SHOULD A CHRISTIAN DRINK ALCOHOL

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SHOULD A CHRISTIAN DRINK ALCOHOL?
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THE TEACHING OF SCRIPTURE?

• Looking after your body.
• The people who suffered.
• The warning texts.
• The Bible words.
• Did Jesus drink?

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LOOKING AFTER YOUR BODY

• 1Co 619
• What? know ye not that your body is the
• temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you,
• which ye have of God, and ye are not your
• own?

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WHAT IS AN ALCOHOLIC DRINK?

• INTOXICATING
• TOXIC POISON

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A DOCTORS REPORT

• Alcohol is the major public health issue of our
  time overshadowing even that of tobacco, and
  dwarfing the problems of illegal drug abuse
• Special Committee of the Royal College of
  Psychiatrists

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HEALTH PROBLEMS

• 1 ALCOHOLISM
• An Alcoholic is one who cannot live without
  drink.
• An Alcoholic will spend everything on drink and
  will loose his / her marriage, home and family
  rather than stop drinking.
• Anyone can become an alcoholic because drink is
  addictive.
• This is a problem on the increase in the UK.
• The only way to avoid being an alcoholic ,
• Dont drink.

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HEALTH PROBLEMS

• 2 Diseases
• Liver poisoning.
• Bowel cancer twice as likely in regular drinkers
  in Japan.
• Causes high blood pressure even among moderate
  drinkers.

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HEALTH PROBLEMS

• 3 Accidents and Deaths
• 25 of choking deaths.
• 50 of deaths from falls.
• 52 of fire deaths.
• 60 of suicides.
• 69 of drownings.

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SOCIAL PROBLEMS

• 1 80 of all criminal court cases.
• 2 72 of robberies and assaults.
• 3 64 of murders
• 4 The deaths of 1,000 children per year.
• 5 50 of all drivers under 25 killed each year.

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THE TEACHING OF SCRIPTURE?

• Looking after your body.
• The people who suffered.
• The warning texts.
• The Bible words.
• Did Jesus drink?

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The People Who Suffered

• Genesis 920-21 Noah.
• Genesis 1931-32 Lot.
• Leviticus 109-10 Nadab and Abihu.
• 1 Samuel 2536-38 Nabal.
• Daniel 51-5 Belshazzer.

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THE TEACHING OF SCRIPTURE?

• Looking after your body.
• The people who suffered.
• The warning texts.
• The Bible words.
• Did Jesus drink?

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The Warning Texts

• 1 Alcohol Tells Lies
• Proverbs 2021
• Wine is a mocker, strong drink is
• ragingand whosoever is deceived
• thereby is not wise.

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The Warning Texts

• 2 Alcohol Makes Us Poor
• Pro 2320,21
• 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.

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The Warning Texts

• 3 Alcohol Makes Us Sad
• Proverbs 2329-32
• 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. Look not thou upon the
• wine when it is red, when it giveth his
• colour in the cup, when it moveth itself
• aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent,
• and stingeth like an adder.

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The Warning Texts

• 4 Alcohol And Bad Decisions
• Proverbs 314-5
• It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for
• kings to drink wine nor for princes strong
• drink Lest they drink, and forget the law,
• and pervert the judgment
• of any of the afflicted

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THE TEACHING OF SCRIPTURE?

• Looking after your body.
• The people who suffered.
• The warning texts.
• The Bible words.
• Did Jesus drink?

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The Bible Words

• The Confusion
• Sometimes wine represents that which is good
• Gods gift Genesis 2728.
• Joy Psalm 47.
• The body of Christ John 15.

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How Can Bad Be Good?

• Unravelling The Problem
• Two type of drinks in Scripture alcoholic and
  non-alcoholic.
• The Hebrew and Greek words supply us with no
  clues as to which is which.
• Only the context determines the difference.
• Where wine is a blessing it is a simple juice
  drink but where it is a curse it is intoxicating.
• It is against Gods nature to commend something
  so potentially destructive and evil.

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THE TEACHING OF SCRIPTURE?

• Looking after your body.
• The people who suffered.
• The warning texts.
• The Bible words.
• Did Jesus drink?

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Did Jesus Drink?

• Turning the water into wine
• Could not have been alcoholic otherwise he would
  have sinned Habakkuk 215.
• The Passover
• He did not drink alcohol as the leaven or yeast,
  required to turn the grape juice into an
  alcoholic drink, was forbidden.

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THE TEACHING OF SCRIPTURE?

• Looking after your body.
• The people who suffered.
• The warning texts.
• The Bible words.
• Did Jesus drink?

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FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION

• If alcohol is evil moderate drinking is
  forbidden.
• Never be found socialising with people in pubs
  whose sole purpose is to sell alcohol.
• 1Corinthians 1533
• Be not deceived evil communications corrupt
  good manners.