Proverbs 20:1,
“Wine is a mocker, strong drink is
raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is
not wise.”
There is no reason for anyone to consume alcoholic beverages. Anyone who says
that booze is good for their health is a fool. We are blessed to have many
over-the-counter prescription medications, as well as prescription drugs, to
help us with bodily ailments. No doctor would prescribe a medicine, with
instructions to take as much as you'd like, until you're puking your guts out
and having a hangover. There are so many unethical and obvious problems with
drinking alcoholic beverages.
One big problem with alcoholic drinks is that people don't know when to stop! How much is too much? People start drinking and can't stop. Country singer Blake Shelton openly admits this truth in his song: THE MORE I DRINK...
“Man, if I have one, I'll have thirteen... The more I drink...the more I drink. Yeah, the more I drink, the more I drink, the more I drink.”
SOURCE: Country artist Blake Shelton, lyrics from the song, “The More I Drink”
There you have it, the truth! The more that people consume booze, the more booze they consume. Or as one wise Country preacher said from the pulpit, “First you drink the beer, and then THE BEER DRINKS YOU!!!” Yes, that is very true. Booze has drank many men to their ruin and death.
I bothers me that organizations like M.A.D.D. (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) are in denial about the dangers of alcohol. Did you know alcohol is a narcotic drug by definition? Did you know that alcohol is a Schedule I drug, meaning that it is highly addictive, but has no medical use? It's true! Schedule II drugs, like Percocet, Vicodin and Oxycontin, are highly additive, but have medical uses. It is unbelievable that M.A.D.D, approves of the casual and social consumption of a Schedule I drug, a dangerous narcotic, for recreational use. Yet somehow these misled mothers foolishly think that youth can handle such a dangerous drink as alcohol, by randomly deciding when to stop at parties with their friends, a night out with the girls, or a night on the town with the guys. Consequently, the death toll keeps rising, because of the insanity of our American society. It's not enough to teach youth not to drink and drive. The message must be total abstinence from alcohol!!!
I was so heart-broken when I read about Jacqueline Saburido, who in 1999 was hit by a drunken 18-year-old. She was just a young woman herself. Her two friends died instantly. Jacqui was severely burned over 60% of her body, deformed for life. The details are horrifying, which you can read at her website. Jacqui is not alone in her suffering—thousands of people have been maimed, burned alive and murdered by drunk drivers! The thing that bothers me is the message that Jacqui's website promotes, which is to: “Don't drink and drive. Ever.” Unfortunately, it just doesn't work that way. That's like telling a hungry child to lick the icing, but don't bite into the donut! After all the horrible, inexplicable, painful, suffering that she has endured since 1999, I just don't understand her website's shallow message to youth. I say to all youth: DON'T DRINK ALCOHOL AT ALL... EVER! I'm not criticizing Jacqui, she's suffered so much, and my heart goes out to her. But for the sake of anyone reading my words, you are a fool if you drink beer. The Devil wants to steal, kill and destroy your life, family and testimony, and there's no faster way to do it than by consuming alcohol.
As long as America's youth are insanely taught that it's OK to party with alcoholic beverages, but just don't go too far... THE DEATHS WILL CONTINUE!!! Where there is alcohol, there will be drunk-drivers! Where there is alcohol, there will be sexual immorality and all manner of evil. Where there is alcohol, there will be barroom brawls. Where there is alcohol, there will be fools!!! DON'T DRINK A DROP OF BOOZE YOUNG PERSON. Make a covenant with your mouth that you will never drink a single drop of alcohol. Promise yourself that you will never know what it's like to have a painful, mind-splitting, hangover! Do it for yourself. Do it for your loved ones. Do it for your neighbors. DO IT FOR THE LORD JESUS CHRIST!!!
By God's grace, and because I had a strict father (even though he drank whiskey and beer), and because as a tween and teenager I attended an Independent Fundamental Baptist church, I've never drank one drop of alcohol. My father wouldn't allow me to hang around with the wrong crowd, peer teen drifters, who wanted to roam the city. My father said to me at 17-years-old, “You're my son, not a bum. I want to know where you are at all times. And I want to be able to call you on the phone and get a hold of you, wherever you're at!” That spoiled everything, but you know, it kept me out of a lot of trouble! My father used to say to me, “You can't get into trouble in your own back yard!” If I had been roaming the city of Chicago, aimlessly riding the trains with my buddies, I probably would have been assaulted by gang members, got into drugs and God only knows what else. I've never smoked a cigarette. I've never smoked pot. I've never snorted cocaine, nor injected heroine, nor taken LSD. I've never experienced a hangover. And you know what, I'm glad that I didn't.
Now, decades later, due to my continuous bodily pain and ailments, I've taken plenty of prescription drugs, but always per my doctor's specifications. I have never drank a drop of alcohol. I hate booze in all its forms. I despise bars and taverns. I'm not perfect, but I am glad that the Devil didn't get a hold of me as a youth, like he does many teenagers. ...
In August of 2015, in Lebanon, Indiana, a drunken 21-year-old youth died in a car crash when his vehicle swerved out-of-control and slammed into three parked cars. A 76-year-old woman was in critical condition, and another 78-year-old man was wounded.
In another tragic news story from Garland, Texas, in August 2015 a drunk-driving 15-year-old teenager boy was killed, and two other teens injured, when he crashed his vehicle into a street pole. I could mention hundreds more such incidents.
May I say, THESES ARE NOT ACCIDENTS. It is not an “accident” when someone CHOOSES to drink alcohol, any more than if you load a bullet into a gun and shoot someone. It is insane to tell our youth that it is OK to drink booze, just don't drive. Prey tell me, how can they refrain from driving if they cannot think in their right mind? If there are car keys in their possession, they WILL DRIVE. Every day, all across America, people go into bars and drink alcohol, and then get into their cars and drive. What hypocrisy it is to expect drivers to “guess” when they've had enough, having no idea what their Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) is.
In May of 1988 in Carrollton, Kentucky, a pickup truck driven by an intoxicated man crashed into a school bus carrying sixty-seven people. Twenty-seven children and teenagers were killed and thirty-four were injured. This bus crash is often dubbed as the worst drunk driving accident in United States history. You'll never hear about these types of stories from the ungodly beer cartel. Booze is a curse upon America!!! When will Americans learn? We live in a culture of denial, pretending that we can educate our youth without God's Holy Word to live moral lives. It cannot be done! We live in an insane society which thinks it can legislate morality, passing over one million laws in the U.S., trying to force people with a police state to do the right thing. ...
“We have not government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
SOURCE: U.S. President John Adams
To complicate matters, man's corrupt system of law legalizes perverse homosexual unions, murderous abortions, alcoholism, ruthless gambling casinos, thieving banks, shady advertising, government theft of taxpayer money, lying to children with evolution, lying politicians, Hollywood adultery and ungodly public nakedness. And then we question why our country is the cesspool of iniquity that it has become. Folks, it's not that hard to figure out. WE NEED TO PUT GOD'S HOLY WORD BACK INTO THE CLASSROOMS! Children have no moral compass anymore, because they have been deprived of God's Word. Consequently, today's Godless adults are as wicked as can be. Romans 3:18, “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
Having
said that, we all have a choice how we live. I have chosen never to drink a
single drop of alcohol, nor smoke a cigarette. Smoking cigarettes won't send
you to Hell, it'll just make you smell like you've been there. I knew a large
family in Chicago who used to ride our bus to church each Sunday. There were
several children. I'll never forget one year, on Christmas Eve, that their
uncle fell asleep with a lit cigarette on the coach, which ignited, and burned
their home to the ground. Cigarettes are a nasty, expensive and stupid bad
habit. I hate cigarettes! I thank God I've never smoked one.
Hollywood portrays beautiful young women with cigarettes in their mouth. They don't show you the wheelchair from a stroke that they suffered 30-years-later. Cigarettes will rob a woman of her natural beauty very quickly. Nothing will ruin your health faster than cigarettes. Cigarettes clog up your lungs and arteries, promoting a stoke. Do you want to end up in a wheelchair, paralyzed at age 55? If so, smoke cigarettes. By the way, if you smoke, the cigarettes do the smoking, you're just the sucker! It is a sin to smoke, because you are defiling the temple of God (1st Corinthians 3:16-17). If it's a sin to commit suicide, then it's a sin to do it slowly with tobacco. If God had intended humans to smoke tobacco, then He would have put a chimney up on top of our head.
And even worse is alcohol, which will ruin your life and that of others. Alcohol has destroyed countless marriages, homes and families. Many-a-drunk have mercilessly beat their wives to death, murdering their own children, and sobering up without a memory of doing any of it. You are a fool if you surrender your mind and will to alcohol. Even consuming small amounts of alcohol dulls the human brain, incapacitating one's ability to soundly reason. God's children ought not partake of such wickedness. I want to always be in full-control of my own mind and behavior, not some liquid devil in a bottle.
Furthermore, beer is the most dangerous form of alcoholic beverage, because it is the least suspected culprit. People who would never drink Jack Daniels or Smirnoff hard liquor will guzzle down a few beers of Bud Light or Miller. A few draft beers may kill you! A six-pack of Michelob may ruin the rest of your life. One drink of beer is all it takes! Most people who are involved in alcohol-related fatalities on the roadway are within the legal limit of .08 BAC. Most companies will terminate an employee if they test at .01 BAC. Yet, hypocritically, America's ungodly and greedy legislators, judges and attorneys make sure that this law doesn't change, because of the love of money (1st Timothy 6:10). When people drink and drive, it generates hundreds-of-billions-of-dollars for the crooks in the legal system. Literally, they want people to get into trouble, so people will have to hire a lawyer, and end up being bilked financially by the system. If you ever get into trouble with the law, the first question you'll be asked in jail is how much your home is worth, and how much money do you have in the bank and savings, and the size of your retirement—because they're going to rape you financially!
By setting the alcohol limit at .08 BAC, it gives the false impression to booze drinkers that they have some leeway before they can get into trouble. Consequently, they drink far more alcohol than they should, and accidents happen, generating money for the police, attorneys, judges, court workers, prosecutors, counselors and everyone involved. Crime pays for everyone except the criminal! If the limit were set to .01 BAC, most people would STOP DRINKING (and the criminal booze cartel and dishonest judges don't want that!). If you want to discover THE TRUTH in nearly any matter, just FOLLOW THE MONEY!!! More accidents, more carnage, more deaths, more drunk-drivers and more chaos caused by alcohol MEANS MORE MONEY FOR EVERYONE INVOLVED WITH THE CORRUPT LEGAL SYSTEM!!! Literally, and the facts speak for them self, the greedy monsters behind the .08 BAC want people to drink alcohol and get into trouble!!! The big question is: Are you dumb enough to play their game, and make them rich, at your expense?
There's absolutely no reason not to change the legal limit to .01 BAC. If a company doesn't want an employee whose drinking booze, then why does the government allow them onto the roadway? America's streets and highways are filled with intoxicated individuals, who are within the legally allowed .08 BAC, but have diminished driving skills and perception. Whereas no respectable company would ever allow an employee with .05 BAC to operate a forklift or powered piece of heavy equipment, the states are OK with them operating a 4,000 pound motor vehicle on the roadways.
The biggest problem is the constant
promotion of alcoholic beverages by the beer companies to society. The NFL,
NBA, NHL and all major sporting events are totally saturated with beer
commercials. Children see all this. Hollywood and television movies are
saturated with beer drinking. Nearly every restaurant that you go into serves
alcohol. Youth are expected to drink beer to fit-in socially with friends. The
fact is that recreational drinking is no different than an Oxycontin
pill-popping party. Alcohol is a narcotic drug! Peer pressure can be deadly.
To make matters much worse, fools like Country singer Toby Keith, who admittedly calls himself “White Trash With Money” (the name of his album), praises drunkenness in his hit song, “Get Drunk And be Somebody.” What an ungodly man!!! John the Baptist never drank alcohol. Jesus never drank strong drink (which is what all distillery-produced alcohol is). In th Bible, naturally fermented wine was so weak that the only way you could get drunk is to, “tarry long at the wine” (Proverb 23:30). In the Roman empire, even children drank natural wine, because you couldn't get drunk from drinking a few glasses of it. In sharp contrast, today's distillery-processed alcoholic beverages can make you drunk from just ONE DRINK! It depends on your body weight, diet, medications and other factors.
So “wine” in a Biblical sense is not to be compared to today's distillery-produced alcoholic drinks. Jesus did not turn the water into intoxicating wine at the marriage feast (His first miracle), lest He be responsible for people getting drunk. “Wine” in the Holy Bible has over a dozen different meanings, which includes natural fruit juice. Only a beer-loving-fool would dare claim that Jesus was a beer-loving-Savior. Proverbs 20:1 teaches that “WINE IS A MOCKER.” The Lord was no fool. Young people, run from alcohol. If your friends make fun of you or scoff at you for not drinking alcohol, you don't need bad influences like that in your life. You will not become what you decide to be in 5-years, you will become what you decide to be around. Don't have friends that drink booze!!! Don't be a fool's fool. Alcohol is dangerous stuff. It is a drug!
I could list several dozen famous celebrities, who've tarnished their names because of DUI arrests and drunken incidents, but I don't want to name them. Search the internet for “celebrity drunks” and you'll be shocked! These are the role models for today's youth. Toby Keith boasts of the sin of drunkenness, and he needs to be exposed for the false prophet that he is. You'll become dead, not a somebody, by consuming booze!!! Don't ever drink beer young people! Remember, you can't take two drinks if you don't take the first! Amen! Alcohol often leads to tragedy. Drunkard Country singer, Mel Street, shot himself to death. Bass player for The Band, Rick Danko, drank himself to death. Tragically, 10-years later his son drank himself to death too.
You may drink booze for years without incident, but then that one day it happens... you murder somebody with your car while drunk, or have your reputation ruined by a drunk-driving arrest, or end up in divorce court for shooting off your gun in the kitchen and terrorizing your family (like Country singer Faron Young did while drunk). Ten years later Mr. Young blew his brains out with a gun. One of Faron Young's hit songs was titled, “Wine Me Up.” Sin always thrills and then it kills. Sin always fascinates and then it assassinates! Sin always costs you more than you wanted to pay, takes you farther than you intended to go, and keeps you longer than you planned to stay!!! Listen to me young person, I am being your friend. I care about you in the Lord. God loves you and wants the best for you. The Devil wants to steal, kill and destroy you (John 10:10). Don't you ever drink one drop of alcohol!!!
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