The document advocates for a temperance movement, emphasizing its benefits for individuals and society. It highlights the financial costs of intemperance, including drug abuse, illegitimacy, and obesity, amounting to $783 billion annually. The text also discusses temperance as a matter of personal discipline, drawing on biblical references to encourage self-control and endurance in life.

1. Let’s Start a
Temperance Movement
May 25, 2014 p.m. worship

2. Scripture Reading:
1Corinthians 5:6-13

3. Galatians 5:22,23
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy,
peace, longsuffering, kindness,
goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness,
self-control. Against such there is no
law.

7. Temperance - the practice of always
controlling your actions, thoughts, or
feelings so that you do not eat or
drink too much, become too angry,
etc.
Webster’s Definition

8. 1 : moderation in action, thought, or feeling
: restraint
2 a : habitual moderation in the indulgence
of the appetites or passions
b : moderation in or abstinence from the
use of alcoholic beverages
Webster’s Definition

9. Let’s Start a Temperance Movement
 Temperance is for our own good

10. Proverbs 25:8
Whoever has no rule over his own
spirit is like a city broken down,
without walls.

11. Titus 2:11-14
11 For the grace of God that brings
salvation has appeared to all men,
12 teaching us that, denying ungodliness
and worldly lusts, we should live soberly,
righteously, and godly in the present age,

12. Titus 2:11-14
13 looking for the blessed hope and
glorious appearing of our great God and
Savior Jesus Christ, 14 who gave Himself
for us, that He might redeem us from
every lawless deed and purify for Himself
His own special people, zealous for good
works.

13. Let’s Start a Temperance Movement
 Temperance is for our own good
 Temperance is good for our
society

14. Cost of Intemperance
According to www.drugabuse.gov,
the total cost of drug abuse in the US
is $524 Billion per year!

15. Cost of Intemperance
According to a study at Emory
University, the total cost of
illegitimacy in the US is $112 Billion
per year!

16. Cost of Intemperance
According to www.cdc.gov, the total
cost of obesity in the US is $147
Billion per year!

17. Cost of Intemperance
Drug abuse $524B
Illegitimacy 112B
Obesity 147B
Total $783B

18. Proverbs 12:1
Whoever loves instruction loves
knowledge, but he who hates
correction is stupid.

19. 2Timothy 3:1-5
1 But know this, that in the last days
perilous times will come: 2 For men will
be lovers of themselves, lovers of money,
boasters, proud, blasphemers,
disobedient to parents, unthankful,
unholy,

20. 2Timothy 3:1-5
3 unloving, unforgiving, slanderers,
without self-control, brutal, despisers of
good, 4 traitors, headstrong, haughty,
lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of
God, 5 having a form of godliness but
denying its power. And from such people
turn away!

21. Let’s Start a Temperance Movement
 Temperance is for our own good
 Temperance is good for our
society
 Temperance is a matter of
discipline

22. 1Corinthians 9:24-27
24 Do you not know that those who
run in a race all run, but one receives
the prize? Run in such a way that
you may obtain it.

23. 1Corinthians 9:24-27
25 And everyone who competes for
the prize is temperate in all things.
Now they do it to obtain a perishable
crown, but we for an imperishable
crown.

24. 1Corinthians 9:24-27
26 Therefore I run thus: not with
uncertainty. Thus I fight: not as one
who beats the air. 27 But I discipline my
body and bring it into subjection, lest,
when I have preached to others, I
myself should become disqualified.

25. Let’s Start a Temperance Movement
 Temperance is for our own good
 Temperance is good for our society
 Temperance is a matter of discipline
 Temperance will let us “win”

26. 1Corinthians 9:24
Do you not know that those who run
in a race all run, but one receives the
prize? Run in such a way that you
may obtain it.

27. 2Timothy 1:7
For God has not given us a spirit of
fear, but of power and of love and
of a sound mind.

28. Hebrews 12:1,2
1 Therefore we also, since we are
surrounded by so great a cloud of
witnesses, let us lay aside every weight,
and the sin which so easily ensnares us,
and let us run with endurance the race
that is set before us,

29. Hebrews 12:1,2
2 looking unto Jesus, the author and
finisher of our faith, who for the joy that
was set before Him endured the cross,
despising the shame, and has sat
down at the right hand of the throne of
God.

30. Let’s Start a Temperance Movement
 Temperance is for our own good
 Temperance is good for our society
 Temperance is a matter of discipline
 Temperance will let us “win”

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