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Wonderful Sermon! Davies reminds us that this fruit of the Spirit is something believers already have and do not need to ask for. Then he says: " So why don't we have it? Because I'm a sinner and I quench the Spirit and I grieve the Spirit. Not that God is impotent but that we decide to turn our eyes away from God." He notes that a lack of self control manifests itself in many forms (anger, envy, covetousness) but he spends most of the time discussing covetousness. He notes: " Have you ever scared yourself when you realized this thing is running me. I'm not in control any more. As a Christian, it doesn't have to be that way. We choose to have it that. If we're honest, we say, I may not like the sin, but I'm not ready to have God take it away from me. We may have a few victories here and there. If we're not serious about it, soon it's back." He quotes John Calvin:
"He who allows his sinful propensity to rule uncontrolled will know no end to his lusts." I And John Piper: "A Christian hedonist--my pleasure is in God and God alone." "You're not your own, you're not your own, you're not your own, you were bought with a price. Therefore glory God in your body," (I Cor. 6:19). "We need a daily reminder of who we are, who God is where we're going ... We don't have to be enslaved to anything but Jesus."
Richard H. Davies has been pastor of Grace Presbyterian Church in Metairie, LA, since 1976. He is the church's organizing pastor. He is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA), having received his undergraduate degree (1973) from Belhaven College,...