Sermon by Clayton Nel 24 February 2019

2. Matthew 5:8
“Blessed are the pure in heart,
for they will see God.”

3. Psalm 24:3-4
“Who may ascend the mountain of
the LORD?
Who may stand in His holy place?
The one who has clean hands and a
pure heart”

4. Matthew 5:29-30
“If your right eye causes you to stumble, gouge
it out and throw it away. It is better for you to
lose one part of your body than for your whole
body to be thrown into hell.
And if your right hand causes you to stumble,
cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you
to lose one part of your body than for your
whole body to go into hell.

5. Be Radical

6. “The pain of self-discipline will
never be as great as the pain of
regret.” - Anonymous

7. “Discipline weighs ounces, regret
weighs tons.”- Anonymous

8. “He who reigns within himself, and
rules passions, desires, and fears, is
more than a king.” – John Milton

9. “If passion drives you, let reason
hold the reins.” – Benjamin Franklin

10. Throw off what hinders you!

11. “It hurts when God has to PRY
things out of your hand.”
– Corrie Ten Boom

12. Malachi 3:3
“He will sit as a refiner of silver; he
will purify the Levites and refine
them like gold and silver.”

13. Isaiah 48:10
“See, I have refined you, though not
as silver; I have tested you in the
furnace of affliction.”

14. Jeremiah 9:7
“Therefore this is what the LORD
Almighty says: ‘See, I will refine and
test them, for what else can I do
because of the sin of my people?’”

15. Zechariah 13:9
“This third I will put into the fire;
I will refine them like silver
And test them like gold.
They will call on My name
And I will answer them;
I will say, ‘They are my people,’
And they will say, ‘The LORD is our God.’”

16. Keep looking at the big picture

17. “A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes
simply does not know what it would have been like an
hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know
very little about badness — they have lived a sheltered
life by always giving in. We never find out the strength
of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it: and
Christ, because He was the only man who never yielded
to temptation, is also the only man who knows to the
full what temptation means — the
only complete realist.”
– CS Lewis

18. 1 Corinthians 10:13
“No temptation has overtaken you except
what is common to mankind. And God is
faithful; he will not let you be tempted
beyond what you can bear. But when you
are tempted, he will also provide a way
out so that you can endure
it.”

19. The Way Out is the Way In