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Jesus said, man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

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So, let's begin with not a drunkard. This is the front side of the second page of your notes,

Roman numeral number nine. not a drunkard. Some

translations say, not given to wine. Now, the Bible does not prohibit all drinking. And that's

the position of the elders and I here at the response church. Now, some, as I mentioned last week,

there are some pastors who are absolutely faithful and that we absolutely honor and respect that would disagree.

And that's okay. And they're going to attempt to bind the consciences, not through domineering, not through coercion, but through persuasion.

They're going to attempt to bind the consciences of the members of their church and it's well within their pastoral rights through persuasion, not coercion, but persuasion,

to do so. And we honor that, we respect that, we recognize that, and we're not, we're not going to

give them a hard time. Okay. But we also likewise have the right as a plurality of elders, as an elder

team of this local flock to say, well, this is what we see in the Word of God. This is what we think the right position should be.

And so in regards to an elder,

the qualification of not being a drunker,

not given to wine,

we see a biblical theology of alcohol, if you will,

we would say that the Bible does not prohibit all drinking.

In fact, to the contrary, the scripture

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