Guarding Your Heart (Arthur Pink Collection Book 30)

â–¶ DESCRIPTION
“Do you think you came into this world to spend your whole time and strength in your employments, your trades, your pleasures, unto the satisfaction of the will of the flesh and of the mind? Have you time enough to eat, to drink, to sleep, to talk unprofitably—it may be corruptly—in all sorts of unnecessary societies, but have not enough time to live unto God, in the very essentials of that life? Alas, you came into the world under this law: ‘It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment’ (Heb 9:27), and the end (purpose) why your life is here granted unto you, is that you may be prepared for that judgment. If this be neglected, if the principal part of your time be not improved with respect unto this end, you will yet fall under the sentence of it unto eternity” (John Owen, 1670).

â–¶ CONTENTS
Introduction

I. “Keep Thy Heart”
1. A Good Conscience
2. Set the Lord Always Before Us
3. Watch Diligently
4. Attend to Holiness

II. Diligent Effort
1. Shut Out All That Is Opposed to God
2. Bring into Conformity with the Word
3. Keep Tender unto Sin
4. Look after Cleansing

III. “The Lord Looketh on the Heart”

IV. Distinctive and Critical Seasons
1. In Times of Prosperity
2. In Times of Adversity
3. In Times of Public Danger
4. In Times of Trouble in the Church
5. In Times of Great Injuries and Abuses
6. In Times of Spiritual Gloom
7. In Time of Critical Illness

V. Other Issues
1. The Nature verses the Heart
2. Supreme Importance
3. Corollaries and Consequences

VI. Benefits of Keeping the Heart
1. Understanding the Deep Things of God
2. The Best Evidence of Sincerity
3. Delight in Spiritual Duties
4. Stability in Resisting Temptation
5. Improving One’s Graces
6. Profitable Christian Fellowship
7. Fitting Us for God’s Providences
8. Removing Ourselves as Stumbling Blocks

Conclusion

â–¶ AUTHOR
Arthur W. Pink was born in Nottingham England in 1886, and born again of the Spirit of God in 1908 at the age of 22. He studied at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, USA, for only six weeks before beginning his pastoral work in Colorado. From there he pastored churches in California, Kentucky, and South Carolina, before moving to Sydney Australia for a brief period, preaching and teaching. In 1934, at 48 years old, he returned to his native England. He took permanent residence in Lewis, Scotland, in 1940, remaining there 12 years until his death at age 66 in 1952.