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

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0:49 Speaker 2: Hello everyone, it's wonderful to join you on this edition

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0:54 Speaker 2: But I want to talk to you today about an

0:55 Speaker 2: important aspect I feel that many peoples to forget or overlook,

0:59 Speaker 2: or we just think that, you know what, let me

1:01 Speaker 2: just hide it under the carpet. I want you to

1:04 Speaker 2: just understand and introspect because we're living in a time

1:07 Speaker 2: and age where it's all about you know what, I

1:09 Speaker 2: want this, and I want it now. It's all about

1:11 Speaker 2: instant gratification. We want results instantaneously. We want to see success,

1:16 Speaker 2: we want to grow, we want to go into new levels,

1:19 Speaker 2: or we want to see you know what, I need

1:21 Speaker 2: this and I need to achieve this. I need to

1:24 Speaker 2: get into this relationship or some relationship, or I need

1:27 Speaker 2: to get some job. So they're so desperate and they're

1:30 Speaker 2: in that state of desperation that they just go into

1:33 Speaker 2: anything and everything to just get things done. Or it

1:36 Speaker 2: could even be maybe you're saying, you know what, I'm

1:39 Speaker 2: dealing with the sin, or there is some addiction that

1:41 Speaker 2: you're dealing with, or you know, you know this is

1:44 Speaker 2: not a good habit, but you know, you just don't

1:46 Speaker 2: have the self control to say no when you're supposed

1:49 Speaker 2: to say no, or to say yes when you're supposed

1:52 Speaker 2: to say yes. You may say, you know what, it's

1:55 Speaker 2: just a small thing. But I want to talk to

1:57 Speaker 2: you today from Proverbs chapter five, and I want to

2:01 Speaker 2: share a couple of things to just remind you of

2:03 Speaker 2: where it says an evil man is held captive by

2:07 Speaker 2: his own sins. They are robes that catch and hold him.

2:12 Speaker 2: He will die for lack of self control. He will

2:16 Speaker 2: be lost because of his great foolishness. Understand the seriousness

2:21 Speaker 2: of lack of self control. Here it says that you

2:25 Speaker 2: know what your own sins, if you're if you're allowing

2:29 Speaker 2: you know, the see everybody and everybody has issues that

2:32 Speaker 2: we are really I think I've spoken to about this

2:35 Speaker 2: here and they're in different sermon's clips. But yes, the

2:38 Speaker 2: thing I wanted to say that we all have areas

2:40 Speaker 2: that we need to ask God to help us to

2:43 Speaker 2: deal with because we are still in the flesh and

2:45 Speaker 2: we still live in the body, and so we still

2:47 Speaker 2: have the element where we need to have the constant

2:50 Speaker 2: battle between you know, flesh and the spirit. But but

2:53 Speaker 2: but that there's always that the element of sin that

2:55 Speaker 2: comes to you know, hold us. And yes, the thing

2:58 Speaker 2: the point is not that you know you should never follow,

3:01 Speaker 2: you should never committing a sayin It's not that it's

3:04 Speaker 2: about having that lifestyle of sin, which is a sin,

3:07 Speaker 2: which is wrong, which is not the way you're supposed

3:09 Speaker 2: to be. And here he says, you know, if you're

3:12 Speaker 2: constantly having that lifestyle when you intentionally take the step,

3:16 Speaker 2: you're saying, you know what, nothing is going to happen,

3:18 Speaker 2: or you know what, I'll deal with it later, or

3:20 Speaker 2: you have that attitude like you know what, anyway, I

3:23 Speaker 2: have the forgiveness from the Lord, so I can do

3:25 Speaker 2: what I want to do. It's my life, or you're

3:27 Speaker 2: just having that sense of arrogance I wanted to sin.

3:30 Speaker 2: The Bible is very clear that, you know what, an

3:33 Speaker 2: evil man is held captive by his own sins. And

3:37 Speaker 2: 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

3:44 Speaker 2: in your life. It could be of a little sin,

3:48 Speaker 2: or it could just be a wrong you know, thought process.

3:51 Speaker 2: It could be a wrong attitude. It could be a

3:54 Speaker 2: sense where you are, you know, holding onto a grudge

3:58 Speaker 2: against somebody, bit in or it could be hurt. It

4:01 Speaker 2: could be disappointment. It could be you know, maybe something

4:06 Speaker 2: that God is asking you to let go of a

4:08 Speaker 2: wrong habit in your life. But whatever it is, today,

4:11 Speaker 2: my challenge is that you will ask the Lord to

4:14 Speaker 2: give you the grace and the strength to exercise self

4:19 Speaker 2: control today. That's the word I want to give you.

4:22 Speaker 2: Learn to depend on the Lord and say, God, help

4:26 Speaker 2: me give me self control, because the Bible says that,

4:30 Speaker 2: you know what, this lack of self control can lead

4:34 Speaker 2: the person to be lost, It can destroy the person.

4:41 Speaker 2: The best example is Samson over and over again. He

4:44 Speaker 2: had the opportunity to make a course correction. But what

4:48 Speaker 2: did he do? He never exercised self control, and what

4:52 Speaker 2: happened next His story ends up being pretty bad. In

4:56 Speaker 2: the end, right is made fun of off and you know,

5:00 Speaker 2: he has a very bad ending because he did not

5:04 Speaker 2: have the you know, the will or the power to

5:09 Speaker 2: exercise self control. Today, I wanted to understand that. You know,

5:13 Speaker 2: of course Samson was in the in the you know,

5:17 Speaker 2: the Old Testament, though he had the part of the

5:20 Speaker 2: Holy Spirit upon him. You and I have an even

5:23 Speaker 2: better advantage because you and I have the Holy Spirit

5:27 Speaker 2: of God in us. And the Bible says in relations

5:30 Speaker 2: that one of the elements we see in the Fruit

5:33 Speaker 2: of the Spirit includes self control, which means that because

5:38 Speaker 2: of the Holy Spirit in us, one of the elements

5:42 Speaker 2: of the Fruit of the Spirit includes self control. One

5:46 Speaker 2: of the characteristics is self control. And today I want

5:52 Speaker 2: you to depend on the Holy Spirit. Say, Holy Spirit,

5:54 Speaker 2: help me to exercise self control. Help me to depend

5:57 Speaker 2: on your Holy Spirit, help me to you know, heal

6:01 Speaker 2: to you more Holy Spirit. So the more you will

6:03 Speaker 2: love the Holy Spirit tool rein away your life and

6:06 Speaker 2: to take control of your life, your thoughts, your actions,

6:09 Speaker 2: your heart, your mind, your everything. I want you, Dennison,

6:13 Speaker 2: that's of self controul will also manifest in it through

6:16 Speaker 2: your life. And I believe that when you operate from

6:20 Speaker 2: the element of self control, you will see your life

6:23 Speaker 2: get to an all new level. Jesus name, I pray Amen,

6:27 Speaker 2: God bless you.

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