We should be concerned

1
We should be concerned!

• Anyone who has worked with people know this.

2
We should be concerned!

• Anyone who has worked with people know this.
• The church has been deeply affected by drug and
  alcohol addiction.

3
We should be concerned!

• Anyone who has worked with people know this.
• The church has been deeply affected by drug and
  alcohol addiction.
• Many come from families with these problems. Most
  in the church in Lincoln had been
  affected in some way.

4
We should be concerned!

• Anyone who has worked with people know this.
• The church has been deeply affected by drug and
  alcohol addiction.
• Many come from families with these problems. Most
  in the church in Lincoln had been
  affected in some way.
• There are many within churches who hide these
  problems in their lives.

5
We should be concerned!

• (Example An Alcoholic Elder successfully hid it
  for years. His children have followed the same
  pattern.)

6
We should be concerned!

• (Example An Alcoholic Elder successfully hid it
  for years. His children have followed the same
  pattern.)
• The issue of addiction is one of control. Who do
  you wish to control your life?(Gal 516-17)

7
We should be concerned!

• (Galatians 516-17 NKJV) I say then Walk in the
  Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the
  flesh. 17 For the flesh lusts against the
  Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh and
  these are contrary to one another, so that you do
  not do the things that you wish.

8
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• While the issue of social drinking and addiction
  are different but related issues, it is important
  to note that addiction has a start.

9
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• While the issue of social drinking and addiction
  are different but related issues, it is important
  to note that addiction has a start.
• Over 70 of the people in this country drink.

10
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• While the issue of social drinking and addiction
  are different but related issues, it is important
  to note that addiction has a start.
• Over 70 of the people in this country drink.
• Over 40 million are known alcoholics.

11
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• While the issue of social drinking and addiction
  are different but related issues, it is important
  to note that addiction has a start.
• Over 70 of the people in this country drink.
• Over 40 million are known alcoholics.
• One out of seven who take their first drink
  becomes an alcoholic.

12
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• What is the strong drink of the scriptures?
  (Prov 201 316)

13
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• (Proverbs 201 NKJV) Wine is a mocker, Strong
  drink is a brawler, And whoever is led astray by
  it is not wise.

14
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• (Proverbs 316 NKJV) Give strong drink to him
  who is perishing, And wine to those who are
  bitter of heart.

15
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• This is undiluted fermented grape juice. This is
  the equivalent of our modern day beer.

16
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• This is undiluted fermented grape juice. This is
  the equivalent of our modern day beer.
• The typical use of wine both in the Old and New
  Testaments, involves a diluting of the grape
  juice with 3 to 5 parts water.

17
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• This is undiluted fermented grape juice. This is
  the equivalent of our modern day beer.
• The typical use of wine both in the Old and New
  Testaments, involves a diluting of the grape
  juice with 3 to 5 parts water.
• This process in fact acted as a purifying agent
  for the water. (1 Tim 523)

18
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• (1 Timothy 523 NKJV) No longer drink only
  water, but use a little wine for your stomachs
  sake and your frequent infirmities.

19
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• There is no parallel with the common Bible wines
  and the modern social drink,
  except that of strong drink. This is everywhere
  condemned in the scripture.

20
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• There is no parallel with the common Bible wines
  and the modern social drink,
  except that of strong drink. This is everywhere
  condemned in the scripture.
• There are different levels of drinking and they
  are all condemned. (1 Pt 43-4)

21
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• (1 Peter 43-4 NKJV) For we have spent enough of
  our past lifetime in doing the will of the
  Gentiles when we walked in lewdness, lusts,
  drunkenness, revelries, drinking parties, and
  abominable idolatries. 4 In regard to these,
  they think it strange that you do not run with
  them in the same flood of dissipation, speaking
  evil of you.

22
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• Is drunkenness the only thing condemned? No!
  There is also revelries, drinking
  parties.

23
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• Is drunkenness the only thing condemned? No!
  There is also revelries, drinking
  parties.
• This denotes both the action of social
  intercourse and the kind of drinking itself!

24
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• Is drunkenness the only thing condemned? No!
  There is also revelries, drinking
  parties.
• This denotes both the action of social
  intercourse and the kind of drinking itself!
• What other sins accompany the modern drink? (Gal
  519-21)

25
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• (Galatians 519-21 NKJV) Now the works of the
  flesh are evident, which are adultery,
  fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 20
  idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions,
  jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish
  ambitions, dissensions, heresies,

26
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• 21 envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and
  the like of which I tell you beforehand, just as
  I also told you in time past, that those who
  practice such things will not inherit the kingdom
  of God.

27
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• Jellinek's disease (alcoholism) is responsible
  for

28
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• Jellinek's disease (alcoholism) is responsible
  for
• 50 percent of all auto fatalities

29
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• Jellinek's disease (alcoholism) is responsible
  for
• 50 percent of all auto fatalities
• 80 percent of all home violence

30
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• Jellinek's disease (alcoholism) is responsible
  for
• 50 percent of all auto fatalities
• 80 percent of all home violence
• 30 percent of all suicides

31
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• Jellinek's disease (alcoholism) is responsible
  for
• 50 percent of all auto fatalities
• 80 percent of all home violence
• 30 percent of all suicides
• 60 percent of all child abuse

32
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• Jellinek's disease (alcoholism) is responsible
  for
• 50 percent of all auto fatalities
• 80 percent of all home violence
• 30 percent of all suicides
• 60 percent of all child abuse
• 65 percent of all drownings

33
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• Drunkenness is nothing else but a voluntary
  madness.

34
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• Drunkenness is nothing else but a voluntary
  madness.
• Drink has

35
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• Drunkenness is nothing else but a voluntary
  madness.
• Drink has
• Drained more blood

36
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• Drunkenness is nothing else but a voluntary
  madness.
• Drink has
• Drained more blood
• Hung more crepe

37
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• Drunkenness is nothing else but a voluntary
  madness.
• Drink has
• Drained more blood
• Hung more crepe
• Sold more houses

38
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• Drunkenness is nothing else but a voluntary
  madness.
• Drink has
• Drained more blood
• Hung more crepe
• Sold more houses
• Plunged more people into bankruptcy

39
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• Drunkenness is nothing else but a voluntary
  madness.
• Drink has
• Drained more blood
• Hung more crepe
• Sold more houses
• Plunged more people into bankruptcy
• Armed more villains

40
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• Snapped more wedding rings

41
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• Snapped more wedding rings
• Defiled more innocence

42
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• Snapped more wedding rings
• Defiled more innocence
• Blinded more eyes

43
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• Snapped more wedding rings
• Defiled more innocence
• Blinded more eyes
• Twisted more limbs

44
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• Snapped more wedding rings
• Defiled more innocence
• Blinded more eyes
• Twisted more limbs
• Dethroned more reason

45
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• Snapped more wedding rings
• Defiled more innocence
• Blinded more eyes
• Twisted more limbs
• Dethroned more reason
• Wrecked more manhood

46
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• Snapped more wedding rings
• Defiled more innocence
• Blinded more eyes
• Twisted more limbs
• Dethroned more reason
• Wrecked more manhood
• Dishonored more womanhood

47
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• Snapped more wedding rings
• Defiled more innocence
• Blinded more eyes
• Twisted more limbs
• Dethroned more reason
• Wrecked more manhood
• Dishonored more womanhood
• Broken more hearts

48
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• Blasted more lives

49
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• Blasted more lives
• Driven more to suicide, and

50
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• Blasted more lives
• Driven more to suicide, and
• Dug more graves than any other poisoned scourge
  that ever swept its death-dealing waves across
  the world.

51
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• Consider the strong warnings concerning
  drunkenness. (1 Cor 511 619-21 Lk
  2134-36)

52
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• (1 Corinthians 511 NKJV) But now I have written
  to you not to keep company with anyone named a
  brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or
  an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an
  extortioner not even to eat with such a person.

53
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• (1 Corinthians 619-20 NKJV) Or do you not know
  that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit
  who is in you, whom you have from God, and you
  are not your own? 20 For you were bought at a
  price therefore glorify God in your body and in
  your spirit, which are Gods.

54
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• (Luke 2134-36 NKJV) But take heed to
  yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with
  carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life,
  and that Day come on you unexpectedly. 35 For
  it will come as a snare on all those who dwell on
  the face of the whole earth.

55
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• 36 Watch therefore, and pray always that you
  may be counted worthy to escape all these things
  that will come to pass, and to stand before the
  Son of Man.

56
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• You cannot go to heaven and be a drunkard.

57
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• You cannot go to heaven and be a drunkard.
• You may say I will never be a drunkard!

58
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• A man who once drinks a single dram of liquor
  may die a drunkard. He who tastes it never, never
  can!

59
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• Would you drink if you knew Jesus was coming
  today?

60
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• Would you drink if you knew Jesus was coming
  today?
• (Rom 1311-14 1 Cor 69-11) - The same argument
  can be made for modern drug abuse!
  Would Jesus smoke pot?

61
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• (Romans 1311-14 NKJV) And do this, knowing the
  time, that now it is high time to awake out of
  sleep for now our salvation is nearer than when
  we first believed. 12 The night is far spent,
  the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the
  works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of
  light. 13 Let us walk properly, as in the day,
  not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness
  and lust, not in strife and envy.

62
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• 14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make
  no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.

63
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• (1 Corinthians 69-11 NKJV) Do you not know that
  the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of
  God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor
  idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor
  sodomites, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor
  drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will
  inherit the kingdom of God.

64
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• 11 And such were some of you. But you were
  washed, but you were sanctified, but you were
  justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by
  the Spirit of our God.

65
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• How much is your soul worth?

66
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• How much is your soul worth?
• What does this do for your influence for Christ?

67
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• I have never known of a Christian who seriously
  wanted to reach the lost who was a
  social drinker. (1 Cor 918-23)

68
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• (1 Corinthians 918-23 NKJV) What is my reward
  then? That when I preach the gospel, I may
  present the gospel of Christ without charge, that
  I may not abuse my authority in the gospel. 19
  For though I am free from all men, I have made
  myself a servant to all, that I might win the
  more

69
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• 20 and to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I
  might win Jews to those who are under the law,
  as under the law, that I might win those who are
  under the law 21 to those who are without law,
  as without law (not being without law toward God,
  but under law toward Christ), that I might win
  those who are without law

70
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• 22 to the weak I became as weak, that I might
  win the weak. I have become all things to all
  men, that I might by all means save some. 23
  Now this I do for the gospels sake, that I may
  be partaker of it with you.

71
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• What are the fruits of drinking in this country?
  How many have you known who have been affected by
  drinking? (Example Friend at work.)

72
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• What if you saw an elder drinking at a bar? (Rom
  1413-23 1 Peter 212)

73
Is Social Drinking Acceptable?

• (1 Peter 212 NKJV) having your conduct
  honorable among the Gentiles, that when they
  speak against you as evildoers, they may, by your
  good works which they observe, glorify God in the
  day of visitation.

74
The Deception of the High.

• Drinking and drugs have deception at their core.
  (Prov 2329-35)

75
The Deception of the High.

• (Proverbs 2329-35 NKJV) Who has woe? Who has
  sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints?
  Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of
  eyes? 30 Those who linger long at the wine,
  Those who go in search of mixed wine. 31 Do not
  look on the wine when it is red, When it sparkles
  in the cup, When it swirls around smoothly

76
The Deception of the High.

• 32 At the last it bites like a serpent, And
  stings like a viper. 33 Your eyes will see
  strange things, And your heart will utter
  perverse things. 34 Yes, you will be like one
  who lies down in the midst of the sea, Or like
  one who lies at the top of the mast, saying 35
  They have struck me, but I was not hurt They
  have beaten me, but I did not feel it. When shall
  I awake, that I may seek another drink?

77
The Deception of the High.

• Many want a brief escape.

78
The Deception of the High.

• Many want a brief escape.
• It can become a permanent one. Note those who in
  spite of terrible consequences, go back to it.

79
The Deception of the High.

• Alcohol does not drown care, but waters it and
  makes it grow faster.

80
The Deception of the High.

• There is no situation so bad that a few
  alcoholic drinks won't make it worse.

81
The Deception of the High.

• We must choose to keep our eyes open and honestly
  deal with the issues of life.

82
The Deception of the High.

• We must choose to keep our eyes open and honestly
  deal with the issues of life.
• Depression and addiction are common partners.

83
The Deception of the High.

• The Christian can go to the Lord for the strength
  to face the hurts of life. (Mt
  1128-30)

84
The Deception of the High.

• (Matthew 1128-30 NKJV) Come to Me, all you who
  labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you
  rest. 29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from
  Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you
  will find rest for your souls. 30 For My yoke
  is easy and My burden is light.

85
The Deception of the High.

• The choices made in youth often become permanent.

86
The Deception of the High.

• Some take drugs as a short cut to responsibility.
  They must close their eyes to the fruit of their
  actions.

87
The Deception of the High.

• Drunkenness is temporary suicide the happiness
  that it brings is merely negative, a momentary
  cessation of unhappiness.

88
The Deception of the High.

• Dishonesty is a way of life for the addict.

89
The Deception of the High.

• Dishonesty is a way of life for the addict.
• They deny its danger.

90
The Deception of the High.

• They then deny the seriousness of their own
  situation. (Example I do not have a problem!

91
The Deception of the High.

• They then deny the seriousness of their own
  situation. (Example I do not have a problem!
• Lying becomes a way of life. The biggest lie they
  tell to themselves!

92
The Deception of the High.

• They then deny the seriousness of their own
  situation. (Example I do not have a problem!
• Lying becomes a way of life. The biggest lie they
  tell to themselves!
• In short they trust no one who will tell them the
  truth and help.

93
The Deception of the High.

• If alcoholism is a disease

94
The Deception of the High.

• If alcoholism is a disease
• It is the only disease that is bottled and sold

95
The Deception of the High.

• If alcoholism is a disease
• It is the only disease that is bottled and
  sold
• It is the only disease that is contracted by
  the will of man

96
The Deception of the High.

• If alcoholism is a disease
• It is the only disease that is bottled and
  sold
• It is the only disease that is contracted by
  the will of man
• It is the only disease that requires a license
  to propagate it

97
The Deception of the High.

• If alcoholism is a disease
• It is the only disease that is bottled and
  sold
• It is the only disease that is contracted by
  the will of man
• It is the only disease that requires a license
  to propagate it
• It is the only disease that requires outlets to
  spread it.

98
The Deception of the High.

• If alcoholism is a disease,

99
The Deception of the High.

• If alcoholism is a disease,
• It is the only disease that produces revenue
  for the government

100
The Deception of the High.

• If alcoholism is a disease,
• It is the only disease that produces revenue
  for the government
• It is the only disease that provokes crime

101
The Deception of the High.

• If alcoholism is a disease,
• It is the only disease that produces revenue
  for the government
• It is the only disease that provokes crime
• It is the only disease that is habit forming

102
The Deception of the High.

• If alcoholism is a disease,
• It is the only disease that produces revenue
  for the government
• It is the only disease that provokes crime
• It is the only disease that is habit forming
• It is the only disease that brings violent
  death on the highways

103
The Deception of the High.

• It is the only disease that is spread by
  advertising

104
The Deception of the High.

• It is the only disease that is spread by
  advertising
• It is the only disease without a germ or virus
  cause.

105
The Deception of the High.

• Friends and Associates go with drugs.

106
The Deception of the High.

• Friends and Associates go with drugs.
• One of the reason people start is to be with the
  in crowd.

107
The Deception of the High.

• Sadly, this becomes a major hurtle to quitting.
  Some never become Christians
  because they fear the ridicule of these friends.

108
The Deception of the High.

• Many are blind to the dog eat dog nature of
  these people. (Jn 1518-19 1620, 1 Jn 313)

109
The Deception of the High.

• (John 1518-19 NKJV) If the world hates you,
  you know that it hated Me before it hated you.
  19 If you were of the world, the world would
  love its own. Yet because you are not of the
  world, but I chose you out of the world,
  therefore the world hates you.

110
The Deception of the High.

• (John 1620 NKJV) Most assuredly, I say to you
  that you will weep and lament, but the world will
  rejoice and you will be sorrowful, but your
  sorrow will be turned into joy.

111
The Deception of the High.

• (1 John 313 NKJV) Do not marvel, my brethren,
  if the world hates you.

112
The Deception of the High.

• If you really cared for a friend in this kind of
  group, what would you do?

113
The Deception of the High.

• They deny its danger.

114
Overcoming Alcohol and Drugs

• Seek the truth at all costs. (John 832)

115
Overcoming Alcohol and Drugs

• John 832 (NKJV) - And you shall know the truth,
  and the truth shall make you free.

116
Overcoming Alcohol and Drugs

• Do not be intimidated by the consequences. (Mt
  1920-22)

117
Overcoming Alcohol and Drugs

• (Matthew 1920-22 NKJV) The young man said to
  Him, All these things I have kept from my youth.
  What do I still lack? 21 Jesus said to him,
  If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you
  have and give to the poor, and you will have
  treasure in heaven and come, follow Me. 22
  But when the young man heard that saying, he went
  away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.

118
Overcoming Alcohol and Drugs

• Build a faith in God that will stand. (1 John
  53-5 Rev 218)

119
Overcoming Alcohol and Drugs

• (1 John 53-5 NKJV) For this is the love of God,
  that we keep His commandments. And His
  commandments are not burdensome. 4 For whatever
  is born of God overcomes the world. And this is
  the victory that has overcome the world our
  faith. 5 Who is he who overcomes the world, but
  he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

120
Overcoming Alcohol and Drugs

• (Revelation 218 NKJV) But the cowardly,
  unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually
  immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars
  shall have their part in the lake which burns
  with fire and brimstone, which is the second
  death.

121
Overcoming Alcohol and Drugs

• Seek the help of spiritual men. (Gal 61-2)

122
Overcoming Alcohol and Drugs

• (Galatians 61-2 NKJV) Brethren, if a man is
  overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual
  restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness,
  considering yourself lest you also be tempted.
  2 Bear one anothers burdens, and so fulfill
  the law of Christ.

123
Overcoming Alcohol and Drugs

• Will you submit to God and put away the life of
  the world? (Titus 211-14)

124
Overcoming Alcohol and Drugs

• (Titus 211-14 NKJV) For the grace of God that
  brings salvation has appeared to all men, 12
  teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly
  lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and
  godly in the present age, 13 looking for the
  blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great
  God and Savior Jesus Christ,

125
Overcoming Alcohol and Drugs

• 14 who gave Himself for us, that He might
  redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for
  Himself His own special people, zealous for good
  works.

126
Overcoming Alcohol and Drugs

• I am the greatest criminal in history.

127
Overcoming Alcohol and Drugs

• I am the greatest criminal in history.
• I have killed more men than have fallen in all
  the wars of all the world.

128
Overcoming Alcohol and Drugs

• I am the greatest criminal in history.
• I have killed more men than have fallen in all
  the wars of all the world.
• I have turned men into brutes.

129
Overcoming Alcohol and Drugs

• I am the greatest criminal in history.
• I have killed more men than have fallen in all
  the wars of all the world.
• I have turned men into brutes.
• I have made millions of homes unhappy.

130
Overcoming Alcohol and Drugs

• I am the greatest criminal in history.
• I have killed more men than have fallen in all
  the wars of all the world.
• I have turned men into brutes.
• I have made millions of homes unhappy.
• I have changed many promising young men into
  hopeless parasites.

131
Overcoming Alcohol and Drugs

• I destroy the weak and weaken the strong.

132
Overcoming Alcohol and Drugs

• I destroy the weak and weaken the strong.
• I make the wise man a fool and I ensnare the
  innocent.

133
Overcoming Alcohol and Drugs

• I destroy the weak and weaken the strong.
• I make the wise man a fool and I ensnare the
  innocent.
• I have ruined millions and shall try to ruin
  millions more.

134
Overcoming Alcohol and Drugs

• I destroy the weak and weaken the strong.
• I make the wise man a fool and I ensnare the
  innocent.
• I have ruined millions and shall try to ruin
  millions more.
• I am alcohol.