The Forbidden Truth About Alcohol in the Bible 2026

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You’ve been told what to believe about alcohol—but have you ever been shown what the Bible actually says? In this teaching, you’ll uncover the God-honest truth about wine, strong drink, and Scripture—without church tradition muddying the waters.  Have you ever felt conflicted by the mixed signals of religious culture regarding alcohol? Confusion thrives where context is ignored. In this teaching, we walk you through the Bible’s own words, the historical setting, and the educational clarity most believers were never given, helping you separate biblical truth from modern Christian distortion.  So come join us as we learn the God Honest Truth about what the Bible teaches regarding alcohol!  Don't forget to like this video, subscribe to our channel, and click the bell icon so you don't miss our next teaching!  #BibleAndAlcohol #WhatTheBibleSaysAboutAlcohol #WineInTheBible #ChristianViewOnAlcohol #GodHonestTruth  Video Chapters: 00:00:00 Teaching Introduction 00:00:54 Video Start 00:02:21 Introduction 00:08:01 Intoxicating Terminology 00:26:02 Amiable Alcohol 00:34:41 Daftly Drinking 00:48:03 Regulation 01:03:42 All Together Now 01:08:02 Summary  Resources from God Honest Truth: Get the full notes, drash slides, and transcript for this teaching: https://GodHonestTruth.short.gy/Alcohol2026  Find more resources to help you in your walk of faith: [https://www.GodHonestTruth.com]  Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/GodHonestTruth  Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/godhonesttruth  Social Media Links: https://godhonesttruth.com/wp/connect-socially/  Music: TheFatRat - Kingdom Come Watch the official music video: https://tinyurl.com/tfrkingdomcome Listen to Kingdom Come: https://thefatrat.ffm.to/warriorsongs Follow TheFatRat: https://ffm.bio/thefatrat  —-Disclaimer: The information presented here is for documentary, educational, and entertainment purposes only. Any imitation or application of the content is done at your own risk. Neither the creators nor associated platforms shall be liable for any injury or damage resulting from such use. This content is freely accessible; please report any unauthorized attempts to charge. By viewing or flagging this content, you acknowledge and accept these terms.  Fair Use: Any inclusion of third-party audio/music, video, or images is used under Fair Use for commentary, parody, and educational or documentary purposes.  This video may contain content that is unsuitable for overly sensitive persons with low self-esteem, no sense of humor or irrational religious beliefs.

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00:00:02so here's an age-old question what does the bible say about the consumption of alcohol

00:00:07does the bible prohibit the consumption of alcohol does the bible call alcohol a sin

00:00:13does the bible command you to consume alcohol we're going to be looking at the scriptures

00:00:19we're going to be looking at some in-depth entries on the lexicons and the dictionaries

00:00:24all of that to come to the overall subject of what scripture tells us about the consumption

00:00:32of alcohol so make sure to stay tuned for this study on alcohol and the bible

00:00:56so this teaching is going to be all about alcohol the subject of alcohol and what scripture has to

00:01:01say about it whether or not it is a sin whether it's not a sin whether it's commanded whether it's

00:01:06prohibited all that kind of good stuff we're going to get into that but before we get into that i

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00:01:12want to let everyone know that we have cut this down a whole lot for the sake of trying to

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00:01:18this particular teaching under an hour like we're going to try to get all of them

00:01:22so we've cut out a whole bunch of information that may be of benefit to you if you want to

00:01:27go on and

00:01:27study further and further your education in this particular subject now for more information as

00:01:33always go ahead and do your own study but we also have a lot of additional notes and information

00:01:38on our website that we have regarding this subject and all you got to do is go to our website

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00:01:43www.godhonesttruth.com click on the episode the article post for this episode there you'll be able to find

00:01:50the on-demand video the draw slides that you see here on your screen as well as the notes that

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00:01:56took for this particular subject and the transcript if that is a benefit to you a much more convenient

00:02:02way is to go down below in the description and we have provided a convenient link for you down there

00:02:07in the description and that should be there whether you're watching on a video platform or an audio

00:02:12podcasting platform it should be down there in the description all the same simply click on that

00:02:17convenient link and it'll take you directly to the article post on our website so now let's go ahead

00:02:22and introduce the topic and what we're going to be kind of getting into some things to think about

00:02:27stuff like that so here is the introduction to alcohol and the bible so a few questions i want you

00:02:34to try and keep in mind as we go through this particular study number one is the consumption of

00:02:40alcohol a sin and of course only the bible can define what sin is so as we go through the

00:02:45scriptures

00:02:45and we start looking at this from a well-rounded holistic kind of approach keep in your mind is

00:02:53scripture forbidding the consumption of alcohol and is the consumption of alcohol a sin number two

00:03:00is the consumption of alcohol commanded and conversely is prohibited so it's kind of like

00:03:06one and two going two different sides of a coin there so is the consumption of alcohol a sin

00:03:11and is the consumption of alcohol commanded keep those two questions in mind and also the general

00:03:18question what is the holistic tension of scripture when it comes to this subject of alcohol now as we

00:03:26go through this particular study and also other kinds of study as you go into the future there are

00:03:32different kinds of ways to approach things from scripture there are five different i'm sorry four

00:03:39different types of direction that we come up with that scripture gives us regarding any particular

00:03:45subject number one there is the positive instructions or positive directions or positive commands these are

00:03:52things like thou shalt do blank fill in the blank for an example such as one of the two commandments

00:03:59it says remember the sabbath day to set it apart thou shalt keep the sabbath day right that is a

00:04:06positive

00:04:06command the flip side of that is a negative command and that is pretty much just what you would think

00:04:12it would be something like thou shalt not do blank fill in the blank an example would be thou shalt

00:04:19not

00:04:20commit adultery or thou shalt not kill those are negative commands that is the exact opposite of a positive

00:04:28command something that is commanded or commanded not to do a negative command then the third type is something

00:04:35is a we refer to this is what we just came up with okay we didn't get this from any

00:04:40john mcarthur

00:04:42billy graham or tim haggard like that was just the four we came up with but the third one we

00:04:48titled as a

00:04:49guiding direction or a guiding instruction things like that these are things and subjects that are neither

00:04:57commanded nor prohibited but scripture does provide a mention of these subjects sometimes as in a good

00:05:06way sometimes in a negative way and it also mentions regulation or how to regulate that particular

00:05:13subject at times even though it doesn't command it or prohibit it it's kind of like the gray area

00:05:18when it comes to subjects you know it's in scripture and scripture mentions it sometimes in a positive

00:05:24light sometimes in a negative light but it's not commanded and it's not prohibited these are things

00:05:30like marriage marriage is not commanded that's you may have a different opinion but from what we can

00:05:36see marriage is not commanded take for instance yeshua he was never married and he was sinless he was

00:05:43perfect maybe it's something we should have looked up to you guys i don't know uh i'm joking i'm joking

00:05:50uh yeah marriage is not commanded as far as we can tell you can be celibate and still be absolutely

00:05:56okay

00:05:57you can be married and be absolutely a-okay as we covered in our plural marriage or polygyny series

00:06:03about a year ago or so plural marriage is one of those guiding subjects in scripture it's not

00:06:12commanded that a man had more than one wife and it's not prohibited for a man to have more than

00:06:17one

00:06:17wife but scripture obviously mentions the practice of plural marriage and there's actually guidelines

00:06:24and regulations regarding the practice of plural marriage there's other things as well we'll get into

00:06:30some more examples here later on in the teaching but that's just to get you started so you know what

00:06:36this

00:06:37concept is and finally there is the subjects that scripture says pretty much nothing about one thing

00:06:46that we example that we decided to come up with is we went back in 2025 last fall and we

00:06:53did the

00:06:55christmas in detail series one of the episodes was about birthdays and if you watch that you what we were

00:07:02able to come up with or conclude was that scripture does mention birthdays two times

00:07:08definitely that we know of and one time more than likely it was a mention of a birthday celebration

00:07:14but anyways scripture mentions it but scripture never commands you to celebrate your birthday

00:07:21conversely scripture never prohibits the celebration of a birthday as far as we can tell

00:07:28and there is zero regulation on how to celebrate a birthday so there you go that is what that's kind

00:07:39of thing that scripture is silent about as far as the instructions or the directions or the guiding

00:07:44of that so you got positive commands instructions you've got negative commands or instructions you've got

00:07:49guiding commands or instructions or subjects and then you got subjects that scripture is just kind of

00:07:55silent on and you've got to use your best judgment on how to go about that now let's go over

00:08:03some

00:08:04terminology so that you will better understand what we're talking about when we get in to the actual

00:08:11scriptures themselves now this it seems kind of nerdy and yes it is kind of nerdy but you know i'm

00:08:17a nerd

00:08:17and it's going to be very helpful if not just for just one particular reason and that's because out

00:08:24there in the wide world of churchianity and history and etc etc there is this two wine theory and for

00:08:35those of you don't know two wine theory goes that if the word wine as it's translated in english

00:08:42is spoken of in a positive light in scripture then the people who hold to this theory say well

00:08:48that's just grape juice that's not actual alcoholic wine conversely if it's talking if the whatever's

00:08:56can um translated as wine is spoken of in a negative light in scripture these people who hold to this

00:09:03two wine theory say that that is the actual alcoholic wine so therefore scripture tells you do not drink

00:09:10alcohol because every time the alcoholic wine is mentioned it's always in a negative light and every time the

00:09:17good wine aka what they refer to as great juice is mentioned it's always in a positive light

00:09:25that's okay first of all that is false on the get-go there are some research papers that we had

00:09:32put

00:09:33together by ai that is on the article post you can go check those out there is gosh all together

00:09:41five

00:09:41different uh reports and almost 100 pages so there's a lot of good information there

00:09:47especially on some of the history which we're not going to get into in this particular teaching

00:09:51but there in those research reports it talks about this whole two wine theory being a really recent

00:09:57development no one for gosh about 1800 years or so ever thought that there was grape juice in

00:10:05the scriptures it was always alcoholic wine because everyone understood that's just

00:10:09the way things were but then pasteurization came along and things like that and we were

00:10:15actually able to have grape juice and keep it without it turning into wine or vinegar then

00:10:22it was only after that that people came up with this whole two wine thing and there's reasons behind

00:10:27it why they wanted to do it and all this other stuff but just know that it's false and the

00:10:31reason

00:10:31we're going over this terminology is so that you know and understand what scripture is talking about

00:10:36when we get into the actual scriptures so the first term we're going to go over is the hebrew word

00:10:42yayin and that is strong's h3196 that's h3196 yayin yayin and again all this you can find the

00:10:55extended entries in our notes if you'd like even more information to go along with this but according

00:11:00to the outline of biblical usage from blue letter bible.org yayin means wine from strong's entry on

00:11:07yayin it has defined as meaning to ever vest and this is important because i was over in iraq i

00:11:15served

00:11:15in the marine corps during operation iraqi freedom i know how hot it gets over there and before modern

00:11:21technology like refrigeration before modern technology like even canning even and pasteurization and things

00:11:30like that fruit juice that's left out is going to start fermenting in very short time so what

00:11:40happens when it starts if you've ever made wine before you you know this but for those of you

00:11:44haven't i used to make my own wine and when wine is fermenting and it's working and the yeast is

00:11:51going

00:11:52and all that stuff it bubbles is what's called effervesce and if you leave it out on the counter you'll

00:11:58see

00:11:58bubbles before you know a day or two days is going by and that's what effervesce means and if you

00:12:05just

00:12:05leave it out and without modern technology refrigeration fruit juice is going to do that

00:12:09on its own because there's natural yeast in the air that'll make it turn into wine just naturally

00:12:16so that's what strong's entry here is getting all about when it comes to this word yayin it comes from

00:12:22a root that means to effervesce or bubble things like that but it defines yayin as wine meaning as

00:12:30fermented the by implication intoxication yeah it's not great juice it's alcohol brown driver bricks

00:12:38for the entry on yayin has it defined as wine a common drink for refreshment jacinus's hebrew lexicon

00:12:46wine wine so called from bubbling up and fermenting the effect of wine intoxication jastrell's dictionary

00:12:53of the tar gums the entry has for yayin it says wine yayin mix means mixed with water shahar means

00:12:59unmixed we'll get into that word shahar in just a minute and then client's dictionary has it defined

00:13:04as wine just plain wine the hebrew aramaic lexicon of the old testament as defined as foaming wine

00:13:11something fermented from wine like vinegar wine as in drunken drunkenness makes mary forbidden to

00:13:18priest we'll get into that as well now something also to take note of is that back during this time

00:13:24period that we're going to be talking about which is from creation all the way up through the book of

00:13:30revelation the entire time period that encompasses what we speak of in scripture oh yeah during this

00:13:36whole time they the common practice for them was to take the wine that was produced whether they

00:13:41would produce it or they go out and buy it they would take this wine and mix it with water

00:13:45and i

00:13:46think the ratio was somewhere about four to one so it wasn't the straight wine like we're kind of

00:13:52think about doing nowadays but they they did that too but you know it wasn't if you didn't have a

00:13:58lot

00:13:58of money you couldn't afford a whole lot of wine so you had to kind of mix it and what

00:14:02happened with

00:14:02that is it would actually kill some of the bacteria and the squigglies that was in the water because of

00:14:09the alcohol content that's what would kill the bacteria so it was healthy for them to do this

00:14:14and it was a way to preserve the grape juice without just throwing it out and wasting it

00:14:20our second term we're going to be looking at is the hebrew word tirosh tirosh and this is strong's 8492

00:14:28tirosh and this word is very similar to that last word we looked at yayin but tirosh means new wine

00:14:38or

00:14:38fresh wine or just started or something like that the outline of biblical usage has it defined as

00:14:45wine fresh or new wine must freshly pressed wine strong's definition must or fresh grape juice as

00:14:53just squeezed out by implication rarely fermented wine new or sweet wine brown driver briggs must fresh or

00:15:01new wine do you see this is hebrew lexicon must new wine because it is intoxicated takes possession of

00:15:07the brain used of the juice of grapes the hebrew aramaic lexicon of the old testament or tirosh means

00:15:14to tread down press wine it also could mean unfermented wine or must and also means new wine fresh wine

00:15:24unfermented grape juice new wine must etc etc whereas yayin is the regular old standard wine that you're

00:15:33probably thinking of and used to tirosh is the kind of wine that was just started it was just pressed

00:15:40out maybe it's got no alcohol content to it but more than likely it's got a low alcohol content because

00:15:48it's just started working that yeast has just started on it so it's still kind of uh sweet and

00:15:56sugary it's not got a dryness to it at this point because it's not fully worked

00:16:01but that's what tirosh is and tirosh the vast majority of time it's used it is used in the context

00:16:08of having an alcohol content it does not mean grape juice like we mean today we will prove that from

00:16:15scripture here in just a little bit so remember that word tirosh as well as our first word that

00:16:20we learned yayin going on we're going to look at the hebrew word shakar shakar and this is strong's

00:16:27h7 941 and the outline of biblical usage has it defined as strong drink intoxicating drink fermented

00:16:35or intoxicating liquor now i take issue with that and we'll get into that in just a moment let's go

00:16:41ahead and finish this word real quick strong's definition or entry for shakar means an intoxicant

00:16:48intensely alcoholic liquor strong drink drunkard strong wine brown driver briggs entry intoxicating

00:16:55drink strong drink forbidden to priest on duty allowable and sacrificial meal committed for weak

00:17:00and weary just seen as this hebrew lexicon the entry for shakar meaning strong drink intoxicating liquor

00:17:07whether wine or intoxicating drink like wine made from barley or distilled from honey or dates

00:17:13wine made from dry grapes or dates it is often distinguished from wine wine mingled with spices

00:17:19appears to be intended and finally the jasraels dictionary of the targums entry for shakar meaning

00:17:28intoxicating drink yain is unmixed wine and shakar is mixed wine that's their entry they've got there

00:17:33especially beer of dates or barley klein dictionary has it defined as intoxicating drink strong drink

00:17:39beer and hebrew aramaic lexicon of the new testament has it defined as intoxicating drink beer fermented

00:17:48alcoholic beverage intoxicating drink etc etc it also has gone down or down to the end as defined as

00:17:54intoxicating drink beer which would have been made primarily from barley beer made from wheat so just a

00:18:02comment on this word shakar i'm not too fond of some of the lexicon entries here because i think they

00:18:11get it incorrect let's go back and look at where the outline of biblical usage and also uh strong's

00:18:18things like that it has it defined as liquor now when we think of liquor nowadays we think about

00:18:25a distilled spirit something like vodka or rum or moonshine or you know what have you however

00:18:35the whole steam distillation process was still thousands of years away from the time period we're

00:18:44talking about abraham and moses and david and solomon and the apostle paul and the apostle john etc etc

00:18:51knew nothing about distilled spirits distilled alcohol because that process and that sort of

00:18:59technology just did not exist at that time what shakar actually means what i found out from the research

00:19:08is shakar is a word that refers to something made from like barley or oats or stuff like that you

00:19:15find in

00:19:15some of these more accurate or i think more accurate lexicons and it was kind of interesting because

00:19:22around the area of israel they didn't actually make well it was more suited to growing grape vines

00:19:31than it was like hops and things like that now down in egypt and up in mesopotamia around babylon

00:19:38stuff like that they could grow or they could more easily grow hops and barley and things like that up

00:19:45there than they could down in israel so outside of israel you could find things like beer and stuff like

00:19:52that but usually in israel you would have more commonly things like wine because grapes and grape vines

00:19:59would grow a whole lot better than barley or hops in israel shakar the best way i found to think

00:20:09of this

00:20:09as shakar meaning beer things like that whereas yayin and tirosh meaning wine however all three words

00:20:19still meaning something that has an alcoholic content so back then they had wine they had beer things that were

00:20:29fermented but they did not have things that were distilled they did not have rum or vodka or moonshine

00:20:34or tequila or what have you so just to recap these hebrew words real quick yayin means wine like we

00:20:42would normally think of today tirosh means a new wine just a grape juice that's just started working maybe

00:20:49a low alcohol content but still an alcohol content and also the third word shakar which means something

00:20:56made from barley or oats things like beer now moving on into our greek terminology and it's going to be

00:21:02fairly similar but we got a few new words as well our first word we're going to be looking at

00:21:08is

00:21:08strong's g3631 that's strong's g3631 and that's the greek word oinos oinos

00:21:19and the outline of biblical usage from blue letter bible.org has it defined as wine the

00:21:25metaphorical fiery wine of god's wrath strong's entry has defined as wine literally or figuratively

00:21:33excuse me thayer's greek lexicon has defined as must or new wine etc etc or just plain old wine

00:21:42greek english lexicon of the new testament has defined as a fermented beverage from the juice of

00:21:48grapes wine and also it's got a good entry right here in the greek english lexicon i love it that's

00:21:54why i left it in here for your perusal but it says here and from the greek english lexicon of

00:21:59the new

00:21:59testament for oinos it has here though some persons have argued that whenever mention is made of jesus

00:22:04either making or drinking wine one must assume that this was only unfermented grape juice there is no

00:22:10real basis for such a conclusion thank you greek english lexicon of the new testament and finally

00:22:18from the b dag for oinos as defined as a beverage made from fermented juice of the grape or meaning

00:22:27wine our second word we're going to look at in the greek is strong's g1098 as strong's g1098 and that

00:22:37is

00:22:37the greek word glucose glucose as long as i'm pronouncing that right but that looks right the

00:22:43outline of biblical usage from blue letter bible.org as defined as the sweet juice pressed the grape

00:22:51sweet wine this is what we looked at in the hebrew word to rosh earlier but strong's has this greek

00:22:58word

00:22:58glucose defined as sweet wine must or fresh juice used of the more saccharine and therefore highly

00:23:04inebriating fermented wine new wine thayer's greek lexicon has it defined as must the sweet juice

00:23:11pressed from the grape sweet wine the greek english lexicon of the new testament has glucose defined as

00:23:17a new sweet wine in process of fermentation fermentation sweet wine and finally from the b dag for glucose has

00:23:25the entry defined as sweet new wine commonly referred to as must so glucose is like the

00:23:33tea roche it's the new wine the grape juice that's just started in the process of working and bubbling and

00:23:43on this way to being fully fermented and fully alcoholic so it might have a low alcoholic content

00:23:50but like we said with tea roche it's still got an alcoholic content to it and once again we're going

00:23:55to be

00:23:55proven all this from scripture as jerry mcguire said show me the money and i'm going to show you

00:24:02the money coming up here in just a moment and finally our third word and this is going to be

00:24:06very important to understand as we get into some of the scriptures here but this is the word uh strong's

00:24:14g3183 that's strong's g3183 and that's the greek word methusos methusos and the outline of

00:24:22biblical usage from blue letter bible.org has it defined as drunken or intoxicated strong's has

00:24:29it defined as a sought or a drunkard remember that name or that word drunkard sayer's greek

00:24:36lexicon has methusos defined as drunken or intoxicated the greek english lexicon of the new

00:24:42testament has it defined as a person who habitually drinks too much and thus becomes a drunkard and

00:24:50finally from the b dag as the word methusos defined as a word that is used of both sexes though

00:24:57the

00:24:57older writers used it only of women and it has defined as a drunkard with those addicted to other

00:25:04vices so in a nutshell oinos is the wine like we talked about with yayin it's the standard everyday

00:25:13old wine that we are used to nowadays now back then again they would probably mix it with water but

00:25:19it's the wine that we think of nowadays the second word that we looked at the glucose is like the

00:25:26tearoche that's the fresh wine or the new wine which might have a low alcohol content but it's

00:25:31still got an alcohol content all the same this last word we looked at methusos is a word that's

00:25:37meaning someone who is habitually drunk not someone who just got drunk tonight and like oh my gosh i

00:25:45shouldn't have done that i'm so sorry that's not what it's talking about when it talks about a drunkard

00:25:50a drunkard is someone who repeatedly and regularly and habitually gets drunk that's what methusos and

00:25:58drunkard means when we go through the scriptures now let's go ahead and do our due diligence and get

00:26:06into these scriptures themselves and like i said we're going to show you the money here in just a moment

00:26:11so stay tuned first let's go over some positive scriptures or something that's relatively positive

00:26:20about alcohol from scripture didn't think it existed well here we go and let's look at it

00:26:27first example we're going to look at is from numbers chapter 15 verse 7 and as a drink offering you

00:26:34bring one third of a hen wine and that's the word yayin as a sweet fragrance to yahweh now here

00:26:43this

00:26:44if you don't know if you don't get the context this is in regards to a part of a the

00:26:50sacrificial offering

00:26:51part of a sacrificial offering let me put that way well there's several there and several contain

00:26:57yayin actual alcohol and here is saying that you are to provide this alcoholic wine

00:27:04as a sweet fragrance to who not to the priest not to yourself not to the priest or the pope

00:27:10or anything

00:27:10like that no we'll provide this alcoholic beverage as part of the sacrifice as a sweet fragrance to

00:27:19yahweh so even yahweh wants this alcoholic beverage as part of the sacrifices that were to be done to and

00:27:28for him now we go down and look at deuteronomy chapter 14 verses 24 through 26 but when the way

00:27:35is too long for you that's so that you are not able to bring the tithe or when the place

00:27:40where yahweh

00:27:41your elohim chooses to put his name is too far from you when yahweh your elohim is blessing you

00:27:46then you shall give it in silver and shall take the silver in your hand and go to the place

00:27:52which

00:27:52yahweh your elohim chooses and you shall use the silver for whatever your being desires for cattle or

00:27:59sheep for wine yayin or strong drink shakar for whatever your being desires and you shall eat

00:28:07there before yahweh your elohim and you shall rejoice you and your household so here it's talking

00:28:14about taking the tithe to the temple because what was one of the purposes what's one of the biggest

00:28:19purposes of the tithe especially back then that was to support the temple work and the priests and all

00:28:29did not get land a portion to them their duty was for yahweh to serve at the tabernacle serve at

00:28:35the

00:28:35temple so they didn't have the land to grow crops they didn't have the land to raise livestock they

00:28:42didn't have land to grow vineyards and grapes and make all this other stuff like wine the stuff they

00:28:49survived on and stuff they got was what people brought to them and a lot of it was in the

00:28:54form of a tithe

00:28:55and if you remember it says to tithe the first of your land it's first your crops there are certain

00:29:02animals the firstborn the males and stuff like that that were to be given as a tithe and here it

00:29:08says

00:29:09that if you're not able to bring this tithe like if you're a long ways away or if you're infirmed

00:29:13and

00:29:14you can't carry your sheep or your grain the many bags of grain if you had a big year if

00:29:20you couldn't do

00:29:20that then what's it tell you to do it says convert all that into money and take that money with

00:29:28you

00:29:29to the place where yahweh chooses to put his name and what is it that you are told to do

00:29:34when you get

00:29:34there it says you shall use the silver for whatever your being desires for cattle or sheep

00:29:41for wine or strong drink it's your car it says you can use it for wine alcohol or beer alcohol

00:29:51for whatever your being desires and you shall eat it there meaning where yahweh chooses to put his name

00:29:58you shall eat it there before yahweh your elohim and you shall rejoice you shall be happy and thankful

00:30:03and grateful to yahweh for all that he has blessed you with so a part of this rejoicing part of

00:30:12this

00:30:12tie the part of being around where yahweh chooses place his name involves the use of alcohol wine and beer

00:30:25again look for yourself deuteronomy chapter 14 verses 24 to 26 we just read that you want to look at

00:30:32your

00:30:32own translation to make sure it's not mistranslated in the one we're providing that's fine go for it

00:30:37look at it but i i guarantee you if any accurate translation is gonna have the exact same thing

00:30:43that we've got here but moving on we look at proverbs chapter 31 verses 6 through 7 give strong

00:30:51drink to him who is perishing and wine to those embittered and being let him drink and forget his

00:30:57poverty and remember his trouble no more so if people's having a rough time if people are embittered

00:31:04or if they are perishing or if they're down and infirmed what's the bible tell you to do it says

00:31:12to

00:31:12give him strong drink or a beer in this context or wine and what's it say it'll do it will

00:31:21make him

00:31:21forget his poverty and remember his trouble no more going on looking at ecclesiastes 9 verse 7

00:31:30go eat your bread with joy and drink your wine with a glad heart for elohim has already approved your

00:31:38works once again what's it say to do it says to drink your wine with a glad heart be happy

00:31:47about it

00:31:48be glad you've got it be glad you are blessed with that psalms 104 verses 13 through 15 watering the

00:31:56hills from his upper rooms the earth is satisfied with the fruit of your works causing the grass to

00:32:03grow for the cattle and plants for the service of mankind to bring forth food from the earth and

00:32:10wine wine that makes the makes glad the heart of man oil to make the face shine and bread which

00:32:17sustains

00:32:18man's heart so once again this is something that comes forth because of and as a blessing from

00:32:26who yahweh the one who had formed the mountains who formed all the earth and universe as we know it

00:32:33from all his works who causes the grass to grow for the cattle the plants for the service of mankind

00:32:38who brings forth food from the earth and brings forth wine that does what it makes glad the heart of

00:32:46man then we go on and look at luke chapter 10 verses 33 through 34 but a certain shomeroni or

00:32:56samaritan

00:32:56journey and came upon him and when he saw him he had compassion on him and he went to him

00:33:01and bandaged

00:33:02his wounds pouring on oil and wine and having placed on him and having placed him on his own beast

00:33:11he brought him to an inn and looked after him now this is in the parable that yeshua was telling

00:33:16about

00:33:16the good samaritan and what happens when the good samaritan comes upon this man who's been beaten and

00:33:23robbed he treats his wounds that he has and how does he do it he treats his wounds with oil

00:33:30and wine so

00:33:31this is not consumption of wine granted but it is a positive thing about wine it's good for

00:33:39or at least back then good for treating wounds open wounds and like i said it killed the squigglies in

00:33:46the water so why wouldn't it also kill the squigglies and bacteria on a wound makes sense right

00:33:54distilled spirits would probably be more effective but wine would be a good use as well

00:34:00maybe look into that some more as a one of the survival techniques you put in your brain for

00:34:07later use i don't know then going on looking at first timothy chapter 5 verse 23 and here paul is

00:34:13writing to timothy and paul is telling timothy this in first timothy 5 23 he says no longer drink only

00:34:21water but also use a little wine for your stomach's sake and your frequent ailments so again to soothe the

00:34:31upset stomach of timothy paul recommends consuming alcohol not grape juice alcohol wine all right so

00:34:42that's just a few verses as far as a amiable position on alcohol from scripture or a positive

00:34:49position about alcohol from scripture so now let's go ahead and look at the flip side of that and look

00:34:55let's look at some more of the negative things about alcohol as it comes from scripture because if we're

00:35:01going to be honest on the subject we've got to look at all sides not just the positive but also

00:35:07some of the

00:35:08negative coming from genesis chapter 19 verses 32 through 36 come let us make our father drink wine

00:35:19and lie with him so that we preserve the seed of our father so they made their father drink wine

00:35:25that

00:35:25night and he and the firstborn went in and lay with her father and he was not aware of it

00:35:30when she lay

00:35:30down or when she arose and it came to be on the next day that the firstborn said to the

00:35:34younger

00:35:35see i lay with my father last night let us make him drink wine yain tonight as well and you

00:35:41go in

00:35:42and lie with him so that we keep the seed of our father so they made their father drink wine

00:35:47yain

00:35:48that night as well and the younger arose and lay with him and he was not aware of it when

00:35:53she lay down

00:35:54or when she arose thus both the daughters of lot became pregnant by their father now this is

00:36:02the story of lot and his daughters after they escaped from sodom and then the destruction of

00:36:09sodom gomorrah and that whole story so they're in this cave and they it's kind of seeming like they

00:36:14think they're the last ones on earth and they want to try and repopulate it and there's no man except

00:36:18their father so these two girls the sisters they get pregnant by their father and the way they do that

00:36:25is they get him drunk now as it says here apparently he drank so much wine that he did not

00:36:35even know

00:36:37when they were in the process let's put it that way and that would have to be really really drunk

00:36:47it

00:36:48really would is not just a buzz i mean some people think that was just a buzz is you know

00:36:55prohibited but no drunkenness is prohibited according to scripture i would in my own personal

00:37:02opinion to take this for what it's worth in my own personal opinion i wouldn't say that you know a

00:37:05buzz

00:37:05would be prohibited or bad but drunkenness is clear that is bad according to scripture and here is a good

00:37:14example where incest took place between lot and his daughters and it was all facilitated by drunkenness

00:37:23so that's a good uh warning against drunkenness there from scripture nope and looking at second

00:37:32samuel chapter 11 verses 12 through 13 and daweed said to uriah remain here today also and tomorrow i'll

00:37:38let you go so uriah remained in jerusalem that day and the next and daweed called him and he ate

00:37:45and

00:37:45drank before him and made him drunk and at evening he went out to lie on his bed with the

00:37:50servants of

00:37:51his master but he did not go down to his house so here king david is actually trying to get

00:37:58someone

00:37:58drunk that's uriah and the reason he's trying to do this is because he's already slept with uriah he's

00:38:04already committed adultery and got her pregnant and he's wanting to make uriah not know what he's doing

00:38:11and make uriah think that he actually got his wife pregnant instead of david but it didn't work so again

00:38:18this is a negative instance of alcohol in scripture where king david himself is making someone drunk and

00:38:27using alcohol in a negative manner we go on and look at isaiah chapter 5 verse 11 woe to those

00:38:34who

00:38:34rise early in the morning pursuing strong drink shakar who stay up late at night wine inflames them

00:38:42so in that first instance where it says strong drink that's the hebrew word shakar and you can

00:38:48generally think of that as beer and that second word wine that is yayin that's the standard old alcohol

00:38:55that we think of nowadays when we think about wine and going on to look at oh this is one

00:39:02more thing

00:39:02here is that notice what it says here about strong drink it says woe to those pursuing strong drink

00:39:08who stay up late at night wine inflames them would grape juice inflame someone highly doubtful you don't

00:39:16see a bunch of kindergartners running around you know blitzed on grape juice being inflamed no

00:39:24this is not talking about grape juice it's talking about alcohol then looking at isaiah chapter 5

00:39:30verses 21 to 23 woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight

00:39:37woe to the

00:39:38mighty to drink wine yayin and brave men to mix strong drink shakar who declare right the wrong for a

00:39:47bribe and the righteous of the unrighteous i'm sorry and the righteousness of the righteous they

00:39:53turn aside from him so again a negative mention of strong drink or wine or just alcohol in general

00:40:02hosea chapter 4 verse 11 pouring and wine yayin and new wine tirosh enslave the heart so here's a good

00:40:12example of both yayin and tirosh being used in a negative context and it's talking about enslaving

00:40:19the heart does grape juice enslave the heart no but alcohol does can be addictive to certain people

00:40:27and it would enslave the heart and this tells us right here that both yayin and tirosh both wine and

00:40:34new wine as it's mentioned in scripture is alcoholic it's not the grape juice that some people try to make

00:40:41it out to be going on looking at proverbs chapter 20 verse 1 wine yayin is a scoffer strong drink

00:40:51shakar or beer a brawler and whoever is led astray by it is not wise once again would grape juice

00:40:59make

00:40:59someone a scoffer or a brawler nope but alcohol sure would acts chapter 2 verses 6 13 and 15 and

00:41:08when this

00:41:08sound came to be the crowd came together and were confused because everyone heard them speak in his

00:41:13own language and others mocking said they have been filled with sweet wine glucose for these men are

00:41:19not drunk as you imagine since it is only the third hour of the day third hour of the day

00:41:24being about

00:41:24nine in the morning so the crowd outside when they saw the apostles and whatnot speaking in various tongues

00:41:31they thought wow these guys have already hit the sauce they're already drunk on new wine now would

00:41:38these people think that the apostles were drunk by drinking grape juice something that's non-alcoholic

00:41:46no they would only think that the apostles were drunk if they had been drinking alcohol and they

00:41:51specifically accused them of drinking sweet wine that new just started wine that we talked about earlier

00:41:59so again it's not talking about grape juice it's talking about alcohol first corinthians chapter

00:42:04six verses nine through ten do not do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the reign of

00:42:10elohim do not be deceived neither those who whore nor idolaters nor adulterers nor effeminate

00:42:17nor homosexuals nor thieves or greedy of gain nor drunkards methusos nor revelers nor swindlers

00:42:26shall inherit the reign of elohim now once again let me reiterate methusos a drunkard is someone who

00:42:33habitually and regularly gets drunk it's not just a one-off thing this is a repeated occurrence kind of

00:42:41situation but here is putting drunkards in the same categories in the same list as things that are

00:42:48absolutely abominable and disgusting things like whores and idolaters and adulterers and the effeminate

00:42:56transsexuals in our day probably homosexuals thieves greedy of gain those who would steal from other

00:43:04people uh revelers those who would swindle etc etc and they say that this group of people including

00:43:10the drunkards will not enter the kingdom of heaven going on looking at galatians chapter 5 verses 19

00:43:18through 21 and the works of the flesh are well known which are these adultery whoring uncleanness

00:43:24indecency idolatry drug sorcery hatred quarrels jealousies fits of rage selfish ambitions dissensions

00:43:30factions envy murders drunkenness wild parties and the like of which i forewarn you even as i also said

00:43:38before that those who practice such as these shall not inherit the reign of elohim so here drunkenness

00:43:45that would be i would say be a one-off in this context but it's not talking about a one

00:43:53-off if it

00:43:54just said drunkenness then i could accept that but it also says down at the end those who practice such

00:44:00as

00:44:00these which intimates or gives the insinuation that it's an ongoing practice you don't practice

00:44:06something just once you practice it over and over like a baseball or a musical instrument or

00:44:11what have you so this drunkenness that they're talking about is being practiced over and over

00:44:17is what i get from this particular passage of scripture now if you have a different interpretation

00:44:23by all means let me know in the chat or in the comments down below and we can discuss it

00:44:29further

00:44:30but that's the way that i take this verse and the way i understand it anyways now going on to

00:44:37ephesians chapter 5 verses 17 through 18 so then do not be foolish but understand what the desire of

00:44:43yahweh is and do not be drunk with wine in which is loose behavior but be filled with the spirit

00:44:50this

00:44:51is probably one of the most direct and didactic teachings about alcohol and drunkenness and all the

00:44:57scripture says do not be drunk with wine and that is the overall teaching that i can see from

00:45:08scripture about alcohol is that it's okay to consume it's even okay as far as i can tell to get

00:45:14that little

00:45:14buzz enjoy yourself make your heart glad as we read in scriptures earlier but do not be drunk

00:45:21drunk what does drunkenness lead to well drunkenness leads to injury sometimes there's verses on you know

00:45:29wounds without cause it talks about in uh proverbs or psalms one of those it's in the notes go look

00:45:35in

00:45:35the notes but yeah you can injure yourself you can injure others you can definitely put a bad mark on

00:45:43your

00:45:43testimony and make people think negatively of the faith itself so don't be drunk but it's still okay

00:45:52to consume alcohol as long as you do it responsibly and in moderation same thing with stuff like food

00:45:59food is not bad but gluttony is that's the exact same thing it's saying with alcohol that you can drink

00:46:07alcohol but you don't go overboard like you would with gluttony being the overboard with food drunkenness

00:46:14will be the overboard with alcohol see how that works out and finally the last one we'll look at

00:46:20as far as negative passages in scriptures about alcohol is first peter chapter four verses three through

00:46:28five where we have spent enough of our past lifetime in doing the desire of the nations meaning gentiles

00:46:34having walked in indecencies lust drunkenness orgies wild parties and abominable idolatries in which

00:46:40they are surprised that you did not run with them in the same flood of loose behavior blaspheming who

00:46:47shall give an account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead so here's something that's

00:46:54talking about here paul is saying i'm sorry peter it's talking about drunkenness being the way that you

00:47:00used to be the things you used to do when you used to be a gentile remember from our study

00:47:08in our

00:47:08episode on gentiles once you come into the faith once you're born again you become a messianic or

00:47:15you become a christian whichever term you want to use once you come into the faith you are no longer

00:47:20a gentile that has gone away there's no such thing as a gentile christian as an oxymoron it's a

00:47:27paradox you're the gentile or you're messianic christian you can't be both and here peter's saying

00:47:35when you were a gentile you would do things like get drunk regularly now that you're in the faith we

00:47:43should leave that behind and don't do that and what's something he says you should not do drunkenness

00:47:49so again scripture does say in no uncertain terms do not get drunk and definitely do not be a drunkard

00:47:59but you can consume alcohol and one of the things that we know or one of the ways that we

00:48:06know that

00:48:07you can't consume consume alcohol is because scripture does provide regulation regarding the consumption of

00:48:15alcohol alcohol now what's one of the important things to understand about scripture regulating

00:48:22the use of alcohol well the biggest thing is that scripture does not teach us and instruct us

00:48:31in how to sin that's the biggest thing right there if the consumption of alcohol was a sin it would

00:48:39simply say do not drink the wine do not drink the new wine do not drink the beard do not

00:48:47consume alcohol

00:48:48in some form or fashion or whatnot but scripture never says anything like that now admittedly scripture

00:48:58also never says thou shalt drink alcohol it's not a command and it's not prohibited it is regulated

00:49:05though which goes to show that it's not a sin because scripture does not instruct us on how to

00:49:12go about sinning so let's look at some of these regulations real quick leviticus chapter 10 verses

00:49:198 through 10 and yahweh spoke to aaron saying do not drink wine or strong drink you nor your sons

00:49:26with

00:49:26you when you go into the tent of appointment lest you die a law forever throughout your generations

00:49:31so as to make a distinction between the set apart and the profane and between the unclean and the

00:49:36clean so here if you want to talk about prohibition then number one this passage right here is only

00:49:45talking about the priest not everybody in general even further it's only talking about the priest when

00:49:53they're on duty at the temple or the tabernacle it's not all the time if they're not on duty they're

00:50:00more than welcome to have alcohol consume wine or whatnot but not while they're on duty so that's

00:50:06a regulation regarding the consumption of alcohol but then it's only for the priest now i would extend

00:50:13that to everyone going into the house of god or a temple or the tabernacle not just the priest i

00:50:21personally would extend that to everyone don't be drunk when you go to the house of god

00:50:27so i'll put it that way you disagree feel free to disagree that's fine we could still be brothers

00:50:32and sisters but that's the way i would definitely extend it to everyone on that one but just during

00:50:38that time that you're in the house of god when you leave and you go home have that glass of

00:50:43wine

00:50:43have that beer that's fine you're not sinning you're not going against scripture and i can make you this

00:50:49promise anytime you see me on video here on a teaching or a live stream i will guarantee you

00:50:56there's not the first drop of alcohol or any intoxicating substances in my body because of

00:51:02that section right there now once i hit stop streaming that may be a different story but

00:51:09during the time you see me here there's nothing there because of that passage right there now going

00:51:16on looking at proverbs chapter 31 verses 4 through 5 not for sovereigns oh lemuel not for sovereigns

00:51:21to drink wine nor for princes to desire strong drink lest they drink and forget what is inscribed

00:51:27and preferred the right of all the inflicted so here at the at most you can only say that alcohol

00:51:35consumption is not advised or if you want to for the sake of conversation we'll go ahead and say

00:51:42prohibited but it's only in the context of what's to say here sovereigns meaning kings and princes

00:51:50not everyone in general it's only talking about kings and princes again regulations on the consumption

00:51:59of wine looking at numbers chapter 6 verses 2 through 4 speak to the children of israel and say to

00:52:05them

00:52:06when a man or woman does separate by making a vow of a nazirite to be separate to yahweh he

00:52:11separates himself from wine yain and strong drink shakar here he drinks neither vinegar of wine nor

00:52:20vinegar of strong drink neither does he drink any grape juice nor eat grapes or raisins all the days of

00:52:27his separation he does not eat whatever is made of the grapevine from seed to skin first thing this is

00:52:33the vow of the nazirite and the regulations concerning the vow of the nazirite

00:52:40next if you'll notice it goes on to say that whoever does this is to refrain from consuming alcohol

00:52:49why is this important to notice because if it was normally prohibited for anyone to drink alcohol

00:52:57there would be no need to make a special exception in the nazirite vow it would just say do not

00:53:04drink

00:53:05alcohol outside of this and then it would be assumed when they're talking about the nazirite vow for

00:53:11instance in the nazirite vow it says when a man takes a nazirite vow he shall not engage in homosexual

00:53:17activities well why does it say that because it is a blanket prohibition for everyone outside of the

00:53:24whole nazirite vow regulations so when you start talking about the nazirite vow it's assumed just

00:53:31like everyone all the time they're not to be homosexuals that's not the case with wine because

00:53:36wine alcohol is not prohibited but in the case of a nazirite it is even the skin of grapes and

00:53:45raisins

00:53:46they're not allowed to have that either there's various speculations of why that is but won't get

00:53:52into that a very another very very important thing to notice it first starts listing out by saying that

00:54:00he has to be separate to yahweh he separates himself from wine and strong drink so when you're in the

00:54:08vow of

00:54:08a nazirite you do not drink any alcohol whether wine or strong drink and i would even extend that to

00:54:14distilled spirits today so no wine no strong drink no vinegar even and then notice this if you didn't

00:54:24catch it the first time catch it now it says neither does he drink any grape juice well if wine

00:54:33is only

00:54:33talking about grape juice as some people put forth why would it need to go on and include specifically

00:54:39grape juice and the whole list here contrasting it with wine and strong drink because wine and strong

00:54:47drink is not talking about grape juice wine and strong drink is talking about alcohol then it goes

00:54:52on to also include grape juice see how that works out it's so simple you start looking at this you

00:55:00start

00:55:00studying it and reading for yourself instead of just listening to a preacher on the radio or on tv or

00:55:06whoever's in the pulpit that morning do it yourself and the scriptures come alive it shows you what it

00:55:13is talking about and wine and strong drink is not referring to grape juice it's referring to alcohol

00:55:19it's so clear when you see passages like this so i thought that was very very neat and very very

00:55:24important thing to take note of moving on looking at romans chapter 14 verses 13 through 21

00:55:33therefore let us not judge one another any longer but rather judge this not to put an obstacle or a

00:55:39stumbling block in our brother's way i know and am persuaded in the master yeshua that none at all is

00:55:44common of itself but to him who regards whatever to be common to him it is common and if your

00:55:49brother

00:55:50is grieved because of your food you are no longer walking in love do not buy your food ruin the

00:55:55one

00:55:56for whom messiah died do not then allow your good to be spoken of as evil for the reign of

00:56:01elohim is

00:56:02not eating and drinking but righteousness and peace and joy in the set apart spirit for he who is serving

00:56:08messiah in these matters is well pleasing to elohim and approved by men so then let us pursue the

00:56:15matters of peace and the matters for building up one another do not destroy the work of elohim for the

00:56:20sake of food all indeed are clean but evil to that man who eats so as to cause stumbling it

00:56:26is good not

00:56:27to eat meat or drink wine nor to do whatever by which your brother stumbles now keep that passage in

00:56:34mind let's read one more real quick first corinthians chapter 8 verses 8 through 9 and 11 through 13 but

00:56:41food does not commend us to elohim for we are none the better if we eat nor any worse for

00:56:46not eating

00:56:46but look to it lest somehow this right of yours becomes a stumbling block to those who are weak

00:56:52so this weak brother for whom messiah died shall perish through your knowledge now sitting in this

00:56:59way against the brothers and wounding their weak conscience you sin against messiah therefore if food

00:57:06makes my brother stumble i am never going to eat meat lest i make my brother stumble now these two

00:57:14passages

00:57:14right here gives really good regulation in my opinion regarding the consumption of alcohol it talks a lot

00:57:21about food and especially food sacrificed idols and stuff like that but i do believe this definitely

00:57:29extends to the consumption of alcohol if you are around someone if you drink alcohol and you're around

00:57:35someone who used to be an alcoholic is trying to get off you know alcoholism it is very very important

00:57:44important for their spiritual well-being to not drink in front of them yes you have the freedom

00:57:53to drink alcohol scripture does not consider alcohol to be a sin scripture does not prohibit you from

00:58:01drinking alcohol this is something that you need to understand for the love of your brothers and sisters out

00:58:09there who are weak in conscience who are a recovering alcoholic things like that because here it says that you

00:58:18could cause them to perish through your knowledge your freedom to consume alcohol is not does not override

00:58:28someone else's walk in the faith especially those who are weak as in that instance or in that context

00:58:35people who are recovering alcoholics trying to get off of it stuff like that it is much better to refrain

00:58:42from drinking alcohol while you're in their presence it's not gonna be forever generally is never forever

00:58:48unless you married someone like that then that might be a different subject but it's not gonna take

00:58:54forever you can definitely hold off and if you can't hold off go get some help because that means you

00:58:59probably got an issue yourself but yeah think about your brothers and your sisters if you're gonna drink

00:59:04in front of somebody and consider whether or not it's going to hurt them just to see you drink or

00:59:11whether

00:59:12it's okay or not so take others into consideration now this is something i got thinking about is either

00:59:20today or yesterday that there might be this is just a thought so let me know what you think too

00:59:28it might actually be a negative to sometimes not drink in front of someone and what i mean by that

00:59:40is that number one you're not commanded to drink so if you don't drink whatsoever this really doesn't

00:59:45apply to you this is talking about those of us who are not opposed to drinking and may drink every

00:59:52now and then for instance if you're going to talk to someone a a co-worker or a friend or

00:59:57someone on the

00:59:58street or you you meet out a restaurant or something like that and you're talking to them about the

01:00:02faith and about yeshua and salvation stuff like that and they're having an alcoholic beverage as long as

01:00:10they're not overdoing it because remember consider again this situation read the room as they say

01:00:15they it may help the situation for you to also have a beverage to sip on while you're talking to

01:00:23them and

01:00:23this would let them know that hey you're not this stick in the mud prude that's all going to be

01:00:29you

01:00:29know uptight about everything and therefore they don't want anything to do with what you're

01:00:34telling them about so you see how that would kind of help break the ice and warm the waters when

01:00:40you're

01:00:40talking to someone like that so it may be helpful sometimes to even consume alcohol in furtherance of the

01:00:47faith and to help bring someone into the faith in that very specific i'll grant you a very specific

01:00:54situation that may be beneficial but once again if you think differently let me know down in the

01:01:02comments or let me know in the chat we can also always discuss that so anyways that's my thoughts

01:01:08definitely like paul tells us in corinthians and romans etc etc definitely take your brothers and

01:01:14sisters into account read the room when you're going to be consuming alcohol and never get drunk

01:01:21do not engage in drunkenness and don't be a drunkard so definitely take your brothers and sisters into

01:01:27account before you consume that alcohol think about the optics of it and whether it's going to cause

01:01:34someone else to stumble or not and decide accordingly decide rightly going on looking at first corinthians

01:01:43chapter 6 verse 12 all is permitted me but not all do profit all is permitted me but i do

01:01:51but i shall

01:01:52not be under authority meaning under the power dominated under control ruled of any this applies not only to

01:02:00alcohol but also to other things like drugs and even food or shopping or gambling do not be under that

01:02:10authority do not be under that addiction to any of these kinds of things and pertaining to this teaching

01:02:17and the subject of alcohol do not be under the authority or the control of alcohol get some help if

01:02:24you need

01:02:24it first timothy chapter three verses two through three an overseer then should be blameless the husband of one

01:02:31wife sober sensible orderly kind of strangers able to teach not given to wine no brawler but gentle not

01:02:38quarrelsome no lover of silver and then in first timothy three chapter i'm sorry chapter three verse

01:02:45eight likewise attendants are to be reverent not double tongue not given to much wine not greedy or filthy

01:02:52gain now here you see that the qualifications the regulations for a overseer an elder for a deacon an

01:03:01attendant is not to be given to much wine it doesn't say not to be given to any wine to

01:03:08be completely dry

01:03:09and sober no it says you're not to be given too much wine or even given to wine so that

01:03:18has the implications

01:03:19that even elders and deacons can have alcohol but they're not to be under the control or be alcoholics

01:03:27or drunkards stuff like that

01:03:31again if the scripture prohibited it it wouldn't even need to be listed most of the time it would

01:03:36just be assumed once they go into the qualifications for positions like this

01:03:43so now let's go ahead and start trying to put all this together and think of it in context as

01:03:50a

01:03:52we looked at the trees so now let's consider the forest as the analogy goes sometimes

01:03:58so what i would call the consumption of alcohol is a nerdy word here's a new word for you it's

01:04:06a nerdy

01:04:07word called audiophora and that is the plural of audiophoron and it's a greek word meaning not

01:04:15different or differentiable and basically the concept is especially within the matters of faith is that it's

01:04:23not essential to the faith it's not required but it is permissible that's what ideophora means

01:04:30and here is a wikipedia entry for ideophora and also a merriam-webster definition for ideophoron

01:04:38and here on the merriam-webster for the second entry it's got a religious ceremonial or ritual

01:04:43observance that is held to be an affair of the individual conscience because it is neither forbidden

01:04:49nor enjoined by the scriptures so alcohol in scriptures is ideophora it's neither forbidden

01:04:59nor commanded other things in scripture this is a list that we came up with now

01:05:07other things in scripture that are not commanded and not prohibited are things like tattoos oh yeah

01:05:16tattoos didn't think we're gonna start with that huh this is something that at least we've come to

01:05:21the conclusion that tattoos are not forbidden but at the same time they're also not commanded either

01:05:27now tattoos for the dead uh pagan idolatrous tattoos yeah those are obviously not good and prohibited but

01:05:37in general the general subject of tattoos are not forbidden how to tie zeet zeet zeet are commanded but how

01:05:45to tie them what's style or any style as long as you have a blue cord you can have other

01:05:51colors with

01:05:52it but you gotta have blue so it doesn't matter how you tie it it doesn't matter what colors you

01:05:56have

01:05:57in addition to blue as long as you got blue this is things that are ideophora which concept of the

01:06:03godhead you choose as we looked at in the godhead series whether you are a trinitarian a benitarian a

01:06:10unitarian or a oneness or a modalist it doesn't matter it's not your salvation is not dependent

01:06:18on which concept of the godhead you choose the whole subject of the godhead is ideophora dancing

01:06:26is another example of ideophora hanukkah the celebration of hanukkah the celebration of

01:06:30purim things like that getting married as we looked at at the very beginning of this teaching

01:06:36it's not getting married is not a requirement and it's also not prohibited birthdays we mentioned

01:06:42that earlier too it's celebration of birthdays as far as we can tell is not prohibited but it's also

01:06:48not commanded it's ideophora personal wealth you don't have to be wealthy according to scripture

01:06:55you're also not required to be poor either there's nothing wrong with being wealthy there's nothing wrong

01:07:00with being poor scripture does not say that money is the root of all evil what does scripture actually

01:07:06say about money scripture says that the love of money is a root of evil so there's nothing wrong with

01:07:15being wealthy either again wealth is ideophora and i'm sure you could probably think of some other things

01:07:23as well but this is alcohol is one of the many things within scripture that is neither prohibited

01:07:31nor commanded so it's up to your own conscience if you do not drink alcohol that's absolutely a okay as

01:07:38far as we can tell if you do drink alcohol that's absolutely a okay as far as we can tell

01:07:44as long as

01:07:44you're not getting drunk and especially not getting habitually drunk being a drunkard so in summary

01:07:54think back to the beginning questions that we started with at the beginning of this teaching

01:07:59number one is the consumption of alcohol a sin as we've looked at all the scriptures or not all

01:08:05the scriptures but a good majority of the scriptures on alcohol we would have to come to the conclusion

01:08:10that no the consumption of alcohol is not a sin number two is the consumption of alcohol commanded

01:08:18well after looking at the scriptures or at least a lot of the scriptures regarding the subject

01:08:23we would also have to come to the conclusion that no the consumption of alcohol is not commanded

01:08:30this is what i was going to say earlier yeah you one may try and make a case that you

01:08:38should drink

01:08:39alcohol on passover because yeshua had the cup of wine there when he had the last supper which was a

01:08:47seder meal or a passover meal and you could say well that was the example set for us so we

01:08:55should

01:08:55you know follow yeshua's example well number one is never commanded as part of the passover

01:09:02celebration to drink wine not even yeshua said thou shalt drink this that passover so i would even say

01:09:10that no even in that instance it's not commanded that you drink alcohol now if you have alcohol with

01:09:16your passover seder hey that's fine go for it nothing wrong with that

01:09:24next there was no grape juice in the days of the tanakh or the apostolic writings aka the old

01:09:30testament or the new testament the technology the pasteurization and canning and distillation stuff

01:09:38like that was thousands of years away now some people may point to the fact that they in those

01:09:46times they would boil it down this grape juice into an almost syrup like consistency in order to

01:09:53preserve it and to keep it from fermenting a comment about that real quick number one they did do that

01:10:02back then was it common no certainly not certainly not common back then it was a very labor-intensive

01:10:11process think about taking a juice uh if you've ever let me let me relate this to you if you've

01:10:18ever

01:10:18made molasses this would be pretty much the same thing i made molasses one time or helped someone

01:10:24make molasses and we actually grew the sugar cane ourselves we cut it we put it through a machine that

01:10:31squeezed out all the juice from the inside all that sugary juice from the sugar cane and then we put

01:10:38it in

01:10:38this huge pan over a fire and we boiled that juice this really watery sugar juice all night literally we

01:10:52were up all night boiling this substance to boil it down to drive off all the water and turn it

01:11:00into

01:11:00molasses it took a long time and in relation to what we started with it was only a very very

01:11:08small

01:11:08amount after that we then put it in jars we we canned it so it wouldn't go bad but back

01:11:15then

01:11:16yeah they could have done that they could have done that process but they didn't

01:11:20they had no way of sealing it up like we do today with canning equipment and if it was left

01:11:26out in the

01:11:27open then the yeast and air would have gotten on that syrupy substance and started bubbling and making

01:11:33it ferment and turning alcoholic the if it was left out and open also it would they run the risk

01:11:39of

01:11:40developing mold and things like that so even though they could make it into like a syrupy kind of

01:11:49consistency they didn't it was very very uncommon back then for them to do that kind of thing

01:11:55and plus think about it when yeshua may turn the water into wine he didn't turn it into a syrup

01:12:02because you can read the story they were already feeling good and then they said oh look at all these

01:12:09gallons and gallons of wine not syrup so yeah that's a non-starter by saying they could have you know

01:12:15turned the grape juice into a syrup to preserve it and keep it from fermenting

01:12:19no they didn't do that because then they would have to reconstitute it by adding water to it if they

01:12:24wanted to drink it and that was it's way too much work way too involved for anything like that if

01:12:30they turned it into wine that is a way also of preserving that juice and keep it from going bad

01:12:36because alcohol would kill mold spores it would kill anything that tried to get into it like bacteria

01:12:43and stuff like that most of the time so yeah it was a way of preserving it and keeping it

01:12:50for a long

01:12:50time without it going bad now a lot of times if a certain substance got into that wine and that

01:12:57wine did go bad then what you would have is what's called vinegar vinegar is pretty much just basically

01:13:04the next step in the wine process so if you got like a mother that you introduced into the wine

01:13:10it could turn into vinegar i'm sorry i'm starting to ramble so let's go on and finish this up

01:13:15anyways going on scripture consistently warns against excess drinking and we refer to this as

01:13:24drunkenness or also being a drunkard and those who habitually get drunk are referred to as drunkards

01:13:31scripture prohibits civil and religious leaders from being given to alcohol thinking back to when we read

01:13:37the verses on the kings and the princes the priest going into the temple or the tabernacle

01:13:45and also the elders and deacon qualifications and the brit hadashah now it's not forbidden completely

01:13:53outright all the time but definitely not being given to alcohol being under control being alcoholics

01:14:00being drunkards stuff like that

01:14:04and what is the holistic teaching that we asked earlier in the teaching what is the holistic teaching

01:14:11of scripture regarding the subject of alcohol while the holistic teaching from scripture is that the

01:14:17consumption of alcohol is allowed and it's neither commanded nor prohibited it's up to your own

01:14:24individual personal conscious so yeah as one person said earlier it is not a sin drinking is not a sin

01:14:32but drunkenness is and that's what scripture teaches and that is just the god honest truth

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