1. Keep Yourself
“Do not lay hands on anyone hastily, nor share in other people's sins; keep yourself pure” (1 Timothy 5:22).
November 23, 2003
Preached again at the West Side church of Christ on August 13, 2006

2. Keep Yourself Keep yourself out of the business of others
1 Peter 4:15; 1 Thessalonians 4:11

3. 1 Peter 4:15
“But let none of you suffer as a murderer, a thief, an evildoer, or as a busybody in other people's matters.”

4. 1 Thessalonians 4:11
“That you also aspire to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you.”

5. Keep Yourself Keep yourself out of the business of others
1 Peter 4:15; 1 Thessalonians 4:11
Keep your heart with all diligence
Proverbs 4:23; Matthew 15:19

6. Proverbs 4:23
“Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it spring the issues of life.”

7. Matthew 15:19-20
“For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. 20 These are the things which defile a man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man.”

8. Keep Yourself Keep yourself out of the business of others
1 Peter 4:15; 1 Thessalonians 4:11
Keep your heart with all diligence
Proverbs 4:23; Matthew 15:19
Keep your mouth bridled
Psalm 39:1; James 1:19; 1 Peter 3:10

9. Psalm 39:1
“I said, ‘I will guard my ways, Lest I sin with my tongue; I will restrain my mouth with a muzzle, While the wicked are before me.’”

10. James 1:19
“So then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.”

11. 1 Peter 3:10
“For ‘He who would love life And see good days, Let him refrain his tongue from evil, And his lips from speaking deceit.’”

12. Keep Yourself Keep yourself out of the business of others
1 Peter 4:15; 1 Thessalonians 4:11
Keep your heart with all diligence
Proverbs 4:23; Matthew 15:19
Keep your mouth bridled
Psalm 39:1; James 1:19; 1 Peter 3:10
Keep your body in subjection
1 Corinthians 9:27; 1 Peter 2:11

13. 1 Corinthians 9:27
“But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified.”

14. 1 Peter 2:11
“Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul, 12 having your conduct honorable among the Gentiles, that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may, by your good works which they observe, glorify God in the day of visitation.”

15. Conclusion
“Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.” (James 1:27)