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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The unpardonable sin
54-1024 §22
As we said this morning: You got an old sheet there, just as dirty as it can be, full of ink and everything else. Nothing can take it away. You dip that down in a can full of Clorox, or a tub, bring it back out, it's just as white as it can be. That's what the blood of Jesus Christ does to the believer that confesses his sins. It said: There is a fountain filled with blood Drawn from Immanuel's veins; When sinners plunge beneath the flood, Lose all their guilty stain. Then, when God shakes the sheet and sees that i...
The unpardonable sin
54-1024 §77
You've got all faith, I guess, "in me, to believe that I have it." I do too. God knows it. I believe that you've got it. I have all faith in you to believe it. You're kind, loving, and sweet, and everything. I believe that you are Christian people. I believe that you've got the Holy Ghost. I couldn't swear to it. God knows it. That's right, see, so we can't judge by these things. You can't pin God down and say "this is it," because He is the Judge. We wasn't sent to judge. We were sent to preach. Is that right? Tha...
The unpardonable sin
54-1024 §11
...with all the sin problem settled forever. "For by one sacrifice," says the Scripture here, "he has perfected forever them that are sanctified." And He said, "The Holy Ghost bears record of the same," see. That one sacrifice, forever: He made His offering, giving His own life, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on High. And we have a High Priest sitting in the Majesty of God, in the presence of the great Creator, making intercessions upon our profession. Then said here, in the 19th verse: Having therefore, br...
Adoption, part 3: Position in Christ
60-0522M §33
Remember last Wednesday night, no Christian... Christians sin, but a sinner cannot sin. A sinner doesn't sin, because he's a sinner. He's just a sinner to begin with, and that's all. Here, take the back of this book. It's black. How much of that is black? It's all black. There's just no white to it, it's black. You say, "This much here." No, it isn't, the whole thing's black. It's just all black. That's the way a sinner is. He's just condemned to start with. Well, you say, "What about if he commits adultery? What i...
Why?
59-0813 §24
...the doctor's steps. Here comes a man out had the same disease and he's well. Another one comes out and said, "That's fanaticism. I ain't going in there." He will die there, because he rejects to take the medicine. And so is it. A man will die and sink into dark eternity without knowing God if he refuses the baptism of the Holy Ghost. God's toxin is for him. Some people say, "I just can't keep from sinning." "Brother Branham, I got a cigarette habit. I just can't quit it." "I got a drinking habit. I can't quit it."...