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Leviticus 10 verse number 1 it says,
And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer and put fire therein, and put incense thereon
and offered strange fire before the Lord.
So it says that they put fire therein, they put incense thereon.
It doesn't say it was weird incense. It just says offered strange fire before the Lord,
which He commanded them not.
Whatever they did, they did it wrong,
It could possibly be the fact that they were drunk or had drank an alcohol before they went in there
look what it says and there went out a fire from the Lord and
Devoured them and they died before the Lord
Then Moses then said then Moses said unto Aaron
this is that the Lord spake saying I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me and
Before all the people I will be glorified and Aaron held his peace
So he's saying I'll be sanctified in them that come before me something about them was unclean
Can we agree on that? We'll skip down to verse 8 the Bible says in the Lord spake unto Aaron
So this is right after these things the first thing God says unto them
Do not drink wine nor strong drink
That's pretty clear, isn't it?
Thou nor thy sons with thee when you go into the tabernacle of the congregation lest you die
So, why would he say that to them right after I mean
Doesn't it make sense that he's saying that because they got drunk or something or they had drank alcohol or some kind of strong drink
And because he said lest he die. Well, what happened to him they died, right?
It shall be a statute forever
throughout your
Generations so today obviously the Levitical priesthood is no longer in effect
But there's still pastors and teachers and prophets and all that stuff
So, you know what one of the qualifications of a bishop do not you know that we're not supposed to be given to wine
And we're not supposed to be given
You know, the deacons are not supposed to be given to much wine and obviously, you know wine is off
I could be talking about just you know, the finer things in life or whatever
But I do believe it literally is talking about that
We're not supposed to drink alcohol because it says right here that it's a statute forever through your generations
And look what it says in verse 10 that you may put a difference between holy and unholy
What what was he trying to say though to not drink strong drink or wine that puts the difference between holy and unholy
between unclean and clean so somehow they were unceremoniously clean and
The Bible then God tells them don't drink wine or strong drink
So he said don't drink it don't drink it and go into the house of Lord or you're gonna die
Yeah, and he killed Aaron's sons for it. So
And I'm sure that they knew that they weren't supposed to do that. I mean so there you and they were probably saved
But you know they did they you look when a Christian messes around with alcohol
It's your God look God's not gonna let you be without consequences for it, right?
Turn to Isaiah 28 while you're turning there, I'm gonna turn I'm gonna read from you Isaiah 511
Isaiah 511 says woe unto them that rise up early in the morning that they may follow strong drink
That continue until night till wine inflame them
Woe unto them so it's bad things are gonna happen to you these people that wake up and drink alcohol
You know, I've got to have a mimosa or something with my girls
And you know, that's just like a way a pre a way to get pre drunk or something for the rest of your day and
You know the Bloody Mary in the morning the Bloody Mary is supposed to be the thing that cured your hangover from the last night
It's like drunks have all these different little tricks to to keep getting drunk and not feeling bad, right?
Isaiah 28 verse 7 says but they also have heard through wine and through
Strong drink are out of the way the priest and the Prophet have heard through strong drink
They are swallowed up of wine. They're out of the way through strong drink
They err in their envision they stumble in judgment
See these priests and and people that were supposed to be serving God when they are drinking alcohol
God says you're out of the way and we're supposed to be walking in the way that God wants us to walk
And so he's saying when you're drinking strong drink when you're drinking wine
That you're making an error. It's wrong. It's wicked and
You know
It says that you're gonna you're gonna err in vision and stumble in judgment
Because isn't that what alcohol makes you do it gets your vision blurry
They're seeing someone who's like they can't even see because they're so they're blind drunk, right?
Yeah, and it's and then they stumble like the guy I was talking about that
That's what alcohol does but he says if you're a person a man of God or a priest or a prophet
You're gonna err in vision the things that you're supposed to be
You know showing people the people of God and they stumble in judgment. They're not going to judge things correctly
Because they're in sin, right? It says for all tables are full of vomit and
Filthiness so that there is no place clean
Talking about these people's play like it's just like going in just tables full puke
Tables full of vomit and it says it's filthy and look God doesn't want us to be filthy, right?
So I'm gonna read Jeremiah chapter 25 while you turn to Habakkuk chapter 2
Jeremiah chapter 25 verse 27 says
Therefore thou shalt say unto them thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel
Drink ye and be drunken and spew and fall and rise no more because of the sword
Which I will send among you
So when you're drunken, what's what's gonna happen? You're gonna spew, you know
You've heard that term spews you just talking about puking right?
That's what oh, yeah alcohol so glamorous on the commercials and in all this stuff
But when in reality they don't show on the commercial
You you know praying to the porcelain God
He dry heaving your guts out and a toilet that's been pissed in a thousand times that night
Yeah, I mean, I'm sure that they didn't have time to clean the toilet out and bleach it out, right?
So you're just there with everybody's urine and fecal matter and whatever with your face in a toilet. Yeah, that's real glamorous, isn't it?
Sorry about the the visual there, but it's it's filthy. Yes. It's disgusting
It's gonna cut like nobody in their right mind is just gonna stick their head in a dirty bathroom toilet
That's been you know, urinated in all night. It's disgusting. So
Now I had to turn to Habakkuk chapter 2 verse 15
It says whoa on to him that giveth his neighbor drink
What did Jesus do he gave his neighbor drink but not the drink that is talking about in this
See you have to take things within their context
It says won't him that giveth his neighbor drink that put us thy bottle to him
Here you go and make ist him drunken also. So what is it talking about talking about alcoholic?
Beverages it's talking about booze and the Bible pronounces a woe for someone that's doing that to their neighbor and those that says
him
That thou mayest look upon their nakedness
Why would a dude want to get give somebody something to drink to look upon their nakedness because they're queer
That's why they're a filthy faggot. They're a homo. Yeah, that's why and
That's the trick that they like to do. What did Jeffrey Dahmer like to do?
He would take him to bathhouses and he would put some kind of thing to spike their drink
And then he would do all this weird stuff to them and murder them
Look, this is what people have been doing. This has been going on for thousands of years
And I'm not saying guys don't do it to women either they do
but
This is a gateway to to bring people's you know defenses down. It brings your judgment down
Yeah, and the next thing you know
You're riding home with some stranger and they're trying to do something weird to you and you know
Like Noah did he was he able to defend himself was lot able to defend himself
No, and so drinking alcohol is gonna put down your defenses
God wants our minds to be sober so we can think and so we can we can see these things coming
But if you're drinking alcohol as a Christian, you're not right with God plain and simple
I mean I've showed you multiple examples of saved people and
When you're saved, that's what Scott God's gonna do when you're doing something that you know, you're not supposed to do
Especially something like this. It's a wicked sin
Being a drunk if you're a drunk in this church, then you'll get kicked out
Yeah, period if someone like you're like, well, I just have like, you know a six-pack a night, but it doesn't get me drunk
You're a drunkard. You're doing it every night
Even if you're just doing it on a regular basis say well
I just get drunk on the 30th of each month and I just get blackout drunk
But it's just that once a month then I would kick you out
Because it's a perpetual
statute or throughout your generations
right
So now this person
Has given his neighbor to drink put their bottle to him so they could make them drunk like they are and look upon their nakedness
Remember I said looking upon someone's nakedness is a euphemism for something else that they want to do
And this is what predators do this is what date date rapers do is they try to inebriate you
They give you a drink and then they put so they spike your drink and put something in next thing
You know you woke up and you've been violated. Yeah
So
If you never drink alcohol, guess what you're never gonna have this happen to you
I mean if you're in this Jamba Juice, you know people don't just buy, you know, they're not gonna spike your Jamba Juice necessarily
It's not gonna you know, because the alcohol brings your judgment down already. Yeah, but Jamba Juice doesn't do that
Shirley temples don't do that
Sprite coke and water don't do that and you're gonna taste that stuff if they try to spike your drink
But look it's dangerous
you know and Christians don't belong anywhere near a bar anyway, right and
In your house should not have alcohol in it
It's a bad testimony for the Lord now turn to Proverbs chapter 31 verse 4 Proverbs chapter 31 verse 4
Now this does apply to us as as you know, you're like well it says for the prophets and priests not to do that
What about us Pastor Thompson? Well, look at Proverbs chapter 31 verse 4. It says it is not for Kings
Olemuel, it is not for Kings to drink wine nor for Prince's strong drink
And you know what? The Bible says that we are in the New Testament. We're kings and priests unto the Lord our God
So is it for us to drink?
Wine or strong drink? No and look the context again when it says drink wine
It's letting us know what kind of wine it's talking about
It's letting us know it's the it's the same kind of wine that we're also refers to strong drink strong drink would be
Beer or liquor or some kind of hard alcohol and the hard alcohol is even worse. I
Remember my mom my wife's mom
She grew up in Georgia and that's where they do moonshine and stuff like that
and you know, obviously she wasn't saved at this time, but she told us that
She
Was there were swimming at a lake and she said that she drank moonshine for the first time and all she did is took
Once they were like caution or don't drink too much of this
And all she did is took one sip and then she went and jumped in the lake and that's the last thing she remembers
from that day
There's some alcohol that's super potent and they call white lightning for a reason because
It will get you wasted, you know really quickly
so
So look what it says
it's not for Kings to drink wine or for Prince's strong drink lest they drink and
Forget the law and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted
So only one type of wine makes you forget red red wine, right? Anyway, sorry
That
There's a song called red red wine
I said of the whole theme of it is what's gonna make me forget all my problems red red wine, right? Yeah
So it says give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish
so what is perishing it's like when you die, right and
Wine unto those that be of heavy hearts let him drink and forget his poverty and remember his misery no more
So when I think it's what I think it's talking about when it says when they're ready to perish
I think it's literally talking about when someone's on their deathbed and maybe that would ease their suffering in some way shape or form
Obviously, I mean I could be wrong about that, but it sounds like that's what it's talking about now
Obviously, there's also to the heavy hearts
It's talking about these fools that just they've already ruined their life and they're about to die
Anyway, why don't you just forget about it and just drink and remember your misery no more
But I don't think it's a call for us to just drink alcohol
But literally if you're in pain and you're dying and someone gave you like a some kind of alcohol to ease the pain
I mean because I believe that there are medicinal purposes for alcohol now
Obviously if you have a surgery you might need some pain medication
Is that wrong to have pain medication when you have a surgery? Absolutely not
But it's you got to be careful because it's addictive
Yeah, you don't want to just keep getting it and getting it getting it because if you do that, guess what you got a problem
You need you need to stop taking it. So
And when you take pain medicine when you're hurt when you've had a surgery when you have some kind of issue
It doesn't give you that dope dopey high feeling necessarily
It's just basically there to take away the pain as much as possible anyway
so that's what I personally think it's talking about when it's talking about give that strong drink to someone's ready to perish that like
literally, they're about to die and
So, but what are the common things that you would use alcohol for and medicinal purposes well, how about tooth pain now
I got called a drunkard because I used
Vanilla, I told somebody I used vanilla extract and vanilla extract has alcohol in it, but I'll tell you someone just said hey
You know just take a little bit on a q-tip and just put it on your tooth and I had it
I had a tooth a tooth pain like I'd never had before like there's sometimes there's tooth pain
That's tooth pain, but there's sometimes it's tooth pain. It's just agonizing. There's nothing stops it. It's super bad
It was the worst tooth pain I'd ever had
So I was willing to try anything at that point
And so I did I dipped it into the vanilla extract
I put it on that tooth and like for 20 minutes at a time. It completely took the pain away
It was really weird, but it worked
So, I mean am I a drunkard because I used it for my tooth pain. That's ridiculous
But
How about cold relief?
I mean if you're coughing they usually give you some kind of you know syrup that has like some kind of what do they have it
like not yeah, or like Nyquil has alcohol in it and
so Nyquil will help you get your Z's or whatever that was a commercial back from when I was younger, but
You're not you're not trying to get drunk
You know if you drink like a couple people that door if you drink a couple
If you drink a couple thimbles of Nyquil you're not going to get drunk and look on someone's nakedness you're gonna be asleep
Yeah, you're gonna go to the club all right with DJ pillow and MC blankie. You're gonna go to sleep
so
Now so in cold and cough relief those things might become necessary. Maybe you're like well
I would never I don't care. I'm never gonna do that. That's fine. Nobody's telling you you have to I'm just saying that
There's sometimes a purpose for these things what about sterilization you ever use rubbing alcohol. I mean this alcohol
It's medicinal right it
It cleanses wounds and things like that so I think they would take in like the Civil War days and stuff
They would just like pour whiskey or whatever on people to kind of sterilize the wounds or something
I don't know. I wasn't there, but I heard that so one time, but anyway so the term well drunk, right?
Means that someone if it's referring to someone well drunk
That was drinking
wine or strong drink
They're drunk right does that make sense yeah?
And it's it's not just the proverbial glass of wine with dinner
So and one of the most common is I was kind of looking up like benefits of wine
You know people they'll say this even on the news or whatever
They'll say yeah a one glass of alcoholic wine at night red wine a night is
Is good for your for your body and your cholesterol and all this other stuff, but you know what you don't have to drink
Alcoholic wine for that to be a benefit to you if you just look I mean there the information is out there ready for you
To grab, but one of the things I found about grape juice
It says one of the most common benefits of grape juice is cholesterol reduction
Oh
Consuming grape juice can help you maintain a healthy cholesterol level
One glass of grape juice per day will restore your body's cholesterol levels to normal
So that's that's a good thing right, but that's that's not the out
I mean, maybe the alcoholic wine does have that benefit
I don't know, but you know what I'm never gonna find out because I don't I'm not gonna drink wine right
But you know what I'll drink a glass of grape juice with my dinner put a little sparkling water in it
There's my champagne. It's Christian champagne
So
So isn't that interesting though that grape juice is good for you
You know, there's a reason why people have tended vineyards and and done husbandry all these years
It's not just so people can get plastered
People actually drink grape juice as that was kind of like the coca-cola of the the old times, right?
That was the the thing that was a little special thing besides water that people would have
So why would they want to drink wine at the wedding because they wanted some?
Extra special beverage and you know what wine is expensive grape juice is expensive
Listen to me grapes cannot be picked by combines and machinery
You tend them and people hand-pick those things. Did you know that? Why is it so expensive? Why are grapes so expensive?
Well, that's part of the reason right there
Because you they're they're tended to differently and you know oranges you can you can pick them sir
You know, you can pick all kinds of different things you can do all kinds of harvesting with machinery
But you can't do that with grapes. So it is an expensive thing
It was like a luxury item to have at what a special occasion like maybe a wedding
so
That's what I believe was going on there now. I
kind of just clicked on this question on the internet because the Internet's always right, but
I'm just kidding. It says is a glass of grape juice a day good for you
It says early research shows that red and purple grape juices may promote
cardiovascular health and some of the same ways as red wine
similar benefits of red wine and grape juice include protecting blood vessels
decreasing the risk of blood clots and
Maintaining healthy blood pressure and cholesterol levels web MD. So web MD is kind of a respected
Source, but again, I would say don't don't mess with the alcoholic wine
But what is the purpose of grape juice God? It's a blessing
It's a blessing from God and all these other stories. I've already told you. Is that a blessing from God?
Was Noah blessed from God because he drank was lot blessed by God for his alcohol or Nadab and Abihu
Blessed by God. No, they were torched by God. Yeah
So you have all these different instances of bad things and look there's a lot of other stories I go to but I just I
belabored the point
You get it, I think
So but there's a different kind of wine that we're gonna look at now
It's the good wine the blessing of wine and what I'm talking about is juice
Look at Song of Solomon chapter 8 verse 2 Song of Solomon chapter 8 verse 2
The Bible says in Song of Solomon 8 2 it says I
Would lead thee and bring me into my mother's house who would instruct me
I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate
So, I don't know, you know, obviously it's not talking about alcohol my opinion. It's talking about something that's a blessing. You'll never see
Alcoholic wine being talked about as a blessing of the Bible. You just won't see it
So it's definitely and it says juice of my pomegranate
So there's I think that's the only time juice is actually used in the Bible is in that verse
I'm pretty sure that that's that's true
But
When it says spiced wine of the juice, so it's trying not to be redundant here
So there is the similar word juice means one
So the Bible is going to show you that there's similar words and like I said to not
Wouldn't it sound weird if it says to drink the spiced wine of the of the wine? Yeah, but sound weird
So to make it better the translators chose the word juice, which means the exact same thing, right?
So and again the context is what where you're gonna get it from so look at it Isaiah chapter 65 verse 8
Isaiah chapter 65 verse 8
Isaiah 65 verse 8 the Bible says thus saith the Lord as the new wine is found in the cluster
what's a cluster talking about a cluster of grapes right and
One saith destroy it not for it is for a blessing is in it
What's the blessing in it the juice?
It's not the alcohol
So when it's saying new wine, so you see it so people say well wine is always talking about the alcoholic wine
Is that what it says out the Bible says right there?
so that does prove my point that it does go by the contest of
Which it's found and it says destroy it not for a blessing is in it a blessing is in what in the cluster
In the grape in the new wine in the non alcohol
I mean when you have a grape, it doesn't turn into straight alcohol when you squeeze it. It doesn't turn into
Wine that will make you drunk, right?
So the Bible is very clearly differentiated for us what type of wine this is and it's the wine that is a blessing
That's the freshly squeezed juice of a grape, right?
So look at Isaiah chapter 25 verse 6 Isaiah chapter 25 verse 6. I
Haven't preached about alcohol a long time. So I figure I just unload the whole truck tonight and
we'll get to the other verses in the chapter here pretty soon, but
Anyway
The Bible says in Isaiah 25 6 and in the mountain shall
The Lord of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things
he's talking about in the millennial reign when God's gonna bless us with all these things and
It says the Feast of fat things of feet a feast of wine on the lees of fat things full of marrow of
wines on the lees
Well refined and people will say well, these are the you know, this is what's left over in the barrel of
Wine or whatever. Yeah, what about the barrel of grape juice? It would be the same thing
Look people drink grape juice people preserved
grape juice
They had ways of preserving things that would last hundreds of years like they beat our canning by a long shot
When they destroyed Masada the Jewish stronghold they found stuff they found stuff that was still bottled there
That was like 300 years old. I mean they knew how to make it so like we have concentrate today
They boiled down and put it into jars and then you just add water like you do now
Right, but I mean obviously we get those little cans from the store and it's like garbage or whatever
But people look people have been preserving food for a long time
I mean they didn't have refrigeration back then folks
So they had to figure out ways to preserve things and that you know
The Bible talks about bringing forth the old store then when you're blessed
You'll bring forth the old store and then you know, so a lot of the stuff obviously they probably ate some fresh stuff
but a lot of stuff they can for later on or put it in bottles and things like that and
You know God's people, you know, if they're true people of God
obviously or if they're right with God they they use grape juice and
Even the key then Kings drink grape juice. Okay, I'll show you that here in just a minute
But it says that these wine on the leaves. So Lee what is Lee's? Well, it's a sediment at the bottom of a container
That's what it is
so like when you when they used to do wine processing they
Stomped on the grapes and then they had wine wine vats that they would stomp all the grapes and come out, right?
so
You know, you're not gonna have a good
Seemed refined
Product like we probably have now things are all probably a little less
Easy to do mass production. I mean if you're if you're using human beings as your power to squeeze the grapes, you know
They don't have that. They don't have to do that anymore
I'm sure that they do as ceremonial type ways
But there's other ways to squeeze the the blood out of those grapes besides human beings stepping on them with their feet
So, I'm sure there's some kind of sediment left over and that's what it's talking about
But it's talking about well refined new wine in the bio
Jesus even said that I'm not well, I'll have you turn there in just a second. Actually. Go ahead and turn to Matthew chapter 26
so
Pulp has to be strained out of juice
I don't know if you knew that or not
But also, you know, you can get orange juice pulp in pulp out
Well, it's because they can strain things to where you know, some people like that pulp
some people don't but I'm sure they the same thing existed with grape juice or
Alcoholic wine either one or sediments would fall to the bottom of it. That's just wine on the lease
But when it's time out, you know, God's talking about something that's gonna happen in millennial reign. He's not talking about alcoholic wine
Matthew chapter 26 verse 27 says and this is at the Lord's Supper
It says and he took the cup and gave thanks and gave it to them saying
Drink ye all of it for this is my blood of the New Testament
Which is shed for many for the remission of sins
So that grape juice that he used he used that as a symbol of his sinless blood
Okay
And it says but I say unto you I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine notice. It doesn't say wine there
So there's no mistaking that this is just fruit of the vine
It's the squeezed grape juice right until the day when I drink it new with you and my father's kingdom
Remember in the verses where I showed you where it says new wine is in the cluster of the grape
So Jesus Christ is clearly not talking about alcoholic wine in these verses and look I've made my point
I think I hope I've made my point, you know, but people that want to just continue to just say well
No, it was alcoholic wine. That's what it's always talking about. You just want to be a drunk
you just want to continue to drink and justify your sin and
Justify your drunkenness and that's why you're doing it. Let me prove to you that even the heathen kings of old
drank grape juice look at Genesis chapter 40 verse 9
I only have two more places for you to turn on this subject will completely go to a different subject and finish off the sermon here
But Genesis chapter 40 verse 9, of course Joseph is in prison here and he's in prison with the butler
He's a prison with two people that Pharaoh threw into prison with him, right?
so verse 9 says and the chief butler told his dream to Joseph and
Said to him in my dream behold a vine was before me
and in the vine were three branches and in it was as though it butted and her
Blossoms shot forth and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes. What are we talking about here?
He's dreaming that these shot forth and there was ripe grapes, right and
Pharaoh's cup was in my hand. So what was his job to do fill Pharaoh's cup?
He's the butler and it took and I took the grapes and pressed them
Into Pharaoh's cup and I gave the cup unto Pharaoh's hand. What was Pharaoh drinking in the dream?
He's drinking grape juice. Well, they didn't drink the Bible says that they drank grape juice in the dream
Of course, but the dream is a picture of something that in reality. He was doing that was his job
Yeah
and
so why would he dream about something while he's dreaming about that because in the future like Joseph tells him he's gonna live and
Pharaoh's gonna forgive him and he's gonna get be able to squeeze those grapes into his glass again someday
and probably they did that so that people couldn't poison stuff as easily I mean people try to poison people that were rulers all the
Time back then and you know, it's kind of hard to poison the whole cluster, you know
I mean, maybe it wasn't but it was probably at least one safe safe way to deliver that wine
So
there you have where
Kings even the king of the world basically at that time the Pharaoh
Drank grape juice
So no people didn't drink grape juice because they use the wine because how bad the water quality was people look people just bring up
All kinds of garbage. Yeah
They just want to drink
Sick, but what the Ephesians chapter 5 says he's chapter 5. This will be the last
kind of
First I go through about that
so he's chapter 5
You've heard that why you've seen those places say wines and spirits, right?
Why do you call it spirits?
Well, I think that because as I've shown you when you drink alcohol when you drink alcoholic beverages when you drink wine and strong
drink and hard liquor
You turn your spirit turns into another spirit who knows someone here in this room that normally
The person that you know was just a great person very calm very cool
And then as soon as they started drinking alcohol, they turn into a raging demon
They want to fight everybody they're smacking people around they're being really rude and corrupt and crass to people
But that exists every single day in all families in the whole earth, right? But what the Bible says though about
Being drunk it says see then that you walk circumspectly
Not as fools but as wise like think about what the things you're doing are gonna affect later on
Don't walk around like a fool
But be but as wise redeeming the time because the days are evil
You know, maybe you were you're saving before you got in your end alcohol and doing these things
we need to redeem the time and get away from that garbage and don't wallow in our mire and go back to the pigpen of
Drunkenness and drugs and look it happens all the time with Christians
I'm sure it does but look what let the Bible just reassure you what's right?
That's what I've been just trying to show you all night tonight is that what's right is to not drink
So it says in verse 17 wherefore
Be not unwise
But understanding what the will of the Lord is and here's what it is and be not drunk with wine
Wherein is excess but be filled with the Spirit
What's the opposite of being drunk with wine being filled with the Spirit and strong drink and
Alcohol and drugs and painkillers and fentanyl and all this other stuff cocaine and meth and whatever
We're not supposed to be filled with that spirit. We're supposed to be filled with the Spirit of God
But what it says speaking to yourselves in Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs singing and making
Melody and your heart to the Lord, but you know what every drunk I've ever seen walk into my church
That's like some hobo off the street and they come in. You know what they do. They act like an idiot
Yeah, that's what they do. They act like a total buffoon and we every time have to throw them out
So now my policy is if they look like their own drugs, they smell like their own alcohol
They're not allowed in the drunkard has no place being in God's house
Don't come to this church and be a drunkard come to this church and be filled with the Spirit
Sing songs together, but you know what they always do when they're drunk
they walk in and they come in and they start putting their hands up and making a big spectacle of themselves and
Blurting things out and cussing and babbling and whatever they do and we have to throw them out
When we're in that church building in downtown Vancouver people would always walk in and we finally just had to just feel like hey
Don't let them in anymore. We can't let them in
I never want some all they'll break through our defenses and well if I will think that they're okay
and then they like I had this guy just like
Come in and he was just like just spazzing
He was on drugs or something, but he just like passed out like in the almost like the third row
While I'm preaching after just like making a big
Production look God doesn't want people in his house. They're wasted
We're not supposed to be given to wine
We're not supposed to be for kings and priests we're supposed to steer clear of alcohol and
those types of beverages so
Let's turn back to our text where we really departed from a long time ago, but
We're gonna go back to John chapter 2 verse number 11 the Bible says
This is the beginning of miracles
This this beginning excuse me of miracles did Jesus and Cana of Galilee and
Manifested forth his glory and his disciples believed on him
So Jesus, you know, he said my time has not yet come but yet he did do what his mom asked him to do
Nothing wrong with him doing was mom asked him to do he didn't I I kind of felt like he didn't really necessarily maybe wanted
That to be his first miracle
But again, if you think his first miracle was adding to a drunken wedding a
hundred and twenty more gallons of the best
Alcoholic wine you're crazy
I've showed so many verses tonight that show there's two different types of wine in the Bible, isn't there?
There's the kind that's the blessing and the kind that's a curse the kind that is a blessing to your heart and your cardiovascular
And all that stuff and then the other one makes you take off your clothes
Makes you you know get molested by freaky weirdo pervert predators
Makes you pass out makes you lose your judgment
I mean
Drunken driving is like a huge thing in this in this country today and a lot of people die from
Being killed by fucking drivers
So
Why don't you take their cars away from them or something to not allow them to drive anymore?
So, I mean they get to the point where they have to put some device in their steering wheel
For you to blow into it in order to drive
I mean at that point like there should be no more hope left for that person unless they get saved, right?
so this is Jesus's first miracle and
His
First miracle has an accomplishment to it. It is a miracle people saw the fact that Jesus turned regular water into
non-alcoholic
grape juice and the best kind and then when when those things happen with his first miracle his
disciples believed on him
So that's a big thing right they see that happen and it produces good fruit in his disciples
now I
Mean and just think about the fact that like I read this verse on Sunday evening about Hannah
how Eli thought that when she was moving her lips as she was drunk and
She said count not by thy daughter as a daughter of Belial. I thought not thy servant as a daughter of Belial
So what does that tell you that the drunkards are the ones that are acting like devils basically?
Some people are just violent drunkards, and we want to steer clear of those types of people
You know I don't even try to give the gospel to someone that's wasted. What's the point? They're not going to remember it tomorrow
I mean
It's like if someone's wasted. I just walk away. You know and I hope that God you know
Chances by that person again sometime when they're sober
John chapter 2 verse 12 says after this he went down to Capernaum
He and his mother and his brethren and his disciples, so he's got his mom
Mother you know his mother Mary and then his brethren so that makes his
His siblings right and his disciples, and they continued their not many days
so
so number two tonight is my my final point and
Found in verse number 13. We see Jesus cleansing the temple
it says in verse 13 in the Jews Passover was at hand and Jesus went up to Jerusalem and
Found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves and changers of money sitting
And when he had made a scourge of small courts
He drove them out of the temple and the sheep and the oxen and poured out the changers money and overthrew the tables
But Jesus never got mad did he?
well this sounds like he's pretty mad here right and
Said unto them that sold doves take these things hence make not my father's house and house of
merchandise so
You know and I'm sure you've heard preaching about this before but at this church
We're not we're not selling
items to people
This is what Jesus was mad about this is you know the house is the house of God
This is the house of prayer. This is where the truth gets thundered out and
We're not trying to run some kind of business for you
We're not trying to make people come in and do these MLM
Marketing multi-level marketing things and stuff like that don't bring that crap into this into this church, please
This is not a place to build your business now if you do business with someone outside of these walls in this church
That's up to you
But don't make this place
Her personal little house of merchandise so that you can build your business off the backs of other Christians
And you know this is a common thing with all these multi-level marketing
I mean you think that someone's friends with you
and I've multiple times been invited over to people's houses in other old IFP churches I was at and
They would just you know we think oh, they just want to be friends with us and in reality
They just want to spring this multi-level marketing scam on us. You know these
Breathing you know these air these air things that would like convert
Into ion and I forget what the name of the company was but someone tried to get me into that
Someone tried to get me into gold buying
at church
I'm sure and I not what's am what there's Amway, but there's another one that like is a big one too now
Anyway, I can't I can never remember what it's called
but look for some reason Christians just want to do these get rich quick schemes and
Stay away from that stuff. Don't bring it into the church
It made Jesus so angry
This is the angriest you'll probably ever see Jesus is when they're making his house a house of merchandise
He makes a whip and he's driving them out of the temple
You know it's like yeah, you know get out of here, and he's flipping tables over
I mean think of the violence of that like you're like well
That's you know that's not a big deal
It's not like he was just walking up and just going shaking their money out. He's just like flipping tables over and
freaking out and upset
He's literally flipping out. He's flipping tables over right so
That's not blasphemous to say that's the truth, and he's he's driving these people out
He's pouring their money out on the ground and you know Nehemiah was grabbing people by the hair
Nehemiah said if you come here again, then I'm gonna lay hands on you
He's like we're gonna get him up
We're gonna get him up
So
And that's because people are coming to Jerusalem and trying to sell people things on the Sabbath day
Which is not and so God just really gets upset and God's people get upset and rightly so
So people come to you with this kind of you know water purification system or whatever they're bringing that into the house of God
Just tell them you're not interested
Rebuke them to the face because you know what it's wrong. Don't use this place to make money
This is not a house of merchandise
This is the house of God and you know in other in other parallel passages talks about
He wouldn't even allow people to carry their vessels through
Through the temple at all
He was just not even suffering them to even grab the things that they had all their stuff in and look what look what they're
Doing there. He rebukes them that sold doves
If you remember when Jesus was born his parents were poor
And they and they what do they when you were poor the doves are what they would use for their sacrifices. So when Mary
Sacrificed she sacrificed doves. Yeah, because they didn't have a lot of money. And so basically you see that picture in that
Gee, they're picking and taking advantage of poor people
And that's why I think that he says well
He said unto them that sold does it specifically zeros in on these these parasites
That want to just make money off of poor people that are just trying to do what's right because was it right for them to?
Do a sacrifice of course it was that was the time
In the Old Testament they were supposed to be doing that
But they're not supposed to be doing business inside God's house. That's the problem. They're buying and
selling in God's house, so and
like you can cross-reference the other times when it's in Scripture, but
It's a big deal. It's not something this that's something you're never gonna see people preaching behind this pulpit
They're going hey buy my book man. You know I got the answers to all your questions like the answers are in the Bible
And I don't look I don't have a problem with people writing books or whatever
But I have a problem with them fleecing God's people with their
music CDs in the back and all their stuff that they're their junk that they let them come in and sell in God's house is
wicked and
You know I'm glad that our church is like that like there's not a lot of churches like sure Foundation Baptist Church
I guarantee you that most churches in this area even old life be churches probably allow
People to come in and sell stuff who's been to a church in the old yeah hands all over
Because they'll just allow them to come in and sell even though they probably read this multiple times where the Bible says
Not to make God's house a house of merchandise
So yeah, or a coffee shop for that matter, and then you're selling coffee
Some some churches are selling Starbucks in their church
It's like good night. We don't look we don't we don't charge people money to do extra stuff here either
This is something that other churches do it's like you're already God's already saying hey give the tithe give the 10%
But then they're like well
We need money for this or we need money for that and you know sometimes
Special offerings or I think it's okay to do one from time to time for something special, okay?
You've seen it in the Bible where they asked to repair the house to the Lord and they put the
Chest in the back, and it just got filled up right so sometimes that happened
But we should be able to operate this church on what comes in and we don't have enough to
Operate and do the things that we want to do then we just have to stop doing certain things
But I'm not gonna ask you guys to go wash people's cars so kids can go to camp
I'm not gonna have taco feast and
Auctions where we sell desserts or anything like that or sell candy bars door to door
That is not something that belongs in God's house or even it as an extension of the things in God's house
I can't tell you how many times we had to do stuff like that at our other churches that we served in
It's just painful to me. It's painful. It's like you got all this money
Why are you being so tight with it? You know if you give your money away, then God will just bring you more
He's gonna allow us to operate and do the things that we need to do and look if we can afford to do it
Then we don't need to do it
But God's never stopped blessing our church, and he always says bless our church
We've always given away everything for free at this church, and we always will now when this all is done said and done
You have
In verse 17 it says and his disciples remembered that it was written
The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up
And I just want to kind of finish on this thought that we should have some zeal for the house of God
And so when garbage is being taught in the house of God
When things are being brought in to the house of God that shouldn't be here
You know when you have idolatry in the church, you know people haven't you know the people just
Christians is bringing all kinds of crazy stuff. We were in church and the nativity scene was right there
At the front of the pulpit and you're like well, what's the big deal about that? They're graven images
That's what's wrong with it. You know you have a little image of Jesus there
We're not supposed to make graven images. You're like well. It's just you know something the kids like or whatever
We're not supposed to make graven images. That's not Jesus. You don't know what he looked like
So I mean, they're just all kinds of crazy stuff, and we should have some zeal you know at other churches
At other Baptist churches you have these altar calls
Where's the altar call in the New Testament? Where do you see that?
Where do you even see it in the Old Testament really?
I mean you see people going to the altar and grabbing onto the horns usually they're trying to spare their own life
Yeah, like Joab, and you know other guys like that. They're grabbing onto the horns of the altar to get spared
But you don't have altar calls where everybody's going up there and crying at the altar and stuff like that like you have these other
churches weird
It's a strange doctrine you don't have
Sunday school happening where you're splitting up kids from the parents you don't have that stuff
And you know what we got to have a zeal for the things of God and yeah this little place
It's not perfect, but you know it's it's a good starter place for us
And maybe everything doesn't look so perfect in the decoration. We don't have stained glass on the windows and stuff
We just have seats a pulpit and someone to preach the word of God and people to sing out to the Lord
You know and when we come together. We are the church and maybe it's not perfect
Maybe it's not you know everything that you'd ever want, but you know things have to have a start someplace
And I love this church up in Seattle, and I'm you know I never wanted to shut down wherever we go
I just want to get bigger and
So that we can do more things for God. I want people to get saved
I want people to get baptized
I want people to be reached in this area, and you know what we have to have a zeal for the house of God
So you know how about showing up to the house of God that shows that you have some zeal hey?
Are you gonna be here at all the services how about cleaning up?
Hey, we just read where people you know were certain churches. They have puke all over the tables well
You know we got to do some cleanup here, but it's not even that bad
We have janitors that do you know the dirty work
We just have to kind of clean up after ourselves big deal
How about a zeal to pray up you know a zeal for the things of God?
What was Jesus upset about that they made his you know it's supposed to be a house of prayer
And they're making it a house of merchandise
And you know we need to have a zeal to get preached up
Why are you here?
You know we got to hear the word of God be preached and it's gonna help edify us
It's gonna help build us up
It's gonna kick us in the pants and rebuke us and reprove us where we need to be reproved
But you know what if you're not here, it's kind of hard to get that when you're not here
There's something different about being in church
It's different than being on the screen on the screen
You can just push pause and go to the bathroom on the screen
You can just push pause and go get your wine better not be wine
Your non-alcoholic wine right yeah, but you know what I mean
It's not the same you don't fellowship with people look
It's special because God's people are in here and the presence of God is in this place
That's what makes it special, and you know we read the Bible we read the chapters
So people get the reading of God's Word and you know how about having some zeal by dressing up
And you're like well
You know where's the Bible say you're supposed to wear a shirt and tie I get that
But if we're gonna meet with the God of the universe
We're gonna meet with our Savior and shouldn't we kind of look a little bit decent. You know you shouldn't come to church
With your pajamas and your big fuzzy bear slippers and your hair not done up right you wouldn't do that
If you're a meeting some some governor or something like that would you well obviously we got a lot of wicked people if you're meeting
Ron Paul would you dress in fuzzy slippers and wearing a holy t-shirt or something like no you wouldn't
So I believe that we should try to dress as you know dress nice when we come to God's house
How about singing out? I love the singing at this church. It's a small room
You know the the sound goes out pretty well
And we should be singing out to the Lord and having a zeal to sing to the Lord and worship him
We should be reaching out
To the unsaved through our sowing program
Do you have a zeal to reach the loss because if you do this is the right church to be in?
Because this is what we care about we already have three sowing times and the church has already been very successful
We've had 38 salvations already since the church started. This is only our third Wednesday
We've only had what two Sundays or three Sundays three Sundays
but
We're just now starting out and hey is every sowing time gonna be this like great thing where everybody gets a probably not
But we're gonna go to the poor of the land and bring the gospel to them and anybody else
That's willing to listen and we have to have a zeal for the things of God
We have to have a zeal to be in this house
We have to have a zeal to worship God and a zeal to reach people with the gospel because that's what Jesus wants us
To do we need to have a zeal for the house of God today and not to forget our God and just go out
You know, it's about to be summertime
It's not the summertime. This is when people like to travel and do stuff and I get that
But don't forget about church don't duck out of church because it's real easy to be like well
It's gonna be a nice sunny day, you know, I'm
Should I go to church or not?
I mean, hey if you're gonna be planted in the house of the Lord
You're gonna be blessed in the house of the Lord. The rest of your life is going to be blessed
Look at verse 18
It says then answer the Jews and said unto him what signs showest thou unto us seeing that thou doest these things
You know what? This is what unbelievers love to ask
What who gave you the authority to be here in our apartment complex today God did that's who?
God gave us permission. God told us to go preach the gospel
God told her he said I'm gonna give you power to go and preach the gospel and we hope I'm with you
Always even until the end of the earth. Sorry for scaring you. Well, you know, it just it just gets me upset
It gets me fired up that people are always just like you can't be here. You got to wear this mask
You got to do this and that shut up, you know what, you know against such there is no law
The Bible says because we're doing what God said and even if someone says hey
Well, you're not allowed to come here and in and go sowing. Yeah, we are. Well, who do you have permission? Yes, I do
Jesus Christ gave me permission. Yeah, he told us to go forth. He told us to preach the gospel
So nuts to them and obviously I'm not trying to say get into a whole bunch of fights
But you know, look the battles are gonna come the solely bowels are gonna come that these
Hellhound devilish
Apartment managers don't want us to be knocking these doors
It's almost like they have to have the demons resume in order to get hired there or something now
But the fights are gonna come folks and you know, what our zeal is what's gonna get us through
But this is what you know, these unbelievers always want to say what's what's on do you want to show?
Put God in it, you know, if God will just come down and talk to me then I'll believe that's not gonna happen idiots
They probably wouldn't believe in it even if he did do it
But it says in verse 19 Jesus answered said unto them destroy this temple and in three days, I will raise it up now
So he calls them out immediately
Knowing that they want to kill him right here
Because what's he saying to him? He's saying you kill me and I'm gonna raise in three days
Because that's I mean that's what's in their hearts like Jesus can read their minds
He knows what's in the heart of man
It says and said the Jews and then said the Jews forty and six years
Was the temple and building and wilt thou rear it up in three days, so they just obviously don't get it
They're not saved but you know pastor actually gave me a little tip right here when I was for it when I was about to
Turn 46. He said he said every when you're about when you're 46 and people ask you how old you are
You can always say 40 and six years old 40 and six years was this temple
So when he turned 46 don't forget that and you can always tell people and quote this verse phone anyway, sorry, I'm just kidding
But I thought it was funny so what it says
Let's see verse 23 now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover of the feast day many believed in his name
And they saw the miracles what she did
But Jesus not commit himself unto them because he knew all men and needed not that any should testify of man for he knew
What was in man and we'll see what was in man as we go through the rest of this
This teeth these the this the book of John and
What is in man? Well?
Darkness is in man and we have to shine the light into people's hearts
And we have to reflect that love of Jesus Christ to people. Let's pray order. Thank you so much for the scriptures and Lord. I
Thank you for all the people that were in attendance tonight Lord
I know it's kind of been a long night, but we're just thank you so much for the blessings of this church
Thank you for everybody here Lord
I pray that people in this room would commit to you Lord and
That you they would commit to having a zeal for the house of the Lord and to be here and to go to the soul
Wanting times Lord and to love the people here and the fellowship Lord
I pray that you just bless this church for many years to come as you say we pray Amen
You
All right for our last song let's turn to page 441 441
Great is thy faithfulness
Song number 441
Oh
Here we go great is thy faithfulness
Oh God my father
There is no shadow of turning with thee
Thou
Changes not thy
Compassion's they fail not as thou has been
thou forever
will be
Great is thy faithfulness
Morning by morning
new
Mercies I see
All I have needed
Thy hand hath provided
Great is thy faithfulness Lord unto me
Summer and winter
And springtime and harvest
Sun moon and stars
In their courses
above
join with all
nature in
manifold witness
to thy great
faithfulness
mercy and love
Great is thy faithfulness
Faithfulness
Morning by morning
new
Mercies I see
All I have needed
Thy hand hath provided
Great is thy faithfulness
Lord unto me
Pardon for sin and a peace that is
endureth
thine own dear
presence to cheer and to guide
Strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow
Blessings are mine and ten thousand beside
Great is thy faithfulness
Morning by morning
new
Mercies I see
All I have needed
Thy hand hath provided
Great is thy faithfulness
Lord unto me
All right. Thank you everybody for coming out this evening for the nev you want to close with the word of prayer
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