Proverbs 24:10-11 (ESV) 10 If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small. 11 Rescue those who are being taken away to death; hold.

Proverbs 24:10-11 (ESV) 10 If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small. 11 Rescue those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter.

just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it’s crazy, but
“Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody’s around — nobody big, I mean — except me. And I’m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff — I mean if they’re running and they don’t look where they’re going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That’s all I do all day. I’d just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it’s crazy, but that’s the only thing I’d really like to be.” Holden Caulfield in Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Storming the Gates: ANXIETY ANGER REGRET PAIN ADDICTION DEPRESSION
How Christ Sets Us Free

ADDICTION Storming the Gates: How Christ Sets Us Free
When a substance interferes with the productivity, tranquility, efficiency, or well-being of any area of life; and when we are made aware that this is happen- ing but still persist in using the substance, then we are addicted, at least psychologically. If we get physically ill when the substance is withdrawn, then we are physically addicted as well. Gary Collins, Christian Counseling

ADDICTION Storming the Gates: How Christ Sets Us Free REGRET PAIN
ANXIETY ANGER ADDICTION

Chains on the Brain Reward GABA Dopamine Eating Satiety Reward Satiety GABA Dopamine Heroin

Chains on the Brain In the past year, 9.2% of Americans age 12 and over have used illicit drugs (not including marijuana). Source: 2015 National Survey on Drug Use and Health

God’s Word to the Addict Proverbs 23:29-35 (ESV) 29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes? 30 Those who tarry long over wine; those who go to try mixed wine. 31 Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly.

God’s Word to the Addict Proverbs 23:29-35 (ESV) 32 In the end it bites like a serpent and stings like an adder. 33 Your eyes will see strange things, and your heart utter perverse things. 34 You will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea, like one who lies on the top of a mast. 35 “They struck me,” you will say, “but I was not hurt; they beat me, but I did not feel it. When shall I awake? I must have another drink.”

God’s Word to the Addict Proverbs 23:29-35 (ESV) 29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes? 30 Those who tarry long over wine; those who go to try mixed wine. 31 Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly.

God’s Word to the Addict Proverbs 23:29-35 (ESV) 32 In the end it bites like a serpent and stings like an adder. 33 Your eyes will see strange things, and your heart utter perverse things. 34 You will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea, like one who lies on the top of a mast. 35 “They struck me,” you will say, “but I was not hurt; they beat me, but I did not feel it. When shall I awake? I must have another drink.”

God’s Word to the Addict Drunkenness is never worth the woes. You are to be a steward of creation … not its slave. Genesis 1:28 (ESV) 28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

God’s Word to the Addict Drunkenness is never worth the woes. You are to be a steward of creation … not its slave. I Corinthians 6:12 (ESV) 12 “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything.

God’s Word to the Addict Drunkenness is never worth the woes. You are to be a steward of creation … not its slave. Romans 6:12-14 (ESV) 12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. 13 Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. 14 For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.

God’s Word to the Addict Drunkenness is never worth the woes. You are to be a steward of creation … not its slave. Purity of body might require abstinence. I Corinthians 6:19-20 (ESV) 19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, 20 for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

God’s Word to the Addict Drunkenness is never worth the woes. You are to be a steward of creation … not its slave. Purity of body might require abstinence. I Peter 2:11 (ESV) 11 Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.

ADDICTION Storming the Gates: How Christ Sets Us Free What Can We Do?
1. Go to the cliff … like Jesus did. Mark 5:1-5 (ESV) They came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasenes. 2 And when Jesus had stepped out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit. 3 He lived among the tombs. And no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain, 4 for he had often been bound with shackles and chains, but he wrenched the chains apart, and he broke

1. Go to the cliff … like Jesus did. Mark 5:1-5 (ESV) the shackles in pieces. No one had the strength to subdue him. 5 Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always crying out and cutting himself with stones.

1. Go to the cliff … like Jesus did. 2. Help them see the need for professional treatment. Proverbs 27:6 (ESV) 6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.

1. Go to the cliff … like Jesus did. 2. Help them see the need for professional treatment. 3. Be prepared for relapse. Galatians 6:1 (ESV) Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness.

1. Go to the cliff … like Jesus did. 2. Help them see the need for professional treatment. 3. Be prepared for relapse. 4. Teach them the truth: Christ is the only answer to fear, regret, and pain. John 10:9-10 (ESV) 9 I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture. 10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

1. Go to the cliff … like Jesus did. 2. Help them see the need for professional treatment. 3. Be prepared for relapse. 4. Teach them the truth: Christ is the only answer to fear, regret, and pain.

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