In most recovery
programs, step programs anyway,
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is the first five steps.
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The first five steps will
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help you see who God is.
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Step one in most recovery
programs say I am powerless.
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I can't even do this anymore.
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I can't change anything
and I'm hopelessly strung out.
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I'm hopelessly defective
and so you come into a recovery
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program in that way.
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The Bible says that you
come to God in that way.
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It is the same thing.
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The next step says that I
have finally come to believe
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that there is a God that
can restore me to sanity.
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When I first heard
that, I wept like a baby.
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I have never been
sane, my family's not sane,
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where are all addicts.
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People my family die of
liver disease and cancers
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because of their addictions.
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So I am not saying lightweight
addicts, we are a mess.
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So what I found out
there is a God they can restore
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me to sanity I was thrilled.
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In step 3, 4, and 5 they talk
about looking at your stuff,
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and looking at your character
defects, looking at just who
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you actually are and
being able to share that
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with God and someone else.
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Most of the time we get to
that point and as addicts we
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are going poof, man,
that was a lot of work.
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We think we are done.
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I want to say we are not
done, that is just the first
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part of it.
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Step 6 is a turning
point in your recovery program.
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Step 6 says I'm
entirely ready to have God
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remove all
these defects from me.
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So I see who God is, I see
that I am powerless, I see my
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stuff and now I am entirely
ready to have God remove that.
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That is where we
have been in this program.
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How do we do that?
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What is really cool is
that God gives us this gift.
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The gift is the most
incredible gift that I am given
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the character of God,
the righteousness of God,
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through the Holy
Spirit Christ abides in me.
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When I feel like
lying, and I do a lot.
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You know to me, my
nature comes up a lot.
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You know Ken, you
were saying the old man,
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the old man jumps up a lot.
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Each time I am
starting to recognize it.
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I think the Holy Spirit has
a little bell that goes off.
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Okay, that's him, but
I'm starting to recognize it.
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During that time I can
say to God, you know what God?
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I know that You are not a
liar so right now can I please
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have You take over right now
and show me what it feels like
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to respond to the
situation more honestly.
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Let me feel what it
feels like to not be a liar.
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I don't know what that means,
and you know what God says?
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Absolutely! Thank
you for asking Me.
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You are new, let
this old guy die.
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Let Me raise the baby up,
because the baby is not a liar.
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Do you know what I mean?
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God didn't give us an old
nature, He gave us a new nature.
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The same with sexual sins.
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If I'm going to struggle
with porn addictions or sex
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addictions, temptations
in those kind of ways.
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Those are
incredibly intense addictions.
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We will never, in our own
strength, be able to fight them.
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I can say wait, wait, wait.
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I am new in
Christ, I am dead to that.
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I can step over here and say
God show me what it feels like
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to respond in a healthier
way to the people around me.
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To my own junk.
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Show me how to
respond in a different way.
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Show me how not to
get carried away sexually.
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Not to get trapped in
that sexual addiction, or drug
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addiction, or workaholic,
or rage, or any of that.
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You know what God says?
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Absolutely! And I love that.
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All of heaven, I think
the only time that they get
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excited is when we finally ask.
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They all say the same thing,
absolutely, what ever you need
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right now we will do for you.
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There is going to be a
time in your life that you will
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ask enough to
have God show us what
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it feels like to be honest.
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What it feels
like to have integrity.
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What it feels like
not to get tripped up.
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And pretty soon I'm in a
situation, where I always tend
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to lie in, and I can
hear myself tell the truth.
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I want to stop and
say, Did anyone hear that?
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Are you kidding me?
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And I'm excited
because I just did it.
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Well, I didn't do anything,
I was just nurtured by God.
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I was just taught by God.
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What is really cool about
that whole thing is that it
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feels good to not be in
bondage to all that junk.
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It feels good to
have this old guy dead.
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I don't want to be a liar.
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I don't want to
be a manipulator.
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I don't want to be
strung out on heroine.
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I do not want to
not be trustworthy.
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God just says I'm going to
teach you all those things.
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I think, Amen!
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We are new, you do not
have to have the same desires
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anymore, let the old guy die.
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Over time you will change
and other people are going
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to see your changes and
they are going to go wow.
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You will not see it at
first, but there is going to be
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change, and
growth, and development.
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It is amazing, bye, this is
it until we see you next time.
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Always remember that God
is crazy about you, me too.
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