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.

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EMPOWERED Self Control: Puts sin to death

Romans 8:6 | So letting your sinful nature control your mind leads to death. But letting the Spirit control your mind leads to life and peace.

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EMPOWERED Self Control: Takes discipline

1 Corinthian 9:24-27 | Don’t you realize that in a race everyone runs, but only one person gets the prize? So run to win! All athletes are disciplined in their training. They do it to win a prize that will fade away, but we do it for an eternal prize. So I run with purpose in every step. I am not just shadowboxing. I discipline my body like an athlete, training it to do what it should. Otherwise, I fear that after preaching to others I myself might be disqualified.

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EMPOWERED Self Control: Shows in new creations

1 Peter 1:13-14 | So prepare your minds for action and exercise self-control. Put all your hope in the gracious salvation that will come to you when Jesus Christ is revealed to the world. So you must live as God’s obedient children. Don’t slip back into your old ways of living to satisfy your own desires. You didn’t know any better then.

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EMPOWERED Self Control: Because of God’s grace

Titus 2:11-14 | For the grace of God has been revealed, bringing salvation to all people. And we are instructed to turn from godless living and sinful pleasures. We should live [*self-controlled] in this evil world with wisdom, righteousness, and devotion to God, while we look forward with hope to that wonderful day when the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, will be revealed. He gave his life to free us from every kind of sin, to cleanse us, and to make us his very own people, totally committed to doing good deeds.

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EMPOWERED Self Control: The importance of self-control

Proverbs 25:28 | A person without self-control is like a city with broken-down walls.

Proverbs 16:32 | Better to be patient than powerful; better to have self-control than to conquer a city.

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EMPOWERED Self Control: Adam & Eve’s lack of self-control

Genesis 2:15-17 | The Lord God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to tend and watch over it. But the Lord God warned him, “You may freely eat the fruit of every tree in the garden— except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If you eat its fruit, you are sure to die.”

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EMPOWERED Gentleness: Gentle hope

1st Peter 3:15-16 | Instead, you must worship Christ as Lord of your life. And if someone asks about your hope as a believer, always be ready to explain it. But do this in a gentle and respectful way. Keep your conscience clear. Then if people speak against you, they will be ashamed when they see what a good life you live because you belong to Christ.

Family DevoFamily Ministry TeamAugust 28, 2021Empowered