The Fruit of the Spirit: Self-Control

What of the processes that the Spirit undertakes in the New believer is developing the fruit of self-control (temperance) and bridges it as a gift of the Spirit, which the believer operates by being a doer of God's word. In denying self, putting to death the old man, mortifying the members of his body actually taking up his cross to follow after Jesus, causes a fruit growing process that consistenly matures over time.