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The Most Excellent Way
Personal blog posted by Lahry Sibley on February 9, 2010 at 7:04am
THE MOST EXCELLENT WAY
I have some friends, maybe not any longer, I do not know, who have been set free from drug use. By their own testimony, they say they have been free from drugs for 5 years and 2 years respectively. Oh how I do praise the Lord for this miracle. They are really sweet people, and they have a passion for helping others get set free, as it should be. Amen. They are both involved in teaching a program called “The Most Excellent Way”. It is a Bible based 10 step program for deliverance from drugs and alcohol addictions.
The Most Excellent Way is a great program. The steps are sound. But if the program only sets one free from drugs and alcohol, what good is it? What about other sins in a person’s life? These folks know drug and alcohol addiction first hand, and they know how difficult it is to be set free from drugs and alcohol. So I have a question. Is not the same power that sets one free from these same addictions able to set you free from all the other sin in one's life?
The other side of this is that a person can go straight to hell drug and alcohol free. So if The Most Excellent Way program only helps with drugs and alcohol, what good is it? If we tell others directly or by inference that God can set one free from drugs and alcohol but not the rest of the sin in your life, what good is it? Do you think for a minute that unsaved people can't see through that?
Repent does not mean just turn away from drugs and alcohol. It means turn away from ALL sin. Does this make one perfect? Absolutely, if your life is hidden in Christ Jesus. Before your life can be hidden in Christ Jesus, it must have it's sins washed away, ALL of them. God will not cohabitate with our sins. Obedience is a choice we all can make with God's power working in us. Look at what Paul said....
1Co 1:18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
So now I have to ask, is this preaching of the cross that I am laboring to present foolishness or power to you? One simply cannot have it both ways anymore than you can serve two masters. A master owns all of you, not just part of you. Non-allegance to your master results in death. You will either live with Christ’s death or die your own death. Whether it is with or without alcohol and drug addiction matters not. One is either dead to sin, or still alive in it. You cannot be dead and alive at the same time. To be alive in Christ we must first be dead to sin and the sin nature. That happens when we present ourselves as living sacrifices to the cross by faith. That, according to Paul in Romans 12 is holy and acceptable unto God. Nothing else is acceptable. Nothing! Nothing we can do. Nothing.
Oh I hope and pray that there is an anointing on this for you to see this. - Lahry
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