So we all have feelings
can't always do anything about that. But we have to choose not to act on the feelings
if we know it's against the Word of God. And believe me you do have a free will
and you can make a choice. I said you do have a free will
and you can make a choice. You do
have a free will and you can make a choice. Self control
is a fruit of the Spirit given to us
so we can control, guess who? See how smart you are.
At least this section over here is. Shall we do it again... self control
is a fruit of the Spirit that's given to us to help us control... who?
Alright, y'all pass the test.
So we have to get rid of the,
"I can't help it." "It's just too hard."
Now I admit that if you let your feelings,
especially anger, if you let it get into a rage
then you may be at the point of not being able to control yourself.
That's why we need to learn how to recognize things
when they're first beginning to happen, how to take
every thought captive before they become a stronghold
in our mind, how to resist the devil at his onset,
at the very beginning when the enemy first begins
to tempt you. That's when you get away from sin.
Come on, you don't flirt with it for three weeks
hoping that you're not going to be the one that's gonna get caught. Don't be
like the little girl that was walking down the mountain path and she saw this
serpent lying in the road and he.. it was very cold and
he begged her to pick..."Will you pick me up and put me inside your coat? I'm very cold."
And she said,"Well, I'm not
going to do that." Any he said "Oh please pick me up, I'm very cold. Will you just
put the inside your coat?"
So she picked him up put him inside of her coat and a little bit later
he bit her. And she said, "Why did you bite me?" He said, "You knew what I was when
you picked me up."
We can go slow, that's okay.
You know, you don't all of a sudden get into an adulterous affair.
It starts with flirting.
iI starts with thinking the person that
you're married to isn't...
you're not... you're not, you're not, you're not. It goes from one thing to the next.
From a coffee to a doughnut, to a lunch to a...
to telling this person now all your problems about your pitiful, pathetic, bad marriage.
Well anyway...
that's not on the program either, but... See if we would just
I mean, you know, you've heard the saying around, "You know you need to nip it in
the bud early."
Well that's really, I mean we need... the sooner the better.
The sooner we take action the better it is. And when you feel yourself getting angry
the sooner you say, "No, not gonna live like this."
You see, anger if it's not controlled
is poison to your soul. And this phrase came to me today so I hope it's not too
far out there. But I think what we allow ourselves to get bitter and resentful,
and we have deep-seated
rooted anger in us I think it's like committing spiritual suicide.
That doesn't mean you lose your salvation but it just kills everything
that God wants to do
in your life. What does anger solve?