I want to quit drinking
and doing drugs.
How can I achieve that?
Let us read Ecclesiastes 9:4.
"For to him that is joined

to all the living there is hope:
for a living dog is better

than a dead lion."
Even if it is just a dog, if it is alive,
it is better than a dead lion.
In the same way, a living person
has hope in God
if he hasn't known the truth yet.
The proof is, in I Timothy 1:13,
it is written -
"Who was before a blasphemer,

and a persecutor, and injurious:
but I obtained mercy,

because I did it ignorantly in unbelief."
When the Apostle Paul
was not yet an apostle,
he was a persecutor,
he had people killed,
he was a blasphemer
and injurious.
"But since I did it ignorantly
in unbelief, I obtained mercy."
Your hope is God's mercy.
You cannot stop drug addiction
and drinking.
You cannot do that by yourself
no matter what you do.
Let us read Jeremiah 10:23.
"O LORD, I know that the way of man

is not in himself:
it is not in man that walketh

to direct his steps."
Man cannot correct himself,
in the same way
that a car cannot drive itself.
Even though there are cars nowadays
equipped with computers,
it is still the computer
that drives them.
Without the computer,
a human driver is still needed.
But the car, by itself,
it cannot drive itself
and direct its operation.
That's how man is.
The Bible says,
"I know that the way of man

is not in himself:
it is not in man that walketh

to direct his steps."
How then can we be corrected
if we cannot correct our steps?
Let us read Proverbs 16:9.
"A man's heart deviseth his way:

but the LORD directeth his steps."
Only God can correct you.
Your hope is God's mercy.
Now, if you would allow it,
let me teach you the way
for you to be able to quit that.
It says in James 4:7,
"Submit yourselves therefore to God.
Resist the devil,

and he will flee from you."
The first step
is to submit yourself to God.
Acknowledge God,
submit to Him,
listen to the doctrines,
submit to baptism,
for the devil to flee from your body.
Submit yourself to God first.
Once you have submitted to God,
the devil will flee from you.
It is the devil that commands you
to do what is wrong.
Look, even your family
has lost hope in you.
Because normally,
if you are in your right senses,
if you have no devil in you,
you will not rape your child.
But why are there parents
who rape their own children?
Because the devil possessed
their minds.
There are such men.
What does it mean?
Normally, we will not rape our children.
Normally, you will not use
addictive substances
because you know
that you are destroying yourself.
Many drug users
have destroyed themselves.
It destroyed not only their bodies,
but their minds as well,
which is why many have ended up
in mental institutions.
But despite knowing
that you are destroying yourself,
why do you continue doing it?
The devil has a hold on you.
The devil has power to deceive you
and to give you courage
to commit suicide in a way,
for you to lose control.
For the devil to flee from you,
you should submit yourself to God,
according to the Bible.
In submitting to God,
first of all, listen to His words,
believe in them,
and then submit to baptism.
In baptism, evil spirits are driven out,
and that's when change
will start in your life.
