IF YOU LOSE

 

I.  DEFINE LOSE:  (Webster's)

            1.  to bring to ruin or destruction  2.  to become unable to find

            3.  to have taken away from one by accident, death, removal, etc. ; to be deprived of

            4.  to fail to keep ( a state of mind or body, one's position, etc.

            7. to fail to win: as, we lost the game

 

II.  A PART OF:

            A.  Playing Games

            B.  Gambling (I don't recommend it.)

            C.  Competition on the Job, School, Etc.

            D.  Life 

                        Eccl.  3:6 “A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;”

 

                        Definition in O.T. 06

 06 'abad {aw-bad'} a primitive root; TWOT - 2; v

 

AV - perish 98, destroy 62, lose 10, fail 2, surely 2, utterly 2, broken 1, destruction 1, escape 1, flee 1, spendeth 1, take 1, undone 1, void 1; 184

 

1) perish, vanish, go astray, be destroyed

            1a) (Qal)

                        1a1) perish, die, be exterminated

                        1a2) perish, vanish (fig.)

                        1a3) be lost, strayed

            1b) (Piel)

                        1b1) to destroy, kill, cause to perish, to give up (as lost), exterminate

                        1b2) to blot out, do away with, cause to vanish, (fig.)

                        1b3) cause to stray, lose

            1c) (Hiphil)

                        1c1) to destroy, put to death

                                    1c1a) of divine judgment

                        1c2) object name of kings (fig.)

 

III.  EVERYONE LOSES  (Sooner or Later.)

 

IV.  LEARNING TO LOSE

            A.  Can be emotionally healthy.

            B.  Can develop character.

            C.  Can prepare for more competition.

            D.  Can be good.

 

V.  SOME CAN NOT BEAR TO LOSE

            A.  Arguments occur.

            B.  Fights --> Ex:  Argument over Bible --> One man was shot in the face.

            C.  Riots --> Hockey Games, Etc.  (Someone said, "I went to a fight the other night

                        and a hockey game broke out.")

            D.  Even Murder --> Cain could not bear to lose to hiis brother Abel.

                        I John 3:12  “Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother.

            And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s                                   righteous.”

 

VI.  SOME THINGS HAVE BEEN LOST AND FOUND

                        (The chapter of the lost and found.)

            A.  A man lost a sheep --> he left the fold to find it. 

                        Luke 15:4 “What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose (622) one of them,                

doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost,                     

until he find it?”

 

                        Other Scriptures: 

                        Mt 18:12 “How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone                             

astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and                         

seeketh that which is gone astray?”

 

                        Isa 53:6 “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own                               

way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.”

 

                        Jer 50:6 “My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go                                                                    astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from                                                                     mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace.”

 

                        Ezek 34:11 “For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, will both search my                                                                      sheep, and seek them out.”

                       

                        I Peter 2:25 “For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the

                                    Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.”

  

            B.  A woman lost a coin --> she did light a candle to find it. 

                        Luke 15:8 “Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose (622)one piece,               

doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it?”

 

            C.  A Father lost a son --> he waited for his return.  Luke 15:11-13 & 24

                        (v. 11) “And he said, A certain man had two sons:”

                        (v. 12)  “And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of                                

goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living.”

(v. 13)  “And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his                             journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.”

                        (v. 24)  “For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And                                                     they began to be merry.”

 

VII.  SOME THINGS CAN BE LOST--> But can be recovered.

            A.  If you lose a game --> you can play again.

            B.  If you lose a car --> you can buy another one.

            C.  If you lose a house --> perhaps you can purchase another.

            D.  If you lose a job--> you can search, move, retrain, etc.

 

VIII.  SOME THINGS CAN BE LOST --> But never recovered.  It's final.

A.     A farmer lost his soul -->he was a fool.  Luke 12: 20 “But God said unto him, Thou fool,                

this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which                    

thou hast provided?”

 

                        Job 27:8 “For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when

                                    God taketh away his soul?”

 

            B.  A certain rich man lost his soul --> he lifted up his eyes in HELL. 

                        Luke 16:19 & 26

                        (v. 19) “There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and                           

fared sumptuously every day:”

                        (v. 26) “And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they                          

which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that                            

would come from thence.”

 

            C.  If you lose your soul--> you would give anything to regain it.

                        Job 2:4 “And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man                            

hath will he give for his life.”

 

IX.  IF YOU LOSE YOUR SOUL

            A.  You can lose your soul 

                        Mt 16:26 “For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose                                                             (2210) his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?”

                       

                        Lose Defined 2210

                       

 2210 zemioo {dzay-mee-o'-o}  from 2209; TDNT - 2:888,299; v

 

AV - lose 2, suffer loss 2, be cast away 1, receive damage 1; 6

 

1) to affect with damage, do damage to

2) to sustain damage, to receive injury, suffer loss

 

                        Luke 9:25 “For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and

                                    lose (622) himself, or be cast away?”

 

           

 

            Lose Defined:  N.T. 622

 622 apollumi {ap-ol'-loo-mee} from 575 and the base of 3639; TDNT - 1:394,67; v

 

AV - perish 33, destroy 26, lose 22, be lost 5, lost 4, misc 2; 92

 

1) to destroy

            1a) to put out of the way entirely, abolish, put an end to ruin

            1b) render useless

            1c) to kill

            1d) to declare that one must be put to death

            1e) metaph. to devote or give over to eternal misery in hell

            1f) to perish, to be lost, ruined, destroyed

2) to destroy

            2a) to lose

 

            B.  What is your soul? 

 5590 psuche {psoo-khay'} from 5594; TDNT - 9:608,1342; n f

 

AV - soul 58, life 40, mind 3, heart 1, heartily + 1537 1, not tr 2; 105

 

1) breath

            1a) the breath of life

                        1a1) the vital force which animates the body and shows itself in breathing

                                    1a1a) of animals

                        1a12) of men

            1b) life

            1c) that in which there is life

                        1c1) a living being, a living soul

2) the soul

            2a) the seat of the feelings, desires, affections, aversions (our heart, soul etc.)

            2b) the (human) soul in so far as it is constituted that by the right use of the aids offered it by      

God it can attain its highest end and secure eternal blessedness, the soul regarded as a              

moral being designed for everlasting life

            2c) the soul as an essence which differs from the body and is not dissolved by death                             

(distinguished from other parts of the body)

 

            C.  It's your soul and your responsibility.

            D.  It's final and forever.

 

            Luke 13:25 “When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye               

begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us;                  

and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are:”

 

             Mt 25:11-12 “Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.”

            (v.12)  “But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.” 

 

            Rev 14:11 “And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no               

rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the               

mark of his name.”

 

            Ps. 36:12 “There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down, and shall not be able to rise.”

 

            Prov 6:15 “Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.”

 

            E.  Satan will rejoice.

 

X.  WHAT WOULD YOU GIVE?

            A.  Would you give your heart?

            B.  Would you give your mind?

            C.  Would you give your soul ... to God for safe keeping?

                        II Timothy 1:12 “For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not

                                    ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able                           

to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.”

 

                        Jude 1:24 “Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you                                                                      faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,”

 

XI.  THERE'S TOO MUCH TO GAIN TO LOSE --> SONG

 

            II John 1:8 “Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but                    

that we receive a full reward.”