23/06/2016
DONT DRINK BEER SAYS THE LORD.
75 BIBLICAL REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD NOT DRINK ALCOHOL
1) Genesis 9:20-26 - Noah became drunk; the result was immorality
and family trouble.
2) Genesis 19:30-38 - Lot was so drunk he did not know what he was
doing; this led to immorality
3) Leviticus 10:9-11 - God commanded priests not to drink so that
they could tell the difference between the holy and the unholy.
4) Numbers 6:3 - The Nazarites were told to eat or drink nothing from
the grape vine.
5) Deuteronomy 21:20 - A drunken son was stubborn and rebellious.
6) Deuteronomy 29:5-6 - God gave no grape juice to Israel nor did
they have intoxicating drink in the wilderness.
7) Deuteronomy 32:33 - Intoxicating wine is like the poison of
serpents, the cruel venom of asps.
8) Judges 13:4, 7, 14 - Samson was to be a Nazarite for life. His
mother was told not to drink wine or strong drink.
9) 1 Samuel 1:14-15 - Accused, Hannah said she drank no wine.
10) 1 Samuel 25:32-38 - Nabal died after a drunken spree.
11) 2 Samuel 11:13 - By getting Uriah drunk, David hoped to cover his
sin.
12) 2 Samuel 13:28-29 - Amnon was drunk when he was killed.
13) 1 Kings 16:8-10 - The king was drinking himself into drunkenness
when he was assassinated.
14) 1 Kings 20:12-21 - Ben-Hadad and 32 other kings were drinking
when they were attacked and defeated by the Israelites.
15) Esther 1:5-12 - The king gave each one all the drink he wanted.
The king was intoxicated when he commanded the queen to come.
16) Psalm 75:8 - The Lord’s anger is pictured as mixed wine poured
out and drunk by the wicked.
17) Proverbs 4:17 - Alcoholic drink is called the wine of violence.
18) Proverbs 20:1 - Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging.
19) Proverbs 23:19-20 - A wise person will not be among the drinkers
of alcoholic beverages.
20) Proverbs 23:21 - Drunkenness causes poverty.
21) Proverbs 23:29-30 - Drinking causes woe, sorrow, fighting,
babbling, wounds without cause and red eyes.
22) Proverbs 23:31 - God instructs not to look at intoxicating drinks.
23) Proverbs 23:32 - Alcoholic drinks bite like a serpent, sting like an
adder.
24) Proverbs 23:33 - Alcohol causes the drinker to have strange and
adulterous thoughts, produces willfulness, and prevents reformation.
25) Proverbs 23:34 - Alcohol makes the drinker unstable.
26) Proverbs 23:35 - Alcohol makes the drinker insensitive to pain so
he does not perceive it as a warning. Alcohol is habit forming.
27) Proverb 31:4-5 - Kings, Princes, and others who rule and judge
must not drink alcohol. Alcohol perverts good judgment.
28) Proverbs 31:6-7 - Strong drink could be given to those about to
perish or those in pain. Better anesthetics are available today.
29) Ecclesiastes 2:3 - The king tried everything, including intoxicating
drink, to see if it satisfied. It did not. (Ecclesiastes 12:8).
30) Ecclesiastes 10:17 - A land is blessed when its leaders do not
drink.
31) Isaiah 5:11-12 - Woe to those who get up early to drink and stay
up late at night to get drunk.
32) Isaiah 5:22 - Woe to "champion" drinkers and "experts" at mixing
drinks.
33) Isaiah 19:14 - Drunken men stagger in their vomit.
34) Isaiah 22:12-13 - The Israelites choose to drink; their future looks
hopeless to them.
35) Isaiah 24:9 - Drinkers cannot escape the consequences when God
judges.
36) Isaiah 28:1 - God pronounces woe on the drunkards of Ephraim.
37) Isaiah 28:3 - Proud drunkards shall be trodden down.
38) Isaiah 28:7 - Priests and prophets stagger and reel from beer and
wine, err in vision, and stumble in judgment.
39) Isaiah 28:8 - Drinkers’ tables are covered with vomit and filth.
40) Isaiah 56:9-12 - Drinkers seek their own gain and expect
tomorrow to be just like today.
41) Jeremiah 35:2-14 - The Rechabites drank no grape juice or
intoxicating wine and were blessed.
42) Ezekiel 44:21 - Again God instructed the priests not to drink wine.
43) Daniel 1:5-17 - Daniel refused the king’s intoxicating wine and
was blessed for it along with his abstaining friends.
44) Daniel 5:1 - Belshazzar, ruler of Babylon; led his people in
drinking.
45) Daniel 5:2-3 - The king, along with his nobles, wives, and
concubines, drank from the goblets which had been taken from God’s
temple.
46) Daniel 5:4 - Drinking wine was combined with praising false
gods.
47) Daniel 5:23 - God sent word to Belshazzar that punishment would
be swift for the evil he had committed.
48) Hosea 4:11 - Intoxicating wine takes away intelligence.
49) Hosea 7:5 - God reproves princes for drinking.
50) Joel 1:5 - Drunkards awake to see God’s judgment.
51) Joel 3:3 - The enemy is judged for selling girls for wine.
52) Amos 2:8 - Unrighteous acts of Israel included the drinking of
wine which had been taken for the payment of fines.
53) Amos 2:12 - Israel is condemned for forcing Nazarites to drink
wine.
54) Micah 2:11 - Israelites are eager to follow false teachers who
prophesy plenty of intoxicating drinks.
55) Nahum 1:10 - The drunkards of Nineveh will be destroyed by God.
56) Habakkuk 2:5 - A man is betrayed by wine.
57) Habakkuk 2:15 - Woe to him that gives his neighbor drink.
58) Habakkuk 2:16 - Drinking leads to shame.
59) Matthew 24:48-51 - A drinking servant is unprepared for his
Lord’s return.
60) Luke 1:15 - John the Baptist drank neither grape juice nor wine.
61) Luke 12:45 - Christ warned against drunkenness.
62) Luke 21:34 - Drunkenness will cause a person not to be ready for
the Lord’s return.
63) Romans 13:13 - Do not walk in drunkenness or immorality.
64) Romans 14:21 - Do not do anything that will hurt your testimony
as a believer.
65) 1 Corinthians 5:11 - If a Christian brother is a drinker, do not
associate with him.
66) 1 Corinthians 6:10 - Drunkards will not inherit the kingdom of
God.
67) Galatians 5:21 - Acts of the sinful nature, such as drunkenness,
will prohibit a person from inheriting the kingdom of God.
68) Ephesians 5:18 - In contrast to being drunk with wine, the believer
is to be filled with the Spirit.
69) 1 Thessalonians 5:6-7 - Christians are to be alert and self-
controlled, belonging to the day. Drunkards belong to the night and
darkness.
70) 1 Timothy 3:2-3 - Bishops (elders) are to be temperate, sober,
and not near any wine.
71) 1 Timothy 3:8 - Deacons are to be worthy of respect and not
drinkers.
72) 1 Timothy 3:11 - Deacons’ wives are to be temperate and sober.
73) Titus 1:7-8 - An overseer is to be disciplined.
74) Titus 2:2-3 - The older men and older women of the church are to
be temperate and not addicted to wine.
75) 1 Peter 4:3-4 - The past life of drunkenness and carousing has no
place in the Christian’s life.
NO DRUNKARD SHALL INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD 1 COR 6:10.
