Spring Gospel Meeting

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The Eastside Church of Christ Cordially Invites
You to Our
Spring Gospel Meeting
Overcoming Worldliness
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday April 17-19, 2009
Day Time Topic Friday 7 p.m. Overcoming
Worldliness Saturday 10 a.m. Gambling 11
a.m. Alcoholic Beverages Sunday 10 a.m. Christian
Recreation 11 a.m. Controlling Appetites
Eastside Church of Christ 89 S Main
Street Manchester, NY www.teachuslord.com
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• Lyrics from a Popular Country Song
• All week long we're some real nobodies,
• But we just punched out and its paycheck Friday,
• Weekends here, good God almighty,
• People lets get drunk and be somebody

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• Lyrics from a Popular Country Song
• All week long we're some real nobodies,
• But we just punched out and its paycheck Friday,
• Weekends here, good God almighty,
• People lets get drunk and be somebody

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• All week long we're some real nobodies,

• Purpose of Work
• Not Recognition from Supervisor
• Provision for Family

But if any provideth not for his own, and
specially his own household, he hath denied the
faith, and is worse than an unbeliever. (1
Timothy 58)?
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• All week long we're some real nobodies,

• Purpose of Work
• Not Recognition from Supervisor
• Provision for Family
• To Have Aught to Give Others

Let him that stole steal no more but rather let
him labor, working with his hands the thing that
is good, that he may have whereof to give to him
that hath need. (Ephesians 428)?
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All week long we're some real nobodies,

• Value of Work
• All Honest Labor is Honorable

In all labor there is profit But the talk of the
lips tendeth only to penury. (Proverbs 1423)?
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• Lyrics from a Popular Country Song
• All week long we're some real nobodies,
• But we just punched out and its paycheck Friday,
• Weekends here, good God almighty,
• People lets get drunk and be somebody

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• People lets get drunk and be somebody

• Somebody Who
• Has Woe, Sorrow, Contentions, Wounds without
  Cause, Red Eyes

Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath
contentions? Who hath complaining? who hath
wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes?
(Proverbs 2329)?
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• People lets get drunk and be somebody

• Somebody Who
• Sees Strange Things (Women)?
• Says Strange Things

Thine eyes shall behold strange things, And thy
heart shall utter perverse things. (Proverbs
2333)?
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• People lets get drunk and be somebody

• Somebody Who
• Reacts Inappropriately to Danger

Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the
midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the
top of a mast. (Proverbs 2334)?
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• People lets get drunk and be somebody

• Somebody Who
• Reacts Inappropriately to Danger

Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the
midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the
top of a mast. (Proverbs 2334)?
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• People lets get drunk and be somebody

• Somebody Who
• Will Be Hung Over
• Become Addicted

They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was
not sick they have beaten me, and I felt it not
when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
(Proverbs 2335)?
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• Wine, New Wine, Strong Drink
• Fermentation of Juice Served to
• Preserve and
• Make Safe

It was unsafe to drink water without wine added,
and unwise to drink wine without water added. The
typical dilution was three parts water to one
part wine.
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• Wine, New Wine, Strong Drink
• Fermentation of Juice Served to
• Preserve and
• Make Safe

With 8 Alcohol Wine the Resulting Mixture Had 2
Alcohol. Less Alcohol Than Modern Beer.
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• Wine, New Wine, Strong Drink
• With Modern Purification and Preservation Methods
  We Don't Need Fermentation Any Longer

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• Wine, New Wine, Strong Drink
• Every Modern Alcoholic Drink Has More Alcohol
  than What Was Consumed in Old Times

They that tarry long at the wine They that go to
seek out a mixed wine. Look not thou upon the
wine when it is red, When it sparkleth in the
cup, When it goes down smoothly. (Proverbs
2330-32)?
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• Wine, New Wine, Strong Drink
• Every Modern Alcoholic Drink Has More Alcohol
  than What Was Consumed in Old Times

Wine is a mocker, and strong drink a brawler.
Whosoever erreth thereby is not wise. (Proverbs
201)?