Social drinking is not the
solution to the problem of
alcoholism. Rather the
social glass is the starting
point of the majority of
alcoholics.
If legal age barriers are
eliminated in the sale of
alcoholic beverages, and
boys and girls are
encouraged to drink in the
homes, in society, and at
church sponsored
functions, what would be
the result ? There would
be increased slaughter on
our highways due to
drunken driving including
that of teenage drivers.
The national crime bill,
already the highest on
record, will be greatly
increased.
As strong drink destroys
the mind and body and
removes all moral
inhibitions, the nation
would be further
weakened to subversive
forces boring from within.
The rich owners of huge
liquor monopolies and big
investors will become
richer still as families are
reduced to abject poverty,
and youth winds up in a
gutter. Increased
drunkenness is one of the
given signs of the last
days: " But ye, brethren,
are not in darkness, that
that day should
overtake you as a
thief... Therefore let us
not sleep, as do others,
but let us watch and be
sober. For they that
sleep sleep in the night;
and they that be
drunken are drunken in
the night. But let us,
who are of the day be
sober... For God hath not
appointed us to wrath,
but to obtain salvation
by our Lord Jesus
Christ " (1st Thessalonians
5:4-9).
Those who are drunken in
the night are not the
children of light. Only the
children of light are
appointed to obtain
salvation. Those who are
of the night and darkness
including drunkards, are
appointed to wrath. What
will drunkards do, when
in the last great war of
this age, the vintage is cut
off, and there is no more
wine? They will awake
and weep and howl as
forecast by the prophets.
(Joel 1:5; Isaiah 24:1)
In view of His sudden
return, Jesus specifically
warned Christians, saying
" Take heed to
yourselves, lest at any
time your hearts be
overcharged with
surfeiting, and
drunkenness, and cares
of this life, and so that
day come upon you
unawares " (Luke21:34).
But sad to say, many do
not heed this warning.
Likewise there are
ministers today, who, like
the householder in Jesus'
parable, have said in their
hearts, "My Lord delayeth
His coming," and are now
engaged in smiting their
fellowservants and eating
and drinking with the
drunken. Upon such, the
Lord will come in an hour
when they think not, and
shall appoint their portion
with the hypocrites where
"...there shall be weeping
and gnashing of teeth
(Matthew 24.51).