{"id":12403,"date":"2020-02-13T09:30:27","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T15:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=12403"},"modified":"2020-02-13T10:02:55","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T16:02:55","slug":"self-control-evidence-of-salvation-and-protection-of-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=12403","title":{"rendered":"Self-Control: Evidence of Salvation and Protection of Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>by <\/strong><strong>Greg E. Gifford, PhD<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ancient Greek philosophers considered self-control (i.e., temperance) to be a cardinal virtue. If you were a person that possessed self-control, then you were disciplined, focused, restrained, and intentional. We often think of self-control in similar terms&mdash;<em>we<\/em> must deny, <em>we<\/em> must discipline, <em>we<\/em> must restrain, and <em>we<\/em> must focus. Scripture nuances self-control a bit more to distinguish it from self-mastery by showing that self-control is a work of the Spirit of God to enable a person to deny themselves. In this blog, I&rsquo;ll demonstrate how self-control is an evidence of salvation and a protection of our faith.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Self-Control as Evidence of Salvation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Galatians 5:22-23 demonstrates that when a person walks in the Spirit, they will bear the fruit of the Spirit. It&rsquo;s the fruit of the spirit that is antithetical to the desires of the flesh and it&rsquo;s also the fruit of the Spirit that demonstrates being in the Spirit. In verse 23, Paul says that one of the aspects of the fruit of the Spirit is &ldquo;self-control.&rdquo; Literally, the &ldquo;restraint of one&rsquo;s emotions, impulses, or desires<em>.&rdquo;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/ibcd.org\/#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a> What Paul is saying is that when a believer is walking in the Spirit, led by the Spirit, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Greg E. Gifford, PhD Ancient Greek philosophers considered self-control (i.e., temperance) to be a cardinal virtue. If you were a person that possessed self-control, then you were disciplined, focused, restrained, and intentional. We often think of self-control in similar terms\u2014we must deny, we must discipline, we must restrain, and we must focus. Scripture nuances&#8230; Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":12405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[284],"tags":[402],"class_list":["post-12403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ibcd-jim-newheiser","tag-blog","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/0e4709328_1448999107_itunes-art-8-913-2.jpg?fit=1400%2C1400&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12403"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12407,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12403\/revisions\/12407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}