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Jesus Loves Addicts Part 1

September 2, 2017

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The Connection with Skip Heitzig

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Jesus Loves Addicts Part 1

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Make a connection.
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Make a connection
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at the foot
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at the foot
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- male announcer: Jesus loves
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- male announcer: Jesus loves
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And Jesus loves you.
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If Jesus loves people,
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- Tamra Aragon: Hello, and
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welcome to this message from
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Pastor Skip Heitzig of
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Calvary Albuquerque.
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Skip's teachings are shared
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globally, and we're excited
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to hear how they're helping
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to empower others to live
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for Christ.
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If this message brings you
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closer to Jesus,
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we'd like to know.
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E-mail us at
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mystory@calvaryabq.org.
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And if you'd like to support
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this ministry financially,
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you can give online securely
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at calvaryabq.org/giving.
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Jesus loves everyone and
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is compassionate towards
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all people, including those
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who struggle with addiction.
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As we continue the series "Jesus
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Loves People," we see that
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Jesus has a message for addicts
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and a plan to help them, and
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we can be a part of that plan.
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Mark your Bibles in Luke chapter
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4 and Matthew chapter 11
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as Skip begins the message
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as Skip begins the message
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- Pastor Skip Heitzig: "My Name
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is Davey.
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I'm An Alcoholic."
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That's the title of a book that
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came out several years ago that
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dealt with teenage alcoholism.
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It featured a 15-year-old boy
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who was an alcoholic.
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He was addicted.
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He denied that he had a need
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until someone else in his life,
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another young girl named Maxine,
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was also an alcoholic and was
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experiencing convulsions because
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of her alcoholism.
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She wanted help.
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He did not want help.
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Again, these are kids who are
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dealing with the topic of
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teenage alcoholism.
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I wanna talk to you today
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about addictions.
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Now, some of you might be
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thinking, "Why on earth would
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you wanna talk about addictions
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from the pulpit in church?"
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Well, for two reasons.
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First reason is because it's not
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talked about in church.
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Churches usually don't deal with
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the topic.
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They don't deal with the issue.
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Oh, they're good at
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marginalizing it and condemning
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certain behaviors, but not
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dealing with it.
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And the second reason is because
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sin is never private.
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It always affects other people,
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emotionally, spiritually, and
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even physically.
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When David's sin against
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Bathsheba was known, and it
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could even be seen as a sexual
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addiction, it seemed that, in
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his life, it didn't just affect
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David and it didn't just affect
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Bathsheba.
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But the long tentacles of his
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sin reached further, into the
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life of her husband, Uriah, who
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lost his life because of it,
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into the life of Joab, David's
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general, who was jaded because
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of it, and even David's own
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children, who had that father
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doing that thing as a role model
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for them, which ruined a lot of
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their own future relationships.
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It's never ever done privately.
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Albert Einstein was the one who
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said: "Insanity is doing
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the same thing over and over
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again and expecting a different
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result."
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And though he was
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talking about science, what if
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we were to apply what he said to
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life, to our life?
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What do you repeat over and over
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and over again, but you are
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expecting a different result?
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For some people, it's just one
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more drink.
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"One more, just one more, then
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it's over, then I'm done."
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Or, "One more hit," or, "One
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more look at that stuff on
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the Internet, then I'm done."
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For others, it's, "Just a few
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more dollars, and no one will
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even know it's missing."
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For others, it's,
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"Just one more
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shopping trip."
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And for still others,
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it's, "Just
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one more binge meal."
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Addictions
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have different colors.
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They come in different flavors.
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But that repetitive,
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ongoing cycle doesn't stop.
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Now, you probably may already
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know this, but the word
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"addiction" is not found in your
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Bible, unless, of course,
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you have the King James Bible,
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the old King James Bible.
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I'm reading the New King James.
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It's not found in my version.
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It's not found in any modern
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version, but it does appear once
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in the old King James Bible.
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But it'll surprise you to know
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that it's not mentioned
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in a negative sense
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but in a positive sense.
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In 1 Corinthians 16, Paul
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writes about the household
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of Stephanas.
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"They are addicted to the
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ministry," he said.
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Simply put, here's a family that
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is devoted to serving people,
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and he uses the term "addicted."
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That's the only time you'll find
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it, in the old King James
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Version in a good sense,
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not a bad sense.
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Now, we know it today in
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a negative connotation,
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an addiction.
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Webster's Dictionary defines an
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"addiction" as: "a surrender of
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one's self to something
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obsessively and habitually."
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But the idea of addiction
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shows up all over the place
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in the Bible,
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in other words, different words
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than the word "addiction."
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One of those words is found in
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our text this morning.
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It's the word "captive" or
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"captives" in the plural.
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Those who are held as prisoner
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by repetitive, ongoing behavior,
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they're held captive.
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Also, in 1 Corinthians, Paul
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says: "All things are lawful for
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me, but I will not be mastered
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by any."
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That's another
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description of it,
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when something masters you
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and you keep doing it over
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and over and you seem to
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can't be able to stop.
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Addiction is always a present
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danger posed by our own nature.
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The Bible calls it, "The flesh."
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That's our old, our sinful
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nature, the Bible calls,
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"The flesh."
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So, in Ephesians chapter 2,
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verse 3, Paul says:
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"Formerly, we walked in
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the desires of our flesh,
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indulging those desires."
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1 Peter chapter 2,
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verse 11: "Abstain from
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fleshly desires which wage war
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against the soul."
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And in the book of James,
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he speaks about,
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"Those who are carried away
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and seduced by the tempter,
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living under their desires."
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So, what special word
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would Jesus Christ
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have for such people?
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What words of hope would Christ
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have for those who find
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themselves in addictive
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behavior?
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Moreover, what kind of role
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model would he have for us,
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the followers of Christ,
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in how to treat addicts?
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I wanna begin with you
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in Luke chapter 4.
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I've asked you
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to turn to Luke chapter 4.
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And I first want you to notice
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that Jesus has good news
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for addicts.
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In Luke chapter 4, verse 16, we
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begin: "So he came to Nazareth,
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where he had been brought up.
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And as his custom was,
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he went into the synagogue
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on the Sabbath day,
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and he stood up to read.
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He was handed the book of
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the prophet Isaiah.
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And when he had opened the book,
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he found the place where it was
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written: 'The Spirit of the Lord
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is upon me, because he has
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anointed me to preach the gospel
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to the poor; he has sent me
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to heal the brokenhearted, to
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proclaim liberty to the captives
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and recovery of sight to the
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blind, to set at liberty those
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who are oppressed; to proclaim
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the acceptable year of
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the Lord.'
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Then he closed the book,
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gave it back to the attendant
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and he sat down.
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And the eyes of all who were in
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the synagogue were fixed on him.
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And he began to say to them,
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'Today this Scripture is
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fulfilled in your hearing.'"
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This marks the beginning
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of Jesus' public ministry.
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He is 30 years of age.
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He walks into the synagogue,
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a little group gathering.
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He had gone to that synagogue
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growing up all his life.
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Now he's back and he is given a
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scroll.
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He opens the scroll to Isaiah,
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we know it as chapter 61, and he
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begins his ministry by reading
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this text.
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What fascinates me about that is
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somebody else began their
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ministry using the same exact
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portion of Scripture.
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His name was John Wesley.
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It was April 2, 1739 when Wesley
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decided he's not just going to
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preach the gospel inside of a
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church where church people come,
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but he's gonna take it outside
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the walls, where the
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disenfranchised are, where the
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street people, where the people
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who had never come to church
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hang out.
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And he writes in his diary after
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his first message, he said,
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"Three thousand people heard
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the gospel outside the walls
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of the church today."
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And he said,
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"I chose as my text,"
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the very text we are reading.
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So I find it fascinating that
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he decided to begin his ministry
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to the disenfranchised and
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the captive much like Jesus
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did with the same text.
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Now, look at verse 18 a little
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more carefully, and notice with
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your own eyes the description
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of the audience that Jesus
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was sent to.
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As you look at some of the words
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in that verse, I think
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you're gonna have to agree,
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we're talkin' about the messiest
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bunch of folks that you
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could ever imagine.
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Look at 'em, look at
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the description: "Poor,
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brokenhearted, captive, blind,
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oppressed."
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You know what?
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That describes us,
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the whole lot of us.
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None of us came out perfect.
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We were all born flawed.
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I know, your parents thought you
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were greatest.
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When you were born, they said,
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"Look, she's perfect."
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All they had to do was wait,
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am I right?
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Soon, they would discover how
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flawed you really were.
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Soon, they would discover, as
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your human nature began to
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blossom, "Oh, man, she's got
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that propensity."
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"He has that bent,
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that leaning."
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And then,
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as the years went on, even you
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made that same discovery about
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yourself.
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As societal pressure and inborn
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tendencies worked together, you
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saw how flawed you really were.
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And for some people, that
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fleshly pull is so profound, it
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shows itself in what we would
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call, "Life-dominating sins,"
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addictions, life-dominating
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sins, what the writer of
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Hebrews calls, "Besetting sins."
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Hebrews chapter 12 says:
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"The sin which so easily besets
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us," ensnares us, entangles us.
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That's an addiction.
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You know, Jesus has a special
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message for such people.
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Notice, he has come to preach
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the gospel.
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You know what the word "gospel"
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means, right?
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It means "good news."
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And we, as Christians, need to
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remember that our message ought
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to be a message of good news.
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For the life of me, I don't know
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how we manage to do it, but some
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of us Christians manage to make
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good news sound like bad news.
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"You oughtta become a Christian
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and have joy like me, and have
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peace and meaning and zip
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and zing in your life."
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"No, thanks, next."
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It's good news, and we need
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to give the gospel, good news,
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because, you see, the world
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has messages of bad news for
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these people: "You were born
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this way."
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"You'll never change."
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"That identifies you
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and that defines you,
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and your addiction will
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always define you."
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We need to give them
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the good news.
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The good news is the gospel.
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And what is the gospel,
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by the way?
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Well, the gospel, according
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to Paul in 1 Corinthians 15,
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is very simple.
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It's that message that Jesus
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came, that he died, that he was
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buried, and that he rose
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again from the dead,
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and that he did it for you.
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That's the gospel.
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Somebody asked Charles Spurgeon
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one time, "Could you take
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everything you believe in or
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that Christians believe in and
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sum it up in a few words?"
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He said, "I'll give you four
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words: Christ died for me."
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That's the gospel,
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that's the good news.
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He loves you.
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He has a plan for you.
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So, notice, it says that
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"the Lord sent him, the Father
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sent him to proclaim liberty
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to the captives."
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There's that word.
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I just wanna consider that word
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when we talk about addictions,
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"captive."
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Did you know the word literally
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refers to prisoners of war,
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POWs?
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"I have come to proclaim liberty
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to prisoners of war."
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Jesus has a special message
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to those who have been
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barraged by the enemy.
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Jesus has a special message
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for those who have been taken
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captive by Satan, who are in
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bondage of addiction.
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I was reading this week the
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testimony of an ex-addict named
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Gary.
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Here's his story in a nutshell.
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When he grew up, he said he was
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abused by his maternal
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grandmother.
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That would tweak anybody.
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By age 12, he was drinking
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alcohol, he became addicted to
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it, 12 years of age.
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By 16, he was already on drugs
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and became addicted.
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One day, as a teenager, as a
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mid-to-late teenager, he was in
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a car, and somebody in the car,
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I don't know exactly who it was,
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but spoke to him a message.
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He said, "Gary, I don't know why
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I'm telling you this, but I feel
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like I need to tell you,
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Jesus loves you."
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He goes, "What?"
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"Jesus Christ loves you."
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Gary said, "You know, it
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irritated me, but that simple
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message was so profound.
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Jesus loves an addict?"
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He said, "Those words were
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a seed that began to break down
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my angry, hardened heart."
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So, Jesus has good news
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for addicts, "I've come
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to preach the good news."
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There's something else.
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Not only does he have good news
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for addicts, Jesus has a good
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plan for addicts.
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I draw you back to verse 18 of
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Luke chapter 4.
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I want you to notice, as you
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look at the text, the
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relationship between two phrases
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because it's an important
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relationship.
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Notice he says that "he has been
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anointed, he has been sent,
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to proclaim liberty to the
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captives," see that phrase?
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But then, notice a few phrases
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after that, "To set at liberty
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those who are oppressed."
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"To proclaim liberty."
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"To set at liberty."
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"To proclaim liberty,"
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is to preach, to herald,
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to make an announcement, to
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say something with your mouth.
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But, "To set at liberty,"
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is something vastly different.
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In other words, "I'm gonna
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do for you what I proclaimed."
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In other words, Jesus is saying,
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"I don't just have a nice sermon
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for addicts.
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I have a great strategy
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for them.
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I have a plan, and my plan is
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to release them, to give them
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freedom from their addictions,
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to break the cycle
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that they're caught in."
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Now, how does he do that?
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How can he do that?
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How can God do that?
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Well, I think you will
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agree with this statement.
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First of all,
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he can do anything, right?
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He can do anything.
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So, how does he do it?
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Well, I have seen him--
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but again, this is rare.
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I'll just say that.
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He can take away
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a desire instantly.
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And a lot of us would just love
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it if he would do that with
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all of our bad desires, just
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take it away, just remove it.
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I have heard the testimony of
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those who have been addicted to
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a variety of things tell me they
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no longer have any trouble
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with that issue anymore.
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They're not even struggling
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with it.
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They don't have a desire.
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I applaud that.
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I think it's wonderful,
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it's miraculous.
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It's not the norm.
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Usually, the way he does that
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is supernaturally naturally.
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That is, supernatural power that
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comes through natural processes.
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It's the principle
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of cooperation.
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If you're familiar with
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your Old Testament,
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you know this principle.
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God tells the children
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of Israel,
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"Go in and conquer the land.
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Take it over.
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I'm gonna give the land to you.
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I'm gonna deliver your
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enemies into your hand."
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Sounds easy, right?
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"I'm gonna do this.
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I'm gonna do that.
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I'm gonna deliver.
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I'm gonna give."
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But he also says,
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"You need boots on the ground.
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You need to take your sword out.
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You need to engage in battle.
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You need to march through
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the land.
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And as you cooperate with me,
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my power will give it to you
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and do it for you through
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a natural process."
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So, I wanna give you
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what I think is a healthy
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process that God empowers.
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From everything I've read, and
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from those that I have spoken
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with who have, in the past,
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been addicted to a variety of
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substances, we need to take
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and isolate that addiction.
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So, picture an addiction in
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front of you, however you wanna
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picture it, whatever it is, and
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we need now to quarantine it.
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We need to isolate it.
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We need to draw a box around it.
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The box has four sides.
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The first side we're gonna call,
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"Accurate assessment."
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You need to make an accurate
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assessment of your addiction.
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In other words, don't
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underestimate your addiction.
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It's a big deal.
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This is where many people fail,
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"Ah, it's not a big deal.
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I can stop any time I want."
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They never do.
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It keeps going.
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The cycle continues, but they
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keep telling themselves,
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"Not a big deal."
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No, accurate assessment.
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Don't underestimate
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your addiction.
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An addiction is not a typical
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challenge that everybody
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goes through.
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It is the struggle of
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a lifetime.
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In fact, there will probably
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never be a greater challenge in
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your entire life than that
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particular challenge.
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All other problems will pale in
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comparison, accurate assessment.
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One author who was once addicted
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wrote these words: "Early
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recovery is one big dramatic
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event, and your emotional core
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is bouncing down the side of a
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mountain.
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It's an emotional rollercoaster.
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The same phenomenon can be
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observed when someone tries to
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quit smoking.
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The smoker will notice that
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every time they try to quit
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smoking, all this drama pops up
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in their life.
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'Why is this happening?'
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they wonder.
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Why does all this drama suddenly
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show up every time they try to
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quit?"
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He answers it: "You have been
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fooled by your addiction."
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"You have been fooled
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by your addiction.
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Withdrawal from nicotine, or
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drugs, or pornography, or food
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turn up the intensity," he says,
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"on your life, turns up
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the emotional intensity."
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So, an accurate assessment is
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the first side of that box.
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Let's draw a second side
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to quarantine addiction.
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We'll call this,
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"Overwhelming force."
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Use overwhelming force.
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If you wanna capture a base of
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your enemies, the best way to do
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it is by using overwhelming
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force.
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So, if it takes 200 soldiers to
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take over an enemy base, bring
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800 so there is no chance for
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failure.
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You will overwhelm the enemy
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with your force.
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You'll make sure that the job
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gets done.
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One alcoholic said that early
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on, he struggled with the idea
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that he was smarter than
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everybody else.
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He goes, "Yeah, I know there's
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people who are alcoholics,
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but I'm the smart one.
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You know, I don't need the same
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kind of help they do."
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Now, I've found this
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to be typical.
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So, he was tellin' himself
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things like this: "I don't need
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a real long rehab, and I don't
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need to go to meetings that
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many times a week
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like other people do."
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And so he kept failing and
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failing and failing, and that
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cycle continued, till somebody
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told him, a friend of his said,
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"You don't need 3 weeks
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or 3 months.
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You need a year rehab."
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And he was so beat up by
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failure, he said,
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"You're right," and he went,
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and he did it, and he said,
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"It was the best thing I
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ever did," overwhelming force.
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I talked to a friend this week,
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a friend of mine who struggled
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for years with addictions to
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heroin and other substances.
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And as I was tellin' him, you
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know, what I have found and what
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I was gonna say, he goes, "Yep,
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yep, yep," he goes, "Skip, this
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is what I learned.
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You gotta change your playground
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and your playmates.
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You need to get as many people
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around as you can on a new
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playground that are the right
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kind of people to hold you
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accountable and to help you
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through this," overwhelming
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force.
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Now, let's draw a third line on
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this box, "Zero tolerance," zero
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tolerance.
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You see, recovery is pass or
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fail.
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Everything else in life will
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depend on your sobriety.
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Relationships will depend on it.
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Your viability will depend on
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it.
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Your effectiveness will depend
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on it.
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And so, if this is an issue, you
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need to make an agreement within
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yourself that says, "I can never
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use again.
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I can never take another drink.
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I can never watch that stuff
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ever again, no matter what,"
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zero tolerance.
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The problem with that is, if you
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have an addictive personality,
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you've said that a thousand
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times already, and gone back and
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back and back and back and back.
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But that principle, along with
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the first two principles all
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working together, will be of
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great strength and value and
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help.
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And now let's close this box in
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and quarantine it completely.
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Have you ever found yourself
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