Proverbs 4
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My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. Let them not escape from your sight; keep them within your heart. For they are life to those who find them, and healing to all their flesh. Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life. Put away from you crooked speech, and put devious talk far from you. Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you. Ponder the path of your feet; then all your ways will be sure. Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your foot away from evil.
My one theme:
Gaurd your hearts, and you will find life
Introduction:
There’s this story I’ve heard about a Shepherd boy. This Shepherd boy want’s to get water from a stream for his sheep. The water he is drawing from is dirty, it’s filled with all sorts of dirt, bacteria. So his sheep don’t get sick this shepherd boy tries to funnel the water through a filtering system. A wise man comes to him and says to him there’s an easier way to do that. So the wise man takes him up the mountain to this pond. He tells him, do you know that this pond is where the water your’e collecting is from? If you just put a fence around the water up here, the water down the stream will be good. You won’t need to filter the water. So let’s build a fence for this water. No animal will be able to enter it, or bathe in it, or go to the bathroom in it. If we protect the source, the output will be fine.
This is what we’ll be talking about this morning. Gaurding our hearts. As we continue this Summer series we’re in the book of Proverbs. Proverbs 4: 20- 27
What does it mean to gaurd your heart? v. 23
The CSB translation which I love how direct it is here says Prov. 4:23
Guard your heart above all else,
for it is the source of life.
Watch everything we consume
How you expierience something is what comes out
everything flows through the heart
Listen Up v. 20
Like a Father to a son
Are you atttentive to God’s Word? Is that the most valuable tressure you have in your life.
What do you consume?
sports radio…
gossip…
What are you saying? v.24
But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person.
What makes our unholesome words bad? Our heart
Where are you looking? v. 25
Far to often we’re entertained by what Jesus died for
What will you chose will you above all else keep your heart?
When do you plan your path? v.26
Why do you stray? v. 27
Stay away from evil
We love flirting with it
some of us are walking around so angry… man maybe you’re watching to much fox
Walk in the Worlds ways vs God Ways… which one do you trust more
Be holy as I am holy
