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GOD-SHAPED LOOK AT THE ADDICTIVE
NATURE OF SIN *** Sin Will Pull You
In! *** Thessalonians 5:1-11 (ESV) 1
Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need to have
anything written to you. 2 For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of
the Lord will come like a thief in the night. 3 While people are saying,
“There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as
labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. 4 But you
are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief. 5
For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the
night or of the darkness. 6 So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let
us keep awake and be sober. 7 For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those
who get drunk, are drunk at night. 8 But since we belong to the day, let us
be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet
the hope of salvation. 9 For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain
salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, 10 who died for us so that whether
we are awake or asleep we might live with him. 11 Therefore encourage one
another and build one another up, just as you are doing. Galatians 5:19-21
(ESV) 19 Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity,
sensuality, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger,
rivalries, dissensions, divisions, 21 envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things
like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things
will not inherit the kingdom of God.
1 Peter 4:3 (ESV) 3 For the time that is past suffices for doing what
the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies,
drinking parties, and lawless idolatry. |
