TIME OUT with Pastor Ben Talley - 2 Timothy 1:7

Good morning, my name is Benjamin Talley.

This is another timeout.

I am shooting from the car so so uh

it's a good day.

It's a beautiful day and uh just uh fill you

in.

Um our scripture for today is out of 2nd

Timothy uh chapter 1

verse 7.

It says, for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power

love and a sound mind.

So um it says, for God gave us, that's a gift, uh he gave us a spirit

not of fear but of power love and a sound mind.

That spirit is the Holy Spirit.

He gave us the Holy Spirit.

It is a gift.

Um and it says, not of fear.

We don't walk around in fear and timidity as some translations uh have have said.

Um it's not a fear.

We don't walk around in uncertainty or um scared uh fearful

anything like that but of power.

Uh the word there is deutomus in the Greek.

It's where we get the dynamite.

Um we have power.

We have the divine nature.

Uh what's up Tara?

We have the divine nature living inside of us.

Um so it is empowering us.

It is renewing us every day.

And so um also um uh it is it is

equipping us for whatever we have uh for the day.

And so not only are we empowered but it also says that um it is one of

love.

Um that is the fruit of the spirit.

Love is the fruit of the spirit.

For we are um we have the fruit of the spirit which is love, joy, peace,

patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self -control.

So love actually uh there is no fear in

love.

In fact uh love perfected uh cast out fear.

So the real way to get rid of fear is fear of God and perfected

love uh for God and man.

So when you're when you have a perfect love for God and for

man uh it casts out all um all

fear.

When you have a right understanding of what it means to love your neighbor and love God with all your heart

and all your mind it casts out all fear.

It says that in uh 1 John 4 18.

So um so that's that's one thing that it does.

And then it also says and self -control.

We know from Proverbs that uh that a man without self

-control is like a city uh built without walls.

There's nothing to guard uh anything in the city.

Just like self a man without self -control he has no way to guard um

his uh his moral compass is his his um ability

to say no.

So self -control or a sound mind there's no reason.

There's no there's no way to say yes or no.

There's no temperance.

There's no um ability to resist um so

but but we don't have that.

We have the ability to say no.

In the spirit of God dwelling in us we have self -control.

Uh a lot of people say we have we have lack of self -control.

Well you have lack of self -control because you're not obeying the scriptures.

You're not digging into the scriptures and letting it meditate in your mind.

You're not walking in the spirit.

That's why he commands us to walk in the spirit and you will not gratify the lust of the flesh.

Good morning Lisa.

So um that's what he's talking about.

We have not been given the spirit of fear like we have been walking around in in our days of

uh depravity, our days of lostness, our days of sin.

Um but we've been given a new spirit of power, love, and self -control.

So um that self -control can keep us from sin.

That that spirit of power can keep us from sin.

That spirit of love can keep us from resentment, from uh

discouragement, from things like that.

Good morning Gwen.

So when we practice walking in the spirit we will walk in this

new spirit.

We will walk in this new nature which is practicing love and self

-control.

Walking in the power of the new nature.

That's the whole big thing about Christianity is we have a new nature.

We're not walking in the old nature.

We were putting to death the deeds of the old man and putting on the new nature.

That's that's the thing with biblical counseling that other counseling methods don't have is they

don't have this whole the holy spirit active.

They don't have the new nature working within them uh but but

biblical counseling does uh you know uh other religions don't have this uh

uh new nature.

They don't have God working in them with regeneration and and uh

you know developing the new nature within us.

A lot of a lot of this uh these new world religions and all this other stuff

is is completely uh void of uh this new

nature and uh walking in relationship with God.

It's all outward.

It's all uh superficial um but we have a relationship with

Christ.

In Christianity it's all about a relationship with Christ as he develops develops

us through the new nature but so many Christians are are ignorant.

What's up Vicky?

Are ignorant of what they have.

They have a new nature.

They need to develop it.

They need to walk in it and practice putting off the old man and

walking in the new nature.

So man walk in the new nature.

Uh develop who you are in Christ.

Grow.

Practice it.

Um you know you you can't grow if you're not in the word.

You can't put to death the deeds of the body if you're not practicing obedience to the

scriptures.

If you're not living that out.

So uh this power, this love, this self -control is is in your grasp.

You have the divine nature in you.

Live it out.

So man it is a good day and these are awesome things.

What's up Lisa?

These are awesome things to remember.

We can overcome because we have the divine nature in us.

We have love to overcome fear and we have self -control to resist those

those desires.

Those sinful desires even even natural desires.

We have those the we have self -control to resist those natural desires in us so that they don't

become idols.

So that they don't become uh sinful desires that overwhelm us and become idols in our life.

Um so man fight.

Fight the good fight of the faith.

Uh overcome.

We are overcomers in Christ.

It's a good day to be alive in Jesus.

Let me pray with you.

Um God I thank you for today.

I pray that we walk in the new uh life that you've given us Lord.

Help us resist and stand firm.

Help us put on uh the new nature and walk uh putting to death the deeds of the

body Lord.

We love you and we thank you in Jesus name.

Amen.