We can only by Jesus’ strengthening us (Phil 4:13). We need a lot of help in fighting the three-fold enemy of the Devil, the world, and the flesh and we can’t do this by ourselves. Self-control is not willing ourselves to be obedient and avoid sinful practices. Why is self-control important to single people? Fruit of the Spirit Why does Paul mention marriage and self-control?
Why did Paul include self-control in his presentation of the gospel? Paul even instructs Timothy to have the older women teach the younger “that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire” (1st Tim 2:9) and that they should “continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control” (1st Tim 2:15) so obviously self-control is important for Christians. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion”(1st Cor 7:9). We shouldn’t make it harder for people to control their desires either as Paul wrote to married couples and said to “not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control”(1st Cor 7:5) and if single can’t abstain from sexual immorality and “cannot exercise self-control, they should marry.
Felix must not have liked the necessity for believers to be exhibiting self-control. When I get an opportunity I will summon you” (Acts 24:25). When the Apostle Paul was witnessing to Felix, Paul “reasoned about righteousness and self-control and the coming judgment, Felix was alarmed and said, “Go away for the present. Have you ever lost control of temper before? Self-Control and the Gospel
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