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YOU ARE TRYING TO ( ESCAPE FROM REASON ) I HAVE CHRISTIAN PROGRESSIVE QUESTIONS THAT WILL TAKE YOU OUT OF ADDICTION QUESTION #1 AS FOLLOWS:; 1.WHAT DO YOU KNOW FOR CERTAIN AND HOW DO YOU KNOW IT.
Gosh I’m listening and I’m just searching for something of GOD JESUS encourage me to reach my son he’s experiencing some withdrawal symptoms from drugs I must reach him through Jesus Christ this message is for him and I as well as to renew my faith in CHRIST
I had a supernatural experience where God just shut it off, instantly, like a light switch. Years after begging for deliverance and then turning around and continuing to do what i'm so desperate to be delivered from. I was as they say riding the fence. And he spat me out. My life unraveled like a snag on a sweater. But it was the best thing that ever happened to me. It humbled me in a way that only God can do. I have very little to no pride anymore. I thank God for every thing in my life and praise him even if it's just getting thru the day. Because i know i can't even do that without him. I will never feel worthy for his grace and mercy but i'm so very grateful he loves me.
I am an agnostic drug/alcohol addict with a Christian background/upbringing- your videos are very helpful to me- I’m not sure what the future holds but I really appreciate your words and you’ve made me think about so many things- thank you
unknown to you, your addiction is an ( escape from reason ) I HAVE CHRISTIAN PROGRESSIVE QUESTION THAT WILL LEAD YOU OUT OF ADDICTION, CONTACT ME, REPLY FIRST QUESTION IS AS FOLLOWS: 1. WHAT DO YOU KNOW FOR CERTAIN AND HOW DO YOU KNOW IT?
I pray that the Lord frees you of all bondage and leads you to Himself, granting you repentance and leading you to a knowledge of the truth so that you may be set free and can glorify Him for all time. In Jesus' name, amen. If you need to talk about anything feel free to message me. God bless you.
@@whome4427 , NO, NOT y-o-u! Epistemology. GOD Is and HE has Said so; period. What is "Christian progressive question"? We have The Faith Once and For All Delivered to †he Saints. What you are saying seems seriously flawed. How do you know GOD and how do you become right with GOD? How is one Saved?
Thank you Apologia Studios. The world needs more people like you. Y’all have impacted my life in many aspects. Mr. Durbin is truly being used by God. Amen and Amen!!
Thank you Pastor Durbin!! I've been binging on your videos and it's been such a blessing to me!! And I've gotta share this one for sure.. thank you!!! May God continue to Bless you and Bless the world with your gift of bringing the truth and the light!
I am right now going through the detox process to get myself clean and live a better life. I almost want to give up because that would be the easy way out. But you have given me the strength to keep on going and get the life I deserve. Because I deserve to live a fentanyl free life. I want it so bad that now after listening to you and having God I'm my corner I know I can do it. It is so hard but I know I can and will do it. People are doubting me but they will see that I can do it and maybe I will give someone else hope and the need to get clean. If I can do it I know anyone can do it. Thank you for this video. Thank you for reminding me that God loves me and is with me through all of this. He wouldn't give me more than I can handle. God does not look at me poorly for what I have been doing. He has loved me through all of it.
What a witness of Christ gospel. His way the truth and life through Jesus to the father. Right on Jeff with giving God the glory. That’s the straight truth about self before giving all to the lord. Amen for the word of hope. Great sermon Jeff!
Due to shame and fear and Hurt i went back to what I had left behind 7 and a half years before not because I wanted to but because I was punishing myself! I'm not trying to come back to Jesus! What I'm afraid of is that I will just end up with going church but not having a life or a career! Please pray that God will bless me and that i find victory in Jesus!
Thank you thank you thank you for speaking about pp the twelve step etc subject. I just got my certification in Addiction Recovery. There are very few jobs here for this. My same opinion is going to be very difficult but I cannot accept once an addict always an addict. I recovered from opiate addiction but I am not not was I ever an addict. I am and was still a child of God. He never said my identity is addict. I can't work in this job bc I have to support and recommend the step programs. I shared about this same thing on a TH-cam video. Your message was very encouraging. I don't feel alone now in what you shared. I may not be accepted in the recovery programs circles. But the true and full gospel must continue to be shared. Paid or not. It's time for me to speak up for truth, not what others want me to say. It's not about me but sharing the gospel. Jesus. Thank you. Jesus has used your words Hi, my name is Sandi. I am not an addict.
I'm walking into the same dilemma currently. I've been picked to run a recovery house for a friend's nonprofit. They want the men attending meetings and doing the 12 steps with a sponsor. I'm not sure right now where God is leading me, but I know that 12 step programs aren't the answer. I watch people relapse over and over again. The disease model is what the medical industry came up with years ago and utilizes to diagnose and medicate things outside of their particular field of study. It's not true or accurate. It's a lie, ultimately. Neurologist paint a very different about what's happening in the brain when people abuse drugs and alcohol than the cop out of just suffering from a disease which has no cure. Nonsense! No one was born to search out a bottle or bag of dope and abuse it. That's completely asinine. Anyway, I'm encouraged by what you've expressed here. Thanks for sharing it.
Thanks! I pray today you (pastor Jeff) too are staying away from alcohol.... we don’t need it... I work at a mission and see the results of only one drink till thee next... Shalom ☝️
Great sermon Jeff and testimony. Listen to sermon like this gets me fired up for the lord! I believe people have heard this and turn to the lord for salvation. Just have to say yea that’s what, and why Jesus was sent to you and all of us to save us and give hope, peace, and joy. So we can overcome worshiping God’s, material idols.To understand that we are last and the one and only God is first. James 4:8 draw near to God and he will draw near to you. John 14:27
When I played Bass in a band and started taking E'z we took 5 every other night for the first year and drink and hash. You definitely got a bad E. We never hydrated with water it was beer & wine dope and 5 E'z. Glad you got straight it took me a long time 👍👍
Wowww powerful life changing sermon, pastor. God bless you. May he keep you, your ministry and family in perfect peace. Keep up God's work. God bless. Much love
How are you doing Ashley? I hope you are in a good church or listening to Pastor Jeff regularly. Also, make sure you are talking to God everyday! Sometimes he’s the only one available to talk to and he does that for a reason. He wants us to rely on HIM alone. I’m also talking to myself here. Sometimes I feel the same way, I just need to talk to someone and somehow things will be better but in reality only God can heal us. He does give us people and ways of healing on this earth but just pray about it and give it all to Jesus! You can make sure you are eating good nourishing food (God’s Pharmacy) and cleaning out your colon is very important!! Our colon is so long and things get stuck in there which causes problems if it doesn’t get digested and eliminated fairly quickly. You can do colonics, epsom salt baths, exercise. God gave us bodies that move so if you can, get outside and look at the beauty all around that He graciously gives us! I need to do this too! He says everywhere in his word, “look at Me, trust in Me, seek Me, and I will give you the desires of your heart!” 💗💗
And when I turned to God.and found a church confessed my addiction to my pastor the loved me did not judge me. I had no desire to be high while at church . my pastor wanted to have a meeting with me once a week for extra council about anything , bible study on Wednesday " church on Sunday. And i shed my desire to do drugs because it was what God added to my life not what I had to give up.
please Abba father bring someone to agreement with me i want to be set free of addiction and sex once anf for all all my chains will break in the mightiest name Jesus Christ
Now this guy said that God was blessing his martial arts business yet when I first became a Christian and they found out that I have done Jujitsu for years they told me that I needed to be delivered from it because it's all involved with eastern religion and they prayed over me and told me that I had to repent of it!
How do I find this fellowship and recovery locally? I'm in New Orleans and very interested in the pure Gospel for alcohol and opiate abuse. AA feels empty and void. Also Christians become persecuted and hated within the AA community
When people ask me how am I so sure that Jesus was resurrected, I simply say because He lives within me. Those can be empty words to a nonbeliever who just met me on the street or at work,,, But those who knew me before and after saw that I was decrepit, depraved, perverted, lustful, racist, arrogant, selfish, pitiful and evil man. The changing of my callous heart from rock to flesh is more of a miracle than the creation of the universe itself. Take that to the bank.
Heather Marie what do you mean. Grace and Truth are found in JESUS CHRIST. By Repenting of self n sin and Actively Trusting in CHRIST JESUS, The GOD MAN, and What HE Accomplished on behalf of HIS People, one IS Saved!!!†!!!
Yes, no one is; unless GOD Breaks into their life and Draws us to The HOLY SON, and if HE Does, CHRIST Will Raise Us Up in Glory on the Last Day!!!†!!!
IF stopping drinking alcohol and stopping drugs would save you, then Jesus died in vain. Galatians 2;21. Nothing we do or do not do can save us. Jesus paid it all and we paid 0. John 3:18. What happens to believers, saved sinners who live in sin? The wrath of God comes on them to chasten us. Colossians 3:5-6. Never loss of eternal life. First John 5:13. First John 2:2. Acts 16:31. Second Corinthians 9:13. Thanks be to God for His unspeakable gift. Eternal life. No one can earn it. Jeff, have you ever accepted the free gift of eternal life, or do you believe you are chosen by God to be saved but are not saved? God saves those who accept Jesus payment for all our sin. John 3:18. John 12:32. First Timothy 2:4.
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As a Christian who has struggled with addiction I rewatch this testimony a lot. I'm grateful to Jeff for being open and vulnerable. It helps my walk
This is a great message because I am in battle with alcohol, but my Lord Jesus even takes the sick and broken. Thank you pastor for this sermon
YOU ARE TRYING TO ( ESCAPE FROM REASON ) I HAVE CHRISTIAN PROGRESSIVE QUESTIONS THAT WILL TAKE YOU OUT OF ADDICTION
QUESTION #1 AS FOLLOWS:;
1.WHAT DO YOU KNOW FOR CERTAIN AND HOW DO YOU KNOW IT.
look at how God's strength can be made perfect in a man's weakness. Hallelujah
amen paul
Gosh I’m listening and I’m just searching for something of GOD JESUS encourage me to reach my son he’s experiencing some withdrawal symptoms from drugs I must reach him through Jesus Christ this message is for him and I as well as to renew my faith in CHRIST
I love listening to this truth. Definitely the holy spirit at work here.
I had a supernatural experience where God just shut it off, instantly, like a light switch. Years after begging for deliverance and then turning around and continuing to do what i'm so desperate to be delivered from. I was as they say riding the fence. And he spat me out. My life unraveled like a snag on a sweater. But it was the best thing that ever happened to me. It humbled me in a way that only God can do. I have very little to no pride anymore. I thank God for every thing in my life and praise him even if it's just getting thru the day. Because i know i can't even do that without him. I will never feel worthy for his grace and mercy but i'm so very grateful he loves me.
God bless your ministries 🙏
"God, please don't kill me yet just destroy my life" What an honest cry for grace and mercy
I am an agnostic drug/alcohol addict with a Christian background/upbringing- your videos are very helpful to me- I’m not sure what the future holds but I really appreciate your words and you’ve made me think about so many things- thank you
unknown to you,
your addiction is an ( escape from reason ) I HAVE CHRISTIAN PROGRESSIVE QUESTION THAT WILL LEAD YOU OUT OF ADDICTION, CONTACT ME, REPLY
FIRST QUESTION IS AS FOLLOWS:
1. WHAT DO YOU KNOW FOR CERTAIN AND HOW DO YOU KNOW IT?
I pray that the Lord frees you of all bondage and leads you to Himself, granting you repentance and leading you to a knowledge of the truth so that you may be set free and can glorify Him for all time. In Jesus' name, amen.
If you need to talk about anything feel free to message me. God bless you.
@@whome4427 , NO, NOT y-o-u! Epistemology. GOD Is and HE has Said so; period. What is "Christian progressive question"? We have The Faith Once and For All Delivered to †he Saints. What you are saying seems seriously flawed. How do you know GOD and how do you become right with GOD? How is one Saved?
Thank you Apologia Studios. The world needs more people like you. Y’all have impacted my life in many aspects. Mr. Durbin is truly being used by God. Amen and Amen!!
Thank you Pastor Durbin!! I've been binging on your videos and it's been such a blessing to me!! And I've gotta share this one for sure.. thank you!!! May God continue to Bless you and Bless the world with your gift of bringing the truth and the light!
🙏🙏🙏
I am right now going through the detox process to get myself clean and live a better life. I almost want to give up because that would be the easy way out. But you have given me the strength to keep on going and get the life I deserve. Because I deserve to live a fentanyl free life. I want it so bad that now after listening to you and having God I'm my corner I know I can do it. It is so hard but I know I can and will do it. People are doubting me but they will see that I can do it and maybe I will give someone else hope and the need to get clean. If I can do it I know anyone can do it. Thank you for this video. Thank you for reminding me that God loves me and is with me through all of this. He wouldn't give me more than I can handle. God does not look at me poorly for what I have been doing. He has loved me through all of it.
I pray you're clean and sober and in christ
What a witness of Christ gospel. His way the truth and life through Jesus to the father. Right on Jeff with giving God the glory. That’s the straight truth about self before giving all to the lord. Amen for the word of hope. Great sermon Jeff!
Due to shame and fear and Hurt i went back to what I had left behind 7 and a half years before not because I wanted to but because I was punishing myself! I'm not trying to come back to Jesus! What I'm afraid of is that I will just end up with going church but not having a life or a career! Please pray that God will bless me and that i find victory in Jesus!
Thank you thank you thank you for speaking about pp the twelve step etc subject. I just got my certification in Addiction Recovery. There are very few jobs here for this. My same opinion is going to be very difficult but I cannot accept once an addict always an addict. I recovered from opiate addiction but I am not not was I ever an addict. I am and was still a child of God. He never said my identity is addict. I can't work in this job bc I have to support and recommend the step programs. I shared about this same thing on a TH-cam video.
Your message was very encouraging. I don't feel alone now in what you shared.
I may not be accepted in the recovery programs circles. But the true and full gospel must continue to be shared. Paid or not.
It's time for me to speak up for truth, not what others want me to say. It's not about me but sharing the gospel. Jesus.
Thank you. Jesus has used your words
Hi, my name is Sandi. I am not an addict.
I'm walking into the same dilemma currently. I've been picked to run a recovery house for a friend's nonprofit. They want the men attending meetings and doing the 12 steps with a sponsor. I'm not sure right now where God is leading me, but I know that 12 step programs aren't the answer. I watch people relapse over and over again. The disease model is what the medical industry came up with years ago and utilizes to diagnose and medicate things outside of their particular field of study. It's not true or accurate. It's a lie, ultimately. Neurologist paint a very different about what's happening in the brain when people abuse drugs and alcohol than the cop out of just suffering from a disease which has no cure. Nonsense! No one was born to search out a bottle or bag of dope and abuse it. That's completely asinine. Anyway, I'm encouraged by what you've expressed here. Thanks for sharing it.
Thanks!
I pray today you (pastor Jeff) too are staying away from alcohol.... we don’t need it...
I work at a mission and see the results of only one drink till thee next...
Shalom ☝️
Powerful testimony. God is willing and mighty to save.
Great sermon Jeff and testimony. Listen to sermon like this gets me fired up for the lord! I believe people have heard this and turn to the lord for salvation. Just have to say yea that’s what, and why Jesus was sent to you and all of us to save us and give hope, peace, and joy. So we can overcome worshiping God’s, material idols.To understand that we are last and the one and only God is first. James 4:8 draw near to God and he will draw near to you. John 14:27
This is so similar to my life before salvation. Thank you for your sermons brother
When I played Bass in a band and started taking E'z we took 5 every other night for the first year and drink and hash. You definitely got a bad E. We never hydrated with water it was beer & wine dope and 5 E'z.
Glad you got straight it took me a long time 👍👍
12 years clean from booze and pills
Thanks for sharing your testimony.
I pray in jesus name for kevin m. May he be healed off his drug addiction amen thank you x
Wowww powerful life changing sermon, pastor. God bless you. May he keep you, your ministry and family in perfect peace. Keep up God's work. God bless. Much love
I need someone physical to talk to now..going through heroine withdrawal...i don't want to be this person anymore.
ashley smith hope you are doing well, be strong, I will ask Jesus to help you
How are you doing Ashley? I hope you are in a good church or listening to Pastor Jeff regularly. Also, make sure you are talking to God everyday! Sometimes he’s the only one available to talk to and he does that for a reason. He wants us to rely on HIM alone. I’m also talking to myself here. Sometimes I feel the same way, I just need to talk to someone and somehow things will be better but in reality only God can heal us. He does give us people and ways of healing on this earth but just pray about it and give it all to Jesus! You can make sure you are eating good nourishing food (God’s Pharmacy) and cleaning out your colon is very important!! Our colon is so long and things get stuck in there which causes problems if it doesn’t get digested and eliminated fairly quickly. You can do colonics, epsom salt baths, exercise. God gave us bodies that move so if you can, get outside and look at the beauty all around that He graciously gives us! I need to do this too! He says everywhere in his word, “look at Me, trust in Me, seek Me, and I will give you the desires of your heart!” 💗💗
How are you doing today?
Thank you
And when I turned to God.and found a church confessed my addiction to my pastor the loved me did not judge me. I had no desire to be high while at church . my pastor wanted to have a meeting with me once a week for extra council about anything , bible study on Wednesday " church on Sunday. And i shed my desire to do drugs because it was what God added to my life not what I had to give up.
Meant to say . they loved me and did not judge me .
So Powerful and Touching!
How did this only get 500 likes?? Amazing testimony thank you Jeff
The Gospel of Jesus . Amen 🙏❤️🌹
please Abba father bring someone to agreement with me i want to be set free of addiction and sex once anf for all all my chains will break in the mightiest name Jesus Christ
I’m in agreement with you IJN
Awesome testimony bro!!!
Amen!
Now this guy said that God was blessing his martial arts business yet when I first became a Christian and they found out that I have done Jujitsu for years they told me that I needed to be delivered from it because it's all involved with eastern religion and they prayed over me and told me that I had to repent of it!
Great video
Nice Video!
How do I find this fellowship and recovery locally? I'm in New Orleans and very interested in the pure Gospel for alcohol and opiate abuse. AA feels empty and void. Also Christians become persecuted and hated within the AA community
When people ask me how am I so sure that Jesus was resurrected, I simply say because He lives within me.
Those can be empty words to a nonbeliever who just met me on the street or at work,,,
But those who knew me before and after saw that I was decrepit, depraved, perverted, lustful, racist, arrogant, selfish, pitiful and evil man. The changing of my callous heart from rock to flesh is more of a miracle than the creation of the universe itself. Take that to the bank.
What's nane of his church
Apologia Church
Just not ready to give up my life yet
His laws are the giver of life!
Heather Marie what do you mean. Grace and Truth are found in JESUS CHRIST. By Repenting of self n sin and Actively Trusting in CHRIST JESUS, The GOD MAN, and What HE Accomplished on behalf of HIS People, one IS Saved!!!†!!!
Yes, no one is; unless GOD Breaks into their life and Draws us to The HOLY SON, and if HE Does, CHRIST Will Raise Us Up in Glory on the Last Day!!!†!!!
WOW!
God is good... USAF fights the prince and power of the air ?
IF stopping drinking alcohol and stopping drugs would save you, then Jesus died in vain. Galatians 2;21.
Nothing we do or do not do can save us. Jesus paid it all and we paid 0. John 3:18. What happens to believers, saved sinners who live in sin? The wrath of God comes on them to chasten us. Colossians 3:5-6. Never loss of eternal life. First John 5:13. First John 2:2. Acts 16:31.
Second Corinthians 9:13. Thanks be to God for His unspeakable gift. Eternal life. No one can earn it.
Jeff, have you ever accepted the free gift of eternal life, or do you believe you are chosen by God to be saved but are not saved? God saves those who accept Jesus payment for all our sin. John 3:18. John 12:32. First Timothy 2:4.
Apologia should plant a church in Chicago. This city is riddled with addicts and false theology.
Tooth decay . Drugs n alcohol being broke bad company
Jeff I gotta say first off ya ur blue jacket does seem kinda tight. LOL jk. GREAT message!!!
0 young faces.....sad
Thank you