Enkrateia – Self-control

It’s a core quality of successful living

  • Titus 2:11-14 – Restraint allows us to live better lives.
  • Luke 9:23 – Jesus had perfect self-control.
  • I Corinthians 9:23-27 – It takes discipline and self-control to put ourselves on the right path.
  • II Peter 2:1, 14, 18-19
  • Secular research results
    • Self-control is a better determinator of success than intelligence or athletic ability.
    • People with more self-control are happier about their lives.

You can grow it like a muscle

  • Galatians 5:24-25 – We are making a choice to put away sin.
  • II Peter 1:5-11 – These qualities should be continually increasing.
  • Improving self-control in one area helps in all areas!

Be thinking of some ways to exercise more self-control starting today!

  • Finances – Ecclesiastes 5:10
  • Emotions – Proverbs 16:32
  • Speech – Proverbs 21:23
  • Lust of the flesh – I Thessalonians 4:7
  • Lust of the eyes – Job 31:1
  • Pride – I Peter 5:5
  • Teach children self-control. If all you leave them is good self-control, that is a great inheritance!