Helps for Being Careful – Part 2

Thought: Caution is not cowardly. Carelessness is not courage.

• Why be careful - 1 Peter 5:8
  • A devil that is accusing - Job 1, 2
  • A world that is watching - 2 Samuel 12:14
  • Wolves that are devouring - Acts 20:17
  • Believers that need uplifting
• What to be careful of:
  • Forgetting God in your life - Deuteronomy 6:3
  • Associations - Proverbs 1:10
  • Lustful temptations - 1 Corinthians 6:18, Galatians 5:16, Ephesians 5:15
  • Wrong doctrine - Matthew 16:12
  • Materialism - Luke 12:15
  • To do right - Titus 3:8
• How to be careful
  • Attentively - Nehemiah 8:8, Proverbs 2:1, 2:2, 4:1, 4:20, Deuteronomy 29
    • Listening
  • Carefully - Ephesians 5:15
  • Deliberately - Proverbs 4
  • Diligently - Proverbs 4:23
  • Prudently - Proverbs 22
  • Vigilantly - Proverbs 29

Destined for a Fall

There was a people long ago

Who had great riches, wealth untold;

They built a city with a wall,

A kingdom they thought would never fall.

How they labored unceasingly

To lay up treasure increasingly;

They gave no thought to what lay beyond,

That their kingdom would someday be gone.

But one by one the stones came down;

The city was leveled to the ground,

No more fortune to be found,

No one left to wear a crown.

The mighty kingdom fell at last;

Its beauty gone, its pleasure past;

All was lost they sought to gain,

Their lives were wasted, their labor vain.

You can build a kingdom with a mighty wall,

But like the kingdom long ago, it is destined for a fall,

Unless Christ the Lord becomes your King and ruler of everything.

- Perry Boardman