1 Thes Life-study 20 - Our Heart to be Established Blameless in Holiness and our Body to be Preserved Clean in Sanctification

Our heart needs to be sanctified, our body needs to be preserved in sanctification. 

Two hearts - 

1. Physical heart 

2. Psychological heart - 

All spiritual illness comes from this psychological heart (Three arteries: mind, emotions, and will). 

Have blockages in our psychological arteries - taking things other than Christ in our mind, emotion, and will. 

Romans 12: 1-2  - Presenting our Body and our inner heart being renewed. 

Rom. 12:1 I exhort you therefore, brothers, through the compassions of God to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, well pleasing to God, [which is] your reasonable service.

Rom. 12:2 And do not be fashioned according to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and well pleasing and perfect.

Having rooted and grounded in love

Mark 12:30 And you shall love the Lord your God from your whole heart and from your whole soul and from your whole mind and from your whole strength."

To be saturated with the Lord,

Secret: Hymnal 572 

Thy Spirit will me saturate
Every part will God permeate,
Deliv’ring me from the old man,
With all saints building for His plan.

Excercise our spirit, opening/turning of our heart: So that the Lord can transform us. 

Fornication is the most defiling sin. Have our body be preserved clean. Inward being represented by our heart in blameless; our body clean in sanctification. 

Before God: we need to be sanctified. 

Before man: we need honour. 

How fornication can destroy/damage us. It does affect our being saturated with the Lord

Rom. 12:1 I exhort you therefore, brothers, through the compassions of God to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, well pleasing to God, [which is] your reasonable service.

Rom. 12:2 And do not be fashioned according to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and well pleasing and perfect.

Rom. 12:11 Do not be slothful in zeal, [but] be burning in spirit, serving the Lord.