Dependence on His Spirit, Not Man

Alcoholics Anonymous teaches people to be dependent on other people.

Because the members of AA are insane, have no capacity to think for themselves, have lost their legs and cannot grow new ones, the cult teaches adherents that they have to run their lives by other people.

The sponsors in AA meetings tend to be the most arrogant of religionists, convinced that they have the answers to all of man's problems.

There is no hope in this life when we believe that we cannot make decisions, have choices, and make direction for ourselves.

Something I have learned recently, too, is that for the longest time I was expecting other people to make the decisions for me.

I did not trust my capacity to think of believe.

Having read the Bible with a different Spirit, that is the Spirit of the Living God revealing the Son, I find that indeed the Bible has all the answers that we need.

I have had so many mixed-up messages in my life.

I made some really bad decisions, driven by so much fear and frustration.

Because my mother was a stepper Mom, she took the program to an extreme which had crippled me terribly.

My conception of God was her conception of God, but if we want to know Him, we meet Him through His Word.

How true it -- "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." (John 8:32)

AA is not the truth, but an amalgam of lies, distortions, and half-truths, as all cults have a little be true to make the blatantly false more palatable.

Not any more.

We are not called to run to other people for our answers.

We have His Spirit, the Spirit of grace born in our lives through the redemptive work of Jesus Christ:

"1My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: 2And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world." (1 John 2: 1-2)

I wonder how many Christians actually believe the above statement?

Do you believe that you are a dear child of God? Do you believe that Jesus is your advocate when you sin (not when you confess). Do you believe that Jesus is not just the active mercy seat for your sins, but the sins of the entire world (including abusive parents, co-workers, bosses, enemies of the neighborhood, the state etc)?

AA sure doesn't believe this, and like many religious programs, at its core AA is anti-Christ.

When we are born again, we receive His Spirit, the spirit of adoption which moves within us to cry out "Abba, Father" or "Daddy!" (Romans 8: 15)

The same spirit gives us sonship before God the Father and kinship with Jesus.

The same spirit gives us all knowledge:

"But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things. 21I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth." (1 John 2: 20-21)

As we see more of Jesus, we find that His spirit within us directs us to things that He wants us to do, because that is what He has been doing all this time (Philippians 2: 12-13; Colossians 1: 27-29)

Because of this anointing, we can allow the Spirit of God to speak to us regarding all things:

"27But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him." (1 John 2: 27)

Even when I was going to groups like Celebrate Recovery, I found that people wanted to tell me what to do, or at the very least they spent so much time listening to my fears and complaints rather than revealing to me the wisdom of God's Word, that His Spirit was communicating to me all things.

Identity in Christ leads to activity through Christ and thus prosperity because of Christ.

While man-centered religion wants man to be dependent on other men. In Christ, we are called to rest in Him and be guided by His Spirit.