POP 357 - You Control You

The bible says in Proverbs 25:28 that a man who has no self-control is like a city with no walls.

That's not a good thing!

In the days of the bible is was very important to have a wall around your city because the wall is what protected you from the bad guys.

If you didn't have a wall around your city you would be subject to attack at any time and you couldn't protect yourself effetively.

In much the same way, if we're ever going to be the man God is calling us to be, and if we're ever going to be the man of purity that God is calling us to be, we're going to need the ability to protect ourselves in many different ways.

You need the ability to catch yourself at the moment of temptation.

You need to mentor yourself.

You need to tell yourself the truth.

You need to put a choke chain on yourself.

You need to recognize and renounce the lie.

You need to not let yourself get away with bad behavior.

You need to hold yourself accountable to yourself.

You need to pull yourself up by the bootstraps.

You need to work on you.

You need to make quality decisions.

You need to make quality choices.

You need to self-regulate.

You need to talk yourself off the ledge.

You need to soothe yourselff.

You need to interrupt yourself when you beging the old cycle.

You need to hold on to yourself.

You need to have a solid relationship with you.

You need to get your legs under you.

You need to not become lost to yourself.

You need the ability to take care of yourself, and the abllity to mentor yourself, and to watch yourself, and to reel yourself back in if you start become lost to yourself.

And why do you need to do these things?

Because a man with no self-control is like a city with no walls!

Like a city that is broken down and without walls [leaving it unprotected]
Is a man who has no self-control over his spirit [and sets himself up for trouble].  Proverbs 25:28

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control.Against such things there is no law. 24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.25 Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.  Galatians 6:22-25

We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.  II Corinthians 10:5

11 For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people. 12 It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age.  Titus 2:11-12

YOU CONTROL YOU!