Self-Control (Part 2)

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life

Tim Keller

Religion & Spirituality, Religion, Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Christianity, Spirituality

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🗓️ 24 June 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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When Jesus Christ came into the life of the demon-possessed man in Mark 5, it says the man sat at Jesus’ feet, clothed and in his right mind. That’s the result of Jesus’ resurrection power: self-control. All of us who look fairly polished on the outside realize, in many cases, our spirits are completely out of control. We look pretty well-manicured, but on the inside, we desperately need to have Christ’s power come into our lives so we can sit as his feet, clothed, and in our right minds. Let’s look at 1) the problem of self-control, 2) the counterfeit solution, and 3) the real self-control. This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on April 15, 1990. Series: Fruit of the Spirit. Scripture: Ephesians 2:1–3; Luke 11:14–26; 1 Corinthians 9:23–27. Today's podcast is brought to you by Gospel in Life, the site for all sermons, books, study guides and resources from Timothy Keller and Redeemer Presbyterian Church. If you've enjoyed listening to this podcast and would like to support the ongoing efforts of this ministry, you can do so by visiting https://gospelinlife.com/give and making a one-time or recurring donation.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Gospel in life. If you're a Christian, you know that the journey to become more like Jesus is both a gradual process and an inevitable fact, just like the acorn growing up into an oak tree.
0:17.0	Today Tim Keller is teaching on the fruit of the spirit, or what it looks like to grow to be more like Jesus.
0:23.3	Well now why?
0:30.4	Why preach on self-control on Easter? It's kind of silly, isn't it? Talking
0:40.9	about resurrection power.
0:46.0	In fact, it makes you feel a little bit. Perhaps when you were listening to some of the little testimonies and the sharing,
0:51.0	you might have felt, yeah, resurrection power, and I can't even control. and the
0:53.0	resurrection power and I can't even control my
0:57.0	fill in the blank
1:01.0	resurrection power sounds great when you say I want to make sure I can can transform my community
1:06.6	transform my world transform my neighborhood transform my family transform my friends
1:12.3	when you're looking at parts of your life that just don't seem
1:14.8	to be moving at all, changing at all.
1:18.1	We started last week looking at the subject of self-control, the last of the spiritual fruit.
1:23.0	And we joke last week that a lot of people say,
1:25.0	that's right, the last of the spiritual fruit, the very last one that's working in my life.
1:30.0	We looked at the definition, we looked at the definition,
1:32.8	at the overview, and what I have decided,
1:35.9	the best thing to do was while it was still fresh
1:38.1	in some of our minds, not all of you were here last week,
1:40.2	I'm sure, what I wanted to do is tonight, say, tonight deal with the nitty-gritty of self-control.
1:48.6	Talking about it because on Easter when we discussed this whole idea of power, what's the use of power if you have no power over yourself?
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