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00:03 by the friends of the Amazing Facts ministry. 00:07 CC by Aberdeen Captioning www.aberdeen.io 1-800-688-6621 00:14 Doug Batchelor: I praise God because I was a slave. 00:17 It controlled my time. It took my money. 00:19 It--at the end of the day, it had to be part of my day. 00:22 It was like I associated it with comfort. 00:24 It was almost emotional, but I was addicted. 00:31 Doug: I'm going to be sharing something very personal with you 00:35 and making a confession. 00:37 You've heard it said before: confession is good for the soul, 00:39 but very bad for the reputation; and that may be the case today. 00:46 But your pastor was addicted and involved in substance abuse for 00:55 over 30 years. 00:59 Yeah, you guys--they got the substance there 01:01 on the screen right now. 01:07 Now, you think I'm kidding, but I had a very 01:12 serious problem with an addiction to ice cream. 01:19 Now, when I get done, you describe--you let me know what 01:21 you think that--if it fits the definition. 01:25 I don't know exactly when it began, but I know it started a 01:27 long time ago. 01:30 And my substance abuse started innocently enough. 01:35 And I want to make it clear right from the beginning. 01:37 I'm not saying that ice cream is a sin. 01:40 Is that clear? 01:43 But it got to the place where it was for me. 01:48 The Bible says in 1 Corinthians 10:31, "Therefore, whether you 01:52 eat or whether you drink, do all to the glory of God." 01:56 And I certainly was not doing it to the glory of God. 01:59 Now, I don't know if any of you remember a day where years ago 02:04 they had an ice cream man that would go up and down the 02:07 neighborhood and a bell would ring and a song would play. 02:11 I don't remember what the song is. 02:13 Anyone remember the Good Humor man? 02:17 Do you have happy memories on those hot summer days 02:21 and you'd hear that music? 02:22 It was like the gates of heaven had opened up, right? 02:26 And you'd hear that music playing and this little white 02:28 truck would come out, and all the kids would crowd into 02:31 certain set spots in the street and just about throw themselves 02:33 in front of his vehicle. 02:36 And he would step out, and usually he was 02:38 friendly, and there in the truck he had his 02:42 dried ice, it was always so amazing to me. 02:44 He showed me a piece of the dried ice and the fog billowing 02:49 out, and he'd pull out these exotic treats. 02:52 And I remember some of my favorites were--they had one 02:55 called a rainbow rocket. 02:56 It was a double popsicle. 02:58 Had two sticks that went up through it. 03:00 You could break it in half and share with a friend. 03:01 So I often would split a rainbow rocket. 03:04 I'm sure it was full of colors and chemicals and 03:06 things, but it was delicious. 03:08 It's probably all corn syrup. 03:10 They had another one that was orange with vanilla inside. 03:14 It was an orange popsicle with vanilla, anyone? 03:17 They still make those? But it goes way back. 03:22 And I remember that it was so important to me. 03:24 I couldn't understand why my grandmother would not give me 10 03:27 or 25 cents, it's all it was back then, every day. 03:32 And she said, "It's a treat. You can't have it every day." 03:35 And I am ashamed to tell you that I vividly remember 03:37 stealing money from my grandmother. 03:39 She--this is one of my earliest memories. 03:41 She hung her black leather purse over the doorknob of her 03:46 bedroom, and inside her purse she had another little purse 03:49 that had one of those very difficult snaps on it that you 03:51 had to twist. 03:53 It was the change purse. 03:55 And she caught me one day. 03:58 I don't know how many times I did it. 03:59 More than once. 04:01 That's where my life of crime began. 04:02 It was for ice cream money. 04:05 Do you see? 04:07 And then I went to live with Dad, and that's when it really 04:10 started to get serious, is-- 04:13 in Florida, we actually had--I know you don't think of 04:16 Miami Beach having milkmen, but we had a milkman. 04:19 And I looked up online to see they're still in business. 04:22 The company was called McArthur Dairy. 04:24 And they would bring the milk to the door, and my stepmother 04:27 would fill out a form and--wasn't every day, but like 04:32 every other day he would bring the order. 04:34 But this was really neat. 04:36 In Miami Beach, the milkman not only brought milk, they brought 04:41 fresh-squeezed Tropicana orange juice in a jar, a glass jar, 04:47 and they would squeeze it that day and you'd 04:49 get fresh orange juice-- and they brought ice cream. 04:54 Now, we always knew when he was coming because you can't leave 04:56 your ice cream out on the porch for very long. 04:59 And--you know, I didn't--I was living with my dad and my 05:06 stepmother and my stepbrother. 05:07 My brother was sick, and I was struggling during those years. 05:12 One of the treats for me was I would take a half a pint of ice 05:18 cream and pour in Tropicana orange juice and mix it all. 05:21 It reminded me of those orange things the Good Humor man had. 05:25 It was really good, but it got to where my 05:28 stepmother started saying, "Who ate all the ice cream?" 05:31 Because I was eating all of the ice cream. 05:34 I mean, I started doing it every day, and I really enjoyed it. 05:39 It was the highlight of my day. 05:42 But then things really turned from bad to worse 'cause summer 05:45 came and I needed to find a job. 05:48 And guess where I got a job? 05:52 I got a job working at Baskin-Robbins. 05:54 Karen and I were in Miami Beach not too long ago. 05:57 I took her by, tried to find where the old ice cream shop 05:59 was, and I guess it's not there anymore in Lincoln Mall. 06:02 But I worked at "31 Flavors," and the owner was Lee Scott. 06:09 And I remember when he hired me, I was only like 14, 15 years old 06:13 and I said--when he was hiring me, I said, "Now, I'm just 06:17 wondering, are we allowed to eat the product?" 06:22 He said, "No problem." 06:24 He says, "You can eat as much as you want. 06:26 You'll get tired of it." 06:29 I never even got close to getting tired. 06:33 He had--now, you know, Baskin-Robbins is called 31 not 06:37 because they've got 31 flavors. 06:40 They guarantee having 31 flavors in the store at any given time. 06:44 They have hundreds of flavors, and we had new flavors rotating 06:48 in all the time. 06:50 And I'm not kidding you, I would eat a pralines and cream banana 06:54 split for lunch and then I'd have a hot fudge mocha sundae 06:59 for dinner. 07:01 And it's amazing when you're a teenager what you can do to 07:04 yourself, and you feel indestructible, 07:08 but I really was-- it was getting bad. 07:11 I mean, I ate a lot of ice cream. 07:13 And the problem was I was not only now a user, I was a dealer. 07:21 But I worked there until I ran away from home, and--then it was 07:26 hit and miss on the road for a little while with ice cream. 07:30 But even when I moved up into the mountains in a cave, no 07:35 refrigeration obviously. 07:38 It--very long way to town, grueling height, but it 07:41 was the desert. 07:43 Back then, they had Thrifty's drugstores everywhere. 07:47 I don't see Thrifty's drugstores. 07:49 Evidently, they're out of business. 07:50 I don't know if you can still get Thrifty's ice cream. 07:52 But in all their drugstores, they had an ice cream counter. 07:56 Do you remember? 07:57 Well, I'm not kidding. 07:59 Do any of you remember when it was a nickel a scoop? 08:03 And you could get a triple scoop for 15 cents. 08:08 Go try and find that. 08:11 But when you're living in a cave in a desert, 08:13 you got no refrigeration. 08:14 The highlight for me was to go panhandle and see if I could get 08:19 15 cents. 08:21 I would beg on the street and say, "Could I please have 15 08:23 cents for something to eat?" 08:26 I didn't tell them what I was going to eat, but it's true. 08:30 I would spend my last 15 cents on ice cream. 08:36 And I remember--I wasn't the only one. 08:39 A lot of the street people, it was a big deal. 08:40 And there were others that were living in the desert. 08:43 Most of them lived in the first valley. 08:44 I lived way back in the canyon. 08:47 And I remember I was hanging out on the street one day with my 08:50 friends and some kid had walked out of Thrifty's with a triple 08:56 scoop of ice cream. 08:59 And he wasn't paying attention and the ice cream guy at the 09:01 counter--you know, at Thrifty's when you got your ice cream, the 09:04 same guy that worked the cash register, he worked the counter, 09:07 and he didn't always know what to do with ice cream. 09:09 And so he didn't press--that first scoop has to get pressed 09:12 down into the cone or it can become detached, 09:15 and he had a triple scoop. 09:16 And this kid walked out on the street and he turned and the 09:19 thing fell off the cone. 09:21 But it landed--not flat, it landed still intact with three 09:25 scoops like the Tower of Pisa, sticking straight up. 09:28 And the kid began to cry, and the parents, "Oh, come on in, 09:31 we'll get you another one," and they walked in the store. 09:34 I'm standing there with my friends and we're looking at 09:38 that, and I said, "You know, only part of that hit the 09:41 ground, kid didn't even lick it yet. 09:44 And if he did lick it, the part he licked is 09:45 the part on the ground; the other stuff is still good." 09:49 And while we were processing that, before I could act on my 09:52 thought, my friend Richie got down on all fours and he began 09:56 to eat the ice cream off the street like that. 10:02 Really I didn't do it, but I thought about it because I 10:04 thought, "That's some perfectly good ice cream that's going to 10:07 waste right now." 10:09 And I was mad that Richie did it first because I really had it 10:14 pretty bad. 10:17 And I wouldn't just eat one triple thing of ice cream, I 10:20 would eat one when I arrived at town and then later in the day 10:23 I'd get another one before I went up the hill, and that would 10:25 have to last me. 10:28 You know, I used to wonder why was it so important to me, and I 10:31 later found out there was a study. 10:35 Believe it or not, there's medical research. 10:38 "Journal of Clinical Investigation," this is a study 10:40 done in 2011. 10:43 A team of researchers led by Lukas Van Oudenhove, University 10:48 of Belgium, they were publishing images of brain activity during 10:53 times of sadness, and they had 12 volunteers that had their 10:57 brain scanned with an MRI and also agreed to have a feeding 11:01 tube put into their stomach. 11:05 Then they were shown images and played some neutral or sad music 11:10 and shown neutral or sad images, and then they would rate how 11:12 they felt on a scale of one to nine. 11:15 And when they were feeling sad, they would then inject in their 11:18 stomachs a solution. 11:19 Some of them got a salt solution. 11:21 They didn't know what was going in their stomach. 11:23 Some of them would get a fat solution that would be similar 11:26 to what you would find in ice cream, and then they would 11:30 evaluate them afterward. 11:32 And they found out in almost every case those who were sad 11:35 after being given the fatty solution, it says 11:38 the effect was significant. 11:40 In a pharmacological sense, the fatty solution reduced the 11:44 intensity of sad emotions by almost half, which is about as 11:48 much as any prescription antidepressant can achieve. 11:53 And so you are wondering why you thought ice cream 11:55 was comfort food. 11:57 They finally done research to say it actually does 12:01 work as an antidepressant. 12:03 So I guess you could say I was addicted to antidepressants, but 12:07 it came in the form of Haagen-Dazs, and it was 12:11 pretty serious. 12:14 Now, you think I jest. 12:17 announcer: Don't forget to request today's life-changing 12:19 free resource. 12:20 Not only can you receive this free gift in the mail, you can 12:22 download a digital copy straight to your computer 12:24 or mobile device. 12:26 To get your copy of today's free gift, simply call us and ask for 12:30 the offer number shown on your 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got 13:34 baptized, this is when it, I think, got really serious. 13:40 You know, when you give up your addictions and you only got a 13:43 few left, you overcompensate. 13:46 And as I gave up the drugs and the smoking and the drinking, 13:51 all I had left was the ice cream. 13:54 Then you really go overboard. 13:58 And I remember living up in Covelo, I would quote the Bible 14:03 and I'd say, "God is taking us to a land 14:06 flowing with milk and honey. 14:08 God believes in ice cream. 14:12 This is heavenly food." 14:14 I mean, why would He say that He's going to take them to a 14:16 land of milk and honey--and then I went to the store and I found 14:19 Haagen-Dazs honey vanilla. 14:21 I said, "Praise the Lord. 14:23 This is biblical." 14:26 And I had Scripture for it. 14:29 But, you know, there is a verse that says if you found 14:32 honey--Proverbs 25:16, "Have you found honey? 14:36 Eat only as much as you need, lest you be filled 14:40 with it and vomit." 14:43 Some things that are good, that are meant to be a treat, that 14:46 God would bless, you can do to excess. 14:50 Now, this is a very important principle of what I'm sharing 14:52 with you today. 14:54 And I know you're laughing, and I'm meaning for you to, and some 14:56 of what I'm saying is tongue in cheek, but I'm sharing this 14:59 odyssey with you because it relates to real life. 15:02 What I'm sharing with you is true, I'm not making this up. 15:06 I mean, I was addicted. 15:08 Now, I'm embarrassed to tell you this, but when I traveled and I 15:16 stayed at a hotel, one of the first things I'd do is I'd find 15:20 out where's a 7-Eleven. 15:22 When I was going to a hotel to do a meeting and Bonnie said, 15:26 "Well, they've got a shuttle that goes to the airport," 15:29 I'd say, "Well, I'm going to need a rental car." 15:32 "Well, we won't need--" I said, "Well, you know, 15:34 I might need to get something to eat and--" 15:37 But you know what I was thinking? 15:39 Hotel was too far away from ice cream. 15:41 Was at this conference center, and I needed a 15:45 car so I could get ice cream. 15:49 And then when I realized that here I had rented a car and 15:52 Amazing Facts' supporters were paying for me to have a rental 15:55 car so I could get ice cream, I felt guilty and 15:57 so I refunded the money. 15:59 And it occurred to me that ice cream cost me $35 a pint. 16:06 I'm not kidding. It was that bad. 16:09 Only once or twice did I order room service; $8 for ice cream, 16:15 and then you want to tip the person who brings it 'cause I'd 16:18 tell them, "Please hurry." 16:19 Because they'd bring it to you all melted and 16:21 then it's no good. 16:24 Then I realized this is just starting to-- 16:26 "This has gone too far," I thought, "I got a problem." 16:29 And so I started praying about it. 16:32 I said, "Lord, I got to stop eating ice cream." 16:35 Certainly anything that is preoccupying my day--my father 16:39 was an alcoholic, and I think I've got that nature. 16:43 My father would plan his day around alcohol. 16:47 When he made lunch appointments, he wouldn't just take a person 16:51 to a restaurant because he liked the food. 16:53 The restaurant had to first and foremost have alcohol, then they 16:57 figure out what else they had. 17:00 And then after work, he'd stop at the bar. 17:02 And if he went on vacation, it had to be somewhere 17:04 where there was a bar. 17:06 And if he went on a fishing trip or if he went racing or whatever 17:09 he did, there was always the ice chest with alcohol. 17:11 His whole life, that was just-- had to be there in the picture. 17:15 And I was realizing ice cream was doing that to me. 17:19 I'd get on TV in front of everybody, preach about the 17:21 health message, do a back handspring, and then go home 17:23 and eat a pint of Haagen-Dazs. 17:26 Yes, sometimes I'd eat a whole pint. 17:30 The average American eats 42 pints of ice cream a year. 17:35 I was eating about 120. 17:38 I'm not exaggerating. 17:41 And then I'd go to the doctor, he'd say, 17:42 "Doug, cholesterol looks good. 17:44 Blood pressure okay?" 17:46 I'd say, "Not bothering me." 17:50 And I had all these rationalizations, but 17:52 I knew I was addicted. 17:55 "How do you know?" 'Cause I couldn't stop. 17:58 I'd spend my last 15 cents on ice cream. 18:06 You know, Jesus talks about this where He said, "Woe to you, 18:08 scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! 18:10 You devour widows' houses, and for a pretense you 18:12 make long prayers." 18:15 In Luke 11, "Woe to you, lawyers! 18:18 For you load men with burdens hard to bear, and you yourselves 18:21 do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers." 18:23 So I'd preach a sermon on gaining the victory over sin 18:26 when I was a slave. 18:28 Now, I--the reason I picked this subject-- 18:30 and I prayed about this. 18:32 I think the Lord wanted me to talk to you about this. 18:34 The same dynamics that I struggled with are real in our 18:39 lives on something that is a lot more serious. 18:42 Some people maybe it's not ice cream. 18:46 Maybe it's alcohol. 18:48 There are people that go to church and they go through 18:51 the motions of being a Christian and they've got 18:53 an addiction to shopping, they can't control it. 18:58 They do it for comfort. It could be some drugs. 19:01 Some people sit at the computer and they're 19:03 addicted to other things. 19:05 It might be pornography, and it's like you 19:09 live a secret life. 19:11 There's a lot of different ways that it plays out. 19:13 Jesus doesn't just come to save us in our sin; He comes to save 19:17 us from our sin, and He can. 19:19 And you'll have a peace and a joy when He does that's unlike 19:22 anything you can imagine. 19:23 Romans 6, verse 12. 19:26 This was our memory verse. 19:27 "Therefore do not let sin reign." 19:30 Now, God didn't say that we're never going to stumble and fall. 19:34 He says if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father. 19:37 What He does say, though, is sin should not reign over you. 19:41 "In your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. 19:44 And do not present your members as instruments of 19:47 unrighteousness to sin, but present yourself to God as 19:50 being one alive from the dead and your members as 19:53 instruments of righteousness. 19:55 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under 19:58 law but under grace." 20:00 Jump down to verse 17 in Romans 6. 20:04 "But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, 20:07 you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to 20:10 which you were delivered. 20:11 And having been set free from sin, you 20:13 became slaves of righteousness. 20:15 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. 20:19 For just as you presented your members as slaves of uncleanness 20:23 and lawlessness leading into more lawlessness, so now present 20:27 your members as slaves to righteousness for holiness." 20:31 And He goes on to say in verse 23, "For the wages of sin is 20:34 death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus 20:38 Christ our Lord." 20:39 You know, if you look up higher in the same chapter, Paul says 20:43 in 1 Corinthians chapter 10, "All things are lawful for me, 20:49 but not all things are expedient." 20:52 You might even find something that inherently 20:53 may not be bad, but it is out of balance in your life 20:58 and it's taking up your time. 21:00 Some people, they are addicted to a TV program. 21:06 I know it's hard to-- for us to understand it. 21:10 Sometime the things that tempt you may not tempt me. 21:13 You might laugh at what was a problem for me. 21:15 "Oh, you got a problem? I don't understand it." 21:18 But it's not your problem, it was my problem. 21:19 Who knows why? 21:22 But those same people--I know people that are Christians, a 21:28 lot of them, and at a certain time every day they've got to be 21:33 where a TV is or they tape it. 21:36 And they've got to watch a soap opera because they 21:39 have gotten sucked into this artificial-- 21:41 now, I don't laugh at that. 21:42 I cannot understand how people will look at these actors going 21:46 through these bizarre things on TV saying, 21:48 "Oh, no, was it with her?" 21:50 "Yes, it's with her." 21:51 "Oh--but did you kill him?" "No, I kill--" 21:54 And they're going "Aaah," they're crying and they're 21:56 watching all this. 21:57 I've tried to give Bible studies to people who--they got the soap 21:59 opera on and they say, "Well, just a minute--ahh!" 22:03 And why can't they get--I can't understand it, but 22:06 it gets ahold of them. 22:08 And their lives revolve around that program "As My Stomach 22:12 Turns," or whatever it's called. 22:15 And it takes over their life. 22:17 And for most people, it's not an issue. 22:20 Now, I don't know what your temptation is. 22:23 We're all different. 22:25 Some of you are Peter, some are James, some are John, some are 22:27 Mary, some are Martha. 22:30 The devil knows what it is, and he wants to get ahold of you so 22:35 that it controls you, that it sort of becomes the defining 22:38 influence in your life instead of Jesus being the one who's in 22:42 control of your life, and at some point--the first step 22:45 is you got to--like I did, you got to say, 22:48 "This is out of control. 22:50 I got a problem. 22:51 And, Lord, I need Your help." 22:53 And it's not a good witness. 22:57 You know, when--up in the hills near our cabin, we've got a few 23:05 trees that are nice-looking trees. 23:08 And I was out walking one day, and I remember seeing that this 23:11 poison oak vine was beginning to go up a rather picturesque 23:17 oak tree up there in the hills, and I didn't think much of it. 23:21 Now, usually poison oak, it just kind of crawls 23:24 along the ground, it's not very big, 23:25 or it might get up in the manzanita bushes a little bit. 23:27 But they are vines, and unencumbered they will continue 23:30 to grow and they get pretty massive. 23:34 And a few years later, I went walking by that same tree and I 23:37 noticed that the poison oak vine had wrapped around and was going 23:41 up into the tree and that was creating a lot of weight on the 23:45 branches, taking over the whole lower half of this 23:48 very big majestic oak tree which normally would be very 23:50 strong and independent. 23:53 And I realized that something had to be done or--when the snow 23:56 came, it was going to-- the weight was going to 23:57 take that tree down. 23:59 All it took was chainsaw and one cut, and I knew it would die. 24:07 Even though I made the cut, the vine was still hanging 24:11 there, but I wasn't worried anymore 24:13 'cause once I knew I made the cut, it was going to die. 24:17 And sure enough, as time went by, the vine rotted, 24:20 it blew out of the tree, and the tree 24:22 continued to flourish and stand strong. 24:25 Some of us know we've got tendrils. 24:27 And they start small in our lives, but they'll continue to 24:30 grow and wrap themselves around your life and start sapping the 24:33 strength and distracting your energy and your time from what 24:36 God wants you to do. 24:39 Now, I'll interpret your silence to mean that maybe the Holy 24:45 Spirit is speaking to you and you know that there's things in 24:48 your life that are out of balance. 24:51 It may be something that-- outwardly is harmless 24:54 as ice cream. 24:56 It may be something more serious. 24:58 It might be a serious substance abuse, or practice, or 25:02 relationship that is unhealthy. 25:06 And you need to say, "Lord, I can't do this 25:09 without Your help." 25:11 And you come to Jesus and you confess that you need 25:13 supernatural intervention, and the Lord can give you the 25:17 victory and you will rejoice. 25:20 And it is so nice when you can look back and say, 25:25 "Free at last. Free at last. 25:27 Thank God Almighty, I'm free at last." 25:34 announcer: Don't forget to request today's life-changing 25:36 free resource. 25:37 Not only can you receive this free gift in the mail, you can 25:40 download a digital copy straight to your computer 25:42 or mobile device. 25:43 To get your digital copy of today's free gift, simply text 25:47 the keyword on your screen to 40544, or visit the web address 25:51 shown on your screen and be sure to select the digital download 25:55 option on the request page. 25:57 It's now easier than ever for you to study God's Word with 26:00 Amazing Facts wherever and whenever you want, and most 26:03 important, to share it with others. 26:08 male: I just really started getting involved with crime, 26:10 break and enters, selling drugs, stealing cars. 26:13 male: All of us were high, drugs all over the car, 26:15 paraphernalia, pipes. 26:16 female: I was suicidal, I was developing an eating disorder, 26:19 so, like, all these things were just coming into play. 26:22 male: One night I was flicking through my channels in my dorm. 26:26 There was this guy, this preacher. 26:27 male: By the end of the program, I had a complete 26:30 understanding of what's God plan actually is. 26:34 male: I started going through these Amazing Facts study 26:37 guides and I finished those, and I was so hungry 26:40 I couldn't put them down. 26:42 male: These series helped me to see how reasonable God is. 26:46 female: So after doing the studies and learning the truths 26:49 that I had been learning, I decided to take that next step. 26:53 male: I thank God for ministries like Amazing Facts, 26:56 to a great extent the reason why I am in the church today. 27:00 male: Thank you. male: Thank you. 27:01 female: Thank you for changing my life. 27:11 announcer: Written by the hand of God and spoken 27:14 with His voice, some words will never fade. 27:20 ♪♪♪ 27:28 announcer: Get Pastor Doug Batchelor's 12-part sermon 27:30 series on the Ten Commandments by calling...or visit 27:35 afbookstore.com. 27:38 announcer: Did you know Amazing Facts has a free Bible 27:40 school that you can do from the comfort of your own home? 27:44 It includes 27 study lessons to aid in your study of God's Word. 27:48 Sign up today by calling... 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