How Much Is It Worth? (3 of 3)
Series: Rich Toward God
Jeff Strite
Mark 4:1-20
OPEN: Several years ago this advertisement was placed in a New England are newspaper:
''Unknown item for sale. We know it's valuable; we just don't know what it is. If you can identify it, we'll sell it for $250.'' (Reader's Digest 9/02 p. 145)
Sometimes it's hard to decide what something is worth. My daddy once said that when you're selling something you can ask whatever you like. But something is only worth what someone else is willing to pay you for it.
ILLUS: About 10 years ago, a man was browsing at Music City Thrift Shop Nashville. He found an old yellowed rolled-up document that had the Declaration of Independence written on it. It was priced at $2.48, so he bought it.
But he was curious about it because it looked so old, and so he did some online research and then sent it to someone he trusted to evaluate it. It turned out it was one of the 200 ''official copies of the Declaration that had been commissioned by John Quincy Adams in 1820. The firm that examined it determined he could sell it for about $250,000
The man ended up selling it to an investment firm for almost ½ a million dollars. (https://www.deseretnews.com/article/680193028/Declaration-moves-from-rags-to-riches.html)
So, how much was that old yellowed scroll worth?
Well... it was worth whatever someone was willing to pay for it.
Now, here's a question: What are YOU worth?
Jesus compared your worth to a lost sheep, a lost coin and a lost Son. The Bible says you were worth so much that God gave His only begotten Son that whosoever should believe in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. That's how much you are worth to God.
But not everybody agrees. Sigmund Freud (the founder of psychoanalysis) once said: ''In the depths of my heart I can't help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.''
And in the days of Jesus, the Pharisees would have agreed ...
Series: Rich Toward God
Jeff Strite
Mark 4:1-20
OPEN: Several years ago this advertisement was placed in a New England are newspaper:
''Unknown item for sale. We know it's valuable; we just don't know what it is. If you can identify it, we'll sell it for $250.'' (Reader's Digest 9/02 p. 145)
Sometimes it's hard to decide what something is worth. My daddy once said that when you're selling something you can ask whatever you like. But something is only worth what someone else is willing to pay you for it.
ILLUS: About 10 years ago, a man was browsing at Music City Thrift Shop Nashville. He found an old yellowed rolled-up document that had the Declaration of Independence written on it. It was priced at $2.48, so he bought it.
But he was curious about it because it looked so old, and so he did some online research and then sent it to someone he trusted to evaluate it. It turned out it was one of the 200 ''official copies of the Declaration that had been commissioned by John Quincy Adams in 1820. The firm that examined it determined he could sell it for about $250,000
The man ended up selling it to an investment firm for almost ½ a million dollars. (https://www.deseretnews.com/article/680193028/Declaration-moves-from-rags-to-riches.html)
So, how much was that old yellowed scroll worth?
Well... it was worth whatever someone was willing to pay for it.
Now, here's a question: What are YOU worth?
Jesus compared your worth to a lost sheep, a lost coin and a lost Son. The Bible says you were worth so much that God gave His only begotten Son that whosoever should believe in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. That's how much you are worth to God.
But not everybody agrees. Sigmund Freud (the founder of psychoanalysis) once said: ''In the depths of my heart I can't help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.''
And in the days of Jesus, the Pharisees would have agreed ...
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