There are all kinds of preachers now that teach that drinking is okay.
All right, let's talk about alcohol.
That's the one that everybody's been like, get to the good stuff, man.
And especially if you're a Georgia fan, you probably needed a little alcohol after last
night's game.
Good gosh.
In moderation, they'll say.
And they'll say, hey, it's okay to have one glass of wine.
It's okay to have a beer.
It's no big deal.
And then this is what they'll say.
If you can't handle it, then don't do it.
You're a weaker brother.
But I'm strong enough to handle it.
Well, here's the thing.
When people hear that, you know what?
They're all thinking, well, I don't want to be a weakling.
Pass me a beer, because I don't want to be a wimp.
Be this weak little brother that's like, oh, man, I can't do it.
Hey, let me say this.
There are people in this room on every campus who may be watching online right now that
you should never, ever pick up a glass of wine or a beer or a drink of liquor.
You know why?
You have a proclivity towards alcoholism.
You can't have a drink.
Every time you have a drink, it winds up you have a lampshade on your head within an hour.
Okay?
You can't do it.
You cannot enjoy a drink.
So they try to make it seem like they're mighty to drink wine.
I think I read a verse like that.
Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink,
which justify the wicked for reward and take away the righteousness of the righteous from
him.
Alcohol isn't the problem for the alcoholic, because if you take away alcohol from this
person, they'll go get addicted to something else.
But what's so stupid about that is that alcohol is so destructive and so damaging to people's
lives that even, and listen to me, let me just make it real clear, and it's a whole
another sermon of itself.
I do not believe that it is ever okay to have a beer, have wine, and things like that.
The only exception I would say to that is if someone were in like a life or death situation
where they had to have their leg chopped off.
You know, like in the olden days when they were going to chop somebody's leg off or something,
and they'd basically drink themselves into unconsciousness.
At that point, it'd be like an anesthesia or something where you're actually putting
someone unconscious.
That's the only time that I would ever drink alcohol is if I'm having a limb chopped off.
Because I don't think I'm going to be beholding strange women or uttering perverse things
at that point when I'm getting my leg chopped off because of gangrene.
You know, I believe that would be the only legitimate use of alcohol or any other drug.
By the way, same thing with the drugs, the prescription drugs.
That's what they're for.
They're for trauma and things like that.
They're not for recreational use ever for any reason.
And let me tell you something.
I don't believe, I believe God prohibits alcohol.
He says don't even look at it.
That's where I stand.
That's where I've stood.
Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his color in the cup, when
it moveth itself aright.
At the last it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder.
Thine eyes shall behold strange women and thine heart shall utter perverse things.
Alcohol, your view on alcohol probably depends on your denominational background.
Right?
Hey, Catholics and Episcopal's drink in church.
I used to think that was the coolest thing in the world.
I want to go to the church where the people drink.
And then I went and they told me I couldn't have communion one time.
So I got a little upset and didn't go back.
Presbyterians don't have a problem drinking.
Most of them don't.
Methodists, Baptists, eh, they don't like it.
It's not for you, Lemuel, to drink wine.
Give it to the guy who's ready to perish.
Let him drink and forget his poverty and remember his misery no more.
The derelict in the gutter, what's he say?
Drinking is for derelicts.
Drinking is for losers.
It's not for princes.
It's not for kings.
It's not for God's people.
It's for losers.
And let me tell you something.
If you drink, you're a loser.
There, I said it.
You're a loser.
If you have to drink to have a good time, I say you're a loser.
I don't want to be around you because you're boring.
You're boring and stupid.
I want to hang around with somebody who's interesting to be around.
Because if you have to get drunk to have fun, it shows that you don't know how to have fun.
And the most simple-minded, imbecilic, stupid people who have nothing to live for, they
don't know the Bible, they don't want to talk about Genesis, they don't want to talk
about Exodus, they don't want to talk about Leviticus, they don't want to talk about family,
they don't want to talk about righteousness and godliness and peace, they want to say
stupid things and they have to get drunk so they can forget how stupid they are.
They have to get drunk so they can forget how ugly they are and how ugly their spouse
is and how ugly their friends are and how they all get up and sing karaoke and they
all sound like garbage.
They sound like a cat that's being strangled and they have to forget we're stupid, we're
in a building that smells like piss, we're drinking, we're partying with a bunch of losers
and derelicts and deadbeats and we have to pretend that we're having a good time.
So let's get so drunk that we don't even know where we are, we don't even know what we're
doing, let's just drink and forget it all.
They don't like it because what you think about continually, you will do eventually.
What you think about continually, you'll do eventually.
Do you know there's people in this room that are addicted to alcohol and you don't know
you're addicted to alcohol?
But let me say this, even if a person did believe, oh it's okay to drink a little bit
in moderation, which I don't believe.
But even if a person did believe that, what a foolish thing to go around telling people
that when you're going to be destroying people's lives and putting stumbling blocks everywhere
left and right.
And some of y'all might need to start drinking because of that.
I mean how stupid that is.
I mean there's all kinds of people that struggle with that sin, former alcoholics, people are
drunk.
And listen, when a pastor gets up and says, hey it's okay to drink a little bit, the people
in the auditorium who've struggled in that area, it's just a green light to them.
Oh, we can, oh great.
And then they go out and get drunk.
And by the way, I've never met one of these moderation drinkers that didn't get drunk.
They all get drunk.
And you know what?
You know what?
I've never loved Jesus more than I love him right now.
So can you be a Christian and smoke and drink and watch a rated R movie?
I think so because I love Christ.
If you love me, keep my commandments.
I mean what, you see how stupid that would be to just go around broadcasting that.
So look, if you have something where you say, well I don't agree with Pastor Anderson that
that's a sin.
I think it's not a sin.
You know, then you better do that privately because you're going to mess up other people's
lives.
It's a sin.
I believe even if you do it privately, it's a sin.
I believe it's a sin to touch the stuff.
But how much more wicked it is when you lead other people down that dark path.
Oh yeah, I didn't even tell you why I brought up New Spring.
It's because the pastor was just fired for being an alcoholic.
Do you know there's people in this room that are addicted to alcohol and you don't know
you're addicted to alcohol?
Okay, now here's the thing about this.
He taught social drinking is fine.
Turns out he's an alcoholic.
I mean he's being a stumbling block to people even to himself.
You know, I mean here's a guy who teaches, hey it's okay to drink in moderation.
He's an alcoholic and they tried to warn him and they tried to warn him.
Finally they had to fire him from the church because he just wouldn't stop drinking.
Wouldn't stop drinking, drinking, drinking, drinking, drinking.
I mean unbelievable isn't it?
I mean what kind of a stumbling block when the pastor's a drunk?
That's why he even says in the qualifications the pastor is not given to wine.
Don't be that guy that drinks and you're a pastor.
It's wicked.