🌐 Drinking ⭕️ Flashcards
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1st Off
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Terms
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🌑 Alcohol has no nutritional value whatsoever 🌑
🌕 According to Betty Kovacs Harbolic (who possesses a Masters of Science and is a Registered Dietitian). Says that, “no one needs alcohol to live, so regardless of what we’ve heard or want to believe, alcohol is not essential in our diets. We consume it to relax, socialize and celebrate. The dangers of drinking in excess far outweigh any benefits.” 🌕
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2: The Word
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The Word Says …
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🔵 1 Peter 5:8 🔵
🔵 [8] BE SOBER, be vigilant; (Why) because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: 🔵
🔵 Drunkenness and inebriation stops you from being able to guard yourself from the devil. And he’s actually looking for you to give him an opportunity to devour you. It more about weakening yourself to spiritual things than it is about how much damage you’re doing to yourself physically. 🔵
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🔵 Sober literally translates from a word that means “to abstain from wine. “ 🔵
🔵 Ephesians 5:18 🔵
🔵 [18] And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; 🔵
🔵 Proverbs 20:1 🔵
🔵 [1] Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. 🔵
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3: Common Sense
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Common Sense says…
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⚫️ Point #1: Listen to your body ⚫️
⚫️ Hangovers are not natural. Its not like needing to stretch or being tired. It is a condition that beats up and deteriorates your body. It is the only sickness that we put ourselves into on purpose. Something is wrong here. Hangings = severe headache and other after effects from drinking alcohol. ⚫️
⚫️ Can’t you just tell in general? You’re body stops working correctly when you’re drinking. Even down to a simple function which you’ve been performing for decades - something as simple as walking is affected within 2 drinks. ⚫️
⚫️ Vomitting is your body telling you that you don’t want this. Drinking water at the same rate would not cause vomitting. Spending the night next to a toilet is not good. ⚫️
⚫️ Point #3: listen to your own common sense ⚫️
⚫️ If you are dizzy, staggering and not allowed to drive after even a small amount of drinking why would you desire to harm yourself more? Why disoriented yourself more? ⚫️
⚫️ Do you think it’s sane to try to lower your ability to reason? Do you think it’s sensible to purposefully try to inebriate yourself and disorient yourself? Do you think that it’s sensible to make your body take in a toxin to relieve stress? ⚫️
⚫️ If you drinking at work isn’t good for business why would it be good for personal or family business? ⚫️
⚫️ Drinking too much alcohol increases people’s risk of injuries, violence, drowning, liver disease, and some types of cancer. ⚫️
⚫️ Point #4: You don’t let kids do it. ⚫️
⚫️ The same reason that you wouldn’t let them do it is the same reason that you shouldn’t. ⚫️
⚫️ Hopefully you’re not thinking that it’s just because they’re still developing, then when they are done go ahead and train wreck their bodies. ⚫️
⚫️ Point #5: What about your own children? ⚫️
⚫️ Do you want to predispose your children to drinking? ⚫️
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5: Ministry
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My Testimony…
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🔴 Used to drink a lot. Drank for a long time from a young age. Dad passed away when I was 12. 🔴
🔴 Got older. Started to really think about things. Started to face drinking head on. Never blacked out before. One day I did. Do not like that as a martial artist nor as someone who doesn’t like to be exposed. Also, saw that it was making me wake up and feel waaaaaay worse than something else that is harmful like overeating. 🔴
🔴 It was too powerful in my life. Even at a basic level. So not in a way where I couldn’t think about anything but drinking. But where I felt like: “I need a drink.” Just feeling like I “needed” one instead of just “wanting one.” I didn’t like. Because no one “needs” alcohol. We “need” food and water and shelter and air. But not alcohol. So that feeling shows that when it’s in our lives it wants to sit in a higher seat and we just let it. 🔴
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6:: Common Objections
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🔘 God can’t move in this environment 🔘
🔘 The Holy Spirit can’t flow 🔘
🔘 It is plain not good for you overall (the average is a landslide) 🔘
🔘 I don’t like the way it feels. I don’t like not feeling like me 🔘
🔘 I don’t like feeling heavy. I don’t like feeling not at my best. I don’t like poisoning myself. I don’t like feelin not in control. 🔘
🔘 It helps me deal with my issues. 🔘
🔘 Adds health problems to the problems that you are already trying to get rid of 🔘
🔘 It’s a depressant so it actually disables you from thinking optimistically in the literal sense. It makes you abandon reason into optimism 🔘
🔘 No one thanks alcohol for helping them deal with issues. It helps you ignore the issues. Why not actually deal with the issues and get rid of them? There are other alternatives. (Exercise, meditation, counseling…) 🔘
🔘 It helps me relax 🔘
🔘 Why not choose something not harmful to help you deal with stress? Stress will always come to us. Just like fingernails will always grow, but I will not cut my fingers off to deal with my nails. There is a better way that will not hurt me. 🔘
🔘 It shows that you don’t feel comfortable in your own skin because you need help to relax and be your default self. 🔘
🔘🔘 Also shows you aren’t able to handle stress without drowning your body. 🔘🔘
🔘 It also reveals that you are dealing with something that has you not so relaxed. Let’s get rid of the things that turn you into drug use. See if there is another way to relax that isn’t so unhealthy. 🔘
🔘 I have worked with kids for years and generally they don’t need any help being free nor themselves. 🔘
🔘 Jesus turned water into wine. 🔘
🔘 First this is the only record that we have that He did anything like this. We don’t have record of Him doing this every weekend or when He was stressed out. Jesus was never stressed because He relied on God instead of Alcohol. 🔘
🔘 Secondly, Jesus doing something one time for a specific purpose does not license doing it for all times for all reasons. Jesus also made a weapon and beat people with it. Should we do that every weekend for any and all purposes? Jesus also spit on the ground and put it on people’s faces. Should we do that whenever we’re good and ready? 🔘
🔘 Thirdly, He resisted doing this. The reason that He complied was because it was a direct order of His mother. And the first commandment that has a promise attached to it is to “Honor thy father and thy mother.” 🔘
🔘 When you can turn water into wine I’m sure God will approve to the type of wine that you are drinking. 🔘
🔘 It didn’t say that He drunk any. 🔘
🔘 He actually advised against doing that. But was under the authority of His mother. Its like you asking for the midas touch. 🔘
🔘 You can always throw it up. 🔘
🔘 Pilgrims made many bad choices 🔘
🔘 Let’s get a clear picture here. They could choose: Poisoned drinking water which in all cases equals death…or fermented fruit juice. 🔘
🔘 That is more myth than anything in that it is somewhat inflated and projects a lot of misconceptions and false premises about alcoholism. Making a case for Alcoholics. 🔘
🔘 We’re talking about fermented fruit juice. Not schnapps, or margaritas. Remember that everyone was drinking this like water but there are no historical documents that reflect an intoxicated staggering drunk society. 🔘
🔘 Children were ingesting this as well. We don’t see evidence that the alcohol content or concentration was even close to what we have today. A 5 year old drinking even 1 beer today would be horrendous. Let alone as much as someone would drink water. 🔘
🔘 These are Christians as well. The Bible explicitly says in numerous places that being drunk and drinking solely for pleasure is not good. The Bible actually says that social drinking (different from custom drinking) is too powerful for people and deceives people. 🔘
🔘 Drinking for survival is a worlds difference from social drinking. Also the liquid that fermented from the fruit they had was not for the purpose of “let’s consume alcohol.” 🔘
🔘 People drink today for different reasons than then. It wasn’t to get intoxicated it was for survival. Remember the Pilgrims were Protestant Christians. They were escaping religious tyranny where alcoholism was abused if anything. This would be abhorring to them. 🔘
🔘 Walking around drunk, sloppy, and arrogant was not people’s idea of piety and righteous living. 🔘
🔘 Drinking for survival is a worlds difference from social drinking. Also the liquid that fermented from the fruit they had was not for the purpose of “let’s consume alcohol.” 🔘
🔘 If it becomes life or death for you then maybe the same idea would work for you. 🔘
