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"Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven.." Matthew 6:19-20.
1. Are money and material things the most valuable things you could lose?
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"When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take care of me." Psalm 27:10.
2. Is your family the most valuable thing you could lose?
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"For bodily exercise profits a little, but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come." 1 Timothy 4:8.
3. Is your health the most valuable thing you could lose?
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"I said in my heart, 'Come now, I will test you with mirth; therefore enjoy pleasure'; but surely, this also was vanity. I said of laughter--'Madness!' and of mirth, 'What does it accomplish?'" Ecclesiates 2:1-2.
4. Is pleasure the most valuable thing you could lose?
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"Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him." John 6:27.
5. Is your job the most valuable thing you could lose?
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"For what profit is it to man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul? For the Son of Man will come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and then He will reward each according to his works." Matthew 16:26-27.
6. Is your soul the most valuable thing you could lose?
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"Yet 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." Philippians 3:8.
7. Is anything more important than being right with Christ?
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"For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God," Romans 3:23.
8. Have you sinned?
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"For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 6:23.
9. What is the result of your sin?
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"But your iniquities have separated you from your God; And your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He will not hear." Isaiah 59:2.
10. Our own sins cause separation _____________________.
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"And to give you who are troubled rest with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. These shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power." 2 Thessalonians 1:7-9.
11. Those who remain lost will _____________________.
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"O Lord, I know the way of man is not in himself; It is not in man who walks to direct his own steps." Jeremiah 10:23.
12. Can you be saved by your own devices?
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"For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast." Ephesians 2:8-9.
13. Can you earn your salvation by just doing good works?
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"O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?" Romans 7:24.
14. Do you need a Savior?
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"From this man's seed, according to the promise, God raised up for Israel a Savior--Jesus--" Acts 13:24.
15. Who is the Savior?
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"But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." Romans 5:8.
16. What did Jesus do for us?
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"Therefore I endure all things for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory." 2 Timothy 2:10.
17. Do you need to be in Christ to be saved?
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