2. The Solution: The Gospel of Jesus Christ
The Remedy for our Insanity
"Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many.”
Matt. 7:13

3. “Gospel from the air”
Creation
Fall
Redemption
Consummation

4. Redeemer Prophesied…
Isa. 52:13—53:12

5. Consummation The Village Church Statement of Faith
“The consummation of all things includes the visible,
personal, physical, future and glorious return of
Jesus Christ, the resurrection of the dead and the
translation of those alive in Christ, the judgment of
the just and the unjust, and the fulfillment of Christ’s
kingdom in the New Heavens and the New Earth. In
the consummation, Satan with his hosts and all those
outside Christ are finally separated from the benevolent
presence of God, enduring eternal punishment, but the
righteous, in glorious bodies, shall live and reign with
Him forever, serving Him and giving Him unending
praise and glory. Then shall the eager expectation of
creation be fulfilled and the whole earth shall proclaim
the glory of God who makes all things new.”
The Village Church Statement of Faith

6. “Reformission”

7. Three-part disease model taught in treatment settings and AA
Spiritual malady
Physical
allergy
“craving”
Mental obsession

8. Three-part disease model taught in treatment settings and AA
Spiritual Malady
Physical
Allergy
Mental Obsession

9. Three-part disease model taught in treatment settings and AA
Spiritual malady
Physical
allergy
Mental obsession

10. Three-part disease model taught in treatment settings and AA
Spiritual malady
Physical
allergy
Mental obsession
False gospel – promising recovery from the spiritual malady apart from the redemptive work of Christ (God’s plan).

11. Irritable, restless and discontent
Spiritual Malady
Irritable, restless and discontent

12. Irritable, restless and discontent
Spiritual Malady
Irritable, restless and discontent
Desire for
Relief

13. Irritable, restless and discontent
Spiritual Malady
Irritable, restless and discontent
Desire for
relief
See others

14. Irritable, restless and discontent
Spiritual Malady
Irritable, restless and discontent
Desire for
Relief
See others
Think/Obsess

15. Irritable, restless and discontent
Spiritual Malady
Irritable, restless and discontent
Desire for
Relief
See others
Think/Obsess
1st drink

16. Irritable, restless and discontent
Spiritual Malady
Irritable, restless and discontent
Desire for
Relief
See others
Think/Obsess
Spree
1st drink

17. Irritable, restless and discontent
Spiritual Malady
Irritable, restless and discontent
Desire for
Relief
See others
Injuries (pain)
Think/Obsess
Spree
1st drink

18. Irritable, restless and discontent
Spiritual Malady
Irritable, restless and discontent
Desire for
Relief
See others
Injuries (pain)
Think/Obsess
Spree
1st drink
DEATH

19. Irritable, restless and discontent
Spiritual Malady
Irritable, restless and discontent
Desire for
Relief
See others
Remorse
“sorrow”
Injuries (pain)
Think/Obsess
Spree
1st drink
DEATH

20. Irritable, restless and discontent
Spiritual Malady
Irritable, restless and discontent
Resolutions
“promises”
Desire for
Relief
See others
Remorse
Injuries (pain)
Think/Obsess
Spree
1st drink
DEATH

21. Irritable, restless and discontent
Spiritual Malady
Irritable, restless and discontent
Resolutions
Desire for
Relief
See others
Remorse
Injuries (pain)
Think/Obsess
Spree
1st drink
DEATH

22. Irritable, restless and discontent
Insanity Cycle
Spiritual Malady
Irritable, restless and discontent
Resolutions
Desire for
Relief
See others
Remorse
Injuries (pain)
Think/Obsess
Spree
1st drink
DEATH

23. Insanity Cycle Spiritual Malady Resolutions Desire for Relief
Irritable, restless and discontent
Resolutions
Desire for
Relief
See others
Remorse
Injuries (pain)
Think/Obsess
Spree
1st drink
DEATH
“Self-knowledge alone avails us nothing”

24. Observation apart from revelation leads to speculation
as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
2 Cor. 4:18

25. At every point we need God’s revelation for a correct interpretation.

26. Relief (or for Pleasure)
Insanity Cycle
Spiritual Malady
Rom. 5:12
Desire for
Relief (or for Pleasure)
Resolutions
Temptation
Remorse
Injuries (pain)
Think/Obsess
Spree
Action
DEATH

27. Spiritual malady– “spiritual problem”
Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—
Rom 5:12
“Restless, irritable and discontent”
“Sin is the marring of Shalom (peace).”
Mark Driscoll

28. Relief (or for Pleasure)
Insanity Cycle of Sin
Spiritual Malady
Desire for
Relief (or for Pleasure)
Resolutions
Temptation
Remorse
Injuries (pain)
Think/Obsess
Spree
Action
DEATH

29. Insanity Cycle of Sin Spiritual Malady Temptation Desire for Relief
Rom. 8:22
Resolutions
Temptation
Remorse
Injuries (pain)
Think/Obsess
Spree
Action
DEATH

30. We groan…
For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now.
Rom. 8:22

31. Insanity Cycle of Sin Spiritual Malady Temptation Desire for Relief
Resolutions
Temptation
Remorse
James 1:13-16
Injuries (pain)
Think/Obsess
Spree
Action
DEATH

32. Dancing shiny things before our deceitful hearts
Let no one say when he is tempted, "I am being tempted by God," for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one. But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.
James 1:13-14

33. Insanity Cycle of Sin Spiritual Malady Temptation Desire for Relief
Resolutions
Jer. 17:9
Temptation
Remorse
Injuries (pain)
Think/Obsess
Spree
Action
DEATH

34. Insanity Cycle of Sin Spiritual Malady Temptation Desire for Relief
Resolutions
Mark
7:20-23
Temptation
Remorse
Injuries (pain)
Think/Obsess
Spree
Action
DEATH

35. Insanity Cycle of Sin Spiritual Malady Temptation Desire for Relief
Resolutions
Temptation
Remorse
Injuries (pain)
Think/Obsess
Spree
LIE: Rom. 1:25
Action
DEATH

36. The Lie…
… because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
Rom. 1:25

37. Insanity Cycle of Sin Spiritual Malady Temptation ADDICTION:
Rom. 1:24,26,28 / Isa. 5:5
Desire for
Relief
Resolutions
Temptation
Remorse
Injuries (pain)
Think/Obsess
Spree
Action
DEATH

38. Given over…
Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,
Rom. 1:24

39. Given over…
 For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature
Rom. 1:26

40. Given over…
 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.
Rom. 1:28

41. Overrun…
And now I will tell you  what I will do to my vineyard. I will remove its hedge,  and it shall be devoured; I will break down its wall,  and it shall be trampled down.
Isa. 5:5

42. Insanity Cycle of Sin Spiritual Malady Temptation Desire for Relief
Resolutions
Temptation
Remorse
Injuries (pain)
Think/Obsess
Spree
Prov.
16:25 & 14:12
Action
DEATH

43. Insanity Cycle of Sin Spiritual Malady Temptation Desire for Relief
Resolutions
HOPE
Rom.
8:20-21
Temptation
Remorse
Injuries (pain)
Think/Obsess
Spree
Action
DEATH

44. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God.
Rom. 8:20-21

45. GOD Insanity Cycle of Sin Spiritual Malady Temptation Desire for
Relief
Resolutions
Grace
Temptation
Remorse
Injuries (pain)
Think/Obsess
Spree
Action
DEATH

46. Our Testimony…
For God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness,“ has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
2 Cor. 4:6

47. GOD Insanity Cycle of Sin Spiritual Malady Temptation Desire for
Relief
Resolutions
Grace
Christ
Temptation
Remorse
Injuries (pain)
Think/Obsess
Spree
Action
DEATH

48. By what means?

49. GOD Insanity Cycle of Sin Spiritual Malady Temptation Desire for
Relief
John 1:1-14
Resolutions
Grace (Romans 5:17)
Christ
Temptation
Remorse
Injuries (pain)
Think/Obsess
Spree
Action
DEATH

50. For if, because of one man’s trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.
Rom. 5:17

51. GOD Insanity Cycle of Sin Spiritual Malady Temptation Desire for
Relief
Resolutions
Grace (Romans 5:17)
Christ
Temptation
Remorse
REPENTANCE
2 Cor. 7:10
Injuries (pain)
Think/Obsess
Spree
Action
DEATH

52. For the sorrow that is according to the will of God produces a repentance without regret, leading to salvation, but the sorrow of the world produces death.
2 Cor. 7:10

53. GOD Insanity Cycle of Sin Spiritual Malady Temptation Desire for
Relief
Resolutions
Grace (Romans 5:17)
Christ
Temptation
Remorse
BROKENESS
Ps. 51:17
Injuries (pain)
Think/Obsess
Spree
Action
DEATH

54. GOD Spirit Insanity Cycle of Sin Spiritual Malady Temptation
Desire for
Relief
Resolutions
Christ
Grace (Romans 5:17)
Spirit
Eze. 36:26-27
Temptation
Remorse
Injuries (pain)
Think/Obsess
Spree
Action
DEATH

55. Changing affections…
And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.
Eze. 36:26-27

56. GOD Spirit Insanity Cycle of Sin Spiritual Malady Temptation
Desire for
Relief
Resolutions
Christ
Grace (Romans 5:17)
Spirit
Life and Peace
Temptation
Remorse
Injuries (pain)
Think/Obsess
Spree
Action
DEATH

57. Traditional Step 2:
We came to believe that a power greater that ourselves could restore us to sanity.

58. Acts 17:16-34

59. Redeeming Truth of Step 2
God lovingly stepped into human history by taking on flesh in the person and work of Jesus Christ in order to provide hope and a remedy for the insanity of our sin and a way back into fellowship with Him. He succeeded where we have failed in living a life that we cannot, taking on our sin, dying a death that we deserve and through His resurrection conquered sin and death and shame so that those who believe in Him might live. He promises new life, the forgiveness of sins and the Holy Spirit to those who repent and trust in Him. We came to believe that, by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, we can be restored. Not only do we get a taste of restoration in this life, but upon Christ’s return, we will see the fullness of all that He has promised.

60. But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ--by grace you have been saved-- and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Eph. 2:4-9