Sermon on Alcohol | The Sin of Using Strong Drink
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Sermon on Alcohol — Sermon outline on the matter of drinking alcohol (strong drink) taken mostly from the Old Testament.
INTRODUCTION:
1. Proverbs 20:1, “Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.”
2. The society you live in wants you to drink alcohol.
1) Drink it when you’re happy.
2) Drink it when you’re sad.
3) Drink it when you’re sociable.
4) Drink it when you’re eating.
5) Drink it when you go to bed.
6) Drink it early in the day.
3. They warn you to “drink responsibly” but drink.
4. They want you to drink even though:
1) There is a trail of wreckage caused by drinking.
2) Families destroyed. Marriages and children left in the wreckage.
3) Vows broken and holiness sullied.
4) Friendships shattered.
5) Family violence.
6) Death on the road.
7) There is utter waste when the draw of alcohol slowly saps the life of a once productive man or woman.
5. Let’s take a bit of time and find out what God, our maker, has to say about the use of alcohol.
DISCUSSION:[ discussion of this sermon on alcohol ]
I. God tells us about Noah’s drunkenness after the flood, Gen. 9:18ff. The very first mention of wine brings tragedy.
II. Prov. 23:29-32,
1. vv. 29-30, Strong drink brings “woe, sorrow, contentions, babbling, wounds without cause, redness of eyes.”
2. vv. 30-33, Strong drink causes men to lie, seek bad women…
3. vv. 31-32, If it’s wrong to look at intoxicating drink, surely wrong to drink it!
III. Lev. 10:9, Strong drink forbidden to the priests. 1 Pet. 1:15-16.
IV. Num. 6:1-3, Forbidden to the Nazarites
V. Dan. 1:8, Daniel refused to touch it.
VI. Judges 13:4, 7, 12-14, Samson’s mother not to drink it.
VII. Deut. 29:5-6, Israel did not drink it in the wilderness.
VIII.Prov. 31:5-6, Kings forbidden to drink it.
IX. Isa. 56:12, Drink blinds men to the future facts which should be faced. Joel 1:5
X. Joel 3:3, Strong drink so wrecked Israel that they “sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.”
XI. Prov. 21:17. Wine impoverishes.
XII. Isa. 5:11-12. Strong drink will cause men to “regard not the work of the Lord, neither consider the operation of his hands.”
XIII.Isa. 28:1, 3, 7. “they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.”
XIV. Jer. 35:6, the vow of the Rechabites.
XV. Hos. 4:11, Wine takes away the heart, the senses, makes men act as fools.
XVI. Hab. 2:15, “Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink…”
CONCLUSION: [ end of this sermon on alcohol ]
1. The best wisdom that mankind has ever known warns us from strong drink.
2. The mind of God, our Creator and sustainer, warns us from strong drink.
3. We as Christians need to be holy and discern good and evil.
4. Strong drink attacks that ability from the first sip.
5. Look around at the destruction that drink causes.
6. Vow today to leave it alone, be holy and discerning