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Self-control (enkrateia)- temperance and the virtue of mastering one’s desires, especially sensual appetites

Three Key Aspects of Self-Control:
1. Mastery over desires

Three Key Aspects of Self-Control:
2. The fruit of the Spirit

Three Key Aspects of Self-Control:
3. Internal governance

Ezekiel 36:26–27 (NKJV)
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you … I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes...

Self-control begins with a new heart:
• The world says, “Try harder.”
• Religion says, “Do better.”
• The gospel says, “You’re made new.”

Galatians 5:1 (EXB)
Christ set us free so that we could live in freedom [to a place of freedom; or by means of freedom; So stand strong. Do not change and go back into the slavery of the law [submit/be fastened to a yoke of slavery].

yoked (zugos) - to be coupled with, partnered with, or connected to

2 Timothy 1:7 (EXB)
For God did not give us a spirit [ that makes us afraid [timid] but a spirit [or the Spirit] of power and love and self-control [self-discipline;

Titus 2:11-12 (EXB)
That is the way we should live, because [For] God’s grace that can save everyone has come [appeared; been revealed]. It teaches [trains; disciplines] us to turn away from [reject; deny] ungodly livingand the evil things the world wants to do [. Instead, that grace teaches us to live in the present age in a wise[self-controlled] and right [upright; just] way and in a way that shows we serve God [godly manner].