Romans – The Play Part 5 – Romans 8: No Condemnation, Life in the Spirit, and the Believer’s Freedom

“I was a drunk for forty years, and I went to AA, and I went there, and I haven’t had another drink since. And I’ve drawn a sober breath ever since.” — That’s an unbeliever.

“I was on— I was on Coke, and I was on—”
(By the way, that could be Coca-Cola as well as the other kind!)
“And I was on morphine, and I was on LSD, and I was on opium, and I was on heroin—and I quit.”

It’s been done by people who are not saved. Now, brothers, if the unbeliever can do that without an indwelling Lord, and if you are so equipped, so richly, then brother, I’m not telling you that you should; I am telling you: you will put those things away. I’m not asking you to, I am telling you—you will. Because the Spirit of the Lord is in you, you will put them away.

Gene, give me a handle. I give you the simplest handle in the world.

“I just can’t. I can’t give up whiskey!”

I’ll tell you the simplest way in the world. By the way, I want to tell you all something. Other than raw opium and heroin, the most addictive thing you can get on this earth—yeah, that’s right—it’s nicotine. Nicotine. Don’t kid yourself. It’s worse. More addictive. It’s mild, but it’s more addictive than just about anything you can see from sea to sea.

Now, I’m not going to get off on those of you who eat too much. That’s off limits as far as I can say, or tell, or know, or do—that’s just one I won’t touch, but all these other things we just listed, if you’ve got it in your life, it’s the simplest thing in the world:

Take off from work. Six days. Get up one morning and drink water. By the way, give this to the Lord first, do a spiritual thing.  About noon, you’re going to get hungry, maybe at 1 or 2 o’clock. As soon as you get hungry, go get into bed. Do not stay on your feet. If you stay on your feet, it won’t work. Go get in bed and keep drinking water. Just keep drinking water. By 9 o’clock that night, you’ll be able to eat the mattress. You’re going to wake up the next morning, and you’re going to be so weak; just drink water. Don’t eat a bite of food. And tell the Lord: “Take it out on me, Lord.” And just take it out—two days.

On the third day, drink nothing but water. If you’ll lay down to do this third day, you’re going to be sick as a horse. Your husband or your wife is going to be holding you by your head. You’re going to be like…, and you’re going to be getting rid of stuff, and you’re going to just feel terrible.

Now then, on the fourth day, you’re prepared to eat the hardwood floor and the varnish. And you have to have somebody there in control of you. You cannot decide what you’re going to eat that day. On that day, I’m telling you, this is the fourth day: Drink carrot juice. Nothing else. Beet juice, if you want to. (No, not the kind in a can.) Go get some fresh. Get some kind of liquids in you. Be careful about fruit juices, you’ll get worse than you are now. Get some juices in you.

Now then, on the fifth day, eat salad and juices. On the sixth day, if you’re really, really careful – but let someone control how much you eat that day – you can go back to your eating.

Let me tell you something. It’ll be gone. It’ll be gone. Anything that I just listed: murder, stealing, robbing, cheating, lying, cussing, smoking, drinking, and chewing. There we go.