{"id":1315,"date":"2011-01-28T15:12:01","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T21:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freedomfrommedom.com\/member\/?p=1315"},"modified":"2013-12-07T12:02:09","modified_gmt":"2013-12-07T18:02:09","slug":"twirl-024-12711","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.freedomfrommedom.com\/member\/lessons\/twirl-024-12711","title":{"rendered":"TWIRL 024: That&#8217;s All I Need"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This Week in Recovery Lesson<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>That&#8217;s All I Need!<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4VbI5zcB8Ac?rel=0\" height=\"390\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We live in a social culture that promotes the \u201cIt\u2019s all about me\u201d ideal. The fact is that it has been all about me and all about you since Adam and Eve. They were tempted because they wanted more than what they had&#8212;even though they had it all. Their discontentment led to their self-centeredness and a feeling of entitlement. The Bible\u2019s three letter word for self-centered ambition is sin. The Bible instructs that we are born into a culture of sin. In other words, we are born into a world subject to the law of selfish sin because of an inherited predisposition to sin dating all the way back to Adam and Eve. The Bible also teaches us that we sin when we have knowledge of our sin\u2014essentially coming into awareness of right and wrong, good and bad, moral and immoral. The Apostle Paul uses the parallel of the law, the commandments to Moses, as a barometer by which to gauge our knowledge of sin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in God\u2019s sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin.<\/strong> Romans 3:20 (NKJV)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He writes that this law is a good thing since it helps us to know the difference between right and wrong. But then Paul makes the point that the more we know the difference between right and wrong, good and bad, the more aware we become of how much more we are choosing wrongly and behaving badly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>But sin, even the appearance of sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so sin through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful.<\/strong> Romans 7:13 (NKJV)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This makes sense. We learned the law of sin when Adam consumed knowledge in the Garden of Eden. Paul also said in Romans chapter seven, \u201cFor sin seizing the opportunity by the commandment\u2014which was to bring life, deceived me, and by it killed me.\u201d The commandment originally was access to of all the fruit\u2014meaning to enjoy all of God\u2019s provision and blessing, but do not eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. God allowed Adam and Eve to possess and eat of all of the fruit in the garden, giving Adam and Eve total access to possess everything that was his, but to eat of the tree of knowledge was certain death. They had it all and then wanted the one thing they could not have. God has given us so much in this life, yet like Adam and Eve, we so often choose that which is unhealthy and destructive. We\u2019ve even been warned of the danger and risk of unhealthy lifestyle choices, and yet we pursue risky and dangerous lifestyle activities anyway. When we learn what hurts, why do we still do it?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It is this lack of or absence of control in our core discontentment and dissatisfaction that leads to our shift in focus. Adam and Eve were focused on the work of God in the world until they became aware of their discontentment that rendered them dissatisfied with what they were, what they had, and what they were doing. Their purpose radically changed from living to please God to protecting their own interests and satisfying themselves. The problem was that, according to this principle of scratching their itch, they would grow increasingly dissatisfied, always more and more itchy.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">How might you identify with the Steve Martin character (Nathan) in the video above?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What does it mean to you to be addicted to selfish sin?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Would you agree that you are addicted to selfish sin? Please explain.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">When you consider Adam and Eve in God&#8217;s garden, what comes to mind as to what that may have looked like and felt like?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What was it about the human nature of Adam and Eve that their paradise existence proved insufficient for them?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What could they have possibly needed or wanted that they did not already possess or have access to?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">How would you say this is true of you?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #2b452f;\">Please click on <a class=\"wp-oembed\" title=\"Open TWRAC 024\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomfrommedom.com\/member\/twrap\/1324\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\">TWRAC 024<\/span><\/a> for this week&#8217;s application to this lesson.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-share-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-via=\"StevieMG\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"twttr_buttons\"><div class=\"twttr_twitter\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=TWIRL+024%3A+That%27s+All+I+Need\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"\" data-hashtags=\"\"  data-size=\"default\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.freedomfrommedom.com\/member\/lessons\/twirl-024-12711\"  data-related=\"\" target=\"_blank\">Tweet<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Week in Recovery Lesson That&#8217;s All I Need! 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