following program is sponsored by seattle open door church yet all open door church is committed to loving god loving people and loving life our doors are open to whomever required seattle open door church v if you live in the king county area or on cable channel seventy seven there is hope t v broadcaster sunday morning services an all star our sunday morning bible school classes also some for a wednesday services and then we do interviews of individuals that we broadcast also all so that we have a right to topics that we cover you can learn more by going to there's hope t v dot org that's there is hope t v dot org if you're not living in the area don't worry because you can watch all of our previous shows by going summer is going to be on june tenth and eleventh and our guest speaker is going to give us muscle anal this in our titles are titled the proof that god exists is the bible true addiction free forever and why am i here what is the meaning of life  dennis certainly was headed down a path of destruction and at one point dennis realize that he's going down that path of destruction and he sighed to go on a spiritual journey he decided he wanted to find out what the answer to life and how to all for calm all the various addictions i would as a li explore twenty one different approaches to life style truth problem solving and personal growth in clay most of the major experimental forms of psychology eastern religion utopianism and various new age practices scien does also to seven different colleges obtaining credit certificates and degrees in a range of subjects including engineering psychology philosophy theology in business all this led into one more approach to finding answers to life's questions christianity and became the seattle one or church impure ian will be giving all the details in just a moment or maybe you have found christianity a relationship with jesus christ is the answer for your life but you have friends that have not realized that yet have not found jesus as their best friend  the one who can carry them through all their circumstances and trials as the one who can give the meaning of life if so how about bringing them to the seminars so so it is going to be taking place on june tenth and eleventh before the evening seminars in june tenth and eleventh there will be a time to have a meal with dennis and then on sunday june eleventh in the morning service as it opened or church in period dennis will be leading the worship and speaking about being addiction free forever all the information the seminars is that right here on your screen a few weeks ago i did some interviews with dennis the coming up in just a moment hope to see you at the seminars if you have any questions about god about christianity questions about life whatever you may have is a question feel free to get get in contact with me you can contact me by phone to all six  hundred ninety five that's two zero six three nine six nine hundred ninety five or you can e mail me pastor underscore rich at s o d c dot tv this pastor underscore rich at s o d c dot t if you want to learn how to have eternal life in a victorious life here in this earth keep on watching we're going to have some presentations for you at the towards in this video so keep on watching a good hope to see you at the seminars in june tenth and eleventh as see an open door church of burin get all the the seminar with denis the men are going to call prove that god exists that's a pretty book statement to make it off the bat that there's a proof that god exists and did it you have to know now that there's some people that this is no evidence that god exists right not that you're convinced that this conclusive proof that god exists and the whole purpose of the seminar is to give the evidence to back the data to prove that god exists exactly the science of logic which computer design and philosophy are based on says there is only one reality plato's law of non contradiction states that something cannot be both true and not true at the same time and in the same sense every simple question has only one simple answer like is there guy yes or no did god write the bible yes or no is actually true and relativism dominates now people say oh well you know whatever you believe whatever you think you know but that's just not logical or what is actually good and evil which is according to how humans were designed to function and that's my engineering side says this is the thing a designed thing that's only able to work one way i was speaking at swarthmore and bryn mawr college is in philadelphia the guy who hired me said what are you going to say and i said well one of the things i mean to say is there's only one truth because if you say that they're going to run out of the room screaming i go is in this place of higher learning should they be open minded to everything either it's all true or all of us directly unprovable parts of it are suspect say so we either believe in the whole bible forever and i know people that even if they know jesus christ as lord and savior haven't got an addiction free but that's what dennis believes and i want to a little bit about dennis and how he got to the point where he believes that dennis had eighteen years of addiction to alcohol and drugs and gambling and sports and all kinds other things and he was looking for answers he was looking all over france or is it the to how you can change and how you can overcome addictions and then he finally found a place where he found inner peace and he found a place where he was able to deal with the motion of problems that he had and i found the answer by studying the bible and come to please ballin down to submit it to submitting to god following the principles of the bible found a way to get him set free dentist how are you great how you do a person really be addiction free room to talk about that and first before you do that you do know a little bit about addiction so you do know if you're free or not right right so i want to talk just a little bit about what that addiction life was obviously sixty's and the hippies and i was in san francisco so the thing is that i had emotional problems i had like the likes of churning in my gut and i was shy and fear i pain confusion and so i was very susceptible to whatever was going around on around me you know i thought very weak and so i did what everybody else did with the alcohol and drugs and then i found some you know some kind of solace in those and but eventually you know i just had to get away from that because it was why we had to try to get away from and i couldn't at first get away from it i want to talk as a shrinks and  don't care about them this is sayers because you know something different right exactly well you know like i said i did because i tried the one thousand things when i finally did come to the bible which was like thirty one years ago so i was it works when i finally did come to the bible i just don't fully into it and i kind of did that too with the other things but i mean i was i was ready for it and knowing that nothing else out there in the world worked in my attempt to try to you know get feeling feeling good and not feeling bad that's why i think it's permanent because it was it has been permanent for me it worked and the only way that it can be permanent though is if a person fully gives and well to doing what the bible says again i want to hit on that this talk about the little because i have guys in my clean sober house and i say i wish i could be like aunt susie could just help one drink a night and i could get away with that why would you why do you care if you can be like answers you have a drink a day what what what if you're truly free it doesn't matter to you in true freedom is that you could have the drink and not have it so could you talk about little bit that you could have a drink your freedom to drink but you don't want to have it and that's freedom let me give you the psychological formula that i've come up with that makes it shows how can be permanent you know first of all we have to recognize that we don't have total control over our feelings right we can't we can't totally say we're going to feel good all the time and not feel bad so it's like you know learning to what's the indirect way that we can cause good feelings and not bad feelings so i start out i mean i was i've been in psychology for many years and the most important psychological principle that i've come across is that anything that we think is true our emotions are going to react as if it's true whether it's true or not so that's just understanding how the connection between the subconscious mind and the heart works so therefore we want to control really is what we program into our subconscious mind that would you know that causes the heart to feel good and not feel bad and that's god's design that's not up to us we all we can do is indirectly control it so then the bible says to be transformed by the renewal of our mind so you know just cuts and study of scripture programming that stuff into our mind and then the thing that keeps us in check our inner police if you would if you wan call it that is the bible says the other with the beginning of wisdom is the fear of god so if we can develop a fear to not go against what the bible says and the reason why we would do that it's because we experience that we end up feeling bad when we go against that you know so now we trust the bible to the point where ok if we do it it says we're not going to feel bad that that's the ticket into reprogramming our mind and and feeling good from that point on you know some would say because again we have some that are listening to our show that are christians if you brought up that word fear you say fear of god oh that's yeah that's my palm because god's got a baseball bat he's out to get me and that's not the you know you know you're talking about it all no no that's not it at all with it is what i'm talking about is a normal fear of like just natural normal fare like you wouldn't step in front of a train there's nothing wrong with that fear because you know what the consequences are well it's the same thing with the fear of god it's not really the fear of god it's the fear of his just punishment against when we do bad things so that's just normal so we a course we're not going to do we're not going to step out of a train we're not going to chase a butterfly after cliff and we're not god placed on him world i come from god created the world and that includes you at first everything was good exactly as god made it but now we all make wrong choices and commit wrong actions we live in god's world but go our own way we fail to live up to god's standards and so we're guilty the bible calls this sin our sin separates us from god light has come into the world but men love darkness instead of light john three nineteen we all want to feel good about ourselves but we only experience true meaning when we connect with our creator people try to find their way to god in many ways but these efforts all fail our sins are a barrier between god and us why am i here god loves you very much and wants you to love him in return your here because of his love and desire to have a personal relationship with you what you can't do through your own efforts god the son jesus did by coming to earth to die on the cross for you he took the punishment for your sin and so jesus became the way between god the father in you the wrong way to god all of our own efforts to restore ourselves to god are empty and worthless things like religion morality self improvement philosophy and good deeds all these things are like rotten rungs on a ladder they all fail because god is holy and perfect and we are not no matter what we might try the only way to god i am the way and the truth and the life no one comes to the father except through me john fourteen six for god so loved the world that he gave his one and only son that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life john three sixteen jesus shed blood was the only way god provided to restore us to himself to bridge the gap and it's the only way that god will accept and god prove that he accepted jesus death as the way to life by raising jesus from the dead so jesus christ is the only way for us to reach the father where my going jesus invites us but he warns us to whoever believes in the son has eternal life but whoever rejects the son will not see life for god's wrath remains on him john three thirty six if you don't find your way to god through jesus you will never know god personally and your life will have no lasting value when you die you will be separated from god forever the bible calls this hell but if you accept jesus as your savior you will have a personal relationship with god and live with him forever the bible calls this haven't which way are you going that depends on your relationship with jesus christ choose god's way through jesus and you'll have a personal relationship with him right now and you'll enjoy eternal life with him forever in heaven if you choose any other way you'll never know peace with god while you live here on earth you'll never have a relationship with god and never experience eternal life with god when you die jesus said in john five twenty four whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned he has crossed over from death to life how do i find my way to god admit that you're a center and turn away from sand like it says in john eight eleven then you must believe and have faith that when jesus died on the cross like it says in john one twenty nine he took the punishment for all your sin and he rose to life again to conquer death ask and receive jesus christ as your lord and savior it says in john one twelve to all who received him to those who believed in his name he gave the right to become children of god here's a prayer you can use to receive jesus christ as your savior it's a suggested prayer and the exact wording doesn't matter what counts is the attitude of your heart lord jesus thank you for dying on the cross for me please forgive all my failures and the sins of my past make me clean and help me start fresh with you i now receive you into my life as my lord and savior help me to love and serve you with all my heart man jesus said in john six thirty seven whoever comes to me i will never drive away your destination a new beginning being a christian involves a whole new life you can start that new life right now read a part of the bible every day pray daily and talk to god just as you would to a close friend join a local church where the bible is taught carry portion of god's word with you and share your faith in christ with others may your life be truly changed from this day forward and may we be the first to warmly welcome you into the family of christ this is basta ridge do you need to know jesus christ your lord and savior jesus said behold i stand at the door and not going to be one hears my voice and opens the door i will come in repent you him believe the gospel where you accept jesus christ as your lord savior today if you want to get more information you can always go to our website to learn how to accept jesus christ as your lord and savior you can go to there is hope t v guide or there's there is hope t v dot org and we have information on frequently asked questions about christianity we let you know step by step and accept jesus christ your lord and savior encourage you to go to there is hope t v or that is there is hope kimi dot org seattle open door church located in during committed to loving god loving people and loving life seattle open door church once you don't know but regardless of where you've been or what you've done god loves you there doors are open to anyone and everyone their services are sunday 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