The Slippery Slope of Addiction — Shane Idleman

Gaming to gambling. And I'm gonna give part two of this which is vitally important. Part two on January 2nd. New Year's resolutions are coming and I know there's gonna be a lot of resolutions in this area so I'm gonna tell you how to break free of the strangle of addiction on January 2nd so get friends here family here yourself here and if you need extra help or you know somebody that needs help we've made my book help.

I'm addicted free in the lobby. Just grab a copy or two or three and get it to those who need to hear what God can do in the lives of people who submit to him. And the book is about four and a half hours long so obviously there's a lot more in that than I can give you here.

But it's so important because this is something that we're dealing with in our culture today. Have you read the news about the opiate crisis and the ravage of alcohol during kovat and disease related things because of gluttony.

Addiction as Idolatrous Bondage

And I mean it's just like we are an addicted nation. And God's Word has something to say about being in bondage to something because it's it can be a form of idolatry. If I put anything before God it can become an idolatry.

Now I'll share with you. One of my personal struggles is having Christian crack before my Bible study in the morning. It's it's in a cup. It's black something called Keurig you know kind of makes that.

And Starbucks come on you guys know. So if I have to have that every I can't don't talk to me don't have the kids around me. I don't want to pray first. I can't read the Bible first. I nothing. I have to have this now.

I'm ready. It's addiction. I'm just here to shoot you straight. And it will all addiction in some form another is not meant to be your friend. I didn't read this at the first service and I almost didn't at the second but I think it's important to help start this third service.

It was written. I was told by a young woman who overdosed and died and her family found this in her journal. And I will tell you. I've done a few memorials from this church for those in their 20s who died of heroin.

It's it's it's just a nightmare. This can relate to alcohol marijuana things like that. And they found this in her journal. I destroy homes and the title is the cost of addiction. I destroy homes and tear families apart.

I take your children and that's just the start. I'm more costly than diamonds more costly than gold. The sorrow I bring you is a sight to behold. Just try me once and I might let you go but try me twice and I'll own your soul.

You'll forget your morals and how you were raised. I'll be your conscience. I'll teach you my ways. I'll take and take and take till you have nothing more to give. And when I'm finished with you you'll be lucky to live.

If you try me be warned. This is no game. If given the chance I'll drive you insane. I'll ravish your body. I'll control your mind. I'll own you completely. Your soul will be mine. Your nightmares. The nightmares I'll give you while lying in your bed.

The voices you'll hear from inside your head the sweats the shakes the visions you'll see. I want you to know. These are all gifts from me. Anybody detoxing can relate to that. But then it's too late and you'll know in your heart that you are mine and we shall not part.

You'll regret that you tried me. They always do. But you came to me not I to you. You knew this would happen many times you were told. But you challenged my power and chose to be bold. You could have said no and just walked away.

If you could live that day over now what would you say. I'll be your master. You will be my slave and I'll even go to you when you go to your grave. Now that you have met me what will you do. Will you try me or not.

It's all up to you. I can bring you more misery than words can tell. Come take my hand and let me lead you to hell. This is in the book I mentioned you can get in the foyer. And I know this is apply to some people.

You know if you're addicted to caffeine or sugar it's probably not gonna apply to you know. But it those harder things that begin to really really tax our lives. And any type of an addiction will take you farther than you want to go cost you more than you want to pay and keep you longer than you want to stay.

Noah's Drunkenness and the Consequences of Sin

And so we find ourselves in Genesis 9 verse 20. And Noah began to be a farmer and he planted a vineyard so the ark was in the flood on the floodwaters for about five months or so and I believe it stayed stationary and they lived in it for about seven months on the ark.

And then after that he planted a vineyard. It took some time I'm sure. And so this is who knows how long maybe a decade or so after the flood. And so he planted a vineyard. Then he drank of the wine and was drunk and became uncovered in his tent.

So there was this nakedness that happened in Ham the father of Canaan. Now it's interesting here. Ham is Noah's son but he also adds the father of Canaan and that tells me right there that Ham when they were on the ark didn't have any kids.

So for him to identify Canaan that means he's had a child a child. So this is some time after the ark had landed there on the mountains of Ararat. So Ham saw the nakedness of his father and he told his two brothers outside about the nakedness of his father.

Now this is interesting because commentaries are divided. Nobody really knows uncovering a person's nakedness often would would mean sexual relationships. In the Old Testament however if you keep reading verse 23 but Shem and Japheth the two sons that did was right what was right took a garment and they laid it on their shoulders and what they did is they walked backwards and they didn't look at their father's nakedness.

They covered the father's nakedness. So some because of the language and different I mean if you get somebody who's a Hebrew student that they can really unpack it. They would even say that this son mocked their father was just was was kind of belittling and making fun of his father.

Look at this look at what he's done and he uncovered his nakedness. Maybe he maybe he did something and and so we don't know exactly but we do know that it brought some wrath from the father and so Noah awoke awoke from his wine and knew that his younger son had what his younger son had done to him again.

We don't know exactly what he had done. But then he said curse be Canaan. Notice he didn't say curse be ham the son he actually went to the grandchild. And Canaan is actually the Canaanites. You've heard that as we're going through the Old Testament the land of Canaan flowing with milk and honey the promised land.

And so we see that's descendants here of ham but curse be Canaan. And how is Canaan going to be cursed in a nutshell he's gonna have to serve the other two brothers especially in the Jewish culture that the firstborn or the heir of everything and they were elevated they were they were up here and to be so be serving your brothers is actually a curse.

It's a curse on Canaan for doing that to Noah and it really should have been on ham. But we see here the sins of the father affect the family. How many of us can shake our heads to that. Don't worry wives I'm not done yet.

The sins of the parents can really affect the children and what we're seeing. And then one of the things that I'm concerned about really is with with now a new variant here we go again. You know it's in the fear that many people are instilling in their children that at a fear at a very young age and they're gone.

They're fearing all these things and and the parents are in fear. So the kids are living in fear or addictions or different things that can really be passed down to our children. And so the the children the grandchildren the great-grandchildren of ham we're gonna pay the price of their father's sin.

Now I need to clarify because it does come up. I don't use the terminology generational curses. The reason is now if you talk to people who do we're kind of saying the same thing. It's not like something way out there it's I just don't use that because it would be like telling somebody well you're cursed because of your great-great-grandfather.

Sorry buddy you there's a curse God's curses on you. But what we do know is that because in the Old Testament that was the case for many from for millennial if a father did something for example Akin took the things from the city of Jericho and they had to stone his whole family.

Can you imagine stoning little children or when the ground was swallowed up when they challenged Moses authority and the man in his whole household or they'll take the man in his household there was always that identity.

The sins of the father were passed down to the children. But then in Ezekiel and other places that are taught no longer God says well I punish the children for the sins of the father or the father for the sins of the children but each one will be judged based on his own behavior.

And that's what's been taken down now since the time of Ezekiel and in the in the Old Testament prophets but you can still say there is and what I say is there is a predisposition. So if there was something in your family if you know 1930s your great-grandmother was into seances and the occult the horoscopes you know that could be an open door to where there's no stronghold and it can be passed down to the children doesn't mean God can't break.

It doesn't mean there's freedom. But if somebody struggled with alcoholism there's a good chance and I don't know if it's in the DNA you know I don't know exactly how it works but there is an inclination often often there's passed down.

And if you know if you've seen certain sins come out that you know I know my dad dealt with that or my grandparents dealt with that or and so there can be a predisposition I just personally and what I don't think the elders here do as well saying that there's a generational curse on that family I would say there's a predisposition to that sin.

There's a likelihood there might be an open door a demonic open door that you need to close and we I mean sometime we should tell you about all the different types of demonic things that are released in people once they submit and surrender repent of other things there seems to be a release because there's no longer that stronghold on someone because repentance has taken place and now there's freedom in that area.

So that's what we see here. And Noah lived 350 years after the flood actually lived to be nine hundred and fifty years old and so I take the Bible literally I believe that that did happen because a couple things most speculate that the atmosphere was much different the rays of the Sun the the covering around the earth the natural environment also I personally believe it was very clean eating not all the junk and garbage that we have today that is really affecting it affects your cell at the cellular level.

What happens is these toxicities let's say glyphosate for example in roundup or sodium bicarbonates or aspartame or MSG monosodium glutamate partial hydrogenated oil I mean you name it all this junk. We're eating a lot of chemicals and it begins to damage the cell and your cells are meant to reproduce die reproduce die.

And technically you can see how a person could keep living based how the body was designed. So I think in the fall something happened that stopped that renewing process. So God said you're not gonna live to be under hundred over 120 years old in my opinion that's what that meant.

And no. So we see something now happening that where that people die because it's the body's not you die of a toxic state wrinkles old age. It's all because the body can't continue to fight off disease and different things.

Fasting, Autophagy, and Physical Stewardship

And on a separate note the the one reason we're calling the church to prayer and fasting January 1st. One of the best benefits of fasting of course spiritually but physically benefits of fasting is something called autophagy takes place and your body instead of having no more food because you're not eating begins to burn your fat as fuel.

But also decay and dead and diseased cells now become food for the body begins to break them down. Autophagy self-consuming. It's a Greek word I believe or Latin word and it consumes tumors and different things by fasting it has major major physical benefits as well.

Addiction as Voluntary Slavery

But let's talk about this for a minute. The slippery slope of addiction. The slippery slope of addiction. Noah began to be a farmer and he had drunk wine and was drunk. Now let's define addiction. And this is from the biblical counseling coalition very good resource on this.

The Bible can sympathize with the feeling of bondage from addiction yet it never avoids holding us morally responsible for our actions. Is that interesting. The Bible says yes ah we know it's hard it's slavery.

But you're still into you're still in control. That kind of that goes that goes against popular psychology. Does it not. How often have you heard this alcoholism is a disease. Well I'm here to tell you it is not a disease according to Scripture.

And I know that gets people upset. That's okay. You can't you can't you can't fix it unless you stir the pot. And let's put something up there. I heard this actually from Greg Laurie. I reached out to his secretary many many years ago and got the exact wording.

If it's a disease it's the only disease without germs or virus. If it's a disease it's the only disease that is self-inflicted. If it is a disease it's the only disease contract contracted by the act of the will.

If it is a disease it's the only disease that is bottled and sold over the counter for a profit. If it is a disease it's the only disease that will cause a father to grab his baby and shake him violently.

Or cause a mother to desert her children or cause them to not have money for for clothes and things. If it's a disease it's the only disease that will keep one out of heaven and send that soul to hell.

That sir is not a disease it's an addiction called sin. And why this is so important. I remember actually a couple leave the church when I just told you I just told you it's it is a disease. And yeah the reason is when it's a disease is not my fault.

There's different views now I was trying to try to see where they're coming up with the concept of disease. And when they talk about the mental anguish the physiological pain the dependence of the body I can see what they're saying.

But disease is not the right word because disease removes all types of responsive. There's nothing you can do. You're not you know you can't do anything about a disease. It comes upon you. Now I think some disease is self-created for sure especially what we're seeing and especially in our country with the health care system and a lot of disease is directly related to lifestyle choices.

But this is what the Bible calls sin. It's it's a it's a choice. And so what we'll say is hey it's not my fault it's a disease. And when I researched this the word disease actually came up I think about 80 years ago or so the whole reason the whole reason it was called a disease is because those in the medical field didn't want addicts to feel bad and so they changed the the diagnosed diagnostic whatever they call it diagnosis to disease they have a disease.

AA calls it a disease. Most places online call it a disease. But they if you look at the definition of a disease it's not a disease. It's a choice. And the reason they want to remove that that feeling of feeling shame because this term addict and I got it you know I mean that's a harsh term.

And but conviction that can also be good. Right. We own it. I got God has us fill shame and guilt. So I take it to the one who took my shame and guilt. Without filling these areas of conviction we don't change to the degree we could.

So somebody's always excusing their sin. You're not going to see a lot of freedom. And many of you know could be you those you know caught in addiction. Excuses are at the top of the list. Correct. I can stop whenever I want.

I don't have a problem. It's not my fault. It's your fault. I can't control myself or my favorite. The devil made me do it. The devil made you do it. Flip. Wilson the old-timers remember that guy. Right.

The devil made me do it. No he doesn't. He just entices he just temps. Now I'm not minimizing the pole of addiction because if you ever been caught in it it's not. It's not something you just get up and pray.

Oh lord take this away. Thank you very much. Positive thoughts. Read scripture. I'm good. Sometimes it's a battle the battlefield of the mind. But the Bible counseling coalition goes on to say the individual feels both guilty because they caved in yet unable to stop.

They feel responsible but they also feel out of control. The Bible is not naive about the nature of addiction. God holds us morally responsible for our actions. But he also recognizes the way in which sinful choices can enslave us.

This is one of the best definitions that I've ever heard on the addiction in just a few words here addictions are best described as voluntary slavery. That's exactly what it is. Volunteer voluntary slavery.

And if we had time we could turn to Paul's words I believe is in Romans he says whoever you choose to obey becomes your master. So there's a choice involved. If there was really no choice behind it we'd have to get rid of quite a few scriptures.

Make no provision. Make no provision for the flesh to fulfill its lusts. Meaning I make provision for thought for planning. No temptation has overtaken you. But what is common to all men that God will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able but with the temptation will make a way of escape that you may be able to bear it unless you're addicted to such such such and such.

No you don't have that. There's there's and it's it's actually quite empowering to say Lord I got with your help. I can overcome this with your help I can I can do this. Versus well this is a disease.

This is my death sentence. There's nothing I can do and I think the enemy keeps us trapped in that area as well. But again I'm gonna talk about more about more about that on how to be set free on January 2nd.

Right now I'm just just laying the foundation. But this area I should clarify two things to drug. What is the word drug. Well we have a without taking anything if you just you know who you are you're the way you think they caught.

You know cognitive patterns you know your heart rate your hormone levels. You know if any of us weren't taking anything how we would act is normal. You know sleep eat normal communicate with people. There's normal normalcy there.

Drugs, Caffeine, and the Body

But when you take something labeled as a drug it alters that. So using them in the mind right lot of neurotransmitters what cocaine will do. It'll make you remember the very first time I try crystal meth 17 years old I looked at a dime for about 30 minutes and can believe the time is wow.

And then alcohol gives you a different effect. I was in a running with the wrong crowd of people. And we would you know smoke weed then get drunk then take you know that's something a little harder. And it was that they would have they would offset each other.

I remember a trip to Las Vegas. I set the whole weekend my friend's dad would make the crystal meth and sell it. It was just it was a hard it's a hard thing to break out of. So I have sympathy for that.

It was a teenager. But they do different things to you. They they were. Alcohol make you. It's like sedating. That's what most people say. I just want to relax. Anybody relate just want to work work. Your venti Starbucks doesn't make you relax gives you the opposite.

Let's go go go go go move move. It's essential nervous stimulant. It's actually a drug. I'm trying not trying to upset people today. But caffeine is a drug. It's actually listed in the manual of mental disorders caffeine related stress disorder caffeine induced sleep disorder.

All under five all over 500 milligrams a day which is a vent a is probably 300 of strong coffee. And so you get that in a couple monster drinks. You are soaring and so it alters who you are. And that's why I've talked about this before because Morgan will say you've had coffee.

Didn't you. How'd you know cuz you're a jerk you're meaner to the kids. You're snappy. You're irritable. You're anxious. Your attention span is not there because it's affecting me. It's essential nervous stimulant makes your body like fight-and-flight.

Thousands of years ago you had to run from a lion. So what will kick in adrenaline cortisol. These are these are fight-and-flight. And that's what this drug does to your body. It's actually not very healthy to take that type of drug and sit and do nothing.

Because your body needs an outlet for all these these these hormones and neurotransmitters that are they're firing and so other drugs crystal myth will give you something different. Cocaine is a little bit different but similar.

And then he was at our first service today mark he's gonna talk on January 2nd I noticed and asked him if you give his brief testimony but he's six months free of crack cocaine. You want to talk about something hard to break.

He's just gonna briefly just give his testimony briefly. But that's something really hard. We can't love us can't relate to that. And at 24-hour fitness I had a lot of people well not a lot probably a few dozen that were addicted to crack cocaine.

It would take them out. I mean you choose payday. You wouldn't see him for a week and trying to have sympathy with him. But it's a hard hard thing. So that's what a drug is. It alters who you are and what you do.

And that's why we have to be careful. Because when we take drugs to offset something how we're feeling sometimes the the drug has worse side effects than what you're actually feeling. Just go and look at the side effects of Xanax.

Whoa that's worse than the depression or the anxiety. And this is make sure you talk to your doctor about weaning off carefully and slowly. If not it could lead to suicidal thoughts and traumatic types of episodes and and hallucinations.

I'm like unbelievable. So we have to be careful in this area of Big Pharma. Because Big Pharma is not for big health. It's putting a pill on it. I mean that's what we do. Right. You call most doctors call most doctors.

Tell me you're struggling with anxiety. What will they do first. Good. What I would do is say okay tell me about your mental diet. Tell me about what you're feeding your mind next tell me about your relationship with the Lord your devotional your prayer time.

Tell me about that. And then I look at what's their physical diet. Did you know your deficit and key vitamins and nutrients and things it can really mess up your hormone levels thyroid levels all of it.

It's how God designed us. You start playing with God. God designed us. You're gonna start having problems. Mental diet physical diet now. I'm not saying there's never a time and a place for something.

I mean I've seen where people have actually reset their serotonin levels by taking some intake inhibitors that can really balance out. So is it. Why do we always think it's brain chemistry right off the bat.

And that's our first go-to. We don't know that. Have you done your due diligence. I mean if somebody's struggling with anxiety the first thing I would do is wean yourself off of caffeine quickly. Because what it is.

It makes you anxious. Hello. This is not rocket science. But we don't want to do that. Just give me a pill. Just give me the pill. Same thing a doctor. Hey doctor I have very high blood cholesterol levels here.

My HDL my LDL ratio. High density lipids low density lipids. It's not good. What am I gonna do. Here you go. Here's a statin drug. This will cause your liver to produce not produce cholesterol. To me that's not a good thing.

You're supposed to produce. Your every cell in your body needs cholesterol. It's very important to the body. Why don't you ask them what their weight is what they're eating and how to get them in shape.

That's how you combat these things. I mean we can go down the line of diabetes. You know type 2 diabetes is health-related. It's a disease that is caused by poor lifestyle choices. It's it's caused by that losing sight amputation on limbs gaining weight.

And then we go and we get. We go and we get the insulin. What's insulin. Actually when you do that leads insulin is the hormone that tells your body to store fat. Oh we've got a problem here. And if you're insulin resistant how are you shooting more insulin to your body really gonna fix the problem.

Most doctors will tell you this is unrepairable. This you're gonna have this for the rest of your life. And it's just not true. I can I can tell you dozens and dozens of people I've known personally who have reversed all of these things by taking care of how the body was designed.

So what kind of person would I be if I didn't tell you the truth. Yes it's convicting. It's hard to hear. But we need to hear it. Those things we need to hear often the most important. But this word drunk then means affecting someone's behavior to the extent of losing control over that behavior that causes problems embarrassment and shame.

Uncovered like he was uncovered. You become spiritually dull. Spiritually dull. Ephesians 518 do not get drunk on wine which leads to debauchery. I love that word. What is debauchery. Excessive indulgence in sensual pleasure.

So getting drunk leads to excessive indulgence in sensual pleasure. Without a shadow of a doubt. After 12 years now we're going on planning the church anytime somebody is addicted to let's say alcohol.

They've also got a problem with pornography or gluttony. There's no way like hey I'm not I'm this alcohol has got me. But all these other areas are doing great. You guys you just open the door to all types of sensual it's a sensuality.

That spiritual aspect is taken over your life and will rule and reign in all areas of the lust of the flesh. You lose that discipline or that that knowing of the Holy Spirit of that filling the Holy Spirit in that area.

Other areas will cumble as well. And he said instead be filled with the spirit instead. Paul and Ephesians 5 instead be filled with the spirit to me it tells me there's a choice don't be filled with this spirit ever.

See on the liquor store spirits that there might be something to that but be filled with God's Spirit. So I know you're all curious on our church's stance on this issue. So here it is obviously the Bible allows for the enjoyment of an alcoholic beverage now and then.

But what we forget is that the alcohol content in Jesus's day was not what it is today. Wine was not at 12 You can ask Jewish historians or Josephus early fathers different things. Was probably around 2 because it was very diluted with water.

So you could drink a big glass of wine. And you're not gonna have 12 alcohol and feeling pretty good. It's not gonna alter that state. That's why the Bible goes on to say hard drink or a strong drink.

That's a differentiation of the alcohol content. So yes it allowed for a little bit of alcohol. But what is that definition every night. Well that's not a little bit. That's an addiction. And just because something is allowable or permissible doesn't mean it's necessarily a good idea.

Christian Liberty and the Dangers of Alcohol

Paul said yes all things are lawful for me. But I will not be brought under the bondage of anything. So just because you can you we really shouldn't be asking. I tell people this ask me. Well Shane can I do this.

No you see. Here's how you should. Here's what you should be asking. Should I do this. Should I. Because it can. Can you. I mean technically biblically speaking sure you can have a beer. And it's those people have one beer every couple months or a drink of wine now once a week now.

I mean it's not. It's not part of their life and and that's the Bible allows for that. But you can also own a rattlesnake. You know you can own a rattlesnake. But should you. You can go catch a coyote and make him a family dog.

You can you have the Liberty as a Christian to go do that. You motorcycle riders. You can go dirtbike riding without any gear in any helmet. Go 60 mile. You can do that as a believer. You can do that.

Should you know you shouldn't. So see I think we missed the question. Look the Bible said the Bible never encourages crossing the line. The Bible never says Jesus was even a remotely intoxicated. But he made the water into wine.

Sure but diluted wine. The print that the we don't know the fermentation process. How long we. But they're never encouraged drunkenness. And this is something interesting as well. God now let me flesh this out for a minute.

God never created alcohol. You're not going to go into the Garden of Eden when we learned about earlier and there's going to be that though the wine tree or the modelo keg the IPA the big popular thing.

I looked at some of those the other day at the storm. Like 8 9 You're feeling pretty good on that beer. No wonder you can have just one because see that the content has been increased. But what he did what happened.

There wasn't alcohol before the fall. The fall. What. How is alcohol made. It's made in the decaying process of the fruit. So as the fruit is decaying and dying there's fermentation and that's where alcohol comes from.

So it's because of the decaying aspect of fruit after the fall and from that comes the alcohol. So God allows it in moderation where it doesn't affect or influence you. I remember I've been a I've been a Christian gatherings and it's like you know they're very liberal in this area and like yeah I just have one and the goblet is like a 32 ounce goblet.

You put the whole you fit the whole bottle of wine in there. I bet you just have one and so we love we love good news about bad habits and I give people shame but the antioxidant effects the benefits the antioxidants.

I'm like no just eat some grapes much better much healthier. So here's the thing you're in control but I but that's the church's stance. But we also promote I would encourage abstinence. You know why why walk the razor's edge now now growing up and have a history of this you know it's it's when I was 12 years old is when I started I remember in Courtsill I remember the street I remember the Coors container and I didn't say ooh gross I said wow that makes me feel pretty good.

And it was hooked at a young age and so I know the struggle that is there and we're not talking about perfection here we're talking about direction. Where does God want the direction of our heart. But you're in control until you take that first drink and it begins now now you take that strong drinker and now it begins to alter.

Now I wasn't control no I don't know I'm in semi control now I've got this influence kind of talking to me a little bit and now well maybe if one is good two might be even better and I can handle. And so you once you once you open that door it's hard to close it.

That's all I'm saying. And most people I talked to now there's people going here that this is I mean lies are affected more than you realize some of you might know but there's a lot of families you're dealing with this at this church and who listen online and nobody sets out to be an alcoholic.

A lot of times it starts with the first or the second or they've got it for a few years. But then here comes difficulty and they run to that here comes and now now it's now it's not about feeling good anymore now it's about not feeling bad.

So now we have it more and now it's turned into kind of a problem. But I got this and now it's that slippery slope this this is a slippery slope because most people and you know who you are the people who don't have a problem with it.

Say Shane we got to get this sermon out. This is so important. The people have a problem with it but they acting like they don't. They don't like this sermon. You're judgmental. The Bible says I can drink.

No it doesn't say that. So be careful. There's the scripture supporting. You know alcohol are far outweighed by those warning of its dangers. Let me tell you there's Old Testament examples. There's New Testament scriptures Proverbs is filled with it.

Strong drink is a brawler. It's a mocker. Jesus actually said don't be weighed down by carousing and drunkenness. And that day come upon you unexpectedly. The reason it's a razor's edge as well is because a person could have just one too many to drive.

And here they are driving. Do you know if you hit somebody and they're injured it's a felony. You could become a felon like that they're injured. Try talking your way out that one razor's edge slippery slope.

Or what about if we have it in the home. You know now and then have some strong drink in the home. Well guess who sees that strong drink. Little kiddos. I think that's what started mine. You know just barely learning to drive.

I named the houses and the parents. I still remember those families. We're like oh what it wild turkey. I wonder what that is. And you try. It's wild. Let me tell you. And you can pour a cup out. Just get a cup of water replace it.

And the parents will never know. Don't act like you don't know what I'm talking about. Come on please. But see out of sight out of mind. So I would encourage parents I wouldn't have in your house. It's just it's too easy to open that door.