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How You Know You’ve Become Enslaves to Something

by therev2011

“The same principle applies with any addiction or sin pattern, from pornography to alcohol to pills to work. We become enslaved whenever we seek to salve our pain and heal ourselves with anything other than Christ. We become addicts to sin.”- Rankin Wilbourne

BTW NOTE: This is how you know you’ve made an idol of something

 

Living in Romans 8:28

by therev2011
“If you live inside this massive promise, your life is more solid and stable than Mount Everest. Nothing can blow you over when you are inside the walls of Romans 8:28. Outside of Romans 8:28 all is confusion and anxiety and fear and uncertainty. Outside this promise of all-encompassing passing future grace there are straw houses of drugs and alcohol and numbing TV and dozens of futile diversions. There are slat walls and tin roofs of fragile investment strategies and fleeting insurance coverage and trivial retirement plans. There are cardboard fortifications of deadbolt locks and alarm systems and antiballistic missiles. Outside are a thousand substitutes for Romans 8:28.
Once you walk through the door of love into the massive unshakable structure of Romans 8:28 everything changes. There come into your life stability and depth and freedom. You simply can’t be blown over anymore. The confidence that a sovereign God governs for your good all the pain and all the pleasure that you will ever experience is an incomparable refuge and security and hope and power in your life. [John Piper]”
– Derek W.H. Thomas.