ALCOHOL
The alcoholic commits
suicide on the installment plan.
I’m tired of hearing sin
called sickness and alcoholism a disease.
It’s the only disease I know of that we’re spending hundreds of millions
of dollars a year to spread.
Let us not be deceived by
outward appearances. Satan "disguises
himself as an angel of light" (2 Cor. 11:14). He keeps his deadliest diseases most sanitary. He clothes his captains in religious
garments and houses his weapons in temples.
Legalism is a more dangerous disease than alcoholism because it doesn't
look like one. Alcoholism makes men
fail; legalism helps them succeed in the world. Alcoholism makes men depend on the bottle; legalism makes them
self-sufficient, depending on no one.
Alcoholism destroys moral resolve; legalism gives it strength. Alcoholics don't feel welcome in the church;
legalists love to hear their morality extolled in church.
Brothers, We Are Not Professionals, p. 155, Used by
Permission, www.DesiringGod.org.
I had rather be a sober
heathen than a drunken Christian.
A Puritan Golden Treasury, compiled by I.D.E. Thomas, by permission of Banner of Truth, Carlisle, PA. 2000, p. 82.
Drunkenness is the devil’s
back door to hell and everything that is hellish. For he that once gives away his brains to drink is ready to be
caught by Satan for anything.
46.64.
In respect to the
consumption of wine, both the Old and New Testaments nowhere prescribe total
abstinence. Only those bound by the
Nazirite vow (Num. 6:3-4) and a few others are told to abstain (Lev. 10:9; Jer.
35:6, 8, 14; Eze. 44:21). The
Scriptures, however, denounce the drunkard and warn him about the spiritual
consequences of his intemperance.
1 Corinthians, Baker, 1993, p. 170.
Whiskey and beer are all
right in their place, but their place is in hell.... The saloon is the sum of
all villainies. It is worse than war or
pestilence. It is the crime of crimes. It is parent of crimes and the mother of
sins. It is the appalling source of
misery and crime in the land and the principal cause of crime. It is the source of three-fourths of the
taxes to support that crime. And to
license such an incarnate fiend of hell is the dirtiest, low-down, damnable
business on top of this old earth.
Booze Sermon, www.Billysunday.org.