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Temperance, A Fruit of the Spirit
07-01-2000
Temperance is a Fruit of the Spirit.
Galatians5:
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
We are instructed to be diligent in maimtains fruits in our lives.
II Peter1:
5 ¶ And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
07-02-2000
We are instructed to avoid the very appearance of evil.
1 Thessalonians 5:22 Abstain from all appearance of evil.
We are also instructed to have a sober lifestyle.
Titus 2:12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live
soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
07-03-2000
The elderly are admonished to set a good example.
Titus 2:2 That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.
Titus 2:3 The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh
holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
07-04-2000
The young are urged to be sober.
Titus 2:6 Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded.
7 In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing
uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity,
8 Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part
may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.
07-05-2000
The word, conversation, is often used in the KJV to denote a temperate lifestyle.
Paul contrasts the intemperate lifestyle of the ungodly to the lifestyle of the Christian.
Philippians 3:18 (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
20 For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour,
the Lord Jesus Christ:
07-06-2000
We are promised salvation for having a temperate lifestyle (conversation).
Psalms 50:23 Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.
Our temperate lifestyle (conversation) reflects our belief in the gospel.
Philippians 1:27 ¶ Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel
of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear
of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together
for the faith of the gospel;
07-07-2000
Our temperate lifestyle (conversation) is a testimony to the unbeliever.
1 Peter 1:15 But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;
1 Peter 2:12 Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that,
whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works,
which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
07-08-2000
Paul was confident that he had shown a godly lifestyle to the world.
2 Corinthians 1:12 ¶ For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience,
that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the
grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly
to you-ward.
We are encouraged to do likewise.
Ephesians 4:22 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the
old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
07-09-2000
Those who would lead the church must be temperate.
1 Corinthians 9:25 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
Temperance was a requirement for a bishop (pastor or elder).
Titus 1:
7 For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;
8 But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy,
temperate;
07-10-2000
By our temperate lifestyle, we are an example to the unbeliever.
1 Timothy 4:12 Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
Hebrews 13:5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such
things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
07-11-2000
Knowing that this world will perish, we show by our lifestyle that we are looking
towards eternity.
2 Peter 3:11 ¶ Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what
manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
James 3:13 ¶ Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew
out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
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