<center>In Matthew 16, Jesus approaches what great it is for a man to pick up the entire world yet lose his spirit (Matthew 16:26). To pick up the entire world is to get all the world brings to the table—cash, popularity, delight, control, notoriety, and so forth. To lose one's spirit is to pass on without a correct association with Christ and spend an unending length of time in the pool of flame.</center>

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<center>*With regards to His facetious inquiry, the Lord was anticipating His misery and demise and revival (Matthew 16:21). At the point when Peter opposed His educating, Jesus reprimanded him and stated, "You don't have at the top of the priority list the worries of God, yet simply human concerns" (verse 23). Jesus at that point addressed the group and advised them that there was nothing worth more than one's own particular everlasting soul. Dismissing Christ may mean brief, natural increases, however it comes best case scenario conceivable cost.*</center>


<center>The Jewish individuals had been sitting tight for a Promised One for a long time. Most expected that this Messiah would be a military pioneer or a ruler like David or Solomon. Jesus' followers perceived that He was the One whom the prophets had anticipated. Be that as it may, Jesus did not talk about overcoming with an armed force or by assuming control over the administration. Rather, Jesus showed that the Messiah would endure and pass on account of men.</center>

<center>Just before He asks, "What positive attitude it be for somebody to pick up the entire world, yet relinquish their spirit?" Jesus says that, keeping in mind the end goal to genuinely take after Christ, individuals must will to "deny themselves and take up their cross and tail me" (Matthew 16:24). To take up one's cross is a reference to being sentenced to bite the dust. Jesus' announcement is representative of an aggregate, last duty.</center>


<center>*As such, one should will to surrender everything with a specific end goal to be an adherent of Jesus Christ. Common enduring shouldn't be an impediment. This is the setting of Jesus' inquiry "What great is it for somebody to pick up the entire world, yet relinquish their spirit?" If a man rejects Jesus and turns into the wealthiest, most intense individual on earth, he has still settled on a poor choice. At some point or another, natural things will blur away. What's more, that individual will have lost the main piece of himself that keeps going forever. The moment of retribution is coming: "For the Son of Man will come in his Father's brilliance with his holy messengers, and after that he will remunerate every individual as indicated by what they have done" (Matthew 16:27).*</center>

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<center>There is nothing more significant than a man's spirit. To exchange that away is the exemplification of stupidity. At the point when a man grasps this world rather than paradise, he is relinquishing his spirit. On the off chance that a man rejects Christ for anything in this life, he will lose his spirit. Esau disdained his inheritance, picking stew rather; Judas sold the Savior for a couple of bits of silver; Demas adored this present world and neglected the service. Each of the three men thought they were picking up something all things considered lost everything.</center>

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