Alcoholic Drinks

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Alcoholic Drinks

• Fact and Fiction

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Gen 920-23

• And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he
  planted a vineyard And he drank of the wine, and
  was drunken and he was uncovered within his
  tent. And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the
  nakedness of his father, and told his two
  brethren without. And Shem and Japheth took a
  garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders,
  and went backward, and covered the nakedness of
  their father and their faces were backward, and
  they saw not their father's nakedness.

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Mat 2437-39

• But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the
  coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days
  that were before the flood they were eating and
  drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until
  the day that Noe entered into the ark, And knew
  not until the flood came, and took them all away
  so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

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Pro 201

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

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Isa 281-3

• Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of
  Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading
  flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys
  of them that are overcome with wine! Behold, the
  Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a
  tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a
  flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast
  down to the earth with the hand. The crown of
  pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden
  under feet

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Isa 287-8

• 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.

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Hab 215-16

• Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink,
  that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him
  drunken also, that thou mayest look on their
  nakedness! Thou art 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

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Pro 2329-33

• 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. Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and
  thine heart shall utter perverse things.

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Joel 33

• And they have cast lots for my people and have
  given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for
  wine, that they might drink.

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Isa 511

• Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning,
  that they may follow strong drink that continue
  until night, till wine inflame them!
• Woe Deep distress or misery, as from grief
  wretchedness

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Isa 521-23

• Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes,
  and prudent in their own sight! Woe unto them
  that are mighty to drink wine, and men of
  strength to mingle strong drink Which justify
  the wicked for reward, and take away the
  righteousness of the righteous from him!

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Luk 1245-46

• But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord
  delayeth his coming and shall begin to beat the
  menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink,
  and to be drunken The lord of that servant will
  come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at
  an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in
  sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the
  unbelievers.

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Luk 2134

• And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time
  your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and
  drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that
  day come upon you unawares.
• Surfeiting Overindulgence in food or drink

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1Co 511

• But now I have written unto you not to keep
  company, if any man that is called a brother be a
  fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a
  railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner with
  such an one no not to eat.

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1Co 69-10

• Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not
  inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived
  neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor
  adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of
  themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor
  covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor
  extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

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1Pe 43-4

• For the time past of our life may suffice us to
  have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we
  walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine,
  revellings, banquetings, and abominable
  idolatries Wherein they think it strange that
  ye run not with them to the same excess of riot,
  speaking evil of you

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oinophlugia - Excess of wine

• An overflow (or surplus) of wine. Strongs
• What one might consider to be an out and out
  drunk

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Komos - Revellings

• A revel, carousal, the consequence of
  drunkenness Vines
• A drunken partier one who drinks now and then

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Potos - to drink

• KJV translated banquetings
• It is not of necessity excessive - Synonyms of
  the N.T.- R.C. Trench
• Social Drinker??

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Didnt Jesus.

• Old Law did not expressly forbid drinking. Only
  when it was to excess.
• This is an example from Old covenant times
  so..
• The Old Law made a couple of
• exceptions

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Leviticus 108-10

• And the LORD spake unto Aaron, saying, Do not
  drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons
  with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the
  congregation, lest ye die it shall be a statute
  for ever throughout your generations
• 1 Strong's H 3196 "Fermented wine"
• 2 H7941From H7937 an intoxicant, that is,
  intensely alcoholic liquor

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Leviticus 1010

• And that ye may put difference between holy and
  unholy, and between unclean and clean
• Could not drink when going in the presence of God

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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.
• Kings and Princes shouldnt drink at all.

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Revelation 16

• And hath made us kings and priests unto God and
  his Father to him be glory and dominion for ever
  and ever. Amen.

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1Ti 523

• Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for
  thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.
• Luk 1034 And went to him, and bound up his
  wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on
  his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and
  took care of him.
• Medicinal purposes do not indicate drinking for
  pleasure

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Summary Bible Observations

• Drunkenness is an old problem
• Effects
• Errors in judgment
• Lowers moral standards
• Causes depression, moodiness
• Breeds Contentions
• Physical ailments

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Summary Bible Observations

• Addictive
• Condemned
• Woes on users
• Woes on promoters
• Social drinking not authorized
• Wine in moderation and medicinal uses