Every one celebrates alcohol these days. It is promoted every place we turn and heaven forbid you mention that you do not partake in this socially acceptable sin. The drastic uptick in alcohol consumption and the popularity of it has skyrocketed in the last few decades but there was a time, most of our grandparents can recall, when being a drunk was something that was seen as an embarrassment to your whole family. Much like everything else we see now being promoted in our culture today.

Alcohol has destroyed many more lives than can be counted, yet it is considered “cute”, “popular”, “adventurous”, “sexy”, and “fun” to be a stumbling drunk. Parents have ruined their children’s lives, children have ruined their parent’s lives, strangers have murdered strangers, and kinsfolk have murdered kinsfolk all in the name of this “fun”. I have seen countless people selfishly ask others to make sacrifices for them so that they can go out to party and get drunk. What a sad culture to embrace. We are warned to stay away from such people so that they do not tempt us to turn from God.

Here are some scriptures that I read in the Bible that changed my mind about alcohol and turned me against it cold turkey years ago as a young person bombarded with this push to be an alcoholic. Many will not hear what the Bible has to say because they are proudly strutting to hell and as Proverbs 23:9 states ” speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.” I pray if you are reading this that you will not be foolish but turn to God and change your evil ways. God calls to us to come out from wickedness, to accept Him, and “go and sin no more”. Never forget that Jesus came to heal the sin sick. No sin is too great for the mighty power of Christ’s blood if we just humble ourselves and give our lives to Him.

Proverbs 20:1 - Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. 


Proverbs 23:19-21 Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.  Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. 

Proverbs 23:29-35  Who hath woe?  Who hath sorrow? Who hath contentions?  Who hath wounds without cause?  Who hath redness of eyes? They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine. Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it giveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.  Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of the mast. They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again. 

Romans 13:13-14  Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof. 


Galatians 5:19-21  Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. 

Whoa! Did you read that last one? Drunkenness, and many other things we are now seeing promoted, are lumped into the same category as murder! To top that off it ends by saying that “they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.” Now, wait, I have heard drunks murmur that they are Christian, that they know God so how can they say that and still go to hell? I’m glad you asked. The rest of this chapter explains it for us.

Galatians 5:22-26  But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. And they that are  Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us walk in the Spirit. Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another. 

This is also brought to our attention first in Matthew chapter 7 by Jesus himself. (I will be doing a post on Matthew 7 by itself at a later date that will be meant to convict the lazy “Christians” who do not know their Bible. See, we all do wrong and must correct it before it gets out of control.) Anyways, what does this all mean? This, “many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord,…. and then I will profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.” Many people will profess with their mouth that they believe but in their hearts they are still dead in sin and they refuse to give themselves over to Jesus fully. Many wrongfully believe that they can “be decent people” or just “do nice things occasionally” and that will get them into heaven. Jesus tells us in John 14:6, Jesus saith unto him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” Jesus is the only way to heaven. We must die to sin and the flesh, like we saw in Galatians 5:24, and live and walk in the Spirit, as we saw in Galatians 5:25. This all points to your lifestyle as being how people know you belong to Jesus. If you live like Satan you have not turned your life and heart over to Jesus. Your lifestyle tells the true condition of your heart. The old adage “actions speak louder than words” will often catch you when you least expect.

P.S. It was brought to my attention when someone commented on the picture of the notes I am taking on a marriage series, the word of God does convict and if you do not agree with God that is between you and Him. P.p.s. Brandon, my husband, reads all of my posts and notes and compares them with the Bible for certainty. Joshua 24:14-15 Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve Him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the Lord. And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.