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The Word of God and following after Jesus Christ can make you feel like your taking some sort of drug or something...
"Zeal"... When you feel zeal or get zealous or excited or the Word of God gets your heart beating faster, like you have adrenaline in your veins... Anyways, the Word of God, (and trying to follow/be like Jesus in life) can get you high (potentially), and I don't know if that is a good or bad thing, it is certainly something that has to be kept "in-check" when spreading the good news or sharing the gospel or when taking a moral stance with Jesus Christ...
Or how you get excited when you get the chance to talk about God, the gospel and/or Jesus Christ and your beliefs with someone, you notice that your normally subdued talk, will get a little louder and quicker... Is this because it is working on you like a drug and getting you "high"? If so, what should we do or say about this?
In the Gnostic gospels it hint's at the idea of partaking of the Word can get you "intoxicated", and says "When they shake off their wine, they will repent." Can the cup of wine representing Jesus blood, and I also believe the cup full of the anger of Babylon's (harlot's) fornication, and the "cup" full of the wine of the anger of the wrath of God, the "cup" Jesus said we would have to drink from in rememberance of him, can this be the Word intoxicating us and if so, how should we handle it?
Does anyone know/feel what I'm talking about? Are we all "drug users" when it comes to the Word of God, the good news, the gospel, following Jesus Christ?
"Zeal"... When you feel zeal or get zealous or excited or the Word of God gets your heart beating faster, like you have adrenaline in your veins... Anyways, the Word of God, (and trying to follow/be like Jesus in life) can get you high (potentially), and I don't know if that is a good or bad thing, it is certainly something that has to be kept "in-check" when spreading the good news or sharing the gospel or when taking a moral stance with Jesus Christ...
Or how you get excited when you get the chance to talk about God, the gospel and/or Jesus Christ and your beliefs with someone, you notice that your normally subdued talk, will get a little louder and quicker... Is this because it is working on you like a drug and getting you "high"? If so, what should we do or say about this?
In the Gnostic gospels it hint's at the idea of partaking of the Word can get you "intoxicated", and says "When they shake off their wine, they will repent." Can the cup of wine representing Jesus blood, and I also believe the cup full of the anger of Babylon's (harlot's) fornication, and the "cup" full of the wine of the anger of the wrath of God, the "cup" Jesus said we would have to drink from in rememberance of him, can this be the Word intoxicating us and if so, how should we handle it?
Does anyone know/feel what I'm talking about? Are we all "drug users" when it comes to the Word of God, the good news, the gospel, following Jesus Christ?