The Sin of Drinking

Does the Bible only say it’s wrong to get drunk—that it’s not wrong to drink? Many say this. In fact, the idea that “It’s okay to drink in moderation” is almost gospel to some Christians.

In this episode, we will address this burning issue of our time. We will look at the question: Does the word ‘wine’ in the Bible always mean alcoholic wine? And, we will examine the famous story of Jesus turning the water into wine.

Read about this subject

• Scriptures: Proverbs 23:29-35; Habakkuk 2:15; I Peter 4:3; Isaiah 16:10; 65:8
• Chapter 11, “Alcohol” in Pillars of the Faith

Listen to more on this subject

• I Peter Bible Commentary

Episode Transcript

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Hi, I’m Kerry Duke, host of My Godand My Neighbor podcast from Tennessee
Bible College, where we see the Bibleas not just another book, but the Book.
Join us in a study of the inspiredWord to strengthen your faith and to
share what you've learned with others.
One of the worst evils the world has everknown is drinking alcoholic beverages.

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If you start in the book ofGenesis and read through the book
of Revelation, you’ll see alcoholassociated with all kinds of misery.
Noah was a just man, but he made themistake of experimenting with alcohol
in Genesis chapter 9 and exposedhimself to the shame of his family.
In Genesis 19, the two daughtersof Lot used alcohol to conceive

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by their own father and broughtgeneration after generation of
wicked people into this world.
In Leviticus chapter ten God sentfire from heaven to consume two
priests named Nadab and Abihu whohad evidently been drinking before
they came into the holy place.
In first kings chapter 20, the Bible saysthe wicked king of Syria named Benhadad

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was “drinking himself drunk” while hisarmy attacked the people of Israel.
In the time of Isaiah the prophet,drinking was a big problem in Israel.
In Isaiah five verse 11, God said, “Woeunto them that rise up early in the
morning, that they may follow strongdrink; that continue until night,
till wine inflame them!” In Isaiahchapter 28 verse 1 he said “Woe to…the

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drunkards of Ephraim.” Then he saidthe religious leaders—the prophets and
the priests—were given to drinking.
In verse seven he said, “But they alsohave erred through wine, And through
intoxicating drink are out of the way;The priest and the prophet have erred
through intoxicating drink, They areswallowed up by wine, They are out of

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the way through intoxicating drink; Theyerr in vision, they stumble in judgment.”
Micah the prophet said the people lovedpreachers who told them they could drink.
In Micah chapter 2 verse 11 he said, “Ifa man should walk in a false spirit And
speak a lie, saying, 'I will prophesy toyou of wine and drink,' Even he would be

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the prattler of this people.” The Jewishpeople wanted to drink and they found
preachers who told them that was alright.
In the New Testament the Biblewarns about drinking many times.
Paul told the church at Corinth “notto keep company with anyone named a
brother, who is sexually immoral, orcovetous, or an idolater, or a reviler,

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or a drunkard, or an extortioner—noteven to eat with such a person”
[First Corinthians 5 verse 11].
Is it that serious?
Yes!
In the next chapter, he said thatdrunkards will not inherit the kingdom
of God [First Corinthians 6 verse 10].
In Galatians 5:19-21, he said,“Now the works of the flesh are

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adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness,
idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions,jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish
ambitions, dissensions, heresies,envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries,
and the like; of which I tell youbeforehand, just as I also told you in

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time past, that those who practice suchthings will not inherit the kingdom of
God.” Paul said people who live thiskind of life—one of which is being
a drunkard—will not go to heaven!
And after he ended this long list ofsins that keep one out of heaven, he
added “and the like”—in other words,other things that are like these

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that he didn’t specifically mention.
Alcohol is the oldest drug known tomankind and is, to this day, the most
popular and available drug in the world.
And, it has brought more sufferingto the human race than we can fathom.
Think of all the hurt caused by drinking.
I don't have to explainthis to some of you.
You know what it does.

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You grew up in a home with aalcoholic father or mother that
was unpredictable and mean.
Or, you may have been marriedto someone who like to drink.
Or, you may have drunk alcoholand you know what it does.
It numbs your mind and letsyou laugh until it wears off.
You know what Solomon means when hesays “At the last it bites like an
serpent and stings like an adder.”

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Alcohol wrecks homes.
It destroys families.
It robs children of a good home.
Alcohol has brought adversity tomillions of homes for thousands of years.
And right now families all over theworld are suffering because of it.
And what about the harm alcoholdoes to a person’s body?

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There’s no doubt about this.
Drinking alcohol contributesto everything from diabetes to
cancer to cirrhosis of the liver.
At this time, the cost of alcohol-relatedhealth issues is estimated be two
hundred fifty billion dollars a year.
That’s a quarter of a trillion dollars!
That includes everything fromhealth care to loss of work.

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And that’s only in the United Staes!
And then there’s psychologicalharm alcohol causes.
Alcohol is habit forming.
Some of you know that from experienceor because you have a friend or
family member who is addicted.
Once alcohol gets a hold on a person,it controls his life or her life.
It’s what they think about.

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It’s what they crave.
It’s what they spend theirmoney and their time on.
Alcohol is literally at the centerof their life like a god they serve.
Are preachers preaching against this?
Are you hearing preachersspeak out against it?
When they do, are they preaching strongagainst it and telling people it's a
sin that will keep you out of heaven?

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The truth is, America is becomingmore and more a drinking nation.
And the tragedy is, a lot of churchesare going along with it, or, they
won't make a stand against it.
More and more, preachers are pushingthe idea that it's okay to drink
as long as you don't get drunk.
They promote the idea of “social” drinkingor drinking in “moderation.” Is this true?

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Is it okay to have a beeror two or a glass of wine as
long as you don’t get drunk?
Here are some Bible reasonswhy it’s wrong to drink.
It’s not wise.
In Proverbs 20:1 Solomon warned that“Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a

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and whoever is lead astray by it is not wise.” Drinking causes a person to
mock—to mouth off and be disrespectful.
It causes raging or brawling—that is,alcohol causes arguments and fights.
Why would anyone haveanything to do with it?
Like Solomon said, it’s just not wise.
In other words, it’s foolish.

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The Bible specifically says tostay away from the first drink.
In Proverbs 23, Solomongives a more stern warning.
In verse 29 he said, “Who has woe?
Who has sorrow?
Who has contentions?
Who has complaints?
Who has wounds without cause?
Who has redness of eyes?” What kindof person has all these problems?

The answer is in the next verse (07:28):
“Those who linger long at the wine, those who
go in search of mixed wine.” Solomonthen said if you don’t want that kind of
heartache and pain, then don’t go downthat road. In verse 31 and 32 he said, “Do
not look on the wine when it is red, whenit sparkles in the cup, when it swirls

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around smoothly; at the last it biteslike a serpent, and stings like a viper.”
Solomon didn’t minceany words about alcohol.
HE SAID TO STAY AWAY FROM IT.
He said, “Your eyes will see strangethings, and your heart will utter perverse
things.” That means you’ll say thingsyou’ll wish you hadn’t; you’ll say things
you wouldn’t say if you were sober.

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Then he says you’ll not only losecontrol of your head and your tongue,
but you’ll lose control of your body.
He said, “Yes, you will be like one wholies down in the midst of the sea, or
like one who lies at the top of the mast.”When you’re in a boat, the waves move the
boat back and forth no matter how big orsmall it is. That’s what he means when he
says being drunk is like lying down in themidst of the sea or at the top of the tall

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beams that hold the sails of a great ship.
They sway back and forth.
A dizzy-headed drunk is just like that.
And perhaps worst of all is the factthat many times a drunk never learns.
Here’s the drunk man talking in verse35: “They have struck me, but I was
not hurt; They have beaten me, but Idid not feel it. When shall I awake,

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that I may seek another drink?”He knows the bottle is ruining his
life, but he goes right back to it.
Alcohol is habit forming.
Alcohol is addictive.
But verse 31 says not to “look upon” thewine in the cup. He didn’t say a six-pack
of a whole bottle of wine or whiskey.

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He said stay away froma single cup of alcohol.
He says don’t even “look upon” it.That doesn’t mean simply to see.
It means to look upon with favor,with approval, with interest.
In Habakkuk 1:13 the prophet said Godcannot “behold evil,” that is, God cannot
look at evil with approval or favor.

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Since Solomon said we are not to lookat wine with approval or interest,
then how can anyone say it is rightto take that cup and drink it?
Again we hear the objection,“You’re taking that out of context.
Read the verses after this.
He’s talking about drunkenness.”Solomon does talk about
drunkenness in this chapter.

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But just because Solomon talksabout getting drunk doesn’t mean
that it’s alright to drink less.
When he says not to look on the wine,he’s saying not to start down that road.
He warns where it can lead.
But even if it doesn’t end indrunkenness, it is still wrong.
Consider the sin of lust in Proverbs 6.
Solomon warns against beingseduced by evil women.

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He said,“Do not lust after herbeauty in your heart” in verse 25.
Then in the next ten verses hedescribes what happens when a man
commits adultery with a woman.
He will pay for his sin.
Here is the point.
It’s not wrong for a man tolust after a woman only if he
then commits adultery with her.
That lust is wrong even if henever commits adultery with her.

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This is what Jesus talked about inMatthew 5:28: “whoever looks at a woman
to lust for her has already committedadultery with her in his heart.” That
“lust” in is not a mere physical desire.
It’s a longing a person chooses to feeltoward a woman he has no right to be with.
Acting on that lust bycommitting just makes it worse.

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The parallel is this.
If lust for a woman in Proverbs 6 iswrong even if a man doesn’t commit
adultery with her, then taking thefirst drink in Proverbs 23 is wrong
even if a person doesn’t get drunk.
One of the greatest men in theBible refused to drink, even
when the king expected him to.
Daniel was a Jewish young manwho was taken captive to Babylon.

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The king chose him and othercaptives to be his special servants.
So, he sent Daniel and theother young men special food.
But what the king wanted them to eatand drink was against Jewish law.
The law of Moses, the law of God,told the Jews not to do this.
Daniel knew that he might makethe king mad if he refused to eat.

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But he refused anyway.
Here is what the Bible says abouthis courage: “But Daniel purposed in
his heart that he would not defilehimself with the portion of the king's
delicacies, nor with the wine which hedrank; therefore he requested of the
chief of the eunuchs that he might notdefile himself” [Daniel 1:8]. Daniel

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wouldn’t eat that food or drink thatwine because that would have been wrong.
What about today?
At this time of the year, someChristians work for bosses who
have a party and expect them to bethere and pressure them to drink.
Daniel was pressured.
In fact, he could havelost more than his job.
He could have lost his life.

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But he would not compromise.
There are a lot of thingsmore important than a job.
The Bible says it isnot just wrong to drink.
It is wrong to give a drink to someone.
The prophet said in Habakkuk 2 verse15, “Woe to him who gives drink to
his neighbor, pressing him to yourbottle, even to make him drunk,

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that you may look on his nakedness!”
Jesus said it's wrong “to eat and drinkwith the drunkards” in Matthew 24:49.
He said that as He was talkingabout His second coming.
He said it will be like themaster of the house coming back
to check up on his servants.
He said if one of those servants tellshimself that his Lord is not coming
anytime soon, and he begins to “beathis fellow servants, and to eat and

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drink with the drunkard, the masterof that servant will come on a day
when he's not looking for him, and atan hour that he is not aware of, and
will cut him in two and appoint himhis portion with the hypocrites. There
will be weeping and gnashing of teeth”[Matthew 24 verses 49 through 51].
He didn’t say that servant was drunk.

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He said he was eating anddrinking with drunkards.
What does that say about about goingto a Christmas party today where
you know there will be drinking?
Families and placeswhere you work have them.
What does Jesus say in this verse?
He said not to eat anddrink with the drunken!
The Bible does say it is wrong to drink,not just that it's wrong to get drunk.

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First Peter chapter 4 verse 3 says, ““Forthe time past of our life may suffice us
to have wrought the will of the Gentiles,when we walked in lasciviousness,
lusts, excess of wine, revellings,banquetings, and abominable idolatries.”
That’s the King James Version.
There are three words in thisverse that relate to drinking.

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The first is “excess of wine” or“drunkenness” in many translations.
That word stresses the amount of alcoholconsumed and the effects that follow.
The second word is “reveling” orcarousings. This word stresses what

people do when they drink (14:36):
they party and carry on and make fools of themselves.
The third word is “banquetings.” TheGreek word literally means drinkings.
Some translations say "drinkingparties" or “drinking bouts,” but those
translations leave the impression thatthose get-togethers were always about
getting drunk, and that's not true.
The Greek word means drinkings.

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That would include drunkenness, butit would also include, as people
say today, having one or two.
The specific word in this versefor drunkenness is the first word.
The word “banquetings” is a generalword for drinkings—different kinds
of drinkings, like social drinking,toasting, or getting intoxicated.
This is a clear verse in theBible that condemns drinking.

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But many people say, “Didn’t Jesusturned water into wine? If drinking
is wrong, why would Jesus make winefor people to drink?” The answer to
this question is in the word wine.
Did you know that the word winein the Bible is a general word?
It can mean alcoholic wine.
It can mean simple grapejuice or nonalcoholic wine.

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The word wine in theBible is a generic word.
I realize that most peopletoday don't use it that way.
But that's today.
That's English.
When Christian I was talking towas trying to defend drinking.
He asked me, "If you went to a liquorstore and asked for a bottle of wine,
what would they give you? Grape juice?”I told him I was talking about how

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the Bible uses this word, not howthe owner of a liquor store uses it.
Let's look at just a few versesin the Bible where the word
wine cannot mean alcoholic wine.
It must mean unfermented grape juice.
In Genesis 49 verse 11 the Biblesays, “He washed his garments in
wine, and his clothes in the bloodof grapes.” “Wine” and “the blood of

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grapes” are synonymous; thus, thiswine was what came out of freshly
squeezed grapes—their juice or “blood.”
Isaiah 16 verse 10 says “the treadersshall tread out no wine in their
presses.” People in Bible timesdidn’t have machines like we do
today to squeeze juice out of grapes.

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They had a floor where workers calledtreaders stepped on the grapes.
What came out of the grapeswhen treaders stepped on them?
Wine!
Isaiah calls this juice “wine.” Thathas to be unfermented grape juice! But
some tell us that Isaiah calls it “wine”because that’s what it will become

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later. In other words, he’s talking aboutwhat they would make out of this juice.

But the context of Isaiah 16 (17:15):
verses 9 and 10 won’t allow this interpretation.
Isaiah said, “Therefore I will bewailwith the weeping of Jazer the vine

of Sibmah (17:26):
I will water you with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh
the shouting for your summer fruitsand for your harvest is fallen.
And gladness is taken away, and joy out ofthe plentiful field; and in the vineyards
there shall be no singing, neither shallthere be shouting: the treaders shall

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tread out no wine in their presses; I havemade their vintage shouting to cease.”
Isaiah was talking about harvest time.
He warned that Moab wouldnot enjoy a good harvest.
The entire setting is about freshproduce: “the vine,” “summer fruits,”
“harvest,” “vineyards,” “wine,” and“presses.” He’s talking about fresh

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grape juice from the vineyards.
He calls that juice wine.
He’s not talking about wine that’s aged.
Jeremiah 48 verses 32 and33 is a parallel passage.
Notice what he calls wine.
He said, “The plunderer has fallen onyour summer fruit and your vintage. Joy

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and gladness are taken from the plentifulfield and from the land of Moab; I have
caused wine to fail from the winepresses.”That wine is freshly squeezed grape juice.
Here is another clear verse where the word“wine” means grape juice, not alcohol.

It’s Isaiah 65 verse 8 (18:51):
“Thus saith the Lord, As the new wine is found
in the cluster.” What is the cluster?
A cluster of grapes.
And what is inside this cluster of grapes?
Wine!
Here the juice is still inside thegrapes, and yet it’s called “wine.”

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Proverbs 3 verse 10 says, “Yourpresses shall burst out with new
wine.” Here again the freshlypressed grape juice is called “wine.”
24 says, “And the floors shall be full ofwheat, and the fats shall overflow with
wine and oil.” Joel is talking about freshproduce: wheat that has been sifted and

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grape juice and olive oil that have justbeen pressed out of grapes and olives.
In those days they sifted the wheatin what were called threshingfloors,
and they squeezed out olive oil fromolives and grape juice from grapes
in these vats or special floors.
And what is that juice called?
Wine!

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Amos 9 verses 13 and 14 says, “Behold,the days come, says the Lord, that the
plower shall overtake the reaper, andthe treader of grapes him that sows
seed; and the mountains shall drop sweetwine, and all the hills shall melt.
And I will bring again the captivity ofmy people of Israel, and they shall build

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the waste cities, and inhabit them; andthey shall plant vineyards, and drink
the wine thereof; they shall also makegardens, and eat the fruit of them.” Amos
said conditions in Israel would be better.
Fresh grape juice was one of thebenefits of that improved state.
The prophet pictures grapes at variousstages: planting, plowing, reaping, and

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treading, the result of which was “wine”dropping from the mountains—a reference
to grape juice in its natural, unfermentedstate [verse 13]. Also, he said just as
the Israelites would eat the fruit oftheir gardens, they would also drink the
“wine” of their vineyards [verse 14].

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That has to be a freshproduct of the vine.
In the book of Lamentations,Jeremiah describes the horrible
conditions in Judah after the war.
The Jews that were left were starving.
Little children were beggingfor something to eat.

Here’s what they said (21:18):
“the children and the sucklings swoon in the
streets of the city. They say to theirmothers, Where is corn and wine?”
[Lamentations 2 verses 11 and 12].
How could think these little childrenwere asking for an alcoholic beverage?
In the New Testament in Revelation 6verse 6, John wrote about a similar

situation (21:41):
“And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures say,
A quart of wheat for a denarius, andthree quarts of barley for a denarius;
and do not harm the oil and the wine.”The three products mentioned here are

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The word “wine,” then, is a genericword for the juice of the grape.
It can mean simple grape juice.
It can mean alcoholic wine.
It depends on how it’s used.
If the Bible condemns it, thenit must be alcoholic wine.

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If the Bible approves of it, thenit’s grape juice pure and simple.
This shouldn’t be hard to see.
There are a lot of words that have morethan one meaning depending on the context.
Take the word “elder” inthe Bible as an example.
Sometimes it just means an older man.
That’s what it means in First Peterchapter 5 verse 5: “Likewise you younger

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people, submit yourselves to yourelders.” These “elders” are older people.
But in other verses the word “elder”means an office in the church, a man who
has met certain requirements and servesin a special role in the congregation
as an overseer. For instance, Paultold Titus to appoint “elders” in every

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city, and then he called those eldersbishops in chapter 1verses 5 and 7.
The word wine is no different.
That’s why it is wrong to say thatJesus made alcohol in John chapter two.
Let’s look at that passage.
The Bible says in John 2 verses1-3, “On the third day there was

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a wedding in Cana of Galilee, andthe mother of Jesus was there.
Now both Jesus and His discipleswere invited to the wedding.
And when they ran out of wine, the motherof Jesus said to Him, ‘They have no
wine.’” So here we have the word wine.
And, by the way, don’t let anybody tellyou that the Greek word for wine or the

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Hebrew word for wine in the Old Testamentmust mean and only means alcoholic wine.
It doesn’t matter what they’veread or what they’ve been told.
It doesn’t matter what supposedBible authority they cite.
The verses we just looked at standregardless of what those scholars say.
Whether you’re reading Hebrew, Greek, orEnglish, the word “wine” can and does mean

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grape juice as well as a fermented drink.
In John chapter 2 verse 6 we read,“Now there were set there six waterpots
of stone, according to the manner ofpurification of the Jews, containing
twenty or thirty gallons apiece.” Alot of people know that Jesus turned
the water into wine. But they haveno idea how much wine He made. He

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didn’t just make a few cups of wine.
He made a huge amountof what is called wine.
The Bible says there weresix containers of water.
Each one of those containersheld 20 or 30 gallons each.
Think of it!
That’s a total of somewherebetween 120 and 180 gallons!

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Does anybody seriously thinkour Lord made that much alcohol
for people who had already beendrinking until they ran out of wine?
And remember, a wedding inthose days lasted a lot longer
than it does in America.
Today, a wedding ceremony and thereception might last a couple of hours.
A wedding in Bible times lasted for days.

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The Bible doesn’t say howmany people were there.
It doesn’t say how long it lasted.
But it does tell us howmuch wine Jesus made.
And it was a lot.
After Jesus turned the water to wine,the Bible says the one who was in charge
of the ceremony said to Jesus, “Everyman at the beginning sets out the good
wine, and when the guests have welldrunk, then the inferior. You have kept

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the good wine until now!" [verse 10].
Does this mean the people at thewedding feast where Jesus turned
the water to wine were drunk?
No!
This man didn’t saypeople usually got drunk.
He said they after they have “welldrunk” which means they have drunk well.
They have drunk what they wanted.
This means they drank freely.

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But it doesn’t mean theygot drunk at this feast.
Remember this man is just theone who was over the wedding.
The Bible doesn’t sayhe’s a disciple of Jesus.
We don’t know whether he was or not.
But what I’m saying is that youcan’t just quote the words of an
uninspired observer and make a casefor something based on what he said.
Besides, he’s just making an observation.

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Usually at these feasts, he saidthey served the best wine first.
That doesn’t mean that it was bestbecause it had more alcoholic content.
It means that wine orgrape juice tasted better.
It was fresher.
That was the “good wine.”
Think about how ridiculous it is to saythat the words “well drunk” mean that
the people at this feast were intoxicatedbecause that was the custom. That would

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mean that Jesus made them drunk and nowHe’s making them drunker by giving them
between 120 and 180 gallons of wine!
Think about the verses welooked at concerning drinking.
If Jesus made alcoholicwine in John chapter two, He
violated every one of them!
Proverbs 20 verse 1 saysit is not wise to use wine.

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But if that’s what Jesus made,then He did something foolish.
Proverbs 23 verse 31 says notto look upon the cup of wine
with interest and approval.
But if Jesus made alcoholic wine, thenHe approved of it and gave it to others!
In Daniel 1 verse 8, Daniel refusedto drink the wine the king gave him
because it would have defiled him.

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But if Jesus made alcohol, then helped thepeople at this wedding defile themselves.
Habakkuk 2 verse 15 saysnot to give others drink.
But if Jesus made alcoholic winein John 2, He violated the Word
of God in Habakkuk 2 verse 15!
That would mean that Jesus didthe very thing Habakkuk said

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not to do—give others drink!
And when you take into considerationhow much wine Jesus made in John
2—between 120 and 180 gallons—thenHe would have contributed to
their drunkenness and sinned.
But the Bible says He never sinned [FirstPeter 2 verse 22 and Hebrews 4 verse 15].
I realize that Habakkuk 2 verse 15says, “Woe to him who gives drink to

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his neighbor, pressing him to yourbottle, even to make him drunk, that
you may look on his nakedness!” Someargue that this doesn’t apply to social
drinking or drinking in moderationbecause it says you’re not to give the
bottle to him and make him drunk. Butit also says you’re not to give the
bottle to him and make him drunk sothat you can look on their nakedness.

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That doesn’t mean that it’s alright togive the bottle to others as long as you
don’t intend to look on their nakedness!
And while we’re talking aboutdrinking alcohol, let’s raise the
same point about smoking marijuana.
If there’s nothing wrong with drinkinga beer or having a glass of wine, then
what’s wrong with taking one draw froma marijuana cigarette now and then?

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This is how absurd it is toargue that drinking is okay as
long as you don’t get drunk.
And it is an insult to the Lord ofglory that He would act like a liquor
distributer to all these Jews in John 2.
But consider what he said abouteating and drinking with the
drunken in Matthew 24 verse 49.
If He gave that much alcohol topeople who were already drinking,

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then He would have been guilty ofthe very thing He told us not to do.
And He certainly would have violated FirstPeter 4 verse 3 which condemns drinkings.
This is a timely and serious subject.
I've never understood why preachersmake it their mission to convince people
that it's alright to drink, especiallywhen there are young people looking for

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an excuse, when alcohol does so muchharm to mankind, and when highways are
dangerous, especially during the holidays.
I've made a special video for theGospel Broadcasting Network on first
Peter 4 verse 3 that looks in depthat the word banquetings or drinkings.
Just go to YouTube, type in myname, the word drinking and GBNtv.

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