Healing For the Fractured Soul Session 14

Overcoming Addictive Patterns

Join us Tuesday, September 3rd, 2024
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None of us like to face the addictive patterns we have in our lives, they are easy, they are familiar, and they often help us cope with the challenges we face every day. However, no one wants to be bound to something they feel they can’t live without- it makes them feel powerless. Tonight we will discuss how to get FREE from the cycles of addiction, whether it’s something as simple as negative thoughts, coffee, or shopping or things as damaging as drugs, pornography, alcohol, or gambling. This freedom enables us to then focus on the ROOT cause of where these patterns started and snuff them out once and for all! The key is found in your CALLING!

Books being used in the series:

• Healing the Wounded Heart: The Heartache of Sexual Abuse and the Hope of Transformation
• Healing the Wounded Heart Workbook: The Heartache of Sexual Abuse and the Hope of Transformation
• Help For the Fractured Soul

As mentioned in Show: TRIGGERLESS: ALLOW THE HEART OF THE KING TO HELP YOU MASTER YOUR EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE WITH THE LIGHT OF TRUTH

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Ephesians 5 Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children; 2 and walk in love, just as Christ also loved [a]you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God [b]as a fragrant aroma.

3 But sexual immorality [c]or any impurity or greed must not even be mentioned among you, as is proper among [d]saints; 4 and there must be no filthiness [e]or foolish talk, or vulgar joking, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks. 5 For this you know with certainty, that no sexually immoral or [f]impure or greedy person, which [g]amounts to an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

6 See that no one deceives you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the [h]sons of disobedience. 7 Therefore do not become partners with them; 8 for you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord; walk as children of light 9 (for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth), 10 [i]as you try to learn what is pleasing to the Lord. 11 Do not participate in the useless deeds of darkness, but instead even expose them; 12 for it is disgraceful even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret. 13 But all things become visible when they are exposed by the light, for everything that becomes visible is light. 14 For this reason [j]it says,

“Awake, sleeper,
And arise from the dead,
And Christ will shine on you.”

15 So then, [k]be careful how you walk, not as unwise people but as wise, 16 [l]making the most of your time, because the days are evil. 17 Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. 18 And do not get drunk with wine, [m]in which there is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit, 19 speaking to [n]one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your hearts to the Lord; 20 always giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to our God and Father; 21 [o]and subject yourselves to one another in the [p]fear of Christ.

1 Corinthians 10 For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that our fathers were all under the cloud and they all passed through the sea; 2 and they all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea; 3 and they all ate the same spiritual food, 4 and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock which followed them; and the rock was [a]Christ. 5 Nevertheless, with most of them God was not pleased; for their dead bodies were spread out in the wilderness.

6 Now these things happened as examples for us, so that we would not crave evil things as they indeed craved them. 7 Do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written: “The people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.” 8 Nor are we to commit sexual immorality, as some of them [b]did, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day. 9 Nor are we to put the Lord to the test, as some of them [c]did, and were killed by the snakes. 10 Nor grumble, as some of them [d]did, and were killed by the destroyer. 11 Now these things happened to them as an example, and they were written for our instruction, upon whom the ends of the ages have come. 12 Therefore let the one who thinks he stands watch out that he does not fall. 13 No temptation has overtaken you except something common to mankind; and God is faithful, [e]so He will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, so that you will be able to endure it.

25 While Israel remained at Shittim, the people began to commit infidelity with the daughters of Moab. 2 For they invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods. 3 So Israel [a]became followers of [b]Baal of Peor, and the Lord was angry with Israel. 4 And the Lord said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of the people and [c]execute them [d]in broad daylight before the Lord, so that the fierce anger of the Lord may turn away from Israel.” 5 So Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Each of you kill his men who have [e]become followers of [f]Baal of Peor.”

6 Then behold, one of the sons of Israel came and brought to his relatives a Midianite woman, in the sight of Moses and in the sight of the whole congregation of the sons of Israel, while they were weeping at the entrance of the tent of meeting. 7 When Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from the midst of the congregation and took a spear in his hand, 8 and he went after the man of Israel into the inner room of the tent and pierced both of them, the man of Israel and the woman, through the abdomen. So the plague on the sons of Israel was brought to a halt. 9 But those who died from the plague were twenty-four thousand in number.

The Zeal of Phinehas

10 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 11 “Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has averted My wrath from the sons of Israel in that he was [g]jealous with My [h]jealousy among them, so that I did not destroy the sons of Israel in My [i]jealousy. 12 Therefore say, ‘Behold, I am giving him My covenant of peace; 13 and it shall be for him and for his [j]descendants after him, a covenant of a permanent priesthood, because he was [k]jealous for his God and made atonement for the sons of Israel.’”

14 Now the name of the [l]dead man of Israel who was killed with the Midianite woman, was Zimri the son of Salu, a leader of a father’s household among the Simeonites. 15 And the name of the Midianite woman who was killed was Cozbi the daughter of Zur, [m]who was head of the people of a father’s household in Midian.

16 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 17 “Be hostile to the Midianites and attack them; 18 for they have been hostile to you with their tricks, with which they have deceived you in the matter of Peor and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of the leader of Midian, their sister who was killed on the day of the plague because of Peor.”

The Stench of Sin (25:1-9)

The people begin to indulge in sexual immorality with the women of Moab and began to offer sacrifices to Moab’s gods. One of the common elements of idolatry was sexual immorality. Verse 3 tells us that this is Baal worship, and this is the first time we read about Baal worship in the scriptures. Israel yokes itself to the Baal, angering the Lord. Yet again we are seeing that there is nothing righteous or morally higher about this second generation of Israelites over the first generation that died in the wilderness for their sins. So God gives the command in verse 4 to hang all of the chiefs of the people in the sun before the Lord. Moses tells the judges of Israel to kill those who have yoked themselves to Baal. You may consider that there is some strong similarity here to the first generation and their worship of the golden calf when they ate, drank, and rose up to play. So the anger of the Lord is aroused and the command is given to kill those who are involved in this immorality.

But notice what happens in verse 6. An Israelite man brings in a Midianite woman right in front of the sight of Moses and the whole community while they are weeping at the entrance of the tent. Everyone is mourning the decree of death for their sins and here comes this guy walking in with this woman to participate in this sexual immorality. It is brazen rebellion that we are witnesses as this man has no regard for what God and Moses have said nor for the weeping of the people of Israel over these sins. The brazenness becomes even clearer in verses 7-8. Phinehas, the son of the high priest Eleazer, takes his spear and goes into this man’s tent and thrust the spear through the man and into the woman’s stomach. These two are engaging in sexual immorality as Phinehas drives the spear through both of them in one stab. With this, the plague stops after killing 24,000.

Consider what a powerful picture God is sending in this event and throughout the book of Numbers. Sin must be put to death. Sin is not acceptable. Sin is not something that we are to allow or tolerate in our lives. God wants sin to be put to death. These are the kinds of pictures that need to come to mind when we speak about the battle against sin.

So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. (Romans 8:12–13 ESV)

Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. On account of these the wrath of God is coming. (Colossians 3:5–6 ESV)

These scriptures are giving us a picture of the spiritual battle that we must war with sin, war with temptation, war with the flesh, and war against Satan. God is not indifferent toward sin and he expects his people to not be indifferent either. How shocking and sad that this man rebels before all the people of Israel, consumed by his own passions and desires! Rebellious sin cannot be ignored, which is shown to us in 1 Corinthians 5 and Matthew 18. We are called to be holy.

The Praise From God (25:10-11)

Look at the praise God gives Phinehas for what he did. God says that Phinehas was jealous with my jealousy. He did what he was supposed to do in his priestly role: represent God to the people. He represented the jealousy of God and acted with great zeal for the Lord. Phinehas showed the holiness of the Lord to all the congregation. We have seen this idea depicted throughout the book of Numbers. The priests and the Levites were to defend the holiness of God. This failure is what made Moses and Aaron’s sin so terrible. They failed to uphold the holiness of God. Listen to what God says about what Phinehas did in the account of the Psalms.

Then they yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor, and ate sacrifices offered to the dead; they provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them. Then Phinehas stood up and intervened, and the plague was stayed. And that was counted to him as righteousness from generation to generation forever. (Psalm 106:28–31 ESV)

Did you hear how this act of holiness and zealousness for God was perceived by the Lord? “It was counted to him as righteousness from generation to generation forever.” This is a term that the apostle Paul uses in the book of Romans many times in references to faith being the means by which Abraham was credited as righteous.

So what does this mean? It means the pursuit of holiness is the pursuit of faith. True faith seeks holiness in all of life. Since faith is how we are counted as righteous before the Lord (Romans 4:3-11; 4:22; Galatians 3:6; James 2:23) and it was counted to Phinehas as righteousness by acting for God’s holiness, then we must conclude that the pursuit of holiness is the path of faith. Or to say it the other way, walking by faith means pursuing holiness in all areas of life. Faith defends the holiness of God. In fact, please consider that this is exactly what God told Moses and Aaron regarding their failure. Look at it again in Numbers 20:12.

Because you did not believe in me, to uphold me as holy in the eyes of the people of Israel….

Do we see that faith and holiness are directly tied together and they cannot be separated? To live by faith means to live for God’s holiness and pursue holiness in all areas of life.

Reference: https://westpalmbeachchurchofchrist.com/old-testament/numbers/putting-sin-to-death.html#:~:text=The%20Message-,The%20Stench%20of%20Sin%20(25%3A1%2D9),of%20idolatry%20was%20sexual%20immorality. 

https://www.gotquestions.org/Baal-Peor.html

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