Consider the
8 attributes:
- Spirit
- Mind
- Will
- Emotion
- Body
- Family
- Community
- Economy
Consider the
7 pillars:
prayer
praise
worship
obedience
study
stewardship
evangelism
The “proverbial” contrast…
Throughout the bible
Proverbs 4:14-27
“Blessed are the pure in heart, For they shall see God.”
– Matthew
5:8
Consider the 8 attributes:
Spirit
*Hebrews
10:11-22
*Galatians
5:1-6; 16-26
Mind
“The
words of the Lord are pure
words,
Like silver tried in a furnace of earth,
Purified seven times.”
–
psalms 12:6
Also, Psalms
19:8;
119:140; Proverbs
30:5
“Therefore, laying
aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking,
as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow
thereby, if indeed you have tasted that the
Lord is gracious.”
– I Peter 2:1-3
“Therefore
gird
up the loins of your mind, be sober, and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is
to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ as
obedient
children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts, as in your ignorance;
but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct,
because it is written,
“’Be holy, for I am holy.’”
– I Peter 1:13-16
(Leviticus
11, 19, 20 and 21)
“Finally,
brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure,
whatever things are lovely,
whatever things are of
good report, if there is any
virtue and if there is anything
praiseworthy—meditate on these things.
– Philippians 4:8
Will
“All
the
ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, But the Lord
weighs the spirits.” – proverbs 16:2
*I
Timothy 1:3-11
Emotions
Psalms
Jeremiah
Jesus
“Be angry,
and do not sin. Meditate within your heart on your bed,
and be still. Selah”
- Psalm 4:4 (Ephesians
4:26)
Body
“Or do
you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from
God, and you are not your own? For you
were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and
in
your spirit, which are God’s.” – I Corinthians 6:19, 20
Family
Married
Single
Community
Psalm
1
Flee
also youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace with those
who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
– II Timothy 2:22
“Pure and undefiled religion before God and the
Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the
world.”
–
James 1;27
Economy
“seek
first the kingdom of god and his righteousness, and all these things will be
added to you.”
-
Matthew
6:33
