Redeemed Rebels - Reformed Drug and Alcohol Addiction Series
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This is the trailer for the upcoming devotional/bible study film (in production) for churches and individuals struggling with the issue of drug and alcohol addiction. Jeff Durbin, Pastor of Apologia Church, spent 4-years full-time as the Chaplain of a Recovery hospital and saw hundreds of lives transformed through the Gospel. Apologia Church began because of many of those lives.
Jeff Durbin was interviewed on the History Channel's series, The Stoned Ages, because of his ministry in this area.
Go to redeemedrebels.com and participate with us in the production of this project! We need your help! You can be a part of a distinctly Biblical approach to drug and alcohol addiction.
This trailer was Directed and created by Matt DeJesus. To contact him for projects, please contact:
Matt De Jesus - Director/DP/Editor with Sovereign Grace Media. [email protected] (602) 410-8675.
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- We don't have so much of a drug and alcohol problem. What we have is a worship problem.
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- The foundational issue with drug and alcohol addiction is not the substance problem, not the externals, but it really is foundationally our relationship with God is broken, is distorted.
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- The Bible has a clear message and story about who we are. In the issue of addiction to drugs or alcohol, really what it is is an exchange of God for an idol.
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- All of us are made in the imago dei, in the image of God, and all of us are made for God, to be in an intimate relationship with God, to know
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- Him, to love Him, to glorify Him, to enjoy God forever. But what happens is all of us are part of a race of rebels.
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- All of us are fallen, all of us are rebels against the king, and the Bible says that our sins have separated us from God.
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- The Bible says in Romans 1 that all of us know God, and that the problem is not intellectual or a lack of evidence for God, but really the problem is that we know
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- Him. But because we're rebels, we suppress the truth about God and unrighteousness, and Romans 1 says that even with the heavens preaching to us constantly about God, what we do is we end up exchanging
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- God for an idol. We switch God and worship and serve the creature rather than the creator, and so we can't help being what
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- God made us to be. We're going to have all these worship needs rise out of us all of our lives, whether or not you're a
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- Christian or not, atheist, Christian, agnostic, whatever. All of us have needs that arise out of us as image bearers of God, needs for peace, needs for wholeness, needs for freedom from loneliness, freedom from guilt and shame.
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- And as these needs pour out of our lives constantly, we'll exchange God for an idol because we won't go to God for those things, because our relationship with God is broken, and so addiction to drugs, alcohol, sex, gambling, all of it is this twisted, distorted exchange for God for something else.
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- And it really is madness to consider that God, in him is light, there's no darkness at all, he never changes, he is good, he is merciful, he's holy, and to run away from this
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- God is madness. But you see, when we do run away from God and we've turned from him, and the Bible says that all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, our sins have separated us from God, and so in this realm over here of darkness and brokenness, we'll have all these needs that naturally arise within us as image bearers of God.
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- Again, needs for freedom from loneliness, that darkness will set in, and we're going to go somewhere to pursue satisfaction for that.
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- We're either going to go to God, or we're going to go chase some other functional God and some other functional
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- Savior to satisfy that need, that unique need of a person made in the image of God, who's made for God, to be in an intimate relationship with God, and so we're going to worship.
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- Oftentimes people will say to me, well I don't want to worship God, I don't want to come to him, I'm not going to worship Christ, I'm not going to read the
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- Bible, I don't want to do that. Deciding to not worship God, the God of the scriptures, the triune God of the
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- Bible, doesn't mean that you're not going to worship, it means that now you'll worship anything.
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- The Bible has a complete perspective of its own, about the nature of addiction, what the foundation of it is, and how a person actually gets free from it, and far from being something like recovery, the
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- Bible has a whole different perspective. When God speaks to us about this, there's a whole different perspective, and it's not recovery in that sense that we're trying to recover something that we once had, that we're actually trying to get back somewhere to recover this place that we used to be.
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- The Bible's perspective is wholly different, it really is something different, it's not recovery, it's redemption.
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- It's about being a redeemed rebel, and it's a whole beautiful story about how
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- God does this. Verse 8,
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- Thy strength indeed is small, Shall the weakness watch and pray,
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- Find in me thine all in all. Jesus picked it all, all to Him I owe,
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- Sin had left a crimson stain,