Hello, and
welcome to Heart Lift.
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I'm Jill Morikone,
and I'm so glad that you
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have joined us today.
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We're in the midst of a journey
toward hope, toward healing,
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toward the transformation that
the Lord Jesus wants to work
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in your heart, and in mine
as women, as daughters of God.
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If you're just joining
us, we began our journey with
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forgiveness; the forgiveness God
wants to pour into our hearts,
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the forgiveness He desires
us to extend to other people.
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We move next to fear, and
the bands that bind us tightly,
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but how God came to set us free.
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Then we tackled the subject
of sadness, and loss, and pain,
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and how God can turn our
sorrow into peace, and even joy.
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And our most recent part of the
journey has to do with purity;
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the purity that the Lord Jesus
Christ wants to pour into our
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hearts; His righteous white robe
that He wants to clothe us with.
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This program
we're discussing purity,
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but from a
little different angle.
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We're talking about
guarding our brother's heart.
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Our Scripture is
Proverbs 4:23, Proverbs 4:23.
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The Bible says, Keep
your heart with all diligence,
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for out of it
spring the issues of life.
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Let's pray. Father, we come
before You in the name of Jesus.
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Right now we
give you our hearts.
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And even as I say that, I
know that we're not even capable
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of doing that, so we ask
that You would take our hearts,
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that You would pour Your purity
in, and that You would open up
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our minds and hearts
to hear what You have
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from Your Word today.
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And we thank You in the precious
and holy name of Jesus, Amen.
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The day was just dawning.
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He stepped out the
door and looked outside.
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The sun was just
coming up over the hills.
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He had a lot to do that day.
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First check in with the grain
bins and see how that was going.
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Then he had to
check on the fields
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and see how the
harvest was coming.
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Next there was a shipment
of cattle that was coming in.
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and was that all in readiness?
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Finally, he went in the house,
because he had to check with the
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butler and see what
was going on in the home.
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Was everything ready for the
dinner guests for that evening?
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When Joseph stepped into
the house, his master's wife,
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Potiphar's wife, called to him.
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She said, Come here, Joseph.
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And now this is a
little artistic license,
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but I would imagine he
was a little cautious, maybe,
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about heading that way.
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But he said, Okay, because
she was his master's wife.
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He stepped in, and the Bible, we
find this story in Genesis 39,
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the Bible doesn't record
what Potiphar's wife said,
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the Bible, or how
she went about it.
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It simply says,
she said, Lie with me.
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She was, we would
say, quite a bold woman.
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At least I would think
she's quite a bold woman to just
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come straight out and
say, Come have sex with me.
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That's pretty bold.
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Joseph, the Bible says,
had been at Potiphar's house
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for several years.
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Remember he was sold
as a slave into Egypt.
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And during those
years he was away from
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his family, from his Dad.
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I believe his relationship
with God became that much more
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cemented in and sure,
because he had no one else
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to depend on but God.
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He was probably
there around ten years.
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And the Bible says that
Potiphar, that was his master,
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gave Joseph
charge over everything
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in the house; everything.
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He, it says, Potiphar didn't
even know anything that went on,
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except for the food that he ate.
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So Joseph did a great job.
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Day by day Joseph chose the
high road, the difficult road.
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And he said, No! No to the
temptations of, you could say,
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his work place,
because he worked there.
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No to the sexual
pressure from his master's wife.
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He said no every day.
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Later,... We know what happened.
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...his master's wife grabbed
his coat, and he was afraid,
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and he turned and fled.
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He was thrown into prison,
but God overturned even that
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situation out for good.
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When I think of the story
of Joseph, I think of a man who
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loved God more
than his own desires,
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a man who chose
purity over passion,
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a man who honored God even if it
was going to cost him his life.
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And I think the beautiful thing
about Joseph's story is that
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you and I can
make the same choice.
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We can choose
purity over passion.
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We can choose the life of
surrender and self-denial,
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of devotion, and
dedication to God.
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But today we're talking about
guarding our brother's heart.
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We're not talking about,
really, even the life of Joseph.
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I want to analyze it from
the eyes of Mrs. Potiphar.
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What was her life like?
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Obviously, it was affluent,
because of her husband's
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position and social
standing there in Egypt.
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Obviously, she had, I would
say, a good status, friends,
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all of that stuff.
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Did she try to seduce
Joseph because she's bored
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with her life,
or with her husband?
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Maybe it was a power
struggle to get to Joseph.
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Was she empty inside, and
she was trying to fill that void
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with something, or did
she simply feed her lust
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until she reached out?
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She was dissatisfied
maybe with her husband,
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and reached out for
somebody else. I don't know.
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As we begin our journey
here, discussing guarding our
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brother's heart, we want
to take a self-evaluation.
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Now with our self-evaluations,
that we've been doing throughout
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the program, I want to
encourage you to be honest.
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Sexual purity is a sensitive
topic, and you, I'm sure,
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would not feel comfortable
sharing that with someone else.
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So simply put, when
we go through this list
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of self-evaluation, simply be
honest between yourself and God.
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1. Maybe you're at this state.
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Maybe that's where
you're at today. Maybe 2.
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Maybe you're at
the next category.
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I'm honestly
unaware. Maybe it's 4.
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And finally.
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Now that's kind of heavy.
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I don't know if it is for you,
but when I read through that
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I think, Wow, God,
what category am I in?
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Be honest. Which one do you
think most accurately represents
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where you are right now
in your journey with God?
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And you know what? no
matter where we are, God says,
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I can change you.
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We're going to look at
two dangers in this program:
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first is to beware
of the unguarded heart.
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Beware of things that
might make your guard come down.
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I can think of a couple that
would make my guard come down.
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One is idleness. Have you
ever heard Satan's little lie?
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He says, You've worked hard.
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You deserve a break.
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Indulge in a
little selfish pleasure.
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You've been a good
Christian, Jill, for many years.
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It's time you just
let loose and relaxed.
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You don't have to be
so strict all the time.
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Maybe it's daydreaming.
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I've shared with you
in past programs about my
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own battle with that.
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Satan might say, Don't
worry about your thoughts
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for a little while.
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Let them run free.
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You've, remember we
talked about 2 Corinthians 5,
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how God calls us to bring
into captivity every thought
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to the obedience of Christ.
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And maybe, you say, I've
really brought them before God,
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and I have walked in this.
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I'm tired; I'm tired of always
giving those thoughts back
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thoughts back to God.
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Let me just
indulge in this little
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day dream for a little while.
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Maybe it's a compromising
situation, and Satan says,
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This looks wrong, and it
feels wrong, but you know what?
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You're strong in Jesus.
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You can handle that.
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Run from such thoughts.
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When I think of the idle heart,
I think of the story of David.
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I'm sure you're familiar
with the story of David.
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We find it in 2 Samuel 11,
and it's interesting to me.
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This is the story of David
with his sin with Bathsheba.
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And the interesting part to
me is not even so much the sin,
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although that is dangerous,
but God gave him purity,
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and that is a
beautiful thing. God restored.
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Even though
there was terrible sin,
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God could still
forgive and restore.
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But in spite of that, what I'm
very interested in for today's
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program is the first
verse, 2 Samuel 11:1.
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It happened in the Spring of
the year, at the time when kings
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go out to battle, that David
sent Zoab, and his servants
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with him, and all Israel,
and they destroyed the people of
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Ammon, and besieged Rabbah.
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The critical part
is the next sentence.
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But David remained at Jerusalem.
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Did you catch that?
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In the Spring of the year,
all the kings go out to battle.
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That's their job. In the
Spring they go out to battle.
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But what happened?
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David remained at Jerusalem.
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Now why did he stay home?
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I have no idea, to
be honest with you.
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Why did he stay home?
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Was it he thought, I'm king.
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I don't have to go do that work.
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I don't have to do that anymore.
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I am king. Was it that?
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I don't know. Was there
a little pride involved?
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Maybe he just
thought, I've worked hard,
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and I've fought
many battles in my time.
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It's time for me to rest.
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It's time for me to
relax and indulge in a
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little selfish pleasure.
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You know, the interesting
thing is if David had gone out
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to battle, like the kings
always did, the story would
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never have happened.
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He would never have
gotten involved in the
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sin with Bathsheba.
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Beware of the idle heart.
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God given rest
though is not idleness,
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so I want to be
clear about that.
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We're not saying,
God doesn't give us rest.
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Of course He does.
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God doesn't say, You
need to work all the time.
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You need to always be busy.
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God's not saying that.
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He calls us to come
apart, and to rest with Him.
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I think of Matthew 11:28.
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He says, Come to Me.
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Come to Me, you who
are weary and heavy laden,
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and I will give you rest.
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God wants us to come to Him.
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Learn to relax, but with Jesus.
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In addition to being
aware of the unguarded heart,
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we'd beware of the
discontented heart.
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1 Timothy 6. Jumping
over to 1 Timothy 6:6.
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The Bible says, Now Godliness
with contentment is great gain.
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Perhaps you're
married, and maybe you're
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like a friend of mine.
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She told me one day,...
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This was several years ago.
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She told me,
Jill, I work every day.
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And I know she does.
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She said, When I go to work
there's a certain guy that I
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work with that I think
is better than my husband.
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And as soon as she
said that, I thought,
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We're on dangerous territory,
with the discontented heart.
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She said, Jill, he treats
me better than my husband does.
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Jill, He's funny, and I wish my
husband was as funny as he was.
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Jill, He provides for his
family, and my husband doesn't
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provide quite as much.
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And her husband
didn't make as much.
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She said, I think
I'm on dangerous ground.
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And you know what? she was.
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Beware of the
discontented heart.
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You know, if you are
married, Satan can tempt you
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to be dissatisfied.
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Maybe you've all
heard the old adage,
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the grass is always greener
on the other side of the fence.
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I'm here to tell you it's not.
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You know, you could be
in your own yard and think,
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I'm having a lot
of weeds in my yard.
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You look at your neighbor's
yard over there, and you think,
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It's lush, it's
green, it's beautiful!
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If only I could have my
neighbors grass, I'd be happy.
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But, you know what?
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If you took a few steps
over to your neighbor's house,
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do you know what would happen?
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You'd discover that he's got the
same weeds growing in his grass
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that you have in your own grass.
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You'd discover that he might
even have a few little brown
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patches that you couldn't
see from that great distance.
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The grass is not always greener.
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If we start longing for
something that isn't ours,
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that is dangerous territory.
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Dissatisfaction and
comparisons, as women,
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maybe you've gossiped
with your friends, and you say,
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Oh yeah, my husband provides,
but he sure doesn't communicate.
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Have you ever talked to
your friends about that?
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Or maybe, You
know what, my husband
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communicates really well.
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You know, he wants to sit down
and talk about how things are
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going, and he wants
to hear about my heart,
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and he will actually
share his emotions, too.
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And you know that's
a rare thing in a man.
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But he doesn't
encourage me a lot.
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And another woman might
say, My husband encourages me.
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Every day he
says, You're the best!
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You do such a good job at this.
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But he doesn't give me any
affection, and he doesn't...
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I just want to hold
his hand when we walk,
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and he doesn't do that.
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As you go around the circle,
each woman wishes that she had
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not necessarily the
other woman's husband,
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but she might be discontented
with who God gave her.
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The beautiful thing is that God
brings us together in marriage
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for a purpose, and He has a
beautiful plan for marriage.
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His thing is not to
say, Okay, you're married,
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you're miserable, you're
going to have to stay miserable.
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God says, I can
redeem your marriage.
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I can bring in healing.
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I can cause that
communication to begin again.
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I can rekindle the
love that used to be there,
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and I can bring
it back up again.
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I can cause you to be at peace,
and in love with your husband,
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and not wish
for somebody else's.
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Now this is not a
marriage seminar by any
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stretch of the imagination.
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I just want to say that to
be careful of being discontented
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with who God gave you, and
at the same time seek to respect
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and affirm the husband
that God's given to you.
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Maybe you're unmarried,
and you say, Jill, but I'm not
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married, and I wish I could be.
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Practice
contentment in your singleness.
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I have several
friends, several friends in my
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life that are single.
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These are Godly women, beautiful
women, women of intelligence,
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women of integrity,
women who seek to follow God.
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The sad thing is that
they're in their twenties,
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they're in their thirties,
they're in their forties.
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I remember one friend
recently sat down with me,
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and we were sitting in a church.
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And after the church, whatever,
we were sitting there and she
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said, Jill, she
said, I just turned forty.
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And she said, I'm still single.
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And I have boxes of love letters
that I wrote to my future
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husband, and I
want to be married.
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I can't answer that.
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I don't know why, but I
do know that you can trust
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God with your heart.
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I do know that you can
surrender that back to God.
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I know that you can choose to
practice contentment where you
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are, and choose to
find ways to minister.
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Find ways to serve the
Lord Jesus, even in the midst
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of what you're dealing with.
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It's a beautiful thing.
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God wants to work in our hearts.
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He says, Beware of
the unguarded heart.
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Many times we
might be unguarded.
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I don't know about
you, but it's easy for me
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to let my guard down.
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And God says, I want you to
put on the full armor of God.
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And when we put on the
armor, I don't know about you,
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but I can wear the armor.
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I've got the
helmet of salvation.
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I've got the shield of faith.
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I've got the breast plate.
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I've got all of that going on.
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And then what happens?
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I start walking and
I say, It feels heavy.
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I think I'd like to
take it off for a little bit.
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But when I do that what happens?
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I become unguarded.
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I let that guard down.
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I give easy access
for Satan to come in.
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So 1. Just beware of
that unguarded heart.
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2. Beware of the
discontented heart.
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I don't know what
experience you're in right now,
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I don't know, maybe you
say, Jill, but you don't know
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what my marriage is like.
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Jill, but you don't know
the pain I have in my heart.
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You don't know
what I've been through.
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And you're
right, I have no idea.
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But the Lord Jesus Christ knows.
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He knows every tear you've shed.
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He knows every hurt
you have had in your heart,
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and He says, I came
to bring you deliverance.
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I came to bring you freedom.
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I came to work even
in the midst of the pain,
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of the hurt in your marriage,
and I can restore it again.
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I can rekindle
what you used to have.
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Or if you're single and you
say, But God, I'm so lonely.
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God says, Isaiah, Your
maker can be your husband.
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He says, I love you, and I want
to come alongside you right now.
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We're going to
take a short break.
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When we come back we want to
do our practical application.
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We like to do this every week.
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Give you something that you
can do; some sort of assignment
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that you can do this week
at home, as you deal with the
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unguarded heart, and
the discontented heart.
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And next week we're going to
take a look at the next type of
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danger, the next type
of heart, the forward heart
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that we need to be aware of.
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We'll be right back.
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