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 What The World Needs Now is…  Self-Control  

But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things! Galatians 5v22-23 (NLT)   

A person without self-control is like a city with broken-down walls.  Proverbs 25v28 (NLT)   See Galatians 5v19-21   

1.  CONTROLLING my “self” begins with DENYING my “self’.  

Then he said to the crowd, “If any of you wants to be my follower, you must give up your own way, take up your cross daily, and follow me.  Luke 9v23 (NLT) 

 “So if your eye—even your good eye—causes you to lust, gouge it out and throw it away.”  Matthew 5v29a (NLT)  

See Genesis 4v4-7  

And I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. I want to do what is right, but I can’t. I want to do what is good, but I don’t. I don’t want to do what is wrong, but I do it anyway. But if I do what I don’t want to do, I am not really the one doing wrong; it is sin living in me that does it.  Romans 7v18-20 (NLT)   

2.  Self-Control is TRUSTING the PROMISES of God.  

I can do everything through CHRIST who gives me strength. Philippians 4v13 (NLT)   

3.  Self-Control is keeping my FOCUS on Jesus.    

For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people. It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age. Titus 2v11-12 (NIV)   

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