The Biblical Importance of Living SOBER
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ม.ค. 2023
- When we think of the word “sober,” we often equate it solely with describing a person who has substance abuse issues, specifically alcohol. We think of sobriety only from a view of someone who is not drunk or intoxicated.
But from a biblical perspective, there is so much more to what living sober means. Sobriety has a lot to do with being calm, alert, watchful, awake and aware. It is the position we need to maintain as we walk our daily journey and fight through the battles we face.
Yet many thought patterns we live in take us out of sobriety on rabbit trails that distract us from what we need to see. Some lose their sobriety by living in denial, avoidance, defensiveness and pride. While others have their sobriety stolen by obsessions, despair, catastrophizing and hopelessness.
Today, I want to bring a call of sobriety, so we can see our lives the way we need to see them and take effective steps in our daily battles. I will define biblical sobriety and help you to take it back for your mental, emotional and spiritual effectiveness.
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“So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.”
John 8:36 NASB1995
I want to add something. If I have learned 1 thing from my walk with Christ is that obediance to the gentle guidance of the Holy Spirit is VERY important. You can usually tell its Him when the flesh rises up real bad and doesn't want to do it. That's when you know that's what you need to do. 99% of it is just following orders and showing up. God takes care of the rest.
Amen! This is so true!
YES
Your battles matter bcoz what you overcome will become a blessing for others to receive.........wow such a sobering reality
YES!!! So encouraging for me. I wrote a similar comment to yours on that part! ❤️
Bam!!Right on!🙌👊
16:00-17:40 “Your life matters. Your battle matters. Yes, YOU.” 😭 Others NEED what I’m going through?! Those words went straight to my heart like an arrow that jolts you back into sobriety. I need them so much. Thank you so much beyond words, my dear brother!!! 😭
AMEN
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So powerful that I’m pausing right at this part for at least a day to marinade before I resume listening.
Well put Mark! 👏 I could never find the words before. When you go up in exhortation I go down in disqualification. My flesh just says "To go up is too exhausting." 😆 🤣 I do believe the promises of God though. How He is going to finish His work in me. Probably going to take more pain to whip this stubborn flesh into gear though. Not quitting really is the most important thing. You're right on the money. I wanted to turn the video off halfway through cuz it felt like an ear-beating but I stuck it through!
Tony, I HEAR you!!! Until hearing some of this video today, I have been really struggling to even want to keep fighting. The internal (and quite possibly satanic?) resistance I’ve met since practicing Mark’s teachings has been intense and EXHAUSTING. You feel like you have nothing left in you to combat the constant screaming lies and pain. For me personally, I now understand experientially what Mark means when he talks about going through withdrawal. The pull of the brain craving the old thought patterns reminds me of a song: “Can someone tell me why old habits won’t just die? It’s like I got two hearts inside one chest. One is beating for the life I’m headed toward; the other wants to drag me to my death.” (Josh Wilson, “House Divided) Oh, but I want to add: I doubt that God is going to “beat you into submission.” Remember how He operates towards His sons. 😊
This is life saving information, Mark. Iit explains a lot and it gives tremendous hope. I can't thank you enough for making this available.
For me sobriety is about being comfortable in my own skin. I'm not there. I'm still my own critic and my own worst enemy. I don't know how to be ok with failure. I've been in treatment on many, many occasions. For me, I want to know that I will do the right things. Prideful fear, fear of failure, lack of patients with self even though I can be patient others. Yeah I know, IT'S A JOURNEY!!! I'm not a fan of the journey.
Clicked this video feeling like I needed a reminder to take every thought captive...only a few minutes in but already feel my mind calming down. Thank you so much Mark for all you do! It's priceless. Keep up the good fight
This is a video that showed up after my dinner time. God’s timing is so perfect. Now I know what sobriety really means and have a better idea of it!
For the chart of the extremes and sobriety, I definitely lean more toward the right but switch to the left whenever I’m dealing with a lot, and getting convicted. This is exactly what happened to me when I dealt with a revelation that hit hardest and I fell into despair. God was telling me to sober up through this video. He loves me too much to let me stay where I am, emotionally, mentally, spiritually and yet physically. Thank you so much Mark for making this video!
Full of truth, but sadly, admonitions to ACTION (have fervent love, be hospitable etc.) feel like BURDENS that trigger performance/perfectionism...and I want to throw in the towel. Guess my foundation of LOVE needs work.
I tend to stay to the right but definitely can't deny that I don't do the left . Especially passive after I spiral.ty mark for this.
Yes same here! You’re not alone. I went thru a spiral not too long ago and went into despair.
I’m so done with unworthiness/false humility! I rebuked it in Jesus’ name on paper and tore it apart! Sobriety after being drunk with false humility. I’m grateful for this video. 🙏
As usual, always a great blessing to connect here and receive the words of grace!
Thank you, brother Mark 🙏
Amazing!
Awesome! Thanks for this helpful content.
Your content is amazing and helping so much❤️
What Katie S pointed out that impacted her.
"There are people out there who need what I am working through. God is teaching me, here's what I'm learning to receive in my life. I don't want to lose my sobriety because there are people out there who need what I am working through. Yes, you. There are people that need what you are learning and growing through, today, right now. That's part of sobriety." -from Mark's episode above.
I call that vision for what is in your future: having a vision for sharing from within a developed and attained context that you are/will work to achieve. AND that remote vision, working to attain a context that is often missing from one's own life - is a vision that must not be utterly disjointed from the present or past - a vision that incorporates some of today's story & development, practical detail, and recognized need and status. And part of the story is also how long it will take & what it will take to journey from your life as it is right now, to the competent, whole, in-context sharer that you desire to become - and you desire your children & grand-children to become in the world - decades hence. A vision for the next 20 - 50 years. THAT is healthy. Begin to dream, and then resolve it within practical goals detail, and then realistic context of one's own development and life story - and make it intergenerational... Make it intergenerational and neighborly (in your hypothetical) despite and against much of what is occurring today. Knowing that you are (or will) find others of like mind down the road that you will THEN have the competency to network with.
This is the problem with leaving a broken family, broken neighborhood or lifestyle, or broken cultic beliefs. Because one has to begin again in so many areas. And there is no pre-prepped society out there in the great yonder prepared to receive & adopt you, that knows what you've been through and will help you heal in person, without exploiting you (or limiting you because they themselves have a very limited messaging/economic niche). So. Put It All Together For Yourself. Conceptually. In your personal life. With/under God. THEN having loved God and healed in limited ways with what's around you, go and love your neighbor. (That's the vision in which I am currently functioning. Most of my friendships wouldn't be able to understand how broken my family was - or how deficient most of the niches & cults are in the world. So, wherein to find adequately competent social circle, when all is considered? It's a work in progress and life doesn't stand still. One must still make money, one must still have SOME prayer and SOME social interaction and SOME exposure to news - bad news puts the good news in context and sharpens perception! One must still develop what one needs to have a good married life, etc, in a timely manner. 😂🤨)
It wasn't until 2015 that I began to have an extremely hazy idea of anything in particular that I would like to develop on the side for myself over the ensuing 20 years, even if it is mostly by myself for most of it with very little interest/help from anyone else. Things that MAY interest others when they are completed, professional, pre-packaged and ready (for example) but in the rough stages are not ready. This includes personal things as well, I now see. These visions of side-projects are not really (for me) side-projects at all, but would be incorporated into the daily vision. It is to provide meaning and context to career and family pursuits. Because what I knew of career and family (what I saw my parents & older sibling do) were dangerously deficient!! So I NEEDED something that was a band-aid but a band-aid that would become more of a healing-balm and then prove to be actually essential (as it developed) to life. (I'm speaking of a worldview curriculum, and a comprehensive developmental paradigm and social infrastructure - among other things! Don't dream small. Dream big, then be practical, then make it accessible & contextualized to your journey.)
A meaningful hobby will provide additional meaningful detail to add to the usual 'career, marriage, house' that also at that time was nearly fill-in-the-blank. God's inter-generational natural creation is near to the heart of Jesus because without it - there would be nobody to 'venture forth' to talk to, share with, have commerce with about anything! So. Yeah. Let's get down, dig down (or up, actually!) to what it's all about! Even if it feels like a descent from whatever hyper-dreaming is out there in the commercial world today. Re-dream. Don't let the Great Reset kill your dream & establish things in your place.
My family really did the opposite of preparing me for well rounded living in a competent family, social, career context - they had their excellences and deficiencies as we all do, only a ton more - of both - than I expected to find in retrospect. They did not pass on any legacy, even when they had much to pass on (in those areas), speaking of my father. They pretended their faults were nonexistent (you know, the usual stuff, in spades). So it has been upon ME (alone) to sort it all out - while everything was being (in every way) DUMPED upon me amidst insufficient loving context.
Mark DeJesus is probably one of the more balanced (and more biblical) commentators who focuses on psychology on TH-cam. I say 'balanced' because of the Narcissism-recovery area of things seems to have taken over more than its fair share (in my opinion). Mark DeJesus has a more varied, biblical-context, realistic take on competent daily living in the inner life. We all need more of this style of coping.
Bring it home, Mark. The church is "not gone" we are simply "journeying" to the competent homefront (where is it?).
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Lots of streeength! Can be done though, AMen
Very helpful teaching! God bless and thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
I like the " sound effects free" videos better 😏( just saying) The teachings are always great 👊 thank you!
I love the sound effects! To each their own!
what about if it is a rebellious Wicked heart from bad habits and all these other issues that you know that there is "evil" you cannot control within and out... And you just yeah feel hopeless because of what you are letting or causing
I really don't know how to trust and relying on someone is impossible. I don't think being alone is such a bad thing.
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How would I be able to get off sleep medicine 💊? That Is constantly causing malaise and anxieties.
This sounds like a lot of work, and I need help not more work for me to do bruh.
Ok, so I'm in both ditches.