Oneighty

Prov 23:29-35

29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints?

Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?  30 Those who linger long at the wine, Those who go in search of mixed wine. 31 Do not look on the wine when it is red, When it sparkles in the cup, When it swirls around smoothly; 32 At the last it bites like a serpent, And stings like a viper.  NKJV

33 Your eyes will see strange things, and your heart will utter perverse things. NKJV

ALCOHOL

– Prov 23:29-35

-     Drinking can affect your heart. It says your heart not your lips utter perverse things.

-         Prov 4:23 says to guard your heart, 1 peter 5:8 be sober and vigilant …the devil… who he may devour.

-         1 Cor 10:5 we are to take thoughts captive, Rom 12:2 we are to renew our minds, Phil 4:8 tells us to think on things that are praise worthy. When one is not sober they will not guard diligently. Satan is looking to devour what better time to whisper lies, to stir up unforgiveness and hatred. We are in a fight why walk around disarmed. Life might feel better disarmed without our helmet, vest/breastplate, heavy weapons but when you leave them you are a sitting duck. There is no place on earth you can hide to disarm. Just as lifting ones mask during paintball might feel better yet isn’t a good idea, so drinking disarms us leaving us open for the attack from the devil.

-         Prov 20:1;  21:17;  23:20,35;  31:3-5; Eph 5:18; Rom 14:20-21; 1 Cor 6:9-11; 8:9, 11-13; Luke 1:15

-         Gal 5:19-22 List self control as one of the fruits of the spirit, Alcohol damages that, and Drunkenness is listed as a work of the flesh.

23:34 – 35

34 Yes, you will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea, Or like one who lies at the top of the mast, saying:  NKJV

35 They have struck me, but I did not feel it. When shall I wake, that I may seek another drink? NKJV

-         The Drunk is unaware of the damaging being done to there own life.

-         Drinking is like leprosy of the mind? Leprosy doesn’t actually rot your flesh, it kills your nerves, it takes away the ability to feel. When you can’t feel you will do the damage to your self, unaware of the damage that is done things get infected and that is the rot that we think of with leprosy. Drinking dulls the senses. It allows you to stop feeling. When the numbness sets in and your feeling is gone you don’t relies what you have done. Like a leper damaging his own life unaware drunks damage their lives completely unaware. People begin to make poor choices numb to the affects they don’t stop or get help and the problems fester like the infection on the hand of a leper until parts of there life are completely destroyed.