Can Addiction Be Forgiven?
1) Direct Answer
Yes. Addiction can be forgiven and broken. When you repent and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, His Blood cleanses, and His Spirit delivers.
2) Scriptural Explanation
- “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9).
- Jesus said He was sent “to preach deliverance to the captives” (Luke 4:18). Addiction is captivity; Christ proclaims deliverance.
- “If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed” (John 8:36).
- “Sin shall not have dominion over you” (Romans 6:14).
- The Corinthian church had former drunkards and addicts among them, yet the Word says, “such were some of you: but ye are washed… justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God” (1 Corinthians 6:9-11).
- He “is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him” (Hebrews 7:25).
- “Repent… be baptized… for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost” (Acts 2:38).
- “Be not drunk with wine… but be filled with the Spirit” (Ephesians 5:18).
3) Simple Clarifying Logic
- Addiction is sin because it rules you; Christ forgives sin and breaks its rule. If He forgave and freed drunkards and idolaters in Corinth, why not you? Is anything too hard for the Lord?
- Some say, “It’s just a disease.” The Bible calls it bondage and works of the flesh; Jesus came to save from sin and set captives free. Will we make the chain bigger than the Chain-Breaker?
- Forgiveness is granted when you confess and forsake; freedom is enforced as you walk in the Spirit. Don’t excuse it; renounce it. Don’t feed it; shut every door. Be filled with the Holy Ghost instead of being controlled by the habit. The cleanest walk is total abstinence and a life surrendered to the Word.
4) Reinforcing Statement
Come to Him now. Pray, repent, and believe. He will forgive, wash, and fill you with the Holy Ghost. The same Jesus who saves also keeps.
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What did the Laodicean Church Age (our age) Angel (- messenger) Say about this?
Ranked passages from the local William Branham sermon and Church Age Book database. Relevance is relative, not a statement of doctrinal certainty.
The unpardonable sin
54-1024 §46
...the Gospel truth, and it's laid out to you, and God has revealed it to you, and you know it's the truth; but just to satisfy some congregation or some petty preacher, or to be popular, that you want to hold onto the things that you want to hold onto instead of taking God's Word; Paul said, "He that sins, or disbelieves willfully after he has received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sin." There is your unpardonable sin, is to know what is the truth and refuse to walk in it. Amen. No...
We would see Jesus
57-0516 §24
Then, the Orthodox standing around, the church members, they said, "This man is Beelzebub. For He's the chief of the fortunetellers." That's what Beelzebub was: the chief of the devils. They thought it was a telepathy of some sort. And Jesus said, "You speak that word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven you. But when the Holy Ghost is come, and you speak a word against His work, it will never be forgiven you, neither in this world or the world that is to come." Did you get that, church? "It shall never be...
Things that are to be
65-1205 §45
This one come by sex and from the fall and must fall with the fall. No matter how much you patch the old thing up, she's going to fall anyhow. She's done, because she's doomed; because God said so! She's finished! God is going to destroy it. He said so. There'll be a renovation of the whole thing. Do you believe that? In the beginning when the world had its birth, when God pulled back the water first off the earth---like He did the water from the mother's womb---there was a world born. Yes! And peoples begin to liv...
Look
63-0428 §69
...what He's talking about. You've got to see that God knows that you are a sinner, and that you have confessed your sins and God put your iniquity upon Him, upon Himself, and become a man. He crossed his strain and come down from being God to be man that He might die in your stead, to give Hisself for you. And you confessed your sin. And not a manufactured Clorox, but a power of God that was made blood, that He might take away your sinful blood (by sexual desire), and make you a free man and woman of God... There you...
Led by the Spirit
59-0407 §46
Now, here's what you do then. Say, "Lord Jesus, the great High Priest of the covenant, I most humbly come to Thee in confession of my sin." Now, sin is unbelief. Smoking's not a sin. Drinking's not a sin. Committing adultery is not sin. That's the attributes of unbelief. If you believed, you wouldn't do those things, see. There's only one sin, and that's unbelief: "He that believeth not is condemned already," see. You smoke, lie, steal, drink, commit adultery, because you're not a believer. A believer doesn't do th...