Ephesians 518 A Needed Reality Check Over 10000 deaths per year in the US are related to drinking and driving Alcohol is directly connected to violent crime Alcohol has a negative effect on the home and personal life ID: 620041
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The Christian & Alcohol
Ephesians 5:18Slide3
A Needed Reality Check!
Over 10,000 deaths per year in the U.S. are related to drinking and
driving.
Alcohol is directly connected to violent crime.
Alcohol has a negative effect on the home and personal life.
Alcohol has a net negative effect on health.
Don’t let your reality check bounce!Slide4
Wine and Strong Drink.
In the Bible, “wine
" is used
of the liquid product of the grape -- both fermented &
unfermented.
(Isaiah 16:10;
65:8; Mark 2:22)
Even when fermented, many wines contained low levels of alcohol.
The
context helps us decide the meaning of “wine” in a given passage. Slide5
Wine and Strong Drink.
“Strong drink” is “an
intoxicant
, that is, intensely alcoholic
liquor”
(Strong’s Dictionary)
Its use is condemned or limited everywhere in the O.T. except as an offering or medicinally
. (
Lev. 10:9
; Num 6:3; 28:7; Deut. 14:26; 29:6; Judges 13:4-14
;
1 Samuel 1:15
;
Psa. 69:12
;
Pro. 20:1
;
31:4-6
;
Isaiah 5:11, 22
;
4:9
;
28:7
;
56:12
;
Micah 2:11)
Ancient wine or strong drink contained less than 10% alcohol.Slide6
Wine and Strong Drink.
“Strong drink” compared to modern drink.
Ancient strong drink was no more than 10% alcohol.
“Strong drink denotes
any inebriating drink with about
7–10
percent
alcoholic content” (
Waltke
, NICOT, 2005)Modern wine has an alcohol content of 8% -
15%
Some
wines
have as
high as 22% (e.g. Zinfandels).
Popular
beers are usually in the 4% to 6%
range
A
few are considerably higher.
Hard liquors have
40-50%
alcohol
B
ourbon
can have nearly 80% alcohol
!
Virtually
every sort of alcoholic beverage sold
today
would qualify as “strong drink”
in
Bible times.Slide7
Drinking Prohibited in 1 Peter 4:3
Three alcohol related sins:
Drunkenness
(
oinophlugia
)
Revelries
(
komos
).Drinking parties (potos)
Also translated "
banquetings
,"
(KJV),
or “carousing.”
Literally
"a drinking" without reference to amount.
(cf. Matt
. 10:42 "give to drink…a cup of cold water").
R
. C. Trench
says,
"not necessarily excessive," (Synonyms of the New Testament, p. 211).
Peter
is urging us not to go back to a worldly
lifestyle!
(Hosea 4:11; 2
Peter
2:20)Slide8
Drinking Leads to Other Sins
Drunkenness
& intoxication
(Ephesians 5:15-18; Galatians 5:21)
Even righteous people can be ensnared (2 Peter 2:8; Genesis 19:30-36; 9:21)
Loss of self control
(2 Peter 1:6; Titus 1:8; Proverbs 23:29-35; Hosea 3:11)
When does impairment in spiritual skills occur? Praying? Parenting? Decision making?Slide9
Defenders of Drinking say…
Jesus made wine (John 2:1-11)
Did it contain alcohol? If so, how much?
Timothy was told to take wine (1 Timothy 5:23)
How much? What was the purpose?
Only an excess is prohibited (Titus 2:3; 1:7)
Prohibiting a lot does not necessarily permit a little! (James 1:21; 1 Peter 4:4)
It’s ok as long as it doesn’t cause others to stumble (Romans 14:21)
It is good not to drink wine if it causes stumbling.
Wine is a food created by God for man to enjoy. (1 Timothy 4:1-5; Col. 2:16-23)
We should respect God’s limits.Slide10
The Christian & Alcohol
Then He said to the disciples,
“It
is impossible that no offenses should come, but woe to him through whom they do come! It would be
for
him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown
into
the sea, than
that
he should offend one of these little ones.” (Luke 17:1-2)