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By Andrea Johnson<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Flipping through television channels one night, I caught an episode of My 600-lb Life<\/em>, a show about morbidly obese people (not due to medical conditions) who have come to the realization that if they don\u2019t lose weight, they will die. My curiosity was piqued. How can someone afford that much food, and who has time to cook all that food?<\/em>   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It took very little time to see that a 600-pound person usually cannot buy their own food. They can\u2019t work. They can barely move. In these cases a \u201cloved one\u201d is purchasing the food and bringing it to them. A loved one is providing the food that is killing them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As with any addiction, the morbidly obese person\u2019s life centers around their addiction. They are enslaved to food. There are a host of reasons for addiction, but I can\u2019t help but wonder what is going on in the lives of these family members that they would help their loved ones kill themselves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Lisa\u2019s article<\/a> this month about her brother\u2019s transition to become a woman, she echoes my sentiments. \u201cWhat troubles me even more than my brother\u2019s decline in mental health,\u201d she said, \u201cis that countless people around him have decided to simply \u2018love and support\u2019 him on this \u2018journey.\u2019\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lisa\u2019s brother \u2013 a son, husband, father of five \u2013 receives lots of \u201clikes\u201d on social media. His wife is even helping him transition into a woman. She took him to buy makeup and wigs, as if it\u2019s the hair and makeup that makes a woman! (Ladies, we\u2019ve come a long way, or have we?)  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My children used to come in from playing outdoors pretending they were wild animals. Although this was a perfectly acceptable playtime fantasy, when it was time for lunch I made them eat with silverware from a plate at the table. I didn\u2019t dress them for school in bear costumes; I didn\u2019t indulge their fantasies.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As in the case of those suffering from morbid obesity, we don\u2019t help someone break free from their addiction if we do not confront them, or if worse yet, we enable them. Lisa\u2019s brother is not getting the help he needs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Romans 6:16 (NASB) says, \u201cYou are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness.\u201d Later in that same chapter Paul reminds us, \u201cThe wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jesus came to \u201cproclaim liberty to captives and freedom to prisoners\u201d (Isaiah 61:1). He did not give His life on the cross just so we and our loved ones could slip into eternity hopelessly enslaved to sin. That is not the \u201cgood news\u201d we are called to preach. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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