Walking with Temperance
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Introduction:
Introduction:
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
Many problems in life are related to a lack of self-control. Self-control is only possible when we are under the Spirit’s control!
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
eph 5 18
Many people feel their lives are out of control. They are overwhelmed by pressures and circumstances.
He that hath no rule over his own spirit
Is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.
Statement: Christians would be wise to seek the fullness of the Holy Spirit in order to possess the strength needed to develop self-control.
Temperance Explained
Temperance Explained
Temperance has two facets:
Discretion
Discretion
Statement: Discretion is knowing when to do the right thing at the right time.
This quality helps us to practice integrity at a crucial moment of choice.
My son, let not them depart from thine eyes:
Keep sound wisdom and discretion:
So shall they be life unto thy soul,
And grace to thy neck.
Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely,
And thy foot shall not stumble.
But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine: That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.
(Discretion)
Discipline
Discipline
ILLUSTRATION:
Successful athletes make choices to practice when no one else does. (Nolan Arenado shows Alex Rodriguez why he’s a Gold Glove third baseman)
Nolan Arenado became the first rookie third baseman in National League history to win a Rawlings Gold Glove Award. In 2018, he won his sixth consecutive Gold Glove award at third base. He now has more Gold Glove awards than any other player in Rockies history. Fans have awarded him the National League’s Platinum Glove award — an award given to the player fans consider the best defensive player in baseball — two years in a row.
When he wakes up, he often watches videos of opposing teams after breakfast
He gets to the park around noon, and takes his lunch there instead of at home.
He’ll watch more videos of the teams and pitchers he is playing that night
He practices routine plays over and over again, every single day, just to make sure he’s comfortable and confident in every situation
Nolan Arenado shows Alex Rodriguez why he’s a Gold Glove third baseman
Nolan Arenado shows Alex Rodriguez why he’s a Gold Glove third baseman
And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
ILLUSTRATION: It takes discipline to raise children consistently.
It takes discipline to raise children consistently.
1001 Illustrations that Connect Illustration 535: Harming Kids with Permissiveness
Parents are reluctant to set limits for their children. And this permissiveness is harming kids of all ages, psychologists and educators say.
Karen Stabiner writes in The New York Times, “It seems that the parents of today’s parents, those strict disciplinarians of the 1950s and early 1960s, may have been right all along: Father and Mother did know best.”
Nancy Samalin, a parent educator in New York City, explains one reason for the permissiveness: single- and two-parent families are simply overwhelmed. “Parents want their children to love them, and it’s harder to say no than yes, especially if they’ve been working all day and are tired,” she says.
Telling a child no is essential to raising healthy kids, says Linda Rubinowitz, psychologist at the Family Institute at Northwestern University in Chicago. “It gives the child a sense that you really understand what’s going on. And it gives the child a way to deal with a problem in a social context. You can tell the child, ‘Say your mom and dad won’t let you do it, and grumble if you want.’ That’s face-saving for the child.”
Revetta Bowers, head of the Center for Early Education in Los Angeles, says schools are replacing parents as disciplinarians. “Schools now make rules, which in many instances are the only rules that are not open to arbitration or negotiation,” she explains. “What children really need is guidance and love and support. We expect them to act more and more like adults, while we act more and more like children. Then, when we’re ready to act like parents, they bristle at the retaking of authority.”
In other words, you can’t leave it to Beaver.
—Karen Stabiner, “The Problem with Kids Today? Today’s Parents, Some Say,” The New York Times (June 25, 2000)
Parents are reluctant to set limits for their children. And this permissiveness is harming kids of all ages, psychologists and educators say.
Parents are reluctant to set limits for their children. And this permissiveness is harming kids of all ages, psychologists and educators say.
Karen Stabiner writes in The New York Times, “It seems that the parents of today’s parents, those strict disciplinarians of the 1950s and early 1960s, may have been right all along: Father and Mother did know best.”
Nancy Samalin, a parent educator in New York City, explains one reason for the permissiveness: single- and two-parent families are simply overwhelmed. “Parents want their children to love them, and it’s harder to say no than yes, especially if they’ve been working all day and are tired,” she says.
Telling a child no is essential to raising healthy kids, says Linda Rubinowitz, psychologist at the Family Institute at Northwestern University in Chicago. “It gives the child a sense that you really understand what’s going on."
Revetta Bowers, head of the Center for Early Education in Los Angeles, says schools are replacing parents as disciplinarians. “Schools now make rules, which in many instances are the only rules that are not open to arbitration or negotiation,” she explains. “What children really need is guidance and love and support. We expect them to act more and more like adults, while we act more and more like children. Then, when we’re ready to act like parents, they bristle at the retaking of authority.”
In other words, you can’t leave it to Beaver.
—Karen Stabiner, “The Problem with Kids Today? Today’s Parents, Some Say,” The New York Times (June 25, 2000
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
ILLUSTRATION:
A Cambridge professor named Coleridge was once talking with a man who told him that he did not believe in giving little children any religious instruction whatsoever. His theory was that the child’s mind should not be prejudiced in any direction, but when he came to years of discretion he should be permitted to choose his religious opinions for himself. Coleridge said nothing; but after a while he asked his visitor if he would like to see his garden. The man said he would, and Coleridge took him out into the garden, where only weeds were growing. The man looked at Coleridge in surprise and said, “Why, this is not a garden! There is nothing but weeds here!” “Well, you see,” answered Coleridge, “I did not wish to infringe upon the liberty of the garden in any way, I was just giving the garden a chance to express itself and to choose its own production.”
Statement: As the Apostle Paul charged Timothy, he explained that it takes temperance to keep a church going in the right direction.
I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
(Temperance Explained)
Temperance Experienced
Temperance Experienced
A Disciplined Physical Life
A Disciplined Physical Life
But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
The flesh fights the Spirit.
The flesh fights the Spirit.
This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
The flesh is defeated through Calvary.
The flesh is defeated through Calvary.
Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
(A Disciplined Physical Life)
A Disciplined Thought Life
A Disciplined Thought Life
Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
Statement: The word imagination means “thoughts or fantasies against the truth of Christ or the revealed will of God.”
(Temperance Explained)
(Temperance Experienced)
Temperance Exemplified
Temperance Exemplified
How can we develop temperance going forward?
Admit Your Weakness
Admit Your Weakness
But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. Do not err, my beloved brethren.
(Admit Your Weakness)
Forget Your Past
Forget Your Past
Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
ILLUSTRATION:
When children learn to walk, they fall many times. No one ever says about a child learning to walk, “Well he’s just not meant to be a walker!”
(Admit Your Weakness)
(Forget Your Past)
Believe God Can Bring Change
Believe God Can Bring Change
Statement: Your beliefs control your behavior.
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
(Admit Your Weakness)
(Forget Your Past)
(Believe God Can Bring Change)
Become Accountable
Become Accountable
And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
(Admit Your Weakness)
(Forget Your Past)
(Believe God Can Bring Change)
(Become Accountable)
Avoid Temptation
Avoid Temptation
Statement: In our flesh, we like to take the path of least resistance.
ILLUSTRATION:
On the old Country & Comedy TV show “Hee Haw,” Doc Campbell is confronted by a patient who says he broke his arm in two place. The doc replies, “Well then, stay out of those places!”
Quote — “When you flee temptation, be sure you don’t leave a forwarding address.” — Unknown
Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil.
Quote — “If you don’t want rotten apples, stay out of the devil’s orchard. — Unknown
Quote — “It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. — Benjamin Franklin
Statement: We should avoid the places and friends that are likely to draw us into temptation.
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
Statement: The word communications means “companionship.” In other words, bad company corrupts good character.
(Admit Your Weakness)
(Forget Your Past)
(Believe God Can Bring Change)
(Become Accountable)
(Avoid Temptation)
Depend on God’s Power
Depend on God’s Power
This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
Statement: Walking in the Spirit consists of not only trying but also trusting!
For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
Conclusion:
Conclusion:
The secret to self-control is Christ’s control. By walking in the Spirit’s control, we can experience temperance and exemplify it to those around us.