Guarding Your Heart

Introduction


I. “Keep Thy Heart”

     1. A Good Conscience

     2. Set the Lord Always Before Us

     3. Watch Diligently

     4. Attend to Holiness


II. Diligent Effort

     1. Shut Out All That Is Opposed to God

     2. Bring into Conformity with the Word

     3. Keep Tender unto Sin

     4. Look after Cleansing


III. “The Lord Looketh on the Heart”


IV. Distinctive and Critical Seasons

     1. In Times of Prosperity

     2. In Times of Adversity

     3. In Times of Public Danger

     4. In Times of Trouble in the Church

     5. In Times of Great Injuries and Abuses

     6. In Times of Spiritual Gloom

     7. In Time of Critical Illness


V. Other Issues

     1. The Nature verses the Heart

     2. Supreme Importance

     3. Corollaries and Consequences


VI. Benefits of Keeping the Heart

     1. Understanding the Deep Things of God

     2. The Best Evidence of Sincerity

     3. Delight in Spiritual Duties

     4. Stability in Resisting Temptation

     5. Improving One’s Graces

     6. Profitable Christian Fellowship

     7. Fitting Us for God’s Providences

     8. Removing Ourselves as Stumbling Blocks



Conclusion