AA Exposed, in Big Trouble: The Fraud That Is AA Fundamentalism

               

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This disgusting cult must be eradicated.

So many people have been dragged into more depression, pain, and disdain because of the lies of this awful cult.

These videos document all the problems with AA, and so much more.

Addiction: A Lack of Bonding

It's not just about addiction.

It's about bonding, it's about unconditional love, it's about the gift of righteousness that we receive, and keep receiving (Romans 5:17).

If you want to be set free from destructive habits, you have to deal with the trauma underneath all of it.

Consider this test experiment with mice in cages:

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It's all about acceptance and affirmation. If you cannot find it in God, in His grace, you will look for it in stuff, in drugs, in other addictions.

AA does not treat this root cause. In fact, this horrible cult makes it all worse, because Bill W. and his sick, self-serving fellow gurus wanted to make themselves the center of attention.

They created a "loving God" who can be cut off from you when you feel bad or do something bad, i.e. when you nurse "Resentment."

Nothing could be further from the truth. Think about it,  though--if God's love and favor in your life depends on how you feel, then you get trapped in this terrible, never-ending cycle of pain, trauma, and bondage.

AA creates the very problems that people are trying to medicate. That sense of abandonment, isolation, and abuse cannot be solved with more self-reflection, introspection, and condemnation.

What is needed is bonding, yes, but specifically that "unconditional positive regard" which Carl Rogers often wrote about. There's a better term for it, of course: unconditional love.

And only Daddy God can give us that, which He revealed to us through His Son (John 3:16).

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How about no sandwiches at all? Just give me Jesus!

 

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We Bring Our Situation to the Cross, Not the Other Way Around

 When I was growing up, I didn't hear about the Finished Work of Christ Jesus.

I didn't ponder the significance of the Cross, except as an example of God's love for us. Even then, though, I had no idea what any of that meant.

In my household, there was no interest in really understanding what Jesus accomplished for us there. In many churches that I attended, the pastors did not explore the fullness of our forgiveness at the Cross.

Jesus took all our sins--past, present, future. This revelation gives us the power to overcome sin in our lives going forward (cf Romans 6:14).

I didn't hear this message growing up. Instead, I got a lot of AA. I was told to "take my inventory."  I was told that I had to confess my sins over and over.

There was no message preached to me that all my sins were forgiven. There was no one who told me that everything was taken care of (cf Acts 13:38-39).

Today, I know the truth, and I am receiving a great revelation of this wonder.

As I learned more about what Jesus did for me at the Cross, there would still be these linger reverberations of bitterness, wrongdoing, and shame in my mind. Why was I struggling with all of this? Why did I find it hard to forgive?

Because I was still depending on myself to do something, i.e. apply the blood, or make sure to counter every idle thought, word, and deed.

But the Cross is not just an idea. It's an event, an eternal event outside of time itself.

The Cross has always been bigger than my head, than the future, then anything that your mother or father ever taught you.

The problem is that we keep treating the Cross as an idea when it's an event, a seminal event which was always in place. It's just that you didn't have the full revelation because you had a mixed message.

You and I are not called to bring the Cross into our situation, our sin, or ourselves.

We are invited to bring everything to the Cross, which has always been provided for us.

Jesus' death on the Cross was a real event, even when my parents did not tell me about it. God had cancelled all the debts against me (Colossians 2:10-13), even though I was not hearing the message in church.

It's essential that we understand the perfect work that Jesus did, and that He did it for us, regardless of whether we understood it or not.

I don't have to conjure up the Cross. His Work stands the test of time, and it stands forever!

More Revelations About Salvation

We want to assuage guilt, shame, hurt, and pain.

But where does it all come from?

It comes from a sense of condemnation.

"How could I do that?"

"How could I let them do that to me?"

"How come I did not see that coming?"

All of these questions are predicated on this false notion that we have everything figured out in our lives. We think that we should have all the issues figured out, and that nothing should take us by surprise.

But that means we are depending on ourselves, our self-effort, our flesh.

What does the Bible say about that?

"28And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: 29That no flesh should glory in his presence." (1 Corinthians 1:28-29)

This theme has emerged considerably in my life over the last few days. I looked at so many of the problems in the world, and I thought: "Well, if I don't do something, then nothing will happen. I better step up and do something right away!"

No!

God is on the job, and He is working behind the scenes.

It is not my job to right every wrong, whether done to me or to others.

He more than fulfills and restores whatever we have lost.

He takes care of us:

"They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away." (Psalm 69:4)

The pain, the condemnation of thinking that I had to make people pay for wronging me, or that I should be ashamed for not standing up for myself--all of that gets washed away at the Cross.

This revelation is very important. When we see that we have been forgiven for all our sins and failures, then the sins and failures of others cannot set us back, either!

All Our Sins Forgiven, Even When We Failed to Stand Up for Ourselves

Redemption is a sea that surrounds us.

We can't get away with it, once we step into it.

All our sins, paid for, forever.

Jesus accomplished a perfect work when He died on the Cross:

"And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world." (1 John 2:2)

Jesus has paid for all the sins of all the world.

His payment covers our sins for all time!

Remember, when Jesus died on the Cross, all your sins were in the future! I love reminding myself of that revelation, especially when Pharisaical Christians want to argue about the fullness of His sacrifice for our sins.

However, if that reason does not satisfy anyone, they can consider these verses:

"Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;" (Psalm 103:3)

"To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins." (Act 10:43)

"And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses." (Acts 13:39)

"In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;" (Ephesians 1:7)

"And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;" (Colossians 2:13)

And of course, the enforcement clause of the New Covenant:

"For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more." (Hebrews 8:12)

There's no time limit or time period for how long our sins are forgiven. Please keep that in mind.

Now, I have meditated on this revelation for years, and I have been hearing the Gospel truth for years.

Yet, even then, there were still pockets of shame, bitterness, regret, and condemnation that would wash over me. There were bitter memories, and this sense that I still had to do something about them would wash over me.

I would be worried that I was not keeping my mind on God, and thus He would walk out on me or not be there for me.

Only recently have I seen, understood how broad, how wide His forgiveness is. All our sins are forgiven, past, present, and future. Whatever may happen to morrow will not interrupt the truth that He has already paid for any failures, faults, or follies that I engage in.

And one of the most painful follies is the sense that I allowed someone to harm me, and I let that person get away with it.

My mother taught my sister and me to live with this kind of resentment. "Don't let people take advantage of you. Don't let them hurt you or run roughshod over you." She had this unremitting sense of hypervigilance because of serious abuse that she had suffered when she was young.

Part of the problem with suffering abuse, with enduring pain or trauma, is that we tend to blame ourselves. "I should have known better. How could I let that person get away with treating me that way?"

Also, was this terrible habit of mind which had overtaken me, and I was constantly assaulted by the "what ifs" when I would go out and about in the world.

But all of that has been paid for. God is bigger than time itself, and His redemption covers us forever. I don't have to wonder or worry about tomorrow or the next day, not just because He "will be" there. More importantly:

He has already paid for my failures 

that I will commit tomorrow 

and the next day and the next day.

And the next day after that!

Ultimately, why did I fear tomorrow? It's not so much that bad things might befall me, or someone might hurt me, or I would fail or suffer some form of humiliation. The problem was that I was afraid that God would be mad at me, cut me off, be angry with me.

Yet even Isaiah prophesies that that will not happen once we believe in Jesus:

"For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee." (Isaiah 54:9)

Whatever fails, whatever screw-ups, I don't have to keep punishing myself. That barbed-wire sense of pain in the back of my head is just the condemnation of the enemy, but all of it is wrong. There is no one event or hardship which I have endured which should require me or you or anyone else to do anything else.

Now do I well understand what Peter meant when he wrote in his Second Epistle:

"But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen." (2 Peter 3:18)

And even the sins when we did not speak up for ourselves, when we failed to stop evil, when we failed to speak out.

Instead of feeling condemned, let us keep receiving the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness! We don't have to keep making people pay for the past, including ourselves, because Jesus paid for all of it!

That sense of pain, that prickling burden of condemnation that would prick at the back of my head: those were the fiery darts (Ephesians 6:16) and we have the helmet of the hope of salvation to dispel them, too (Ephesians 6:17).

It's so simple and obvious now, but all the time before, I kept thinking that I had to do something else because that sense of pain was ... something else. In reality, it was just condemnation, and there is no condemnation in Christ (Romans 8:1), and therefore I do not have to care at all.

This revelation has been the hugest revelation of all! So grateful to keep hearing and hearing the word of Christ!