The Defending of the New Heart (2)

I. The Existence of the New Heart

II. The Maintaining of the New Heart

A. The Call to Maintain One’s Heart (Prov. 4:23)

B. The Growth of the New Heart (1 Pet. 2:1-3)

C. The Assault Against the New Heart (1Pet. 2:11)

D. The Colonization of the New Heart (Eph. 3:14-17)

E. The Gifting of the New Heart (Lk. 11:41)

F. The Orienting to the New Heart (1 Pet. 3:3-4)

G. The Defending of the New Heart (Various Passages)

1. The Spirit Controlled Life (Gal. 5:16-25)

a. The Essence of the Spirit Controlled Life (5:16)

b. The Need for the Spirit Controlled life (5:17)

c. The Answer for the Spirit Controlled life (5:18)

d. The Contrast of and Congruency of the Spirit Controlled Life

(5:19-23)

e. The Response to the Spirit Controlled Life (5:24-25)

2. The Woke Life (Rom. 13:11-14)

● The Background and Context of Romans 13:11-14

a. The Demand to Live a Woke Life (13:11-12a)

1) The Fact of the Age (13:11a)

2) The Nature of the Age (13:11b-12a)

b. The Characteristics that Define a Woke Life

(13:12b-14)

1) Is Lived in the Light (13:12b)

2) Is Lived in Decency (13:13)

● properly

pleasing; decorum or decency

3) Is Lived Christ (13:14)

● provision

providence, forethought or foresight