Self-Control Part 2

2 Timothy 3:2-5
But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them.

Why is self-control so important?

1 Cor 9:24-27
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize.
Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training (self-control). They do it to get a crown that will not last; but we do it to get a crown that will last forever. Therefore I do not run like a man running aimlessly; I do not fight like a man beating the air. No, I beat my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize.

A self-controlled life demands focus. They have a heavenly prize. There must be purpose in every step. No distraction… No detours.


Self-control is using our freedom for Gods purposes. Using our freedom to bring blessing and impact others.
In proportion as a man habitually yields to intemperance or some other vice, his freedom diminishes and he does in a true sense sink into slavery.

Proverbs 25:28 Like a city whose walls are broken down is a man who lacks self-control

“I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.”
Pietro Aretino

“Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.”
Seneca

“The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson