“For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 6:23, ESV)

06/12/2020 – Morning Service: The practicalities of keeping one’s heart

Bible Readings:

Ephesians 5

Sermon Outline:

Proverbs 4:23–27 (NKJV)

23 Keep your heart with all diligence,

For out of it spring the issues of life.

24 Put away from you a deceitful mouth,

And put perverse lips far from you.

25 Let your eyes look straight ahead,

And your eyelids look right before you.

26 Ponder the path of your feet,

And let all your ways be established.

27 Do not turn to the right or the left;

Remove your foot from evil.

I  Guard the entrance into your heart

Philippians 2:12–13 (NKJV)

12 Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; 13 for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.

Job 31:1 (NKJV)

1 “I have made a covenant with my eyes;

Why then should I look upon a young woman?

Psalm 119:18 (NKJV)

18 Open my eyes, that I may see

Wondrous things from Your law.

II Watch the movements within your soul

Psalm 119:37 (NKJV)

37 Turn away my eyes from looking at worthless things,

And revive me in Your way.

Proverbs 23:19 (NKJV)

19 Hear, my son, and be wise;

And guide your heart in the way.

III  Walk worthy of the Lord

Colossians 1:10 (NKJV)

10 that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;

Ephesians 2:10 (NKJV)

10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

Ephesians 4:17 (NKJV)

17 This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind,