steadfast baptist church we're gonna go ahead and get started this evening let's turn in your
hymn books to page 412 onward christian soldiers page 412 we're christian soldiers you can allow
with us on the first that fast back came here to worship you this evening that you would help us
grow this evening thank you for your son jesus christ who came to die this year success to the
new year this evening and our black one of you to seek ye first thank you for coming to steadfast
baptist church if you didn't already get a bullet and you would like one just lift your hand real
quick we have our message romans 10 verse number four you can quote the verse of the week and you're
18 and under you can get an ice cream at a midweek service our service and soul winning times are
there make sure to get all your soul winning stats for the year end by december 31st because
i'm going to try and make video about this on the first and put out information our staffs have done
a really good job and i just want to uh basically put that out there to encourage people for us to
work really hard next year as well also on the right is a list of our expecting ladies
upcoming events this wednesday we do have a men's preaching so any men that want to preach a sermon
five minutes or under just wear a button-up shirt and tie we'll put you in a list or in a cup and
we'll just draw out some names afterwards we're going to have some preaching i'm sorry some pizza
some preaching yeah extra preaching do that no i'm just kidding well we're going to clean it up
no i'm just kidding you don't want that um till death marriage workshop uh january 23rd to the 24th
it's a free event uh steadfast vals.com is a way to sign up for that do it yourself missions trip
if you want to go to the philippines uh there's still probably time it's the end of january into
february um because of last wednesday service i didn't even look or pay attention to my phone
and so i didn't recognize that we'd actually broken our our service record on wednesdays last
wednesday and so we didn't hand out ice cream because i just didn't notice so we're going
to do it tonight so tonight you get free ice cream if you showed up so that's what you get
for being three times a week you get to have some ice cream so immediately following the service
we're just going to hand out ice cream to everybody we had 224 people in attendance
and our previous wednesday night record had been 214 so definitely we i think we broke our sunday
night record like three times last year and i think we broke our wednesday a couple times last year so
definitely we're breaking a lot of attendance records on the back is our prayer list and we
have all of those prayers that you can be in prayer for for the week our sunday morning attendance
we we broke it when evangelist urbanic was coming and then brother bannock made barbecue so i don't
know which urbanic brought the crowd but it was basically the urbanic tribe so that's pretty much
all i have as far as announcements go ahead and sing our psalm of the week psalm 150 psalm 150
should be in the black binder or use your bible psalm 150 seeing everyone at this time the offering
plates will be passed around can turn in your bibles to proverbs chapter 23 proverbs chapter 23
proverbs chapter 23 the bible said when thou sittest to eat with a ruler consider diligently
what is before thee put a knife to thy throat if thou be a man given to appetite be not desirous
of his dainties for they are deceitful meat labor not to be rich cease from thine own wisdom
wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not for riches certainly make themselves wings
they fly away as an eagle toward heaven eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye
neither desire thou his dainty meats for as he thinketh in his heart so is he eat and drink
saith he to thee but his heart is not with thee the morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit
up and lose thy sweet words speak not in the ears of a fool for he will despise the wisdom of thy
words remove not the old landmark and enter not into the fields of the fatherless for their redeemer
is mighty he shall plead their cause with thee applying thine heart under instruction and thine
ears to the words of knowledge withhold not correction from the child for if thou beatest
him with the rod he shall not die thou shalt beat him with the rod and shalt deliver his soul from
hell my son if thine heart be wise my heart shall rejoice even mine yea my reign shall rejoice when
thy lips speak right things let not thine heart envy sinners but be thou in the fear of the lord
all the day long for surely there is an end and thine expectations shall not be cut off hear
thou my son and be wise and guide thine heart in the way be not among winebibbers among riotous
eaters of flesh for the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty and drowsiness shall clothe
a man with rags hearken unto thy father that begat thee and despise not thy mother when she
is old buy the truth and sell it not also wisdom and instruction and understanding the father of
the righteous shall greatly rejoice and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him
thy father and thy mother shall be glad and she that bear these shall rejoice my son give
me thine heart and let thine eyes observe my ways for a whore is a deep ditch and a strange woman is
a narrow pit she also lieth in wait as for prey and increaseth the transgressors among men who
hath woe who hath sorrow who hath contentions who hath babbling who hath wounds without cause who
hath redness of eyes they that tarry long at the wine they that go to seek mixed wine 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 yea thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the
midst of the sea or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast they have stricken me shalt thou say
and i was not sick they have beaten me and i felt it not when shall i awake i will seek it yet
again let us pray dear heavenly father i thank you for this year i thank you for the great works
that steadfast baptist church has accomplished i pray that you would please bless us into this
next year help us to do greater works and please bless pastor shelly as he delivers your word to us
now in jesus name amen amen um we've been doing a doctrinal series and last week we talked about
the doctrine of sin and on our doctrinal statement we have a list of some sins that i highlighted on
our doctrinal statement where i basically describe these are things that are pretty much accepted in
society but the bible says that it's wrong the bible says it's a sin and i'm just going to kind
of read what our doctrinal statement says it says below is a list of a few major sins that our
society deems acceptable but are not so we talked about sin last week and sin is the transgression
of the law so it's where the bible forbids you to do something or commands you to do something
and you're in rebellion to that by either doing what it says not to or by not doing what it tells
you to do we talked about that and i want to talk about the first on our list which is alcohol and
that alcohol is a sin and you know when we talk about these subjects some people get a little bit
um they get a little nerdy about these particular you know statements and they try to find out a
technical exception to everything they would say like well technically drinking alcohol there could
be a situation where it's not a sin but it's like i'm not i'm not when i'm reading the bible or
making up doctrine i'm not trying to think of like every hypothetical and every exception
because if i said like oh well the bible says thou shalt not kill yeah but what if someone
breaks into your house okay well obviously self-defense is an exception to thou shalt not kill
right what if you said like hey don't do yourself harm or don't harm your body that would be a sin
it's like yeah but what if you have gangrene you want to like cut off your leg or something like
that it's like okay obviously there can always be medicinal exceptions to our doctrinal statement
but generally speaking killing is sin hurting yourself is a sin drinking alcohol is a sin okay
now if you're on the battlefield in the civil war and you're shooting people in self-defense
get gangrene and cut off your leg and in the process you're drinking some alcohol to know
the pain yeah maybe those are all exceptions but none of y'all are on the battlefield in
the civil war and none of you have gangrene okay so for you drinking alcohol would be a sin
and our society is not in that situation they're going to restaurants and bars and in the comfort
of their home just drinking alcohol and i believe it's sin i believe the bible is clear that it's
sin why because there's clear verses on this particular issue now look at proverbs 23 look
at verse number 31 look not thou upon the wine when it is red the bible has a clear statement
here it's in the book of proverbs it's telling us to not look upon wine when it's red people
that believe that drinking alcohol is not a sin never seem to really have a beverage that they
can point to they say is this is what you should not drink the bible saying don't look at it the
bible saying don't have anything to do with it well i would ask that person what is this beverage
now the bible is clear that this is what we call an alcoholic beverage today now the word alcohol is
obviously not found in our bible but i'm using that for us to understand the clarity of our
doctrine that we're talking about an intoxicating beverage now the bible does still describe this
drink as an intoxicating beverage notice what it says here it says when it give it this color in
the cup when it moveth itself all right that would be what we call the fermentation process
where we see the wine changing its color moving itself thinking about bubbling fermenting and
changing into a different beverage it was juice now it's decomposed and become an alcoholic beverage
that has been fermented and as a result it's no longer something god wants us to consume
he wants us to drink what happens if you drink it well number one you're poisoning yourself
number two what does the bible say says 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
yea thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea or as he that lieth upon the top
of a mast they have stricken me shalt thou say and i was not sick they have beaten me and i felt it
not when shall i awake i will seek it yet again what is the bible describing here the bible is
describing that you're going to go through pain when you drink alcohol you're going to go through
pain you're going to go through poverty and you're going to go through perversion all of these things
are being described here in the text as consequences for drinking alcohol and it says this is what it's
going to be like when you drink alcohol you're going to hurt yourself you're not even going to
realize it because you've knolled pain also you're going to potentially go down a perverted route
you're going to commit fornication adultery even engaging in acts of sodomy when you're not a
sodomite and that's brought up in the bible repeatedly that people will use alcohol to commit
sodomite acts on people that are not sodomites think about why would you want to go down this
road where you could be taken advantage of and do things that are unimaginable things you would
never do in sober things you would never allow when so you would fight to the death before you
you'd allow this to happen.
But when you drink alcohol, it can cause you to do things
that you would never do to act like someone else,
to lose your mind, lose control,
and you'll experience all kinds of pain,
poverty, and perversion as a result of drinking alcohol.
Look at it says in verse 29, "Who hath woe,
"who hath sorrow, who hath contentions,
"who hath babbling, who hath wounds without cause,
"who hath redness of eyes,
"they that tarry long at the wine,
"they that go to seek mixed wine."
Then the Bible tells us to not look upon this type of wine.
People that are drinking alcohol
are causing themselves all kinds of problems,
sorrows, pains, notice wounds without cause,
meaning there was no reason why they got injured,
but they just injured themselves.
Whether that be getting into a fight
that they shouldn't have gotten into,
instigating some kind of a brawl at the bar,
or just simply being so unaware of their surroundings
that they just fall and hurt themselves.
They fall out of windows, they crash their car,
they fall off a motorcycle.
They're just unintentional pain and sorrow and suffering
as a result of being drunk,
of being intoxicated by this beverage.
And of course, some people point to this and say,
"Oh, the Bible's saying not to get drunk."
Absolutely, but it's also saying just don't even drink it.
You know, just because the Bible says thou shalt not kill,
that doesn't mean it's okay to beat someone half to death.
Like, "Oh, I didn't kill him
"even though I just pummeled his face for no reason."
No, obviously there's escalation, right?
Hitting someone's wrong.
Beating someone half to death is worse.
Killing them's even worse.
Obviously the Bible says thou shalt not kill.
That doesn't mean it's cool to just beat people up.
In the same vein, getting blacked out drunk is horrific.
Being drunk is bad.
Also just drinking it all is wrong, it's sinful.
It removes your judgment.
It'll take you down a bad path.
And you know what, this church,
we do not believe in drinking alcohol,
and I will consistently preach
against drinking alcohol at any level.
I don't drink any alcohol.
I don't touch the stuff.
I don't own the stuff.
I'm not around the stuff.
I don't wanna be around the stuff.
Just I'm a total teetotaler, zero for me.
Now again, I'm not saying that in my past
I haven't made this mistake, I have.
But at the end of the day, at this point,
I've been sober for, I can't even,
I don't even know the amount of time, decade,
over a decade at least, I haven't touched alcohol at all.
I don't ever wanna touch alcohol again.
It's stupid.
There's no point in drinking alcohol.
Alcohol ruins your life.
Alcohol does not bring any kind of blessing.
And some people say like, oh no, no, no,
the Bible says that alcohol is blessing.
Okay, well let's go some verses.
Go to Psalm four for a moment, go to Psalm four.
Here's what you have to understand
is there's two kinds of wine in the Bible.
Yes, the word wine can be used
in a positive sense in the Bible,
but it also has a negative sense.
People that are drunkards always cherry pick
only the positive mentions of wine in the Bible.
And they just ignore all the really negative parts.
Or they twist the negative parts into quote being drunk,
which what's the definition of that anyways?
To some people, having just one alcoholic beverage
would be drunk.
To other people, it takes 10 or 12
or who knows what the number is.
And they would still think that they're not intoxicated.
And of course your intoxication level
has a lot to do with your age, your weight, your gender,
how much you drink, how much food you've had in your system,
if you're tired.
All of those things affect how much alcohol will affect you.
You know, a very large man that's very obese and just fat,
he can consume a lot of alcohol
and it's not gonna affect him the same
as a very petite, young, small woman.
A very petite, small, young woman
could drink very little alcohol
and it could greatly impact her judgment
and her motor skills,
whereas a very large, obese man
can consume a lot higher levels of alcohol
before it affects him the same.
But even the giant guy,
even your big Russian,
even your big guy up in some Icelandic country,
some German, you know,
even them, even though they have a little bit of beer,
it affects their judgment immediately.
They've done all kinds of experiments and studies.
They took professional typists on typewriters
and they were only drinking thimble fulls amount of beer.
And we're not even talking about like liquor.
We're talking about pretty much one of the lowest forms
of an alcohol content, just by doing thimble fulls of beer.
And they greatly reduced their skill on just typing.
Not only that, your judgment is changed immediately,
which is hard to measure some of those metrics,
but just your thinking, your critical thinking,
your morality, your judgment,
all of it's impaired almost immediately,
whether you realize it or not.
And that's why a lot of people, they think,
all have one drink, and then it turns into two,
then it turns into four, then it turns into,
they don't even know where they are anymore.
And at first, when they were sober, they thought,
I just wanna have a little,
or I'm not gonna get carried away.
But then once they start drinking,
you start losing that judgment, losing that character,
losing your morality, and you start going down a bad path.
You have to understand that there can be
two different definitions for the same word in the Bible.
It's not like wine is the only one.
How about Jew?
Hey, there's a good Jew and there's a bad Jew in the Bible.
There's a spiritual Jew,
there's the carnal Jew in the Bible.
Hey, there's the good prophet,
there's the false prophet in the Bible.
There's the good God in the Bible,
and then there's false gods in the Bible.
Same word, you have, there's a Holy Spirit,
and there's a familiar spirit.
Sometimes it just says spirit, which one is it?
Well, you have to discern which one it is.
Hey, there's a true Israel, and then there's a fake Israel.
There's a physical Israel, there's a spiritual Israel,
and they're not all Israel, which are of Israel.
That's the same verse using the word Israel
in two different ways.
Why?
Because the Bible constantly uses words
that have multiple meanings, multiple definitions.
When it comes to the word wine,
it can mean juice that came from fruit
that's not intoxicating,
or it could just be the intoxicating version.
Obviously it's the same thing though.
It's both juice.
It's just one's fermented, one's not.
So what's the right way to interpret the Bible?
Every time it's a positive mention,
it's unfermented juice.
Every time it's a bad mention, it was fermented juice.
It's that simple, it's that clear.
Now I had you turn in your Bible to Psalm four.
This is a positive mention of the word wine.
And this is why I like to use this verse,
is because this is what people say.
Oh, you're telling me people in the Bible
got excited about juice.
Like you get excited and have juice.
Well, you spoiled American brat, you, okay?
Yeah, I do like juice.
And have you ever met my children?
They love juice.
Like they get so excited if it's not water.
I mean, we're used to have water
just like almost every meal, okay?
And even at the restaurant, it's like free beverage.
It's like water, okay?
But sometimes, occasionally we splurge
and it's like juice or whatever.
And they're like, what is this amazing beverage?
But you know, if I offered my children alcohol,
which I would never do, I would never do.
I don't even want to.
They would think it's gross and spit it out and say yucky.
They would not be excited about an alcoholic beverage.
Anybody that's never had alcohol,
the first time you try it,
it's gonna be one of the most, you know,
infuriating experiences of your life.
You're gonna think like, why did I even put this in my mouth?
Because it tastes rotten, it tastes spoiled,
because it is, it's rotten and spoiled beverage.
Just like you wouldn't want to eat molded bread.
I like bread, I don't like molded bread.
I like juice, fermented juice tastes rotten.
It smells awful.
It reeks, it has an odor that's not pleasant.
And you know, my, I know you don't agree with me on this,
but food that smells bad to me, I don't want to eat.
I know that pisses some people off,
but I'm just saying like when I smell something
and I just think like, you know,
this isn't really pleasant to me,
I just don't want to eat it.
Corn dogs to me smell bad.
So I just don't eat corn dogs.
Like they just have kind of a foul smell
to them or whatever.
Maybe you like it, okay?
When I was little, I loved corn dogs.
I would eat them all the time.
And then one time I just threw up like,
and it was over.
Me and corn dogs relationship was over forever, okay?
So from now on, like I just don't really have
that kind of an inclination towards it.
But look, yes, people can be excited about juice.
It's not like in times past,
people just had a juice machine at their disposal
or grocery store.
It was a delicacy for most people.
So in Psalm four though, look at verse seven,
that was put gladness in my heart more
than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.
I use this verse because not only is it saying
they were happy about wine, they're also happy about corn.
Now, again, I always confuse this in my brain,
but the word corn here is not what we typically think of
as maize or like what we would think as yellow corn.
Typically corn is referring to like the kernel of wheat
is what we're typically referring to.
So it's really just talking about bread
if you think about it.
And yeah, people get really excited about bread.
I mean, if you go to Cheesecake Factory,
you get excited about the bread.
You go to Outback, you get excited about the bread.
You go to a restaurant and they have no free bread.
You're kind of like, this is a loser restaurant.
What's wrong with you?
And you know, I love burgers and it's about the meat,
but isn't it kind of about the bun?
Because if you think about it,
if they have a really bad bun,
you're just kind of like not really into it.
Whereas if they have a great bun,
you're just kind of like man, this is a really good burger.
It's just that there's something about the bread.
Of course, certain delicacies that we get to enjoy today,
it's all about the bread.
I mean, think about just French pastries in general,
a croissant or all kinds of delicacies that come from wheat.
We just love bread as mankind.
Pasta is really coming from this same thing.
It's talking about wheat.
So you look at the Italians, they're making pasta.
You talk about Mexican food, you talk about the tortilla.
And look, bread is just a main staple
in virtually every cuisine, not all cuisines.
Asian cultures are more like rice-based,
so they don't necessarily have as much wheat.
But us in the West, and us from a European descent,
we're pretty much staples on wheat.
And we love wheat, and we love bread,
and that's kind of our mainstay.
That's what keeps us going, it keeps us alive.
We love bread, I love bread.
And if you had no bread, if you only had alcohol,
you wouldn't be excited.
You want bread, and you want juice,
and these are just main staples.
They're good things, it makes people happy.
In order to have juice, you have to have a crop of grapes,
or strawberries, or some kind of a fruit,
some kind of a berry, or something that produces juice.
So it's obviously showing God's blessing you as a nation,
that you're bringing in these type of crops,
and these kind of benefits to have throughout the year.
Plus, without refrigeration in every area,
juice is a good thing because you can store it,
and then mix it with a little water throughout the year,
and you can still have a fruit beverage throughout the year.
And some people think like,
"Oh, well juice wasn't invented until welches,"
or something.
This is just a fairy tale.
These same people tell you that pants weren't invented
until a couple hundred years ago, or something.
Okay, but think about this logic.
They're gonna tell me that alcohol has existed
since all the way back, but juice didn't.
Well, it's like, how did they get from grape to alcohol?
Don't you think that they just squeezed the grape
at some point and juice came out?
You think anybody at any point in time thought like,
can we drink this?
No, no, we have to wait until it turns to alcohol.
You cannot drink it.
It's not been invented yet.
We need to wait a couple more thousand years
until we can invent the idea to drink it
before it decomposes.
Like, that's the logic of people saying we don't have juice.
People that are pro-alcohol will make this argument.
They'll say juice wasn't invented.
How did you even make alcohol in the first place?
Obviously, juice existed.
Plus, people don't realize how much technology
has existed in the past.
I printed out some information,
but if you lived in a mountainous climate
where there's already snow and stuff,
they already had preservation of food very easily.
You can store it in areas that are already cold.
If you live near a spring,
you can store stuff in the spring 'cause it's cold.
It's like automatic refrigeration.
I remember I went camping a long time ago with my dad
and it was some of his work friends
and we went up a mountain
and they had all this food that they took with them,
cokes and steaks and all kinds of stuff.
It was glamping, I guess, although it was intense,
but I mean, they brought steaks and cokes and whatever.
And I remember as a kid, I didn't pay attention
to any of this stuff.
It was just like dinner time and they hand me a cold coke
in the middle of the woods and then we're eating steak.
And I was thinking like, how did you get this cold coke?
And then they showed me,
they just basically took all these cokes and stuff
and put it in the stream and they just tied it down.
So there's like a cold water stream up near where they were
and they just put it in there
and the coke came out ice cold right where that stream is.
They didn't invent streams, okay?
Throughout history, people have always had access
to refrigeration type processes.
Not only that, ice houses have existed.
You can look this up, but I'm just gonna read.
Ice houses are ancient with the first records dating back
to over 4,000 years to ancient Mesopotamia.
That's 1,780 BCE for storing ice.
Also, they had similar ice pits existed in China
around the seventh century BCE.
Also methods involving in Persia, Rome became common
in America in the 18th and 19th centuries
for preserving food and cooling drinks
before modern refrigeration.
So ice houses is this concept of building something
typically underground or very tightly sealed
where they would take huge chunks of ice
off of the mountains, bring them down,
and then store them and they would store
and last for weeks, maybe even months, who knows?
And then by the time it runs out,
they just go and grab more.
So it's just a process.
People are going, getting ice, coming down.
In America, we actually had this process
where people are going up in northern places,
bringing this into these huge chunks of ice.
And they would store them in warehouses in America.
This is before refrigeration and stuff was popular.
They had ice houses.
And so these giant warehouses
where they would just store ice.
And then they would go door to door
and literally bring ice like the milkman.
They would come to restaurants and bars.
And of course, the rich would always have that.
So it's not like ice didn't exist prior to refrigeration.
No, you can go all the way back to Mesopotamia.
And yeah, kings were having ice chill drinks
in the middle of who knows where,
in the middle of Mesopotamia.
Okay, typically, if you think about our technology,
it's just we're doing the same things they were,
just maybe with modern conveniences.
And people say like, oh, you believe in the Flintstones.
Well, yeah, maybe I do.
Okay, it's a cool show.
But at the end of the day, hey,
don't listen to these liars that would say like,
oh, we didn't have ice, we didn't have juice,
we didn't have pants, we didn't have,
it's like, it's nonsense.
There's no new thing under the sun
as what the Bible teaches.
And let me tell you something,
people were excited about fruit beverage.
They could store it underground,
they could boil it into a sap, mix it with water later,
they had ice houses,
they have refrigeration through spring houses,
where they just have a cold water spring,
and they were preserving this stuff
and they were consuming it.
Now, of course, also, people have been making alcohol
since the beginning of time,
storing that as well.
Wine cellars and storing alcoholic beverages,
that also existed.
But people are also storing just juice as well,
unfermented juice as a regular beverage,
as a regular drink.
And that's what's making people happy,
not poison, not alcohol.
Now, let's go to a few more verses.
Go to Psalm 104, go to Psalm 104.
I'm only showing you this to combat
this nonsense and this stupidity,
since this is more of a doctrinal sermon.
But at the end of the day,
I'm not trying to just make the Bible fit
my drunken doctrine.
No, alcohol has to be good 'cause my dad drinks
and my whole family drinks
and there's no way that's a sin.
Yes, it is.
And let me tell you something, it doesn't benefit.
Many people will not come to our church
or a church like ours based on this one issue alone.
You know what?
I don't care because I don't wanna work
with a bunch of drunkards.
And even the Bible says you should be kicked out
for being a drunkard.
Now, I'm not saying if someone just snuck a beer one time
that I'm gonna throw them out for being a drunkard.
But yeah, if you're a drunkard,
you will be thrown out of our church.
And I'm not even saying like,
hey, wink, wink, nod, nod, try this, don't try this.
'Cause I'll preach against you every single sermon
if I need to, okay?
'Cause I don't want alcohol in this church.
I don't want you to encourage your kids to try alcohol.
Alcohol is wicked, it's dangerous, it destroys your life.
It is not positive.
No one has benefited from drinking alcohol.
You should just never drink ever again.
And of course, when we start the new year,
how do so many people start the new year?
Coming into it blacked out drunk.
They go and party all night,
and then just start the new year not even being sober.
You know, you should just avoid that completely.
Stay up late reading the Bible or praying or something,
or go to bed early and wake up early and read the Bible.
Psalm 104 verse 15, the Bible says this,
"And wine that maketh glad the heart of man,
"and oil to make his face to shine."
Notice this, "And bread which strengtheneth man's heart."
So notice, prior to, we talked about corn,
which is bread, wheat.
Here, it's using the same parallel, right?
Wine and bread.
Yes, good-hearted people, pure-hearted people,
can say bread is exciting and juice is exciting.
They don't need alcohol to get excited for their life.
I don't have to go and just basically forget
that I even exist to have fun.
Think about it, I mean, like, when you're drinking alcohol,
you just kind of just are numb, you have no more feeling.
I like being able to feel my hands.
I like being able to know what I'm saying.
I like being able to look at my wife
and actually can tell what she looks like.
Instead of just going find some ugly whore at the bar
that after seven or eight drinks,
she's finally not unattractive or something.
No, I actually find my wife attractive.
I don't need alcohol to make her look attractive anymore.
I don't need alcohol to drown all my sorrows in.
You know what, I can pray to the Lord Jesus Christ
and I can have joy in my heart from the Lord.
And you know what, I can drink juice whenever I want.
And it tastes good.
You know what, I like lemonade.
I like fruit beverages.
They're delicious.
You know, I'm not against juice.
I'm pro-juice.
I'm not pro-juice, I'm pro-juice, all right?
Hey, apple juice, good.
I like cranberry juice.
There was this one cocktail mix,
it was like cran raspberry that I used to drink.
Man, I really like that combination.
That's a good combination.
If I go to Potbelly, here's the hack, all right?
They have lemonade and then they have this like strawberry,
some kind of other drink.
You gotta do like a half and half.
It's really good.
So, hey, I love juice.
It makes me excited when I get to have that.
I used to drink the same thing at Schlotze's.
Schlotze's used to have like a lemonade
and some kind of raspberry something.
You mix it, tastes super good.
So, we can be pro-juice.
You know what, alcohol does not benefit your life.
And here's another thing, it just doesn't taste good.
It tastes horrific.
And this is what they say, it's an acquired taste.
What did you acquire, lying?
The skill of lying?
Because, let me tell you something, this is a lie.
This is what they are saying.
I kinda like being buzzed or the feeling of being drunk,
and then they have to lie and say that it tastes good.
It does not taste good, it will never taste good.
Why do they have to mix it
with anything and everything else?
Because it tastes horrific, it tastes awful.
Why do they have to chase it down with something else?
Because it tastes disgusting.
I mean, piss might even taste better in some cases.
It's literally not good, and it burns.
If you have a very high alcohol content, it will burn,
it will hurt, it is a painful process to even drink.
That's why, again, they're chasing it down.
Now, of course, they try to fancy it up
and mix it with Coke and mix it with other kind of beverages
to try and water it down and try to make it palatable.
And that's why you see the fancy drinks.
You know, you go to Chili's
and they have the fancy looking tequila.
It still tastes terrible.
It's still rotten.
You know what tastes good?
A fruit beverage, lemonade.
Lemonade tastes great.
If you go to Chili's, get the strawberry lemonade.
Don't get the tequila.
Don't get the shots.
Don't get the whatever.
That's just gonna destroy your life.
Ecclesiastes chapter nine, did I have you turn there?
Look what it says in verse number seven.
Ecclesiastes chapter nine, verse number seven.
"Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy
"and drink thy wine with a merry heart.
"For God now accepted thy works."
Yes, here's some positive mentions.
You know what it's talking about?
Juice.
Drink your lemonade, drink your strawberry limeade,
drink your fruit beverage, drink cranberry juice,
drink apple juice, drink grape juice.
Do not drink alcohol.
That is not what the Bible's saying.
Go back to Proverbs chapter 20, go to Proverbs 20.
So we already read in Proverbs 23,
you're gonna be like wounds without cause.
That's never happened from a lemonade.
I never had like a strawberry beverage
and then I'm just uttering perverse things
and I don't even know where I'm at.
I'm at the top of a mass
and I don't even know what I'm doing.
Obviously that's describing alcohol.
These are two very obvious different things.
Now, if you disagree with me, sober up,
quit drinking and then listen to the sermon later.
But at the end of the day,
drinking alcohol is a sin.
And if you drink alcohol, you're gonna be stupid.
Proverbs 20, look at verse one.
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging
and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
What does the Bible say?
If you think drinking alcohol is a good idea,
You're stupid. You're deceived. You are a fool. And alcohol will make a fool of you.
Alcohol will always win. You will not win. People that are addicted to alcohol will ruin
their lives, ruin their finances, ruin everything about their brain. It's a poison that damages
virtually every piece of your body, every organ, your skin. It causes skin disease,
mouth disease, brain disease, kidney disease, stomach disease. It'll mess up all your reproductive
organs. It'll mess up just every aspect of your body just by drinking alone, let alone
the fact that when you get drunk, you can then injure every single part of your body
by just being reckless and careless. You should never drink alcohol for any reason. Now again,
I understand that medicine exists today, but in a modern America, you're typically going
to be offered a completely different drug than alcohol. So in my mind, there's virtually
no reason to ever drink alcohol for any reason. Look, if you're on the battlefield and they're
sawing your leg off, bottoms up, okay? I'm not going to fight you. I'm not even mad at
you. But if you're not going to die physically, if you're not about to basically end it all,
why would you drink poison? Why would you drink a beverage that's going to cause you
to go down this dark, scary road? It doesn't make any sense. And the Bible is saying that
you are deceived. Proverbs 31, just flip over to the right, Proverbs chapter 31, verse 4,
"It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, nor for princes strong
drink." Now why, why would the Bible say positive things about drinking wine and then say like
the king's not allowed to drink it? Because we're talking about two different wines again.
Obviously fruit juice is fine for the king to drink. What is it not okay for the king
to drink? Intoxicating beverages. And of course, strong drink, implying something that's even
going beyond just the fermented wine, you know, perhaps a beverage that's just purposely
designed to cause you to be intoxicated even quicker. In today's world, we have all kinds
of liquor and very strong drinks that someone can consume. You know, Everclear I think is
like one of the strongest. You have rum, whiskey, all kinds of vodka, different kinds of alcoholic,
you know, distilled liquors that are made so that you can just get drunk as fast as
possible. Look, these you should stay far, far away from. And look, if you're consuming
liquor, I consider you a drunkard period. Any liquor consumption, I consider that just
already just immediately drunkard status. If you're mixing drugs and alcohol, drunkard
status for me. If you drink every day, you're a drunkard. Welcome to being a drunkard. You
cannot convince me that you drink, why do you go one beer every day? You're a drunk.
I don't want to be around someone that drinks every single day. I don't want to be around
someone that's drinking hard liquor. I don't want to be around someone that's drinking
period, but I'm just saying these things aren't even tolerated to be in church. If you're
drinking while under the influence, if you're drinking and driving, you'll be thrown into
this church immediately. That is not acceptable. That is wicked, that is evil. How many people
die from this? Roughly 865,000 to over 880,000 DUI arrests happen annually in the United
States. Almost a million people are arrested for DUIs every year. It causes 12,429 fatalities
on an annual basis. This is based on 2023 data. 30% of all traffic deaths are a result of
a drinking while driving accident. That means that there's 34 people dying every single
day because of alcohol influence. Every day. And you know, one of our great friends, Brother
Kevin Rowe, doing nothing but just making money for his family, trying to be a good
husband and a good steward just gets smashed by a drunk driver running a red light, just
ends his life instantly. What a selfish, wicked action. And let me tell you something. Someone
that kills someone through drunk driving should be executed because it's similar to someone
that has an oxen that knew that it pushed in times past. And through that reckless negligence,
it's reckless negligence to get behind a wheel when you're drunk. And if you do that and
kill someone, it should be the death penalty period. Obviously, there's accidental killing
that the Bible says you could run to the city of refuge. This isn't a city of refuge for
me. This is a execution. That's what should happen. Now, that seems harsh, but even in
today's world, you could face 10, 20, 30 years in prison, which 30 years in prison, I mean,
is execution even that much worse? I mean, at that point, I mean, life in prison, I think
most people that have life in prison would rather be executed, frankly speaking. Either
way, it's going to be an extreme punishment when you do these type of evil things. Don't
go down this road. And look, you could be the best driver in the world, but you drink
alcohol and you could just turn into someone that's never driven before. Just behind the
wheel, just crazy, just out of control and just cause so much problems, so much damage.
It's that 34 people are dying every day. What if we just got rid of alcohol again?
Again, we're not necessarily going to, but we should, as Christians at least say, we're
not going to do it. We're not going to participate. We're not going to allow it. We're not going
to tolerate it. What's going to happen when you drink? Verse 5, "Lest they drink and forget
the law and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted, give strong drink unto him
that is ready to perish and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts." It's like, yeah,
the guy that's about 20, 30 minutes away from dying and bleeding out, and he's just screaming
and just, he's like, "Ahh!" You're like, "Give him some alcohol, you know, just shut
him up!" You know, he's gonna die, he's just screaming, he's like dying. It's like, yeah,
we give those people morphine, we give those people hard, illicit drugs to just, just dull
the pain until they just die. That's when you can have it. Anything prior to that? No.
And even if you're the Lord Jesus Christ and they offered it to you, you spit it out anyways
and you just suffer the cross anyways, like a man. But you know what? I guess if you're
just so terrified of the last 10 minutes of life, I guess you just want to drink a little
bit more. It's like that's stupid. Just endure the pain anyways. I don't want to drink. I'm
not going to drink. We shouldn't drink. It's wicked. It's evil. Go to Hosea chapter 4.
You know, you're not going to hear this sermon in virtually any church. You preach this to
the Southern Baptist Church, all of the rich deacons are going to leave. And let me tell
you something, rich people love to drink. Why? Because they have to pal around with
all the other rich people and they love to drink and you got to wine and dine them, right?
You got to wine and dine all the rich CEOs and the rich bankers and the rich business
people. So it's like, why don't those kind of people want to come to your church? Well,
because they don't want to be preached against for drinking alcohol. They don't want to be
exposed to being a drunkard. But you know what? I don't care about bringing in the rich people
so that I can't preach about drinking alcohol and then we have to constantly have people
in our church killing themselves through drunk driving. It's embarrassing today because it
used to be Baptist. It didn't matter who you were. If you're a Baptist, they're like, oh,
y'all don't drink alcohol. It was just a fact. It was just known like, "Baptists don't drink
alcohol, period." And it's gone away to the point where now it's not recognizable anymore.
It's a shame. We need to bring it back. It's like, oh, New IP, they don't drink alcohol.
It's sad. I would go to work in Phoenix, and they always have work parties and all that
kind of stuff, and they're drinking alcohol. And I would just say, hey, you know, I'm just
going to refrain from that portion of the event, or I don't want to drink. And they're
like, oh, are you Mormon? And I'm like, no, I'm Baptist. They're like, oh, I didn't know
that. Baptists don't drink. And it's like, well, they don't now. They didn't in the past.
Isn't it embarrassed? It's like, oh, I have six kids and one on the way. Are you Mormon?
No, I'm Baptist. It's like, dang it. It's like, hey, I go to church this week. Are you Mormon?
No, I'm Baptist. Hey, we need to make Baptist more conservative and fundamental than Mormon
today. Okay. It's embarrassing when they're the ones that are showing everybody up on a morality
scale. It's weird. And they're like, do you drink Coke? And I'm like, yes. All right. Not a Mormon.
All right. So, hey, we're not just like the Mormons. I get it. But at the end of the day,
it's embarrassing that Baptists are afraid of this doctrine and they won't preach it and they
won't scare people away. You know, when you preach this, when you have like 10 people in your church,
you'll preach it when you have 200. I don't really care. I'm not going to stop preaching
this doctrine. I don't care how many people get offended because if we can save just one life or
one kid from drinking alcohol and it's worth it for me to just never drink. You know, my dad's
never drank alcohol in his entire life. He's like 80 plus and you know, he's never told me, "Man,
I feel like I've really missed out and I wish I had just drank a little bit." No, no, he thinks
it's gross and disgusting. He wants nothing to do with it. You know, drinking alcohol is going to
ruin your life. Hosea 4, look at verse 11. "Wordom and wine and new wine take away the heart." Like,
drinking alcohol will destroy your heart. It'll cause you to just lose who you really are. I want
you to go to Habakkuk. It's pretty close to here. Just go to the right a little bit. Right after
Nahum, right before Zephaniah, Habakkuk chapter number two. In Genesis chapter nine, Ham takes
advantage of his dad when he drinks wine. Noah's a normal dude. Noah's a godly dude, but he has
this perverted act performed on him by his son. Why would you want to go down that road? And look,
what does the Bible say in Habakkuk 2? This is a rough verse, but look what it says in verse 15.
"Woe in him that giveth his neighbor drink, that putteth thy bottle to him, and maketh him drunk
and also that thou mayest look on their nakedness." Look, people want to shame you and embarrass you,
and that's why they often will get you drunk. You go to college, they want you at the frat house,
they want you to get you drunk so they can take advantage of you, do weird stuff to you. I went
to college, and I would hear people plotting these plans. They would literally be plotting,
"Hey, I want to get this person drunk so then we can do horrible, wicked things to them." Hey,
I can't wait. And look, men will do this to women to take advantage of them and commit
fornication with them. Women will do this to men to try and get them to commit fornication with
them. And men will do this to men to do weird stuff to them. You don't want to go down this
road. And you know, with social media, it might go on the internet and last forever. You should
stay far, far away from alcohol and people that are pressuring you to drink alcohol. You don't
want to go down these roads. It is perverted. It's gross. It's disgusting. It will ruin your life.
Go to the Titus chapter one, Titus chapter number one. Now the word juice isn't used in the Bible,
but once. And it's obviously just not to be redundant. The word wine is used in the same
verse in the song of Solomon. And so it is used once it exists. But obviously the Bible just uses
the word wine as a catch all phrase, but it shouldn't, it shouldn't cause us as Bible,
even Christians to be afraid of this doctrine. And people will make fun of you. They'll say like,
oh, you think that Jesus, Jesus turned a bunch of water into juice. Yeah. You think he, you think
that after people are drunk out of their mind, he gave them more liquor, more beer. How is that a
better doctrine? How was that? Cause the Bible says after they had well drunk, but there's no way
to have a large group of people that have just fully drunk as much alcohol as possible and they're
not drunk yet. And then you're giving them even more alcoholic beverage. I mean, this is bizarre.
It's weird. It's blasphemous to teach that Jesus did this. What about all these negative mentions
and like how close, how, how can you create a doctrine where they well drunk, he gave them
even more and then they still weren't even drunk. It's like what in the world? What kind of, is this
a drink? Is this a beer drinking fast or something like that? You think that they all have this super
high tolerance or something like that, which it's nonsense. It's blasphemous. It has no spiritual
meaning whatsoever. Alcohol is described as poison in Deuteronomy. It's constantly a negative mention.
Plus it violates one of the clearest instructions of the Bible, which is to be sober. You say how
sober? Fully sober. There's no like, oh I want to be half sober. No, you just be fully sober. And
it's mentioned multiple times in the qualifications of a bishop here in Titus chapter one verse eight,
talking about the pastor, but a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober,
just holy temper. And of course these are examples to follow. The pastor is what everybody's supposed
to be like. Even though these are qualifications of the bishop, it's for him to set the example,
for everyone to be like this. It's not like, well the pastor's sober and we don't have to be.
No, he's sober to set the example so that everyone's sober like him. And then he gives
them the instructions to be sober in chapter number two. Notice what it says in chapter two
verse two, that the aged men be sober. So these are the instructions the pastor gives, the sound
doctrine all the old men sober what does it say in verse number four talking about women the old
women teach the young women to be sober what's the like the first instruction from the old women to
the young women hey you need to be sober which again encompasses of more than just not drinking
it's being serious but you're not being serious when you're drinking alcohol you're not taking
your life seriously you're not taking your emotions seriously you're not taking your mindset or your
judgment seriously it's a way to just basically pass out it's a way to just forget where you
are and who you are and forget your problems and just basically just become a full npc because you
just don't even you just can't even move you can't even think you can't even do anything what's
what's the point of this what's the point of just pressing a button where you don't even know where
you are what you're doing or what's going on that's a dangerous place to put yourself in
you know it's a dangerous world to be not sober you should just always be aware of your surroundings
what you're doing have a high level of judgment and be careful and be cautious there's a lot of
predators a lot of bad people verse six young men likewise exhort to be sober minded well that's
everybody the aged men sober the young men sober the old ladies are teaching the young ladies hey
be sober the pastor sober the old men are sober the young men are sober the old women are sober
the young ladies are sober everyone is supposed to be sober period i don't like this i'm going to
go drink well you're not a very serious person and you're going to be made fun of you're going
to go through pain you're going to go through poverty you're going to go through perversion
negative things are going to happen to you the bible says in verse 12 teaching us that denying
ungodliness and worldly lust we should live soberly righteously and godly in this present
world we need to be sober righteous godly in this world right now and drinking alcohol will not help
you go to first peter chapter four now there could be this temptation and i've experienced
it just as much as anybody else where you feel like you're going to be ostracized at work you're
going to be ostracized in the business world you're going to cause yourself problems with
bosses and co-workers and other things like that but i can say that i have for years for years
and years and years declined all kinds of parties and events and whatever and said hey i'm not going
to drink and it has not hurt me whatsoever in the business world again is it possible yes it is
but don't allow that to be an excuse for you to drink and you know i mean what there was a recent
time where a boss like was inviting all of the co-workers everybody go out to go bar hopping like
this is a this is like a company event we're just going to do we're just going to go from bar to bar
to bar just drinking the whole night or whatever and i'm just like yeah sorry not going to do it
you know not going to go and participate in this kind of an event and it's just kind of like weird
that a christian would go and do such a thing you know you should totally just stay away now look
obviously if you go to a company event you go out to a restaurant you have your work party you have
whatever and some people are drinking at the table i'm not saying that you're sinning or doing
something wicked i sometimes involve myself sometimes i don't but i'm not going to go bar
hopping i'm not going to go and just put myself in a situation where that's the whole premise
i was at another company one time where they had a company dinner but before they had a one hour
open bar period and so i just said hey i'm going to come after the open bar like once the bar
closes you know that period of time i'm just going to come and i'll just show up for the company
dinner you know so just use some discretion and just show up when you can just be polite be
respectful if i can if i can give an excuse that's not even necessarily related to that then i use
that i just say hey i'm busy or i can't make it to this event or if i have to be direct it's just
like hey i just want to be honest with you that i don't participate in drinking so you know please
don't take this as an offense i would love to you know join the company events but i'm just not going
to participate in this specific event or if you know my kids are invited and there's all this
drinking it's like hey we're just not going to bring our kids or we're not going to come
because we don't want to involve ourselves in that particular environment and like almost every
time people are respectful people get it people understand and you can still be promoted at work
you can still be successful in the workplace plus why would god bless you by compromising on this
issue why would god bless you by drinking alcohol or getting drunk and look i've been part of
business meetings we're at the place of business they're all drinking and i'm not saying one i'm
saying my multiple companies i've been there where they drink we would have our company meeting
we're talking about all the finances and talking it's just like just chests full of beer they have
people some people have out like liquor and all kinds of stuff and they're all drinking tons of
company parties where they all have wine i mean it's just it's a commonplace it's it's probably
almost unlike unless you work for the church we don't have any drinking parties okay me and me
in evangelist furries not happen to be like pastor shelley you know i mean virtually i mean i worked
at a bank they all drink i've worked for mom and pop places they did i don't even know a business
you know outside of like a church or something that probably doesn't have most people drinking
so it's a real thing in this world you know i'm also not just like all right everybody proverbs
23 turn in your bible you know i'm not necessarily like grilling everybody at work or saying like you
guys are super wicked evil people and stuff like that you know obviously we can be gracious and
kind and use some discretion but i myself don't want to participate i'm going to stay away and
you know as for our church we're going to preach hard against this i'm going to make people feel
uncomfortable on this particular doctrine you know if someone drinks alcohol and they came and heard
a sermon like this they'd probably be really mad they'd be really upset but you know what they
couldn't prove me wrong first peter chapter four look at verse seven the bible says this
but the end of all things is at hand be therefore sober and watch unto prayer you know who knows
when the end times is but this is an important time in history we have big missions trips we're
accomplishing great works for the lord this is not the time to play around with drugs and alcohol
we should stay far far away from this and look alcohol drinking alcohol is a sin i don't want
you to walk out of this service and think i'm not i'm not sure how pastor shelly feels about this
issue or the bible feels no it's wrong it's wicked don't touch it don't look at it don't have it
don't own it don't participate in it try to stay as far away as possible now again we live in a
sinful world you're going to see it out in the public you're going to knock on doors and people
are drinking you're going to go to restaurants and people are drinking you might be around
certain environments in the business world as a man and you have to kind of you know just stay away
as much as possible but at the end of the day you know what as for me in my house we will serve the
lord and i'm not going to drink i don't want to participate in this first peter chapter five verse
eight be sober be vigilant because your adversary the devil as a roaring lion walks about seeking
whom he may devour i think that the world gets away with drinking more than you would or a christian
would and you need to be careful if you get involved with drinking alcohol if you disregard
what i'm saying i believe god could come down on you like a ton of bricks and god could cause you
to have all kinds of issues i know people in my life that drink virtually every day and they drive
drunk all the time and they've never been caught they've never gotten a dy they've never caused an
accident and i mean we're talking like decades of abuse in this area but you know what i don't
believe that's true for you and don't let someone oh i know this one guy he's never gotten caught
and he's never done this you could just the first time just make that bad decision and go out and
just ruin your life ruin your driving record you can get fired from your job if you get a dy you
can get fired from your job you can lose your license even worse if you actually cause an
accident you can go to jail you can get if it's a felony then you have to register as a felon now
you can't even have normal jobs and when you go to get a job you have to you have to basically
disclose like hey i'm a felon and you know what people don't like hiring felons you don't
necessarily get really good business opportunities when you're a felon anymore or when you've killed
somebody just the guilt and shame of living your entire life for having killed some innocent person
you know there's tons of people that go out there and they kill moms and they kill babies
and they kill toddlers that were just minding their own business and they just get slaughtered
by some drunk driver it's wicked it's evil it's destroying our society it's destroying our culture
we need to make bad this sober again you know drinking has not helped anyone it doesn't help
anybody it's poison you're harming yourself you're harming society harming your family
men get drunk and beat up their family beat up their wife beat up their kids it's disgusting
it's gross it's despicable men get drunk and commit adultery when they would have never done it
men getting drunk and just harming people hurting people destroying lives it doesn't help you if
you're going through a hard time call your pastor pray read your bible go to church more drink some
grape juice okay maybe you should try that maybe that'll help you feel a little bit better but you
know what don't drink alcohol just stay stay far away if your family's saying like hey come over
to our reunion come over to our new year's party we're gonna all get plastered stay away from them
don't go to the bar don't don't go to some club don't go to some restaurant where it's just like
all about drinking only just stay away from those places if you struggle with alcohol if you're
tempted to drink alcohol you must stay away from these places stay away from these type of people
you know and if you're not just still stay away from it but you must must don't even have it in
your possession get rid of it throw it away don't have access to it and you know some people they
they make this mistake they're like well we don't drink but we just have it in the house
i don't know why and then their teenagers or their kids get into it and the statistics on
this are really really scary but if your child starts drinking alcohol before the ages of like
16 the chance of them being a lifelong alcoholic are just so astronomically high like there's a
reason why the drinking age is 21 it's because if you don't drink it off you have zero alcohol
by the time you finally get 21 you have enough of a brain in your head that if you actually try it
later you end up just like well this is really stupid and tastes terrible and then you just end
up not being very likely to be a lifelong drinker but if you drink at 18 16 14 even sometimes in
school now it's like 12 and under like the chances of you being a lifelong alcoholic just skyrocket
and just being addicted to this stuff having no career prospects low education low income
high crime just like every STDs just everything on the chart just everything you could ever wish for
that's bad every kind of woe every kind of sorrow every kind of wound without cause just every kind
of problem every kind of train wreck just comes from drinking alcohol and most people if you ask
them and say hey give me your top five worst decisions you've ever made in your life many of
them would say it was during a time when they were not sober say oh i'm i made this is the worst
decision i've ever in my life and i was drunk when i did it and here's the second one it was when i
was drunk when i did it like almost everybody that has regrets in their life it's from drinking
alcohol do not drink alcohol it's wicked it's stupid it's evil i i would lose respect for
anybody in this room if i found out they were currently drinking alcohol if someone was like
drinking a beer drinking liquor drink whatever i would immediately lose respect for that person
and i would interrogate them and be like hey what's going on here because if necessary i'll
throw them out of church because i do not want to tolerate this even a little bit i will be strict
on it and look i'm not strict on everything but i'm going to be strict on that and it's on our
doctrinal statement and i'm going to piss people off about it but you know what pisses me off
kevin roe getting slaughtered by a drunk driver pisses me off is all the divorce and adultery
and and weird stuff that happens as a result of these drinking fiascos people going to college
and just drinking for four years and then just having all the student loan debt and they didn't
learn anything i mean we're destroying our youth we're destroying our young people why do you think
it is that so many people are pushing college so when you turn 18 you can go live on some campus
in some dorm room where your parents aren't around and people can sneak you alcohol so it can destroy
your life but college is a very dangerous thing for most people if you send your 18 19 20 year old
off to college there the chance of them having drinking alcohol are really high and destroying
their life and not having any wisdom making bad decisions going down bad paths regretting what
they're doing and all the while racking up debt and learning about what evolution learning about
monkeys turning into humans learning about tyrannosaurus rex turning into a chicken they're
going to think about it they're going to they're going to catch stds evolutionary theory i mean
there's many people that are conservative and fundamental and love their parents and then they
go to college they come back liberal and weird and have diseases and they're addicted to drugs
and to alcohol and they've given up on any aspirations to have a future and a career
i mean look i'm not against education i'm for education but let me tell you something college
is a dangerous environment and they want to get your kids drinking young so they can ruin their
lives and take advantage of them and the devil knows what he's doing and you know what you're a
fool if you think i'm just gonna send my kid to some division one school to live on campus and
they're gonna be a little angel you're deceiving yourself they're gonna commit fornication and
they're gonna do drugs and they're gonna you're gonna drink alcohol i don't even care how much
they've read the bible peer pressure and the environment is insane the chances of you sending
a kid to a major school this at a young age and them not doing those things is just virtually
zero you might as well just just hand them to the devil i mean we laugh at the amish for sending
their kids out for a two-week rumspringa and then americans are sending their kids for a four-year
rumspringa and they have to pay like 80,000 or 100,000 dollars in student loan debt which one's
better and and probably the amish ones aren't even getting as much you know propaganda shoved down
their brain through the college system i mean the first two years of college are all basics it's
basic propaganda for the first two years if you go to a&m they will brainwash you to be part of
their cult for life in fact almost every person i've ever met from a&m there's probably a few
exceptions but almost every person i've ever met from a&m they like worship a&m like they're
they're they have all the bumper stickers and the shirts and the tags and like i remember there was
this one family member that went there for christmas he gave everybody an a&m gift like a&m merch
and we're thinking like we don't care about your school at all like why are you giving us merch
because they propagandize the student body there it's not like it's just extra special it's just
there's a the propaganda techniques there are incredible like they learn from the nazis or
something i don't know i'm just telling you i guess it's because it's mostly a catholic school
and they're already just npcs just ready for someone to take over so a&m takes over but let
me tell you you know college is a dangerous place for drinking alcohol you should be very very
careful and look you send your kids to college i'm not going to fight you i'm not going to be mad
at you but you know what you should recognize the danger that's there if i were you i would at least
try to keep them at like home or taking online classes or something if you really feel like they
have to go to college for something you should be very careful because the alcohol threat is real
and it will destroy their lives if you're a young person you stay far away from it do not drink
alcohol it's a sin let's close in prayer thank you heavenly father so much for giving us wisdom
from the bible so we don't always have to make bad decisions for ourselves i pray that you would
guard the hearts and the minds of the young people in this room that they would have the
strength and the wisdom to not drink alcohol i pray that you would give the parents in this
room the wisdom and the discretion to recognize that they need to protect their children from
these dangers i pray that you would help our church to be protected from the leaven of alcohol and
drinking and drunkenness i pray that we would not allow that to creep into our church i pray
that you give us the bravery to not drink alcohol and to stand against the peer pressure from work
or from friends or from family member i pray that you would help us to just be sober and take our
lives seriously so that we wouldn't go down this road and we thank you for all the good things that
you have blessed us with with juice i pray that we would be thankful for that and we wouldn't
poison our bodies and destroy our minds with the poison that's out there in jesus name we pray amen
man our last song this evening is page 136 in your hymn book master the tempest is raging page 136
master the tempest is raging page 136 thus looks like the ice cream's all lined up enjoy some ice
cream you're dismissed