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00:39 Hello and welcome to Behold the Lamb presents.
00:41 I'm Chris Shelton, your host, and we're so thankful 00:44 that you have chosen to take some time 00:46 in Bible study with us today. 00:49 Today we're continuing in our 25 part series, 00:53 25 parts, we've never done this before, 00:55 but they all correspond 00:57 with this lovely Bible study guide. 00:59 And it is entitled, 01:00 "Sharing God's Love Makes You Happier, 01:03 What the Bible Says." 01:05 And each and every lesson 01:06 just goes through Bible scripture 01:08 after Bible scripture, 01:10 and it's nothing 01:11 but the Bible that you're learning from. 01:13 So we're taking each one of these lessons 01:15 and we're giving you an hour long study with it. 01:18 And, of course, I'm sure Pastor Kenny, 01:19 he may throw in some Spirit of Prophecy, 01:22 but we know it will all correspond 01:24 with what the Bible says. 01:26 Today's lesson, we're going to start at our number seven 01:29 and it is entitled "Addiction Free." 01:32 Addiction free. 01:34 So many people are caught up in addiction. 01:37 Even our children are caught up in addiction. 01:40 Many times they are caught up an addiction on their iPads 01:43 or their Android devices, whatever it may be. 01:47 The little games that they're playing, 01:49 it's not the same as when many of us were little. 01:52 We were outside just running and playing. 01:54 Now we can get addicted to food 01:56 and, of course, addicted to drugs, 01:59 addicted to just about anything and everything. 02:02 And once we are addicted, 02:05 we begin to realize that 02:06 that begins to take control of our bodies, 02:09 our minds, our spirit 02:11 and it separates us from heaven. 02:13 It separates us from our Savior. 02:16 So we want to be totally addiction free, 02:19 and I believe that the Bible has a prescription 02:22 on how you can become addiction free. 02:26 But before we get into our study 02:28 with Pastor Kenny Shelton today, 02:30 we're going to go to the 3ABN Worship Center 02:32 and listen to a song sung by Jennifer LaMountain 02:35 and it is entitled, "He is able." 02:38 How appropriate, He is able. 03:04 He is able 03:08 More than able 03:13 To accomplish what concerns me today 03:20 He is able 03:23 More than able 03:28 To handle anything that comes my way 03:35 He is able 03:37 More than able 03:42 To do much more than I could ever dream 03:49 He is able 03:52 More than able 03:57 To make me what He wants me to be 04:04 He is able 04:07 More than able 04:12 To accomplish what concerns me today 04:19 He is able 04:21 More than able 04:26 To handle anything that comes my way 04:33 He is able 04:36 More than able 04:41 To do much more than I could ever dream 04:48 He is able 04:51 More than able 04:56 To make me what He wants me to be 05:04 And when I think of all His wisdom 05:07 I'm the scope of His plan 05:11 I can only fall down on my knees 05:15 And realize once again 05:20 That He is able 05:25 More than able 05:30 To do much more 05:32 Than I could ever dream 05:39 He is able 05:43 More than able 05:49 To make me what He wants me 05:54 To be 06:11 Thanks for joining us here 06:13 once again at Behold the Lamb ministry. 06:14 We do appreciate you. 06:15 You know, we love the phone calls. 06:17 We love your cards, your letters, 06:19 and certainly your financial support. 06:21 As we continue to preach the gospel, we want to go what? 06:23 Around the world. 06:25 Praise God for you. We're praying for you. 06:27 And we ask that you'll continue to pray for us as a ministry, 06:30 as well as all the ministries around the world 06:33 that are preaching. 06:34 We call present truth, 06:35 we realize that Jesus is coming and we need to be ready 06:38 for such an hour's you think not, 06:40 the Son of man cometh. 06:42 Don't get caught up in the things of this world. 06:45 Keep focused. 06:46 Remember, Jesus is coming. 06:48 Keep focus just on that very, very thought. 06:50 Today, our subject is one that you've already heard 06:52 from the opening. 06:53 My wife gave you, we're going to be talking about 06:55 addiction free. 06:57 That is a subject that really probably has hit 06:59 maybe every person 07:01 that's ever been born on this planet 07:03 at one time or the other. 07:04 Some of you'll say, "Oh no, I never." 07:06 Well, let's just get into study a little bit 07:07 and just see where maybe we might have become 07:10 addicted to something. 07:11 And we never really thought it was an addiction at all. 07:14 So before we do always that we go to God in prayer, 07:18 we pray a lot, 07:19 because we need a lot of prayer. 07:20 We need the power of the Holy Spirit 07:22 that will open your ears, your eyes and mind 07:24 that we may hear, see, 07:25 and do that which is pleasing in His sight. 07:27 So I'm going to kneel up here. 07:29 Those of you who may be driving, 07:30 you know, just keep your eyes open on the road, 07:32 some of you will listen on CD, 07:33 others that who are at home DVD, 07:36 but you know, 07:37 just pray along with us that the Spirit of God 07:38 will have His will and His way as we pray together. 07:41 Let's pray right now. 07:45 Merciful God in heaven, 07:47 we thank You for the privilege of prayer. 07:48 We thank You that we can call upon You 07:50 and that You promised to hear and answer it, Lord. 07:52 Today is a very, very important subject. 07:55 It's one that many people some will say, 07:57 Oh, well, yeah, I am addicted to something, 08:00 others will be in the denial stage 08:02 and others just don't want to hit, 08:04 they don't want to hear about it 08:05 but, Lord, today I pray Your Holy Spirit 08:07 will just take the words from the bread of life, 08:10 the Bible, the book 08:11 that we need to get our references from, 08:14 and we pray that each one of us will hear 08:16 and read, understand it 08:17 and victory will be given to each one today 08:20 as I thank you in Jesus' name. 08:22 Amen. 08:26 I always mention it's good to have your Bible, 08:28 pencil and paper and jot down quickly 08:29 what you can because as we move quickly along, 08:33 we'll find some time that we miss these things 08:35 if you don't get the DVDs or the CDs later on. 08:38 Again, we're talking about addiction free. 08:40 In this world that we live in, 08:42 I think that it'd be a true statement 08:45 to say that we have a lot of people they won't, 08:48 they liked the word free. 08:50 I kind of like the word free, it's advertised an awful lot. 08:54 They'll say, you know, order this, 08:55 we'll give you this free. 08:57 Well, it seemed like somebody has to pay for it 09:01 here or there, right? 09:02 Nothing in life you say is free 09:04 because it's somehow all added up 09:06 but they advertise this free 09:08 and soon as you say free, everybody wants. 09:11 Well, they're going to get this free 09:12 if I buy one, I get one free. 09:14 I buy another, I get a half off, you know. 09:15 So I'm getting something for free. 09:17 So we live in a world that's we want stress free. 09:22 Have you ever heard people say stress free? 09:24 Man, well, I want to live in a world there's no stress. 09:27 And some people say, 09:28 well, you know, I want to be where there's, 09:30 you know, I don't have any bills to pay. 09:33 You know, I'm debt free. 09:35 We heard fat free 09:38 and but be careful with that I'm sure. 09:40 Gluten free, you hear all these frees. 09:43 Some people say, I'm fancy free. 09:45 Some said, I'm living free. 09:48 Some say, tax free, drug free 09:53 and the list just goes on and on and on 09:56 because there's something about that word 09:58 to be free from, to have something free. 10:01 Something maybe that's given to us. 10:04 Addiction free. 10:06 Many are looking today, I'm convinced of this, 10:08 many are looking today for... 10:11 Be free from something, 10:13 not sure what it is in everybody's life, 10:15 but there's something we would like to be free of 10:18 and sometime we just can't seem to shed that thing 10:20 whatever it might be. 10:22 Then probably everybody's may be different, 10:24 some will certainly be similar. 10:27 These things that maybe we have clinging to us 10:30 causes problems in our life. 10:32 It causes problems with our neighbors 10:34 and maybe our friends and with, 10:36 you know, immediate family and maybe our church family 10:40 and some of these things 10:41 we want to be free of that could be health issues, 10:43 they could be mental issues, you know, spiritual issues. 10:48 Health, I think is probably 10:50 maybe at the top for a lot of people. 10:52 And I rate the spiritual very, very important, 10:55 the most important 10:56 but a lot of people say health, 10:58 you know, they seem like they're not free, 11:00 they have health issues and they want freedom. 11:03 They want to be healthy again. 11:05 Many don't know what it is 11:07 that makes them act the way that they do. 11:10 I heard one person say, 11:11 they want to take certain things 11:13 and they show out, 11:14 you know, they make issues of things. 11:15 So they're not sure what they need to take, 11:19 what they need to do or not take or what to give up. 11:22 But something makes them feel strange 11:24 and maybe a little bit odd. 11:26 Many people probably have heard this statement. 11:29 I don't know if you have. 11:31 I'm sure you have is the one that says, 11:32 you know, we live in a rat race. 11:36 Have you ever heard this in the world 11:37 that we're living in? 11:38 It's a rat race out there. 11:40 I've heard that many times in my life, the rat race. 11:43 You know, there's things that we need to consider 11:45 even when you think about the rat race. 11:49 Why is the world turn to things as drugs, and alcohol, 11:54 and all of these thing, 11:55 opioids that someone mentioned, 11:57 you know, what is all that really curtail? 12:00 Why is the world turned in this direction? 12:03 And a lot of studies have went out. 12:07 And you know what, they do some studies on? 12:09 Mice and rats. 12:11 It's kind of interesting and just, 12:13 you know, friends, for consideration. 12:16 I like you to be aware of this study that went out. 12:19 I thought it was very, very interesting. 12:21 Actually, he's a scientist. 12:23 His name is Dr. Joseph Buckley. 12:26 He'd been studying rats for 11 years. 12:31 Been doing awful lot of studies on these rats. 12:33 And he calls it the present day rat race. 12:38 He's trying to figure out why this world is like it is 12:41 and why we react the way we do as human beings? 12:44 Why we take what we take, 12:46 is there something 12:47 that's going maybe compared with the rat race 12:49 and the human race? 12:51 Kind of interesting 12:53 and so he did a lot of studying, 12:54 him and his friend. 12:56 And since 1959, that goes back quite a few years. 13:00 According to the Associated Press report says this, 13:04 "Dr. Buckley, notice has been subjecting 13:07 thousands of rats to stress chamber 13:12 that simulates 13:13 many of the conditions of modern city life." 13:17 He took the... 13:19 I won't say a normal, 13:20 I don't want a normal rat might be 13:23 but he took him out of his environment 13:24 and he put him in an environment 13:27 to where he would be subject 13:29 to the things that we are subject to. 13:32 And would it have any kind of impress on his mind, 13:35 would it changed the rat 13:38 if he began to do and associated with things 13:41 that we are associated with every day? 13:43 I thought that was very interesting. 13:45 So they brought in to this environment 13:48 and thousands of rats 13:49 and they put bright flashing lights of every kind. 13:53 Flashing lights of every kind was there. 13:56 Noise from buzzers and sirens 14:00 and things that we hear in everyday. 14:03 Even noise like a jet plane flying over. 14:06 Horns honking, 14:09 voices and things going and people are shouting. 14:13 They even put them in an environment 14:14 where the rats were jostled and shaken around 14:18 as if they were riding in an automobile. 14:21 Kind of interesting thought. 14:25 After a week of this. 14:27 Notice only a week, 14:30 the rats developed permanent high blood pressure. 14:36 Somebody's not with me. 14:39 They developed permanent high blood pressure. 14:43 And they become easily irritated 14:48 and they even became... 14:49 Notice this, dangerous. 14:52 By being associated with things that we do. 14:54 Now, when we do that what do we do? 14:56 A quick trip to the doctor. 14:58 We need to take a drug. 15:00 We need to take a pill. 15:01 We need something that calm us down here, 15:05 but notice it goes a little bit deeper than this. 15:09 Exposed to those same stresses... 15:13 Notice this, the same stresses that the doctor, 15:16 you know, and his... 15:18 He had a graduate student 15:19 that was working along with him, 15:21 they began to notice a gradual rise 15:24 in their own blood pressure 15:28 and increasing irritability. 15:32 So what they were subjecting the mice to or the rats to, 15:37 all of a sudden 15:38 it was affecting them all of these noises, 15:40 and now they felt 15:43 they might need a little something to help them 15:46 to get back to normal. 15:48 Interesting with the rats 15:49 though they never returned to normal. 15:52 The things agitated those systems so much 15:55 that it was a permanent increase. 15:57 I thought that was just interesting, 15:58 interesting thought. 16:00 You know, sends us right to the... 16:01 We call it the drug store. 16:05 There was an office 16:07 that was closed several years ago 16:09 in the Capital in Washington, DC. 16:12 And I want you to just listen carefully. 16:13 I thought it was very, very interesting. 16:15 It's an organization of Americans in United States 16:18 has closed its central Washington office 16:21 because the area just one mile from the White House. 16:26 So they have an office 16:27 to help humanity try to get things together 16:30 to help people along 16:31 the Organization of American States 16:33 had to close that office because... 16:35 Notice this, because of the hotbed of crime. 16:40 This is one mile right from the Capital. 16:42 And all of these things were going on and crime, 16:45 in fact, right close to the Library of Congress 16:47 and so on. 16:48 In fact, they had to end up closing their business 16:50 a half hour early, 16:51 so that the employees could get home 16:54 before it got too dark because they might get hurt. 16:58 I thought how interesting? 17:01 Nowhere in the nation is the crime rate 17:04 more drug related than in Washington, DC. 17:08 Kind of interesting, isn't it? 17:10 Drugs are high in Washington, DC, 17:13 right around our capital. 17:15 Very interesting. 17:17 Nation's capital has become the center 17:19 as it were for narcotic trafficking. 17:24 Why would that be? 17:26 Does the enemy have a plan to be addiction free? 17:30 What is an addiction? 17:33 We know that it's real. 17:34 We have family and friends and different ones, 17:36 I'm sure that you've talked to and visit with and so on. 17:39 They have problems with drugs. 17:42 What is addiction? 17:43 And what does it mean to be addicted to something. 17:47 Now today, we have to look at it possibly 17:49 you are addicted. 17:51 I am addicted to something. 17:52 It may not be that hard stuff out there on the street 17:57 that we may be addicted nonetheless. 18:00 Addiction simply means 18:02 if we don't understand that term addiction, 18:05 it's a fact, 18:06 or it's an condition of being addicted 18:10 to a particularly, particular substance, 18:13 or a thing or an activity. 18:17 Did you get that addiction? 18:20 It can be to a substance. 18:23 It can be to a thing. 18:26 Or it can be to an activity 18:29 that surrounds most everything 18:31 that we see and do each and every day. 18:35 If you're looking for synonyms of this thing called addiction, 18:39 it's a dependency then, isn't it? 18:42 We begin to depend upon something to help us 18:46 make it through the day. 18:48 We have a dependent, we're dependent. 18:51 It's a habit, it's a problem that takes over our life. 18:57 I'm glad to say there's hope. 18:59 Isn't that wonderful to know there's hope. 19:00 And some of the classes that goes around 19:02 and some of the self help program, 19:04 different things they may fail. 19:05 But this one we're talking about here 19:07 addiction free is full proof, is 100% 19:11 you can get over this if you follow God's counsel. 19:15 But you have to follow God's counsel. 19:16 You have to be willing. 19:18 You have to admit that there is certainly a problem. 19:20 There's help for our loved ones. 19:22 There's help even for us 19:24 if we are the one 19:25 that's involved with this thing called opioids. 19:29 I mean, how lately, 19:30 how often do you hear that on the news? 19:33 Opioid, what? 19:34 They call epidemic. 19:37 Epidemic because it covers so many different drugs, 19:42 not just the way if I say opioids. 19:43 Man I'm not sure what... 19:45 Well, they just say drugs. 19:46 I'm just choosing different words 19:47 but it's a drug problem. 19:49 You know, it can cover everything 19:51 from Vicodin to Morphine. 19:54 All kinds of different drugs that we'll look at Oxycodone 19:57 that, you know, the things that people get hooked on, 20:00 you take it once or twice maybe from surgery. 20:02 And pretty soon you... 20:04 There's issues that are out there 20:05 and some people, they get hooked on things 20:07 because they were given to them, 20:09 maybe at the hospital for a certain condition 20:12 and then just a couple of uses 20:13 they just can't seem to get off of them anymore. 20:16 It affects their life. 20:19 You have that in alcohol dependency. 20:22 Lot of folks I'm telling you, and this is according... 20:25 Here's some facts according 20:27 to the American Psychiatric Association. 20:30 Here's what they say. 20:31 They say addiction, 20:32 it's what we're looking at today. 20:34 Addiction is a complex condition, 20:37 an addiction is what? 20:39 It's complex. 20:41 Notice this. It's not just easy to define. 20:45 They call it a brain disease. 20:48 Something that affects the brain, a disease 20:52 and then it manifest itself 20:55 in compulsive situations, circumstances. 20:59 It all of a sudden begins to come out, 21:02 even though the use of this would be harmful, 21:05 and they understand that is harmful. 21:08 But as they've taken it, 21:10 it's done something to the brain. 21:13 And they have a hard time focusing then anymore. 21:16 It's interesting that in fact, 21:19 they use these opioid drugs 21:20 and alcohol until it becomes what? 21:24 It takes over their whole life. 21:26 This is all they think about. 21:28 This is all that they work for during the day 21:31 is to think about how they'll get enough money 21:33 to buy these things that will give them 21:35 what they've had before, 21:37 which will be a certain high as we will know. 21:41 People can develop addictions. 21:44 And this is a broad range of things. 21:46 But notice addiction to alcohol, 21:50 certainly, to marijuana. 21:51 Absolutely. 21:53 PCP, LSD. 21:55 Inhalants, are somebody with me. 21:57 Glue, sedatives, tranquilizers, 22:02 cocaine, tobacco. 22:05 You can be addicted to relationships. 22:09 Somebody with me? 22:11 You can be addicted to love. 22:14 You can be addicted to exercise. 22:18 You can be addicted to the internet. 22:21 You can be addicted to video games. 22:25 All you want to do is play games. 22:27 Certainly be addicted to pornography. 22:29 You can be addicted to the phone. 22:32 You can't leave home without it. 22:33 You can't take it out of your hand. 22:35 You've got to be communicating with somebody all the time. 22:38 Social media, you can be addicted to. 22:43 There are Facebook addicts. 22:47 There are people who steal, they're addicts. 22:51 The list goes on and on. 22:53 And maybe we fit in there 22:55 to where it's taken over our life and our time, 22:58 and then we can't seem to get along 23:00 unless we're involved in this thing. 23:06 Maybe some of us have been involved. 23:08 So what are some of the effects of using some of these things? 23:12 Now again, it's a variety and it plays different 23:16 on different people and their mind. 23:19 But when they begin to take some of these things 23:21 or involved, 23:23 it begins to distort their thinking. 23:26 They are no longer the thinking person 23:28 that they once were 23:30 because their mind is wrapped up somewhere else 23:32 and all of a sudden it's taking over 23:35 every waking moment 23:37 which causes behavioral problems. 23:41 Think about it. 23:43 You have people get on TV say your phone for instance 23:45 and so on so forth on there, right? 23:47 And they get on there and they say, 23:49 okay, we're gonna live one week without the phone. 23:53 People almost die right then and there. 23:56 They start hyperventilating. 23:59 They may need a little oxygen 24:01 because they just can't stand the thought 24:03 that I can't have my phone. 24:06 You know, that's the younger generation 24:08 certainly would be. 24:09 And as we get older and you get used to it, 24:11 you'll get caught up in that also. 24:13 But, you know, if you're old enough, 24:15 you can remember going back far enough 24:17 that when you left for work, you never had cell phones. 24:22 You never had a phone on the job. 24:25 You went to work, you say goodbye at home, 24:27 you went to work, 24:28 you didn't come back until it's time to quit. 24:30 And there was no communication 24:31 unless there was emergency and somebody founds you. 24:35 Well, that went on a whole lot longer 24:36 than this cell phone thing 24:38 and all the social media for today. 24:41 You think how many thousands of years 24:42 was just like I talked about in the past. 24:44 Somehow humanity made it. 24:47 Somehow, maybe the devil has taken something here, 24:50 maybe good within itself, 24:52 and he's using it to destroy and occupy our minds 24:56 that we no longer have to, 24:57 we use them anymore because we don't have to. 25:00 Because we have calculators, 25:02 we don't have to figure anymore in our brain 25:04 because we can punch the buttons 25:06 and it will do it for us. 25:08 We don't have to remember numbers 25:09 like we used to have to remember numbers, you see? 25:13 Because all you have to do is, it's in your phone. 25:17 If things are changing, and is it possible 25:19 that enemy is trying to distort our thinking, 25:23 because we have become addicted to things 25:26 that we ordinarily wouldn't think are addictive. 25:31 They have done some brain imaging, 25:34 taking pictures of the brain and how it functions. 25:39 Study show that the brain changes 25:43 when they take certain thing. 25:45 When we take certain things into our system, 25:47 the brain actually changes the way its judgment. 25:51 It no longer has the same judgment 25:53 than it had before. 25:54 Maybe they took whatever they were taking, 25:56 or drinking whatever or maybe even eating. 26:00 All of a sudden their judgment wasn't the same. 26:02 Their decisions were different. 26:06 Their learning became different. 26:08 The memory was different. 26:11 Behavior was different. 26:14 Because they became addicted to certain things 26:17 and many people were going along 26:19 and they begin to like this feeling call high. 26:24 How many have heard that? 26:26 It's been for years. 26:27 Yeah. Yeah. 26:29 We're going to go get high. 26:30 I remember that in high school. 26:31 We'll say, we're going to get high. 26:33 We're going to smoke marijuana. 26:34 We're going to get high. 26:36 Well, I never figured that one out 26:37 and I never did try it. 26:38 So I guess I've not been high on those things. 26:40 Hopefully, I've been high on the good things. 26:43 You can have that, you know, with your experience 26:44 with the Lord certainly and working for Him, 26:47 but they wanted a high experience the symptoms. 26:51 You see the symptom something that wasn't going... 26:54 something in their life wasn't going like they wanted. 26:56 They wanted it to change. 26:59 And these highs are different on everything that you take, 27:04 everything that you take, every drug that you take, 27:06 there's a different kind of a high. 27:07 You take a different drug, 27:09 there's a different kind of high. 27:10 And people begin to find the one that they like. 27:12 But after a time, what happens after you take 27:15 and you take and you try, what happened to your body? 27:19 What do you think? 27:20 Body builds up a tolerance to what you've been taking 27:26 and to get the high that you want, 27:28 you have to take more. 27:29 That makes sense? 27:31 You have to take more that's why we... 27:32 Again, we drank more, we take more, 27:34 we shoot up more because it takes more 27:36 because your system is building up a tolerance. 27:40 We no longer can deal with the amount 27:43 and feel the same effects. 27:46 What starts this, you know, taking drugs. 27:49 Why would someone want to take? 27:52 Well, there's a lot of different things. 27:53 We just kind of mentioned a few 27:55 and a lot of research has come down to this, 27:57 it simply says, I started, when he asked people, 28:00 why did you start taking this certain drug? 28:02 You know what they said? 28:03 I wanted to feel good. 28:07 Most days I want to feel good too. 28:10 There's days I want to feel better than I do. 28:13 And if there was this magic thing 28:15 that didn't hurt you, right? 28:16 We'd all try to get a little pill, right? 28:18 And say, "Oh, well, I want to feel good today. 28:20 I don't want to jump three feet high. 28:22 I want to jump 13 feet high." 28:26 Because remember, it makes you feel good 28:27 and all of a sudden you think a little bit more 28:29 will make you feel better. 28:31 I can jump three feet, why not jump six? 28:33 You know what I'm talking about. 28:36 And other said, well, I started 28:39 because it gave me pleasure. 28:43 Bible talks about pleasures of this world. 28:47 We need to be careful 28:48 with the pleasures of this world. 28:49 But because it does something, it makes us acceptable 28:53 we think to others, 28:56 even though nothing's really changed. 28:57 We just feel more accepted when we take things 29:00 that alter our brain. 29:03 And, of course, the high. Notice that. 29:07 And closely related that is I'm taking this 29:09 because I want to feel what? 29:11 Not feel good, but I want to feel better. 29:15 Not really feeling too bad but man, I want to feel better. 29:19 I'm taking something 29:21 because I have too much stress in my life 29:23 and I need to relieve that stress, 29:27 if not I'll be like in that rat race 29:29 that we talked about, right? 29:31 Our blood pressure goes up. 29:34 Our intolerance of others heightens. 29:38 We don't have the patience that we need, 29:40 our tempers flare, short, you know. 29:44 No, you know, feel better, 29:47 relieve stress. 29:51 The third one they said, 29:52 "I started taking these 29:53 is because I wanted to do better." 29:56 Maybe because of pressure. 29:58 Maybe mom and dad, maybe sister or brother, 30:00 maybe just in school, 30:02 we want to be better than we were, 30:03 maybe an athlete. 30:05 I wanted to hit the ball farther. 30:07 And so therefore, 30:09 and we find that in the right professional realms today, 30:13 they take enhancing, they call drugs, 30:16 so they can hit the ball farther, 30:17 throw it harder and play better, 30:21 because it means a lot more money. 30:25 Because they realize 30:27 some of these things you take can improve performance, 30:31 even though they know in the long term 30:33 it may hurt them. 30:35 They may lose their job, 30:37 they may lose that which they've taken to have 30:41 and they may lose that thing. 30:42 But you know what? 30:44 Once they begin to take it sometime, 30:45 they just don't care anymore. 30:47 They think they can get away with it. 30:50 One person was asked, 30:52 why did you start taking this drug? 30:53 Why? They said curiosity. 30:56 Same old thing I heard all growing up. 30:58 Curiosity killed the cat, Kenny. 31:00 Curiosity killed the cat. 31:01 I got tired of hearing that. 31:02 But you know, I guess it probably did. 31:05 Curiosity can hurt somebody. 31:08 I'm taking it because I'm just curious 31:12 and the drugs are out there today, 31:13 one time maybe can be hooked. 31:17 A few others it's naturally, even school said, 31:20 I began to take it because of peer pressure. 31:23 I began to feel the pressure and I became addicted. 31:27 It's ruined my whole life. 31:30 Many are aware of these problems, 31:32 and there are some that deny them, 31:37 but for sure to be addicted simply means 31:41 that there could be problems in the home. 31:43 If someone in your home is addicted to something 31:46 they shouldn't be on. 31:47 There begins to be problems in the home. 31:50 There begins to be problems at work. 31:53 It doesn't just stay at home. 31:54 It begins to be problems at work. 31:57 Then there's problems in the family. 32:00 And then there begins to be problems, 32:02 you know, with friends and relatives 32:05 because it just doesn't stay local 32:08 because it alters the mind, and the thinking, 32:11 and the judgment. 32:13 Here's a few signs 32:15 if you think maybe one of your children is on it 32:18 and maybe that you're on it and you think, 32:20 you know, lot of people that are on 32:22 and think they're so smart that no one can find out, 32:24 you know, we can hide this thing. 32:30 Most times you can't hide it. 32:33 Because the people will say, 32:34 well, you're not the way that you used to be. 32:36 What happened? 32:41 There becomes... 32:42 If you become addicted to something, 32:43 there becomes a strong craving. 32:47 Strong craving. 32:49 So some of you may have 32:50 a strong craving for chocolate ice cream. 32:54 We've got a hand raised up. 32:55 Somebody wants something right now. 32:58 Do you ever hear that, 32:59 sometimes it just, you know, you almost smell it sometime 33:02 or you kind of feel, boy, 33:04 I like to have a piece of something. 33:05 I like to do little, you know, whatever it might be a craving. 33:08 But you know, there's lot of times 33:09 that you cannot quench that craving 33:12 unless you get the chocolate ice cream. 33:15 Somebody's not with me. 33:18 Do you ever had that where you want to go 33:20 and someday said Dairy Queen. 33:23 Well, unless you go to Dairy... 33:25 You're just not going to be happy. 33:28 That's not talking about good or bad 33:30 but that is some of the, 33:31 you know, the signs that we're looking at here, 33:33 craving. 33:34 It's a strong urge. Strong urge. 33:38 A man told me he had strong urge for potato chips. 33:43 Somebody not going to get it. 33:45 Strong urge. 33:47 He's a painter. 33:50 And he was, you know, a little overweight already 33:52 but he would say, his first name was jack. 33:55 He said, in my recliner at night. 33:57 I not, you know, 33:59 I know that I didn't need to be eating at night time, 34:01 and I'd hear my name called. 34:03 Say what? 34:05 I hear somebody say, hey jack. 34:08 And I want to get up and I want to find out 34:10 who's calling my name. 34:11 And I'd follow where I hear the sound of the voice. 34:14 And it led me to the cupboard where the chips were at. 34:18 Okay, that was his thought. 34:21 But he had to have those chips. 34:24 I'm not saying eat a chip once in a while, 34:26 you know, what we're talking about here. 34:29 When you have this craving, the strong urge, what it does? 34:33 It's actually called impaired control. 34:37 Notice. Impaired control. 34:40 You no longer have control because the urge is too strong. 34:46 It's impaired. 34:48 It means that you can't limit your consumption anymore 34:54 in this thing. 34:55 In this particular situation you just can't live it. 34:58 You can't say no, you just, you have to participate. 35:02 It's actually a breakdown of your intentions, 35:05 your intentions were to do good. 35:09 But because of the strong urge, we back down just a little bit, 35:14 and now are, you know that which we say could say no, 35:17 before it's impaired. 35:18 And we can't really say no until we participate. 35:22 Number two, some signs, social problems. 35:25 This is why you can tell, maybe some of your children 35:27 or even young people, and that can be it, 35:29 you know, fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth grade, 35:31 you know, young now. 35:34 See, if you find maybe any of these 35:36 that you might want to check them out. 35:38 Even our young people, you assign them some task, 35:41 some jobs to do, 35:43 but they can't seem to finish them. 35:45 They can't seem to stay focused for very long 35:48 and we won't blame it on other things. 35:50 And sometimes it may be 35:52 but there's something we need to be very well aware of. 35:54 Major task that can be... 35:57 This can be grownups at work 35:59 they can't seem to quite get everything done at work, 36:02 at school they can't quite seem to get it done, 36:05 at home they can't quite seem to get it done, 36:08 and then all of a sudden 36:09 this person starts to be a loner. 36:15 They want to spend time alone, 36:17 they don't like to be around other people. 36:22 They have no leisure activities, 36:25 they have no other thing outside the home but why? 36:27 Because they're focusing on their next highs sometime. 36:34 So, remember they began that, they were maybe an out person, 36:37 they like to be around people, 36:39 all of sudden they don't want to be around anymore. 36:41 They don't have any other activities anymore 36:43 because they're too busy trying to set up the next time 36:46 they get what they want. 36:48 Then you might find that there are those number three 36:50 risky users. 36:53 Risky. 36:56 It continues on despite known problems. 37:00 It just goes on, anytime, anywhere. 37:05 It could be among a group, 37:06 it could be with the police next door. 37:08 It could be whatever. 37:09 But when they're ready, you see 37:11 they go ahead and they take that risk. 37:14 Why? 37:15 Because they're not thinking properly 37:16 because it's distorting the mind 37:18 and the judgment. 37:21 Number four, signs could be... 37:25 Now also they need more. 37:27 What once they could get by with, 37:29 now they need more, they're willing to do 37:33 whatever it takes to get more. 37:37 That can be stealing from mom and dad, 37:39 grandma and grandpa. 37:41 Hurting other people to get what they want, 37:44 what they feel they need. 37:49 They take from family. 37:51 Now, what do we do? 37:53 First step in recovery. 37:54 Our time is going down quickly. 37:57 There's a lot to this, 37:58 I'm just barely hitting on the edges of it, 38:01 as you look and you study a little bit 38:02 on this addiction free. 38:04 First step in recovery, 38:05 say, Well, I need, I need, I need to recover. 38:07 You realize there's more than 4 million people 38:10 in the United States that are addicted 38:13 or dependent on a wide, wide range of drugs. 38:17 Now, we're not talking... 38:18 We're talking about just drugs. 38:21 There's between 19 and 20 million alcoholics. 38:27 Millions. 38:30 And in these surveys and all they're taking it 38:31 in millions are addicted. 38:34 They're talking about addiction to social media, 38:37 things outside of drugs and alcohol. 38:43 We live in the addictive world, don't we? 38:46 The devil is trying to get you addicted 38:48 to whatever it might be. 38:50 It may not be drugs, it may not be alcohol, 38:52 and drugs, and cigarettes, and whatever might be. 38:54 But he's going to get you addicted 38:56 on something that's going to take your time 38:58 which you and I are accountable for. 39:01 We could be spending our time giving Bible studies. 39:04 We can be... 39:05 Our time in which sending out material 39:08 and we mentioned here giving invitations 39:09 to come to meetings, talking to someone about Jesus, 39:13 leading someone to Christ and yet we're talking about 39:15 all the other things in the world. 39:16 We may be addicted 39:20 and if we don't do that every day 39:21 or several times a day, there's... 39:23 Well, we were just not the same. 39:25 We're not, it's not right. 39:28 Could that be psychologies? 39:36 They say yeah. 39:39 People who study these issues say, oh, absolutely it is. 39:44 Many health programs out there I know. 39:48 But why not try this one here quickly today. 39:52 Why not try God's plan if we're addicted to something, 39:56 and again, it could go it can be food, 39:58 it can be clothes, it can be shoes, 40:00 it can be hairpin, I don't know. 40:04 But there's an addiction when it begins to take over 40:07 our thinking and our mind, 40:09 and we can't get it off 40:10 and we have to be doing whatever it is all of the time. 40:14 I think my wife mentioned she read in Romans 12:1-2. 40:19 I believe you read, which is good. 40:22 I'm not gonna spend the time to read all of that. 40:24 But you know in Romans Chapter 12, 40:27 actually our verses is 1-21. 40:29 We can't read all 21 verses at all. 40:32 But we have to realize that our bodies are what? 40:36 Are the temple of God and they're holy. 40:38 So number one is, 40:40 if we are addicted to something, 40:41 right in this world, our bodies are holy. 40:44 It's a temple of God, He wants to dwell in us. 40:51 And if we look and condense this, 40:52 this all these verses down, 40:55 we'll realize our bodies must be acceptable to God. 40:58 So when we're taking things into our body that right, 41:01 that changes our thinking process 41:04 and makes us do things and saying things 41:06 that's not acceptable in God's sight. 41:09 It can't really be the temple of God. 41:11 There needs to be a change. 41:13 And one of the things I thought about 41:15 and reading all of Romans there, Chapter 12 41:18 is that that we need to be separate from the world 41:21 if you want to gain victory over all of these things 41:25 that are out there 41:26 so is because we associate with the wrong group sometime. 41:30 And you're associating with the wrong group, 41:32 these things are going to be going on 41:34 and you're going to be subject to those things. 41:36 And if you're not careful, 41:37 you're going to try just so you can, well, I tried. 41:40 And then maybe it starts a whole life of misery. 41:45 Stay away from the world. 41:47 And we need to dwell on that which is good. 41:48 What Romans Chapter 12 is telling us here? 41:51 We need to be diligent. 41:53 We need to show mercy to those, 41:54 you know, we need to be happy people. 41:57 A lot of times people get on stuff 41:59 because they're not happy. 42:00 They're discouraged. They don't like their life. 42:01 They don't like their lifestyle. 42:03 They don't like what's going on. 42:05 And so they want to change. 42:06 And so they think by taking something 42:07 is going to change it. 42:09 It does. It changed it for the worse. 42:11 It gets worse, not better. 42:14 Romans 12 says, learn to love our neighbors, 42:17 not take from our neighbors. 42:19 Love our neighbors, do good to all. 42:21 You notice that? 42:23 "Provide things honest in the sight of all men." 42:26 Romans 12:17. 42:30 I've convinced of this and, or as we go on that 42:34 we only go through this world one time, right? 42:37 We only pass through one time. 42:40 Let's not make a mess of it. 42:43 We can't come back later on. 42:44 Sometimes we say, "Oh, well, 42:45 I'm going to try to straighten it out 42:47 all of my messes." 42:48 You may not have that opportunity. 42:50 So every decision that we make 42:52 as a young people or older person, 42:54 whatever it might be, make sure you think it through. 42:57 Make sure you pray it through. 42:59 Make sure you read the Word of God 43:01 and find out what God's plan is for. 43:03 And then follow that plan 43:06 which communizes with scripture 43:07 that we need to give much prayer 43:09 and consideration to these things. 43:13 Pray, believe, search these scriptures. 43:16 It says, "Overcome evil with good." 43:19 Romans 12:21. 43:23 I think God loves for His people to seek Him. 43:25 Not seek the world, 43:27 seek the things that are in the world, 43:28 but to seek Him with their whole heart. 43:31 Psalms 1:19, it talks about it, verse 2. 43:34 He wants us to be dependent on Him, 43:37 not dependent on drugs, 43:39 not depend upon things of this world, 43:41 but to depend on Him. 43:42 He is our strength. 43:44 He is our courage and this is what we need 43:47 rather than things of this world. 43:50 He says He can deliver us. 43:54 Psalms 28:1-9. 43:57 Again, the whole chapter needs to be read 43:59 but we'll just focus here on 6-9. 44:03 Turn with me, if you will, in the Book of Psalms. 44:08 These are beautiful, beautiful passages and it's just, 44:10 because of time you can't read them all. 44:13 Book of Psalms, we're going to read first 28. 44:17 I can find it 28:1-9. 44:20 We're going to focus on 6-9. 44:22 Psalms 28. 44:24 And just read verses 6-9. 44:26 He said, "Blessed be the Lord 44:27 because he hath heard the voice of my supplications." 44:31 Did God hear you? 44:32 Those who have issues, those who are looking for help 44:34 and want help. 44:36 The Bible has promised right here 44:37 that God will do what? 44:39 He hear your voice. 44:40 "The Lord is my..." 44:42 Who is my strength? 44:44 "The Lord is my strength and he's my shield, 44:46 my heart trust in him, I am helped, 44:49 therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; 44:51 and with my song will I praise him. 44:53 The Lord is there," what? 44:55 "Strength, and he is their saving strength 44:58 of his anointed. 45:00 Save thy people, and blessed thine inheritance," 45:03 notice, "feed them also, and lift them up for ever." 45:07 Man, these are powerful verses. 45:12 Testimonies to Ministers, 148, harmonizes with this. 45:15 It tells us here that the Lord's gonna fight, what? 45:18 Lord's going to fight our battles. 45:19 We're addicted to something in this world, 45:21 we need not be addicted to. 45:22 God will fight our battles for us. 45:24 He's promised us victory if we really want it. 45:27 People say, I want to be drug free, 45:29 I don't want to be addicted to stuff but what? 45:31 They won't turn for, they won't surely, 45:33 wholly commit themselves to God to be their strength. 45:37 He said, "I'll be your strength, 45:38 victory is assured." 45:40 The Lord fights our battles. 45:42 Let him do it. 45:43 Testimonies to Ministers 148 said, 45:45 "It is always safe..." 45:47 See if everybody agrees with this. 45:48 "It is always safe to be on the Lord's side..." 45:51 Yeah, it's always safe to be on the Lord side. 45:53 Notice this. "Not halfheartedly, but wholly. 45:57 It is the halfhearted, indifferent, careless work 46:02 that separate your soul from Jesus, 46:05 the source of your strength." 46:09 We don't gain victory, 46:10 because we're halfhearted about it. 46:13 If you're halfhearted about God can't do it, 46:15 we're careless 46:16 and when we are careless and halfhearted, 46:18 that separates us from God. 46:21 And when we come near to Him, we asked Jesus, 46:23 He is the source of our strength, 46:25 He can give us that victory. 46:27 I've talked to too many people 46:28 who have had these issues in life. 46:30 And when they made 46:32 that full commitment to Jesus Christ, 46:33 when they stopped going out in the wrong places, 46:35 looking for trouble 46:36 when they stopped purchasing different things, 46:38 they quit participating in different... 46:40 Their life changed 46:41 and they gave their heart to Jesus Christ. 46:43 Victory was assured. 46:46 The article goes on and said, 'Let this be your prayer." 46:49 If you really want to gain a victory, 46:51 if you want to really be, you know, addiction free, 46:54 notice this, we have to come to this point. 46:57 I don't know if any of us are there. 46:58 If not, I think it'd be nice if we came to that point. 47:01 "Let this be your prayer." 47:04 We're talking to God now. 47:05 Notice, God, I'm having problems here. 47:08 I've got issues. 47:09 Maybe I'm addicted to something. 47:10 So I'm presenting them to him right now. 47:12 Listen what it says, 47:13 "Take everything from me, let me lose property..." 47:18 Other words, if necessary, take everything away from me, 47:21 that I may gain this victory. 47:23 It may be property. 47:25 Lord, take worldly honor away from me 47:27 if that's what's holding me back. 47:30 "Everything 47:31 but let Thy presence stay with me." 47:35 It is safe to commit the keeping of the soul to God. 47:39 1 Peter 4:19, it's safe. 47:41 It's safe to say, I want God to take my soul. 47:47 Think about that. 47:48 We have to be willing to give up, what? 47:50 Anything and everything, whether it's houses, 47:53 and lands, and family or friends, 47:55 whatever it is that's keeping you in bondage, 47:58 we give that to God. 48:00 Say God, take it. 48:02 Take all of these things, 48:03 but don't take your presence from me 48:05 because that's where the real victory is at. 48:07 I mean, Psalms 37:5 says it so clearly. 48:11 It says, "Commit thy ways unto the Lord." 48:14 So we do what? 48:16 Commit your ways unto God 48:17 and the victory will be assured. 48:19 The reason we're not having victories 48:20 because we're not letting Christ come in fully 48:22 and take possession of our life. 48:25 Do you need to change today? 48:28 Do you want to change? 48:30 I mean, that's questions we have to ask. 48:31 We're talking about addiction free. 48:33 Do I really feel that I need to change? 48:35 Am I sick of my own life? Am I sick? 48:39 You see, going out at night and coming back 48:40 the same way every day? 48:42 Am I sick the way things that are going? 48:44 I can't hold a job. 48:45 I can't keep the family together. 48:47 I can't keep nothing. Everything's falling apart. 48:48 Then you must say, yes, I need to change. 48:52 I want that change. I desire that change. 48:54 Lord, whatever it takes 48:56 for that change to come about, 48:57 let it happen. 49:00 And this comes about 49:02 when you ask Christ to come into your life 49:04 and give you a new heart. 49:05 Ezekiel 36:26- 27. 49:09 Ezekiel 36:26-27 says this. 49:14 It says, "A new heart also will I give you." 49:17 Don't you like that? Why? 49:18 Because you're sick of the old heart. 49:20 It's fickle. It's messed up. 49:22 Now, I want a new heart. 49:23 "A new heart will also give you, 49:25 and a new spirit will I put within you: 49:28 I will take away the," notice this, 49:30 "the stony heart out of your flesh, 49:33 and I will give you a heart of flesh." 49:37 Maybe a stony heart out of your flesh, 49:39 and I will give you a heart of flesh. 49:40 Verse 27. 49:42 "I will put my spirit within you, 49:44 and cause you to walk in my," what? 49:47 "Statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments good and do them." 49:51 Notice the change that takes place 49:53 when God gives you that new heart. 49:55 If you have the old heart still there, 49:56 you're gonna be back the same old thing 49:58 that you were last night. 50:00 You asked Him to come in and give you a new heart. 50:02 It's a new mind. It's a new thinking. 50:05 He's going to put His Spirit in you. 50:06 His Spirit chooses not to take those drugs. 50:09 His Spirit chooses not to take the drink. 50:12 His Spirit chooses not to smoke it. 50:14 Are you still with me? Just to be point. 50:15 This is what it's all about. 50:17 And God said, that spirit that I put inside you 50:19 will help you to, what? 50:20 To do the right things. 50:23 To keep my judgments. 50:24 Notice that. And to do them. 50:27 It takes more power. 50:29 You have to have power from without, you see. 50:32 Not just I can help programs, I can do all these. 50:35 I've got it inside. 50:36 You got nothing inside of you 50:38 but the enemy when you talk about self. 50:40 But through Christ, all things are possible. 50:42 Victory over addiction. 50:44 These verses are powerful. 50:46 If you had time to take them and dissect them a little bit. 50:49 Be sure God's promise that victory. 50:52 We see the promise of healing. 50:54 We see the promise of restoration here. 50:56 But notice the promises here are conditional. 51:01 The promises are what? 51:03 They're conditional. 51:04 Based upon the peoples of my, 51:06 your willingness to make some change. 51:09 Think about are we willing? 51:13 God promises us just as He did Israel of old, 51:15 remember grace and strength necessary to change, 51:20 if not, then you continue on like you've been today 51:23 and your tomorrow will be the same thing, 51:24 pretty soon it's all going to blow up in our face. 51:27 And then we begin to without Christ 51:29 and that new heart 51:30 we are attempting a change that's impossible. 51:34 Only God can help us do it. 51:36 God wants that relationship with us. 51:40 I will be their God. 51:42 It's such a beautiful words for looking, 51:46 and we're studying, and we're searching, 51:49 and we're not happy. 51:50 I encourage you to get to the Word of God. 51:53 And you know what? 51:54 He's going to encourage you. 51:55 He's going to strengthen you. 51:57 He's going to give you what you need. 51:59 He forces no one. 52:01 He will certainly give you 52:03 what you need to gain the victory. 52:04 You know why? 52:05 Because there is no failure with God. 52:08 Remember, when you are on God's side, 52:10 there's no such thing as failure. 52:13 If we fail 52:14 is because we weren't really on His side. 52:16 We just said that we were. 52:17 We just get a bunch of hot air. 52:19 We just did a lot of words. 52:21 But when we're on His side, you never lose a battle. 52:26 When we lose is because we're on the wrong side. 52:32 We need the Holy Spirit to work on us, 52:34 in us and through us. 52:37 We are now on the Lord side. 52:39 And when we're on the Lord side, 52:40 I read the passage of scripture 4:13, 52:42 Philippians 4:13 is what? 52:45 All things are possible. 52:46 I can do all things through Christ who, what? 52:48 Who strengthens me. 52:49 This is where scripture comes in. 52:51 This is where those of you addicts, 52:52 those who are having problems, this is where we begin. 52:54 I can do all things through Jesus Christ. 52:56 Never say I cannot. 52:58 Say I can. I can. 53:00 Matthew 19:26, 53:01 "But with God all things are possible." 53:04 Mark 9:23, "Things are possible to him that believeth." 53:09 Luke 18:27, "The things which are impossible with men 53:13 are possible with," what? 53:15 "With God." 53:18 2 Corinthians 9:8. 53:20 Last minute or so we've got left here. 53:21 "And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, 53:24 that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, 53:28 may abound in every good work." 53:30 All is used three times here and then the connotation here 53:34 is equivalent to it. 53:35 Every good thing, four times here. 53:38 God's resources are limitless. 53:40 We need to pull from God's resources. 53:44 And God has promised to give to us. 53:46 He said, I want to be your sufficiency 53:48 just before we pray, 53:49 simply means a perfect condition of life 53:53 in which no help, no aid, no support is needed. 53:57 It's a life of contentment without any props. 54:02 He is our what? 54:03 He's our sufficiency. 54:05 To live a life without any props. 54:07 This is what we need. 54:09 This is what our desire of our heart 54:12 to have that freedom that only God can give. 54:14 Let's pray about if someone making the decision right now, 54:16 shall we as we're running out of time. 54:17 Let's pray right now. 54:20 Loving Father in heaven, 54:21 we thank You for Your precious Word. 54:23 Realize a lot has been covered very quickly. 54:24 We pray Your Holy Spirit will take possession 54:26 of those making that decision choice right now. 54:29 They want freedom, they want to be free. 54:31 And so, Father, I pray 54:32 that You will put Your Spirit within them, 54:34 create them a new heart, new life, new mind. 54:37 Decisions they make right now will not be for just today 54:39 but for eternity. 54:40 And I thank you in Jesus' name. 54:42 Amen. 54:44 Hello and welcome back. 54:46 Friends, I hope, 54:47 I hope that you feel 54:49 like you have been in the presence 54:50 of the great physician, 54:52 the great physician that wants to set you free 54:55 from any addiction, any sin that you're holding on to 54:59 Remember the title of this study 55:02 was addiction free. 55:03 And in the presence of God, there are no addictions, 55:07 there's nothing to hold us back. 55:08 We are healed in His presence. 55:11 And He wants to give you victory as you submit 55:14 and commit your life to Him. 55:16 So many beautiful promises 55:18 that we can lay our hand and say, 55:20 Lord, you made this promise and claim it. 55:23 And I want to share 55:25 just one of those promises with you right now. 55:27 You bring along on your screen with me. 55:29 It's found in Romans 12:1-2. 55:34 "I beseech you therefore, brethren, 55:36 by the mercies of God, 55:38 that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, 55:42 holy, acceptable unto God, 55:44 which is your reasonable service. 55:47 And be not conformed to this world: 55:49 but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, 55:53 that ye may prove what is that good, 55:55 and acceptable, and perfect will of God." 56:00 Brothers and sisters, 56:01 I hope you were just listening and holding on to that promise. 56:05 But your part is to summit, is to allow God to come in, 56:10 to let your body be a living sacrifice to Him. 56:14 So He can take and remold and transform you. 56:18 Transform me into the image of our Lord 56:21 and Savior Jesus Christ. 56:23 He wants to give you victory, victories here, 56:26 victories in His Word, claim those promises, 56:29 there's power in it. 56:30 And if you would like to have this, 56:32 this Bible study today entitled Addiction Free, 56:36 we want to give it to you. 56:37 We want to offer it to you 56:39 for a love gift of just $8 or more. 56:42 However, if you'd like all 25, all 25 lessons 56:47 that correspond with this wonderful Bible study guide. 56:51 Those are available too as a whole package. 56:54 We're offering those for a love gift 56:56 of just $175 for the whole set. 57:01 You won't go wrong. 57:03 There's so many wonderful studies in here. 57:06 All you need to do is call us here 57:08 at Behold the Lamb Ministries 57:09 and it's Central Time in the United States, 57:13 and our phone number is 618-942-5044 57:18 or you may write us. 57:20 We love getting your letters. 57:21 Write us to Behold the Lamb Ministries, 57:23 PO Box 2030. 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