{"id":459,"date":"2011-08-04T11:04:35","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T16:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=459"},"modified":"2014-12-16T11:21:42","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:21:42","slug":"he-that-loveth-his-life-shall-lose-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=459","title":{"rendered":"He that Loveth His Life Shall Lose It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>John 12:20-27<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> To often we refuse to do the unpleasant task because there is a more pleasant and easier way to please self. The Greeks were knocking at his door for admission. Sheep of another folded.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> I: &#8220;Now is My Soul Troubled.&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n1. The burdens of a lost world.<br \/>\n2. The grain of wheat must be planted. His life to be given for others.<br \/>\n3. A shameful death, the agony of separation from the Father.<br \/>\n4. He was walking with: Abraham to Mt. Moriah,<br \/>\na. Setting with Job on the ash heap.<br \/>\nb. With David as he wept for Absolem.<br \/>\nc. Elijah under the Juniper Tree.<br \/>\nd. With Jeremiah as he watched a Nation die.<br \/>\n5. It is questionable if any life reaches its prime, or unfolds its beauty until there has dark valley crossed with cries of pain and the soul has tasted the cup of sorrow!<\/p>\n<p><strong> II: &#8220;What Shall I Say?&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n1. His soul shaken, his mind troubled.<br \/>\n2. The possibility of escape always present. (He could have called 10,000 angels).<br \/>\n3. Most times there is an easier way, but someone pays the price.<br \/>\n4. The human heart shrinks from pain, suffering, and sacrifice. It is easier to profess Christianity than to be a cross bearing Christian.<br \/>\n5. Spiritual Churches cost in time, talent, money, and plain sweat.<br \/>\n6. Jesus paid the price!<\/p>\n<p><strong> III: &#8220;If any Man Wants to Enter My Service, He Must Follow My Way.&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n1. To reach the destiny of Jesus we just walk the narrow path he walked.<br \/>\n2. He came to minister unto, to seek, to die for.<br \/>\n3. &#8220;he that loves his life shall lose it.&#8221; John 12:25<br \/>\n4. no one can really live that is unwilling to die to self-centered living.<br \/>\n5. One can die in the pursuit of this world glitter and never really taste life!<\/p>\n<p><strong> The grain from the ancient tombs of Egypt. Delano 1954 George Theaubald.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/><input id=\"jsProxy\" onclick=\"jsCall();\" type=\"hidden\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John 12:20-27 To often we refuse to do the unpleasant task because there is a more pleasant and easier way to please self. The Greeks were knocking at his door for admission. Sheep of another folded. I: &#8220;Now is My Soul Troubled.&#8221; 1. The burdens of a lost world. 2. The grain of wheat must [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1611,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions\/1611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}