<strong>PROVERBS 4:20-23</strong>

<strong>TITLE: THE WORD OF GOD; LIFE’S TRUE MEDICINE</strong>

<strong>INTRODUCTION</strong>
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	<li><strong>Who Knows the difference between Drugs and Medicine? </strong><u> </u>
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	<li>Drugs mask, Medicine heal</li>
	<li>Drugs give you a false sense of feeling good temporarily, then they wear off. Medicine is life sustaining</li>
	<li>Drugs are habit forming. Medicine requires a habit to be form</li>
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	<li>Even some things we call medicine are really drugs <u> </u></li>
	<li>Too many churches today are <strong>handing out drugs</strong>, not <strong>dispensing </strong></li>
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<strong>Medicine </strong>

<strong>WHY IS THE WORD OF GOD MEDICINE?</strong>
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	<li>v.20 <strong><em>“My son (and daughter), give attention to my words…….”</em></strong> <u> </u></li>
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B    v.22 <strong><em>“For they are life to those who find them, and health to all their</em></strong>

<strong>       <em>flesh”</em></strong>

<strong>WHY DO WE SOMETIMES USE DRUGS INSTEAD OF MEDICINE?</strong>
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	<li>Sometimes the needle pricks when it is inserted in to dispense medicine</li>
	<li>Sometimes it’s easier to feel the euphoria of the drug rather than to feel</li>
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the working of the medicine.

<strong>I DON’T WANT A “CRACK HOUSE” RELIGION…</strong>
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	<li>People go to a crack house just to feel good <u> </u></li>
	<li>The more you take drugs, the quicker the effect wears off. <u> </u></li>
	<li>Once you leave the crack house, the problems you were running from haven’t changed and the drugs haven’t change you (at least, not for the</li>
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better).

<strong>FOLLOW YOUR PRESCRIPTION</strong>
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	<li>Antibiotics always say take the complete prescription, even if you start to</li>
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feel better after a few days.
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	<li>You’ve got to take the Word every day. (it’s not a 10 day regiment, but a</li>
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life eternal regiment)

<strong>IT’S GOOD FOR WHAT AILS YOU</strong>
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	<li>If you need healing, try a dose of Jeremiah 17:14 <strong><em>“Heal me, O L</em></strong><strong><em>ORD</em></strong><strong><em>, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise</em></strong> <u> </u></li>
	<li>If you are broken-hearted. Take some of Psalm 34:18 <strong><em>“The Lord is near to those who are discouraged: He saves those who have lost all hope”</em></strong> some Psalm 147:3, “<strong><em>He heals the broken-hearted and bandages their wounds</em></strong>.” or maybe a little 1John 4:10 “<strong><em>This is what love is; it is not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the means by which our sins are forgiven.</em></strong>” <u> </u></li>
	<li>If you are feeling stress, try James 1:2-4 <u> </u></li>
	<li>If you are feeling alone, there’s a prescription in Isaiah 41:10 <u> </u></li>
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If you have sinned there is a healer who can prescribe 1John 1:9