Perfume has three parts: it is liquid, it has fragrance, and it is in a bottle. You can’t separate them unless the perfume is used up or the bottle breaks. Likewise, every person is three parts—body, spirit, and soul. Just as the fragrance is the perfume, so the soul is the person. You are the soul: Therefore, YOU are the soul. That is why we sometimes say, “There wasn’t a single soul in the big hall.” That means there wasn’t a single person in the big hall.” The person is the soul. You have a body, you have a spirit, but you are the soul—the person! Now the soul is in serious danger! Let me tell you why. The Lord Jesus once asked, "What does it profit a person if he gains the whole world and loses his soul? Or what can a person give in return for his soul" (Mark 8:37)? This means that if you put everything in this world together on one side and put the soul on another side, the soul is more important that everything in the world combined! The heart of man: When sin entered the world through Adam and Eve, “the Lord saw that man was very sinful on the earth. Every plan and thought of the heart of man was sinful always” (Genesis 6:5). The “man” here refers to every soul. It is the soul that sins, that disobeys God. The soul doubts and disbelieves the Scriptures. The soul gets discouraged, gets angry, thinks evil, speaks evil, misbehaves, and does all kinds of evil. Even when we try to do good, bad things lie close by. Satan, the world, and our flesh cause us to sin against God. That is why the soul is in danger. It is in danger because it will someday face judgment. The Bible says, "It is appointed unto man to die once and after that judgement” (Hebrews 9:27). The soul shall be judged because the soul is a sinner. We learn from the Scriptures that everybody is a sinner. “All have sinned and fall short of God’s glory” (Romans 3:23). Bad and good news: Again, the soul is in danger because the soul will face death! From the first half of Romans 6:23, we read that “The wages of sin is death . . .” That is bad news! But there is good news in the second half of the passage, which is, “. . . but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” So only the soul that has not received the gift of God is in danger. Those who have received the gift of God are out of danger. The gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus. Those who have Christ Jesus have eternal life, and they are saved. “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus” (Romans 8:1). Therefore, an unsaved soul faces condemnation and is in serious danger. To escape condemnation, the soul must repent and receive Jesus, the Saviour. God cares for the soul. He doesn’t want any soul to perish, so he sent his only begotten Son to die for us. “For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life” (John 3:16). Repent and ask God for forgiveness. Choose salvation for your soul. Invite Jesus into your life today and save your soul from danger.
Perfume has three parts: it is liquid, it has fragrance, and it is in a bottle. You can’t separate them unless the perfume is used up or the bottle breaks. Likewise, every person is three parts—body, spirit, and soul. Just as the fragrance is the perfume, so the soul is the person. You are the soul: Therefore, YOU are the soul. That is why we sometimes say, “There wasn’t a single soul in the big hall.” That means there wasn’t a single person in the big hall.” The person is the soul. You have a body, you have a spirit, but you are the soul—the person! Now the soul is in serious danger! Let me tell you why. The Lord Jesus once asked, "What does it profit a person if he gains the whole world and loses his soul? Or what can a person give in return for his soul" (Mark 8:37)? This means that if you put everything in this world together on one side and put the soul on another side, the soul is more important that everything in the world combined! The heart of man: When sin entered the world through Adam and Eve, “the Lord saw that man was very sinful on the earth. Every plan and thought of the heart of man was sinful always” (Genesis 6:5). The “man” here refers to every soul. It is the soul that sins, that disobeys God. The soul doubts and disbelieves the Scriptures. The soul gets discouraged, gets angry, thinks evil, speaks evil, misbehaves, and does all kinds of evil. Even when we try to do good, bad things lie close by. Satan, the world, and our flesh cause us to sin against God. That is why the soul is in danger. It is in danger because it will someday face judgment. The Bible says, "It is appointed unto man to die once and after that judgement” (Hebrews 9:27). The soul shall be judged because the soul is a sinner. We learn from the Scriptures that everybody is a sinner. “All have sinned and fall short of God’s glory” (Romans 3:23). Bad and good news: Again, the soul is in danger because the soul will face death! From the first half of Romans 6:23, we read that “The wages of sin is death . . .” That is bad news! But there is good news in the second half of the passage, which is, “. . . but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” So only the soul that has not received the gift of God is in danger. Those who have received the gift of God are out of danger. The gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus. Those who have Christ Jesus have eternal life, and they are saved. “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus” (Romans 8:1). Therefore, an unsaved soul faces condemnation and is in serious danger. To escape condemnation, the soul must repent and receive Jesus, the Saviour. God cares for the soul. He doesn’t want any soul to perish, so he sent his only begotten Son to die for us. “For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life” (John 3:16). Repent and ask God for forgiveness. Choose salvation for your soul. Invite Jesus into your life today and save your soul from danger.