Your Heart, and How to Change Proverbs 4:23

Sermon outline: A. What is the heart, biblically? - The inner you. Your thoughts, desires, values, will. What you treasure and love. - The real you - The control centre for your life. B. What is the heart like? - Image of God - Broken and warped by sin - A new heart - Progressive Sanctification C. An illustration: Two Fires D. How do you "Keep your heart with all vigilance?" 1. Use God's Word as your guide 2. Put off: - Sin - Temptation (radical amputation) - Thoughts, feelings, loves, joys, and desires that are NOT according to God's Word... Both sin, and what tempts you to sin or fuels your sin. 3. Put on: - Obey God's commands - Means of grace (cultivate godliness) - Thoughts, feelings, loves, joys, and desires that ARE according to Gods Word... Both what is commanded, and what fuels godliness... - Especially, seek to grow in your knowledge of God and all He has graciously given you in Jesus (present and future), so that your awe of Him grows, your trust in Him grows, and your love for Him grows. E. Remember, God is at work within you - Dependance - Hope