A Christian is a perfectly self-controlled

We have all heard the expression he has a lot of self-control. It usually boils down to an insult or physical assault that the
person has resisted response to. What about the phrase having a good bead and things or getting your ducks in a row these are all phrases that meant something to people to demonstrate I'm not look on life or how to live. 

What is self-control? 

You might say self-control is the ability to resist or to think about a problem to have the right answer the first time. That sounds right but it is also training yourself to come to the conclusion that one thing is right and everything else is wrong to set that in your mind and to keep that for us like a sounding board. 

What is the Christian sounding board or what is the Christians control? 

The word of God. Self-control is not adjusting your temper or outbursts of emotion those would be controlling yourself adjusting your physical demeanor to suit more culturally approved practices. Self-control is what you really think who you really are between you and the fence post you can control what comes out of your mouth or what you hear or see you may choose to respond or not respond but that is controlling yourself what you were thinking at the time is self-control. Setting your minds. Realizing one thing is right and everything else is wrong to test everything against that one thing and that is the word of God. True self-control comes when wrong happens your response is in accordance to God's word and Christ's heart. That is how you become perfectly self-controlled. 1Peter 1:13-14

A Christian is a perfectly shameless testimony of God's salvation

The Christian walk or life is not one of solitude and loneliness, as the Christian goes about his normal day he is reminded of brothers and sisters in Christ and prays for them. He is reminded of the lost and prays for them, shares with them the joy of his salvation. Though through life the Christian may perceive himself as alone, he must realize that as he prays for fellow believers, they too are praying for him to strengthen him in spirit, as he strengthens them in his prayers.

As the Christian's walk strengthens his witness and testimony becomes known to others and they share with their friends the witness of community. Many days or hundreds of miles may separate Christians from their brothers, but Christ spirit binds us together and together one man's testimony is strengthened through prayer of the brethren. With the prayers of brothers and sisters around the world, lifting fellow believers up, what is there to be ashamed of? ---Philippians 1:18-26

A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject to all. Luther

To be a Christian is to be a servant. 

When a new member comes to church he is asked to get involved, that means to do something, a real Christian member would come and say how can I be of service not expecting to really be anything or do anything but it seems to be the right thing to say. When the pastor is looking for Sunday school teachers or vacation Bible school volunteers he'll pick a sermon about Jesus washing feet or harvesting and how we are supposed to serve the church. Yes Jesus was giving an example of how the powerful and great must become a servant of all. But what Jesus saying it wasn't just about humility, but sacrifice caregiving and love.

Lawgivers are all appointed by God
Today a lot of people when they hear the words servant are wondering how they're going to get people to work for them to raise funds for their cause, love is far from those asking for service and servants. Romans 13 talks about being subject on to higher powers. Today's people when they hear of government and taxes throw tea parties and protests. What they don't realize is God has put the president in the seat, the Senators and lawgivers are all appointed by God. What Romans is trying to say do your duties to government realize that they were put there by God himself and if you disrespect the government you're disrespecting God.

Freely desire to love
Love your neighbor love your school love your community not begrudgingly but freely desire to love your fellow man. Romans 13:6-10

A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none.-Luther

"You shouldn’t do that it upsets me I’m a Christian" or “Why do Christians walk and talk like they have a cross stuck up their…” but let’s get down to it what should we consider our witness is, Arrogance, Condemning and Depressed is that how the world see us? I would say for the most part, yes. One question is how are Christians supposed to act, or be? In Matthew 28 and in Mark 16 Jesus tells his disciples to go and preach to baptize to teach them everything that he had taught them. He didn't ask them to surround the village and beat them into salvation, or to change the village culture into what Christianity should be. Preaching the word of God should not draw blood or diminish a person's heritage. Romans 8 says there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ. John 15 Jesus is talking about the Vine and branches and abiding in his love, or living in his love. He didn't boycott companies that were not Christian. He didn't tell people not to go into that part of town because they're all bad people. Christ love. The love of Christ is given to us through his Holy Spirit. It's nothing we can drum up, or be taught. Everything and more that Christ did is ours to do if we are in Christ. Surrendering ourselves is to live as Christ loved every man, woman and child was loved by Christ, not communities, cultures or churches but the person. Christ didn't change the culture in Israel, why do we think we need to change the culture to witness to the person is our witness, so shallow that it only works if the person is wearing shoes, pants close the little black hat? Paul in 1 Corinthians 9:19-23 is trying to explain how he is able to win so many souls to Christ. First off, he reinforces the idea that he is free to do as he wants because he knows that what he wants is what Christ wants. Then he says he becomes a servant to everyone a Jew to the Jew or Greek to the Greek a sinner to this sinners and a lawyer to the lawyers. He didn't walk on to Mars Hill and demand that they take down their temples and shrines before he witnesses. He didn't tell the jailer to clean up the cell before he sat down. If that was true, the only way the sinner could be saved would be by doing on Christian works for a Christian reward. John 3:16 would be gibberish. We have to remember is because of love that Jesus came it was because of love that Paul became all things to all men and it should be because of love that we witness

A Christian is a perfectly redeemed heir in the Kingdom of light

Perfectly redeemed heir to the kingdom, does not have anything to do with your works or deeds good or bad, like in the prodigal son returning son was willing to sacrifice his family that he might live. The son realized that his inheritance was spent and he expected nothing in return from his father. His only hope was that his father would see him as a worthy worker. But the father's love for his son was so strong and unending that the joy seeing him coming home could not be held back. The servants had no argument with the father's decision they were just as happy to see him. The love that God our father has is so strong that when we turned from our sin and look to him for help he's already there he doesn't see the sin, the wasted time the bad decisions or the hurt that we may have caused him, he only sees his child nothing more.

Col. 1:10-14, Luke 15:22-24

A Christian is a perfectly strengthened believer in the faith.

Colossians 2:6-10 

What does it mean to be perfectly strengthened? As a Christian we need to understand that as we surrender ourselves to death as Christ And raise again in his resurrection we need to realize we are not the same sinful person we were before receiving Christ. Romans 6:3-7. If we are truly carnally dead the only desire of our spirit is to do God's will as it is his Holy Spirit who lives in us, the Spirit that comforts us and strengthens us to withstand and repel the workings of flash and the devil. The longer we withstand our flesh the stronger the Spirit of God becomes in us.

Growing in strength of spirit not of will

I have said, “the spirit of man grows slowly in the heart of the Christian." To explain this better man or the flash wants to live and take again control of man's heart. The spirit of man or his carnal being does not die but needs to be subdued by the heart or soul of man wanting to do the fathers will. This battle goes on between spirit, soul because man is sin, man cannot help but want to do his own carnal will. When the Holy Spirit comes is when the battle rages and the spirit of man needs to devise a more subdued attack. Using God's word, and people's prayers, if not checked against the will of God can be and sometimes is man's own will justifying fleshly action through Christian desire. When the Spirit of Christ has strength from the yielding spirit of man the believer finds balance, love, and an overflowing strength to continue his walk.

Realizing the strength we have

A Christian does not need to wait for catastrophe or weakness to cry out to God the father, but often times that is the case, and that is only because the Christian begins to rely on his own strength and it is only when his strength is used up that he understands his made for the father. The believer does not need to use his own strength to stay with his eyes towards God, he needs to realize and surrender his strength is not his own his strength is from God and the power of the Holy Spirit that lives in him and as he realizes strength is not his, the stronger he will become to withstand evil and persuasive arguments of religion against what God and his word says.

Perfectly strengthened is perfect in weakness