Under Control

Under Control
Pastor Blake Hanson | 8.7.22

Galatians 5:22–23 (NLT)

22 But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 

23 gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things!

The Holy Spirit grows the fruit as we draw close to God. 

James 4:8 (NLT)

8 Come close to God, and God will come close to you…

Self-control: Is the discipline of mastering one’s own desires, emotions, and passions. It requires depending on God to overcome temptation and remain spiritually strong and pure. 

1 Corinthians 9:24–27 (ESV)

24 Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. 

25 Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. 

26 So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. 

27 But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.

Self-control is needed to for the prize. 

1 Corinthians 9:24(ESV)

24 Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. 

Hebrews 12:1 (NLT)

1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us.

1 Corinthians 9:19–22 (ESV)

19 For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them. 

20 To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though not being myself under the law) that I might win those under the law. 

21 To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (not being outside the law of God but under the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law. 

22 To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some. 

Self-control is good . 

1 Corinthians 9:25 (ESV)

25 Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.

 1 Corinthians 10:23 (NLT)

23 You say, “I am allowed to do anything”—but not everything is good for you. You say, “I am allowed to do anything”—but not everything is beneficial.

Self-control our aim.  

1 Corinthians 9:26–27 (ESV)

26 So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. 

27 But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.

Matthew 22:37–40 (NLT)

37 Jesus replied, “ ‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.’ 

38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 

39 A second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 

40 The entire law and all the demands of the prophets are based on these two commandments.”

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