Getting out of Prison

Foundations of Bondages

The “Average” Prisoner

Before he committed the Crime, he JUSTIFIED himselfWhen he was sentenced,

expressed remorse – AT GETTING CAUGHT

Life Controlling Addictions

I’m only humanIt won’t hurt anybody

It doesn’t interfere with my life

Example of Alcohol Thine eyes shall behold strange women,

and thine heart shall utter perverse things.

Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.

“They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.”

Proverbs 23

Drunkeness & Gluttony

Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:

For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

Proverbs 23:20-21

Bad Judgment & Hangover

Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?

They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.

Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.

At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.

3 Aspects of Addiction:

Physiological – Serotonin, Dopamine

Psychological – Fills a “NEED”

Spiritual – “Open Door”

Focus on Spiritual Increased Stress

Anger and Bitterness“Unclean” activitiesTemporal Values –

“Hedonic Hypothesis”

Life of SaulPrideful

Independent SpiritBitter and angry

Saul’s Bad MarriageSaul’s anger flared up at Jonathan and he said to him, “You son of a perverse and rebellious woman!”

1 Samuel 20:30

Saul’s Anger at Daughter

“I will give her (his daughter Michal) to him,” he thought, “so that she may be a snare to him…”

Proverbs 18:21

Saul’s Envy against David

Saul was very angry; this refrain displeased him greatly. “They have credited David with tens of thousands,” he thought, “but me with only thousands.

1 Samuel 18:8-9

Envy is PoisonWrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?

Proverbs 27:4

A Troubling Spirit Introduced

Now the Spirit of the Lord had departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord tormented him.

1 Samuel 16:13

Unclean vs. Clean Haggai asks,

If something “Clean” touches something “Unclean”, will the “Unclean” be made “Clean”?

They answer, “No.”

Unclean vs. CleanHaggai asks,

If something “Unclean” touches something “Clean”,

will the “Clean” be made “Unclean”?

They answer, “Yes.”

HedonismA prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.

Proverbs 22:3And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite

Proverbs 23:2

Call for Separation“Come out from them and be separate, says the Lord.Touch no unclean thing,  and I will receive

you.” 2 Corinthians

6:17

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