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Smoking
Wanna Quit?
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The purpose of this Article is to help you realize you can:  Quit Smoking in less than 7 days.

This Article is for the person who wants to quit smoking. Although it has been proven that nicotine is extremely addictive, there is hope to the person who wants to quit smoking but does not seem to be able to give up their dependency on nicotine.

We begin by asking the following question:

Can a Christian who smokes go to Heaven when they die?

The answer is; "Yes, of course!"  Smoking has nothing to do with a person's Eternal Security!  

GOD has provided a means to deliver HIS children from the addiction of nicotine. HIS plan does not require 5,10, or 12 Step Programs, patches or pharmaceutical drugs. The LORD will, through the power of HIS Word, activated by the faith of the seeker set those free who want to be free from nicotine addiction.

The words in the Holy Bible are not just black ink on a white page like all other books in the world.  The Bible is unique and single in it's inspiration and origin.

Ecclesiastics 12:12



"..be warned, my son, of anything in addition to them."

1 Timothy 3:16



"All Scripture is
GOD-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness.."

Hebrews 4:12



"For the word of GOD is living and active.  Sharper than any double - edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart."

 

The purpose of this Article is not to pass judgment on people who smoke but to point the way to the LORD'S plan of freedom from the addiction of nicotine.  Some Christians says that smoking is a sin and treat Christian's who smoke as 'second class' citizens.

One man had witnessed to his neighbor about how much JESUS loved him and that HE had died for his sins.  After several years of sharing the gospel with him, his neighbor finally decided to go to a local Church on a particular Sunday Morning. He tells of how he observed carefully the Service and actually liked his first and only experience with the LORD.  After the Service, walking through the parking lot on his way to his car, this man lit up a cigarette.  Before he could unlock the door to his car, two Ushers from the Church stopped him and told him; "We do not tolerate your kind of behavior in this Church.  Never come here again if you are going to smoke anywhere on Church property, besides, you are a horrible witness!"  The man never has gone back to any Church ever again to give his attention to a GOD who hates people who smoke!  It seems as though some Christians believe they are called to judge other Christians for activities that they call sin.

One well known Man of GOD with a Ministry that spans the world one day said on Television that; "nothing unclean had ever touched his lips!"  He went on to say that; "Christians, especially Pastors, who had ever smoked should be lined up against a wall and shot to death as an example to all other Christian people."  A few months later, his particular choice of sin was exposed before the world for all to see.  This Evangelist somehow forgot that it was not his calling to persecute others but to clean up his own house.

Romans 14:4



"Who are you to judge someone else's servant?  To his own master he stands or falls.  And he will stand, for the
LORD is able to make him stand."

 


 

 
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