfully tricked mankind into misplaced affection
and focus on our bodies and has lead many to destruction.
You see I believe if you will really see yourself for who you are as created and valued by
God that it will change your life.
Transliteration
psychē (Key)
Pronunciation
psoo-khay' (SUE-HAY)
I. Breath, the breath of life
A. the vital force which animates the body and shows itself in breathing
I. the soul
1. the seat of the feelings, desires, affections, aversions
(our heart, soul etc.)
2. the (human) soul in so far as it is constituted that by the
right use of the aids offered it by God it can attain its
highest end and secure eternal blessedness, the soul
regarded as a moral being designed for everlasting life
3. the soul as an essence which differs from the body and is
not dissolved by death (distinguished from other parts of
the body)
***I want to show you from the Book of Matthew the times that Jesus spoke this
word soul. In these context I believe we can begin to understand how God looks
at your soul.
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Mat 2:20
Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of
Israel: for they are dead which sought the young child's life. G5590
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Mat 6:25
Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, G5590 what ye shall eat, or what ye
shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life G5590 more
than meat, and the body than raiment?
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Mat 10:28
And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the
soul: G5590 but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul G5590 and body in hell.
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Mat 10:39
He that findeth his life G5590 shall lose it: and he that loseth his life G5590 for my sake shall
find it.
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Mat 11:29
Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall
find rest unto your souls. G5590
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Mat 20:28
Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to
give his life G5590 a ransom for many.
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Mat 22:37
Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the
Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, G5590 and with all thy mind.
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Mat 26:38
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Then saith he unto them, My soul G5590 is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry
ye here, and watch with me.
*** I want to go back to the Old Testament that was written in Hebrew and share with
you the word used for Soul:
Transliteration
nep̄eš
Pronunciation
neh'-fesh
I. soul, self, life, creature, person, appetite, mind, living being, desire,
emotion, passion
1. that which breathes, the breathing substance or being,
soul, the inner being of man
2. living being
3. living being (with life in the blood)
4. the man himself, self, person or individual
5. seat of the appetites
6. seat of emotions and passions
7. activity of mind
8. activity of the will
9. activity of the character
I want to share some of the verses of scripture about the Soul from the Old
Testament for more context of meaning:
Gen 2:7
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his
nostrils the breath of life; and man became a H5315 living soul. H5315
***The first point of the Message this morning: God created your soul and gave
you the breath of life.
***Let’s pause here a moment and talk about the breath of life. There is a person
who really understood the source of life for himself and that was Job. My friends
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sometimes we go through things so hard and so painful that it takes all of our
effort just to breathe.
Sometimes when we are afraid we hold our breath. During times of panic attacks
or times of great anxiety we have to remind ourselves to take a deep breath. In
through the nose and out through the mouth.
Job was a man that God allowed to go through great hardship, pain and suffering
and it was during this time that Job really understood where his source of
strength and life came from. I want you to hear him speak about God’s breath in
his
Job 27:3
All the while my breath H5397 is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;
Job 32:8
But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration H5397 of the Almighty giveth them
understanding.
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Job 33:4
The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath H5397 of the Almighty hath given me life.
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Job 34:14
If he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath; H5397
Pro 20:27
The spirit H5397 of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the
belly.
***The first point of the Message this morning: God created your soul and gave
you the breath of life.
***The 2 nd point of the Message today: It is the breath of God that sustains your
life.
*** I want to share a very sobering fact with you. Everyone’s body dies the same
way. It does not matter what physical injury, sickness, disease that is the
beginning of a person’s physical death. In the end of life it is always the same…..a
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person’s body dies when oxygen can no longer reach the brain…. In the end we
all die physically when the breath of God no longer delivers life through the lungs
to the blood through the cardiovascular system to the tissue of the brain. This is
when the biology of the braincells can no longer produce electrical activity and
the body dies.
***The first point of the Message this morning: God created your soul and gave
you the breath of life.
***The 2 nd point of the Message today: It is the breath of God that sustains your
life.
***But lets go back and continue talking about your soul from the scriptures of
Hebrew Old Testament.
Pronunciation
Soul = neh'-fesh:
soul, self, life, creature, person, appetite, mind, living being, desire, emotion,
passion
I want you to turn to the Book of Genesis chapter 27 and I want you to see the
value and power of your soul. In Genesis chapter 27 Issac is coming to the end of
the life of his body. He knows it will not be long before his body will die. His eye
are already dim at this point and he knows it is time to give a blessing to his Son
Essau. Now many of you have heard this story many times and have always
focused on the deception of Rebekah and Jacob…..But this morning I want you to
see this story with the focus on what Issac’s soul is doing and not the actions of
Essau, Rebekah and Jacob. Focus on Issac
Genesis 27
1 And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could
not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto
him, Behold, here am I.
2 And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death:
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***What is Issac saying here? He is saying I know I am getting close to when the
breath of God that sustains my physical life will be taken away and my body will
die.
3 Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the
field, and take me some venison;
4 And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my
soul may bless thee before I die.
**Point #3 of the message today: There is a connection between the Soul, Spirit
and the body that is loosed in physical death.
Ecclesiastes 12:1-7
1 Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor
the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;
2 While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds
return after the rain:
3 In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow
themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the
windows be darkened,
4 And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and
he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be brought
low;
5 Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and
the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall
fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:
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6 Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be
broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.
7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God
who gave it.
**This word spirit here is different from the word Soul in the bible. This is the word:
Transliteration
rûaḥ
Pronunciation
roo'-akh
Gen 1:2
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the
deep. And the Spirit H7307 of God moved upon the face of the waters.
Gen 6:3
And the LORD said, My spirit H7307 shall not always strive with man, for
that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
Exo 28:3
And thou shalt speak unto all that are wise hearted, whom I have filled with the
spirit H7307 of wisdom, that they may make Aaron's garments to consecrate him, that he
may minister unto me in the priest's office.
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Exo 31:3
And I have filled him with the spirit H7307 of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in
knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship,
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Exo 35:21
And they came, every one whose heart stirred him up, and every one whom his
spirit H7307 made willing, and they brought the LORD'S offering to the work of the
tabernacle of the congregation, and for all his service, and for the holy garments.
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Exo 35:31
And he hath filled him with the spirit H7307 of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in
knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship;
**Back to Genesis 27:5 Issac has told his son to go hunt deer and make him some
stew that he loves and when he eats the stew his Soul will bless Essau before
Issac’s body dies.
Issac knew that when you eat with someone you open your soul to them. Paul
warns the church in 1 Corinthians that there are some people you should not eat
with. These Paul identifies as people who call themselves brothers or sisters in
Christ but are yielding their body’s and soul’s to the sins of fornication, covetous,
ect. Here is the thing.
1 Corinthians 5:11
11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a
brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolator, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an
extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
***The first point of the Message this morning: God created your soul and gave
you the breath of life.
***The 2 nd point of the Message today: It is the breath of God that sustains your
life.
**Point #3 of the message today: There is a connection between the Soul, Spirit
and the body that is loosed in physical death.
Point #4 of the message today: Be careful who you fellowship and eat with as it
opens your soul and spirit to that person.
Proverbs 22:24-25
24 Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:
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25 Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.
Back to Genesis 27:5
5 And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to
hunt for venison, and to bring it.
6 And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard thy father speak unto
Esau thy brother, saying,
7 Bring me venison, and make me savoury meat, that I may eat, and bless thee before
the LORD before my death.
8 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command thee.
9 Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats; and I will
make them savoury meat for thy father, such as he loveth:
10 And thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he may eat, and that he may bless thee before
his death.
11 And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I
am a smooth man:
12 My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall
bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.
13 And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son: only obey my voice,
and go fetch me them.
14 And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made
savoury meat, such as his father loved.
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15 And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which were with her in the
house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son:
16 And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of
his neck:
17 And she gave the savoury meat and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand
of her son Jacob.
18 And he came unto his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I; who art
thou, my son?
19 And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau thy first born; I have done according as thou
badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.
20 And Isaac said unto his son, How is it that thou hast found it so quickly, my son? And
he said, Because the LORD thy God brought it to me.
21 And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son,
whether thou be my very son Esau or not.
22 And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said, The voice is
Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.
23 And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's hands:
so he blessed him.
24 And he said, Art thou my very son Esau? And he said, I am.
25 And he said, Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may
bless thee. And he brought it near to him, and he did eat: and he brought him wine and
he drank.
26 And his father Isaac said unto him, Come near now, and kiss me, my son.
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27 And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled the smell of his raiment, and
blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which
the LORD hath blessed:
28 Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty
of corn and wine:
29 Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and
let thy mother's sons bow down to thee: cursed be every one that curseth thee, and
blessed be he that blesseth thee.
30 And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob
was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother
came in from his hunting.
31 And he also had made savoury meat, and brought it unto his father, and said unto his
father, Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that thy soul may bless me.
32 And Isaac his father said unto him, Who art thou? And he said, I am thy son, thy
firstborn Esau.
33 And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said, Who? where is he that hath taken
venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before thou camest, and have
blessed him? yea, and he shall be blessed.
34 And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a great and exceeding
bitter cry, and said unto his father, Bless me, even me also, O my father.
35 And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing.
36 And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he hath supplanted me these two
times: he took away my birthright; and, behold, now he hath taken away my blessing.
And he said, Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me?
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37 And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his
brethren have I given to him for servants; and with corn and wine have I sustained him:
and what shall I do now unto thee, my son?
38 And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my father? bless me, even
me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.
39 And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the
fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above;
40 And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass
when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.
***Question for you? How did Issac’s soul bless his Son Jacob? His soul used the
breath of God through his physical body to speak out words of blessing over his
son.
***The first point of the Message this morning: God created your soul and gave
you the breath of life.
***The 2 nd point of the Message today: It is the breath of God that sustains your
life.
**Point #3 of the message today: There is a connection between the Soul, Spirit
and the body that is loosed in physical death.
***Point #4 of the message today: Be careful who you fellowship and eat with as it
opens your soul and spirit to that person.
***Point #5 of the message today: It is through the power of your words that the
soul is expressed.
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Proverbs 18:21
King James Version
21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit
thereof.
Matthew 12:35-37
35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an
evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account
thereof in the day of judgment.
37 For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
Proverbs 10:19
19 In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.
Our key verse this morning is found in Mattew 16:26
Matthew 16:26
26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or
what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
*** In closing I want you to turn with me to Luke 12:12
Luke 12:15-32
15 And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life
consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
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16 And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought
forth plentifully:
17 And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where
to bestow my fruits?
18 And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I
bestow all my fruits and my goods.
19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take
thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
20 But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then
whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?
21 So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
22 And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life,
what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on.
23 The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment.
24 Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor
barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?
25 And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?
26 If ye then be not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought for the rest?
27 Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you,
that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
28 If then God so clothe the grass, which is to day in the field, and to morrow is cast into
the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith?
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29 And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful
mind.
30 For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth
that ye have need of these things.
31 But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you.
32 Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
***The first point of the Message this morning: God created your soul and gave
you the breath of life.
***The 2 nd point of the Message today: It is the breath of God that sustains your
life.
**Point #3 of the message today: There is a connection between the Soul, Spirit
and the body that is loosed in physical death.
***Point #4 of the message today: Be careful who you fellowship and eat with as it
opens your soul and spirit to that person.
***Point #5 of the message today: It is through the power of your words that the
soul is expressed.