# 515 - Today's Du-votional comes from: Mr 8:36,37 "For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? "Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?”
If we were to look at this statement as if it were some kind of a business proposition. We could break it down into two columns.....profit and loss. Jesus holds nothing of the material world back. He says “the whole world.” Go ahead, try and write every possible benefit the world has to offer, everything you could possibly enjoy and possess with no thought of a personal, saving, relationship with Christ.
That would be quite a list and even then it would not be complete. You couldn't even possibly think of all the world has to offer! No one has it all, but dream that you could.
Now, in the loss column, write in “my soul.” In the end, what will you have? Nothing but a Christ-less eternity. An eternity of torment and a total absence of anything good! How does that play out on the balance sheet now?
When you look at it this way, the only possible reason for men to reject Christ, is they do not believe in the existence of hell. Maybe we need a little more hellfire in the pulpits of the land! A little more healthy fear of the Lord! Jesus said in Luke 12:5, “But I will warn you whom to fear: fear him who after He has killed, has authority to cast into hell. Yes I tell you, fear Him!
Father, we don't like to talk about hell, but You are a just God, and without hell, there is no justice. Without hell Jesus dies for nothing. Thank You for Your assurance that You take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, and let the realities of hell impel us to bring the gospel to the lost. In Jesus name amen.
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