The Effect of the Mind

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The Effect of the Mind

• Proverb 423 - Keep thy heart with all diligence
  for out of it are the issues of life.

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• Translations for Proverb 423
• Contemporary English Version - Carefully guard
  your thoughts because they are the source of true
  life.
• New International Version - Above everything
  else, guard your heart. It is where your life
  comes from.
• New Century Version - Be careful what you think,
  because your thoughts run your life.

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• Why guarding?
• Heart is the center of intellect, emotion and
  will.
• Heart and mind are interchangeable.
• It points to soul or personhood
• Examples
• Saul I Samuel 187-9 - 7 And the women answered
  one another as they played, and said, Saul hath
  slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.
  
•  8 And Saul was very wroth, and the saying
  displeased him and he said, They have ascribed
  unto David ten thousands, and to me they have
  ascribed but thousands and what can he have more
  but the kingdom?
•  9 And Saul eyed David from that day and forward.

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• Ahithophel II Samuel 171-2 1 Moreover
  Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose
  out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and
  pursue after David this night
•  2And I will come upon him while he is weary and
  weak handed, and will make him afraid and all
  the people that are with him shall flee and I
  will smite the king only
• His granddaughter Bathsheba
• Diotrephes III John 9-10 9 I wrote unto the
  church but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the
  preeminence among them, receiveth us not.
•  10 Wherefore, if I come, I will remember his
  deeds which he doeth, prating against us with
  malicious words and not content therewith,
  neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and
  forbiddeth them that would, and casteth them out
  of the church.

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• Paul I Timothy 115 - This is a faithful saying,
  and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus
  came into the world to save sinners of whom I am
  chief.
• How can we guard our hearts?
• Proverb 237 - For as he thinketh in his heart,
  so is he
• Philippians 48 - Finally, brethren, whatsoever
  things are true, whatsoever things are honest,
  whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are
  pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever
  things are of good report if there be any
  virtue, and if there be any praise, think on
  these things.

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• True opposite of dishonest and lies
• Honest honorable, worthy of respect and
  reverence
• Just conformity to Gods standard righteous
  relation between man and man and between God and
  man
• Pure not mixed with moral impurity chaste
• Lovely lovable, beautiful, pleasing, gracious,
  promoting peace
• Good Report worth talking about, what is
  positive
• Virtue excellence
• Praise praiseworthy
• How?
• John 1717 - Sanctify them through thy truth thy
  word is truth.

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• Modern example
• Kimani Nganga Maruge in Kenya
• Worlds oldest student died at 90
• Oldest of seven children
• Law passed for free access to primary education
• Started school at 84 after being rejected 5 times
• His goal reading the Bible
• Relocated and yet went to school 2.5 miles one
  way
• Dropped out when he had a cancer

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• New Century Version - Be careful what you think,
  because your thoughts run your life.