There's An App For That - Week 9 "Self Control"
For the past 9 weeks I have been preaching a sermon series on the Fruit of the Spirit . Notice I wrote fruit, not fruits. There are no fruits of the spirit... just fruit. The Bible does indicate that you will know people by the "fruits" of their life, but those kinds of fruit have nothing to do with the sort of fruit that Paul is describing in Galatians 5:22-26. That's a lot of uses of the word fruit. Still, we have to be aware that the 9 "aspects" of the fruit of the Spirit that are described in Galatians 5 are the characteristics of a full formed Christ-like life. Basically, when you walk with Jesus... you show the evidence, and the aspects of the fruit of the Spirit provide us with a portrait of what it looks like when that evidence is at it's best. This week I am preaching on "Self Control," the last of the 9 aspects. It's also the one that fits most ably within the theme of the sermon series, "There's an App for That....