Woe Unto Him That Giveth His Neighbour Drink! – Habakkuk 2:15
Categories: Sermon Outlines, Topical Sermon OutlinesTITLE: Woe Unto Him That Giveth His Neighbour Drink!
SUBJECT: Alcohol
PROPOSITION: To set forth a study of Habakkuk 2:15.
OBJECTIVE:That we refrain from, abstain from alcoholic drink.
INTRODUCTION:
1. Read: Habakkuk 2:15. Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!
2. Regarding the text:
1) This was in the time of the first deportation of Judah to Babylon.
2) In a remarkable display of trust and obedience, Abraham left the area which became Babylon.
3) In an equal but opposite display of disobedience, Judah was taken back to Babylon.
4) Habakkuk 2:15 is one reason.
3. Reference to Subject, Title, Proposition and Objective.
DISCUSSION: In this passage we have –
I. WOE.
1. Many woes pronounced in the Bible.
2. Jesus pronounced “Woe” upon:
1) Matthew 11:21.
2) Matthew 23:13-36.
3) Matthew 26:24.
4) Luke 11:45-52.
5) Luke 6:26.
3. This woe is limited to the one who:
1) Giveth his neighbor drink;
2) Puttest thy bottle to him; and
3) Makest him drunken also.
4. Notice the word “Also.”
5. Consider: John 2:1-11 – six water-pots of two or three firkins each = as much as 150.5 gallons. NOTE: Jews always used “sweet” wine at weddings, cf. Fiddler On The Roof; “Sunrise, Sunset.”
II. WHET.
1. Remember the word “also”?
2. It was not only the making one drunk that was forbidden.
3. One has to learn to like alcoholic beverages because the poison, C2H6O, Ethyl Alcohol, burns the mouth and sours the stomach, the reason vomiting accompanies its use.
4. This one is trying to develop a “taste” in the receiver.
III. WHELM.
1. Yea, this is designed to “overwhelm” the partaker.
2. Drunkenness is always and ONLY a matter of degrees.
3. The first faculty of man affected by alcohol is his ability to make moral judgments. Cf. brewers hypocrisy saying, “Know when to say when.”
IV. WHOREDOM.
1. How many times has alcohol been used to destroy the morals of some young person so that fornication could be foisted on him or her?
2. The same expression used in Genesis 9:22.
CONCLUSION:
1. In Habakkuk 2:15 we have:
1) WOE;
2) WHET;
3) WHELM; and
4) WHOREDOM.
2. Let us neither be guilty of using nor of causing others to use alcoholic beverages.