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Intro
We are starting our discussion back up tonight!
Let’s talk about drugs and alcohol.
First, Alcohol.
Is drinking alcohol evil or bad?
What about “drugs”?
Is smoking a little weed bad or evil?
Do you think it’s okay to smoke or drink a little?
POLL
Sticky Pad (Yes vs. No)
Know someone who smokes something
Know someone who deals something
Know someone who drinks
Blue Sheets of Paper (Yes or No)
I’ve tried alcohol
I’ve tried weed
I’ve tried something else
So, there are people on both sides...
Do you believe that it’s okay to drink or even try a little drugs here in there?
Can you back up your beliefs Biblically?
Back it Up
You know I like asking why do you believe what you believe.... So...
What do you think the Bible has to say about all this?
Do you think Scripture says anything about alcohol or drugs being bad?
Or, maybe saying the opposite?
Show me where...
The Scripture For Alcohol
Psalm 104:
Truth Behind Alcohol
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The Scripture For Drugs
Genesis 1:
Notes on
6th day of creation
everything is perfect
What God creates he preserves.
What he brings into being he provides for.
Man is to have as his food the seed and fruit of plants.
Animals and birds are to have the leaves.
(The latter point accords with the description of the eschatological age when “the lion shall eat straw like the ox,” Isa.
11:7; 65:25.)
At no point is anything (human beings, animals, birds) allowed to take the life of another living being and consume it for food.
The dominion assigned to the human couple over the animal world does not include the prerogative to butcher.
Instead, humankind survives on a vegetarian diet.
What is strange, and probably unexplainable (from a scientific position), is the fact that the animals too are not carnivores but also vegetarians.
The text of Gen. 1 does not state whether human beings and animals had the wherewithal to take the life of another living being, or whether they possessed such strength but held it in check.
Ezekiel
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There is famine
God is reminding his people of the blessings in the old covenant
In place of famine, plague, drought, and the sword, they will see a new level of peace and prosperity so that they will no longer bear the reproach of the nations (Ezek.
34:29).
Then indeed they will know that the Lord their God is with them—for blessing and not for curse—and that they are his people.
They will be his sheep and he will be their God, the harmonious relationship celebrated in Psalm 100:3.
rev.22:
Notes on
This is in Heaven… not Earth
This is of the future not the present
There is a lot of Imagery
The crystal river is bordered on either side by the tree of life, which bears fruit continually throughout the year and whose leaves bring healing to the nations.
The exact placement of river, street, and trees is less than clear.
If the initial phrase (“down the middle of the great street”) goes with the preceding verse, then the river would flow down the center of a wide avenue.
If it is taken with what follows, then the street and river probably run side by side, with the trees in between.
Other possibilities have been suggested,6 but the specific geographical layout is of no particular importance in understanding the symbolism of the verse.
The imagery has a double source.
In the early chapters of Genesis we read that if Adam had eaten of the tree of life he would have received immortality (Gen 2:9; 3:22).
In Ezekiel there is the picture of healing water flowing from the temple to form a river along whose banks are trees that bring forth new fruit each month and whose leaves are for healing (Ezek 47:12).
The tree of life was a regular feature in Jewish portrayals of Paradise (cf. 2 Esdr 8:52; 2 Enoch 8:3–4).
To eat of its fruit would be to live forever.
In John’s vision the tree “produced twelve kinds of fruit, yielding a fresh crop month by month” (Weymouth).
Both the abundance and the variety of fruit are being emphasized.
God’s provision is ever new and always more than adequate.
Not only does the tree provide fruit to be eaten, but its leaves are therapeutic and bring about healing.
But why would healing be required in the eternal city?
Here we find evocative language of the most potent kind.
In the restored Eden all has been reversed: eating of one tree brought the curse—eating of this tree eternal life.
Although John speaks of “the healing of the nations,” we are not to infer that nations will continue to exist outside the New Jerusalem.
As in 21:24ff., imagery borrowed from the present state of affairs is carried over into the description of the eternal state.
The glory of the age to come is necessarily portrayed by means of imagery belonging to the present age.
The healing leaves indicate the complete absence of physical and spiritual want.
The life to come will be a life of abundance and perfection.
SO is it wrong for me to drink or smoke a little weed?
After going through the Scripture, what do you think?
Now, to conclude we know the following:
Jesus drank wine… wine has alcohol
God created all plants… and commanded us to only eat plants
So, to answer the questions: I believe there are 3 requirements found in Scripture to drink and smoke whatever you want:
1.
We must have Self-control
timothy
It is God’s will for us to have Self-control!
2. We must bend to the authority placed over us
3. We must glorify God in all that we do
Conclusion
You can smoke whatever you want and drink whatever you want… as long as you:
Are in control of every thought and every action
Follow the laws of the authority over you
This includes parents and Government
Glorify God in every decision and action you take
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