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Is Drunkenness All that the Bible Condemns
about Drinking Alcohol?

• Factors that Relate to the Drinking of Alcohol
• A Christians influence.
• Watchfulness.
• The sanctification of Christians.
• Factors regarding ancient drink.

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Is Drunkenness All that the Bible Condemns
about Drinking Alcohol?

• I. A Christian must avoid... (I Peter 41-3)
• A. Revelries
• 1. Other NT. usages (Gal 521 Rom 1313).
• 2. Komos (kÇmow) - a revel, carousal, i.e. in
  the Greek writers properly a nocturnal
  and riotous procession of half-drunken
  and frolicsome fellows who after
  supper parade through the streets with
  torches and music in honor of Bacchus
  i.e. the god of wine or some other deity
  (Thayer, p. 367).

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Is Drunkenness All that the Bible Condemns
about Drinking Alcohol?

• What Kind of Behavior Is This?
• Wild celebration.
• Wedding reception - champaign is served.
• The ball game - beers are passed around.
• Mardi Gras celebration - inhibitions down.
• Not total drunkenness - but it is wrong!

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Is Drunkenness All that the Bible Condemns
about Drinking Alcohol?

• I. A Christian must avoid... (I Peter 41-3)
• B. Drinking Parties.
• 1. I Peter 43 is the only instance in the
  New Testament.

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Is Drunkenness All that the Bible Condemns
about Drinking Alcohol?

• I. A Christian must avoid... (I Peter 41-3)
• B. Drinking Parties.
• 2. Greek OT - banquet Est 614, in Dan
  510 used (house of the) banquet, Est
  56 banquet of wine feasting or
  feast in Jer. 168 (house of) feasting Job
  14, 5 Est. 15,218 1 Kings 35 2 Sam.
  320 1 Sam. 2536 (w. drunkenness) Judges
  1410,12,17 Gen. 193 4020 (Pharaohs
  birthday). Drinking Est15-8 describes feast
  where drinking (uncustomarily) not compulsory.

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Is Drunkenness All that the Bible Condemns
about Drinking Alcohol?

• I. A Christian must avoid... (I Peter 41-3)
• B. Drinking Parties.
• 3. Potos (pñtow) a drinking or a carousing
  (Thayer, p. 533). Equivalent to the
  Symposium - a drinking party that goes on
  after a meal that can involve either a long
  period of compulsory drink leading to
  drunkenness and fornication or if it is
  agreed upon simply drinking and discussion.

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Is Drunkenness All that the Bible Condemns
about Drinking Alcohol?

• What Kind of Behavior Is This?
• After work cocktail with a boss or client.
• Backyard barbeque with a few friends.
• Drink with a meal to unwind.
• Not drunkenness - Holy Spirit says
  thats enough.
• Christians cant act that way!

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Is Drunkenness All that the Bible Condemns
about Drinking Alcohol?

• II. A Christian must be... (I Peter 41-3)
• A. Temperate.
• 1. Three instances in the NT - temperate
  I Tim. 32 (elders) I Tim. 311 (deacons
  wives) sober Titus 22 (older men).
• 2. Nephaleos (nhfleow, or -iow)- sober,
  temperate, abstaining from wine...
  (Thayer, p. 425). cf. Lev. 109,10
  I Peter 24-5 9-10.