Transcript What is Man - Knollwood Church Of Christ

What is Man
Prov 23:7 What he thinks
Matt 12:35 What he treasures
Matt 15:19 How he conducts himself
The Treasure of the Heart
The Good
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Concern Jer 31:20
Love Mark 12:30
Meditation
Obedience
Purpose
Reason
Rejoicing
The Bad – Lust of the
eye, lust of flesh, Pride of
life
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Sexual immorality
Doubt
Evil
Hatred
Envy
Fear
Suffering
Covetousness
Rebellion
Descriptions of the Heart
The Good Heart
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Open
Humble
Tender
Honest
The Evil Heart
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– Hardened
Ask not what your country can do
for you but rather ask what you
can do for your country.
Ask not what God can
do for you but rather
ask what you can do
for God.
What God Has Done
God has:
– Provided the physical environment in which
we live
– Provided for eternal life
– Provided the way to obtain eternal life
Man wants God to provide
– Health
– Prosperity
Fill in the blank “Ask not what _____
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can do for _________
Wife
Husband
Children
Parents
Near Kin
For the family of God,
the Church, Brotherly
Love
Elders
Preachers
Teachers
What is in your wallet?
Good Treasure or Bad
Wife
Husband
Children
Parents
Near Kin
For the family of God,
the Church, Brotherly
Love
Elders
Preachers
Teachers
Garbage in – Garbage out
Paul’s Fix
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Phil 4:8
Meditate – concentrate
God gets to define what is Good and Evil.
Birds
What God is doing
He knows your heart
He searches your heart
He provides enlightenment Scriptures
He will test your heart
He is strengthening your heart
He will establish your heart through the
Scripture.