Transcript Self Control - Power Points to Jesus
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Steven J Wallace
The Fruit of the Spirit
Additions of Scriptures and other edits: Jack Wheeler – Clovis Ca Email: [email protected]
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FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT
“Love-Joy-Peace”
FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT
“Longsuffering, Kindness, Goodness
FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT
“Faithfulness, Gentleness” (Meek)
Meek – Last lesson extra
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Matthew 5:5 (KJV)
Blessed are the
meek
: for they shall inherit the earth. • Strength brought under control
FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT
“SELF-CONTROL”
Galatians 5:22-23
•
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, SELF-CONTROL, Against such there is no law.
“Temperance” (KJV)
FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT
• • Used Three times in the New Testament (Text)
2 Peter 1:5-9
5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; 6 And to knowledge
temperance
; (self-control) and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; 7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT
•
Acts 24:25
And as he reasoned of righteousness,
temperance
, (self-control) and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.
FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT
• •
Proverbs 25:28
He that hath
own spirit no rule
(self-control) over his is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.
Proverbs 16:32
He that is
slow to anger
is better than the mighty; and he that
ruleth his spirit
than he that taketh a city.
Defining
“Self-Control”
• Greek – Self-control - the virtue of one who masters his desires and passions, especially his sensual appetites.
FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT - Control
•
1 Corinthians 9:24-27
24 Know ye not that they which run in a race
run all
, but one receives the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. 25 And every man that
strives
for the mastery is
temperate
in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. 26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beats the air: 27 But I keep under my body, and bring it
into subjection
: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT - Control
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Hebrews 12:1
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us
run with patience
the race that is set before us,
Sacrificial Service & Self-Control
Romans 12:1
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye
present your bodies
a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
Sacrificial Service & Self-Control
Romans 12:1
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a
living sacrifice
, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
Sacrificial Service & Self-Control
2 Samuel 24:24
And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the Lord my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
NO COST- NO SACRIFICE
Sacrificial Service & Self-Control
Romans 6:20-21
20 For when ye were the
servants of sin
, ye were free from righteousness. 21 What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
No Self-control when we are servants of sin
Sacrificial Service & Self-Control
Galatians 6:8
8 For he that
sows to his flesh
shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that sows to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
No Self-control when one sows to his flesh
Sacrificial Service & Self-Control
Romans 12:1
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your
reasonable
service.
“your spiritual service of worship”
Sacrificial Service & Self-Control
Romans 12:2 (KJV)
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the
renewing of your mind
, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Eph 4:23 “And be renewed in the spirit of your mind”
Sacrificial Service & Self-Control
1 Peter 1:14-15
14 As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the
former lusts
in your ignorance: 15 But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;
No Self-control when one continues in his former lust
Through God We Can Have A Sound Mind!
2 Timothy 1:6-7
6 Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands. 7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a
sound mind
.
No Self-control without a sound mind
The War For the Mind & Body
1 John 2:16 For all that is in the world
, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
The world is after your mind - Self-control
The War For the Mind & Body
1 John 2:16
For all that is in the world, the
lust of the flesh
, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
Gal. 5:19 “. . .adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness. . .”
The War For the Mind & Body 1 John 2:16-17
16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
Self-Control of your eyes is a must
The War For the Mind & Body
1 John 2:16
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the
pride of life
, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
Gal. 5:20, 21 “. . .hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath. . .dissensions, heresies. . .”
Grace & Self-Control
Titus 2:11-13
11 For the
grace of God
has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, 12 training us to
renounce ungodliness
and
worldly passions
, and to live
self-controlled
, upright, and godly lives in the present age, 13 waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,
Fruit of the Spirit
Is the complete package that displays us as legitimate sons of God
God creates us to be:
a people elevated in love, joy and courage a people powerfully good and compassionate a people who are self-governing, sensible, dependable and restrained restrained
Fruit of the Spirit
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Romans 6:3-4 , 22
3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? 4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have
your fruit unto holiness
, and the end everlasting life.
Call on Jesus
Acts 22:16
And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins,
calling on the name of the Lord.