To be under any system of Law is to invite the curse into your life:
"For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. 11But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith." (Galatians 3: 10-11)
To live under law is to invite an impossible standard of living onto your life, one which no one can keep, and thus to invite the curse, for to live by the law leads a man to fall from grace (Galatians 5: 4)
I have read about the high incidence of suicide in AA meetings. One woman came to a meeting, but she was told to leave because she was drunk when she showed up. The woman committed suicide the next day. The woman who had asked her to leave was still feeling bad about, after sixteen years.
The program requires people to "keep coming back", to affirm an identity which is both negative and destructive, one which diminished you as a person, teaching you
"9But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?" (Galatians 4: 9)
Any set of rule-keeping will bring a man back into a servile, infantile life. This life creates a life of weakness and poverty. Not just the high incidence of suicide, but the high incidence of poverty and sickness is quite discouraging, too. People do not drink, but the abundant life that people seek, that God gives, cannot be found in "working twelve steps."
Jesus came that we might have life, and that more abundantly (John 10: 10).
AA, Twelve Steps, brings a curse, brings poverty, illness, and death.
Let Jesus Christ give you His life, and let Him grant to you all the wonders of grace and righteousness that many seek, which God so freely gives.
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