“This is He who came through water and blood”
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“if anyone chooses to remain ignorant, then let him stay ignorant.”
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There is a reason that "tongues" are possibly the most divisive issue INSIDE the church today.
Read morerevival
we need to realize that if we want revival, we are the ones that need to wake up to it.
Read moreeight: connection
connection is living a life of constant community with God.
He is our supplier, who is as close to us as the air that we breathe.
Read more#12 Fasting
series: Red Letter City
title: Fasting
teacher: Jacob Bender
date: July 3, 2016
scriptures: Matthew 6:16-18, Hebrew 10:16, Proverbs 20:6, Matthew 9:14, Matthew 9:15, Matthew 3:17, Genesis 3, John 8:44
#10 Self Control
Date: September 6, 2015
Series: The Fruit of the Spirit
Title: Self Control
Teacher: Jacob Bender
scriptures: Proverbs 25:28, 1 Corinthians 9:25, Joshua 6, Nehemiah 1:4, John 14:26, Hebrew 4:14, Romans 7:19, 1 Peter 5:8, Nehemiah 2:17, Proverbs 16:32, Luke 4:1-15, 1 Kings 3:1-15, John 1:1, John 1:4, Luke 23:34, Luke 23:37, Psalm 91:11-12, Luke 3:21-22, John 14:16, 2 Corinthians 3:17
Self Control, or as the King James version calls it, temperance, is the Greek word egkrateia and it means “The Virtue of One who masters his desires and passions” – It is the word “krat” which means lordship, combined with the word “ego,” meaning “self.” It essentially means that you have “Lordship over your self”
Perhaps a better, more applicable way to say it is like this, that your “self” does not have lordship over you.
You are not controlled by the quick impulses, the fleshly desires, or even the first instincts.
Jesus had to demonstrate incredible self control when he was being tempted by the Devil, and he is our ultimate example of “Self Control” as well as every other fruit.
