The Message of Losing to Win in Matthew 16:24-26
Jesus teaches in Matthew 16:24-26 the concept of losing to win, emphasizing the surrender of one's own desires to follow Him. He explains that holding onto worldly possessions or pursuits leads to ultimate loss, while sacrificing for His sake leads to true gain and eternal life. The verses highlight the value of the soul over material gain and the rewards of dedicating one's life to Christ. This message is further supported by the apostle Paul's example of considering all things as loss for the sake of knowing Christ.
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LOSING TO WIN Matthew 16:24-26 24Then Jesus said to His disciples, If any of you wants to be My follower, You must give up your own way, Take up your cross, and follow me.
LOSING TO WIN Matthew 16:24-26 25 If you try to hang on to your life, You will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake, You will save it.
LOSING TO WIN Matthew 16:24-26 26And what do you benefit If you gain the whole world But lose your own soul? Is anything worth more than your soul?
LOSING TO WIN I. HANGING ON IS LOSING (MATT. 16:25a) If you try to hang on to your life, You will lose it.
LOSING TO WIN 28Then Agrippa said to Paul, You almost persuade me to become a Christian. Acts 26:28
LOSING TO WIN II. LOSING IS FINDING (MATT. 16:25b) But if you give up your life for my sake, You will save it.
LOSING TO WIN And everyone who has given up houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or property, for my sake, will receive a hundred times as much in return and will inherit eternal life. Matt. 19:29
LOSING TO WIN III. LOSS IS GAIN (MATT. 16:26) And what do you benefit If you gain the whole world But lose your own soul? Is anything worth more than your soul?
LOSING TO WIN 7But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. 8Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ Phil. 3:7-8
