BIBLE STUDIES

DRINKING, DRUGS, AND SWEARING

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DRINKING
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1-SCRIPTURES REGARDING DRINK, DRUNKEN, ETC.

    Eph 5:18-AND BE NOT DRUNK WITH WINE, WHEREIN IS EXCESS; BUT BE FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT;

    Hab 2:15-WOE UNTO HIM THAT GIVETH HIS NEIGHBOUR DRINK, THAT PUTTEST THY BOTTLE TO HIM, AND MAKEST HIM DRUNKEN ALSO, THAT THOU MAYEST LOOK ON THEIR NAKEDNESS!

    Mt 24:48-51-BUT AND IF THAT EVIL SERVANT SHALL SAY IN HIS HEART, MY LORD DELAYETH HIS COMING; AND SHALL BEGIN TO SMITE HIS FELLOWSERVANTS, AND TO EAT AND DRINK WITH THE DRUNKEN; THE LORD OF THAT SERVANT SHALL COME IN A DAY WHEN HE LOOKETH NOT FOR HIM, AND IN AN HOUR THAT HE IS NOT AWARE OF, AND SHALL CUT HIM ASUNDER, AND APPOINT HIM HIS PORTION WITH THE HYPOCRITES: THERE SHALL BE WEEPING AND GNASHING OF TEETH.

    Lk 12:45-46-BUT AND IF THAT SERVANT SAY IN HIS HEART, MY LORD DELAYETH HIS COMING; AND SHALL BEGIN TO BEAT THE MENSERVANTS AND MAIDENS, AND TO EAT AND DRINK, AND TO BE DRUNKEN; THE LORD OF THAT SERVANT WILL COME IN A DAY WHEN HE LOOKETH NOT FOR HIM, AND AT AN HOUR WHEN HE IS NOT AWARE, AND WILL CUT HIM IN SUNDER, AND WILL APPOINT HIM HIS PORTION WITH THE UNBELIEVERS.

    1 Cor 11:20-22-WHEN YE COME TOGETHER THEREFORE INTO ONE PLACE, THIS IS NOT TO EAT THE LORD'S SUPPER. FOR IN EATING EVERY ONE TAKETH BEFORE OTHER HIS OWN SUPPER: AND ONE IS HUNGRY, AND ANOTHER IS DRUNKEN. WHAT? HAVE YE NOT HOUSES TO EAT AND TO DRINK IN? OR DESPISE YE THE CHURCH OF GOD, AND SHAME THEM THAT HAVE NOT? WHAT SHALL I SAY TO YOU? SHALL I PRAISE YOU IN THIS? I PRAISE YOU NOT.

    1 Thes 5:6-8-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, PUTTING ON THE BREASTPLATE OF FAITH AND LOVE; AND FOR AN HELMET, THE HOPE OF SALVATION.

    Pv 20:1-WINE IS A MOCKER, STRONG DRINK IS RAGING: AND WHOSOEVER IS DECEIVED THEREBY IS NOT WISE.

    Isa 28:7-BUT THEY ALSO HAVE ERRED THROUGH WINE, AND THROUGH STRONG DRINK ARE OUT OF THE WAY; THE PRIEST AND THE PROPHET HAVE ERRED THROUGH STRONG DRINK, THEY ARE SWALLOWED UP OF WINE, THEY ARE OUT OF THE WAY THROUGH STRONG DRINK; THEY ERR IN VISION, THEY STUMBLE IN JUDGMENT.

    Isa 5:22-WOE UNTO THEM THAT ARE MIGHTY TO DRINK WINE, AND MEN OF STRENGTH TO MINGLE STRONG DRINK.

    Ro 14:21-IT IS GOOD NEITHER TO EAT FLESH, NOR TO DRINK WINE, NOR ANY THING WHEREBY THY BROTHER STUMBLETH, OR IS OFFENDED, OR IS MADE WEAK.

    Lk 1:15-FOR HE SHALL BE GREAT IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD, AND SHALL DRINK NEITHER WINE NOR STRONG DRINK; AND HE SHALL BE FILLED WITH THE HOLY GHOST, EVEN FROM HIS MOTHER'S WOMB.

    It is written regarding the latter days which we are now in, AND TAKE HEED (or keep watch, or be careful) TO YOURSELVES, LEST AT ANY TIME YOUR HEARTS BE OVERCHARGED (or weighted down, or dulled) WITH...DRUNKENNESS...SO THAT DAY COME (or be sprung) UPON YOU UNAWARES (or suddenly like a trap)-Lk 21:34.

    Nah 1:10-At the time of Armageddon the following shall be fulfilled. FOR WHILE THEY BE FOLDEN TOGETHER AS THORNS, AND WHILE THEY ARE DRUNKEN AS DRUNKARDS, THEY SHALL BE DEVOURED AS STUBBLE FULLY DRY.    It is further written in Isa 13:11-I WILL PUNISH THE WORLD FOR THEIR EVIL, AND THE WICKED FOR THEIR INIQUITY (or sins)-Isa 13:11. The evil in the world will increase as birth pains of a woman in labor.

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DRUGS
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2-INTRODUCTION

    AND MOSES TURNED, AND WENT DOWN FROM THE MOUNT...AND IT CAME TO PASS, AS SOON AS HE CAME NIGH UNTO THE CAMP, THAT HE SAW THE CALF, AND THE DANCING: AND MOSES’ ANGER WAXED HOT, AND HE CAST THE TABLES OUT OF HIS HANDS, AND BRAKE THEM BENEATH THE MOUNT. AND HE TOOK THE CALF WHICH THEY HAD MADE, AND BURNT IT IN THE FIRE, AND GROUND IT TO POWDER, AND STRAWED IT UPON THE WATER, AND MADE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL DRINK OF IT. AND MOSES SAID UNTO AARON, WHAT DID THIS PEOPLE UNTO THEE, THAT THOU HAST BROUGHT SO GREAT A SIN UPON THEM? AND AARON SAID, LET NOT THE ANGER OF MY LORD WAX HOT: THOU KNOWEST THE PEOPLE, THAT THEY ARE SET ON MISCHIEF (or you know how prone these people are to evil-NIV)-Ex 32:15,19-22.
    AND THE LORD WAS VERY ANGRY WITH AARON TO HAVE DESTROYED HIM: AND I PRAYED FOR AARON ALSO THE SAME TIME-Deut 9:20.
    Today, many Christians are the same way. They make light of sin. The strait gate and the narrow way is seldom taught. Many so-called Christians today also have a golden calf. Their money, pride, selfishness, television, job, house, automobile, the things of this world, astrology, drinking, DRUGS, sex, the government, or their own desires are their "golden calf." Jesus is to be your LORD and Savior. He is to come "first." Most Christians today, as then, have not known God’s ways. Many call upon the name of the Lord, but they will not follow "Him." Many commit abominations and are not ashamed. They are NOT VALIANT FOR THE TRUTH-Jere 9:3. Their MOLTEN IMAGE IS FALSEHOOD-Jere 10:14. God is IN THEIR MOUTH, but FAR FROM THEIR REINS-Jere 12:2. THEY HAVE BURNED INCENSE TO VANITY-Jere 18:15. Do any of these fit you?

    The Scriptures prophesied that people would be taking drugs in the latter days. This prophecy has fulfilled-beginning around the 1950’s and getting worse and worse to this current time.
   It is written, NEITHER REPENTED THEY OF THEIR...SORCERIES (or drugs)-Rev 9:21.
    In this last generation, people are taking illegal drugs. In the USA, it seems to have begun in the early 1950’s. Now, taking drugs has spread all over the world. There are now multiple millions of drug addicts in the world.
    In the Revelation, the word "sorceries" appears in 9:21; 18:23; 21:8; and 22:15. It is taken from the Greek words, PHARMAKEIA, PHARMAKEUS, PHARMAKON, AND PHARMAKOS. These can be defined as medication, pharmacy, pharmacist, druggist, magic arts, magic spells, and drugs in connection with the occult-JNT. This can also include illegal drug use.

 3-"IT IS WRITTEN" (The following verses can also apply to DRUGS)

    FOR AS YE HAVE YIELDED YOUR MEMBERS SERVANTS TO UNCLEANNESS AND TO INIQUITY UNTO INIQUITY; EVEN SO NOW YIELD YOUR MEMBERS SERVANTS TO RIGHTEOUSNESS UNTO HOLINESS. NEITHER YIELD YE YOUR MEMBERS AS INSTRUMENTS OF UNRIGHTEOUSNESS UNTO SIN: BUT YIELD YOURSELVES UNTO GOD, AS THOSE THAT ARE ALIVE FROM THE DEAD, AND YOUR MEMBERS AS INSTRUMENTS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS UNTO GOD. KNOW YE NOT, THAT TO WHOM YE YIELD YOURSELVES SERVANTS TO OBEY, HIS SERVANTS YE ARE TO WHOM YE OBEY; WHETHER OF SIN UNTO DEATH, OR OF OBEDIENCE UNTO RIGHTEOUSNESS?-Ro 6:19,13,16.
    THERE IS THEREFORE NOW NO CONDEMNATION TO THEM WHICH ARE IN CHRIST JESUS, WHO WALK NOT AFTER THE FLESH, BUT AFTER THE SPIRIT. FOR THEY THAT ARE AFTER THE FLESH DO MIND THE THINGS OF THE FLESH; BUT THEY THAT ARE AFTER THE SPIRIT, THE THINGS OF THE SPIRIT. FOR TO BE CARNALLY (or worldly) MINDED IS DEATH; BUT TO BE SPIRITUALLY MINDED IS LIFE AND PEACE. BECAUSE THE CARNAL (or worldly) MIND IS ENMITY (or hatred) AGAINST GOD: FOR IT IS NOT SUBJECT TO THE LAW OF GOD, NEITHER INDEED CAN BE. FOR IF YE LIVE AFTER THE FLESH, YE SHALL DIE: BUT IF YE THROUGH THE SPIRIT DO MORTIFY THE DEEDS OF THE BODY, YE SHALL LIVE. FOR AS MANY AS ARE LED BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD, THEY ARE THE SONS OF GOD-Ro 8:1,5-7,13,14.
    I BESEECH YOU THEREFORE, BRETHREN, BY THE MERCIES OF GOD, THAT YE PRESENT YOUR BODIES A LIVING SACRIFICE, HOLY, ACCEPTABLE UNTO GOD, WHICH IS YOUR REASONABLE SERVICE. AND BE NOT CONFORMED TO THIS WORLD: BUT BE YE TRANSFORMED BY THE RENEWING OF YOUR MIND, THAT YE MAY PROVE WHAT IS THAT GOOD, AND ACCEPTABLE, AND PERFECT, WILL OF GOD. BUT PUT YE ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, AND MAKE NOT PROVISION FOR THE FLESH, TO FULFILL THE LUSTS THEREOF-Ro 12:1,2; 13:14.
    FOR THE FLESH LUSTETH AGAINST THE SPIRIT, AND THE SPIRIT AGAINST THE FLESH: AND THESE ARE CONTRARY THE ONE TO THE OTHER: SO THAT YE CANNOT DO THE THINGS THAT YE WOULD-Gal 5:17.
    FOR YE ARE BOUGHT WITH A PRICE: THEREFORE GLORIFY GOD IN YOUR BODY, AND IN YOUR SPIRIT, WHICH ARE GOD’S-1 Cor 6:20.
    AS OBEDIENT CHILDREN, NOT FASHIONING YOURSELVES ACCORDING TO THE FORMER LUSTS IN YOUR IGNORANCE-1 Pe 1:14.
    AND THEY THAT ARE CHRIST’S HAVE CRUCIFIED THE FLESH WITH THE AFFECTIONS AND LUSTS-Gal 5:24.
    FOR HE THAT SOWETH TO HIS FLESH SHALL OF THE FLESH REAP CORRUPTION; BUT HE THAT SOWETH TO THE SPIRIT SHALL OF THE SPIRIT REAP LIFE EVERLASTING-Gal 6:8.

    21:8. BUT THE FEARFUL (or cowardly), AND UNBELIEVING (or untrustworthy), AND THE ABOMINABLE (or vile), AND MURDERERS, AND WHOREMONGERS (or sexually immoral), AND SORCERERS (or those who misuse drugs in connection with the occult-JNT, or practice magic arts; or this may also indicate illegal drug use), AND IDOLATERS (or idol-worshippers), AND ALL LIARS, SHALL HAVE THEIR PART IN THE LAKE WHICH BURNETH WITH FIRE AND BRIMSTONE: WHICH IS THE SECOND DEATH (or their destiny is the lake burning with fire and sulfur, the second death-JNT).

    Jude 1:7,8-EVEN AS SODOM AND GOMORRHA, AND THE CITIES ABOUT THEM IN LIKE MANNER,…ARE SET FORTH FOR AN EXAMPLE, SUFFERING THE VENGEANCE OF ETERNAL FIRE. LIKEWISE ALSO THESE…DEFILE (or pollute) THE FLESH (or their bodies), DESPISE DOMINION, AND SPEAK EVIL OF DIGNITIES.
    1 Cor 3:9, 16-18-YE ARE GOD’S BUILDING. KNOW YE NOT THAT YE ARE THE TEMPLE OF GOD, AND THAT THE SPIRIT OF GOD DWELLETH IN YOU? IF ANY MAN DEFILE THE TEMPLE OF GOD, HIM SHALL GOD DESTROY; FOR THE TEMPLE OF GOD IS HOLY, WHICH TEMPLE YE ARE. LET NO MAN DECEIVE HIMSELF.

    The events of the latter days and Tribulation are like the birth pains of a woman in labor. As the many events unfold, these become more frequent and intense—conditions get worse and worse. During the Tribulation, many new dreadful things begin to take place, adding to the already existing nightmare. These are times of terror that only continue to get worse. It culminates with the Battle of Armageddon, when Jesus Christ returns. The birth pains will have gotten so bad at that point that—if Jesus had not returned exactly when He does—no life on earth would be saved. However, just as a woman in travail brings forth new life, in the same way, the return of Jesus and the saints to the earth begins a new era—one thousand years of peace.
    To give just a few examples of the increasing intensity and frequency of events, consider the following. In the beginning of the Tribulation, there are earthquakes. At the time Jesus returns, after the Tribulation of those days, there is the greatest earthquake ever seen, and the cities of the nations fall. Near the beginning of the Tribulation, one-third of the creatures in the sea that had life will die. Near the end of the Tribulation, every living soul in the sea dies. Near the beginning of the Tribulation, one-fourth of humanity dies from the effects of war. Near the end of the Tribulation, one-third of the world's population dies. At Armageddon, nearly all life on earth is killed. Sin will also greatly increase. Diseases can be expected to reach epidemic proportions as the Tribulation progresses. The persecution and murder of those that get saved during the Tribulation will get worse and worse. It will be a most terrifying time in which to live.
    It is written, AND THEY SHALL BE AFRAID: PANGS AND SORROWS SHALL TAKE HOLD OF THEM; THEY SHALL BE IN PAIN AS A WOMAN THAT TRAVAILETH: THEY SHALL BE AMAZED ONE AT ANOTHER; THEIR FACES SHALL BE AS FLAMES. BEHOLD, THE DAY OF THE LORD COMETH, CRUEL BOTH WITH WRATH AND FIERCE ANGER, TO LAY THE LAND DESOLATE: AND HE SHALL DESTROY THE SINNERS THEREOF OUT OF IT-Isa 13:8,9.
    UNTO THEE SHALL IT COME, EVEN THE FIRST DOMINION; THE KINGDOM SHALL COME TO THE DAUGHTER OF JERUSALEM. NOW WHY DOST THOU CRY OUT ALOUD? IS THERE NO KING IN THEE? IS THY COUNSELOR PERISHED? FOR PANGS HAVE TAKEN THEE AS A WOMAN IN TRAVAIL. BE IN PAIN, AND LABOR TO BRING FORTH, O DAUGHTER OF ZION, LIKE A WOMAN IN TRAVAIL-Mic 4:8-10.
    NATION WILL RISE AGAINST NATION, AND KINGDOM AGAINST KINGDOM. THERE WILL BE FAMINES AND EARTHQUAKES IN VARIOUS PLACES. ALL THESE ARE THE BEGINNING OF BIRTH PAINS-Mt 24:7,8 NIV.
    THESE ARE THE BEGINNING OF BIRTH PAINS-Mk 13:8 NIV.
    Note, the NIV and JNT both use "birth pains" in these verses. The NASB uses "birth pangs," and the KJV uses "sorrows."
    AS...IN THE DAYS OF LOT...THUS SHALL IT BE IN THE DAY...THE SON OF MAN IS REVEALED-Lk 17:28,30.
    Will drug use increase as birth pains of a woman? The answer is yes.

    YIELDED YOUR MEMBERS SERVANTS TO UNCLEANNESS-Ro 6:19.
    YIELD...YOUR MEMBERS AS INSTRUMENTS OF UNRIGHTEOUSNESS UNTO SIN-Ro 6:13.
    WALK…AFTER THE FLESH-Ro 8:1.
    MIND THE THINGS OF THE FLESH-Ro 8:5.
   CARNAL MIND IS ENMITY (or hatred) AGAINST GOD-Ro 8:7.
    CARNAL MIND…IS NOT SUBJECT TO THE LAW OF GOD-Ro 8:7.
    CARNAL MIND...cannot be SUBJECT TO THE LAW OF GOD-Ro 8:7.

    IF ANY MAN DEFILE THE TEMPLE OF GOD, HIM SHALL GOD DESTROY-1 Cor 3:17.
    SOWETH TO HIS FLESH SHALL OF THE FLESH REAP CORRUPTION-Gal 6:8.
    To LIVE AFTER THE FLESH, YE SHALL DIE-Ro 8:13.
    TO BE CARNALLY MINDED IS DEATH-Ro 8:6.
    SIN is UNTO DEATH-Ro 6:16.

    PUT YE ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST-Ro 13:14.
    YE CANNOT DO THE THINGS THAT YE WOULD-Gal 5:17.
    BE…TRANSFORMED BY THE RENEWING OF YOUR MIND-Ro 12:2.
    YIELD...UNTO…RIGHTEOUSNESS-Ro 6:13.
    YIELD…UNTO GOD-Ro 6:13.
    YIELD…YOUR MEMBERS AS INSTRUMENTS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS UNTO GOD-Ro 6:13.
    WALK…AFTER THE SPIRIT-Ro 8:1.
    MIND THE THINGS...OF THE SPIRIT-Ro 8:5.
    PRESENT YOUR BODIES A LIVING SACRIFICE, HOLY, ACCEPTABLE UNTO GOD-Ro 12:1.
    GLORIFY GOD IN YOUR BODY-1 Cor 6:20.
    GLORIFY GOD IN…YOUR SPIRIT-1 Cor 6:20.
    AS OBEDIENT CHILDREN-1 Pe 1:14.
    OBEDIENCE is UNTO RIGHTEOUSNESS-Ro 6:16.
    WALK NOT AFTER THE FLESH-Ro 8:4.
    MAKE NOT PROVISION FOR THE FLESH, TO FULFILL THE LUSTS THEREOF-Ro 13:14.
    NOT FASHIONING YOURSELVES...TO THE FORMER LUSTS-1 Pe 1:14.
    BE NOT CONFORMED TO THIS WORLD-Ro 12:2.

    YE ARE BOUGHT WITH A PRICE-1 Cor 6:20.
    YE ARE NOT YOUR OWN-1 Cor 6:19.
    YOUR BODY...(is) GOD’S-1 Cor 6:20.
    YE ARE THE TEMPLE OF GOD-1 Cor 3:16.
    YOUR BODY IS THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY GHOST-1 Cor 6:19.
    YE ARE GOD'S BUILDING-1 Cor 3:9.
    YOUR BODIES ARE THE MEMBERS OF CHRIST-1 Cor 6:15.
    TO BE SPIRITUALLY MINDED IS LIFE AND PEACE-Ro 8:6.
    IF YE THROUGH THE SPIRIT DO (away with)…THE DEEDS OF THE BODY, YE SHALL LIVE-Ro 8:13.
    AS MANY AS ARE LED BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD, THEY ARE THE SONS OF GOD-Ro 8:14.
    HE THAT SOWETH TO THE SPIRIT SHALL OF THE SPIRIT REAP LIFE EVERLASTING-Gal 6:8.
    THEY THAT ARE CHRIST'S HAVE CRUCIFIED THE FLESH WITH THE AFFECTIONS (or passions) AND LUSTS (or desires)-Gal 5:24.

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SWEARING
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10-SCRIPTURES REGARDING SWEARING

    Ex 20:7-THOU SHALT NOT TAKE THE NAME OF THE LORD THY GOD IN VAIN; FOR THE LORD WILL NOT HOLD HIM GUILTLESS THAT TAKETH HIS NAME IN VAIN.

    Deut 5:11-THOU SHALT NOT TAKE THE NAME OF THE LORD THY GOD IN VAIN: FOR THE LORD WILL NOT HOLD HIM GUILTLESS THAT TAKETH HIS NAME IN VAIN.

    Jer 23:10-…FOR BECAUSE OF SWEARING THE LAND MOURNETH; THE PLEASANT PLACES OF THE WILDERNESS ARE DRIED UP, AND THEIR COURSE IS EVIL, AND THEIR FORCE IS NOT RIGHT.

    Hos 4:1-HEAR THE WORD OF THE LORD, YE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL: FOR THE LORD HATH A CONTROVERSY WITH THE INHABITANTS OF THE LAND, BECAUSE THERE IS NO TRUTH, NOR MERCY, NOR KNOWLEDGE OF GOD IN THE LAND.
    Hos 4:2-4-THERE IS ONLY CURSING, LYING AND MURDER, STEALING AND ADULTERY; THEY BREAK ALL BOUNDS, AND BLOODSHED FOLLOWS BLOODSHED. BECAUSE OF THIS THE LAND MOURNS, AND ALL WHO LIVE IN IT WASTE AWAY; THE BEASTS OF THE FIELD AND THE BIRDS OF THE AIR AND THE FISH OF THE SEA ARE DYING. "BUT LET NO MAN BRING A CHARGE, LET NO MAN ACCUSE ANOTHER, FOR YOUR PEOPLE ARE LIKE THOSE WHO BRING CHARGES AGAINST A PRIEST (NIV).

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