Hi, everyone. Welcome to At Home with Sally. I'm Sally Clarkson, and I have the biggest

privilege in the world to be with so many friends from all over the world who join me every week

to listen to my stories, inspiration, biblical encouragement, and I am just so

glad that you're here today. Thanks so much for joining me.

Hello, my wonderful friends. This is Sally Clarkson, and I'm so glad that you join me today.

Well, as it happens in this particular podcast series, we have been going through the fruit of the spirit,

as Paul wrote about in Galatians. And it's really been so wonderful for me,

actually. I think sometimes when you have to take responsibility for teaching something to

someone else, you have to learn about it yourself. And so right up at the top here, before I get to

the last aspect, the last beautiful part of the

spirit's work in our lives, I wanted to tell you just a little bit about how I apply this

myself. And I might decide to do it at the very end of the podcast after all. But when we look at the fruit of the spirit, it's kind of like, imagine

if I were describing an apple. I might say it has a brown stem. It's reddish in color, but has a few

hues of yellow in it. It is mostly round. When you slice it open, it's moist and it has a little bit of a sweet, sour taste, and so and so forth.

Well, that's kind of what Paul had in mind here. It wasn't like each of these was a different fruit.

It's as though he was describing why, if you really knew the Holy Spirit, what the Holy Spirit is like,

the Holy Spirit is full of love, and the Holy Spirit brings joy, and the Holy Spirit creates peace

and patience and kindness and so and so forth. So as we look at this whole passage that we're talking about in Galatians 5, we need to

understand that as we are growing in the power of the Holy Spirit, as we allow the Holy Spirit to have

more and more access to our lives, we will find that we're growing in all of these different areas.

But today, we're going to be talking about self-control. Oh, my goodness, what a big area.

But it's kind of as though Paul wraps all of it together with self-control, because if we

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