The document is a sermon about guarding one's heart and understanding the heart. It discusses how the heart includes the mind, emotions, desires, and how people and demonic influences can affect it. It encourages living according to the Spirit rather than the flesh, taking every thought captive to obey Christ, and sowing to please the Spirit to reap eternal life. The sermon uses the examples of Little King Will and Jesus to illustrate understanding and guarding the heart.

1. PRAYER:
A MORE CHRISTLIKE CHURCH
Cody
Church of THE Nazarene
Romans 8:1-14
With Reverend Hal Perkins

2. “We know that we have come to know
Him if we keep His commands.”
1 John 2:3

3. “Whoever says, ‘I know Him,’ but
does not do what He commands is a
liar, and the truth is not in that
person.” 1 John 2:3-4

4. “But if anyone obeys His word, love
for God is truly made complete in him.
This is how we know we are in Him: ”

5. “Whoever claims to live in Him
must walk as Jesus did.”
1 John 2:5-6

6. PROVERB 4:23
“Above all else,
guard your heart, for it is the
wellspring of life.”

7. Have you been discipled
to guard your heart?

8. UNDERSTANDING OUR HEART
King Arthur
and
His Knights of the Round Table

9. UNDERSTANDING OUR HEART
Little king Will

10. UNDERSTANDING OUR HEART
Enter King Jesus

11. LITTLE KING WILL, JESUS, AND …
• Mind: “I think” …
perspectives, memories, ideas

12. LITTLE KING WILL, JESUS, AND …
• Emotions: “I feel” … fear,
anger, shame

13. LITTLE KING WILL, JESUS, AND …
• Desires: “I want” … physical,
mental, relational

14. LITTLE KING WILL, JESUS, AND …
• People: “They said …they
think…they want”… offer
security, significance,
possessions and power – in
limited ways

15. LITTLE KING WILL, JESUS, AND …
• Demonic influences: deceive,
seduce, accuse, condemn

16. “There is therefore now no
condemnation for those who
are in Christ …”
Romans 8:1

17. “He condemned sin in the flesh, in
order that the requirement of the
Law might be fulfilled in us, who
do not walk according to the flesh,
but according to the Spirit.”
Romans 8:3b-4

18. “If you are living according to
the flesh, you must die; but if
by the Spirit you are putting to
death the deeds of the body,
you will live.” Romans 8:13

19. “For all who are being led
by the Spirit of God, these
are sons of God.”
Romans 8:14

20. “ … we take captive every
thought to make it obedient
to Christ.” 2 Corinthians 10:5

21. “Do not be deceived. God is not
mocked. Whoever sows to please
their flesh, from the flesh will reap
destruction; whoever sows to please
the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap
eternal life. .” Galatians 6:7-8