Tobacco and Intoxicants

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Tobacco and Intoxicants

• ILLC 8th Grade Sunday School

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Tobacco and Intoxicants

• Main points
• Living faith leads to the righteousness of life
• The Bible exhorts us to sobriety
• The law forbids the use of tobacco by minors
• Christian freedom also means responsibility for
  behavior
• The use of tobacco and intoxicants is a
  temptation
• In order to become free of sin involving the use
  of tobacco and intoxicants one must put those
  sins away through confession and the preaching of
  the gospel

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Tobacco and Intoxicants

• Vocabulary
• Intoxicants drugs including alcohol with cause
  the loss of control over mental or physical
  powers including self-control and reason.
• Righteousness of life A manner of life which
  demonstrates values and behaviors based on the
  word of God
• Sobriety not intoxicated or drunk
• Spiritual Being serious about matters of faith.
  Believing that there is only flock of true
  believers here on earth
• As a way of life Freedom from the influence of
  drugs, alcohol

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Tobacco and Intoxicants

• Key verse Be sober, be vigilant because your
  adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh
  about, seeking whom he may devour 1Peter 58

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Tobacco and Intoxicants

• List the detrimental effects of
• Alcohol
• Drugs
• Tobacco

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Tobacco and Intoxicants

• Alcohol
• Its effect drunkenness
• Is a work of the flesh Gal. 519-21
• Is not fitting for one walking in the light
• Romans 1313,14
• 1 Peter 43
• Ephesians 518
• 1 Thessalonians 56-8

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Tobacco and Intoxicants

• Unconditional sobriety is a matter of conscience
  to the Christian
• A Christian avoids such company and such
  occasions where alcohol is used.
• If a Christian must be present at such an
  occasion where it is served, the child of God
  freely and directly refuses to partake.
• A child of God will not even raise a glass of
  juice or an empty glass Daniel 18 - 16
• Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of
  darkness, but rather reprove them Ephesians 511

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Tobacco and Intoxicants

• Alcoholism
• In our time it is understood as a illness or
  disease although it is clear to the Christians
  that one of the deepest reasons that lead to its
  use is sin which brings with it distress, fear
  and other difficulties which one attempts to
  relieve by using alcohol or drugs.

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Tobacco and Intoxicants

• Drugs
• Their main effect is on the mind
• They are comparable to alcohol, but they are
  worse because they quickly develop a dependency
  which can lead eventually to complete moral decay.

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Tobacco and Intoxicants

• Tobacco
• In Christianity, smoking as such is not
  considered sin, but to many young girls and boys,
  smoking has become a sin of falsehood and
  disobedience to parents
• 1 Samuel 1522, 23
• It is a bad habit which we should fight against
• It can lead to serious illness
• Evil communications corrupt good manners
  1 Corinthians 1533

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Tobacco and Intoxicants

• Summary
• That we would not be an offense
• That ye may be sincere and without offence till
  the day of Christ Phil. 110
• Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true,..
  honest, ..just, ..pure, ..lovely, ..of a good
  report if there be any virtue, and if there be
  any praise, think on these things Phil. 48

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Tobacco and Intoxicants

• In the light of this lesson we see that soberness
  is a matter of conscience.
• Whether we are at home, away in another
  congregation, at school anywhere we endeavor
  that we would please the Lord Jesus.
• Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or
  absent , we may be accepted of him 2 Corinthians
  59

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Tobacco and Intoxicants

• Application to our lives
• By faith God is our power and helper in our
  battle against temptations. Therefore believe all
  sins and temptations forgiven in Jesus name and
  blood.
• If you carry the burden of name sin on your
  conscience in the matter of tobacco or
  intoxicants or any sin remember that you can go
  to your mother or father or other brothers and
  sisters in faith to be freed of that burden
  through the preaching of the gospel and the
  confession of sin.