Recreational Drinking

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Recreational Drinking

• What about social drinking?
• Jesus made wine.
• Paul told Timothy to drink wine.

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Introduction

• The Bible condemns being DRUNK.
• Is social drinking a sin?
• Does the place matter tavern vs. at home?
• Does the Bible approve recreational drinking?

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1 Timothy 523

• No longer drink only water, but use a little wine
  for your stomach's sake and your frequent
  infirmities.
• Wine In the New Testament means
• Juice from grape - In any form
• If Timothy were already drinking wine with every
  meal, this verse would not make sense.
• Alcohol in medication not the issue

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Jesus' Miracle

• Don't straddle the fence
• Did Jesus make 150 gallons of intoxicating wine
  for people who had already consumed all the
  fermented wine?
• Did Jesus violate Habakkuk 215?

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Jesus' Miracle

• It was NOT intoxicating wine because
• 1 It would violate 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 on his nakedness!
• 2 Jesus would not remain sinless Hebrews 415

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Jesus' Miracle

• It was NOT intoxicating wine because
• 3 People did preserve and drink grape juice
• Sapa boil down to concentrate, seal
• Several methods of preserving the juice
• Seal olive oil, wax
• Keep chilled in well or stream

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Jesus' Miracle

• It was NOT intoxicating wine because
• 4 Purpose of miracles to produce faith
• John 2030-31 30 And truly Jesus did many other
  signs in the presence of His disciples, which are
  not written in this book 31 but these are
  written that you may believe that Jesus is the
  Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you
  may have life in His name.
• Miracles produce faith through reason

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Wineskins

• Matthew 917 Nor do they put new wine into old
  wineskins, or else the wineskins break, the wine
  is spilled, and the wineskins are ruined. But
  they put new wine into new wineskins, and both
  are preserved."

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Wineskins

• This could NOT be fermented wine.
• 1 It could not be unsealed.
• 2 It could not have already been fermented.
• 3 It could not have already started to ferment.
• 4 The only reason for new wine skins was to
  AVOID having the dregs of the old skin CAUSE
  fermentation to start.

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Jesus Drank

• Matthew 1118-19
• 18 For John came neither eating nor drinking, and
  they say, 'He has a demon.'
• 19 The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and
  they say, 'Look, a glutton and a winebibber, a
  friend of tax collectors and sinners!' But wisdom
  is justified by her children."

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Jesus Drank

• NOTICE
• 1 - Luke 115 John did not drink or eat
  ANYTHING from the grape, including juice or
  raisins
• 2 - They say - is gossip or slander neither
  charge is true

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Jesus Drank

• NOTICE
• 3 If Jesus was a recreational drinker, He was
  also a glutton.
• Proverbs 2320-21 20 Do not mix with winebibbers,
  Or with gluttonous eaters of meat 21 For the
  drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty,
  And drowsiness will clothe a man with rags.

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Why wrong?

• Why is social drinking wrong?
• 1 - Leviticus 101-3, 8-11 Know difference in
  right and wrong, holy and unholy
• 2 - Drunkeness is a matter of degree When you
  have drunk one drink, you are one drink drunk.
• 3 Temperance (self-control) Acts 2425
  Galatians 523 2 Peter 16 Titus 22

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conclusion

• The Bible does not support, encourage or endorse
  the use of alcohol for social or recreational
  use.
• Jesus did not use or make alcohol for others.
• Jesus was not a drunk or a glutton.

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conclusion

• Our challenge
• Learn to follow the example of Jesus
• Learn to obey the commands of Jesus