Control

“my body, my life, our body, our lives to Jesus and the Holy Spirit. Say, "Lord, take control. Use me how you want to use me. Speak through me however you want to speak and control me so that Lord, when I go out into the world, I don't discredit you. I don't discredit your truth and what you want to do in the lives of the people around me because I failed to live a life control, self-control." I think this is really important. I think talking about self-control and really pondering on what that looks like in our lives is important because again we don't see self-control hardly anywhere anymore. We have social media, we have movies, and”

“of control. Why? Well, we want to be able to predict our environment. We know that that's how excellence is made. And so we're constantly grasping and groping for control. But let me tell you something, church. Control, I don't know if you figured this out. Control is a myth. As I've pursued control, as I thought I have attained control, I only realize more and more”

“in life and him in his relationship with God? Not only do we try to cover our sin, we try to control our sin. We try to control the impact of sin, and we try to control how far we go and what we do and think we kind of can get a hold on this, and we can beat it down inside of us and we can overcome it and we try to control our sin. Let me just tell you, you will never control your sin. One day you will wake up and sin will be out of control in your life.”

“Does acceptance control you? Does popularity control you? Does toys control you? Do video games control you? Does all these things, does your academics, the popularity, all this controls you? If it does control you, you're a slave. And this is being real. But man, this is a thing called sin. And sin, like, enslaves us. i mean it's nasty and here's the thing i i did roofing you guys know what a roof is hopefully you don't if you don't you don't all right so shingles people put shingles on a roof”

“because I think I would have been tempted to take things into my own hands. I know just in life in general, I'm tempted to take things into my own hands every day. I don't know if you feel that way or not, but it is so easy to want to control things. We want to control our future. We want to control our relationships, our money, our jobs, really anything that we can control, that we can get our hands on, we try to. And at the end of the day, the reason that we try to control things is”

“problem. Why? Because we saw the pattern for growth is recognition. See, you will not change if the only sin you recognize is someone else's. You're not going to change. And you can't control. See, Janet can't control what Perry does. Perry can't control what Janet does. But Janet can control what Janet does, and Perry can control what Perry does.”

“be out of control or give over control to another person. I think we fear that if we give control of to someone else, we won't have freedom. And in the American West, right, our gods are autonomy and individuality and at the core of who we are, have it your way, right? Burger King's slogan. And so giving up control and giving control to somebody else and submitting ourselves to someone else is difficult. And so from the outset, I want to go at this topic today as I'm going to kind of”

“And it makes sense, right? Because if self-controlled is from the spirit, then not self-controlled is from the what? y'all I just said it the flesh right the flesh it's our flesh that makes us make these bad decisions so I just wanted to make sure that we understand the importance of that because Paul brought it up multiple times in the text live a life that's self-control self-control living a”