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3. Contributor Richard O’Ffill Principal Contributor T HE F RUIT OF THE S PIRIT

4. The Fruit of the Spirit Contents 1. “By Their FRUIT…” 2. The Fruit of the Spirit Is LOVE 3. The Fruit of the Spirit Is JOY 4. The Fruit of the Spirit Is PEACE 5. The Fruit of the Spirit Is PATIENCE 6. The Fruit of the Spirit Is KINDNESS 7. The Fruit of the Spirit Is GOODNESS 8. The Fruit of the Spirit Is FAITHFULNESS 9. The Fruit of the Spirit Is MEEKNESS 10. The Fruit of the Spirit Is SELF-CONTROL 11. The Fruit of the Spirit Is RIGHTEOUSNESS 12. The Fruit of the Spirit Is TRUTH 13. The Fruit of the Spirit: The Essence of CHRISTIAN CHARACTER

5. The Fruit of the Spirit Our Goal {5} The purpose of this quarter’s lessons is not to focus on how we can become more patient or more loving or more gentle or more faithful but on how we can let the Holy Spirit make us more like Jesus, who is patience, love, gentleness, and faithfulness personified.

6. The Fruit of the Spirit Lesson 10, March 6 The Fruit of the Spirit Lesson 10, March 6 The Fruit of the Spirit Is Self-Control

7. Key Text 1 Corinthians 9:27 NKJV “But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified.”

8. The Fruit of the Spirit Is Self-Control Initial Words {127} Synonyms for self-control include self- discipline, strength of mind, and willpower. This fruit of the Spirit extends far beyond simply restraining Christians from doing what’s prohibited but includes enabling us to do what’s good. First John 2:15, 16 admonishes us to stay away from three lusts.

9. The Fruit of the Spirit Is Self-Control Initial Words {132} Lusts of the flesh: we value physical comfort and pleasure—or their attainment—as our main goals in life. “Lust of the eyes” implies desires aroused by sight. Superficiality, a tendency to attribute value to things on the basis of outward appearance, or seeming. “Pride of life,” which is the desire to appear to be superior to other people; to believe oneself to be superior or at least notable.

10. The Fruit of the Spirit Is Self-Control Quick Look 1. Self-Control, Result of Righteousness (Genesis 39:9) 2. The Failure of Self-Control (Genesis 14:3) 3. Self-Control, a Long Race (1 Corinthians 9:24, 25)

11. The Fruit of the Spirit Is Self-Control 1. Self-Control, Result of Righteousness Genesis 39:9 NKJV “There is no one greater in this house than, nor has he kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”

12. 1.Self-Control, the Result of Righteousness Joseph’s Experience {129} Joseph was a free moral agent. Good and evil were before him. He could choose the path of purity, holiness, and honor, or the path of immorality and degradation. He chose the right way, and God approved.

13. 1.Self-Control, the Result of Righteousness Joseph’s Experience {127} Can we expect that our determination to do what is right, no matter the cost, will mean that things will turn out OK for us in the short term? Suppose Joseph had spent the rest of his life rotting in jail? Would he still have done the right thing?

14. The Fruit of the Spirit Is Self-Control 2. The Failure of Self-Control Judges 14:1-3 NKJV “Now Samson … saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines. So he … told his father and mother, … ‘Get her for me as a wife.’ Then his father and mother said to him, ‘Is there no woman among the daughters of your brethren…?’ And Samson said to his father, ‘Get her for me, for she pleases me well.’ ”

15. 2. The Failure of Self-Control Samson’s Experience {129} Instead of taking hold of the strength of God, he permitted the wild passions of his nature to have full sway. The reasoning powers were perverted, the morals corrupted. God had called Samson to a position of great responsibility, honor, and usefulness; but he must first learn to govern by first learning to obey the laws of God.

16. 2. The Failure of Self-Control Samson’s Experience {129} The great controversy depicts the battle between Christ and Satan that is waged in every human being. The battle for our hearts and flesh is being fought in our hearts and our flesh. Christ won it all for us. But we have to choose to claim His victory and, by the choices we make, we are deciding for one side or the other in the great controversy.

17. 1 Corinthians 9:24, 25 ESV “Do you not know that in a race all the runners compete, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things.” The Fruit of the Spirit Is Self-Control 3. Self-Control, A Long Race

18. Paul’s Experience {131} We should find comfort in seeing that even a faithful Christian such as Paul, one of the true giants of faith, had to struggle with self, with sin, and with the flesh. We are not alone in our battle. Heaven is going to be filled with people who knew the clamors of the flesh.

19. 3. Self-Control, A Long Race Paul’s Experience {130} Paul imagined a personal, deeply engaged God who gave us the ability to master ourselves in a way that we otherwise did not have. Paul saw that some of the forces that batted us around at will existed inside ourselves. We needed Someone outside ourselves to give us the self-control and that Someone was the Holy Spirit.

20. The Fruit of the Spirit Is Self-Control Final Words {164} Self-control doesn’t come in a day. It comes in hits and misses, in successes and failures, as we try to practice it day after day. Don’t constantly put yourself in places where your weaknesses will be tested, where your most-difficult-to-control drives will be out on the firing line of temptation. We must avoid even the appearance of evil.