Atomic (Be) Attitudes Steps 6 & 7 – Drop the Rock

Step #1: We admit we are powerless

I admit that I am powerless over ___________ and that my life has become unmanageable.

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Matthew 5:3

³ “Blessed are the poor in spirit,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

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Step #2 – God has the power we need.

We believe that God exists, that we matter to Him and He has the power to help us recover.

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Admitting we are allows us to tap into the power of God!

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Matthew 5:4

Blessed are those who mourn,
for they will be comforted.

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Step #3 – Turning life and will over

We made the decision to turn our life and will over to the care of Jesus.

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Matthew 5:5

Blessed are the meek,
for they will inherit the earth.

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Matthew 5:8

⁸ Blessed are the pure in heart,
for they will see God.

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Step # 4

We made a searching and fearless honest moral inventory of ourselves.

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Step #5

Admitted to God, to ourselves, and another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

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What we thought were the real issues are most likely only symptoms of the real issues.

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Matthew 15:19

¹⁹ For out of the heart come evil thoughts—murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.

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“No one wants to be so proud that he is scorned as a braggard, nor so greedy that he is labeled a thief. No one wants to be angry enough to murder, lustful enough to rape, gluttonous enough to ruin his health. No one wants to be agonized by the chronic pain of envy or paralyzed by laziness. Of course, most human beings don’t suffer these defects at the rock-bottom levels.”  Twelves Steps and Twelve Traditions

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Gal 5:19-21 (NLT)

¹⁹ When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, the results are very clear: sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures, ²⁰ idolatry, sorcery, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, division, ²¹ envy, drunkenness, wild parties, and other . Let me tell you again, as I have before, that anyone living that sort of life will not inherit the Kingdom of God.

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Sin has a separating effect.

Sin separates us from people and God.

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Rom 3:23

²³ for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God…

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Mt 5:6

⁶ Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
for they will be filled.

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Step # 6

We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

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Step #7

We humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.

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1. We are not all that .

1 Cor 10:13

¹³ No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind.

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2. There is no .

Romans 7:15-25

¹⁵ I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do… ¹⁹ For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing…²⁴ What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? ²⁵ Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!

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Romans 8:1-2

Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, ² because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.

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3. We have a .

Gal 5:16

¹⁶ So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

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4. Consider it .

Romans 6:1-7

What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? ² By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer… ⁶ For we know that our old self was crucified with him…we should no longer be slaves to sin— ⁷ because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.

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Gal 2:20

²⁰ I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

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5. Just for .

Matthew 6:34

³⁴ Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
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6. It is not who we are .

2 Cor 5:17

¹⁷ This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!

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7. Let Him

John 15:1-2

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. ² He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful.

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8. Live the you want to .

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It is time to drop the rock.

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