Four More Keys | Clip 1

• Let’s go back to the two scriptures that we opened with and just look at them again. Acts 20 verse 28. Therefore, take heed to yourselves and to all the flock among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers to shepherd the church of God which he purchased with his own blood.
• I pointed out that Paul directs their attention first to their own selves and then to the flock. If we do not take heed to ourselves, ultimately we will not be capable of shephering the flock. And then in 1 Timothy 4:16, for again uses the same phrase, but in the singular address to one man, Timothy, take heed to yourself and to the doctrine.
• Again the message we teach is important but our own lives are primary. So it’s take heed to yourself then to what you teach. Continue in them for in doing this you will both save yourself and those who hear you. If we don’t succeed in saving ourselves, it’s problematical whether we’ll save those who hear us.
• So I shared yesterday out of my own background and experience ways in which I feel we need to take heed to ourselves things that we need to watch out for. I believe uh I shared three. The first which I probably laid the greatest emphasis upon was cultivate hearing God’s voice. And we traced I think all through the scripture how in every age and dispensation God’s ways of dealings with man may vary in some respects that the one ongoing unvarying requirement is to hear God’s voice. And I think that has to be cultivated.