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Substance Abuse
SUBSTANCE ABUSE SOLUTION...
The Nature of God by A.W. Pink.
Ministers of old never bought the lie of drunkenness being a
disease.
Doctors might afford a temporary escape, but the real bonds are not broken. At the end of the apparent but brief deliverance, it will be found that the chains remain. Medicine might address itself to effects, but the cause is real and dominant as ever. The doctor has no cure for the drunkard. Medical skill cannot save him. But grace can! Without doctors, drugs, priests, penance, works, money or price, grace actually saves. Hallelujah! Yes, grace saves. It snaps the fetters of a lifetime and makes a poor sinner a partaker of the divine nature and a rejoicing saint.
Dr. J.H. Jowett in his book written in 1920 says:
A little while ago I was speaking to a New York doctor, a man of long and varied experience with the diseases that afflict both body and mind. I asked him how many cases he had known of the slaves of drink having been delivered by medical treatment into health and freedom. How many he had been able to “doctor” into liberty and self-control. He immediately replied, “Not one.” He further assured me that he believed his experience would be corroborated by the testimony of the faculty of medicine.
The following is from David Brainerd’s journal while serving the Indians June 19 to November 4, 1745, at Crossweeksung in New Jersey.
The effects of this work have been very remarkable. I doubt not that many of these people have gained more doctrinal knowledge of divine truths, since I first visited them in June last, that could have been instilled into their minds by the most diligent use of proper and instructive means for whole years altogether, without such a divine influence. Their pagan notions and idolatrous practices seem to be entirely abandoned in these parts. They are regulated and appear regularly disposed in the affairs of marriage. They seem generally divorced from drunkenness, their darling vice, the “sin that easily besets them.” Some of them seem now to fear this sin in particular more than death itself.
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