Brother,
You are so full of filthy self-righteousness! Look at what you wrote "Struggled To Quit". Brother, if someone's struggling to quit, that means that they're putting forth an effort... They're trying... If you've never smoked before, then you have absolutely no idea of the struggle that there is in quitting. I was a Meth addict for a number of years. Laying Meth and Cocaine down was NOTHING in comparison to the physical dependency and withdrawals of smoking. It was literally one of the hardest things that I ever did. I received the baptism of the Holy Ghost... I was delivered completely from any desire for Meth or the like, however, as hard as I tried, I couldn't quit smoking. I tried, but it just wouldn't happen. Yet I STILL Had the Holy Ghost. He didn't forsake me. He didn't abandon me. Finally a few months after receiving the precious Holy Ghost, I felt Him say to me to put them down and He would take them. I obeyed in faith and at that very moment, God instantly set me free from any desire or craving with NO withdrawal symptoms. You and King Epley and St. Mark and whoever the other self-righteous Pharisees are on this thread, can try to deny that it happened just that way, but whether you believe it or not, just like the old hymn says, I was there when it happened, so I guess I ought to know.
You people act as though you are without sin... You act as though you are the picture of perfection, holiness and righteousness, but the righteousness that you are relying in is as filthy rags. The only righteousness within me, is that which I has been imparted to me by Christ Jesus. I pray that you can see yourselves and I mean that sincerely. There is nothing that does the "work of the enemy" like a judgmental, condemning spirit of a Pharisee. You kill people with your condemnation... Why can't you allow God to be God and let Him judge people's hearts and motives? You're not Jesus, Jr! Your blood wasn't shed for sin! Quit acting like it!
1 John 1:8-10 NIV "If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word has no place in our lives."
* but that post was dead on IMO.
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