The Fruit of Self-Control

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Reformed, Study, Jesus, Preaching, Christianity, Scripture, Spirit, Bible, Holy, Theology, Christian, God, Teaching

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🗓️ 28 June 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

What good is it to win a debate but lose a friend? Today, R.C. Sproul considers the destructive influence of pride and illustrates our need for the Holy Spirit to help us develop self-control.

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Meet Today's Teacher:

R.C. Sproul (1939-2017) was known for his ability to winsomely and clearly communicate deep, practical truths from God's Word. He was founder of Ligonier Ministries, first minister of preaching and teaching at Saint Andrew's Chapel, first president of Reformation Bible College, and executive editor of Tabletalk magazine.

Meet the Host:

Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of ministry engagement for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, host of the Ask Ligonier podcast, and a graduate of Presbyterian Theological College in Melbourne, Australia. Nathan joined Ligonier in 2012 and lives in Central Florida with his wife and four children.

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0:00.0	Are you the kind of person who is stubborn and willful always has to be right?
0:08.0	You know people like that who will argue about anything, who just simply have a compulsive need to be right.
0:17.2	And this breeds divisions and contentiousness and broken relationships. and
0:22.7	broken relationships because we can't stand to have our view not be adopted.
0:29.2	Not be adopted. As R.C. sprawl has walked us through the biblical definition of love and the kind of love that should be evident in the life of a Christian,
0:46.0	I suspect we've all fallen short. I know I have.
0:50.0	As Paul considers what love is and what love isn't.
0:53.2	Coming at love from different angles, it reminds us how much we need the work of the spirit in our lives
0:59.4	to produce this kind of love, this kind of fruit. And today on renewing your mind
1:04.8	Dr Sprawl will return to Galatians five and consider self-control
1:09.8	and how this relates to love.
1:12.2	Before he concludes our study in and how this relates to love.
1:17.0	Before he concludes our study in this series, keeping in step with the spirit, don't forget that today is the final day
1:20.0	to own this entire 20 Message series and receive a copy of our new 90-day
1:25.3	devotional Our Great Salvation. Requests both while there's still time at
1:30.7	renewing your mind.org. Well here's Dr Sprawl on self-control.
1:37.0	So we continue our understanding of Paul's great letter on love in 1st Corinthians chapter 13
1:46.5	we've been looking at how love is always in conflict with human pride,
1:56.6	and how devastating and destructive pride
2:00.6	can be in the human heart.
2:03.9	Americans pride themselves in being something
2:08.6	of an egalitarian society.
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