Transcript Thy word have I hid in my heart

“Thy word have I laid up
in my heart, That I might
not sin against thee.”
(Psalms 119:11)
THE MANY WAYS THE HEART
MAY BE INFLUENCED
Higher authorities:
Princes also sat and talked against me (v. 23)
The proud:
The proud have had me greatly in derision (v. 51)
The proud have forged a lie against me (v. 69)
…The proud…have overthrown me wrongfully
(v. 78)
THE MANY WAYS THE HEART
MAY BE INFLUENCED
The wicked:
The wicked have laid a snare for me (110)
The cords of the wicked have wrapped me round
(61)
Many are my persecutors and mine adversaries
(157)
THE MANY WAYS THE HEART
MAY BE INFLUENCED
Subtle influences:
I am small and despised (v. 141)
Remove from me the way of falsehood (v. 29)
Thou hast set at nought all them that err from
thy statutes; For their deceit is falsehood. (v.
118)
Incline my heart…not to covetousness (v. 36)
Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity (v.
37)
THE MANY WAYS THE HEART
MAY BE INFLUENCED
Subtle influences:
And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing
wherewith his father blessed him. And Esau said
in his heart, The days of mourning for my father
are at hand. Then will I slay my brother Jacob.
(Ge 27:41)
The pride of thy heart hath deceived thee, O
thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock,
whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart,
Who shall bring me down to the ground? (Ob
1:3)
THE MANY WAYS THE HEART
MAY BE INFLUENCED
Subtle influences:
But I say unto you, that every one that looketh
on a woman to lust after her hath committed
adultery with her already in his heart. (Mt 5:28)
THE MANY WAYS THE HEART
MAY BE INFLUENCED
The Word’s Influences:
Wherewith shall a young man cleanse his way?
By taking heed thereto according to thy word. (v.
9)
Through thy precepts I get understanding:
Therefore I hate every false way. (v. 104)
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, And light unto
my path. (v. 105)
Jno. 16:7-13; Acts 2:37, 42
HOW DOES ONE HIDE OR LAY UP
GOD’S WORD IN HIS/HER HEART?
Attitudes of the heart:
Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man
love me, he will keep my word: and my
Father will love him, and we will come unto
him, and make our abode with him. (Jno.
14:23)
My flesh trembleth for fear of thee;
afraid of thy judgments. (v. 120)
And I am
I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies,
As much as in all riches. (v. 14)
HOW DOES ONE HIDE OR LAY UP
GOD’S WORD IN HIS/HER HEART?
Attitudes of the heart:
Thou art nigh, O Jehovah; And all thy
commandments are truth. (v. 151)
The law of thy mouth is better unto me than
thousands of gold and silver. (v. 72)
For ever, O Jehovah, Thy word is settled in
heaven. (v. 89)
Unless thy law had been my delight, I should
then have perished in mine affliction. (v. 92)
HOW DOES ONE HIDE OR LAY UP
GOD’S WORD IN HIS/HER HEART?
Actions of the heart:
Seeking:
Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, That
seek him with the whole heart. (v. 2)
Remembering:
I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not
forget thy word. (v. 16) Jas. 1:25
HOW DOES ONE HIDE OR LAY UP
GOD’S WORD IN HIS/HER HEART?
Actions of the heart:
Remembering:
I will meditate on thy precepts, And have respect
unto thy ways. (v. 15)
Oh how love I thy law! It is my meditation all the
day. (v. 97)
Mine eyes anticipated the night-watches, That I
might meditate on thy word. (v. 148)
HOW DOES ONE HIDE OR LAY UP
GOD’S WORD IN HIS/HER HEART?
Actions of the heart:
Application:
Through thy precepts I get understanding:
Therefore I hate every false way. (v. 104)
Hot indignation hath taken hold upon me,
Because of the wicked that forsake thy law. (v.
53)
HOW DOES ONE HIDE OR LAY UP
GOD’S WORD IN HIS/HER HEART?
Actions that help one hide God’s word in heart:
2 Tim. 2:15, Study to shew thyself approved
unto God, a workman that needeth not to be
ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Thy statutes have been my songs in the house
of my pilgrimage. (v. 54)
HOW DOES ONE HIDE OR LAY UP
GOD’S WORD IN HIS/HER HEART?
Actions that help one hide God’s word in heart:
I am a companion of all them that fear thee,
And of them that observe thy precepts. (v. 63)
Heb. 10:25, Not forsaking our own assembling
together, as the custom of some is, but
exhorting one another; and so much the more,
as ye see the day drawing nigh.
“Thy word have I laid up
in my heart, That I might
not sin against thee.”
(Psalms 119:11)
HOW DOES THIS KEEP
ONE FROM SINNING?
HOW DOES THIS KEEP ONE FROM SINNING?
When one is tempted to hate:
Matt. 5:44, But I say unto you, love your
enemies, and pray for them that persecute
you.
Jas. 2:8, Howbeit if ye fulfil the royal law,
according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy
neighbor as thyself, ye do well:
1 Jno. 3:15, Whosoever hateth his brother is a
murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath
eternal life abiding in him.
HOW DOES THIS KEEP ONE FROM SINNING?
When one is tempted to anger:
Eccl. 7:9, Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry;
for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
Eph. 4:26, Be ye angry, and sin not:
the sun go down upon your wrath.
let not
HOW DOES THIS KEEP ONE FROM SINNING?
When one is tempted to covet:
Lk. 12:15, And he said unto them, Take heed,
and keep yourselves from all covetousness: for
a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of
the things which he possesseth.
Heb. 13:5, Be ye free from the love of money;
content with such things as ye have: for
himself hath said, I will in no wise fail thee,
neither will I in any wise forsake thee.
HOW DOES THIS KEEP ONE FROM SINNING?
When one is tempted to lust:
Prov. 6:25, Lust not after her beauty in thy
heart; Neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
Matt. 5:28, but I say unto you, that every one
that looketh on a woman to lust after her hath
committed adultery with her already in his heart.
1 Cor. 6:18, Flee fornication. Every sin that a
man doeth is without the body; but he that
committeth fornication sinneth against his own
body.
HOW DOES THIS KEEP ONE FROM SINNING?
When one is tempted to think evil:
Matt 9:4, And Jesus knowing their thoughts
said, Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts?
HOW DOES THIS KEEP ONE FROM SINNING?
When one is tempted to abuse the tongue:
Jas. 1:26, If any man thinketh himself to be
religious, while he bridleth not his tongue but
deceiveth his heart, this man's religion is vain.
HOW DOES THIS KEEP ONE FROM SINNING?
When one is tempted to steal:
Rom. 2:21, Thou therefore that teachest
another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that
preachest a man should not steal, dost thou
steal?
Eph. 4:28, Let him that stole steal no more:
but rather let him labor, working with his hands
the thing that is good, that he may have
whereof to give to him that hath need.
HOW DOES THIS KEEP ONE FROM SINNING?
When one is tempted to drink:
Prov. 20:1, Wine is a mocker, strong drink a
brawler; And whosoever erreth thereby is not
wise.
Prov. 23:31, Look not thou upon the wine when
it is red, When it sparkleth in the cup, When it
goeth down smoothly.
1 Pet. 4:3, For the time past may suffice to have
wrought the desire of the Gentiles, and to have
walked in lasciviousness, lusts,
winebibbings, revellings, carousings, and
abominable idolatries.
HOW DOES THIS KEEP ONE FROM SINNING?
When one is tempted to sins of the flesh:
Eph. 5:3, But fornication, and all
uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even
be named among you, as becometh saints…. 5
For this ye know of a surety, that no fornicator,
nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who
is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the
kingdom of Christ and God. 6 Let no man
deceive you with empty words: for because of
these things cometh the wrath of God upon the
sons of disobedience.
HOW DOES THIS KEEP ONE FROM SINNING?
When one is tempted to act without Bible
authority:
Lev. 10:1, And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of
Aaron, took each of them his censer, and put
fire therein, and laid incense thereon, and
offered strange fire before Jehovah, which he
had not commanded them. 2 And there came
forth fire from before Jehovah, and devoured
them, and they died before Jehovah.
Matt. 28:18, And Jesus came to them and spake
unto them, saying, All authority hath been
given unto me in heaven and on earth.
APPLY GOD’S WORD INSPITE OF
CIRCUMSTANCES:
• Princes also sat and talked against me;
But
thy servant did meditate on thy statutes. (v. 23)
• This is my comfort in my affliction;
For thy
word hath quickened me. (v. 50)
• The cords of the wicked have wrapped me
round;
But I have not forgotten thy law. (v. 61)
• The proud have had me greatly in derision:
Yet have I not swerved from thy law. (v. 51)
• The proud have forged a lie against me:
With
my whole heart will I keep thy precepts. (v. 69)
APPLY GOD’S WORD INSPITE OF
CIRCUMSTANCES:
• The wicked have laid a snare for me;
Yet have
I not gone astray from thy precepts. (v. 110)
• I am small and despised;
Yet do I not forget
thy precepts. (v. 141)
• Many are my persecutors and mine
adversaries; Yet have I not swerved from thy
testimonies. (v. 157)
“Thy word have I laid up in my heart,
That I might not sin against thee.”
(Psalms 119:11)
I. THE MANY WAYS THE HEART MAY BE
INFLUENCED
II. HOW DOES ONE HIDE OR LAY UP
GOD’S WORD IN HIS/HER HEART?
III. HOW DOES THIS KEEP ONE FROM SINNING?