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Ephesians 5:18 Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.

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Romans 14:19 Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification.
Romans 14:20 Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a man to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble.
Romans 14:21 It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything else that will cause your brother to fall.

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Other Referenced Scriptures Within the Sermon...

Proverbs 20:1 Wine is a mocker and beer a brawler; whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

--- Proverbs 23:20 Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat,
Proverbs 23:21 for drunkards and gluttons become poor, and drowsiness clothes them in rags. --- Proverbs 23:29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?
Proverbs 23:30 Those who linger over wine, who go to sample bowls of mixed wine.
Proverbs 23:31 Do not gaze at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly!
Proverbs 23:32 In the end it bites like a snake and poisons like a viper.
Proverbs 23:33 Your eyes will see strange sights and your mind imagine confusing things.
Proverbs 23:34 You will be like one sleeping on the high seas, lying on top of the rigging.
Proverbs 23:35 "They hit me," you will say, "but I'm not hurt! They beat me, but I don't feel it! When will I wake up so I can find another drink?" --- Galatians 5:19 The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery;
Galatians 5:20 idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions
Galatians 5:21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God. --- Genesis 9 (complete chapter listed at bottom of page) --- Proverbs 31:4 "It is not for kings, O Lemuel-- not for kings to drink wine, not for rulers to crave beer,
Proverbs 31:5 lest they drink and forget what the law decrees, and deprive all the oppressed of their rights. --- Leviticus 10:9 "You and your sons are not to drink wine or other fermented drink whenever you go into the Tent of Meeting, or you will die. This is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come.
Leviticus 10:10 You must distinguish between the holy and the common, between the unclean and the clean, --- Numbers 6:2 "Speak to the Israelites and say to them: `If a man or woman wants to make a special vow, a vow of separation to the LORD as a Nazirite,
Numbers 6:3 he must abstain from wine and other fermented drink and must not drink vinegar made from wine or from other fermented drink. He must not drink grape juice or eat grapes or raisins. --- 1 Timothy 5:23 Stop drinking only water, and use a little wine because of your stomach and your frequent illnesses. --- Genesis 9:1 Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth.
Genesis 9:2 The fear and dread of you will fall upon all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air, upon every creature that moves along the ground, and upon all the fish of the sea; they are given into your hands.
Genesis 9:3 Everything that lives and moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.
Genesis 9:4 "But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it.
Genesis 9:5 And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. And from each man, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of his fellow man.
Genesis 9:6 "Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made man.
Genesis 9:7 As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and increase upon it."
Genesis 9:8 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him:
Genesis 9:9 "I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you
Genesis 9:10 and with every living creature that was with you--the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you--every living creature on earth.
Genesis 9:11 I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth."
Genesis 9:12 And God said, "This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come:
Genesis 9:13 I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.
Genesis 9:14 Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds,
Genesis 9:15 I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.
Genesis 9:16 Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth."
Genesis 9:17 So God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant I have established between me and all life on the earth."
Genesis 9:18 The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.)
Genesis 9:19 These were the three sons of Noah, and from them came the people who were scattered over the earth.
Genesis 9:20 Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded [1] to plant a vineyard.
Genesis 9:21 When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent.
Genesis 9:22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's nakedness and told his two brothers outside.
Genesis 9:23 But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders; then they walked in backward and covered their father's nakedness. Their faces were turned the other way so that they would not see their father's nakedness.
Genesis 9:24 When Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done to him,
Genesis 9:25 he said, "Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves will he be to his brothers."
Genesis 9:26 He also said, "Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the slave of Shem. [2]
Genesis 9:27 May God extend the territory of Japheth [3] ; may Japheth live in the tents of Shem, and may Canaan be his [4] slave."
Genesis 9:28 After the flood Noah lived 350 years.
Genesis 9:29 Altogether, Noah lived 950 years, and then he died.

   1.[20] Or soil, was the first
   2.[26] Or be his slave
   3.[27] Japheth sounds like the Hebrew for extend.
   4.[27] Or their

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