• Acts 24:25

  • Self-control means “mastery” or “restraint”. It means that we have the ability to do something, but we refrain from doing it.

  • If no one in a society exercised self-control, there would be total chaos and anarchy.

  • Why must we exercise self-control in these areas?

  • Emotions (Proverbs 16:32

  • Emotions themselves are not sinful, but they can cause us to sin if we leave them unchecked.

  • Speech (James 1:26

  • If we don’t control our speech, we can greatly harm others and ruin whatever good influence we may have with them.