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A COMMITMENT TO TOTAL ABSTINENCE
September 14, 1997
INTRODUCTION: Why is there so much in the news about alcohol?
Because we in America have a big problem.
About 40% of adult Americans have direct family experiences with alcohol abuse and alcoholism.
Marvin Bloch, former chairman of the American Medical Association Committee on Alcoholism, said, “Ours is a drug-oriented society, largely because of alcohol.
Because of its social acceptance, alcohol is rarely thought of as a drug.
But a drug it is, in scientific fact.”
Advertisers will spend over $500,000,000.
to tell us to drink this year.
Seventy-five percent of all high schoolers drink, and 50% of all junior highers.
Four hundred and fifty thousand teenagers are alcoholics in the U.S.A.
An estimated 17, 274 persons died in alcohol-related traffic crashes; an average of one every 32 minutes.
Forty-one percent of all traffic related deaths in 1996 were related to alcohol.
Another 1,058,990 were injured in alcohol-related crashes; one person every 30 seconds.
Every weekday night, from 10 P.M. to 1 A.M., one in 13 drivers is drunk.
Between 1 A.M. & 6 A.M. on weekends, one in seven is drunk.
About 2 in every 5 Americans will be involved in an alcohol-related crash at some time in their lives.
From 1982-1995, 300,274 people died in alcohol related crashes.
In the past ten years, 4 times as many Americans died in drunk driving crashes as were killed in the Vietnam War.
Alcohol is a downer that reduces activity in the central nervous system.
The alcohol intoxicated person exhibits loose muscle tones and loss of fine motor coordination.
It decreases heart rate and lowers blood pressure.
What our nation considers drunk (or 0.07) causes slight impairment of balance, speech, vision, reaction time, and hearing.
Judgment and self-control are reduced, and caution, reason, and memory are impaired.
, “The thief cometh not but to steal, and to kill, and to destroy; I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.”
The younger an individual starts drinking, and the greater the intensity and frequency of alcohol consumption, the greater the risk of using other drugs.
Youth who drink alcohol are 7 1/2 times more likely to use an illicit drug, and 50 times more likely to use cocaine than young people who never drink alcohol.
I. DRINKING ALCOHOL AND SPIRITUALITY.
, “Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging,
and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.”
“brawler” - raging
“led astray” - deceived
Billy Sunday called liquor “the Devil in liquid form”
Compare:
Wine is a deceiver - devil is a deceiver
“bites like a serpent” - devil is the old serpent
, “At the last it biteth like a serpent, and
stingeth like an adder.”
Many people believe, for whatever reason, that the answer
to drinking alcoholic beverages is moderation.
I
personally believe that moderation is not the solution but
the cause of alcohol abuse.
I am going to assume that all “Christians” believe that
drunkenness is a sin, however, many are unconvinced that
alcohol used with moderation, simply drinking socially,
recreationally is hardly a problem, much less a sin.
Church-goers may not be any more sympathetic to this
message than the general population.
One half of all
ordained ministers drink, and 1/3 of all active church-
goers drink.
Forty-eight percent of Southern Baptists
drink, and an estimated 16% of those who do drink
become alcoholics (a higher % than virtually any other
religious group in the nation).
One-fourth of all active
Southern Baptist church teenagers have used alcohol in the
past 12 months.
According to :l, wine/strong drink has an inherit
tendency to “lead one astray.”
From what?
The path
of wisdom.
The idea is that wine mocks the one who
drinks it, and strong drink makes him aggressive.
The over-consumption of alcohol makes a mockery (even
a monkey) out of me.
In other words, as alcohol tends to lead me astray from the
path of wisdom, so the path of wisdom will lead one away
from alcohol.
Some say that alcohol is a cultural thing.
Take the French, for instance.
They may say, “We can handle our liquor.
We are not like those abusive Americans.”
Their attitude is that
they grew up with wine, no skidrows in Paris.
They drink
wine in place of water.
MYTH: In France, alcohol is the number one health
menace.
- average Frenchman drinks more than any other citizen in
the world (65 gallons of wine a year)
- 23,000 Frenchmen die every year from liver disease
(cirrhosis of the liver)
- 10 times that of the U.S.
- 1/3 of all traffic accidents are alcohol-related.
MAJOR ARGUMENT:
It is not wrong to drink wine, a beer, or a mixed drink.
The
Bible does not condemn it, and by the way, did not Jesus
turn water into wine?
One “minister” a few years ago applied for license for beer/
wine for their church.
His argument: “Jesus was the first
bartender.”
Let’s look at the words for wine and strong drink -
Strong drink - (Shay-kahr) pronounced she-care; refers to
a drink that has been distilled from fermented dates, grain,
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