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Jack Graham - Breaking Free From Addiction

November 9, 2025 | 29:30

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Power Point with Jack Graham | Jack Graham - Breaking Free From Addiction | November 9, 2025

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Sin will keep you longer than you want to stay, will cost you
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More than you want pay, sin and sinful behavior is a chain.
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There is no person that god cannot save!
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There is no promise that god will not keep!
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There is nothing that our god cannot do!
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Add up. but here's what i've discovered. god has never
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Intended for us to carry these burdens by ourselves. that's
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We are living in an increasingly addictive culture.
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One of problems that we face is that so many deny their
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Addictions. it's... it's part of the lies that satan tells us
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And the lies that we tell ourselves. lies like, "well, i
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Don't really have a problem", or "it's not that bad... it's
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Not that big a deal", or "i can't stop what i'm doing", or
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"i can quit any time", or "it's not hurting anybody else", or
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"i can't help it; it's just the way i am", or "god made me this
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Way and therefore i need this", or another one - "i deserve
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This... i'm entitled to this."
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By now in forty years of ministry i can assume that i've
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Heard them all. and frankly they're not all that creative
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To me these days. they're not all that original. i keep
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Hearing the same lies because satan keeps repeating the same
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Lies. his method of operation is the same as it was way back
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At the beginning. so people often stay addicted to their
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Sin or their pain or their struggle or their... their
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Stress or their depression or their anger or their anxiety or
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Their physical-mental addition; emotional strangulation. they
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Stay addicted because they're no longer in control.
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You see, addiction is anything you can't control. that's what
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An addiction is. addiction is a chain that you cannot break.
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One of the keywords in understanding addiction... it's
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Found in all the literature and all the discussions
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Regarding... dealing with addiction is the word
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Dependence. dependence is a synonym for addiction. did you
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Know the bible talks about this? in ii peter chapter 2 and
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19 it speaks of giving ourselves over to something.
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Here's the way it's put: "for whatever overcomes a person...
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(that is, gives yourself... you give yourself over to this. it
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Overcomes you)... to that he is enslaved." so addiction is
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Enslavement. it is a life out of control or behavior that is
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Out of control.
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Now my design in this message series is not just simply to
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Provide pulpit therapy or pop-psychology from this
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Pulpit. i certainly would encourage you, if you face
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Addictions of various kinds, that you seek professional
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Counseling, and there are very fine counselors and therapists
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Ah... who can assist us and help us, and certainly if that
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Person is a christian, he understands the spiritual
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Framework of dealing with the psychology of the soul and the
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Mind all much, much better. if you need medicine, if you need
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Treatment, and so on. that's not the purpose of this message
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Series. the purpose of this message series is to show you
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From god's word what the scripture says regarding
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Breaking the chains in your life which will enable you to
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Overcome. you need to understand what god says about
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Your problem. you need to know the biblical truth, because,
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Again, we tell ourselves lies about our struggles or we
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Believe the lies of satan, but god made you to be free
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Now all sin is addictive! all sin can ultimately become
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Habitual. we all deal with issues in our lives because we
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All have a human heart that is... is according to the
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Prophet jeremiah "despicable and desperately wicked." now in
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Christ as we're going to see we have a new heart and a new
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Life, but... but here's a truth that you need to... you need to
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Grasp. if you are a follower, a believer in the lord jesus, you
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Are still in the flesh. you are still in a human body, you are
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Still... you still have a human mind. the spirit of god comes
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In to take residence in your life. the spirit of the living
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Christ is now in you, but that doesn't mean that you cease to
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Deal with the flesh and the desires and your own humanity.
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And in fact, this will be a constant struggle all the days
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Of your life.
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Did you know that the greatest christian that ever lived, in
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My estimation, the apostle paul, struggled with a
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Spiritual battle and with sin itself? what to do when faced
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With temptations and struggles and difficulties. the apostle
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Paul dealt with this. in fact, in romans chapter 7, verse 14
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To 15 he says “for we know that the law is spiritual, but i am
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Of the flesh, sold under sin. for i do not understand my own
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Actions. for i do not do what i want, but i do the very thing
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That i hate.” verse 17: “so now it is no longer i who do it,
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But sin that dwells within me.”
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That's addiction. sin's trying to take over. "for i know that
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Nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh." that's the
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Word... we get our word carnal from that word flesh.
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And one of the first things you need to do if you're dealing
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With addiction is to admit your addiction. it's one of the
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First things you learn, i'm told, at alcoholics anonymous.
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In the first of the twelve steps. now, interestingly
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Enough, the twelve steps of aa are taken originally from a
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Christian program to overcome alcohol and other kinds of
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Addictions. it was a christian program. it's been adapted in
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Recent years. but the first of the steps say, “we admitted we
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Are powerless over alcohol.”
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That's what sin does. sin makes life unmanageable, life
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Out of control. we all have issues and temptations that we
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Deal with, propensities in our lives, stuff that we deal with.
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And even though you're a christian you will continue to
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Fight spiritual battles. in my book unseen i talk about the
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Spiritual battles that we face and the enemy that we face. and
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Overcoming in the power of christ.
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But a spiritual battle, if lost, becomes a spiritual
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Bondage. and there's a big difference in a spiritual
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Battle in which you are struggling and fighting the
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Good fight of faith and spiritual bondage in which you
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Are defeated and now in the prison house, the cage, chained
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By the enemy, a slave to sin, chained by corrupt, carnal
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Forces in your life. the first thing you have to do is to
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Admit that and face that and accept that. away with the lame
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Excuses and the rationalizations. and that word
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Rationalize there's the word lies in there. someone said an
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Excuse is the skin of a reason stuffed with a lie! and the way
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To victory... the way to purity... the way to freedom is
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To begin by saying "i can't defeat this on my own! i've got
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A problem! i'm struggling with this. i must now seek the help
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Of god... the help of jesus christ and of his people.
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Because the good news is we are not, in christ, powerless!
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We are not slaves if we are in christ! we have been set free.
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We just need to learn to live in the victory that christ has
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Given us. you can resist in the name of jesus the world, the
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Flesh, the devil! you can in his name defeat every chain!
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And stop believing the lies that you tell yourself or the
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Lies that the enemy tells you. to begin by saying i am
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Helpless in my own strength. you may be helpless, but i'm
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Here to tell you it's not hopeless! it's not hopeless!
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But you have to be willing to be unchained, to be set free,
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To be made whole, to be healed. because sin is like a disease
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That takes hold of our hearts and our lives.
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Jesus met a man one day at the pool of bethesda in jerusalem.
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In fact when we go to israel and jerusalem we always go to
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The site. it's one of the truly legitimate sites... there are a
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Number of them, but this is surely one of the places, you
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Know, okay, it happened right here! pool of bethesda. and
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There was a saying, a custom amoung the people then that
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When the waters began to stir in this particular pool and
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Maybe they said an angel is stirring it. the first one in
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Gets healed. and so people would go to this pool and...
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And seek healing and help. well, this particular man had
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Been laying their for thirty-eight years! nearly four
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Decades. lame, and every time the waters would stir he would
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Try to get in and couldn't get there fast enough. so for four
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Decades he is there. and one day jesus of nazareth comes by
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And looks at him and singles him out and when he caught his
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Eyes, jesus said, "do you want to be made well?" "what! i've
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Been here for thirty-eight years! why would you ask me do
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I want to get well?"
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Well, i've seen it, you've seen it, too. there are some people
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That really don't want to get well. they get used to their
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Behavior. they get used to their lives the way they are.
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Oh, they may say they want to get well, but they start
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Identifying themselves... "well, i'm just an addict." or
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"i'm just... you know, i'm just a loser." and can actually get
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Comfortable in the sin, can get comfortable in the behavior.
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This man was laying there all these years and jesus wanted
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Him to say, "yes, i want to get well! yes, i want to be healed
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More than anything in my life!" and jesus healed him.
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So the question remains: do you want to get well?
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Sin will keep you longer than you want to stay, will cost you
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More than you want pay, sin and sinful behavior is a chain. in
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Reality the real problem... (listen to me now) my
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Problem...your problem... pride, arrogance,
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Self-sufficiency, that i get to do what i want to do no matter
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What or who it hurts. and when i begin thinking about that the
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Sin, the behavior begins to take over. it can take over
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Your thought life and then it takes over your work life. you
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Can't stop thinking about it. you can't go out anywhere
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Without the chains. you're just walking around with these
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Chains. and the sin or the behavior... the sinful behavior
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Becomes more important than your wife or your husband; it
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Becomes more important than your friends, your family, your
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Kids. it becomes more important than your church and christian
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Believers. it becomes more important than your career...
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Your job, your calling in life. it just takes over! that's
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Chains!
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Now i'm here as your pastor who loves you to warn you, to beg
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With you in the name of jesus to admit your helplessness and
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In faith and trust in the name of jesus to deny yourself and
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In the power of christ stop believing the lies.
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Genesis 3 said, "but the serpent said to the woman, "you
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Will not surely die." lie! it will kill you ultimately! for
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God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened and
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You will be like god, knowing good and evil." the first
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Temptation was not to be ungodly; it was to be godly.
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"you know, god's holding out on you. he doesn't want you to
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Have this pleasure. god... you know, eat this fruit. why not?"
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When a believer begins to say, “i need this forbidden fruit. i
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Want this pleasure. what i want, i have to have, and i'll
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Do anything to get it.” that's when satan is in your head! and
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Sin is in your heart! and chains are on your life! you
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See, satan has programmed your mind to think his way rather
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Than god's way.
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And the only way to learn the difference and to change the
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Pattern of your thinking is, number one... this is how to
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Get unchained... and we're going to be talking this entire
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Series about how to get unchained.
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The number one step, first and foremost, is to discover your
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Identity in christ; who you are in jesus. because you can't say
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If you are in christ, “oh, i'm just an addict” or “i'm just an
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Adulterer” or “i'm just a porn freak”; not if you're in
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Christ. you may be a christian struggling with some of these
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Issues. that's not who you are! you're a new person in jesus
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Christ! you were born to win, to defeat the enemy! you are
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Alive in christ and you can do all things through christ who
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Strengthens you. there's no enemy that can't go down in the
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Name of jesus! if you understand your true identity!
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So stop saying to yourself, “i can't win over this sin, i
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Can't defeat this pattern of behavior”. that's a lie! lie!
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See, most people act out their feelings. their feelings are
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Produced by what they think. so you start thinking the wrong
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Way and you start feeling the wrong way, and ultimately your
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Feelings are acted out. so people start feeling things
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Like, “well, i just don't feel like i love my wife anymore”,
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Or “i've lost that loving feeling for my husband”, or
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“i'm unhappy and i need pleasure”, or “i'm down; i need
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Something to get me up”, or “i'm up; i need something to
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Calm me down”. and the pattern of thinking and feeling and
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Acting is repeated again and again. why? because jesus said,
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“satan is the father of lies.” when he lies, he speaks of his
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Own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies. jesus
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Said in john 10: “satan is a thief whose only purpose is to
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Steal, kill and destroy.”
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So it begins, you have an understanding you have an
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Enemy, admitting your personal failure, your inability to help
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Yourself apart from the power of christ, and then in a
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Relationship with jesus, you know that you have the power in
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Christ... you have a new identity, you have a new name,
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You have a new nature, you are not helpless in the power of
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Christ!
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I'm going to wrap it up today with a scripture that i think
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Will shed the light you need. galatians 5:16 to 24...
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Galatians 5:16-24:
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16) but i say, walk by the spirit, and you will not
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Gratify the desires of the... the flesh.(the carnate) 17) for
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The desires of the flesh are against the spirit, (there's
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The spiritual battle that paul talked about.) and the desires
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Of the spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to
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Each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to
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Do. 18) but if you are led by the spirit, you are not under
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The law. (
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That is the power of judgment under the law. and then verse
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19. how's this for an addictive list?
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19) now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality,
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Impurity, sensuality, 20) idolatry, sorcery,(greek word
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Is pharmakeia which can mean drugs) enmity, strife,
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Jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions,
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Divisions, 21) envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things
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Like these. i warn you, as i warned you before, that those
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Who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of god. 22)
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But the fruit of the spirit (god's spirit) is love and joy
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And peace and patience and kindness, gentleness,
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Faithfulness, 23) self-control; against such things there is no
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Law.
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Why? because there is no law. this is the power of christ.
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This is the power of his love.
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24) and those who belong to christ jesus have crucified the
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Flesh with its passions and desires.
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Look, there's only one thing to do with our flesh, and that's
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To crucify it. you can't modify it, change it externally. the
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Flesh, you can't... you know, you can decorate it, make it
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Look better, but if you're an alcoholic and you can't control
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The alcohol, whether you're a bum on the street... a homeless
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Person on the street or you're sitting in church wearing a
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Three thousand dollar suit. you're under the power of
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Something else and you need to be changed from the inside. not
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By decorating it and just looking good.
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You know, i've know people to get in accountability groups.
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Did you know that being in accountability groups, you can
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Lie right through your teeth to your accountability partners,
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And sometimes accountability is nothing but managed sin. so you
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Can do all the right things on the outside... the external
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Things; that never changes anything. the way to overcome
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The desires of the flesh and the addictions of the soul and
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The body is by the holy spirit. you do it by starving the flesh
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And feeding the spirit. if you feed the flesh, guess what
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Happens. you want more and more and more, and you starve the
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Work of the holy spirit. but when you feed the spirit in
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Prayer, in the... in the word of god, in the praise and the
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Worship of jesus christ and in the fellowship of god's
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People... genuine, authentic accountability. when... when
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You are walking in the word and walking in the spirit, then you
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Start winning spiritual battles and peeling back the darkness
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And you live, not in defeat, but you live in victory in
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Jesus christ! that's a promise!
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It's not just promising to be better, trying harder. it's
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Like... you know that'd be like being on a treadmill. you know,
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You're on this treadmill, you're running, you're running,
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You're running, harder, harder, harder, harder. and you finally
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Get off the treadmill, but you find out you're still in
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Prison... you're still in the cage. when you stop believing
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The lies satan tells you, the lies your friends tell you, the
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Lies that culture tells you, the lies you tell yourself, and
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Believing in the truth and jesus christ, that's when
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You'll be free!
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♪♪♪
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Hello, everyone. pastor jack graham here, and i want to
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Personally invite you to join me for something very special.
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It's the patriot tour to washington, dc, april 22nd
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Through 27th, 2026. as we celebrate the 250th birthday of
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The united states, we're going to visit some of the most
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Powerful and historic places in our nation's capital, like the
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Monuments, mount vernon, and the museum of the bible.
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This won't be just a tour. it will be a spiritual journey,
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Really. i'll be opening god's word along the way, teaching us
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About the spiritual foundations, the biblical
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Foundations of our nation, and the hope that we have for the
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Future. so registration is now open, and i'd love for you to
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Jack Graham - Breaking Free From Addiction

November 9, 2025 | 29:30

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