• What Are You Worth?
• How to Measure Your True Value
• Mineral Makeup of the Human Body
• Organ Donation Value
• Input from Parents or Others Around Us
• Positive -“You’re worth a million bucks!”
• Negative - “You ain’t worth a plug nickel!”
• Self Esteem Begins Early
• Shaped by support of parents and other friends and peers
• Education and Training
• Through development of knowledge, talents, and job skills we develop a sense of our individual worth in the eyes of the world we live in
• Financial Net Worth
• Material Success
• We tend to measure our worth in terms of our material success or economic prosperity
• Our self worth depends on the standard we use to measure what we are worth
• We Can Think We’re Not Worth Much
• In a competitive world with fantasy perceptions of our own value, we may start to question our own value
• Replace these with the value God places on you
• Our true worth must be measured by how valuable we are to God
• God said, “You are worth a Son to Me!”
• Matthew 27:54 So when the centurion and those with him, who were guarding Jesus, saw the earthquake and the things that had happened, they feared greatly, saying,"Truly this was the Son of God!"
• Jesus Explained Why He Died
• Matthew 26:27-28 Then He took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, "Drink from it, all of you.
• 28 For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins..
• God So Loved Me that He Gave His Son for Me
• God so loved the world, but you were part of that world
• You are worth a Son to God!
• Did you have to get Straight A’s to be worthy?
• Romans 5:6-8
• Romans 5:6-8 For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die.8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
• Jesus Didn’t Die for Us Because We Did Enough
• Your Friend and Neighbor is worth a Son to God
• 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, … will inherit the kingdom of God.11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.
• What are they worth to you? Can You Give Up Bitterness?
• What are You Worth to You?
• Matthew 16:24-26 Then Jesus said to His disciples, "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.25 For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.26 For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?
• God isn’t trying to make it hard for us to go to heaven
• Hebrews 10:24-25 And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works,25 not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.
• God isn’t trying to make it hard for us to go to heaven
• Hebrews 10:24-25 And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works,25 not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.
• 1 Thessalonians 5:17 pray without ceasing,
• Is Your Life worth Surrendering?
• Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.
• Is Your Life worth Surrendering?
• Acts 2:38 Then Peter said to them,"Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
• What Are You Worth?
• How to Measure Your True Value