Setting Our Sights on Self-Control
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on Jan 10, 2010
by Wes Pastor
Summary: If we’re to make substantial progress in our faith in 2010, we must get deadly serious about the Spirit’s fruit of self-control.
- Sermon Notes
- Scripture Text: Matthew 5:27-30 (ESV)
Setting Our Sights on Self-Control
I. Prerequisites to Self-Control
A. Dropping Hedonism 101
B. Joining Slackers’ Anonymous
II. Requirements for Self-Control
A. Locating a Gratification Tumor
1. Realm of Relationships
2. Realm of Sex/Food/Drink
3. Realm of Shopping/Acquisition
4. Realm of Entertainment
5. Realm of Quietude/Contemplation
6. Realm of Contentment
7. Realm of Thought-Life
8. Realm of Patience/Tongue
9. Realm of Hard Work/Planning
10. Realm of Fear
2. Realm of Sex/Food/Drink
3. Realm of Shopping/Acquisition
4. Realm of Entertainment
5. Realm of Quietude/Contemplation
6. Realm of Contentment
7. Realm of Thought-Life
8. Realm of Patience/Tongue
9. Realm of Hard Work/Planning
10. Realm of Fear
B. Excising that Gratification Tumor (Mt 5:27-30)
1. Accepting Delayed Gratification Patiently
2. Treating the Gratification Tumor Brutally
III. Motivation for Self-Control
A. Principle of Delayed Gratification (Heb 12:1-2a)
B. Glory of Delayed Gratification
1. Initial Freedom in Present (John 8:34-36, Rom 8:23)
2. Full Freedom in Future (Mt 5:29-30; Heb 12:2b-13)
Lust
27 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ 28 But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 29 If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell. 30 And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell. (ESV)
Series: Challenge
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