A Series on Gifts of the Spirit - Self Control (2)

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Speaker Notes

[Self Control (through surrender to the Holy Spirit)]

Colossians 2:20-23

20 Since you died with Christ to the elemental spiritual forces of this world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its rules: 21 “Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!”? 22 These rules, which have to do with things that are all destined to perish with use, are based on merely human commands and teachings. 23 Such regulations indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-imposed worship, their false humility and their harsh treatment of the body, but they lack any value in restraining sensual indulgence.

Romans 12:1

12 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.

Proverbs 25:28

28 Like a city whose walls are broken through
is a person who lacks self-control.

David Thorp was the Director of Catholics Come Home for the Archdiocese of Boston