Developing an Attitude of Self Conbtrol
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March 12, 2017 Pastor Mike Thorburn
Developing an Attitude of Self Control
23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
7 for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
“for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.”
– out of control spiritually is different from the inability to overcome spiritually
1 Or do you not know, brothers—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives? 2 For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage. 3 Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress. 4 Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God. 5 For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death. 6 But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code. 7 What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.” 8 But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin lies dead. 9 I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died. 10 The very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me. 11 For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me. 12 So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good. 13 Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, producing death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become sinful beyond measure. 14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin. 15 For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. 16 Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good. 17 So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. 18 For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. 21 So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. 22 For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, 23 but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. 24 Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
5 For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death. 6 But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code. 7 What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.” 8 But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin lies dead. 9 I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died. 10 The very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me. 11 For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me. 12 So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good. 13 Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, producing death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become sinful beyond measure. 14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin. 15 For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. 16 Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good. 17 So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. 18 For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. 21 So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. 22 For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, 23 but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. 24 Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
5 For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death. 6 But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code. 7 What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.” 8 But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin lies dead. 9 I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died. 10 The very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me. 11 For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me. 12 So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good. 13 Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, producing death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become sinful beyond measure. 14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin. 15 For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. 16 Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good. 17 So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. 18 For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. 21 So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. 22 For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, 23 but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. 24 Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
Romans 7:5-24
Auto gratification, Progressive sanctification, Rehabituation
When I am rejected I seek auto gratification,
when my heart is hurting I seek auto gratification,
when there is a void in my life I seek auto gratification,
when someone makes me angry I seek auto gratification.
Progressive Sanctification
We all understand instant sanctification. The biblical term is justification, God declares us to be righteous. We are instantly forgiven and regenerated and called the holy one by God.
And we understand ultimate sanctification, or glorification. That is where the minute we die we are instantly sinless, forgiven, transformed for eternity.
But it's the middle one, progressive sanctification, that drives us crazy. It's what Paul says in . We want to do right but we don't and the things we don't want to do we do.
Rehabituation
And the way to understand how to grow spiritually and the way to overcome spiritually is this new word rehabituation. You need new habits to overcome your learned behaviors.
And that's what we're going to talk about this morning when we talk about self-control because we want to see what the Spirit and the word can do when we seek God’s will God's way
What is sin?
Sin is the satisfying of a legitimate need in an illegitimate way.
What need are you satisfying?
The need for friendship
The need for power
The need to conquer
The need for intimacy
The need for emotional gratification
What is self control?
1466 ἐγκράτεια [egkrateia /eng·krat·i·ah/] n f. From 1468; TDNT 2:339; TDNTA 196; GK 1602; Four occurrences; AV translates as “temperance” four times. 1 self-control (the virtue of one who masters his desires and passions, esp. his sensual appetites).
1467 ἐγκρατεύομαι [egkrateuomai /eng·krat·yoo·om·ahee/] v. Middle voice from 1468; TDNT 2:339; TDNTA 196; GK 1603; Two occurrences; AV translates as “can contain” once, and “be temperate” once. 1 to be self-controlled, continent. 1a to exhibit self-government, conduct, one’s self temperately. 1b in a figure drawn from athletes, who in preparing themselves for the games abstained from unwholesome food, wine, and sexual indulgence.
1468 ἐγκρατής [egkrates /eng·krat·ace/] adj. From 1722 and 2904; TDNT 2:339; TDNTA 196; GK 1604; AV translates as “temperate” once. 1 strong, robust. 2 having power over, possessed of (a thing). 3 mastering, controlling, curbing, restraining. 3a controlling one’s self, temperate, continent.[1]
88.83 ἐγκρατεύομαι; ἐγκράτεια, ας f: to exercise complete control over one’s desires and actions—‘to control oneself, to exercise self- control, self-control.’
ἐγκρατεύομαι: πᾶς δὲ ὁ ἀγωνιζόμενος πάντα ἐγκρατεύεται ‘everyone who competes in an athletic contest (or ‘in the games’) exercises self-control in all things’ .
ἐγκράτεια: διαλεγομένου δὲ αὐτοῦ περὶ δικαιοσύνης καὶ ἐγκρατείας ‘he went on discussing goodness and the exercising of self-control’ .
An adequate rendering of the expression ‘to exercise self-control’ may require an idiomatic equivalent, for example, ‘to hold oneself in,’ ‘to command oneself,’ ‘to be a chief of oneself,’ ‘to make one’s heart be obedient,’ ‘to command one’s own desires,’ ‘to be the master of what one wants,’ or ‘to say No to one’s body.’ (Compare ἀκρασία ‘lack of self-control,’ 88.91, and ἀκρατής ‘lacking in self- control,’ 88.92.)
88.84 ἐγκρατής, ές: (derivative of ἐγκρατεύομαι ‘to exercise self-control,’ 88.83) pertaining to exercising self-control—‘self-controlled.’ δεῖ γὰρ τὸν ἐπίσκοπον … ὅσιον, ἐγκρατῆ ‘the church leader should be … consecrated and self-controlled’ .
88.85 χαλιναγωγέω: (a figurative extension of meaning of χαλιναγωγέω ‘to control with bit or bridle,’ not occurring in the NT) to exercise close control over some function—‘to control, to exercise self-control.’ μὴ χαλιναγωγῶν γλῶσσαν αὐτοῦ … τούτου μάταιος ἡ θρησκεία ‘the religion … of one who does not control his tongue … is worthless’ . In some languages the expression μὴ χαλιναγωγῶν γλῶσσαν αὐτοῦ in may be rendered as ‘one who does not tell his tongue what to say’ or ‘one who cannot tie his tongue down’ or ‘one who cannot stop his talking.’[2]
I want to change, but HOW?
The answer involves repentance, confession, abstinence, emotional discovery, and rehabituation.
Rehabituation is the process of asking why you sin, then coming to grips with why God does not want you to sin, and then replacing the sin with what God says can satisfy you.
What is repentance?
Repentance involves turning from our behavior.
As James MacDonald says, we need to understand that if you choose to sin you choose to suffer. And when God says don't he means don't hurt yourself.
How can I change?
The process of rehabituation is the process of developing new habits and new ways of thinking based on a desire to truly obey God.
The Bible gives three steps in Ephesians chapter 4. The putting off of wrong behavior, the being renewed in the attitude of your mind (view things from God’s perspective), and the putting on of new behavior. The renewal of the mind is the most important one and in some ways it's the hardest to understand. It determines what your behavior should be with respect to the new habit. No one is truly changed just because they stop doing something.
What decisions do I need to make?
I will not be dominated by anything
6 areas you need to surrender to God and master emotionally
control your appetites
control your passions
control your emotions
control your tongue
control your spending
control your thoughts
What sin am I committing?
Why am I doing it? What need am I satisfying?
What legitimate act can I do to satisfy that need?
What perspective do I need to change?
Joseph – sin against God
David – it will rob you of joy and peace
Solomon – it will leave you empty
Romans – the wages of sin is death
James – it’s the source of your struggles
Thessalonians – you are a user of people
Jesus – experience true freedom
[1] Strong, J. (1995). Enhanced Strong’s Lexicon. Woodside Bible Fellowship.
[2] Louw, J. P., & Nida, E. A. (1996). Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament: based on semantic domains (electronic ed. of the 2nd edition., Vol. 1, pp. 750–751). New York: United Bible Societies.