Preached at Merritt Island 3/5/2017 PM Lesson http://michurchofchrist.org

2. Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith
supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge, 6
and in your knowledge, self- control, and in your self- control,
perseverance, and in your perseverance, godliness, 7 and in your
godliness, brotherly kindness, and in your brotherly kindness, love. 8
For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they render you
neither useless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus
Christ.
- 2 PETER 1:5-8 NASB
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3. But as he was discussing righteousness, self- control and the judgment
to come, Felix became frightened and said, "Go away for the present,
and when I find time I will summon you."
- Acts 24:25 NASB
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4. Like a city that is broken into and without walls
Is a man who has no control over his spirit.
- Proverbs 25:28 NASB
SELF DISCIPLINE
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#1 We Must
Believe Self
Discipline Can
Be Developed
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6. I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.
- Philippians 4 NASB
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7. No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man; and
God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you
are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also,
so that you will be able to endure it.
- 1 Corinthians 10:13 NASB
SELF DISCIPLINE
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8. 11 In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in
Christ Jesus. 12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so
that you obey its evil desires. 13 Do not offer any part of yourself to sin
as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as
those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of
yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness. 14 For sin shall no
longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under
grace.
- Romans 6:11-14 NASB
SELF DISCIPLINE
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9. #2 Set Small
Goals
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10. 24 Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one
receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win. 25 Everyone
who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. They
then do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.
26Therefore I run in such a way, as not without aim; I box in such a
way, as not beating the air; 27 but I discipline my body and make it my
slave, so that, after I have preached to others, I myself will not be
disqualified.
- 1 Corinthians 9:24-27 NASB
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11. #3 Prepare
For Defeat
and be Ready
to Begin Again
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12. My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not
sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus
Christ the righteous;
- 1 John 2:1 NASB
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13. #4 Learn From
Past Mistakes
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15. I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in
Christ Jesus.
- Philippians 3:14 NASB
SELF DISCIPLINE
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16. #5 Plan For
What to do
When One's
Self-Control is
Challenged
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17. "I have made a covenant with my eyes; How then could I gaze at a
virgin?”
- Job 31:1 NASB
SELF DISCIPLINE
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18. As she spoke to Joseph day after day, he did not listen to her to lie
beside her or be with her.
- Genesis 39:10 NASB
SELF DISCIPLINE
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19. The prudent sees the evil and hides himself, But the naive go on, and
are punished for it.
- Proverbs 22:3 NASB
SELF DISCIPLINE
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20. 8 Now if we have died with Christ,
we believe that we shall also live with
Him, 9 knowing that Christ, having
been raised from the dead, is never to
die again; death no longer is master
over Him. 10 For the death that He
died, He died to sin once for all; but
the life that He lives, He lives to God.
11 Even so consider yourselves to be
dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ
Jesus. - Romans 6:8-11