METHODIST CHURCH NIGERIA WEEKLY ADULT SUNDAY SCHOOL/TONIC MANUAL FOR JULY 28, 2024 : TOPIC – AN IDLE MIND
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METHODIST CHURCH NIGERIA
WEEKLY ADULT SUNDAY SCHOOL/TONIC MANUAL
WEEK / TONIC 30
TOPIC: AN IDLE MIND
TEXT: 2 SAMUEL 11: 1-15
OBJECTIVE : To highlight the dangers of idleness
INTRODUCTION
There is nothing as dangerous as an idle mind, because the mind is the seat of every decision. However, when the mind is not in good operation or being deployed for something useful, another thing will take over. The mind is an active part of our consciousness and if the right thing is not there, another thing occupies it. In actual sense, the mind is never really idle at anytime except when asleep. A thought, a concept, an idea or something is being processed at any given time. The time we are not employing it for the Lord, the devil takes over. When David should be in the battle field, strategizing on how to win a war, he was in the palace strategizing on how to sleep with another man’s wife. The idleness here is when it is not being deployed for the right and profitable ventures.
POINTS FOR CONVERSATION
1. What actually do you consider to be the mind of a man and where is it situated?
2. What is expected to do, for our mind not to become devil’s workshop? Josh. 1: 8, Col. 3: 2, 1 Pet. 1: 13, 2 Cor. 10: 4-5, Matt. 22: 37-39.
3. What determines the state of our mind and where it is at any point in time? Matt. 6: 21, Psa. 62: 10; Prov. 4: 23-27.
CONCLUSION
Idleness of the mind or heart is a very dangerous thing to the soul of man. Judas Iscariot gave his heart to devil and it was taken over to betray his Lord. The thought of the heart produce the action that we see, because out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.
MEMORY VERSE:
Proverbs 4: 23, “Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life”.
ACTION POINT
I have the responsibility to protect my heart.