WORLDLINESS

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WORLDLINESS
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WINE
STRONG
DRINK
DRUGS

WORLDLINESS
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WINE, STRONG DRINK DRUGS

1. Preliminary considerations

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QUOTES

• Demosthenes said, "A definition is the beginning
  of knowledge."
• Socrates said, "If you would converse with me,
  define your terms."

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WINE

• "Natural WINE, is such as it comes from the
  grape, without any mixture or sophistication.
• "Adulterated WINE, is that wherein some drug is
  added to give it strength, fineness, flavour,
  briskness, or some other qualification."
• (The New Universal English Dictionary of Words,
  and of Arts and Sciences, 1730)

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STRONG DRINK

• Strong drink is from shekar, which was most
  likely a palm wine.
• It is extremely doubtful that the ancient
  Israelites knew about distillation.
• Thus, distilled beverages such as whiskey,
  brandy, gin, rum and vodka would have been
  unknown to them.
• The strongest drinks available to Israel
  contained only from 14-16 alcohol.

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YAYIN, OINOS SHEKAR

• Binding his donkey to the vine, And his donkey's
  colt to the choice vine, He washed his garments
  in wine, And his clothes in the blood of grapes.
  (Gen. 4911)

GARMENTS CLOTHES WINE BLOOD OF GRAPES
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YAYIN, OINOS SHEKAR

• Then the Lord spoke to Aaron, saying "Do not
  drink wine or intoxicating drink, you, nor your
  sons with you, when you go into the tabernacle of
  meeting, lest you die. It shall be a statute
  forever throughout your generations, that you may
  distinguish between holy and unholy, and between
  unclean and clean, and that you may teach the
  children of Israel all the statutes which the
  Lord has spoken to them by the hand of Moses."
  (Lev. 108-11)

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YAYIN, OINOS SHEKAR

• And the Lord spoke to Aaron "Here, I Myself have
  also given you charge of My heave offerings, all
  the holy gifts of the children of Israel I have
  given them as a portion to you and your sons, as
  an ordinance forever. This shall be yours of the
  most holy things reserved from the fire every
  offering of theirs, every grain offering and
  every sin offering and every trespass offering
  which they render to Me, shall be most holy for
  you and your sons.

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YAYIN, OINOS SHEKAR

• In a most holy place you shall eat it every male
  shall eat it. It shall be holy to you. This also
  is yours the heave offering of their gift, with
  all the wave offerings of the children of Israel
  I have given them to you, and your sons and
  daughters with you, as an ordinance forever.
  Everyone who is clean in your house may eat it.

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YAYIN, OINOS SHEKAR

• All the best of the oil, all the best of the new
  wine and the grain, their firstfruits which they
  offer to the Lord, I have given them to you.
  (Num. 188-12)

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YAYIN, OINOS SHEKAR

• Curds from the cattle, and milk of the flock,
  With fat of lambs And rams of the breed of
  Bashan, and goats, With the choicest wheat And
  you drank wine, the blood of the grapes. (Deut.
  3214)

WINE BLOOD OF GRAPES
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YAYIN, OINOS SHEKAR

• Gladness is taken away, And joy from the
  plentiful field In the vineyards there will be
  no singing, Nor will there be shouting No
  treaders will tread out wine in the presses I
  have made their shouting cease. (Isaiah 1610)

WINE GRAPE JUICE
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DRUGS

• Where drugs are concerned we are only speaking of
  their recreational use.
• Many drugs are derived from plants.
• Not even that which has a legitimate use should
  be used illegitimately.
• Pain killers are sometimes needed but can become
  addictive.
• Addiction can lead to crime.

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WINE, STRONG DRINK DRUGS

1. Preliminary considerations
2. Physical effects

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Proverbs 201

• Wine is a mocker, Strong drink is a brawler, And
  whoever is led astray by it is not wise.

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Proverbs 2329-32

• Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions?
  Who has complaints? Who has wounds without cause?
  Who has redness of eyes? Those who linger long at
  the wine, Those who go in search of mixed wine.
  Do not look on the wine when it is red, When it
  sparkles in the cup, When it swirls around
  smoothly At the last it bites like a serpent,
  And stings like a viper.

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Proverbs 2333-39

• Your eyes will see strange things, And your heart
  will utter perverse things. 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, 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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Proverbs 314-5

• It is not for kings, O Lemuel, It is not for
  kings to drink wine, Nor for princes intoxicating
  drink Lest they drink and forget the law, And
  pervert the justice of all the afflicted.

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WINE, STRONG DRINK DRUGS

1. Preliminary considerations
2. Physical effects
3. Spiritual consequences

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1 Corinthians 69-10

• Do you not know that the unrighteous will not
  inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived.
  Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor
  adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor
  thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor
  revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the
  kingdom of God.

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Galatians 519-21

• Now the works of the flesh are evident, which
  are adultery, fornication, uncleanness,
  lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions,
  jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish
  ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders,
  drunkenness, revelries, and the like of which I
  tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in
  time past, that those who practice such things
  will not inherit the kingdom of God.

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WINE, STRONG DRINK DRUGS

1. Preliminary considerations
2. Physical effects
3. Spiritual consequences
4. Social drinking

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1 Peter 43-4

• For we have spent enough of our past lifetime in
  doing the will of the Gentiles--when we walked in
  lewdness, lusts, drunkenness, revelries, drinking
  parties, and abominable idolatries. In regard to
  these, they think it strange that you do not run
  with them in the same flood of dissipation,
  speaking evil of you.

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QUOTE

• Dr. Melvin H. Knisely, head of the Department of
  Anatomy at the Medical College of South Carolina,
  told a news conference in Washington, D.C., that
  social drinking may result in a "great deal of
  damage" to the brain. "When his level of social
  drinking is such that he feels very happy, a man
  is beginning to kill a few brain cells."

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WINE, STRONG DRINK DRUGS

1. Preliminary considerations
2. Physical effects
3. Spiritual consequences
4. Social drinking
5. Self-control

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Romans 68-10

• Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we
  shall also live with Him, knowing that Christ,
  having been raised from the dead, dies no more.
  Death no longer has dominion over Him. For the
  death that He died, He died to sin once for all
  but the life that He lives, He lives to God.

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Romans 611-12

• Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead
  indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus
  our Lord. Therefore do not let sin reign in your
  mortal body, that you should obey it in its
  lusts.

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2 Peter 15-7

• But also for this very reason, giving all
  diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue
  knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to
  self-control perseverance, to perseverance
  godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and
  to brotherly kindness love.

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2 Peter 18-9

• For if these things are yours and abound, you
  will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the
  knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For he who
  lacks these things is shortsighted, even to
  blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed
  from his old sins.

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2 Peter 110-11

• Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to
  make your call and election sure, for if you do
  these things you will never stumble for so an
  entrance will be supplied to you abundantly into
  the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior
  Jesus Christ.

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WINE, STRONG DRINK DRUGS

1. Preliminary considerations
2. Physical effects
3. Spiritual consequences
4. Social drinking
5. Self-control
6. Medicinal use

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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.