A Beautiful Mess Zimbabwe d n a ful

A Beautiful Mess Zimbabwe d n a ful l o r h t t i n a o df c n n i a s i d d oo o G is g d o G

A Beautiful Mess Zimbabwe

A Beautiful Mess Zimbabwe • Love, joy, peace, patience • Kindness, goodness, faithfulness and gentleness • Self-control!

NORTHSIDE COMMUNITY CHURCH A Beautiful Mess Becoming Like Jesus Galatians 5: 22 – 23 SELF-CONTROL!

A Beautiful Mess Galatians 5: 19 -21 • Sexual immorality, impurity, debauchery, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissentions, factions, envy, drunkenness, orgies etc. • Human nature out of control

A Beautiful Mess Jonah God’s self-control Moses and the people

A Beautiful Mess Self-Control • The Holy Spirit enables and empowers us to have control over our sinful desires. • We can experience increasing freedom from sin as we learn to control ourselves with God’s help.

A Beautiful Mess Self-Control

A Beautiful Mess Self-Control • The ability to have powerful passions, but to keep them under control. • All the energy we expend on these passions serves good and does not lead to selfish or destructive results.

A Beautiful Mess Self-Control

A Beautiful Mess Self-Control • Problem • We have a fallen and sinful nature which usually lead us to that list of sinful behaviours. • We cannot exercise self-control successfully in our own strength. • The only power capable of keeping our sinful desires under control is the Holy Spirit.

A Beautiful Mess Self-Control

A Beautiful Mess Joseph & Potiphar’s wife Self-Control David & Bathsheba

A Beautiful Mess Self-Control • Self-control is something that needs to be taught to and practised by all ages and by both genders. • It is something for the whole church, just like all the other Fruit of the Spirit.