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LOSE YOUR LIFE(1)

Text :Mark 8:35 

For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it._

If you critically consider this statement made by Jesus, you will realise that man generally does not like to lose his life. We have a life that is contrary to the  kind of life God wanted us to live. Since the fall of man in the garden of Eden, man has been living a life that is contrary to that of God(Gen. 6:5-6).

After the fall, man now live from the realm of the soul and not from their spirit. This is because man died on the very day he ate the forbidden  fruit.(Gen 2:17).

The soulish life is what Jesus has come to terminate. Jesus came to give us the Life of God (zoe) so that we can loose the soulish life(psuche).

Jesus said "....I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly"(John 10:10). The *life* referred to here is the life of God. Many has been misinterpreting this verse to mean all kinds of things. What Jesus promised us in John 10:10 is primarily God's LIFE. He did not come to give man more money or silver and Gold(man already had plenty of that before Jesus came).

You must know that Jesus did not come to HELP your(soulish) life, He came to terminate it and to start you on the new life(of God). That is the reason He is saying to us in Mark 8:35 that we should lose our life so we can gain it.

If you don't lose your soulish life, you will eventually loose it in eternal perdition. 

Your soulish life only wants to live for lust of the eyes, lust of the flesh and pride of life. This soulish life only wants to live for the present. The soulish life does not like to go deeper with God. He only believes what he can see, feel, taste, touch  and smell(senses). The soulish life is a life lived within your senses. It is  a life that is free from the rule and authority of God. The soulish life is indeed the prodigal son. He likes to live away from God-he does his own thing the way he likes. The soulish life loves and lives for himself. The soulish life can even be a church goer but only serve God at his own terms and conditions. The soulish life always wants to be the king. He likes to always take the driver seat.  He does not want the life of God at all. He has not been under the rule of any other since the fall of man. 

Our saviour came and He never lived from this soulish life,but from zoe life. He never allowed the soulish life to rule him. Jesus took the rule from the soulish life.

Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father. John 10:17-18

You must lose life to gain LIFE!

John 5:30, 10:17,12:25

Bible reading: Romans 8:39

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