Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.
Welcome to Faithful Word Baptist Church.
If you would, please find your seat
and we'll begin our service this morning.
When you find a seat, grab a hymnal
and turn to song number 30.
Nothing but the blood, song number 30.
It starts, what can wash away my sin?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus, song number 30.
Sing it out on the first.
What can wash away my sin?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus
What can make me whole again?
is the flow that makes me white as snow. No other fount I know, nothing but the blood
of Jesus. Amen. I've asked Brother Ian if he would open us an award for everything.
Thank you very much, church, and just give me a prayer. Amen.
Amen. If you would, please turn to your hymnals next to song number 45.
Ten songs over to the right, song number 45, when I can read my title clear.
Song number 45, sing it out on the...
All right, this time we'll go through our announcements together.
If you don't have a bulletin, slip up your hand nice and high and we'll get to you with one.
Of course, it's great to be back with you all.
No place like home.
I was on vacation with my family for a week and a half.
And then since I was already on the other side of the world anyway,
my daughter Rebecca and I continued on to a missions trip in Greece.
And so we went soul winning in Greece Monday through Friday.
And we had a total of 31 people saved, which just for the two of us,
we were super happy with that result because obviously,
Europe is not necessarily the most receptive place,
and Greece was kind of particularly unreceptive as far as adults went.
So we just really focus in on just talking to young people,
teenagers, and we ended up getting 31 people saved just by taking that strategy.
Really a blessing we couldn't really have imagined a better outcome for that particular mission field
And so I'm a little jet lagged because I just got back last night at like midnight to the airport
So if the sermon gets a little weird, it's the jet lag talking
But I'm gonna do the best that I can so in the bulletin
We got the soul winning times listed there
And I know you heard a lot of great preaching while I was gone because I was tuned in to all of it
Pastor Oz, Pastor Shelley, and Brother Segura all preached awesome sermons
and it makes me feel good about being gone when I know that you're getting fed
on spiritual filet mignon while I'm gone.
And so nobody went hungry spiritually at all and so I'm super thankful for that.
We've got Sunday morning, 10.30, preaching service, Sunday nights at 6,
Wednesday nights at 7. We'll be back into our Bible study in the book of Psalms.
This week we're in Psalm 81, which is one that we're really familiar with
because we've sung the song a lot where we sing through that whole Psalm.
And so that'll be a good one this Wednesday night.
We've got the soul winning times listed there below.
as well as salvations and baptisms.
Across the page, we got something really fun coming up
this weekend for those of you that are signed up,
but we're doing this soul-winning hiking trip.
I think there's about 50 people
that are planning on coming to this, if I recall.
But this Friday, we got the schedule there.
We're gonna be going up
and doing a soul-winning marathon in Flagstaff.
And then on a Saturday, we're gonna climb
the tallest mountain in Arizona, Mount Humphreys.
Of course, we've already talked about this,
but it's gonna be a very challenging hike.
So it says weather forecast for Saturday, June 14th
at Arizona Snow Bowl, sunny with a high of 63.
But when you get to the top, of course,
it's gonna be cold like probably,
I don't know, 40s or something.
I think there's a way to type in
you know what's the weather at the peak or whatever and it's it's dramatically colder at the top
but as long as you're hiking you don't really feel it anyway and then
a high of 63 southwest winds 13 to 17 miles an hour gusts of 29 miles per hour.
That's child's play compared to that first who was there that first time we
went up there and it was gusting up to like 90 miles an hour.
Yeah, that was pretty weird, but we made it.
We survived.
We're here to tell the tell the tale blood was shed but we made it.
And then, so make sure that you confirm your lodging
and transportation with our church staff,
and then there's a WhatsApp group.
Make sure you join the WhatsApp group.
And I'm personally going on this,
and I'm looking forward to it this weekend,
Friday and Saturday.
And then below that, thank you to everybody
who came out for the first Friday's soul winning event
with Brother Tilson.
Seven soul winners had seven salvations at that,
so that was cool.
On the back, we've got the list of expectant ladies,
so we can keep praying for them
to have a safe and healthy pregnancy and delivery.
And then not this Wednesday, but next Wednesday,
we've got Pastor Corbin Russell from Straight Pads Baptist
Church coming up and preaching on Wednesday night.
So make a point to be here even if you're a Sunday morning
glory and you don't typically make it on Wednesdays.
Be sure to come out special to hear him.
and then other upcoming events.
I'm preaching in Vancouver, Washington,
on Thursday, August the 7th,
and then we've got the Fire Breathing Baptist Fellowship
coming up in Texas in August from the 27th through the 31st.
That's about it for announcements for now,
so let's go ahead and sing our next song.
Come lead us.
If you would grab your hymnal again and turn over to song number 296.
Song number 200.
One other thing as well.
Sorry.
There was an announcement made,
I don't know if it was this Wednesday
or the previous Wednesday,
people had asked about hotels
for the Fire Breathing Baptist Fellowship.
If you do travel out there to Cedar Hill, Texas
and do the Fire Breathing Baptist Fellowship,
we are helping out with hotels on that
while supplies last, see stores for details.
Void we're prohibited, many will enter, few will win.
All right, let's go.
all right song number 296 follow on down in the valley with my savior i would go
follow on song number 296 sing it out on the first down in the valley with my savior i would go
where the flowers are blooming and the sweet waters flow everywhere he leads me i would follow
Walking in His footsteps till the ground He won
Follow, follow, I would follow Jesus
Anywhere, everywhere I would follow one
Follow, follow, I would follow Jesus
Everywhere He leads me
I would follow one down in the valley
With my Savior I would go
Where the storms are sweeping and the dark waters blow
When it's time to leave me, I will never, never fear
Danger cannot fright me if my Lord is near
Follow, follow, I would follow Jesus
Anywhere, everywhere, I would
He will lead me safely in the path that he has trod
All to where we gather on the hills of God
Follow, follow, I will follow Jesus
Anywhere, everywhere I will follow on
Follow, follow, I will follow Jesus
Everywhere he leads me I will follow
Amen, great singing.
Lastly, before the reading of the scripture,
let's turn to song number 293.
Is your all on the altar?
Song number 293.
293, sing it out on the first.
You have longed for sweet peace
and for faith to increase
But you cannot have rest, or be perfectly blessed until all of the altar is laid.
and sweet rest as you yield in your body and soul.
When you are with the Lord in the light of His word
and at peace and contentment away,
you must prove His sweet will to be free from all
On the altar your all you must lay
Is there all on the altar of sacrifice laid
Your heart does the spirit control
You can only be blessed and have decent sweet rest
to our body and soul.
Oh, we never can know what the Lord will bestow
of the blessings for which we have prayed
till our body and soul heat a fold.
All right, at this time we'll pass our offering plates around.
As the plates go around, let's turn our Bibles to Proverbs chapter number 20, book of Proverbs chapter number 20.
As we always do, we'll read the entire chapter beginning in verse number one.
Fall along sadly with Brother Dan as he reads Proverbs 20 starting in verse number one.
Proverbs 20 the Bible says,
Most men will proclaim everyone his own goodness, but a faithful man who can find.
The just man walketh in his integrity. His children are blessed after him.
A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.
Who can say I have made my heart clean? I am pure from my sin.
Diverse weights and diverse measures, both of them are alike, abomination to the Lord.
Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure and whether it be right.
The hearing ear and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made even both of them.
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty.
Open thine eyes and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
It is not, it is not, sayeth the buyer, but when he has gone his way, then he boasteth.
There is gold and a multitude of rubies, but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.
Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
Bread of deceit is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
Every purpose is established by counsel, and with good advice make war.
He that goeth about as a tale-bearer revealeth secrets, therefore meddle not with him that flat earth with his lips.
Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscured darkness.
An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning, but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
Say not thou, I will recompense evil, but wait on the Lord, and he shall save thee.
Diverse weights are an abomination unto the Lord, and a false balance is not good.
Man's goings are of the Lord. How can a man then understand his own way?
It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, and after vows to make inquiry.
A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.
The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord, searching all the inward parts of the belly.
Mercy and truth preserve the king, and his throne is upholding by mercy.
The glory of young men is their strength, and the beauty of old men is the gray head.
The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil, so do stripes, the inward parts of the belly.
Dear Lord, we thank you for faith. We're Baptist Church Lord and Lord. I thank you for everyone that's come to church this morning
And Lord I pray you'd open all our hearts to the message and Lord
I pray that you'd fill Pastor Anderson with your Holy Spirit and Jesus gonna pray amen
Man the title my sermon this morning is the foolishness of drinking the foolishness of drinking another title for the sermon
Could be the wisdom of not drinking the wisdom of not drinking because the Bible says in Proverbs chapter 1 verse
Excuse me Proverbs chapter 20 verse 1 wine is a mocker
Strong drink is raging and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise, right?
people today that are deceived by alcohol that think that this is something that they can do,
that they can indulge in and take part in, and it's fine, they think it's not a sin,
they think God's pleased with them drinking, these are not wise people.
The Bible says that everybody who is deceived on this issue is unwise.
That's what the Bible says. Why? Because wine is a mocker.
Wine makes you look stupid. What does it mean to mock to make fun of someone?
Wine makes fun of you. Wine makes you look like an idiot.
Strong drink is raging, right? It gets you
involved in angry conflicts, fights, maybe
physical fistfights or worse.
and whose serve is deceived thereby is not wise.
Go if you would to Habakkuk chapter number two,
the minor prophets toward the end of the Old Testament.
Habakkuk chapter two, and we can talk about
all of the reasons why drinking is stupid
and something that you should not do, okay?
First of all, it's a mockery.
It makes you look like an idiot.
We were just sitting last night in the restaurant at the airport
and there were several guys sitting at the bar
and I don't even think it would be fair to even call these guys drunk
but they were just making complete fools of themselves,
complete idiots of themselves, right?
We're sitting there just kind of laughing at them from our table
like, what is wrong with these guys?
You could tell that the bartender kind of thought they were idiots
but she's just kind of going along with it
because she wants to get that tip at the end of the night
They're just looking like complete morons.
And I told my daughter, I said, look,
does alcohol make you cool?
Are these guys cooler as a result of having drunk?
Or are they just acting like idiots?
Because wine is a mocker, that's why.
Strong drink is raging.
We should be spending our lives trying not to be involved in fist fights,
not getting in physical altercations,
and not being in a rage,
and just blowing our top and whatever,
and alcohol is going to lead you down that path.
But how about this, Habakkuk chapter 2 verse 15, famous verse,
woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink,
that puteth thy bottle to him, and maketh him drunken also,
that thou mayest look on their nakedness.
Alcohol makes you vulnerable to other people that are predators that want to take advantage of you.
Now, especially if you think about these particular pronouns, woe unto him, they give it his neighbor drink,
they put his thigh bottle to him, and make his him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness.
You know, aside from that little they-them at the end of that verse, you know, it's a bunch of...
It's a dude giving another dude alcohol!
It's him giving him alcohol to look on his nakedness.
Now look, I don't want to be taken advantage of by women.
But a thousand times worse would be getting molested by another dude.
And alcohol is opening you up to that, or as women, you know, opening you up to being
molested by whomever.
It's horrible, we need to be sober, we need to be vigilant, because our adversary, the
devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.
And all of his minions are out there, these predators, these weirdos, these perverts, and
they will use alcohol in order to take advantage of people, though give someone drink in order
to look on their nakedness.
and this is something that should be scary to every normal person
and say, hey, I want to have my wits about me, so I'm not going to drink,
because I don't want to be taken advantage of,
and it's not just what we see here being molested,
but what about just the fact of just getting your wallet stolen,
right, or just getting talked into doing something stupid,
saying something stupid, committing to something stupid, who knows?
It says in verse 16,
thou art filled with shame for glory, right?
People think it's glorious to drink
and to get other people to drink and to drink at a party
and oh, we're all having fun, we're all drinking,
but you're gonna be filled with shame for glory.
It's gonna be embarrassment instead of glory.
Drink thou also.
Yeah, go ahead and drink and let your foreskin be uncovered.
The cup of the Lord's right hand shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing shall be on thy glory."
Now what does this mean? The cup of the Lord's right hand shall be turned unto thee.
You know, the idea here is that God's wrath and punishment is often used with a metaphor of the wine of the wrath of God.
right, the dregs of that bitter bottom of the barrel,
wine of the wrath of God which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his
indignation or anger, and the idea is
oh you like drinking so much, I'll give you a big warm glass of the wrath of God to drink
since you love to drink so much.
The cup of the Lord's right hand shall be turned unto thee,
and basically, after you drink that,
you're going to feel so good that you're going to puke.
And shameful spewing, and what, you know,
let's put this in a modern vernacular,
shameful spewing, embarrassing vomiting
is what that means, right?
Shameful spewing shall be on thy glory.
Oh, you're so cool.
How cool are you when you have puke running down your shirt?
That's not cool.
But even worse is metaphorically when the cup of the Lord's right hand is turned on to you
And you're the recipient of God's wrath and then you puke God's wrath all over yourself
That's even worse than throwing up from being drunk. Go if you would to Isaiah chapter 28
So this is toward the beginning of the Bible move from the minor prophets to the major prophets big books
Isaiah Jeremiah Ezekiel look at Isaiah
chapter number 28, verse number 7, I'm going to start reading it while you get there, verse 7 of 28,
it says, but they also have erred through wine.
and through strong drink are out of the way, okay?
So it's gonna make fun of you,
it's gonna make you look stupid,
it's gonna enrage you, cause you to get into fights,
it's gonna make you vulnerable and exposed to predators
and people that wanna take advantage of you.
It's also gonna put you on the receiving end
of the cup of the Lord's right hand
of God's indignation and wrath.
But also it's going to make you do stupid things and make stupid decisions because the Bible says they've erred
Through wine it leads you into error. It leads you into making bad decisions
I remember when I was a teenager having to take my driving test and one of the things that they
Ask you about on every single driver test. So if you have to go get your driving permit, just take it to the bank
Here's one question. That's always on the test because you know
Every test is different, right, and different questions are being cycled through, and you
don't really know what they're going to ask you, so you're supposed to read the whole
manual, but there is one question that is always on every driving test 100% of the time.
If you learn this, at least you know for sure you're going to get this one question right,
which is the blood alcohol concentration that is allowed in your blood.
They ask that on every single test every time, and if you're under 21, the allowed concentration
percent if you're under 21 if you're above 21 it is 0.08 percent and so there
you go but they always teach you in driving school and in the handbook
itself they say the first thing to go if you've had any alcohol whatsoever even
one drink the first thing to go is your good judgment
A good judgment goes right away even before you're even close to being drunk.
And by the way, how about this for good judgment?
How about the good judgment to know how much you're going to drink?
So what happens is you might go into it thinking, oh, I'm just going to have one drink.
I'm going to be moderate.
But the problem is once you've had one, well now your good judgment goes and you say, hey,
let's have two.
Let's make it three.
And so he says they've erred through wine, meaning that they're using bad judgment and committing errors through wine and through strong drink they're out of the way.
And then watch this, the priests and the prophet have erred through strong drink.
I mean what an amazing thing when men of God or so-called men of God are drinking alcohol.
It's unbelievable.
I remember one time my dad was at the home of a relative
and they were all into all their booze and their little wine chiller
and all their little wine collection and how cool it was.
And my dad's like, well, I thought the Bible said the pastor is not supposed to be given to wine
because this was a relative where the dude was a pastor.
And she's like, what?
His wife's like, what? And he's like, yeah, he's not supposed to be given to wine.
And she's like, well, I'd have to see that in the Bible.
It's like, wait a minute. So you've been married to a pastor for decades
and you're unfamiliar with the qualifications for the bishop that he's not to be given to wine
and then you're all excited about your little whinoe hobby or whatever.
And it says here, the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink.
They're swallowed up of wine.
They're out of the way through strong drink.
They are in vision.
They stumble in judgment.
For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness
so that there is no place clean, right?
You lose your good judgment.
And you stumble, and here's the thing about people
when they're drunk, they stumble around, right?
They're kind of like staggering and falling over.
That's why part of the field sobriety test
is walking in a straight line.
And here's the thing about that, is that when the Bible talks about you stumbling
because of strong drink or staggering like a drunken man.
It's not just physically that you stagger,
but this will cause you to stumble spiritually
and stagger through your Christian life
and wander out of the way
and get into all kinds of errors and mistakes
because you are messing up your brain with alcohol.
And by the way, everything I'm saying this morning,
you could just plug drugs into that equation as well.
So don't be one of these fools that says,
well, I'm against alcohol, but smoking pot is fine.
Oh, I'm against alcohol, but it's okay to drop acid.
You know, it's okay to snort a little cocaine.
I mean, that stuff's even worse.
You need to abstain from all drugs and alcohol
and be sober and gird up the loins of your mind.
Flip over if you would to Isaiah chapter number 19.
Is that, yeah, chapter number 19, just a couple pages back, you're there in 28.
Go back to Isaiah 19, look at verse 14, it says,
the Lord have mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof,
and they have caused Egypt to err, again that's to
commit errors, to make mistakes, to make dumb decisions, bad decisions,
caused Egypt to err in every work thereof as a drunken man
Right? So you want to go through life just stumbling, staggering, wandering,
puking on yourself, making stupid decisions, screwing up your life.
Well, alcohol is the ticket to get you there.
Go, if you would, to the book of Jeremiah.
Go to Jeremiah chapter 25.
And while you're turning to Jeremiah 25,
I'm gonna read for you from Lamentations.
It says in Lamentations 421,
rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom,
that dwellest in the land of us,
the cup also shall pass through unto thee.
Thou shalt be drunken and shall make thyself naked."
Right, so again, these are the results of alcohol.
None of this is good, getting naked publicly, making an idiot of yourself, losing your temper,
just going through life, staggering, falling over, dirty, filthy, puking, fornicating, committing adultery.
This is what alcohol does for you. This buds for you.
Where did I have you turned? Jeremiah 25, look at verse 27,
therefore thou shalt say unto them, thus sayeth the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel,
drinky and be drunken and spew, again spewing is throwing up, okay?
Spew and fall and rise no more because of the sword which I will send among you.
But just notice the metaphor here that he's using.
Whenever he wants to talk about just people being confused
and being an idiot, because these are not, that's not a literal reference there.
This is a metaphor, but whenever he wants to use a metaphor for someone being confused,
messed up, making stupid decisions, being dirty, being filthy, and being wrong, it's
like, man, this guy's just like a drunk idiot, staggering around, puking on himself, falling
over, can't walk straight.
That's the metaphor, because that's what alcohol literally does to you.
Look at chapter 48, just a few pages to the right there in your Bible.
Chapter 48, of course, so while you're turning there, another metaphor from Psalm 107, verse 27.
They reel to and fro and stagger like a drunken man and are at their wits end.
And this is an illustration about people who are on a ship.
and the ship is reeling to and fro in the waves
and it's saying that basically the people on board that ship
because of the extreme storm, they're like a drunk person, you know?
We were on a cruise ship a few weeks ago and the ship was really rocking
and we were walking down the hallway toward our room
and it was funny because it was this really long hallway
and you'd see other people coming down the hallway toward you
and all of us were all in unison going like...
You know, like we're all on the left of the hallway,
and then we're all kind of on the right of the hallway.
You know, we were all sober,
but it was the ship rocking back and forth.
But look, is that how you want to go through life?
Like, I don't know about you,
I kind of want to just go straight there in my life.
Right?
I mean, think about how inefficient it is,
and how much extra mileage you're taking
if you go through life like this, right?
If you just go straight ahead,
You know, you get there so much faster than if you're just going through life like this,
you're just wasting time, you're wasting energy, you're wasting effort,
because you're going the wrong way through alcohol.
Jeremiah 48 verse 25, the horn of Moab is cut off.
Of course, the horn represents, you know,
excellency, it represents, you know,
accolades or, you know, having a show of strength
or something like that.
You know, animals, right?
They have this display of horns or antlers
that's a powerful display to let other animals know
of their prowess and so forth.
But the horn of moabs cut off.
And his arm, the arm representing physical strength, broken, sayeth the Lord,
maki him drunken, for he magnified himself against the Lord.
Moab also shall wallow in his vomit.
And he shall also be in derision,
meaning being mocked and made fun of and looked down on.
This is what alcohol will do for you.
You want people to make fun of you, look down on you,
mock you, ridicule you.
This is what alcohol will do for you, okay?
And so there's nothing good here, there's nothing pleasant about this, it's all bad, okay?
Job chapter number 12, and if you would, go ahead and turn to Deuteronomy chapter 21,
but in Job 12, it says in verse 24,
He takeeth away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth,
and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
They grope in the dark without light.
and he make it them to stagger like a drunken man.
You know, again, just talking about total indirection,
not knowing what to do, bad decision making.
And look, life is filled with difficult decisions.
I want to make the right decisions.
I want to be able to think clearly.
I want to be filled with the Spirit of God.
I don't want to be drunk with wine.
Word in his excese, I want to be filled with the Spirit.
So I can make good decisions.
So I can be led by the Spirit of God down a straight path.
Straight to my destination, super efficient, not just kind of like, I don't know, man.
Just going through life.
And look, some people literally spend the whole decade of their life like this.
It's called their 20s.
Just not knowing who they are, what to do with themselves.
And look, we all have problems in our life.
We all go through low points and things.
But you know how you exacerbate those things and make them worse is alcohol.
And here's the thing, I just thank God that I've just never been into drinking
and I've never gone down that road and look I've been
super sad about things, I've been super stressed out, I've gone through these
different things
but I never turned to alcohol and so I was able to get through it
and just keep going forward whereas alcohol can just get you stuck there
okay and how many times do people commit suicide
under the influence of alcohol?
How many times do people do other just permanent damage to their lives or physical bodies or relationships through alcohol?
Right and for the record, I've never been suicidal in my life. I've never contemplated suicide
I've never thought about I'm never going to and if I quote-unquote commit suicide just know for sure that I was murdered
Okay, I was suicided
Because I have never even thought about that and I never will
But guess what people that are drinking and doing drugs they have those thoughts
That's even one of the major side effects listed on a lot of pharmaceutical drugs
Suicidal thoughts suicidal tendencies because you're on pharmaceutical drugs and by the way everything. I'm saying about alcohol
I told you to apply it to street drugs. Well, guess what also apply it to abusing pharmaceutical drugs
Right taking prescription drugs off label use
Self-medicating with prescription drugs and using them abusing them in unintended ways. You know what put that in the exact same category
What are some of the consequences of this in your life? I mean look have you seen enough consequences?
I mean the Bible is
Not remiss and warning. It's not like well God you didn't warn me about what alcohol is like when it's just verse after verse after verse after
Verse after verse every drunk in this town loves the story about Jesus turning the water into wine because he's stupid and misunderstands it
And we're gonna get to that next
Every drunk in America, their favorite Bible memory verses use a little wine for their stomach's sake,
which they also twist and misunderstand to get wrong.
But you know, what about all these other verses? I wonder if they've even seen these verses in their entire lives.
I mean, what about all these verses I'm showing you in Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Proverbs, and Psalms, and these different things?
I wonder if they've even heard or seen these verses.
Where God is just warning you, warning you, warning you, and people don't listen.
But it isn't God's fault because he warned us, but you know what it is, a preacher's fault,
preachers won't turn to these passages and preach hard against alcohol.
But, you know, just in case that wasn't enough of a consequence for you, look down at your Bible at Deuteronomy 21-18.
It says, if a man have a stubborn and rebellious son,
which will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother and that when they've chastened him will not
Harken to them and so this is just sort of a
Generality a generic statement just about the fact look a stubborn and rebellious son
That's just refusing to respond to discipline his parents have discipline. It's not that they didn't give him a weapon
They did he's not responding to it
Look at verse 19 then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him and bring him out
Under the elders of the city and under the gate of his place and they shall say unto the elders of the city
This our son is stubborn and rebellious now notice
We saw stubborn and rebellious in verse 18
And then we also see stubborn and rebellious in verse 20 everybody see that now wouldn't you agree that stubborn and rebellious?
are two kind of generic terms, they're not really necessarily homing in on specific sin
or specific disobedience or specific behavior, but it's kind of a catch-all for just not obeying.
You know, you're being told what to do and you're stubbornly not doing it and you're
In verse 20, it says, he will not obey our voice.
He's a glutton and a drunkard.
Now look, what's the one thing that they get specific about
is that bro is a drunkard and a glutton.
So therefore, it sounds to me like
this is a pretty serious problem.
If that's the one thing that's coming up
in this situation of like, man, he's so stubborn
and so rebellious, I mean, he's a glutton and a drunkard.
And then it says, all the men of his city shall stone him with stones that he die.
So shalt thou put evil away from among you and Israel, all Israel shall hear in fear.
Look, I don't know, did we just read a passage about someone being stoned to death for being an incorrigible drunk?
Is that what we just read, or did I miss something?
Because from what I just saw, it's like, oh, he's a drunkard!
All right, stone him with zones.
We can't fix this guy.
We've tried, we've whipped him, we beat him.
And again, I mentioned a few weeks ago in a sermon,
how when we were in Africa,
the police had these like fiberglass sticks
that they were beating drunks with.
And the guy was like kind of being like Zorro in the police station practicing with it and I was like
Hey, what's going on with that? You know, what do you guys use that for?
He said oh, it's for it's for whipping people and any I said, who do you whip with it? He said typically drunk people and
We just give him a few wax and we whip him with this and get him in line
So he spends the night shift just going around Botswana just whipping drunks with a plastic stick with a fiberglass rod
Why because stripes are prepared for the backs of fools
You know and being a drunk is
Something where your parents would discipline you because they're they're like we tried to discipline this kid
And he wouldn't listen and he was stubborn and rebellious even though we chastised him for being a drunk
Okay
And by the way, I shouldn't even go off on this
because it's outside the scope of this sermon,
but you know what, I'm jet lagged,
and so I've also lost a little good judgment.
No, I just can't, but anyway.
You know what's funny is like,
we were on the cruise ship and we saw this kid,
and this kid was just gigantic.
Like he was just massive huge kid and I felt bad because I'm just thinking like man
That's like that's really unhealthy. This kid's really huge
I've never seen anything like this and like, you know, it's gonna be really hard for this kid to ever like
Get on track and live a healthy life because he's beat and I don't know
I was just thinking to myself like man, you know
this kid's parents should be teaching this kid how to eat
and putting some kind of a restriction
on just unfettered gluttony and indulgence
because you know, this guy's just getting so big.
But you know what's funny is that people were of course
lying about me and slandering me and attacking me
and claiming that like, oh man, you know,
I restricted food in my house
when I was raising my kids or something.
And I'm thinking to myself like, okay,
so I restricted food consumption in my house
and they were making fun of us
because we had like, at one point my wife had put
like a lock on the refrigerator.
You know because because they were just raiding the fridge and just you know taking stuff that they weren't supposed to
But what's funny is that that's how I grew up who grew up that way where you weren't allowed to just eat whatever you want
Anytime where basically there were restrictions of this how many cookies you can have these are the chips you can have these are the sodas
You can have and there were strict rules about these things growing up and you know when I was growing up. I mean
when we went to an all-you-can-eat restaurant it was actually an event because it was like wow
I can just keep eating and I can eat as much as I you know and then I grew up and you know
started going on these missions cruises you know because it's just like because to me
going to an all-you-can-eat buffet was kind of a big deal growing up
but I'm thinking to myself, you know, kids that are growing up in 2025,
their life isn't all you can eat, buffet.
They probably don't even understand the excitement of getting all you can eat
because they just live that all you can eat life all the time.
You know, whereas when I was growing up, it was like you had a certain portion,
you ate your food, and a lot of times you walked away and you were still a little hungry.
That was kind of the way most of us grew up. Okay, and here's the thing
We have of course fed our kids a very nutritious diet. They're all super healthy. They're all way healthier than I've ever been
They're all super healthy and and and they've got all the meat on the bone that they need
But what what is this thing though where it's like you restricted food?
I'm looking at some kid that's gigantic just thinking about you never restricted food
And look, I'm not one of these people that just thinks everybody's fat or everybody's overweight.
I understand different people are shaped different.
I'm not trying to get on anybody or expect everybody to be all skinny.
I'm not like France or something.
We're in Europe just now, and like, whenever clothing comes from France,
it's like size triple XL and it's like a normal garment.
Who knows what I'm talking about?
Those sizes in France are insane.
it'll be like, oh, I didn't know I work
for a Drupal XL just for being a normal weight.
So I'm not one of these people
that wants everybody skinny or something, okay?
That's not the point.
But I'm saying, you know,
obviously it makes sense for parents
to teach their kids not to overindulge.
and to put limits and say, this is how many cookies you're going to have,
this is how many sodas you're going to have, whatever, and not just,
hey, it's just all you can eat buffet all the time,
otherwise you're abusive. It's crazy.
All right, that was a bad point. I'm sorry.
Let's move on. So, what do we see?
And this guy in the example here in Deuteronomy 21 literally dies from being drunk.
He literally gets executed for being such an incorrigible drunk that can't be fixed.
I didn't write the Bible.
That's what it says.
It's right in front of your face in Deuteronomy 21.
Also in addition, go if you would to John chapter 2.
Also in addition, 1 Corinthians chapter 5 talks about being thrown out of the church
for being drunk.
Again, serious consequences, this is not something that God is playing around with.
So now let's turn to every drunk's favorite Bible story, which is Jesus turning the water
into wine, which is John chapter 2.
Every town drunk can quote you this story from memory, it's the only chapter of the Bible
they have memorized.
But look at John chapter 2, verse 1, it says the third day there was a marriage in Cana
And both Jesus was called and his disciples to the marriage, and when they wanted wine,
and the word wanted here, it means when they lacked wine, right?
This is like, the Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.
So it's saying, when they wanted wine, they're lacking in wine,
the mother of Jesus says unto them, they have no wine.
Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee?
Mine hour is not yet come.
And then she backs off, right?
She defers to him and she says unto the servants,
whatsoever he saith unto you, do it.
So basically she's going to leave it up to him
what he wants to do, how he wants to handle this.
And she basically just says, okay, I'll back off,
but just, hey, whatever Jesus says to you, do it.
And by the way, that's good advice for all Catholics.
Whatever Jesus says to you, do it.
Like calling no man father.
And like, yeah, well, let's not go off on that.
It's a whole nother sermon.
And there were set there six water pots of stone
after the manner of the purifying of the Jews
containing two or three ferkins apiece.
Jesus saith unto them,
fill the water pots with water.
They filled them up to the brim.
And he saith unto them,
draw out now and bear unto the governor of the feast,
and they bear it.
When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine and knew not
whence it was, meaning he didn't know where it came from, but the service which
drew the water, they knew that it was just water, that they had just filled these
giant containers with just water all the way to the brim. They draw out the water,
put it in the cup, give it to the emcee or the host of the ceremony or the party
The governor of the fees called the bridegroom
and sayeth unto him, every man at the beginning
doth set forth good wine, and when men have well drunk,
that which is worse, but thou hast kept the good wine
until now."
Now, here is the bizarre, and look, I'm sorry,
but I'm not gonna take this back,
and I'm gonna make this very clear,
and I'm gonna say this.
This is a bizarre, stupid, absurd,
and foolish interpretation of the story
that is being taught out there today
in churches and by Christians who love drinking.
This is what they're teaching they're teaching that the people are drunk and
That Jesus is giving them more alcohol now
Just let the stupid sink in for a second. Okay, and you know what's funny is that these people will make fun of people like me
Make fun. Oh, you Baptist
You're in your welches grape juice
Well, the joke's on you, moron, because you know what?
What kind of a fool, what kind of an imbecile, what kind of a stupid idiot, and I don't use
this lightly, thinks that Jesus was at a drunk party and provided more alcohol for drunk
people.
I mean, even a worldly sinful bartender wouldn't even do that because it's immoral and unethical.
Even a flight attendant would get fired for doing that even bartenders aren't allowed to do that. It's against the law
It's immoral. It's unethical, but this is the stupidity that's being taught today, and I'm supposed to be embarrassed for my view
My T totaling view is you know, and then it's funny when I preached the truth on this
I was told that's some serious Baptist cope brother
You know this kind of Gen Z slang of you that's some serious copium you're on there
Some serious cope and I'm like, okay, let's define irony the guy who's against drinking is being told that that's cope
No, ah, guess what drinking is cope
People literally drink to cope
Okay, apparently I don't have much to cope with since I don't need chemicals in my body to numb my brain
Sounds like I'm coping just fine
Oh man, some serious, but you Baptist with got some serious cope
Well, you know what? Why don't we laugh at the stupidity of thinking that Jesus is even at a drunken party in the first place
It brings his mom, you know, because you know, don't you just always show up to these drunk parties with your mom?
And by the way, I thought these are like some of the most godly people on the planet
It's like it's Jesus and the disciples
This is like Peter, James, John, Andrew.
I mean, these are the men that are going to turn the world upside down.
These are literally some of the most godly people on the planet.
These people are so into religion,
they've literally quit their jobs
and are just full-time serving God all day, every day,
quit their job.
And look, following Jesus for three and a half years,
we all wish we could get in a time machine and follow Jesus,
but I wonder after a couple of weeks, we'd be like,
I don't know if I could keep this pace.
You know what I mean because after like a week long mission strip. I'm kind of done. I
Mean, you know, we all would love to follow Jesus for three and a half years, but I don't know if we could keep up
I don't think I could keep up
You see what I'm saying these people are hard core servants of God
Super godly super religious people super into it eat breathing and sleeping. Oh, and by the way, let's bring mom too
To this party because guess what it wasn't a drunken party
Okay, and you know what you want to know where this stupid idea is coming from?
the NIV
Because the NIV literally trans and this is not in the original Greek
Needless to say the King James is accurately translating what's there, but here's the thing is that in the NIV?
It says the people have had too much to drink
What does too much mean is too much ever good?
Too much by definition can't be good because too much means it's too much. It's overboard. It's wrong. It's error
If I said you gave me too much food, oh, well, I'm so glad I gave you the exact right amount
You gave me too much food. Oh, well, I guess you want more
You'd say that's you you'd think I was a crazy person wouldn't you you would think that I was literally a lunatic if
I said you give me too much food
So therefore I must have more because I have too much
But this is what they're saying in the NIV it literally says the people had too much to drink
Give them more
That's the NIV. To me, that alone, just that is enough reason to throw your NIV in the trash.
Just that. Just this one verse.
In like the most important book in the Bible, arguably, the Gospel of John,
and you get to chapter 2 and the NIV just has this turd in it of,
oh, they had too much. There's no too much in the original Greek.
They just made that up right now.
Why would you give more alcohol to people who've already had too much to drink?
But again, these are the low IQ people who think that every time the word wine is used in the Bible
It's an alcoholic beverage. Now the reason I say they're low IQ is because of the fact that there are plenty of verses where it literally
Talks about wine being in a grape. It literally talks about squeezing grapes directly into a glass
And then they walk away saying grape juice hadn't been invented yet
I don't know, what kind of technology was it when the chief butler was literally squeezing
grapes into Pharaoh's glass in Genesis?
That was some high tech stuff.
Apparently that technology was lost for a while of squeezing grapes into a glass.
And by the way, there are all kinds of methods that have been used throughout history for
preserving fruit juices and preserving these things, where they'd fill the barrel of wine,
and then they put like a layer of oil over it, and they had all these different things.
And here's the thing, obviously, and what these people are doing is, they're trying
to confuse you and trick you, because every sugary drink has traced amounts of alcohol
in it.
Everything.
A Coca-Cola is going to have trace amounts of alcohol in it, but it's an amount that
you could never get drunk, period.
So when I say a non-alcoholic beverage, I mean the same thing that the FDA means, which
we're talking about less than half a percent of alcohol, right?
So if I go to the grocery store.
and a beverage has less than a half a percent of alcohol in it,
that's not considered an alcoholic beverage.
Like for example, kombucha is going to have a tiny bit of alcohol in it,
but it's never going to get you drunk unless you just drank some insane amount of it,
which is why it's not an alcoholic beverage, which is why you don't have to be 21,
you don't get carted, it's less than a half a percent, okay?
You leave the fruit juice on the counter for a couple days,
yeah, it's going to have trace amounts of alcohol in it.
These people will try to compare fruit juice fermenting a little bit to beverages that
have been specifically designed and engineered to be high in alcohol because people are drinking
them in order to get inebriated.
In order to get drunk, that is the purpose of what they're doing.
Jesus Christ was at a wedding and they were drinking soft drinks.
When it says they're drinking wine, it's talking about fruit juice.
That's what they're drinking.
That was either super low or no alcohol.
And when Jesus turned the water into wine, he's turning it into fruit juice.
And here's the thing.
People are like, well, if God wanted to say juice, he would have just said juice.
Well, here's the thing.
In 1611, it wasn't called juice, it was just called wine.
Which is why, show me one mention of juice in the entire Bible.
You can't.
Because if you do a word search on the word juice, it occurs one time in Song of Solomon where it says juice of the wine.
Well, there's wine again.
Just to avoid saying wine of the wine. No, the word wine is referring to fruit juice in general
Whether it's fermented or unfermented. Now again, these bozos will either be stupid or pretend to be stupid
And here's what they'll say. Well, so you're saying that every time the word wine, it's just welches
Well, here's the thing about that is that's not what anybody ever thought or ever said
What we're saying is that the word wine is fruit juice in general, and it can either be fermented or
Unfermented and it's based on the context whether we're talking about something fermented or not
that's why the Bible talks about different kinds of wine and
Stay away from this particular kind of wine because there is some wine that is benign
And then there's some other wine that's bad, okay?
And look, I'm not embarrassed for one second
to be a lifelong tea toddler who doesn't even know what beer even tastes like,
and I will get up and stand right now and tell you that the Bible is on my side,
and people are twisting scripture, and they're ignorant,
and they're the ones who are uneducated and don't know what life was like in ancient times.
They're just listening to booze propaganda.
from the beer church, also known as the Calvinist church.
You know, if you actually read ancient literature,
you'll read about them heavily diluting wine.
Like how about in Odyssey Book Nine,
people said, oh, you're an idiot, you made this up.
Okay, fine.
Then why don't you go to Barnes and Noble,
pick up Homer's Odyssey and turn to Book Nine
and read about the story of the Cyclops.
And Odysseus talks about diluting wine 20 to one.
Now, let me explain some to you. If you're diluting wine, 20 to 1, it's not even an alcoholic beverage anymore.
You're not gonna get drunk anymore at that point. Does everybody understand what I'm saying?
You're gonna be down to that like half a percent range or something of alcohol at that point, right?
Because you're gonna go from something that was around 10% alcohol, ancient wine, that was even the alcoholic variety,
10% is going to be toward the upper limit of what you're going to have in ancient times
for an alcoholic beverage.
By the time you dilute it 20 to 1, you're down to it.
You don't even need to show ID anymore at that point, okay?
But again, I guess I just made that up and I went around and changed every copy of the
oldest book, literally the oldest Indo-European literature on the planet, The Iliad and the
Odyssey, from around 700 BC, right?
Doesn't say that. I just made that up right now. Okay, whatever.
Like, oh man, Grape Juice was invented in the 1800s.
And I'm supposed to be embarrassed about my level of education or my intelligence.
I'm supposed to be embarrassed in front of people that say that Grape Juice was invented in the 1800s.
I suppose you think that Al Gore invented the internet and pants.
And, you know, pants also were invented in the 1600s. And yeah, wow.
I went to a museum and saw an ancient pair of pants that was like 3,000 years old, but
I digress.
Now people are claiming that the story doesn't make sense if you substitute in fruit juice
and that it only makes sense if we're talking about booze, because here's how they understand
the story.
They understand the story that people are so drunk, and this is what people say, once
the people are drunk they don't care what it tastes like.
And you bring out the bad stuff later because when people have had, quote, like the NIV says,
too much to drink, they don't even care what it tastes like anymore.
That is their interpretation and that is absurd.
Okay?
And they say, well, if you take out the alcohol component, this story doesn't make sense at all.
How does it not make sense, my friend?
Because let's just, let's just substitute it in pizza.
Let's just forget alcohol for a second and say pizza.
What if Jesus turned the bread into pizza?
What if that was a miracle where he's brought five loaves and two fishes and instead of multiplying it
He made pizza with anchovies on it. You know what I mean?
What that could you know that could have been a miracle and what if the governor of the feast would have said well
You know usually they bring out the best pizza at the beginning and then after people have already well eaten
Then they bring out the worst pizza, but you kept the good pizza until now
It's because obviously the first bite of everything is the best
When you first get there, it's the first impression.
It's the first bite, it's the first thing.
Then after a while, you're just chowing down
and don't care as much.
It has nothing to do with being drunk or inebriated.
You know, it reminds me of this episode
I saw of Duck Tales when I was a kid,
where they were on this island
where everybody wasted everything
and they would just take one bite of the banana
and throw the banana away and say,
well, everybody knows the first bite of the banana
is the best bite.
So we just only take the first bite and then throw it away.
And they were like, teaching Huey, Dewey, and Louie
these bad values.
Who saw that episode all right all right. Yeah, come on people
Things like that stick with you, you know
He that is slothful does work his brother to him. There's a great waster
So look how does the story not make sense if we can literally substitute in pizza and it makes total sense
Yeah, you know, you'd want to bring out the really best stuff at the beginning when people's palates are fresh and they taste it
And then here's what you'll hear other people say. Well, how come the Bible talks about people, you know being happy about
Wine or you know being cheerful or merry
if it's not alcohol.
Well, first of all, sometimes it is alcohol.
Number one, you got to use the context.
But number two, this is coming from people
who probably spend hundreds and hundreds of dollars
a year on soft drinks.
So what if I told you that back in the New Testament,
they didn't have Coca-Cola.
There's no Dr. Pepper.
There's no 7-Up or Root Beer.
So what is it that they're drinking
for their sugary, fun drink?
It's fruit juice, it's wine.
And what's funny is, and I looked up some statistics on this, according to a 2018 Statista
report, the average American consumed approximately 38.87 gallons of soft drinks per year.
So if the average American, and I drink almost none, so that means there's some guy out there
doubling it for me.
Is it you, Kevin?
No, I'm just kidding.
You know Kevin and I we team up and we hit the statistic, but you know thirty-eight gallons of
soft drinks per year if we're drinking an average
man woman boy and girl
thirty-eight gallons of
Coke and Pepsi and seven up sounds like people are pretty into it
Right and in fact Americans here's some more statistics on this
America the average person in America
drinks 1.1 cans of soda every day.
The soft drink market just for the U.S. alone
is $115 billion.
It's a $115 billion industry.
Ha ha ha ha!
You expect me to believe that people are excited
about drinking fruit juice?
Ha ha ha ha!
Here hand me that six pack of Coke that I drink every day.
Yeah, yeah, nobody's excited about it and here's the thing
I understand that a lot of these coax and pepsis and things like that half caffeine in them
But here's the thing if I took the kids out to pizza if you took your family out to pizza all the kids want a soda
Don't they is there any kid who doesn't want the soda pretty much every kid wants to and it's not because they're like
Oh, man. I got to get my caffeine fix. I
Got to get that hit of caffeine. No, no what what they want is that sugar hit is what they want
Am I right because you know what if it's an icy
With no caffeine in it if they get an icy they get just excited about a slurpee
or an ice, right?
So all these millions and millions of Americans
are getting all excited about these slurpees
and icies and coaks and everything.
But then I'm supposed to believe
this stuff's not making anybody happy.
Nobody's enjoying it.
Nobody gets excited about it.
Nobody cares what it tastes like.
Nobody cares if it's any good.
I mean, if the governor said it was good,
what, that must mean it was really strong, hard liquor.
Maybe a newsflash, maybe it just tasted really good.
Well, why would that why anybody care about I don't know you got people over here
You got millions of people arguing whether coke tastes better than Pepsi
But I don't know why would the governor say one wine tastes better than another even if it's not alcohol
What if I told you that people care how their food tastes?
They care what their drink tastes like they know the difference and you know
I couldn't help but think of this slogan of just for the taste of it
Just for the taste of it diet coke
They're lying because it's not good, but that's what they say just for the taste of it
So what you know the water being turned into wine. I wonder why the governor of the fees liked it just for the taste of it
Water turned into wine
I don't know what's so hard to understand about this, unless your mind is just so rotted
from alcohol and drugs, you're just like, oh man, I can't imagine anything being fun
unless it's a chemical that can alter my brain chemistry.
How could it be fun to drink juice?
I don't know, some of us are living normal, wholesome lives, and it is fun to drink juice
for us.
We just get excited about the buffet on a cruise ship, okay?
We drink an orange Fanta and we get Mary
We do
How can you get Mary from drinkers look we pull in a parking lot?
We've been gone for weeks in Europe and so my daughter Rebecca's been lamenting like the snacks and drinks that we couldn't get
Because she she's like she said my greatest regret on this trip was not bringing more like
American snacks in my suitcase
She's like you just take for granted
You know all the chips and things the sodas that you know
We pulled in the parking lot this morning to church and she's like hey dad
Can I go and get a lemonade from Wendy's? Why is it because she wants to be a little buzzed for the sermon?
Huh, why did she why was she so excited you expect me to believe Becca that you were all excited about a sugary fruit drink
I mean, she literally got excited and asked me to go get a sugary fruit drink at Wendy's
this morning and I said, you can have it on one condition, I'm bringing it up at my
showman.
And she's like, your terms are acceptable and she got that lemonade.
Go to Proverbs 23. I'm almost done Proverbs 23 folks. Look, don't let people make fun of you for being a teetotaler
Don't let people make fun of you for not drinking. They're the one where mine is wine is mocking them
Wine's mocking you. You're not wise
You're the one who is wandering and staggering through life
Where to be sober and if you can't even picture a wedding where people just stop and think about you can't picture a wedding
Where there's a punch bowl not alcoholic and they run out of punch and want more
You can't even imagine a wedding where the Pepsi's run out and somebody's got to make a Pepsi run
Are you serious right now?
because I can easily imagine
being at church activities
or at birthday parties
where the sodas run out and I have made
that Pepsi run myself.
I've literally gotten in the car at the church picnic
and driven to the grocery store
and just started loading up the cart
with Pepsi, 7 Up,
Root Beer,
Ginger Ale. You know, if Jesus would have been there
I would have just been like
they have no soda.
Whatever
Does everybody understand what I'm saying, but people just can't even process it.
If you can't even process life, fun, merriment, cheer and enjoyment without alcohol, you have
a problem because the rest of us get excited about a party in our mouth of our taste buds.
Amen?
And you know what?
Soda doesn't make anybody happy.
Then quit drinking it.
I bet you drinking it
because it makes you feel pretty good.
Feels pretty good to drink that Dr. Pepper, doesn't it?
That's why you're drinking it.
If it didn't make you feel good,
you wouldn't be drinking it.
And it's not the caffeine,
because you know what?
You could get all the slurpees and icies
and they'd make you feel pretty stinking good too, wouldn't they?
But let's do it in moderation
because, you know, of gluttony.
Proverbs chapter 23 verse 29 I got to hurry up for sake of time says who hath whoa
Who hath sorrow who hath
Contensions who hath babbling who hath wounds without cause who hath redness of eyes
Day that tarry long at the wine day that go to seek
Mixed wine and what I really want to home in on is this phrase they go to seek mixed wine
They go to Seek, Mixed Wine, and you know what?
Here's what it comes down to,
when you are at the grocery store,
or when you are at the restaurant,
you have a choice of choosing a drink
that is not going to inebriate you
and choosing a drink that will inebriate you,
and that you know is going to inebriate you,
and its purpose is to make you drunk.
Does everybody understand?
You have that choice, don't you?
And you know what? When you order that Budweiser, when you order that so-called glass of wine,
chablis, chardonnay, mello, when you order that, you know what you're doing? You're seeking
mixed wine. You're seeking the wine. Give me the wine that's going to get me drunk. Give
me the wine that's going to take away my sobriety. You're going out and seeking that.
And look, nobody is saying that drinking trace amounts of alcohol is sinful or bad or what
we're talking about because we've all drunk Nyquil.
When we had a cough and we don't care that there's some tiny amount of alcohol in it because it's meaningless
We've all drunk kombucha or Nyquil
We've rinsed our mouths and mouthwash and you know, we're fine and nobody is getting up and preaching you but that
You know scope mouth rinse and you know you that breath spray is has alcohol in it and what you know, nobody cares
That's a straw man
That is a straw man. Okay, what we're talking about is you going to seek the alcoholic beverage
not a little bit of alcohol being in your drink
because it was left out on the counter for a few hours
or because of whatever the reason.
You know, it's just like slightly alcoholic kombucha
or whatever.
That's not what anybody's talking about.
What we're talking about is what society
has labeled as an alcoholic beverage
where you have to show an ID
because even society knows that it's bad.
That's why you have to be 21
because, you know, at that point it's on you.
But they're trying to protect young people from this.
Ill, this evil that's going to harm them.
They that tarry long at the wine,
they that go to seek mixed wine,
and then look, look not on the wine when it's red,
when it gives this color in the cup,
when it moves itself right.
Folks, there's one wine that's fine.
That's why he says, don't look on the wine
when it's this certain kind of wine.
So don't tell me all wine in the Bible is the same.
It's all the stuff that's in a cardboard box at CVS.
False it's not all the same. How can you sit there and say wine is wine when the Bible says wine?
It means wine
How can you say that when it literally says well don't look on this kind of wine?
That's red that gives this color in the cup that moves itself, right? That means there's a kind of wine
That's fine, and then there's one that you're not even supposed to look at
Two different drinks one's alcoholic the other's not alcoholic friend. It's very simple
Why? Because at the last it biteth like a serpent, it stingeth like an adder.
Dine-eyes shall behold strange women.
Thy heart shall utter perverse things.
Of course we don't want this. Go if you would to Titus chapter 2 and I'll be done.
Titus chapter 2 and then you'll have people try to say this.
Oh, this anti-alcohol doctrine, it's just that's just something propagated by a few tiny cults.
Somebody told me recently that's just Seventh-day Adventists and Mormons promoting that.
You got you got sucked into a Seventh-day Adventist Mormon doctrine. Well, maybe maybe you can help me with this, okay?
but if it's just Seventh-day Adventist Mormons and other tiny cults that think that drinking alcohol is a sin, then please explain to me
how the United States passed a
constitutional amendment in the early 20th century. And if you know anything about the Constitution or how law works in America,
it is very difficult to amend the Constitution.
You have to have a huge majority of people on your side to amend the Constitution.
How was the Constitution of the United States of America amended in the early 20th century
to make all alcohol illegal nationwide?
Also known as prohibition.
So, if it's just a few little cults that believe that, then explain to me how a supermajority
of Americans all agreed to ban alcohol in all 50 states to make it nationwide illegal
by amending the Constitution to make alcohol illegal.
It sounds to me like the vast majority of Christians in America thought that drinking
alcohol was a sin.
The vast majority. Now today, that's not the case. Now everybody and their brother is promoting alcohol even in churches
But is that how it was at the beginning of the 20th century? Well, then explain to me. How did they get this legislation passed?
How'd they get people all over America all different states? Huge majority to prohibit alcohol
And by the way prohibition how long did it last what something somewhere near 20 years or something?
Anybody know any history buffs out there?
Somewhere in the neighborhood of like 20 years, roughly, don't quote me on that, but you know, average
that it was
illegal to drink alcohol or to produce alcohol or to sell alcohol or to serve alcohol. Now at the end of that time
why did they then amend the Constitution again?
to repeal it, to repeal prohibition, and make alcohol legal again.
It's not because they're like,
well actually the COVID has taught us from the Bible that drinking is fine.
The Roman Catholics taught us that it's fine.
No, the reason why they repealed prohibition,
it's not because they decided to interpret the Bible differently.
It's because they realized that prohibition didn't work.
because they realize people who are gonna drink
are gonna drink no matter what you do.
You can't stop them from drinking.
They're gonna drink anyway,
and it created this like underground,
sort of like the drug cartels.
You had these underground alcohol rings, mafia,
producing alcohol, and you have all this crime,
and it caused all these unintended consequences,
and they couldn't really stop people from drinking anyway,
so they just realized the law isn't working.
So they got rid of it.
It's not because they're like, well, we shucks,
we just found this story where Jesus is giving
booze to people that are already drank too much.
Does anybody really think that's why prohibition was repealed?
Or do you think it was because of crime?
And because of the fact that it didn't work politically?
Everybody, before prohibition, after prohibition, they felt the same way about the sinfulness of alcohol.
But now, we've just had all these Catholics flooding into our country, and Catholics are drunks.
Catholics are drunks. And by the way, the Greek Orthodox are a bunch of drunks, too.
These Greek Orthodox priests are gluttons and winebibbers.
Oh, they said that about Jesus. Yeah, but they were lying about Jesus.
Brothers, brother so-and-so's belly tells the story.
He's got the beer belly.
And he's reeking of Uzo.
Uzo, which is their Greek booze,
is a Uzo out of every pore of bro's body.
You know, and these fat, evil, slovenly,
drunkard, false prophets of the Greek Orthodox Church
going around damning people to hell.
You know they'll tell you it's fine to drink and so will the Roman Catholics
But let me tell you something back when our country was not filled with Roman Catholics
Our country was against alcohol
And by the way, this country was founded with almost no Catholics in it. Here's a little history lesson
Okay, the Maryland colony was literally founded to be a safe space for Catholics by Lord Baltimore
He founded Maryland to be a safe space for Catholics because Catholics were hated and persecuted everywhere else
And it was illegal to be Catholic in several of the colonies
No Catholics allowed. They would even say you could be any denomination of Christianity except Catholic
Okay, so Maryland was literally founded
Specifically for Catholics to have a safe space and what percentage of the population of Maryland was Catholic?
When they founded a special colony for them a couple decades in what percentage Catholic 3% the most Catholic colony in America
Maryland founded for Catholics with their little Queen of Heaven goddess named Mary land
Is only 3% Catholic everywhere else was 0% Catholic or
0.1% Catholic right, but then you have a bazillion Catholics now in our country
And so now we're a we're country that drinks now
All the Catholics and Orthodox love drinking and of course your Protestant mainline Protestants
They love booze as well
But you know evangelical Christians in general and Baptists and even Charismaniacs have been against alcohol
Okay
Titus chapter 2 verse 1, but speak thou the things which become sound doctrine, Titus 2 1,
that the aged men be sober.
You know what?
Let's have some good doctrine in our church.
Amen?
Sound doctrine, right doctrine.
Okay, here's right doctrine.
How do you define right doctrine, Apostle Paul?
Sober.
First word out of his mouth.
That the aged men be sober.
Speak thou the things which become a sound doctrine.
What sound doctrine that the men be sober?
What else does sound doctrine, Paul?
Well, also, that the aged women,
likewise in verse 3,
that they be in behavior has become
a holiness not false accusers,
not given to much wine.
So what two sins is he specifically
warning about for the grandmas?
We don't want grandma gossiping.
And we don't want grandma boozing it up!
Okay, what about the young women?
That they may teach the young women to be sober.
Verse four. Oh, and by the way, in case you didn't get it, verse six, young men likewise exhort to be sober-minded.
He gives separate advice for old men,
young men, old women, young women, one common denominator for all four groups.
The only common denominator is be sober, old man, be sober, old woman, be sober, young man, be sober, young woman,
be sober. And you know what he calls this?
Sound doctrine, but I'm supposed to be embarrassed of my Bible teaching because I'm teaching sobriety.
No, you know who ought to be embarrassed are the priests and the prophets who have erred through strong drink and
Who have the NIV the non-inspired version telling them that Jesus gave?
Alcohol to people who'd had too much to drink and if you you're basically saying Jesus is less moral than a stewardess or a bartender
Is what you're saying
Folks, unless you want to go through life, staggering, stumbling, puking, and making a fool of yourself,
stay away from all alcohol and drugs.
And you know what? None of us is perfect.
We all have things we need to work on. We all have character flaws.
We all sometimes are on a roller coaster in our lives.
But you know what? If you can stay sober, you can get through it.
But when you start medicating with alcohol and drugs and prescription pills
To to to mess with your mind
Recreationally using those things. You know what you are on a course of ruin
Let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer father. We thank you so much for your word
Lord help us not to be fools help us to be wise. You said that whoever
Whoever is deceived by alcohol is not wise
Help us to be wise Lord help us to be
sober all the time.
And Lord God, I know that there are people in our midst
that have struggled with alcohol and or drugs
in the past, Lord, I pray that you give them the strength
to be sober for the rest of their lives
so that they can be blessed and stay on a straight path.
And in Jesus' name we pray, amen.
Amen, lastly, let's turn in our hymnals
to song number 110.
Song number 110, all the way my savior leads me.
Song number one one zero sing it out on the first all the way my saver leads me
with all things well.
All the way in my spade, her leaves me, tears each winding path I tread.
Here's me prayed for every child, pleased me with a living friend.
Though my weary steps may falter, and my soul at first may be gushing dry.
I see, gushing from the rock before him,
blow a spring of joy I see.
All the way, my Savior, leads me
o'er the fullness of his love.
Perfect rest through me is promised,
and my Father's house above.
This my song through endless ages, Jesus sent me all the way.
Amen, everybody. Great singing. You are dismissed.