{"id":7733,"date":"2019-09-30T04:47:56","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/can-you-control-yourself\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:47:56","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:47:56","slug":"can-you-control-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/can-you-control-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Can You Control Yourself?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon in 1 Thessalonians series.                   1 Thessalonians 4:1-8<\/p>\n<p>                          CAN YOU CONTROL YOURSELF?<br \/>\n                          =========================<\/p>\n<p>    I. Dilemma of sexuality.<\/p>\n<p>   II. What is the world coming to?<br \/>\n        A. We live in a &#8220;sexual revolution.&#8221;<br \/>\n        B. There is nothing new under the sun.<\/p>\n<p>  III. Christians have always been different.<br \/>\n        A. Your sexual morality is an expression of your spirituality.<br \/>\n        B. Yet even many Christians are changing.<\/p>\n<p>   IV. God&#8217;s standards for sex.<br \/>\n        A. Sexuality is good.<br \/>\n        B. Sexuality has boundaries.<br \/>\n        C. Sexuality must be as broad as Christian freedom.<\/p>\n<p>    V. Getting control again.<br \/>\n        A. Put God first.                                    1 Th 4:2<br \/>\n        B. Avoid immorality and tempting situations.         1 Th 4:3<br \/>\n        C. Control your body, don&#8217;t let it control you.      1 Th 4:4<br \/>\n        D. Don&#8217;t hurt others.                                1 Th 4:6<\/p>\n<p>   VI. Sex carries consequences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon in 1 Thessalonians series. 1 Thessalonians 4:1-8 CAN YOU CONTROL YOURSELF? ========================= I. Dilemma of sexuality. II. What is the world coming to? A. We live in a &#8220;sexual revolution.&#8221; B. There is nothing new under the sun. III. Christians have always been different. A. Your sexual morality is an expression of your spirituality. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,37,31,6,25,335],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7733"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}