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Pastor David Lix

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We’ve all heard that if you want to make a significant impact or if you want to make lasting change, then you need to work it from in the inside out, that it’s easier to work within the system. The Church in Antioch took the opposite approach and became the mission-center of the world. Missionaries out of Antioch were said to have turned the world upside down. But they were all outsiders; outsiders who became insiders. God can use anyone. And it may surprise you who He chooses to use and to what great extent He uses them. It may surprise you – it may shock you – to learn that He chooses to use you. You may discount your usefulness in numerous ways, but God often chooses outsiders over insiders to make a significant impact.

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The Fruit of the Spirit is a single cluster of fruit, like a cluster of grapes with distinct, individual grapes making up that cluster. That means that the Holy Spirit is working this entire cluster in me, not just one or two of those listed. One of those individual distinctives is self-control. If the Holy Spirit is in control of my life, as I have been filled by Him, then He is going to grant me the desire and the ability to have self-control. We are in a war, and the battleground is our mind. As much as our enemy is after a person’s heart and soul, the frontline is the mind. Self-control, as a product of the Holy Spirit living in us as we walk with Him, is desperately needed to win this fight. The good news is the Bible says, “Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ.”