Galatians‬ ‭5‬:‭13‬-‭14 MSG‬‬

It is absolutely clear that God has called you to a free life. Just make sure that you don’t use this freedom as an excuse to do whatever you want to do and destroy your freedom. Rather, use your freedom to serve one another in love; that’s how freedom grows. For everything we know about God’s Word is summed up in a single sentence: Love others as you love yourself. That’s an act of true freedom. 

 

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Our IRRESPONSIBILITY becomes someone else’s RESPONSIBILITY 

Make AMENDS for our SINS 

Your DIRECTION - not your INTENTION - determines your DESTINATION

 

 

Matthew‬ ‭23‬:‭1‬-‭3‬

Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples: “The teachers of the law and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat. So you must be careful to do everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach.”

 

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Matthew‬ ‭23‬:‭25‬

“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.

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Matthew‬ ‭23‬:‭26‬

Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside also will be clean.

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Proverbs‬ ‭4‬:‭23‬ ‭

Above all else…

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Proverbs‬ ‭4‬:‭23‬ ‭

Above all else… guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.

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BIG IDEA: 

Am I taking responsibility … for the ME no one can see?!? 

 

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Guard Your Heart … the ME no one can see: 

 

God’s Word 

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Ephesians‬ ‭5‬:‭25‬-‭26‬ ‭

For he died for us, sacrificing himself to make us holy and pure, cleansing us through the showering of the pure water of the Word of God.

 

 

J.C. Ryle

The Word of God is like water: it searches every corner of the heart and washes away the filth that nothing else can reach.

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Guard Your Heart … the ME no one can see: 

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God’s Word 

Generosity

 

 

Matthew ‭6‬:‭22‬-‭23‬ ‭CJB‬‬ 

The eye is the lamp of the body. So if you have a ‘good eye’ [that is, if you are generous] your whole body will be full of light; but if you have an ‘evil eye’ [if you are stingy] your whole body will be full of darkness. If, then, the light in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

 

 

Proverbs‬ ‭22‬:‭9‬ ‭

One with a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor. ‭‭

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Billy Graham

God has given us two hands—one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for giving.

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Guard Your Heart … the ME no one can see: 

 

God’s Word 

Generosity

Gratitude 

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Ephesians 5:20
…giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

 

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G.K. Chesterton

The Christian’s motto should be: ‘All the time, thank God for everything.'

 

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Book of Common Prayer:

It is right, and our bounded duty, that we should at all times, and in all places, give thanks unto thee, O Lord, holy Father, almighty, everlasting God.