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Drunkenness leads one to contentions (vs. 29)—that is, to strife and brawling, first with the mouth, then perhaps with his fists. The drunken man, no longer able to discern reality, views others as a threat and strikes out at them, or has some false illusion of grandeur, and thinks he has to show al
What is drunkenness? One who is drunken is one who has consumed alcohol beyond the modest amounts which God’s Word plainly sets forth. To whatever degree this person has indulged, he suffers from the intoxicating and stupefying effects of alcohol in his body. One may be drunken occasionally or one m
November 2024 93 The Drunkard’s Folly they are piling it on. Do not make as your excuse that, if you were not drunk, you would not have committed those other sins. Acknowledge, rather, that wine deceived you, and led you to a host of other heinous sins; that it exposed that your heart was not right!
He will consider, as he drinks, that to become drunken is sin; that wine is a mocker; and that he will drink to God’s glory, and not be brought under the bondage of wine. Next time, God willing, we will continue to show that drunkenness is sin by speaking of its physical and moral effects. Alcohol,
Psychologically there is a strong resemblance between being drunk and satiated with wine, and the singing which is the effect of the Spirit. In both cases, men are carried away by other powers. In the one case, a man possesses his soul in patience; in the other, he is the victim of sin, which stimul
5:17, 18) It seems that this drunkenness among women was prevalent on the island of Crete; we are told that drunken women, are such slaves of this sin that it is a very hard battle, to truly live sober lives away from former slavery. The little wine for the stomach’sake, is a far cry from the “much
It is not difficult to see why Jesus especially distinguishes drunkenness, is it? What is it that more quickly renders us spiritually insensitive to the things that we do, think and say than drunkenness? This is a serious matter. So serious that Jesus says that no drunkard shall enter into the kingd