Let’s Start a Temperance Movement

May 25, 2014 p.m. worship

Scripture Reading:1Corinthians 5:6-13

Galatians 5:22,2322 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. 

Temperance - the practice of always controlling your actions, thoughts, or feelings so that you do not eat or drink too much, become too angry, etc.

Webster’s Definition

1 :  moderation in action, thought, or feeling :  restraint 2 a :  habitual moderation in the indulgence of the appetites or passions b :  moderation in or abstinence from the use of alcoholic beverages

Webster’s Definition

Let’s Start a Temperance Movement

Temperance is for our own good

Proverbs 25:8Whoever has no rule over his own spirit is like a city broken down, without walls.

Titus 2:11-1411 For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, 12 teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age,

Titus 2:11-1413 looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, 14 who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for good works.

Let’s Start a Temperance Movement

Temperance is for our own good Temperance is good for our

society

Cost of IntemperanceAccording to www.drugabuse.gov, the total cost of drug abuse in the US is $524 Billion per year!

Cost of IntemperanceAccording to a study at Emory University, the total cost of illegitimacy in the US is $112 Billion per year!

Cost of IntemperanceAccording to www.cdc.gov, the total cost of obesity in the US is $147 Billion per year!

Cost of IntemperanceDrug abuse $524BIllegitimacy 112BObesity 147B

Total $783B

Proverbs 12:1Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge, but he who hates correction is stupid.

2Timothy 3:1-51 But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: 2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

2Timothy 3:1-53 unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, 4 traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!

Let’s Start a Temperance Movement

Temperance is for our own good Temperance is good for our

society Temperance is a matter of

discipline

1Corinthians 9:24-2724 Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it.

1Corinthians 9:24-2725 And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown.

1Corinthians 9:24-2726 Therefore I run thus: not with uncertainty. Thus I fight: not as one who beats the air. 27 But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified.

Let’s Start a Temperance Movement

Temperance is for our own good Temperance is good for our society Temperance is a matter of discipline Temperance will let us “win”

1Corinthians 9:24Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it.

2Timothy 1:7For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

Hebrews 12:1,21 Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,

Hebrews 12:1,22 looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Let’s Start a Temperance Movement

Temperance is for our own good Temperance is good for our society Temperance is a matter of discipline Temperance will let us “win”

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