June 29, 2025 Let's Get Healthy Notes

Part 5 | Think Before You Drink – A Biblical Look at Alcohol

From Proverbs 23

1. goes to the regarding .

📖 Proverbs 23:19 ESV Hear, my son, and be wise, and direct your heart in the way.

A. is part of God’s .

📖 Psalm 104:14–15 ESV You cause the grass to grow for the livestock and plants for man to cultivate, that he may bring forth food from the earth 15 and wine to gladden the heart of man, oil to make his face shine, and bread to strengthen man’s heart.

📖 Deuteronomy 14:26 ESV spend the money for whatever you desire—oxen or sheep or wine or strong drink, whatever your appetite craves. And you shall eat there before the LORD your God and rejoice, you and your household.

B. Ancient World health .

📖 1 Timothy 5:23 ESV No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments.

C. wine is like wine.

God commends people to :
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When God calls someone to something , He expects them to stay .

D. God has on alcohol.

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📖 Galatians 5:21 ESV drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

2. .

📖 1 Peter 5:8 ESV Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls…

3. .

📖 Romans 14:21 ESV It is good not to… drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble.

2. sees the of .

📖 Proverbs 23:29-30 ESV Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes? 30 Those who tarry long over wine; those who go to try mixed wine.

The Physical Effects of Alcohol:

A. Alcohol the brain.

B. Alcohol your .

C. Alcohol the and weakens the .

D. Alcohol inhibits .

3. sees the of .

📖 Proverbs 23:31-32 ESV Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly. 32 In the end it bites like a serpent and stings like an adder.

📖 Proverbs 23:33-34 ESV Your eyes will see strange things, and your heart utter perverse things. 34 You will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea, like one who lies on the top of a mast.

4. sees the that alcohol .

📖 Proverbs 23:35 ESV “They struck me,” you will say, “but I was not hurt; they beat me, but I did not feel it. When shall I awake? I must have another drink.”