Keep Vigilant, Watch Over Your Heart: That Were Life Starts
Sin Contaminates The Whole Body
PROVERBS 4:23-27
“Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it spring the issues of life. Put away from you a deceitful mouth, And put perverse lips far from you. Let your eyes look straight ahead, And your eyelids look right before you. Ponder the path of your feet, And let all your ways be established. Do not turn to the right or the left; Remove your foot from evil.
”Proverbs 4:23-27 NKJV
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What is in our heart, dictates to great extent how we live our lives because we always find time to do what we enjoy.
Our heart is not too worried about sin, it is a part of the flesh and therefore just wants to please the flesh, and will stop at nothing to accomplish that, for “”The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it?”
Jeremiah 17:9 NKJV
Solomon tells us to keep our heart with all diligence, to make sure we focus on the road ahead, and not allow our minds to be drawn to the things of the world; inappropriate jokes and language, wild parties, sexual immorality, pornography, and such things. Put away from you a deceitful mouth and perverse lips that justify acts of sin, but rather, let your eyes look straight ahead toward Jesus; make Him your focus and you will simply walk upon the stormy seas in your life; and even if the noise of the storm overwhelms you, Jesus will be right there to take you safely back to the boat and calm the storm (MATHEW 14:22-33).
“”Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.”
Matthew 6:31-34 NKJV
My brethren , let your ways be established in righteousness; do not turn to the right or the left; “Remove your foot from evil”.
My beloved, put boundaries on your desires, and make sure they fall in line with God’s plans and purposes for your life. “Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.”
I Corinthians 6:18-20 NKJV
My brethren, do not grieve the Holy Spirit by looking at inappropriate things, or using your lips to speak curses, or your hands to touch that what is unclean, or your foot to go into the wrong places. They are not your members, Jesus bought you at a high price.
Furthermore, do you are a part of the body of Christ which is made up of many members, of which Christ is the head? When one member within the body is disobedient, it affects the whole body.
That my brethren is the reality within the church and sin spreads quickly like a cancer within. Sin separates us from God and disables one’s ability to serve. Furthermore, it opens the door to the devil to come into one’s life and take him captive. He has a whole army of unclean spirits and demons waiting to take possession of your house (body) and fill your rooms with lies and deceit. Jesus said, the thief do not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they (His people) may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.”
John 10:10 NKJV
Therefore, “Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself. Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.”
Philippians 2:3-4 NKJV
My beloved, this good advice of Paul supplements the wisdom of Solomon; he went on to say “Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice! Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand. Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.”
Philippians 4:4-7 NKJV
All glory to God forever and ever! Amen.
