Overcoming Sin Addiction (Jeremiah 2:1-13)

Biblical Truths from West Palm Beach church of Christ

We are going to have a short series called Overcoming Sin Addiction and we are going to look at how to do this from the second chapter of Jeremiah. I would like you to take your copies of God’s word and turn to Jeremiah 2. The series theme comes from what God says through Jeremiah in verses 23-25.

“You are a swift she-camel running here and there, a wild donkey accustomed to the desert, sniffing the wind in her craving— in her heat who can restrain her? Any males that pursue her need not tire themselves; at mating time they will find her. Do not run until your feet are bare and your throat is dry. But you said, ‘It’s no use! I love foreign gods, and I must go after them.’” (Jeremiah 2:23-25 NIV)

I want us to notice this picture before we begin this lesson. God describes the people craving after their sins, unrestrained like an animal in heat. God is calling for them to stop. But the people’s response is in verse 25. They say that it is no use. They love their foreign gods and have a compulsion to go after them. Sin is being pictured as an addiction…

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