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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Ranked passages from the local William Branham sermon and Church Age Book database. Relevance is relative, not a statement of doctrinal certainty.
It is I, be not afraid
59-0811 §16
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63-0731 §104
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59-0712 §37
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51-0727 §45
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55-0806 §23
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