The Source of all the Troubles -- AA

This statement may seem to broad to be worth reading.

AA was the source of all the troubles.

Well, any lie, any distortion unchecked will be the source of many problems, but it is always the Truth that sets you free.

That Truth is a Person, Jesus!

Yet many Christians feel compelled to add something that what Jesus Christ did at the Cross, as if His declaration "It is finished" was not good enough.

He died for all our sins, He cut a New Covenant at the Cross, and thus we are no longer in bondage the old, dead, condemnation of the letter, but the newness of the Spirit.

Does that mena that i want ot go out and sin? No way!

Sin is death, and anything that is sin will just bring forth death in us.

Man is seeking life, and that more abundantly, but he cannot find this life in keep rules or doing whatever he wants.

The Ruler, the King of Kings, keeps us, and because He lives in us, we know that He leads us.

For so long, I was always frustrated, feeling pressed upon, hurried, as if I was missing something, or something was missing.

A sense of alienation had pervaded my life, invaded it. A sense that I was not OK, that something more needed to be finished.

This fear was based in AA, which teaches its members that alcohol is a subtle foe, and that you have to keep on your guard to make sure that it does not overtake you.

Imagine a life where you are constantly looking at yourself, your feelings, your thoughts, worrying that you may or may not say something or do something wrong, the idea that God may or may not punish you for doing something bad.

All the talk about God's love cannot undo the sense of death, shame, and guilt which resides in our flesh. We need to know that someone has paid for the wrongs which we have done, and that someone has paid for the wrongs done to us.

AA is Hagar, the Bondwoman who had a weak and sick child with Abram, later Abraham (Genesis 16). When Sarah, the lawful wife of Abraham, had Isaac, she told her husband:

"Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac." (Genesis 21: 10)

Paul explains the full significance of this passage:

"Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.

31So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free." (Galatians 4: 30-31)

 

Get rid of Hagar, get rid of AA, and Let the Life of Christ invade you in every way!