Temperance -- Study Guide

Highlights

Note the following highlights in the pages studied, presenting counsel and information to the church as a body and to the individual :
1. Man was endowed with a free will and a powerful mind centered on God, a body representing the crowning act of creation.
2. Particularly note the aspects of deception that led to mankind’s fall.
3. Observe the broad definition of appetite--meaning the satisfaction of selfish desire (self-gratification) that brings the loss of control (intemperance).
4. See temperance presented as a return to self-control and development through Jesus Christ. Te-SG 7.2

5. This self-control to be practiced even beyond abstinence from alcohol, tobacco, etc., even into habits of eating, working, studying, and all conduct of life.
6. Especially detect the reason for this need for a return to self-control (temperance)--the body the temple of God and the law of cause and effect. Victory to the overcomer is assured.
7. See the connection between temperance and spirituality and how intemperance, as the fashion of the world, impairs sanctification.
8. All this calls us to a vital decision to educate our habits and tastes, to yield our powers to God in overcoming every hurtful practice if we would be prepared for the return of Christ. Te-SG 8.1