What is Self-Control?

What is Self-Control?

Self-control is the virtue of one who masters his desires and passions, especially his sensual appetites. It involves moderation, constraint, and the ability to say “no” to our fleshly desires and lusts. What is Self-Control? Texts: 2 Timothy 1:7; 2 Peter 1:5-7;...
Christian Maturity

Christian Maturity

God who gives us the new birth puts all things in place so that we can grow into spiritual maturity. Just as parents provide their children food, protection, shelter, medical care and everything that a child needs to develop both physically and mentally, so also He...
God’s Mercy and Patience towards Babes in Christ

God’s Mercy and Patience towards Babes in Christ

Topic: God’s Mercy and Patience towards Babes in Christ Texts: Hebrews 2:17-18; 4:14-16; 1 Peter 2:2; Isaiah 40:11 Aims: 1. To teach us about God’s mercy and long-suffering towards sinners and new converts 2. To encourage babes in Christ to keep following and not give...
What is Justification?

What is Justification?

WHAT IS JUSTIFICATION? Text: Romans 4:1-16; 2 Corinthians 5:21. Aims: 1. To enable us know the meaning of justification 2. To teach us that we are justified by faith 3. To show to us how faith makes a justified sinner strive to live in newness of life. What is...
What is Sanctification?

What is Sanctification?

What is Sanctification? Scripturally, the word sanctification has three meanings: First, separation; second, dedication; third, spirit-filling. Webster’s definition of it is as follows: “1. Sanctification is the act of God’s grace by which the affections of man are...