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God says you are to keep your heart.
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You are to guard your inner life.
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What does that mean?
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Why is it so important?
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And most significant of all
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how am I actually to go about doing
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what God calls me to do here?
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Welcome to Open The Bible with Pastor Colin Smith
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I’m David Pick
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and Colin, I’m glad it’s you that’s
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on the hook today
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and May, that’s the question you’ve got to answer
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Well, I’m very glad that the scripture
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answers these questions today
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The Book of Proverbs puts this
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very, very beautifully
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Keep your heart with all vigilance
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because from it flows the springs of life
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It’s a beautiful verse
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So the condition of your heart
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is going to give rise to
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the issue of your life
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the direction of your life
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the choices of your life
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It all flows from the heart
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The scripture says to us again and again
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we are to guard our hearts
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We’re to watch
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We’re to be very, very careful
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How are we to do that?
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Well, today’s message is going to
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get into specifics
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of five ways in which we can
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guard and watch our own hearts
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and that’s critical to progress
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in the Christian life
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Let’s see how can we make that progress
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if you can join us in Proverbs
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chapter four as we begin the message
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Caring for your soul
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Here’s Colin
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Our series is entitled
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Soul Care
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How to Guard Your Most Valuable Possession
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and we’ve been looking at the teaching of Jesus
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You have a soul
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and your soul is of great value
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in fact, it is more valuable, Jesus says,
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than all of the world
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The reason that my soul is of such value
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that your soul is of such value
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will last forever
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said in a very simple way
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to children
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I have a soul
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that’s within me, inside me
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I can’t see it
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but it lasts forever
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We’ve been seeing from the teaching of Jesus
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that one of two things can happen with regards to your soul
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Your soul could be lost
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And to lose the soul is the worse possible loss
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in all of life
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because it’s the only loss in life
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that ultimately can never be recovered
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We saw that the soul can be lost
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as it starved
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as it strangled
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or as it is surrendered
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and then we came onto see
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that your soul can be saved
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and we looked at what that actually is like
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In the Bible
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In the first letter of Peter
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Peter presents the Lord Jesus to us
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as the Savior who died
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but also as the Shepherd who lives
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and we saw
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that to be a Christian
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for your soul to be saved
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involves returning
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to this Savior and this Shepherd
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In other words
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to be a Christian
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to believe in the Jesus who died for your sins
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but also to submit
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to the Shepherd who lives
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as the overseer of
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your soul
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and so we’ve been seeing the value of the soul
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over these weeks and what I want us to do
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today is to focus
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in on what it means
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to care for your soul
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that has
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such great value
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and we’re going to look at just one verse
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from the book of Proverbs 2
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4 and verse 23, you might like to turn
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to that great verse
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to mark and
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to remember and what we’re looking
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at today particularly is
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to practice, to practice
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keep your
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heart, God says
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with all vigilance
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for from it
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flow the springs
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of life
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obviously the
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word heart here is referring
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to the inner life
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which is what we’ve been talking about
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the life of the soul
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God says you are
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to keep your heart, you are
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to guard your
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inner life
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What does that
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mean? Why is it
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so important?
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And most significant of all, how
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am I actually to go about
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doing what God
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calls me to do here?
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One of the joys for me in preparing
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this message has been
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just to read fairly
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widely, particularly in some of
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the older writers, who
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have so much insight and so much to
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teach us, and are so very very
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helpful on this subject
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So I’m going to be quoting from a number of
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these, more extensively than
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usual today, alongside
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speaking somewhat
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from my own experience in regard
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to this very
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important theme.
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So we begin here then with this
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call from God, that
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we are given this command,
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we are given this duty
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God says to us, keep
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your heart
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Please understand
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I’m speaking to everyone who’s
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a Christian here.
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When you become a Christian, God gives you
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a new heart.
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God gives you a heart that loves Him
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God gives you a heart that
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trusts Him. And then God
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says to you and to me as Christian
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believers, He says, KEEP
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YOUR HEART
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Naturally
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we might say surely only God can
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keep the heart. Well that would be rather
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like a farmer saying only
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God can make things grow
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but if the farmer who believes that only
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God makes things grow simply sits
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there and doesn’t plant and water his fields and
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so forth, then there’s not gonna be much
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of a harvest. No, the farmer who believes
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that God makes things grow, he goes out
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tills the ground and plants the seeds
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And in the same way
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were being told here that
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God who gives us a new heart and God who
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sustains spiritual life within us
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He gives to us this
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active duty, this responsibility
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that lies upon every
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Christian believer. You are
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to KEEP YOUR HEART
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and I am to Keep
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MY HEART
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John Flavell who wrote a book called
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Keeping the Heart, it is a short book you can download
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It for free from a number of places
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on the internet. John Flavell
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says that the greatest difficulty
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in conversion is to win
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the heart to God
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But the greatest challenge after
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conversion is to KEEP
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THE HEART WITH
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GOD! and every Christian
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knows what he is talking about
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Remember on one occassion God said
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to Samuel the Prophet
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Man looks on
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outward appearance
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and you can finish this for me and with me please
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but God looks
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on the heart
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We looked at that earlier this year
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in our study in the life of David
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So we are being told that the
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eye of God is
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fixed first upon your
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heart
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Therefore if the eye
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of God is fixed first
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upon my heart, my
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eye, must be fixed
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first
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upon my heart
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So Flavel says
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the guarding and the right
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managing of the heart in every
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condition is one great
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business of the
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Christians life, this is what I’m to be about
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The guarding
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the keeping, the right
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managing he says
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of my
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heart
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Another wise writer who
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I first read nearly 30
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years ago now is a man
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by the name of Octavius
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Winslow
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Don’t you think that’s a wonderful name by the way
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When you’re like to be called Octavius
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Winslow, I mean if you’re called
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Smith, something like that really gets
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to you and might even
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provoke a little bit of envy
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and he wrote a book that had a matching
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title with his name
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It was called
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Personal Declension
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And Revival of Religion
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in the Soul
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Not a populist title
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but actually it’s a very simple one. Personal
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Declension. How is it that a person goes
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into decline
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and revival of religion in the soul
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How is it that faith gets
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fired up, love gets fired up
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joy gets fired up
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and he writes with great wisdom
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and great perception in way that for years
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has been so very very helpful
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to me and he says
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this, right at the beginning of his book
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If there is one consideration
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more humbling
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than any other
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to a spiritually
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minded believer
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it is that after
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after all that God
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has done for him
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and he then list
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all of God’s goodness and His abundant
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blessings and all of our experience
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in Christ and all that we’ve received
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from his loving hand
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and he says that if there is one
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thing that is more humbling than
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anything else to a spiritually minded
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believer it is
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that after all that God has done
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for him
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there should still
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exist in the heart
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a principle
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the tendency of which
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is to secret
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perpetual
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alarming
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departure from God
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now you think about that
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and you’ll find that it’s true, I know that in my
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own life, after all that God has done
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for me, after all
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that I have experienced
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of his mercy and his grace, of every
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good gift that he has poured into my
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life over all these years that I have
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walked with him, there still
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exists
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within my heart
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a principle
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the tendency
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of which is to
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secret, and perpetual
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that means it is always there
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and alarming
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departure
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from God, then everyone
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who walks with God knows exactly what he’s
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talking about!
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That we need to keep
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our hearts
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and it doesn’t get less as you go on
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in the Christian life
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we need what God is calling us to hear
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John Bunyan, you folks know
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wrote the book, The Pilgrims’
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Progress, if you’ve never read that it’s a great
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great book to read, especially to read with
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your children, great description of the
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Christian life
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but he wrote another book that’s not quite so well
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known, called The Holy War
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and in that he uses
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another picture
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he pictures the soul, your life
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as being like a walled city
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and there are enemies
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attacking from the outside
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but there are also
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traitors that are hidden
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on the inside
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and so his point is
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simply this, your heart
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needs constant defending
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both from the enemies on the outside
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the temptation that come and all the
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rest of it, but also from the
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traitors on the inside
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they need to be tracked down
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and they need to be
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exposed, all the enemies outside
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they simply need to be resisted
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but the problem with the traitors on the inside
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is that you don’t even know they’re there
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they need to be tracked down
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and then they need to be brought out
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into the open
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and so all of this really is
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in this wonderful verse
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that is being laid before us today
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were talking about caring for your soul
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and God says here’s what you’re going to have to do
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every day of your christian life, you’ve got
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a new heart now, you’ve gotta guard that
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heart and you gotta
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guard it with all vigilance
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because from it flow
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the springs
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of light
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you’re listening to open the bible with Pastor Colin schmidt
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and we’ve got too pause the message
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there briefly, the message is called
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caring for your soul, it’s part of a larger
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series called soul care
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don’t forget if you have a miss one of our
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messages, you can always catch up or go back
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and listen again online
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at openthebible.org.uk
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back to the
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message now, we’re in proverbs and chapter
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4, here’s Colin
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we’re talking about caring for your soul
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and God says, here’s what you’re going to have to do
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every day of your christian life you got to
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new heart now, you gotta guard that
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heart, and you gotta
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guard it with all vigilance
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because from it flow
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the springs
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of light
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so the duty that’s given to us
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the responsibility
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second thing i want us to notice
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is the reason
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because right in this verse
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amazing how god has given it to us
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it’s all condensed in one place
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gives us the reason as to
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why we have to keep our heart in particular
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you see it there
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keep your heart
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for, here the reason
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from it
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flow
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the springs
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of life
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that’s why you need to keep you heart
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because the springs of life
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flow
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from your heart
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keep it from anywhere else
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now, my father in law
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who is now getting quite elderly
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was a concert musician
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throughout his career
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and had the great privilege
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and joy throughout his
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years of
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being trusted with the use
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of a Stradivarius
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Violin
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I tell you, seriously
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beautiful instrument
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he did not own it
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it is owned by
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the Royal Academy of Music in London
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but the lady that had
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given it when she died to them
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had named him through his playing life
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as the first person to have its use
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so he has had
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the great, great joy
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of playing this
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priceless instrument over
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many, many years
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now you would think
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that a violin
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that is worth
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millions of dollars
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would at least
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always be in tune
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but you know, every
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time I saw him take that priceless
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instrument out of the case so very carefully
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what was the first thing he did?
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he has to tune the thing
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now your heart
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is like that violin
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it is of great value
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jesus says well it is more value than a Stradivarius
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it has to be, because jesus says
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it’s of more value than the whole world
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and yet
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like that Stradivarius your hearts
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nature
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with all of its value
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is that it constantly
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falls out of tune. I need to
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tune my heart, I need to keep my heart
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in tune. Why? Because from it
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flow the springs
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of life
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if we go out into this week
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with a heart that is out of tune
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with God the music
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that will come from this
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instrument that is of such
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great value will none the less
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be discordant. It will not
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be beautiful, it will be atonal
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the sound will be ugly, it will be offensive
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to people who are around us
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and it will of course be offensive
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before God
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What this verse is saying is
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if we keep our heart in tune
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and we keep our heart
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then something beautiful
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is going to come from it
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from it flow
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the springs of life
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what are the springs of life?
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Joy, Love
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Peace
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Strength, Courage
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Contentment
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they all flow
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from the heart
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the springs of life
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now
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look at this phrase and think about it
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for a moment with me
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the springs of life
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where do you think
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that the springs
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of life come from?
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what would
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really make you happy?
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what would be
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the thing that would cause
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you to say, oh, now this
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is life
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that is the question
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where did the springs of life come from?
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And of course the natural
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instinct that we all live with,
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Oh, well, now if only my circumstances
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were different, then the springs of life
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would flow, if I was in a different
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place if I wasn’t under this particular
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pressure
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If I had a different job, if I was
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in a different financial position, if I was in a different
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relationship, if I had what he had or what she
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had
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then the springs of life
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would flow for me, ask yourself this question
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ask it pointedly today
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from where do I think the springs
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of life flow?
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Is it for you,
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Oh, if I was married then the springs of life would flow
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Oh, if I had a child
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then the springs of life would flow
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Oh, if only my children would believe
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then the springs of life would
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flow, where do I think
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that the springs
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of life flow from?
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If I lived in a beautiful place
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If I led
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a thriving ministry
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Can you see what this is saying?
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Keep
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your heart
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for
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from it
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the springs of life flow
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You see the point
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wherever
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you go
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whatever you do
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whatever gifts in life
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and privileges and opportunities
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are trusted to you
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you will carry your own
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heart with you into
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these
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and if you do not guard your heart
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then whatever opportunities
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may come or not come to you
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whatever the course of your life may be
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if you do not guard your heart
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the springs of life will always be
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blocked up for you
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because wherever you go
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you are carrying this fountain of
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unhappiness
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in your own heart
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guard your heart
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keep your heart because from it
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not from a change in your circumstances
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flow
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the springs
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of life
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so you will see with me that this
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is of huge
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and practical importance
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with regards to the
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whole of our lives
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as christian believers
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and so
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the question we come down to
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here is obviously
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this. I see how important this
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is, I have to do it, I have to guard my
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heart, I can see that I’m
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never going to know joy and peace
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the springs of life will never flow
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unless I guard my heart
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so how am I to do it
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how am I to do it
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and again
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I want you to notice that right here in this
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verse, we are given
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direction on this
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very clearly
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I want to give to you now
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just five steps that are involved
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their very practical steps
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in guarding your heart
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as it says here
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with all
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vigilance, and the first obviously
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is this word, watch
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notice what the verse says
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Keep your heart
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with all
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vigilance
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vigilance simply means watching
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and this takes up a very broad theme
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in the bible, remember Jesus says
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watch and pray
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you do not enter into temptation
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Paul says to Timothy, just a young
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person, watch
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your life
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than he says to the elders of the church
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spiritual leaders of the church
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watch yourselves
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and the flock over which god has
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made you, over seers
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so watch, guard your
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heart with all vigilance
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for from it flow the springs of life
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how are you to do this?
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how am I to watch my own heart?
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now all of us are familiar
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with the concept of a dashboard
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and we use that nowadays
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in a number of different spheres
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but let’s start here
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the most familiar, you think about your car
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you drive along
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and as you are driving
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on the road, there is certain information
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you need to have immediatley at hand
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like, what speed am I going?
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especially you see the blue light
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then you need to know
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how much fuel do I have?
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how many miles therefore
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am I able to continue?
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then there is other information you are not
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looking all the time, but it is very important
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what is temperature of the engine
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is there adequate oil and so forth
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and so on
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so all of this information, in the car
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every time you drive, is displayed
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for you on
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a Dashboard
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the concept of a Dashboard
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as many of you know much better than I do
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has become very popular
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in the world of business
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in every business there are
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key metrics that you need
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to watch
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the movement in these metrics
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growth or decline
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from month to month or from year to
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year, are going to be the way
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in which you can gauge the direction
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the progress or the decline
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of your particular
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business and so
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for many of you in your
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working environment you are regularly
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used to looking at a Dashboard
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of you know sales
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and clients and reavenue
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or may be enrollments or
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or whatever it is that are the particular
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metrics that you are
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tracking, now here’s my question
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what would
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a Dashboard for your soul look like
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a Dashboard for your soul
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that would be red light
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and there would be green light
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let me suggest
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to you some of the
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red lights you might want to
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arrange on a Dashboard
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to watch your soul
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fear would be one
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pride would be another
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greed would be a third
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what about self pity
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or resentment
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or cowardice
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00:22:28,739 –> 00:22:29,739
or anger
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now these are just a few suggestions
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that I am giving to you for starters
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they are ones that I have found
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to be very useful
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00:22:38,739 –> 00:22:40,739
but remember this
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God says to you
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KEEP YOUR HEART
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KEEP YOUR HEART
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You’ve been listening to Pastor Colin Smith
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on Open the Bible
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and our message today
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the Open the Bible
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it is part of our series
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called SoulCare
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and today we have been hearing about
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how important it is to look after your heart
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