Self-Control

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Outline

Hook: I wish I had better control over my _______________.

I. THE PRINCIPLE OF SELF-CONTROL
“Self-control is the ability to consistently recognize and choose the important thing over the urgent thing.” – Tim Keller

II. THE PROBLEM WITH SELF-CONTROL
“This sanctification is throughout in the whole man, yet imperfect in this life; there abideth still some remnants of corruption in every part: whence there arises a continual and irreconcilable war—the flesh warring against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh." – Westminster Confession of Faith 13.2

III. THE POWER FOR SELF-CONTROL
“Even the strongest resolve is not enough to dislodge an affection by leaving a void... The heart is not so constituted; and the only way to dispossess it of an old affection, is by the expulsive power of a new one.” – Thomas Chalmers

Take-away: Set Your Affection on Jesus