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Pastor Richard "Buddy" Wimberly "Temperance" 2 Peter 1:1-10

• Temperance: Self-Control or moderation
• When we become a Christian, we are more able to control ourselves.
• Temperance is an act of keeping us in the boundaries. If you don't know where the boundaries are or don't draw the lines, you're going to keep crossing those lines.
• Temperance is a work Christ works in us.
• Our nature is of sin; we have to forsake our lusts and follow after Christ. 
• We have to be separate from the world.
• We need to be fruitful for the cause of Christ.
• Church doesn't change anyone, it's the power of Christ that causes the change.
• Your faith is going to have an influence on others either positively or negatively. 
• When a person gets born again, the Holy Spirit gets placed inside you; however, sometimes we fail to open up the gifts. 
• Galatians 5:22 & 23: "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance; against such there is no law."
• When we get saved, we get all of the Fruits of the Spirit, we just have to let the Holy Spirit work.
• We have the full power of God working in us.
• We're going to make it through our difficult times because of Christ.
• Faith like Paul's doesn't come over night; it comes over a lifetime of falling before God.
• We need to get fueled up for Christ so that others can see the difference.