Transcript The Anatomy of Purity

PROVERBS 4:20-27
My son, give attention to my words;
Incline your ear to my sayings. Do not
let them depart from your sight; Keep
them in the midst of your heart. For
they are life to those who find them
And health to all their body.
PROVERBS 4:20-27
Watch over your heart with all diligence,
For from it flow the springs of life.
Put away from you a deceitful mouth And
put devious speech far from you.
Let your eyes look directly ahead And let
your gaze be fixed straight in front of you.
Watch the path of your feet And all your
ways will be established.
Do not turn to the right nor to the left; Turn
your foot from evil.
GUARD YOUR HEART
GUARD YOUR HEART
vs 23 - Watch over your
heart with all diligence,
For from it flow the
springs of life.
GUARD YOUR HEART
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Mind or seat of emotions
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Inner self (the real you)
Decision-making is carried out by the
heart.
Purpose, intention & will are activities of
the heart
Heart mentioned 80+ in Proverbs
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GUARD YOUR HEART
Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is more deceitful than all else
And is desperately sick; Who can
understand it?
Matthew 15:8
THIS PEOPLE HONORS ME WITH THEIR
LIPS, BUT THEIR HEART IS FAR AWAY
FROM ME.
GUARD YOUR HEART
Ezekiel 11:19; 36:26
19 “And I will give them one heart, and
put a new spirit within them. And I will
take the heart of stone out of their flesh
and give them a heart of flesh,”
26 “Moreover, I will give you a new heart
and put a new spirit within you; and I
will remove the heart of stone from your
flesh and give you a heart of flesh.”
GUARD YOUR HEART
Psalm 119:9-11
9 How can a young man keep his way pure? By
keeping it according to Your word.
10 With all my heart I have sought You; Do not
let me wander from Your commandments.
11 Your word I have treasured in my heart, That I
may not sin against You.
WATCH YOUR
MOUTH
WATCH YOUR MOUTH
vs 24 - Put away from you a
deceitful mouth And put
devious speech far from
you.
WATCH YOUR MOUTH
tongue – 60+ in Proverbs
Cursing/Swearing
½ truths & Exaggerations
Rumors
“N” word
WATCH YOUR MOUTH
Matthew 12:34
Brood of vipers! How can you, being evil,
speak good things? For out of the
abundance of the heart the mouth
speaks.
Matthew 15:18
But the things that proceed out of the
mouth come from the heart, and those
defile the man.
WATCH YOUR MOUTH
James 3:3-12
But no one can tame the tongue; it is a restless
evil and full of deadly poison. With it we bless
our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men,
who have been made in the likeness of God;
from the same mouth come both blessing and
cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to
be this way. Does a fountain send out from the
same opening both fresh and bitter water? Can
a fig tree, my brethren, produce olives, or a vine
produce figs? Nor can salt water produce fresh.
WATCH YOUR MOUTH
Ephesians 4:29
Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your
mouths, but only what is helpful for building
others up according to their needs, that it may
benefit those who listen.
Ephesians 5:4
Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or
coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather
thanksgiving.
WATCH YOUR MOUTH
Matthew 12:35-37
"The good man brings out of his good treasure
what is good; and the evil man brings out of his
evil treasure what is evil. "But I tell you that
every careless word that people speak, they
shall give an accounting for it in the day of
judgment. "For by your words you will be
justified, and by your words you will be
condemned."
FIX
YOUR
EYES
FIX YOUR EYES
vs 25 - Let your eyes look
directly ahead And let
your gaze be fixed
straight in front of you.
FIX YOUR EYES
Luke 11:33-35
“No one, after lighting a lamp, puts it away in a
cellar nor under a basket, but on the lampstand,
so that those who enter may see the light. The
eye is the lamp of your body; when your eye is
clear, your whole body also is full of light; but
when it is bad, your body also is full of darkness.
Then watch out that the light in you is not
darkness.”
FIX YOUR EYES
Psalm 141:8
But my eyes are fixed on you, O Sovereign Lord; in you I take
refuge—do not give me over to death.
Hebrews 12:2
Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our
faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross,
scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the
throne of God.
Job 31:1
"I made a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully at a girl.”
MAKE LEVELS PATHS…
FEET
VS 26 - GIVE CAREFUL THOUGHT TO THE
[MAKE LEVEL] PATHS FOR YOUR FEET
AND BE STEADFAST IN ALL YOUR
WAYS.
VS 27 - DO NOT TURN TO THE RIGHT OR
THE LEFT;
KEEP YOUR FOOT FROM EVIL.
SET YOURSELF UP FOR SUCCESS
PUT YOURSELF IN A POSITION TO WIN
PSALM 27:11
TEACH ME YOUR WAY, O LORD, AND
LEAD ME IN A LEVEL PATH BECAUSE OF
MY FOES.
JOB 23:11
MY FOOT HAS HELD FAST TO HIS PATH;
I HAVE KEPT HIS WAY AND NOT
TURNED ASIDE.
PSALM 119:105
YOUR WORD IS A LAMP TO MY FEET
AND A LIGHT TO MY PATH.