Welcome to the For the Gospel Podcast where we provide sound doctrine for everyday people. I'm your host, Kosti Hen, and I want to welcome our listeners on Apple and Spotify and those enjoying this on our YouTube video podcast format. On today's episode, I'm shifting gears in this series on self-control

from breakers and war zones to the example of Christ. If you've been with me

since the beginning of this series, we've gone a couple

episodes in. We looked at things that break down the walls of our self-control. Then we looked at war zones last time.

Those were items and environments that are places in which we fight or

battle our self-control. Well this episode listen we could talk about threats, items, environments, all of it, but that only

identifies the problem.

That's half the battle.

For victory, we look to who else, but Christ. To start off let's review our definition of

self-control. I am biased towards that definition of self-control from a friend of

mine named Drew Dick in his book on self-control from a friend of mine named Drew Dick in his book on

self-control it's titled your future self-will thank you he says self-control

is the ability to do the right thing even when you don't feel like it. Now I don't want to cross the line into

saying that Jesus didn't feel like doing things because that gives off the idea that

Christ was sinning with procrastination or some kind of

willful resistance to obey in the Father. I'm not saying that at all. But in using

that quote or that definition of self-control, what I want to do this episode is showcase how Christ exhibited

self-control by doing the exact opposite of what sinful flesh would do. What our feelings, yours and mine, would be inclined to driving our behavior towards, he did the opposite.

He did the right thing even when it wasn't something that normal humans would do. He went against the grain of the flesh. He modeled

how to think differently than the sinful pattern of this world. He was the perfect picture

of self-control and since we are in him and he's in us guess what as believers we can

have the knowledge for what to do from his word and the power to do what we ought to from his word.

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