Hey, my friends, it's Matt.

This is the 10-minute Bible Hour podcast, and we are down to the last fruit of the spirit.

We are on self-control.

And I am going to demonstrate so much self-control while talking about self-control that we're

going to end up with a total of four episodes on it.

But the reason that we've got to take a little bit of time to talk about self-control

is because I think it has multiple elements to it. I mean, really, where does your head go when I say

self-control? What do you picture? Really think about that for a minute. Self-control. What does that

mean to you? Okay, I'm guessing that a whole bunch of you immediately

thought of resisting temptation. Self-control, it's like seeing an image of something you probably

shouldn't look at because it's not going to be good for you and not looking back. Okay,

that's a good answer. Temptation resistance, corruption resistance. I think that

certainly counts as self-control. But I bet that's not what all you thought. I bet some of you

pictured more like self-discipline, doing the thing that is hard. You get up in the morning and

of course you just want to sit there and watch YouTube videos,

but instead, you're going to go to the gym, you're going to work out, you're going to get

all of that in before you go to work and it's hard, but you need to do it because you've made

a commitment to certain things. You lay in bed at night, you want to watch a stupid show

or play a game on your phone, but you have decided to make a

habit of reading big chunks of Bible regularly. So you demonstrate discipline and you do the hard

but good thing instead of the lazy, easy and destructive thing. Yeah, I think that's a good

answer too. I think self-discipline is

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