1. What’s Wrong What’s Wrong with Alcohol Rev. Robert J. Smith Pastor Colonial Hills Baptist Church

2. Proverbs 20:1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. Proverbs 20:1 (KJV)

3. De*cep*tion The act of making someone believe something that’s not true.

4. De*cep*tion 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. 2 Timothy 4:3-4 (KJV)

5. De*cep*tion 10 For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision: 11 Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake. Titus 1:10-11 (KJV)

6. De*cep*tion Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Isaiah 5:20 (KJV)

7. What’s Wrong with Alcohol? Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities. 1 Timothy 5:23 (KJV)

8. Fact #1 – Alcohol Brings Contempt And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. Genesis 9:21 (KJV)

9. Fact #1 – Alcohol Brings Contempt And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. Genesis 19:33 (KJV)

10. Fact #1 – Alcohol Brings Contempt And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play…and when Moses saw that the people were naked; (for Aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies:) Exodus 32:6,25 (KJV)

11. Fact #2 – Alcohol brings Problems 29 Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? 30 They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine. Proverbs 23:29-30 (KJV)

12. Fact #2 – Alcohol brings Problems Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them! Isaiah 5:11 (KJV)

13. Fact #2 – Alcohol brings Problems Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink: Isaiah 5:22 (KJV)

14. Fact #2 – Alcohol brings Problems Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness! Habakkuk 2:15 (KJV)

15. Fact #3 – Alcohol Brings Foolishness 4 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink: 5 Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted. Proverbs 31:4-5 (KJV)

16. Fact #3 – Alcohol Brings Foolishness Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court. Ezekiel 44:21 (KJV)

17. Fact #3 – Alcohol Brings Foolishness Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations: Leviticus 10:9 (KJV)

18. Fact #3 – Alcohol Brings Foolishness But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: 1 Peter 2:9 (KJV)

19. De*cep*tion There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. Proverbs 14:12 (KJV)

20. De*cep*tion Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Galatians 5:1 (KJV)

21. De*cep*tion As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God. 1 Peter 2:16 (KJV)

22. De*cep*tion It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak. Romans 14:21 (KJV)

23. De*cep*tion And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him. Matthew 3:15 (KJV)