Keeping the Heart
Sources: Keeping the Heart by Flavel & Roth, and A Commentary on Proverbs by Charles Bridges.
Introduction
We pray for all types of persons: the wicked, the false professor and the believer in battle. Study your own hearts!
Proverbs 4:23 Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.
(4:58) Message - The Foundations, Actions, and Reality of Keeping the Heart
Foundations to Keep Your Heart: Defined, Changed, Urged, Insufficient, and Motivation.
(14:24) Actions to Keep Your Heart: Summary - Improve and preserve. Six specific actions: Observe, Humble, Pray, Vow, Jealous, and Mindful.
(33:44) Reality to Keep Your Heart: Hard, Constant, and Important.
Conclusion - Endeavor to keep your heart: To keep your understanding, memory, and conscience with God's help. To improve and preserve communion with God and fight sin. Realizing it is hard, constant, and important. |