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How Shall the Young Secure Their Hearts?. Psalms 119:9. How shall the young secure their hearts And guard their lives from sin? Thy Word the choicest rules imparts To keep the conscience clean. Psalm 119:9-16.
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How Shall the Young Secure Their Hearts? Psalms 119:9
How shall the young secure their heartsAnd guard their lives from sin?Thy Word the choicest rules impartsTo keep the conscience clean. • Psalm 119:9-16
Tis, like the sun, a heavenly lightThat guides us all the day,And through the dangers of the nightA lamp to lead our way. • Psalms 119:105; Proverbs 6:23
Thy Word is everlasting truth;How pure is every page!That holy Book shall guide our youthAnd well support our age. • Proverbs; Proverbs 4:1-9
Separate yourself • A. From places of sin • B. From people of sin: 2 Cor. 6:14; 1 Cor. 15:33 • C. From the power of sin: Rom. 12:2; 1 John 2:15-17 • D. From the practice to sin: 1 Tim. 5:22; 2 Cor. 7:1; Prov. 6:27 • E. From all appearance of evil: 1 Thess. 5:22
Surrender Yourself • Your time: Eph. 5:15-16 • Your speech: Eph. 4:29; Ruth 2:4 • Your thoughts: Prov. 4:23; 23:7; 2 Cor. 10:5; Phil. 2:5
Deny yourself • LUKE 9:23: "If any man will come after Me." • DECISION: We must make a choice. • "Let him deny himself." • DENIAL: We must be willing to sacrifice. • "And take up his cross daily." • DEDICATION: We must have continual commitment. • "And follow me." • DETERMINATION: We must follow the Lord wherever He leads.
Deny yourself • Deny yourself of pride • Deny yourself of interest solely of yourself: Eph. 6:1-3; Prov. 23:25
Stand yourself • Make your own stand for the Lord: Eph. 6:10 • Make your stand like Shadrach, Meshach & Abednego: Dan. 3:24-27 • Make your stand for the Lord when problems arise: Eph. 6:13; Mark 8:34-38
Develop yourself • Develop your own close spiritual relationship with God: Eccl. 12:1; Prov. 3:6-7; Isa. 40:28-31 • Worship God regularly. Heb. 11:25 • Study the word for yourself: Psalms 119:9; 1 Sam. 3:9; Prov. 23:23 • Train yourself. • Work for the Lord: Psalms 110:3
Don’t Waste your youth! • 4 Ways to Waste your YOUTH • 1. If you die WITHOUT Christ: Prov. 27:1; 1 Sam. 20:3 • 2. If you destroy it by wrong living: Luke 15:11-16 • 3. If you put your selfishness ahead of the call of Christ: Luke 9:24 • 4. If you reform outwardly without an inward conversion to Christ: Matt. 18:3; Acts 26:28 • Ecclesiastes 12:1 • Remember NOW thy Creator in the days of thy YOUTH….
2 Timothy 3:14-17 • 14 But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them; • 15 And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. • 16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: • 17 That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.
How shall the young secure their hearts? • Separate yourself • Surrender yourself • Deny Yourself • Stand Yourself • Develop Yourself