Drinking and Alcohol

Social Drinking

      1. staggering, Isa. 19:14; Job. 12:25; Ps.107:27

        2. woe, Prov. 23:29

      2. sorrow, Prov. 23:29 /

      3. contentions, Prov.23:29

        5. babblings, Prov. 23:29

      4. wounds without cause, Prov. 23.29

      5. redness of eyes, Prov. 23:29

        b. MENTAL EFFECTS

        1. exhilaration, Gen. 43:34

        2. loss of understanding and balance of judgment Isa. 28:7; Has. 4:11

        c. EFFECTS UPON HAPPINESS AND PROSPERITY:

        1. biteth like a serpent, stingeth like an adder, bringing woe/sorrow, Prov. 23:29-32

        2. poverty, Prov. 23:31; 21:17

        d. MORAL AND SPIRITUAL EFFECTS.

        1. mal-administration of justice, Prov,31:5 Isa. 5:23

        2. provokes anger, contentions , brawling, Prov. 20:1; 23:29

        3. conduces to a profligate life, Eph. 5:18

        4. is allied with gambling, licentiousness and indecency Gen. 9:21f, Joel 3.3

        5. deadens the spiritual sensibilities, producing a callous indifference to religious influences and destroys all serious thought, Isa. 5:12

        CANNOT BE SAVED AND BE ADRUNKARD

        1 Cor. 6:Gal. 5:l9ff

        ALSO SOME POSITiVE ASPECTS TO ALCOHOL AND ITS USE

        1. MEDICINE, EXTERNAL, Lk. 10:34; internal, l Tim.5:23

    1. SERVICE TO GOD, Ex. 29:39-41; Lev. 23:13

    2. as BEVERAGE: Num. 6:20; Dt. 14:26: 2 Chron.2:15 Neh.5:18; Mt. 11:19; 1 Tim.3:8 (?) Tit.2:3

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