Keeping a Close Watch

"Keep a close watch on yourself and on the teaching. Persist in this, for by so doing you will save both yourself and your hearers." (1 Tim 4:16)

The balance of life and doctrine is the key to spiritual success. Doctrine has everything to do with life, because what we believe about God determines how we live. The more we know God and his workings, the more we will love him, and the better we will serve him. Do you love Him know? Will you love him less if you learn more of Him and His Word? The greed need of people today is to know more of God - to know more about doctrine. Doctrine is the most practical thing in life.

A godly lifestyle has everything to do with maintaining doctrine because if we do not live according to what we know of God and His word, we will either disbelieve or will attempt to change his word.

Are you keeping a close watch on your life? How is your speech? How is your love? Your faith, your purity? It is biblical or is it secularized? Do you really believe what you say you believe?

A true Christian life works out its own salvation (Philippians 2:12). They save themselves and then save their hearers. How is your life? How is your doctrine?