Deceived By Alcohol

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Deceived By Alcohol
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Do Not Look Upon The Wine

• Proverbs 201
• Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging and
  whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.

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Do Not Look Upon The Wine

• Proverbs 2331-32
• Do not look on the wine when it is red, When it
  sparkles in the cup, When it swirls around
  smoothly 32 At the last it bites like a serpent,
  And sting like a viper.

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Do Not Look Upon The Wine

• Note
• The venom of a serpent is a neurotoxin ( a poison
  that attacks the nervous system).
• The venom of a viper is a hematoxin (a poison
  that attacks the circulatory system).

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Do Not Look Upon The Wine

• Matthew 917
• But they put new wine into new wineskins, and
  both are preserved.

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Banqueting or Carousals

• 1 Peter 43
• For the time past is sufficient for you to have
  carried out the desire of the Gentiles, having
  pursued a course of sensuality, lusts,
  drunkenness, carousals, drinking parties and
  abominable idolatries.

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Banqueting or Carousals

• Protos
• Always includes and stands for wine-drinking, not
  simply feasting.
• (International Standard Bible Encyclopedia,
  Vol.1.p.384)

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Banqueting or Carousals

• John 26-10
• Six waterpots
• Twenty or thirty gallons apiece
• And they filled them up to the brim.
• Every man at the beginning sets out the good
  wine, and when the guests have well drunk, then
  the inferior. You have kept the good wine until
  now!

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Banqueting or Carousals

• Proverbs 310
• So your barns will be filled with plenty, And
  your vats will overflow with new wine.

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The Works Of The Flesh

• Galatians 519-21
• Now the works of the flesh are evident, which
  are
• Sorcery,..drunkenness, revelries
• Those who practice such things will not inherit
  the kingdom of God.

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The Works Of The Flesh

• Pharmakia
• Primarily signifies the use of medicine, drugs,
  spells, sorcery

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The Works Of The Flesh

• Proverbs 1722-A merry heart does good, like
  medicine,
• Jeremiah 3013-You have no healing medicine.

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The Works Of The Flesh

• Proverbs 314-6
• It is not for Kings, O Lemuel, It is not for
  Kings to drink wine, Nor for princes intoxicating
  drink 5 Lest they drink and forget the law, And
  pervert the justice of all the afflicted.

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The Works Of The Flesh

• Proverbs 314-6
• Give strong drink to him who is perishing, And
  wine to those who are bitter of heart.

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The Works Of The Flesh

• Mark 1523
• Then they gave Him wine mingled with myrrh to
  drink, but He did not take it.

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The Works Of The Flesh

• 1 Timothy 523-No longer drink only water, but
  use a little wine for your stomachs sake and
  your frequent infirmities.
• Luke 1034-So he went to him and bandaged his
  wounds, pouring on oil and wine

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The Works Of The Flesh

• Proverbs 2329-30
• Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions?
  Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of
  eyes? 30 Those who linger long at the wine, those
  who go in search of mixed wine.

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The Works Of The Flesh

• Proverbs 2333-35
• Your eyes will see strange things, And your heart
  will utter perverse things.

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The Works Of The Flesh

• Proverbs 2333-35
• 34 Yes, you will be like one who lies down in the
  midst of the sea, Or like one who lies at the top
  of the mast,

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The Works Of The Flesh

• Proverbs 2333-35
• Saying They have struck me, but I was not hurt
  They have beaten me, but I did not feel it. When
  shall I awake, that I may seek another drink?

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The Works Of The Flesh

• Habakkuk 215
• Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbor,
  Pressing him to your bottle, Even to make him
  drunk. That you may look upon his nakedness!

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Facts About Alcohol

• The frontal lobe of the cerebrum is affected by
  0.005-0.1 of ethanol in the blood causing,
  removal of inhibitions, loss of self-control,
  weakening of will power, impaired judgment,
  dulling of attention

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Facts About Alcohol

• The parietal lobe of the cerebrum is affected by
  0.1-0.3 of ethanol in the blood causing, dulled
  or distorted sensibilities, unsteadiness of
  movement, speech disturbances, loss of technical
  skills.

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Facts About Alcohol

• The occipital lobe of the cerebrum is affected by
  0.2-0.3 of ethanol in the blood causing loss of
  color perception, distortion, double vision, loss
  of distance.

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Do Not Look Upon The Wine When

• Ephesians 511-And have no fellowship with the
  unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove
  them.
• 2 Corinthians 617-Therefore Come out from among
  them And be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch
  what is unclean, And I will receive you.

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