Why Christians Shouldn't Drink Alcohol, part five

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Drinking Steals the Future From You

"Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant."—Isaiah 56:12

You cannot go hog wild "this day" without having it negatively impact upon "to morrow." Alcohol promises things "more abundant", but its words are lies. If you give it place today, it will rob you of what you might have been in the future.

Conclusions:

Obviously, the Bible says a lot about the consumption of alcohol. Its message is pretty clear to me. In a word, the word is don't. This report on the result of the consumption of alcohol in America is proof positive that all the Bible says about it is true.

If you have been drinking, let me urge you to set it aside, pour it all out, repent before God and admit it is a sin, and then follow the Lord's guidance into an alcohol-free life.

Why Christians Shouldn't Drink Alcohol, part four

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Alcohol Causes People to Err in Judgment

"But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest  and the prophet have erred through strong drink they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment. For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean."—Isaiah 28:7-8

When alcohol gets its hold, as it inevitably will, it creates a crisis. Poor vision, bad judgment, error upon error, vomiting and filth are the results it produces.

Drinking Among Friends Prohibited

"Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness! Thou are filled with shame for glory: drink thou also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the LORD'S right hand shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing shall be on thy glory."—Habakkuk 2:15-16

You are here warned against sharing alcohol with others. This warning comes replete with the unsavory details of what happens when alcohol is included. Shameful things are bound to happen. The sensible thing to do is deal with the cause—just don't drink.

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Alcohol Leads You Into Sin

"Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things."—Proverbs 23:33

Adultery easily results when the mind is polluted with alcohol. When the mind is under the control of alcohol, "perverse" things are much more likely to occur.

Alcohol Distorts Reality

"yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast. They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again."—Proverbs 23:34-35

When you take alcohol into your body, your mind is adversely affected. Who lies "down in the midst of the sea" to take a nap? Who tries to lie down to sleep high atop the rigging of a ship's sails? Only the guy under the influence would do so because his thinking is warped by the alcohol in his system.

Why We Believe Christians Shouldn't Drink Alcohol, part two.

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Poverty Results From Alcohol

"Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags."—Proverbs 23:20-21

No one becomes a drunkard until that first drink has been taken, but that first drink frequently leads to a second drink and soon to drunkenness. And, yes, gluttony is also a sin. They are mentioned here together because they both are unproductive and are apt to bring you to poverty (leaving you penniless, even homeless.)

God Warns Us—Don't Look in the Wine Cup

"Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright."—Proverbs 23:31

Simple enough. Don't look at it. Don't go there. Don't drink it.

Alcohol Is a Deadly Poison

"At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder."—Proverbs 23:32

If you are careful, you can play around with snakes for a time and probably not get bitten. But if you continue to play with them, "at the last" they will bite you. Who in his right mind plays with venomous snakes? In that very vein, the Bible warns about the poison of alcohol. It may seem harmless at first, but it will destroy you "at the last."

Why We Believe Christians Shouldn't Drink Alcohol

The Bible Provides the Bedrock on Which Our Position is Built.

While we appreciate the information published by the Post and the Inquirer—abnd as grateful as we are for the study produced by the Centers for Disease Control—that is not the primary reason we have preached with a fervent advocacy against drinking alcohol.

We have built our case and taken our cue from the Holy Scriptures, our precious Bible which is the Word of God. Here are some of the scriptural warnings that should teach us and guide us.

Deception and Mockery

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise."—Proverbs 20:1.

Wine is often the gateway to the stronger stuff. It is supposedly a harmless amount of alcohol, but it routinely starts people down the trail to tragedy. And this verse tells us why. It is a mocker and a deceiver! Very simply, it lures you in with false promises and then laughs at you once you're hooked.

Bad News in the Bottle

"Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine."—Proverbs 23:29-30

So if you're looking for trouble, just look into a bottle or can where alcohol awaits you. Woe. Contention. Sorrow. Babbling. Wounds without cause. Redness of eyes. That's what you may expect when you give yourself to alcohol.

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American's Drinking Themselves to Death!

Two Major Liberal Newspapers Document the Tragedies of Alcohol

Just two days before Christmas 2015, the article from the Washington Post was reprinted in the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Both of these big-city newspapers brandished the headline and then gave meticulous detail of this entrenched national tragedy. These papers are certainly not Christian. No one would accuse them of some fundamental Baptist bias or attack them as "Bible thumpers." But the article was forthright in its presentation of the facts.

They report that "new federal data" shows death from "alcohol-induced causes" last year (2014) was more than thirty thousand people. In addition, when you include death from drunk driving and other accidents and homicides where drinking is a factor, the total "would be closer to ninety thousand."

The Sword of the Lord has been relentless through all the years in exposing the dangers of alcohol as well as the evil associated with it. For our stand, we have been branded as fanatical by a variety of people. Despite the fact that our views on alcohol are unpopular with a lot of people, we have continued to speak loudly and speak often about it.

Now we have the Centers for Disease Control and two very liberal, secular papers who are providing this evidence for the public that makes our position look very good.

A Lot of Christians Have Gone Soft on Alcohol.

Many Christians now try to rationalize the use of alcohol in moderation. 

Such thinking is not sound. Furthermore, it flies in the face of some very clear Bible instructions against it.

In this day, we do not need to give into the liquor lobby and to the carnal propensities of the flesh. We need to be standing up, speaking clearly, and sounding off against alcohol in all its forms.

...to be continued.