Is Alcohol OK for Christians? | Proverbs 20:1
Morning Mindset Christian Daily Devotional Bible study and prayer
Carey Green
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🗓️ 23 May 2022
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Today's Scripture:
Proverbs 20:1 - Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my friends and welcome back to the morning mindset. I am here and you are here so that |
| 0:08.4 | we together can get our minds aligned with the truth of God. And I wonder, do you have |
| 0:13.3 | anything we could be praying for you about? We have a Friday, pray together episode where |
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| 0:42.4 | are diving into Proverbs chapter 20. We're looking at only one verse today because it's the only |
| 0:47.6 | verse in the chapter that addresses this topic. In case you're not having been with us in the Proverbs |
| 0:52.8 | series so far, I like to group verses together that are speaking about the same topic, but sometimes |
| 0:58.4 | we hit a verse like this one. Within a chapter, that's the only one that speaks to the issue. |
| 1:02.9 | So we're just going to deal with it as a single verse in that case. Proverbs 20 verse number |
| 1:07.7 | one says this, wine is a marker, strong drink, a brawler, and whoever has led a stray by it is |
| 1:16.2 | not wise. Now this brings up a question which perhaps is an age old question in some circles. |
| 1:22.6 | In other circles, not a question at all, but it's the question, is drinking alcohol okay for |
| 1:29.0 | Christians? Is that something Christians can do? Now let me say this, just flat out. The Bible |
| 1:35.2 | nowhere says, if you drink alcohol, you are sinning. nowhere does the Bible say that. |
| 1:42.9 | But the Bible does give us cautionary statements about the drinking of alcohol. In general, |
| 1:50.1 | this one that we're looking at today in Proverbs 20 verse number one is a great example. |
| 1:55.3 | Let's just examine it for a moment. In their day, wine was the primary alcohol |
| 2:00.7 | drink that they had that in a beer and mead and liquor and whiskeys and all that, they just |
| 2:06.1 | had wine. And so that's why it mentions wine, but the principle is alcohol. And look what he says, |
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