This document outlines a 10-week challenge to transform one's heart. It encourages praying daily for enlightenment and for God to search one's heart and make it like Christ's. It discusses monitoring what comes out of one's mouth as an indicator of one's heart. It also discusses identifying sources of impurity, exposing them to God, and eliminating them. The challenge is to monitor one's heart for mercy and desire for righteousness. The next week will examine what may be holding one's heart captive.

1. Lesson 4: April 8, 2015

2. Thank you
for being
here
tonight!

3. Jesus
Becoming like Him

4. The Ten Week Challenge
Pray daily for the eyes of our hearts to be
enlightened.
21 days in/
49 days to go

5. Ephesians 1:17 – 18
17 I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus
Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the
Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you
may know him better.
18 I pray also that the eyes of your heart
may be enlightened in order that you may
know the hope to which he has called you,
the riches of his glorious inheritance in the
saints, and His incomparably great power for
us who believe.

6. The Ten Week Challenge
Pray daily for the eyes of our hearts to be
enlightened.
Pray daily for God to search our hearts
and transform them into the heart of
Christ.
21 days in/
49 days to go

7. Romans 8:27
And he who searches our hearts knows
the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit
intercedes for the saints in accordance
with God’s will.

8. The Ten Week Challenge
Pray daily for the eyes of our hearts to be
enlightened.
Monitor our hearts daily by monitoring
what is coming out of our mouths.
Pray daily for God to search our hearts
and transform them into the heart of
Christ.
21 days in/
49 days to go

9. Matt. 15:18-19…But the things that come
out of a person’s mouth come from the
heart, and these make a man unclean. For
out of the heart come evil thoughts—
murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft,
false testimony, slander.

10. The Ten Week Challenge
Identify the sourceof impurity in ourlives.
Expose them to God.
Prayerfully develop a plan to
eliminate these sources.
14 days in/
56 days to go

11. of the heart…

13. The Ten Week Challenge
Monitor the attitude of our hearts.
How merciful are we?
21 days in/
49 days to go

14. Remember…

15. We are in a
war!

16. How much
do we want
this?

17. Matt. 5:6 -
Blessed are
those who
hunger and
thirst for
righteousness
for they be
filled.

18. To
appreciate
this
blessing,
we must
understand
:What
“hunger”
meant to
the
multitude.

19. What
“thirst”
meant to
the
multitude.
To
appreciate
this
blessing,
we must
understand
:

20. The blessing of this atitude is a
three-fold process:
1.We must recognize our need for
true righteousness.
 Our own righteousness is worthless.
Luke 18:9—14

21. Luke 18:9-14 -To some who were confident of their
own righteousness and looked down on everyone
else, Jesus told this parable:
“Two men went up to the
temple to pray, one a Pharisee
and the other a tax collector.
The Pharisee stood by
himself and prayed: ‘God, I
thank you that I am not like
other people—robbers,
evildoers, adulterers—or even
like this tax collector. I fast
twice a week and give a tenth
of all I get.’

22. “But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would
not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and
said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a
sinner.’ “I tell you that this
man, rather than the other,
went home justified before
God. For all those who exalt
themselves will be
humbled, and those who
humble themselves will be
exalted.”

23. The blessing of this attitude is a
three-fold process:
1.We must recognize our need for
true righteousness.
 Our own righteousness is
worthless. Luke 18:9—14
 No one is righteous before God.
Rom. 3:9—12

24. Romans 3:9-12- What shall we conclude
then? Do we have any advantage? Not at
all! For we have already made the charge
that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under
the power of sin. As it is written: “There is
no one righteous, not even one; there is
no one who understands; there is no one
who seeks God. All have turned away,
they have together become worthless;
there is no one who does good, not even
one.”

25. The blessing of this atitude is a
three-fold process:
1.We must recognize our need for
true righteousness.
 Our own righteousness is worthless.
Luke 18:9—14
 No one is righteous before God.
Rom. 3:9—12
 Only in Christ can we find true
righteousness. 2 Cor. 5:21

26. 2 Cor. 5:21…God made him who
had no sin to be sin for us, so
that in him we might become
the righteousness of God.

27. 2.We must desire it with all our heart.
The blessing of this atitude is a
three-fold process:
 It must be our first desire.
Matthew 6:33

28. Mat. 6:33…But seek first his
kingdom and his righteousness,
and all these things will be
given to you as well.

29. 2.We must desire it with all our hear
The blessing of this atitude is
a
three-fold process:
 It must be our first desire.
Matthew 6:33
 We must be willing to give up all
we have for
Phil. 3:7 – 9

30. Phil . 3: 7-9…But whatever was gain to me I
now
consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is
more,
I consider everything a loss because of the
surpassing
value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for
whose sake I have lost all things. I consider
them garbage, that I may gain Christ and be
found in him, not having a righteousness of my
own that comes from the law, but that which is
through faith in Christ—the righteousness that
comes from God on the basis of faith.

31. 2.We must desire it with all our heart.
The blessing of this atitude is a
three-fold process:
 It must be our first desire.
Matthew 6:33
 We must be willing to give up
all we have for it.
Phil. 3:7 – 9

32. 3.We must pursue righteousness as a
starving man pursues food.
The blessing of this atitude is a
three-fold process:
 The blessing is to fully pursue
righteousness, not fully attain it.
 We are constantly filled with God’s
righteousness as a man is constantly
filled with food and water.

33. 1.We must
recognize our
need for true
righteousness.
2.We must desire
it with all our
heart.
3.We must
pursue
righteousness
as a starving
man pursues
Matt. 5:6 - Blessed
are those who
hunger and thirst
for righteousness
for they will be
filled.

34. of the heart…

35. The Ten Week Challenge
Pray daily for the eyes of our hearts to be
enlightened.
Monitor our hearts daily by monitoring
what is coming out of our mouths.
Pray daily for God to search our hearts
and transform them into the heart of
Christ.
21 days in/
49 days to go

36. The Ten Week Challenge
Identify the source of impurity in our
lives.
Expose them to God.
Prayerfully develop a plan to
eliminate these sources.
21 days in/
49 days to go

37. The Ten Week Challenge
Monitor the attitude of our hearts.
How merciful are we?
21 days in/
49 days to go
How much do we truly desire God’s
righteousness?
Next week…

38. What’s
inside our
hearts that
may be holding us
captive?