Psalm 94:16 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me. ---- Psalm 109:9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. --- Hebrews 12:4 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. --- John 1:18 No man hath seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. --- John 3:3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. --- Genesis 32:30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved. --- John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. ---

Alcohol

Alcohol isn't a new issue and I know you all understand it. I'm not going to tell you statistics on all the problems it causes since I know most people ignore that, but there is much else no one else tells you that you cant ignore if you are in relationship with Jesus Christ. America has treated the usage of alcohol far different than most industrialized nations. For some reason, strong Christians like to invent rules and regulations that aren't Bible based, but instead follow on a radical form of blatant conservatism.

There was a strong temperance movement in the early 1900s by strong Christians, but where in the Bible did they get such a ban? Reading the Bible we know even Jesus himself drank alcohol and we also can recall Jesus turning water into wine. How is it though that some Christians say what Jesus was doing was immoral? Do they have some superior morality?

The simple answer is that drinking alcohol responsibly isn't a sin, but it is a sin when you drink in excess:

 

Proverbs 23:20-22

 20 Do not join those who drink too much wine
       or gorge themselves on meat,

 21 for drunkards and gluttons become poor,
       and drowsiness clothes them in rags.

 22 Listen to your father, who gave you life,
       and do not despise your mother when she is old.

 

Drinking to the point where you are a drunkard, or as an alcoholic as we call it today is a large sin. Not only is this act a sin, but also the things that generally will be a cause of this excess of alcohol like violence, gambling, adultery, and so forth. Being an alcoholic is living in sin and you cannot get through the gates of Heaven with such a disastrous lifestyle. Let me show you what I mean:

 

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

 9Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders 10nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

 

The reason I bring this up is because such a large percentage of people amongst us in church are in fact drunkards. If you know someone who is a drunkard and calls them self Christian, make sure to tell them they need to crack a Bible since their lifestyle isn't acceptable in the Eyes of the Lord.