Nancy DeMas Walgamuth says addiction means eventually hating the thing you think you can't live without.

See, that's what happens when we give into these temptations and they become a habit pattern and addiction and enslaveant.

And we think it'll make us happy initially, but ultimately it makes us sick and miserable.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of Adorned, for Friday, February 24th, 2017.

Earlier this week, Nancy offered some helpful advice on whether it's wise to drink in moderation or better to not start drinking at all. That discussion flowed out of our study of Titus

in the series, God's Beautiful Design for Women.

Now, even if you've never tasted alcohol, it doesn't mean you're not susceptible to addiction.

Well, we're looking at this phrase in Titus chapter 2 that says that older women, and by implication,

this is what younger women are to be aspiring to and moving toward, older women are not to be

slaves to much wine.

Your new international version will say they are not to be addicted to much wine. And over the last

couple of programs, we addressed the use and the abuse of alcohol in particular. But I believe that

the principle Paul is talking about here is broader than just the use and the abuse of alcohol.

So I want to take a couple of sessions to address the issue of addictions in general.

Now, the word addictions is a modern term.

It's really not my favorite term because the way it's used today, it tends to imply that we have no responsibility or culpability, that this is

something we can't help. We're not saying that. We're saying we make choices that lead to

bondage and strongholds in our lives. The biblical concept is that of enslavement. And that's

why it says, don't be slaves to much wine in the translation that I use.

In this session, I want to talk about the anatomy of addiction or enslavement and identify some

common addictions and how and why we become enslaved to these things.

And then in the next session, I want to talk about breaking free from addictions.

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