Appetites: Are You Driving or Driven?
Don't Get Left Behind
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...it was through reading the scripture that I came to realize that I could never find God’s favor by trying--and failing--to obey the laws. I came to realize that acceptance with God comes by believing in Christ. Galatians 2:18 & 19, (Life Recovery Bible). Perhaps this illustration will help. You know that hens lay eggs. They lay “eggs” even though they have never been with a rooster. Unfertilized “eggs” look and taste just like the real thing. But guess what? They’re NOT the real thing! An unfertilized “egg” is a dead egg no matter how real it looks. Dead eggs are nutritionally beneficial but no chicks will ever be hatched from those “eggs” no matter what the hen or anyone else does with them. Technically speaking, they are not even eggs at all. For lack of a better name, we call them eggs. But they are not eggs. Eggs have the capability of producing life, while unfertilized “eggs” do not. And that’s the way it is with the works folks do. Folks do “good works” even though they have never been empowered by the Holy Spirit. Unempowered “good works” look just like the real thing. But guess what? They’re NOT the real thing! Like unfertilized “eggs”, unempowered “good works” are dead works no matter how good they look. No new Spiritual life will ever be “hatched” from those “works” no matter what anyone does with them. Technically speaking, they are not even good works at all. For lack of a better name, we call them good works. But they are not good works. Good works have the capability of producing Spiritual life or growth, while “good works” that have never been empowered by the Holy Spirit do not. They may indeed be materially helpful to the recipient, but unless some Holy Spirit empowered work or Holy scripture is involved no Spiritual life or growth will take place. That’s why I am telling you that we are sinners if we revert to the process of trying--and failing--to produce anything but “dead eggs.” Only live “eggs” are acceptable
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After meeting Jesus, Paul, once the world-class advocate of the disciplined life, told everyone he met that Jesus, by taking not just our sins but the appetites that cause sins to the cross, became the Truth that set us free from that way of life (Gal 2:20 & 5:24). Illuminated by inspiring analogies, this book describes how you can get everything Jesus purchased for you: freedom from not just the penalty but freedom from the power of sin. As Chaplin Bill says, this book reveals that “true freedom from the cycle of self indulgent appetites comes only through Christ, and not our own self discipline.” Instead of impassioned reminders of your duties, this book speaks joy to your emotions.
About the Author
Don’s greatest joy daily comes from his having married his heartthrob on her 16th birthday more than 50 years ago. He is thankful that his children love and respect him and that they serve the Lord. His greatest comfort comes daily from his assurance that as the author of Living Beyond the Cycle of Defeat he has been used of the Lord in the US and in South Africa. It has been his pleasure during the past 50 years to lead Bible study groups at home and abroad. It has been his purpose over the past ten years to validate the content of Appetites: Are You Driving or Driven in the classrooms of four major denominations.