What’s WrongWhat’s Wrong with AlcoholWhat’s WrongWhat’s Wrong with Alcohol
Rev. Robert J. SmithRev. Robert J. Smith
PastorPastor
Colonial Hills Baptist ChurchColonial Hills Baptist Church
Proverbs 20:1
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging:and whosoever is deceived thereby isnot wise.Proverbs 20:1 (KJV)
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The act of making someone believesomething that’s not true.
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3 For the time will come when they will not enduresound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall theyheap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4And they shall turn away their ears from the truth,and shall be turned unto fables.
2 Timothy 4:3-4 (KJV)
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10 For there are many unruly and vain talkers anddeceivers, specially they of the circumcision:11 Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvertwhole houses, teaching things which they oughtnot, for filthy lucre's sake.
Titus 1:10-11 (KJV)
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Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; thatput darkness for light, and light for darkness; thatput bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Isaiah 5:20 (KJV)
What’s Wrong with Alcohol?
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine forthy stomach's sake and thine ofteninfirmities.1 Timothy 5:23 (KJV)
Fact #1 – Alcohol Brings Contempt
And he drank of the wine, and was drunken;and he was uncovered within his tent.Genesis 9:21 (KJV)
Fact #1 – Alcohol Brings Contempt
And they made their father drink wine thatnight: and the firstborn went in, and lay withher father; and he perceived not when shelay down, nor when she arose.
Genesis 19:33 (KJV)
Fact #1 – Alcohol Brings Contempt
And they rose up early on the morrow, and offeredburnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; andthe people sat down to eat and to drink, and roseup to play…and when Moses saw that the peoplewere naked; (for Aaron had made them naked untotheir shame among their enemies:)Exodus 32:6,25 (KJV)
Fact #2 – Alcohol brings Problems
29 Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hathcontentions? who hath babbling? who hath woundswithout cause? who hath redness of eyes? 30 Theythat tarry long at the wine; they that go to seekmixed wine.
Proverbs 23:29-30 (KJV)
Fact #2 – Alcohol brings Problems
Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, thatthey may follow strong drink; that continue untilnight, till wine inflame them!
Isaiah 5:11 (KJV)
Fact #2 – Alcohol brings Problems
Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, andmen of strength to mingle strong drink:Isaiah 5:22 (KJV)
Fact #2 – Alcohol brings Problems
Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, thatputtest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunkenalso, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!Habakkuk 2:15 (KJV)
Fact #3 – Alcohol BringsFoolishness
4 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings todrink wine; nor for princes strong drink:5 Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert thejudgment of any of the afflicted.Proverbs 31:4-5 (KJV)
Fact #3 – Alcohol BringsFoolishness
Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enterinto the inner court.
Ezekiel 44:21 (KJV)
Fact #3 – Alcohol BringsFoolishness
Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sonswith thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of thecongregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations:Leviticus 10:9 (KJV)
Fact #3 – Alcohol BringsFoolishness
But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood,an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye shouldshew forth the praises of him who hath called youout of darkness into his marvellous light:
1 Peter 2:9 (KJV)
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There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, butthe end thereof are the ways of death.Proverbs 14:12 (KJV)
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Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christhath made us free, and be not entangled again withthe yoke of bondage. Galatians 5:1 (KJV)
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As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke ofmaliciousness, but as the servants of God.1 Peter 2:16 (KJV)
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It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, norany thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or isoffended, or is made weak.
Romans 14:21 (KJV)
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And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be sonow: for thus it becometh us to fulfil allrighteousness. Then he suffered him.
Matthew 3:15 (KJV)