FotS - A Level Path - Self-Control

Fruit of the Spirit - Self-Control

Proverbs 1:1-3, “These are the proverbs of Solomon, David’s son, king of Israel. Their purpose is to teach people wisdom and discipline, to help them understand the insights of the wise. Their purpose is to teach people to live disciplined and successful lives, to help them do what is right, just, and fair.”

The word “discipline” there is the English transliteration of the Hebrew idea of “self-control”.  The O.T. uses that Hebrew word 50 times, and the English translators called it reproof, chastisement, or instruction. But in the sense of self-control, it is seen as discipline, correction, or personal restraint. In the New Testament, the word often used is “sober”, “moderate”, “temperance”, and even “discreet”, meaning to be of sound mind, self-controlled and sane…Ahhhh… there it is, sane, or “thinking on level ground” Or… “self-control”.  The picture is one of fenced-in passions and purposeful restraint.

 

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