PRO-VERBS 20:1 Wine Warning

Greetings Free People...Warning, Danger, LOOK OUT!

"Wine is a mocker...strong drink is a brawler...and whoever is led astray by it (the mocking wine and brawling strong drink) is not wise (aka...a fool)."

(Pro-Verbs 20:1 with Ruminator emphasis)

"Wine is a mocker...strong drink a riotous brawler, and whoever errs or reels because of it is not wise."

(Pro-Verbs 20:1 The Amplified Bible)

QUESTION:

"Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness and dimness of eyes?

(Pro-Verbs 23:29 The Amplified Bible)

ANSWER:

"Those who tarry long at wine, they who go to seek and try mixed wine. Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the wineglass, when it goes down smoothly. At the last it bites like a serpent and stings like an adder (poison snake). (Under the influence of wine) your eyes will behold strange things [and loose women], and your mind will utter things turned the wrong way, untrue, incorrect and petulant. Yes, you will be [as unsteady] as he who lies down in the midst of the sea, and [as open to disaster] as he who lies upon the top of a mast. You will say, they struck me, but I was not hurt! They beat me [as with a hammer], but I did not feel it! When shall I awake? I will crave and seek more wine again [and escape reality].

(Pro-Verbs 23:30-35 The Amplified Bible)


In a world filled with alcoholics...is it any wonder...the Bible is filled with warnings against excessive drinking?

NOTE: I do not believe that there is a prohibition against drinking...but there are enough warnings against the excessive imbibing we have have in this country.

Christians are not immune to this thing called alcohol. A cursory look at the deeds of the flesh...in Galatians 5:21 lists drunkenness and revelries. Sometimes...a Christian feels they have freedom to do certain things...thinking they will not reap the consequences.

"In [this] freedom Christ has made us free--completely liberated us; stand fast then, and do not be hampered and held ensnared and submit again to a yoke of slavery--which you have once put off."

(Galatians 5:1 The Amplified Bible)

"Everything is permissible for me--allowable and lawful...but NOT ALL THINGS ARE HELPFUL--GOOD FOR ME TO DO, expedient and profitable when you considered with other things. Everything is lawful for me, but I will not BECOME THE SLAVE OF ANYTHING...or brought under it's power."

(I Corinthians 5:12 The Amplified Bible)

There are just to many Christians who are SLAVES to the things/deeds OF THE FLESH and SIN.

"And do not get drunk with wine...wherein is excess/for that is debauchery...but ever be filled and stimulated with the (Holy) Spirit."

(Ephesians 5:18 The Amplified Bible)

r.l.b.