EMPOWERED Self Control: Allows us to be part of God’s work

2nd Peter 1:5-9 | In view of all this, make every effort to respond to God’s promises. Supplement your faith with a generous provision of moral excellence, and moral excellence with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with patient endurance, and patient endurance with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love for everyone. The more you grow like this, the more productive and useful you will be in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But those who fail to develop in this way are shortsighted or blind, forgetting that they have been cleansed from their old sins.

• What other fruits/characteristics are paired with self-control in this passage?

• How are these characteristics related to self-control?

• Those who fail to grow in self-control and the other characteristics in this passage have forgotten what?

• Because of the gift of salvation, we should practice self-control by following the Holy Spirit. This lets us be used by God. Why is self-control important for those who are part of God’s work?