Self-Control (8 of 8)
Series: Relational Harmony in Your Home
Scott Maze
Galatians 5:16-26
Do you have everything under control? I mean everything within you - do you all of you in control? Let me just get real serious, real quick here: what is the one item in your life you have trouble controlling? Do you have total self-control in the area of food? Drink? Sex? Your tongue? Today, I want to talk about the last of the fruit of the Spirit - self control. You'll need more power than just willpower in your life to control you. You'll need God's power.
These nine virtues are the real signs the Spirit is in and with you. This is a series devoted to advocating living life with the fruit of the Spirit. Think of the fruit of the Spirit as signs to tell outsiders that you are followers of Christ.
You can either turn in Scripture or ''turn on'' Scripture (if you have your Bible on your device) to Galatians 5:
''But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. 17 For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. 19 Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, 21 envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. 24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, env ...
Series: Relational Harmony in Your Home
Scott Maze
Galatians 5:16-26
Do you have everything under control? I mean everything within you - do you all of you in control? Let me just get real serious, real quick here: what is the one item in your life you have trouble controlling? Do you have total self-control in the area of food? Drink? Sex? Your tongue? Today, I want to talk about the last of the fruit of the Spirit - self control. You'll need more power than just willpower in your life to control you. You'll need God's power.
These nine virtues are the real signs the Spirit is in and with you. This is a series devoted to advocating living life with the fruit of the Spirit. Think of the fruit of the Spirit as signs to tell outsiders that you are followers of Christ.
You can either turn in Scripture or ''turn on'' Scripture (if you have your Bible on your device) to Galatians 5:
''But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. 17 For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. 19 Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, 21 envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. 24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, env ...
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