Welcome to the Enjoying the Journey broadcast with Scott Pauley.

For the next few moments, we look to God's Word to discover simple Bible principles that will help us to live the daily Christian life and to enjoy the journey.

It's amazing to me how up to date, how current the Bible is. As a matter of fact, in Proverbs chapter number 23, we have one of the most vivid descriptions of alcohol found anywhere in the world.

If you want to see what a hangover looks like, read Proverbs 23.

If you want to see what the world commonly calls addiction does, read Proverbs chapter 23.

I bring you to Proverbs 23 again. This is where we left off last time in our study of what God's word says about alcohol, because I want to read the last verses in this chapter to you. We begin in Proverbs chapter 23, verse 29, who hath woe, who hath sorrow, who hath contentions, who hath babbling, who hath wounds without cause, who hath sorrow, who hath contentions, who hath babbling, who hath wounds without cause,

who hath redness of eyes, they that tarry long at the wine, they that go to seek mixed wine.

Look at that list of questions in verse 29.

This is what alcohol brings.

Woe, sorrow, contention.

That means fighting and strife.

Babbling.

Nonsensical talk.

Wounds without calls.

There's no reason for it.

Redness of eyes.

And that one verse, you know, the physical, the mental, the emotional, even the spiritual

consequences of drinking alcohol. And then the Bible talks in verse 30 about wine and mixed wine.

In Bible days there was a very well-known distinction between wine and what the Bible calls here mixed

wine or fermented wine. As a matter of fact, the Lord Jesus himself turned water into wine.

And some people even use that as their proof text for the fact that Jesus drank wine.

Nothing could be further from the truth. You really believe that the one who inspired the words,

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