Breaking Bad Habits

Sermon Series: Power to Change
January 28, 2024
Phil Chorlian

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Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you. (James 1:21)

So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me.22 For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; 23 but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? 25 Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord! (Romans 7:21-25)

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I. Lies that

our addictions:

A. I can ease the

by getting my fix.

B. Any

to your addiction is a threat to you.

C. There is

out.

… for though the righteous fall seven times, they rise again, but the wicked stumble when calamity strikes. —Proverbs 24:16

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II. How do we get

?

A. Put

first.

I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. 3 “You shall have no other gods before me.” —Exodus 20:2-3

B. Learn to say

to the flesh.

Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. —Galatians 5:24

C. Go

with Jesus.