The Power & Danger of Self-Control: Why It Can Make or Break Your Life | Christian Sermon | John Giftah

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0:41 Speaker 1: Welcome to Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta.

0:49 Speaker 2: Hello everyone, it's wonderful to join you on this edition of the Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta podcast. But I want to talk to you today about an important aspect I feel that many peoples to forget or overlook, or we just think that, you know what, let me just hide it under the carpet. I want you to just understand and introspect because we're living in a time and age where it's all about you know what, I want this, and I want it now. It's all about instant gratification. We want results instantaneously.

1:14 Speaker 2: We want to see success, we want to grow, we want to go into new levels, or we want to see you know what, I need this and I need to achieve this. I need to get into this relationship or some relationship, or I need to get some job. So they're so desperate and they're in that state of desperation that they just go into anything and everything to just get things done. Or it could even be maybe you're saying, you know what, I'm dealing with the sin, or there is some addiction that you're dealing with, or you know, you know this is not a good habit, but you know, you just don't have the self control to say no when you're supposed to say no, or to say yes when you're supposed to say yes.

1:53 Speaker 2: You may say, you know what, it's just a small thing. But I want to talk to you today from Proverbs chapter five, and I want to share a couple of things to just remind you of where it says an evil man is held captive by his own sins. They are robes that catch and hold him. He will die for lack of self control. He will be lost because of his great foolishness. Understand the seriousness of lack of self control. Here it says that you know what your own sins, if you're if you're allowing you know, the see everybody and everybody has issues that we are really I think I've spoken to about this here and they're in different sermon's clips.

2:37 Speaker 2: But yes, the thing I wanted to say that we all have areas that we need to ask God to help us to deal with because we are still in the flesh and we still live in the body, and so we still have the element where we need to have the constant battle between you know, flesh and the spirit. But but but that there's always that the element of sin that comes to you know, hold us. And yes, the thing the point is not that you know you should never follow, you should never committing a sayin It's not that it's about having that lifestyle of sin, which is a sin, which is wrong, which is not the way you're supposed to be.

3:10 Speaker 2: And here he says, you know, if you're constantly having that lifestyle when you intentionally take the step, you're saying, you know what, nothing is going to happen, or you know what, I'll deal with it later, or you have that attitude like you know what, anyway, I have the forgiveness from the Lord, so I can do what I want to do. It's my life, or you're just having that sense of arrogance I wanted to sin. The Bible is very clear that, you know what, an evil man is held captive by his own sins. And it's kind of like how a rope catches and holds on.

3:41 Speaker 2: And you may be dealing with some area of sin in your life. It could be of a little sin, or it could just be a wrong you know, thought process. It could be a wrong attitude. It could be a sense where you are, you know, holding onto a grudge against somebody, bit in or it could be hurt. It could be disappointment. It could be you know, maybe something that God is asking you to let go of a wrong habit in your life. But whatever it is, today, my challenge is that you will ask the Lord to give you the grace and the strength to exercise self control today.

4:19 Speaker 2: That's the word I want to give you. Learn to depend on the Lord and say, God, help me give me self control, because the Bible says that, you know what, this lack of self control can lead the person to be lost, It can destroy the person.

4:41 Speaker 2: The best example is Samson over and over again. He had the opportunity to make a course correction. But what did he do? He never exercised self control, and what happened next His story ends up being pretty bad. In the end, right is made fun of off and you know, he has a very bad ending because he did not have the you know, the will or the power to exercise self control. Today, I wanted to understand that. You know, of course Samson was in the in the you know, the Old Testament, though he had the part of the Holy Spirit upon him.

5:21 Speaker 2: You and I have an even better advantage because you and I have the Holy Spirit of God in us. And the Bible says in relations that one of the elements we see in the Fruit of the Spirit includes self control, which means that because of the Holy Spirit in us, one of the elements of the Fruit of the Spirit includes self control. One of the characteristics is self control. And today I want you to depend on the Holy Spirit. Say, Holy Spirit, help me to exercise self control. Help me to depend on your Holy Spirit, help me to you know, heal to you more Holy Spirit.

6:02 Speaker 2: So the more you will love the Holy Spirit tool rein away your life and to take control of your life, your thoughts, your actions, your heart, your mind, your everything. I want you, Dennison, that's of self controul will also manifest in it through your life. And I believe that when you operate from the element of self control, you will see your life get to an all new level. Jesus name, I pray Amen, God bless you.

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