Getting out of Prison

1. Getting out of Prison Foundations of Bondages

2. The “Average” Prisoner • Before he committed the Crime, he JUSTIFIED himself • When he was sentenced, expressed remorse – AT GETTING CAUGHT

3. Life Controlling Addictions • I’m only human • It won’t hurt anybody • It doesn’t interfere with my life

4. Example of Alcohol • Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things. • Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast. • “They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.” • Proverbs 23

5. Drunkeness & Gluttony • Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: • For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. • Proverbs 23:20-21

6. Bad Judgment & Hangover • Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? • They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine. • Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. • At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.

7. 3 Aspects of Addiction: • Physiological – Serotonin, Dopamine • Psychological – Fills a “NEED” • Spiritual – “Open Door”

8. Focus on Spiritual • Increased Stress • Anger and Bitterness • “Unclean” activities • Temporal Values – “Hedonic Hypothesis”

9. Life of Saul • Prideful • Independent Spirit • Bitter and angry

10. Saul’s Bad Marriage • Saul’s anger flared up at Jonathan and he said to him, “You son of a perverse and rebellious woman!” • 1 Samuel 20:30

11. Saul’s Anger at Daughter • “I will give her (his daughter Michal) to him,” he thought, “so that she may be a snare to him…” • Proverbs 18:21

12. Saul’s Envy against David • Saul was very angry; this refrain displeased him greatly. “They have credited David with tens of thousands,” he thought, “but me with only thousands. • 1 Samuel 18:8-9

13. Envy is Poison • Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy? • Proverbs 27:4

14. A Troubling Spirit Introduced • Now the Spirit of the Lord had departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord tormented him. • 1 Samuel 16:13

15. Unclean vs. Clean • Haggai asks, • If something “Clean” touches something “Unclean”, will the “Unclean” be made “Clean”? • They answer, “No.”

16. Unclean vs. Clean • Haggai asks, • If something “Unclean” touches something “Clean”, will the “Clean” be made “Unclean”? • They answer, “Yes.”

17. Hedonism • A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished. • Proverbs 22:3 • And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite • Proverbs 23:2

18. Call for Separation • “Come out from themand be separate, says the Lord.
Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.” • 2 Corinthians 6:17

19. Close the Door