70 Biblical facts about alcohol.

(1) Noah became drunk and exposed his nakedness (Genesis 9:20-26).

(2) Lot was so drunk he did not
know what he was doing & slept with his daughters.(Genesis 19:30-38).

(3)God commanded priests not to
drink so that they could tell the difference between
the holy and the unholy (Leviticus 10:9-11).

(4)The Nazarites were told to eat or
drink nothing from the grape vine (Numbers 6:3).

(5) A drunken, stubborn
and rebellious  son was to be stoned to death (Deuteronomy 21:20,21).

(6) God gave Israel no  intoxicating drink in the
wilderness (Deuteronomy 29:5-6).

(7)Intoxicating wine is like the
poison of serpents (Deuteronomy 32:33).

(8) Samson was to be a Nazarite
for life. His mother was told not to drink wine or
strong drink (Judges 13:4, 7, 14).

(9) Accused, Hannah said she
drank no wine (1 Samuel 1:14-15).

(10)Nabal died after a drunken
spree (1 Samuel 25:32-38).

(11) By getting Uriah drunk, David
hoped to cover his sin (2 Samuel 11:13).

(12) Amnon was drunk when he
was killed (2 Samuel 13:28-29).

(13) King Elah of Israel was drunk when he was assassinated (1 Kings 16:8-10).

(14)Ben-Hadad and 32 other kings
were drinking when they were attacked and defeated
by the Israelites (1 Kings 20:1,12-21).

(15) The Philistines were half-drunk when Samson pulled down the building on them and himself (Judges 16:23-31).

(16) The Lord's anger is pictured as
mixed wine poured out and drunk by the wicked (Psalm 75:8).

(17) Alcoholic drink is called the wine
of violence (Proverbs 4:17).

(18) Wine is a mocker(Proverbs 20:1).

(19)A wise person will not be
among the drinkers of alcoholic beverages (Proverbs 23:19-20).

(20)Drunkenness causes poverty (Proverbs 23:21).

(21) Drinking causes woe, sorrow,
fighting, babbling, wounds without cause and red
eyes (Proverbs 23:29-30).

(22)God instructs us not to look at
intoxicating drinks (Proverbs 23:31).

(23) Alcoholic drinks bite like a
serpent (Proverbs 23:32).

(24) Alcohol causes the drinker to
have strange and adulterous thoughts, produces
willfulness, and prevents reformation  (Proverbs 23:33).

(25)Alcohol makes the drinker
unstable (Proverbs 23:34).

(26)Alcohol makes the drinker
insensitive to pain so he does not perceive it as a
warning. Alcohol is habit forming (Proverbs 23:35).

(27) Kings, princes, and others who
rule and judge must not drink alcohol because it
perverts good judgment (Proverb 31:4-5).

(28) A land is blessed when its
leaders do not drink (Ecclesiastes 10:17).

(29) Woe to those who get up early and stay up late at night to get drunk (Isaiah 5:11-12).

(30) Woe to "champion" drinkers and
"experts" at mixing drinks (Isaiah 5:22).

(31)Drunken men stagger in their
vomit (Isaiah 19:14).

(32) The Israelites choose to drink;
their future looks hopeless to them (Isaiah 22:12-13).

(33) Drinkers cannot escape the
consequences when God judges (Isaiah 24:9).

(34)God pronounces woe on the
drunkards of Ephraim (Isaiah 28:1).

(35) Proud drunkards shall be trodden
down (Isaiah 28:3).

(36) Priests and prophets stagger and
reel from beer and wine, err in vision, and stumble
in judgment (Isaiah 28:7).

(37)Drinkers'  tables are covered with
vomit and filth (Isaiah 28:8).

(38)Drinkers seek their own gain and
expect tomorrow to be just like today (Isaiah 56:9-12).

(39)The Rechabites drank no
intoxicating wine and were blessed (Jeremiah 35:2-14).

(40)Again, God instructed the priests
not to drink wine (Ezekiel 44:21).

(41) Daniel and his 3 friends refused the king's
intoxicating wine and were blessed for it (Daniel 1:5-17).

(42)Belshazzar, ruler of Babylon  (along with his nobles,
wives, and concubines) drank wine from the goblets which
had been taken from God's temple. That very night, Belshazzar was killed and Darius the Mede took over the kingdom (Daniel chapter 5) .

(43) Intoxicating wine takes away
intelligence (Hosea 4:11).

(44) God reproves princes for drinking (Hosea 7:5).

(45) Drunkards awake to see God's
judgment (Joel 1:5).

(46) The enemy is judged for selling girls for
wine (Joel 3:3).

(47) Unrighteous acts of Israel included
the drinking of wine which had been taken for the
payment of fines (Amos 2:8).

(48) Israel is condemned for forcing
Nazarites to drink wine (Amos 2:12).

(49) Israelites are eager to follow false
teachers who prophesy plenty of intoxicating drinks (Micah 2:11).

(50) The drunkards of Nineveh will be
destroyed by God (Nahum 1:10).

(51) A man is betrayed by wine (Habakkuk 2:5).

(52) Woe to him that gives his
neighbor drink (Habakkuk 2:15).

(53) Drinking leads to shame (Habakkuk 2:16 ).

(54) A drinking servant is
unprepared for his Lord's return (Matthew 24:48-51).

(55) John the Baptist drank neither grape
juice nor wine (Luke 1:15).

(56) Christ warned against drunkenness (Luke 12:45-47).

(57) Drunkenness will cause a person not
to be ready for the Lord's return (Luke 21:34).

(58) Do not walk in drunkenness or
immorality (Romans 13:13).

(59) Do not do anything that will hurt
your testimony as a believer (Romans 14:21).

(60) If a Christian brother is a
drinker, do not associate with him (1 Corinthians 5:11).

(61) Drunkards will not inherit the
kingdom of God (1 Corinthians 6:9,10).

(62)Sinful acts, such as
drunkenness, will prohibit a person from inheriting
the kingdom of God.(Galatians 5:21)

(63)In contrast to being drunk with
wine, the believer is to be filled with the Spirit  (Ephesians 5:18).

(64)Christians are to be alert
and self-controlled, belonging to the day. Drunkards
belong to the night and darkness (1 Thessalonians 5:6-7).

(65)Bishops (elders) are to be
temperate, sober, and not go near any wine (1 Timothy 3:2-3).

(66)Deacons are to be worthy of
respect and not drinkers (1 Timothy 3:8).

(67) An overseer is to be disciplined. He must not be a heavy drinker. (Titus 1:7-8).

(68) The older men and older women of
the church are to be temperate and not addicted to
wine (Titus 2:2-3).

(69) The past life of drunkenness and
carousing has no place in the Christian's life (1 Peter 4:3-4).

(70) Wine is associated with fornication and God's wrath (Revelation 14:8,10).

REMEMBER THAT NO DRUNKARD SHALL INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF
GOD (1 COR. 6:10).
God loves you.

Is there punishment for repentance?

A popular Yoruba song (based on a faulty translation of Isaiah 33:1) says:

"Abanijẹ́ ènìyàn tó ń bà'yàn jẹ́ kiri,
Lọ́jọ́ to bá dẹ́kun àtibanijẹ́
La ó bà ọ́ jẹ́ o".
(i.e. O destroyer, the day you stop destroying others,you will be destroyed)

This can dissuade sinners from repentance and make them continue in
sin to evade nemesis.

What does the rest of the Bible say? Consider these examples.

* "If someone wicked turns away from all his sins and keeps my
statutes and does what is just and righteous,he will surely keep
living. He will not die. None of the sins he had committed will be
held against him. He will keep living for doing what is righteous"
(Ezekiel 18:21,22)
* "Joy arises among the angels of heaven over one sinner who repents"
(Luke 15:10)
*" Repent,therefore, and turn around so as to get your sins blotted
out,so that seasons of refreshing may come from the Lord himself"
(Acts 3:19)
*"Don't you know that those who do wrong will have no share in the
Kingdom of God. Don't fool yourselves. Those who indulge in sexual
sins,idol worshippers,adulterers,male
prostitutes,homosexuals,thieves,greedy people,drunkards,abusers and
swindlers shall not have a share in the kingdom of God. And yet that
is what some of you were. But you have been washed clean,sanctified
and declared righteous in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and with
the spirit of our God" (1 Corinthians 6:9-11).

The above faulty rendition of Isaiah 33:1 in some Bible versions must
have arose from a poor understanding of the Biblical languages. The
Old Testament was originally written in Hebrew before being
translated to Greek,then Latin,...,English,etc. Before you can
translate correctly from one language to another,you must understand
both languages perfectly.

Isaiah 33:1 is properly translated as, "O destroyer, when you finish
destroying others,you will be destroyed".

The borrower is the slave of the lender (Proverbs 22:7)

Most of us use mobile phones and recharge them or borrow credit once
in a while. These mobile networks have a lot to teach us about the
evils of borrowing. Let me use Glo and Airtel as examples.


When you borrow N100 credit from Glo,you will be given only N85. That
is, N15 is charged as interest . If you use *323*pin# to load N100
credit, you will get an empty main balance plus N400 bonus, but Glo
will not deduct your debt from the bonus. It will wait for you to dial
*123*pin# (getting N100 instead of N400 ) before clearing your debt.
In short, you have lost N315 extra (N15 interest + N300 from bonus)
because you borrowed N100 from Glo.


The same applies to Airtel. Dialing *555*pin# gives you 6 times
your recharge as bonus, but Airtel will not deduct your N100 debt from
the N600 bonus. It will wait for you to dial *126*pin# (getting N100
instead of N600) . Mind you, you were given only N90 out of the N100
you borrowed. Therefore, the ripoff = N10 interest + N500 from bonus =
N510.


You can continue getting bonuses without paying your debt, but you
won't be allowed to borrow when you are in an emergency. It may be
months later, when you have forgotten the debt .


Let us try to avoid borrowing as much as we can. May God help us.

The bus stop doesn’t matter; your relationship with the driver does .

A boy stood on a sidewalk waiting for a bus.
A man walking by spotted the boy and gave him some gentle advice.
"Son," he said, "if you're waiting for the bus ,you need to move to
the street corner. That's where the bus stops for passengers."
"It's OK," said the boy. "I'll just wait right here and the bus will
stop for me."
The man repeated his advice, but the boy never moved.
Just then, the bus appeared.
Amazingly, the bus pulled over to where the boy stood and he hopped in.
The man on the sidewalk stood speechless.
The boy turned around in the doorway and said,
"Mister, I knew the bus would stop here, because the bus driver is my dad!"
When you've got a relationship with the bus driver, you don't need a bus stop.
If you've given your heart to the King of Kings, you're in a royal
family of unspeakable proportions.
Today I would like to remind you that when you know the Driver of your
life you can take the bus of life anywhere.
He will stop and pick you up where people think it is not possible.
Some are thinking that you are not in the right frame of mind, or the
right position or the right career to succeed but this will change
when the success giver is your father and friend.
Whether you are unemployed, broke, single or married, or childless or
divorced, or widowed.
What matters is that you know Him who is able to do exceedingly
abundantly above what we can think or even imagine.
However, the BIG question is :
"Is the Driver your Father?"
"Are you still His child? You can only get that privilege if He is your Father.
He can bypass protocols because you are His child.
He has done it before.
He can do it AGAIN and AGAIN.
And guess what?
It does not matter what anybody feels or thinks.
Enjoy the ride with your Father.

Beware of the spirit of rebellion

Why are some people naturally stubborn against God's will?

1. Adam and Eve ate the only fruit forbidden by God in the Garden of Eden.

2. God forbids incest ,bestiality and homosexuality (Leviticus 18:
6-23 & 20:10-21 ; Romans 1:26,27 ; 1 Corinthians 5:1-5 & 6 :9-11). You
are free to marry from any tribe, race, etc as long as the person is
an unrelated member of the opposite sex (Acts 10:34,35),unlike the
ancient Israelites who were forbidden from marrying people of other
nations. Still, some people go for the forbidden types of sex and
marriage. Why?

3. Only human meat is forbidden by God (Genesis 9 :1-7 ).You can eat
any other type of meat? Why disobey?



If you are "inquisitive by nature", why don't you :


1. dip your hand into acid to be sure that it is corrosive?


2.taste your own urine and faeces?



Some people are so rebellious in nature that they will do thing they
don't normally do once it is forbidden. What moral right have they to
condemn Adam and Eve for eating the forbidden fruit?

If you get what you want, will you want what you get?

According to Greek mythology, Midas was a king who lived in Phrygia in
the eighth century B.C. He was very wealthy and had more gold than
anyone else in the world. He stored the yellow coins and bars in huge
vaults underneath his palace and spent many hours each day handling
and counting his treasure.
But no matter how much gold Midas collected and put into his vaults,
it was not enough. He always wanted more, and he spent much of his
time dreaming about how to obtain still more gold.
One day a being dressed in white appeared to Midas and granted him a
wish. The king instantly
wished for the "golden touch"—that everything he touched would turn to gold.

The next morning when Midas woke up, he found that his plain linen
bedcovers had been transformed into finely spun gold! He gasped with
astonishment and jumped out of bed. Then he touched the bedpost, and
it turned to gold. "It's true," he cried. "I have the golden touch!"
He rushed through the palace, brushing against walls and furniture
along the way, all of which turned to gold at his touch.
Out in the garden, he went from bush to bush, touching roses and other
flowers, smiling as they turned to gold.

But the Midas myth doesn't end here with everyone living happily ever after.
Finally, tiring from the excitement of touching various items and
seeing them turn into gold, Midas sat down to read while he waited for
breakfast. But the book he picked up immediately turned to gold. Then
when he tried to eat a peach, a spoonful of porridge, and a piece of
bread, they each turned into hard golden lumps! Even the water in his
cup turned to gold.
The king grew alarmed. "If even my food turns to gold, how will I ever
eat again?" he worried. Just then, Midas' only daughter, Aurelia, came
into the room. She ran to her father, threw her arms around him, and
kissed him. Much to Midas' horror, she grew strangely still and turned
from a loving, laughing little girl into a golden statue.
The king howled in anguish, overcome by the horror of what was
happening before his very eyes. He had gotten what be asked for, but
he suddenly realized he didn't want what he was getting.

The being dressed in white suddenly reappeared and asked, "Well, King
Midas, are you not the happiest of men?"
"Oh, no," moaned the king, "I am the most miserable of all creatures."
"What? Did I not grant your wish for the golden touch?"
"Yes, but it is a curse to me now," Midas wept. "All that I truly
loved is now lost to me."
"Do you mean to say that you would prefer a crust of bread or a cup of
water to the gift of the golden touch?" asked the glowing white being.
"Oh, yes!" Midas exclaimed. "I would give up all the gold in the world
if only my daughter was restored to me."
According to the myth, the being dressed in white told Midas to go
bathe in a certain spring of water that would wash
away his golden touch. He was also to bring back some of the water to
sprinkle on his daughter and any other objects he wished to change
back to their original form.
So the legendary King Midas gladly gave up his golden touch and
rejoiced in the restoration of the simple things of life—
family, food, and natural beauty. Midas realized that these are the
things that have greater value than gold.
The truth is, we do not live in a fairy-tale world. There is no Midas
touch or magical formula for material success. But there are
opportunities for those who are willing to be diligent and faithful in
the work of their mind and hands.

Proverbs 27:20 says: "A faithful man shall abound with blessings, but
he that makes haste to be rich shall not be innocent".

It concerns you.

A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his
wife open a mousetrap package. Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse
announced, "There is a mousetrap in the house!There is a mousetrap in
the house!..." The chicken, the pig and the cow expressed their
sympathies for the mouse but said it doesn't concern them personally.

That night, the trap caught the tail of a venomous snake. The farmer's
wife went to check the trap in the darkness and got bitten. She was
rushed to the hospital and returned with a fever. The chicken was
killed to make soup for the woman's fever. When her sickness continued
and more people came to sit with her round the clock, the pig was
butchered to feed them. When she eventually died, the cow was killed
for her funeral.

The mouse survived while the It-doesn't-concern-me animals did not.
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When next you hear someone is facing a problem and think it doesn't
concern you, remember that an injury to one is an injury to all. We
must be our brother's keeper and make an extra effort to encourage one
another.