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Sep 12, 2021
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September 12 | Understand Overcome
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September 12, 2021 | Tim Keith
"Let's Get to the Heart of the Matter"
Ephesians 5:15-17 (CSB)
Ephesians 5:15-17
Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk — not as unwise people but as wise — making the most of the time, because the days are evil. So don’t be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.
Examine Your Heart
v.15
Ephesians 5:1-17
Therefore, be imitators of God, as dearly loved children, and walk in love, as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God. But sexual immorality and any impurity or greed should not even be heard of among you, as is proper for saints. Obscene and foolish talking or crude joking are not suitable, but rather giving thanks. For know and recognize this: Every sexually immoral or impure or greedy person, who is an idolater, does not have an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Let no one deceive you with empty arguments, for God’s wrath is coming on the disobedient because of these things. Therefore, do not become their partners. For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light — for the fruit of the light consists of all goodness, righteousness, and truth — testing what is pleasing to the Lord. Don’t participate in the fruitless works of darkness, but instead expose them. For it is shameful even to mention what is done by them in secret. Everything exposed by the light is made visible, for what makes everything visible is light. Therefore it is said: Get up, sleeper, and rise up from the dead, and Christ will shine on you. Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk — not as unwise people but as wise — making the most of the time, because the days are evil. So don’t be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.
Purify Your Heart
v. 16
Psalms 24:3-4
Who may ascend the mountain of the Lord? Who may stand in his holy place? The one who has clean hands and a pure heart, who has not appealed to what is false, and who has not sworn deceitfully.
Matthew 5:8
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
Guard Your Heart
v.16-17
Luke 11:34
Your eye is the lamp of the body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is also full of light. But when it is bad, your body is also full of darkness.
Proverbs 4:23
Guard your heart above all else, for it is the source of life.
Proverbs 4:23-27
Guard your heart above all else, for it is the source of life. Don’t let your mouth speak dishonestly, and don’t let your lips talk deviously. Let your eyes look forward; fix your gaze straight ahead. Carefully consider the path for your feet, and all your ways will be established. Don’t turn to the right or to the left; keep your feet away from evil.
Ephesians 5:4
Obscene and foolish talking or crude joking are not suitable, but rather giving thanks.
Ephesians 5:3
But sexual immorality and any impurity or greed should not even be heard of among you, as is proper for saints.
Psalms 119:9
How can a young man keep his way pure? By keeping your word.
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