Quality Sobriety Volume Three

Just as other volumes of Quality Sobriety, the theme to Quality Sobriety Volume Three is the relevance of reverence for complete, lasting, and joyful sobriety. Quality Sobriety Volume Three covers passages from Nehemiah and Job, while the first two volumes cover the earlier books listed in the Bible. Although Volume Three is based on fewer passages, the issues that were discovered have led me to believe that reverence applies to addiction more than we could ever imagine. Volume Three starts with passages on the delightful contentment that we find in reverencing God. What we delight in questions our allegiances, our reverence, our sobriety! Contentment and discontentment are some of the large issues that this volume covers. The discontentment of addictions reveals dysfunction. Dysfunction is widely discussed in Quality Sobriety Volume Three. In response to the dysfunction of addiction, we have the examples of Nehemiah, Hanani, Job, and others, who demonstrated how the fear of the Lord produces order. Quality Sobriety Volume Three discusses the productivity and advancement that is possible with those who revere the Lord. Dysfunction not only plagues individuals but communities. Quality Sobriety Volume Three explains how addictions have always been a threat to the development of every nation. Insanity and disorder go hand in hand. Insanity may be defined as a weak and futile attempt to stifle the voice of God. Insanity denies and distorts the truth. Quality Sobriety Volume Three reveals how insanity believes Satan's inaccurate allegations against both God and us. The accuracy of the revelation of God affects God's reputation as well as our understanding of God, ourselves, and the world that we live in (including how we judge addictions.) Quality Sobriety Volume Three argues against the disease concept more than the first two volumes. 1. We don't practice diseases. 2. Addiction is a desire. 3. A disease cannot separate us from God. 4. There is no such thing as repenting from a disease. 5. Addiction is a deformity found in our souls. Deformities and diseases are not necessarily the same. Science fails to answer many of the mysteries of addiction that are clearly found in the Scriptures. Another major issue that Quality Sobriety Three discusses is repentance. Every program that offers help in overcoming addiction endorses repentance in one form or another. Repentance generally means change. In this volume, the process of repentance is discussed more than in the other volumes. The formula for repentance involves a process that is woven throughout every entry to this volume. Addiction is best understood as a worship disorder. The plain and simple remedy is reverence. Worship disorder cause dysfunction on every other level. Rebellion opposes worship. Rebellion displays irreverence that carries severe consequences. The consequences of irreverence that are prescribed in Scripture read much like the consequences of addiction. The consequences of irreverence produce the judgment of God. The quality of our sobriety must include every aspect of addiction (including the judgment of God.) Quality Sobriety Volume Three reveals more concerning the judgment of God than the previous volumes. No one can argue against the quality of our sobriety is related to stability. Quality Sobriety Volume Three explains how the intensity of our reverence is related to the stability of our sobriety. The intensity of our reverence is relative to our intimacy with the Almighty. To be estranged or distant from God is dysfunctional. Loving God and loving others is a priority with quality sobriety.