Strengthening Self-Discipline in the Pursuit of Holiness
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### Quotes for Outreach
1. "Procrastination is the thief of time because it's the only thing you can't get back. What you're promising to do in two weeks, you may not be around to do. What you're waiting to do is you're trying to make a deal with God. I still want to do this for at least two more weeks. And in two weeks, we'll reevaluate this, God, because I might want to go another two weeks. I might want to go another month. Everybody wants to do things. Okay, starting Monday. I don't know what's so magical about Monday. But everybody wants to start something on Monday." [36:40]
2. "Self-discipline is the bridge between holiness and serving the world. Self-discipline is what'll keep us on the road with the Lord. But if we don't discipline ourselves, God will discipline us. So we have a choice. We can discipline ourselves or we can wait for him to discipline us. The choice is yours. And I'll tell you what, I have been disciplined by him. And it's not a fun thing. He doesn't discipline us as we deserve, but he does discipline us nonetheless." [08:00]
3. "We have to develop it. We have to take the time to do that. You have to invest in your self-discipline. There's a few things I have here that we can do to maybe help us with that. Set goals and commit to God. We have to have a clear path on what we're doing. We have to commit these goals to God for motivation. There's nothing wrong with setting goals and committing to God because the goals that we're setting are for Him." [35:17]
4. "The world is full of gratifications and temptations that will clash with our self-discipline. The things of the world are for the world. They're not for the pursuit of holiness. You know, they have these commercials that, that try and tempt you into using their products and, you know, to get you to use them over and over again. You know, and we fall into the flow of a lot of these things in the world. Because not only do we need discipline in our spiritual life, we need discipline in the world. Because that's where the battle is at. That's where the world is going to attack us. And that's where the temptations lie." [05:16]
### Quotes for Members
1. "We need to yield to the voice of flesh and listen to the voice of spirit. We need to keep those voices, those things away from inside our mind. When we have the self-control to kick them out or the desire, the discipline not to go there, we have to work on this. Self-discipline takes time. Please start small. Don't start with the biggest thing in your life because you're going to more than likely fail at it because it's hard. A Christian without self-control is an exposed Christian, is a weak Christian, is a vulnerable Christian. You're exposed to whatever comes in. You're weak to fight it. And you are vulnerable." [24:47]
2. "We need to really, really focus on our self-control, on our self-discipline as followers of Christ. And like I said earlier, the devil will use the flesh. He'll use the flesh big times. If you look at any advertisement, if you look at anything that are on TV commercials and stuff, he uses the flesh. And so what do you do? Do you have the self-control or the discipline to change his channel? Or do you continue to look at it and let it feed into those walls that are down when the commercials come on?" [25:41]
3. "We have listened to the liar speak into our life. The one with the name father of lies, we have listened to him. We have allowed him to whisper things in our ears of substances, of relationships. But I'm going to give you another tidbit of information here. He can't make us do it. We have to have self-discipline. We have to have self-control. We can allow him to say these things and we can allow ourselves to believe the things that he was saying, but he has no power, no control to make us do any of these things." [19:42]
4. "We need to discipline ourselves. We need to exercise our self-discipline muscle. A lot of times, we don't do that. We just forget about it because it's too hard. We need to develop self-discipline in our lives. And it's a developed thing. It's a thing that takes time. It takes effort. It takes work. And then it also takes some failure because it's going to happen. But in order to pursue holiness, we need to have a foundation of self-discipline. Because without self-discipline, we can't do anything. We fall into whatever is there." [04:13]
5. "We have to choose who we're going to serve. But when the Holy Spirit comes inside you, and you accept it, and you receive it, and you live it, everything changes. In Galatians 5, 22-24, it says, but the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, which is forgiveness, which is what we talked about, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and last but not least, self-control. Against such things, there is no law. Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with his passions and desires. These are the fruits of the Spirit that are given to us. No law against any of these. We can do these things. But we have to crucify some things in order to live these things." [31:11]
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1. "Procrastination is the thief of time because it's the only thing you can't get back. What you're promising to do in two weeks, you may not be around to do. What you're waiting to do is you're trying to make a deal with God. I still want to do this for at least two more weeks. And in two weeks, we'll reevaluate this, God, because I might want to go another two weeks. I might want to go another month. Everybody wants to do things. Okay, starting Monday. I don't know what's so magical about Monday. But everybody wants to start something on Monday." [36:40]
2. "Self-discipline is the bridge between holiness and serving the world. Self-discipline is what'll keep us on the road with the Lord. But if we don't discipline ourselves, God will discipline us. So we have a choice. We can discipline ourselves or we can wait for him to discipline us. The choice is yours. And I'll tell you what, I have been disciplined by him. And it's not a fun thing. He doesn't discipline us as we deserve, but he does discipline us nonetheless." [08:00]
3. "We have to develop it. We have to take the time to do that. You have to invest in your self-discipline. There's a few things I have here that we can do to maybe help us with that. Set goals and commit to God. We have to have a clear path on what we're doing. We have to commit these goals to God for motivation. There's nothing wrong with setting goals and committing to God because the goals that we're setting are for Him." [35:17]
4. "The world is full of gratifications and temptations that will clash with our self-discipline. The things of the world are for the world. They're not for the pursuit of holiness. You know, they have these commercials that, that try and tempt you into using their products and, you know, to get you to use them over and over again. You know, and we fall into the flow of a lot of these things in the world. Because not only do we need discipline in our spiritual life, we need discipline in the world. Because that's where the battle is at. That's where the world is going to attack us. And that's where the temptations lie." [05:16]
### Quotes for Members
1. "We need to yield to the voice of flesh and listen to the voice of spirit. We need to keep those voices, those things away from inside our mind. When we have the self-control to kick them out or the desire, the discipline not to go there, we have to work on this. Self-discipline takes time. Please start small. Don't start with the biggest thing in your life because you're going to more than likely fail at it because it's hard. A Christian without self-control is an exposed Christian, is a weak Christian, is a vulnerable Christian. You're exposed to whatever comes in. You're weak to fight it. And you are vulnerable." [24:47]
2. "We need to really, really focus on our self-control, on our self-discipline as followers of Christ. And like I said earlier, the devil will use the flesh. He'll use the flesh big times. If you look at any advertisement, if you look at anything that are on TV commercials and stuff, he uses the flesh. And so what do you do? Do you have the self-control or the discipline to change his channel? Or do you continue to look at it and let it feed into those walls that are down when the commercials come on?" [25:41]
3. "We have listened to the liar speak into our life. The one with the name father of lies, we have listened to him. We have allowed him to whisper things in our ears of substances, of relationships. But I'm going to give you another tidbit of information here. He can't make us do it. We have to have self-discipline. We have to have self-control. We can allow him to say these things and we can allow ourselves to believe the things that he was saying, but he has no power, no control to make us do any of these things." [19:42]
4. "We need to discipline ourselves. We need to exercise our self-discipline muscle. A lot of times, we don't do that. We just forget about it because it's too hard. We need to develop self-discipline in our lives. And it's a developed thing. It's a thing that takes time. It takes effort. It takes work. And then it also takes some failure because it's going to happen. But in order to pursue holiness, we need to have a foundation of self-discipline. Because without self-discipline, we can't do anything. We fall into whatever is there." [04:13]
5. "We have to choose who we're going to serve. But when the Holy Spirit comes inside you, and you accept it, and you receive it, and you live it, everything changes. In Galatians 5, 22-24, it says, but the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, which is forgiveness, which is what we talked about, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and last but not least, self-control. Against such things, there is no law. Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with his passions and desires. These are the fruits of the Spirit that are given to us. No law against any of these. We can do these things. But we have to crucify some things in order to live these things." [31:11]
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