Webster's 1828 Dictionary says that temperance is – "Moderation: particularly, habitual moderation in regard to the indulgence of the natural appetites and passions. This would include restrained or moderate indulgence such as temperance in eating and drinking, and temperance in the indulgence of joy or mirth. Temperance in eating and drinking is opposed to gluttony and drunkenness, and in other indulgences, to excess. But secondly, this Dictionary says that temperance is also exercising and exhibiting "Patience: calmness; sedateness; moderation of passion." These two definitions, together, rightly describe our word "self-control". But to truly understand what is meant here, Biblically, let us proceed on now to look at self-control from the negative and the positive sides of it. 1st of all – The Negative side of self-control. And 2nd – The Positive side of self-control.
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Pastor Paul Rendall was born in November of 1951, and grew up in Davenport, Iowa. He went to college at Drake University and the University of Iowa where he received a B.A. degree in Social Work and History in 1974. Paul searched for truth in all the wrong places in college, but...