June 8, 2003

Title: Guarding Your Heart
Speaker: Gordon MacDonald
Soul of A Man Series, Part 4

Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life
Proverbs 4.23

"Whenever a person considers his inner work done, he goes into retirement...a gloom settles over him...
Eliz. O’Connor

I want you to know that what has happened to me has really served to advance the gospel. As a result, it has become clear throughout the whole palace guard and to everyone else that I am in chains for Christ
Philippians 1.12-13

1. Paul Guarded His Heart by Being Proactive about Adversity.

The important thing is that in every way, whether from false motives or true, Christ is preached. And because of this I rejoice.
Philippians 1.18

2. Paul Guarded His Heart by Being Proactive in his Attitudes Toward People.

If I am go to on living in the body, this will mean fruitful labor for me. Yet what shall I choose? I do not know. I am torn between the two: I desire to depart and be with Christ which is better by far; but it is more necessary for you that I remain in the body.
Philippians 1.22ff

3. Paul Guarded His Heart by Being Proactive in his Attitudes Toward Death & Servanthood.

Many years ago I learned their dirtiest most crabbed secret that their passion to change the world derived from the fact that they could not change themselves.
Scott Turrow

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