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People in Need of Change Helping people in Need of Change

Paul David Tripp Timothy S. Lane, Contributor. Orange Park Bible Church. People in Need of Change Helping people in Need of Change. Lesson 3 Understanding Your Heart Struggle . Concepts from Lesson 2. The heart is active. It controls our behavior.

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People in Need of Change Helping people in Need of Change

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  1. Paul David Tripp Timothy S. Lane, Contributor Orange Park Bible Church People in Need of Change Helping people in Need of Change

  2. Lesson 3 Understanding Your Heart Struggle

  3. Concepts from Lesson 2 • The heart is active. It controls our behavior. • Whatever rules the heart exercises inescapable influence overlife and behavior. Your heart is always ruled by something. • God's Word alone is able to expose and judge the heart.

  4. Personalizing them • If I am committed to personal change and growth, I must becommitted to a biblical examination of my heart. • In the situations and relationships of my everyday life I mustconstantly ask, "What is really ruling my heart?“ • I must always study the Word of God with an eye towardmy heart, always asking what the passage reveals about mythoughts and motives. (What is really ruling me?)

  5. How they relate to others • As I minister to others, I want to be an instrument of heart change. • Heart change is always the result of the careful ministry of God's Word to a particular person in a specific situation. • I must not attempt to manipulate or control the behavior of others. I must leave room for God to work lasting change in their hearts

  6. Question How can God use the things he has taught you in these lessons so far to enable you to help someone else?

  7. INSTRUMENTS IN THE REDEEMER'S HANDSLESSON 3 Lesson 1 Do we really need help? Lesson 2 The Heart is the Target Understanding Your Heart Struggle

  8. BIG QUESTION As you deal with your daily situations and relationships what things tend to control your heart? James 4:1 What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members? NASB James 4:1 Where do you think all these appalling wars and quarrels come from? Do you think they just happen? Think again. They come about because you want your own way, and fight for it deep inside yourselves. MESSAGE James 4:1 What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? NIV

  9. Responding to the Central Point Personalized • When attempting to understand my emotions, words, and actions, I must always examine my own heart. • I must learn to ask myselfwhat emotions and desires control me in the various relationships and situations of daily life. • I must learn to affirm my identityin Christand rely on the indwelling Holy Spiritas I seek to serve others in love.

  10. Responding to the Central Point Related to others • I must not blame people or circumstancesfor my emotions, words, and actions. • I must always remember that the desires that rule my heart will shape the way I relate to the people in my life. I must constantly ask myself if those relationships are characterized by demanding or serving. • I must be committed to helping peopleremember who they are in Christ as they struggle with temptations to indulge the sinful nature.

  11. Orange Park Bible Church Questions, Observations, Homework?

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